Ariane is passionate about creative writing and the way it opens everybody to the world around them. Before she joined Arvon, she worked for 16 years throughout the BBC as a producer in radio and a director in television. At the BBC she worked extensively with writers of the national and international stature, as well as discovering, encouraging new and emerging talent, most recently on BBC Radio 3’s programme The Verb. It’s a programme which celebrates the written, spoken and performed word, presented by ex Arvon student, the poet Ian McMillan. During her time there, she ran competitions for new writers, commissioned Anthony Minghella, Richard Bean and Kay Adshead to write plays dedicated to Samuel Beckett, as well as working with many new young writers in different genres, including  Rhian Edwards, Tahmima Anam and Tash Aw.

Ariane also worked with the conceptual artist Janice Kerbel on  her first piece for radio, Nick Silver Can't Sleep,  co-commissioned by Artangel and BBC Radio 3. You can still hear this piece, a narcotic tale of thwarted desire for love and sleep, starring Rufus Sewell, Josette Simon and Fiona Shaw. Hear Nick Silver Can't Sleep online - it is becoming a live arts performance at the Tate this Autumn.