About us
Overground productions
Overground is a podcast and documentary production company based in London, founded by producer and broadcaster Jack Boswell.
Documentary
I wish you were never born
Longform documentary, exploring Antinatalism, the belief that life is so bad that humans should stop having children and let our species go extinct.Vice call it "eye-opening” and Rolling Stone say "It will make you appraise your own ideals around conception, parenthood, social responsibilities, and stewardship of the planet... To use a cliché in earnest: this is a documentary that literally does make you think.”
PODCAST
Off the beaten jack
Our atypical American travel series, bringing you stories from the corners of U.S. which most people don't visit.The show won an ARIA two years in a row - Best New Podcast in 2023 and Best Speech Presenter in 2024 - and was recommended by The Guardian.The series covers everything from mental health, adoption and gun control to addiction, prejudice and sex work.
SOCIAL
Dependence Day
A docuseries which mixes satire with serious journalism to explore where America succeeds and where it falls short, framed with a playful question: would it be better off if it was still ruled by the British? Featuring a mixture of observational documentary, interviews and voxpops, it had massive engagement online and amassed over 20m views in 10 weeks.
Jack Boswell
Bio
Outside of Overground, Boswell is the producer of Dua Lipa's podcast, and hosted Something to Declare for BBC Radio 4 - a 12 part series about what we can learn from other cultures. He was an associate producer on the Grierson-winning feature documentary Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other, which had a cinema run in 2025.He produced Locarno Meets, a 20-episode series for the Locarno Film Festival, featuring iconic figures including Ken Loach. He was a producer and editor on The Lockdown Files, an investigative series for The Telegraph examining Matt Hancock’s leaked WhatsApp messages, as well as a producer on Weekend for The Guardian and editor for The Economist's audio edition.
