Gordon House joined the BBC in 1972, and worked in Children’s Television and Radio Sport, before becoming a Radio Drama Director.   He headed the small BBC World Service Drama team for fourteen years, and directed over 200 plays. He was a founder member, and ex-Chair, of The Worldplay Group – an association of  Radio Drama directors from around the world

In April 2001 he became Head of BBC Radio Drama, a post which he held until his retirement from the BBC in 2005.  During this time he was a judge at Prix Italia and Prix Europa conventions, and his tenure as Head culminated in the Department winning its largest ever number of awards in a single year.

Gordon is now an Executive Director of Goldhawk Essential.  Last year he went to Guyana where he was the drama consultant for the new Aids-based Radio Soap, Merundoi. He has recently directed a radio version of Alan Bennett’s “Lady in the Van”, - Alan himself starring alongside Dame Maggie Smith.  Gordon’s production of Peter Souter’s Goldfish Girl has just won a 2009 Sony Radio Award.

Gordon is a guest lecturer at several drama schools, but teaches primarily at ALRA .