We have a small team working on the making of Imprint, including a producer, production manager, production co-ordinator, a couple of researchers and Se Merry Doyle, the editor, who is also the managing director.

In the morning when we come in, we would check our e-mails and post to see what's come in. We would tend to receive a lot of books, so we would have to log those books. Then we would have a production meeting - which is usually around 10.00 a.m. - when we look through what is going into the next programme, and probably the two programmes after that. The nature of what we do means that we have to stay about at least three or four weeks in advance of ourselves.

One of things I would be looking at is what books we're planning to review in the programmes that are coming up. Myself and Theo Dorgan, who is our programme's presenter, mull over publishers' catalogues and look through as much information as we can get before deciding which books we are going to review for future programmes.

Sometimes we would receive information from publicists in Ireland, for writers they represent whose books they'd like to see on the programme. It's always a hard choice, but we would try to feature a mixture of Irish books and international books so that the audience gets a fairly broad spread.

We're usually in the studio on Wednesday. It doesn't always work out like this, but generally 50 per cent of the programme is produced in the studio and 50 per cent on location. We'd also try to find out who's in town so that we can try to arrange interviews. For a lot of the interviews we've done this year, we've gone to the writers, so we travelled to London to interview JG Ballard and Gore Vidal, various people like that.

There's also a section in the programme called Footnotes, which Liam Mackey presents, and a lot of that was done on location this year. So within the production meetings, there is a huge amount of preparation for those shoots. The ideas for the Footnotes section emerge in production meetings, between ourselves and Liam. Production meetings happen at least one day a week and would last for least an hour, possibly two.

As an independent producer, you don't really tend to have a typical day. I can think of many different things that would happen. While working on Imprint, I could be working on other things, developing other ideas for documentary products. Loopline Films is primarily a documentary company. We've done a number of series for RTE and BBC Northern Ireland and one-off documentaries, with an emphasis on the arts.

Se Merry Doyle and myself are developing a number of ideas, so we would spend time in meetings. We're currently working on documentary about the late Labour TD for Limerick, Jim Kemmy, and another one about Newgrange. Most of these projects have received assistance from the Film Board, so myself and Se Merry would have a meeting to explain how we're going forward with the research and how we're going to draw down the rest of the money.

I've always been an independent producer. The flip side of being an independent producer is that it's precarious and if some of your projects don't come to fruition at a time when you really need them to, you can find yourself with very little to do, but in my own experience for the last five or six years I've been extremely lucky.

I've been lucky with the Independent Productions Unit in RTE - they've commissioned a lot of the stuff I've presented to them.

Imprint has also been nominated for an Irish Film and Television Academy award, and we're the only independent company nominated in that category.

Imprint is on RTE1 on Sunday at 10.50 p.m.