Presenter, programmer and all round legend of Scottish Radio, Jay Crawford will be in conversation at the next Radio Academy Scotland Branch event at Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh on Thursday 24^th May to to talk about his life in radio.

He was one of the first voices on Radio Forth when the station launched, most notably presenting the Breakfast show, he has worked at Radio Clyde and spent the last 10 years at Real Radio.

Never one to shy away from an opinion or a colourful anecdote Jay will be talking about his life at the sharp end of radio for over 35 years.

Hosting the night will be Radio Forth’s current early riser Boogie.

Registration:

THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT.

Registration is required for this event.
Cost: members free / non-members £10 (inc VAT)

Most people working in radio qualify for free membership of The Radio Academy via Patrons or as volunteers/staff of SRA, HBA and most community affiliated stations. Although registration is required, it’s a relatively quick process.
Click here to see if you qualify.

Details:

Date: Thursday 24th May
Time: 7pm for 7.30 start
Location: Voodoo Rooms, 19 Register Street, Edinburgh EH2 2AA

Producer:

Stuart Barrie (Capital FM)

Comments always welcome. Also available via itunes.

Comments always welcome. Also available via iTunes.

(L-R) Helen Thomas, John Myers, Richard Steel

RadioTalk this week looks at the role of the Producer in music radio with two of the best. Helen Thomas is the multi-award winning Executive Producer of The Chris Evans Breakfast Show. Richard Steel, the Executive Producer of Dave and Lisa at Capital FM, is also at the top of his game but works within a commercial radio framework.

Hear how they go about their daily life, run their teams, think about their shows and how preparation is everything. Most of all, they tell us why being a radio producer is the best job in the world and what you need to do if you want to get their job someday.

Plus, we have another wonderful instalment of David Lloyd’s Radio Moments. It’s a not to miss episode this week with audio that John hoped had long been lost!

Recorded at Maple Street Studios in London and produced by Jordan Thomas with imaging from On The Sly.

Comments always welcome. Also available via itunes.

Grae reminisces about his first day at Radio Clyde and tells us why he thinks digital radio is well placed to replace analogue, what he thinks the odds are of the switch-over happening in the next decade and, after 34 years in the industry, what it is that’s made him stay.

Recorded at Maple Street Studios in London and produced by Jordan Thomas with imaging from On The Sly.

As always, it features a wonderful edition of David LLoyd’s Radio Moments

Comments always welcome. Also available via itunes.

Whenever you ask people who work in radio about how they got where they are, you’ll find some spent years entertaining patients on hospital radio while others did wacky things on student radio (some did both!). Some of them found paid work in this profession quickly and others only made it after a long wait, doing other things. Some will have specifically studied radio, while others haven’t.
Every story is different and it seems there’s no one single route that everyone follows.

But are there secrets we can learn? Is it purely about talent and hard work or do you just have to be in the right place at the right time?

We’ve assembled a panel from different disciplines across the industry and they definitely have at least one thing in common; they are all media graduates from the University of Sunderland.

Collectively, they work with some of the biggest brands in radio and all have stories to share and tips to offer.

For anyone looking to break into radio, this is an event not to be missed!

The panelists are:

Tom Cotton (Head of Music, Amazing Radio)
Gaynor Marshall (Producer, Nightowls, Metro Radio)
Ross Mitchell (Broadcast Assistant, BBC Radio Leeds/BBC introducing)
Chris Stevens (Group Deputy Programme Director, GMG Radio)
Vicky Warham (Presenter, Q Radio/Rock FM)

Registration:

Click HERE to register for this event.

Registration is required for this event.

Cost: members free / non-members* £10 (inc VAT)

*We are offering some free places for holders of valid student cards. If you are a student and would like to attend please contact Richard Berry.

Details:

Date: Tuesday 1st May
Time: 5.30 for 6pm start
Location: Prospect Building, University of Sunderland, SR6 0DD

As always, it features a wonderful edition of David LLoyd’s Radio Moments.

Recorded at Maple Street Studios in London and produced by Jordan Thomas with imaging from On The Sly.

Comments always welcome. Also available via itunes.

Top radio presenter and journalist Jeremy Vine is appearing at a Radio Academy South West Branch event at UBU, Bristol on Tuesday 24th April.

Jeremy joined the BBC in 1987 as a News Trainee and has since been a presenter of Newsnight, political correspondent at Westminster, reporter on the Today programme and Africa correspondent based in Johannesburg.

He is also one of only four presenters in the history of Panorama, the world’s oldest current affairs programme. His recent special on the Dewani case, Panorama: The Honeymoon Murder, drew one of Panorama’s highest ever audiences (4.6m, peaking over 5m).

Early in 2003 Jeremy took over the news and music slot on BBC Radio 2 and has twice won Speech Broadcaster Of The Year in the prestigious Sony Radio Academy Awards.
He is also presenter of Points of View and Eggheads (the cult quiz show on BBC2).

He will be talking about his life, work and his love of radio. In addition, he will talk about journalism and offer advice for all those wishing to enter the profession.

Audio:

The audio for this event was a published as a RadioTalk episode on 4th May 2012.
Click here to access.

Details:

Date: Tuesday 24th April
Time: 6pm for 6.30 start
Location: Bristol University Students’ Union, Queen’s Road, Clifton, BS8 1LN

Producer:

Will Wilkin – BURST

The Nominations for the Sony Radio Academy Awards 2012 will be announced by London’s Capital FM Breakfast Show hosts Dave Berry and Lisa Snowdon in a very special live webcast tomorrow (Friday 30th March) at 1.30pm at www.radioacademyawards.org.

There’s a test available on the website now for you to check you can receive the feed properly BEFORE the start of the webcast. The countdown clock will start at 1pm and the webcast will start promptly at 1.30pm.

Stations right across the UK are organising lunchtime events so everyone in their office can find out who’s been nominated, all at the same time – email us to let us know what you’re planning and we’ll give your team a shout out. Get the beers in the fridge, synchronise watches and put the mobiles on silent – you do not want to miss this!

If you can’t watch the webcast, don’t panic – those lovely folks at Radio Today will be tweeting the nominations as they’re announced and tomorrow’s Radio Academy Newsletter will also be a Nominations Special.

Good luck to everyone who has entered this year!

Folder Media’s Matt Deegan hosts the podcast with guests Adam Heyhurst (Visualisation Producer, Radio 1), Rich Clarke (Presenter at Capital FM and the Vodafone Big Top 40) and Julian Fisher (Director of Media Output, Markettiers4dc).

The video was produced by Adam Mitchenhall and Iain Holding at Markettiers4dc and the imaging was provided by On The Sly.

As always, it features David Lloyd’s Radio Moments – but this time, in vision!

Comments always welcome. Also available via iTunes.