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Radio Academy Event Audio

  1. The Radio Festival 2009

    The Radio Festival is the biggest event in Radio’s year, an unparalleled opportunity to hear from the industry’s most influential people, learn new techniques from the masters of the medium, debate the issues facing us all and enjoy some beneficial networking time.

    Main Festival Sessions

    From Teenage listeners to What's Next Now, the Radio Festival has it all. Click here to listen to the audio.

    TechCon

    A special one-day conference for engineers and technicians. Subjects explored included loudness, digital content capture in the field, wireless data services and the holy grail of perfect station processing. Click here to listen to the audio.

    Foot in the Door

    Foot In The Door is The Radio Academy's intensive networking event for young people who want to work in radio. Click here to listen to some of the questions our delegates asked.

  2. Radio At The Edge

    The essential event for new media teams, business developers, technology teams and radio programmers: Radio At The Edge looks at new audiences, new platforms, and new opportunities for radio.

    Click here to listen to 2009's audio.

    Click here to listen to 2008's audio.

  3. Promotions and Marketing Awards

    These awards recognise the very best promotions and marketing campaigns over the last year on UK radio.

    Click here to listen to 2009's winning audio.

    Click here to listen to 2008's winning audio.

  4. Archive Event Audio

    Audio from the events archive

    Radio & Music Forum

    A one-day conference covering the relationship between the music and radio industry's. Guest speakers included Andy Parfitt and Trevor Nelson. Click here for the audio.

    Production

    A one-day conference of workshops, debates and interviews designed to make your station or programme sound better, connect better with listeners and expand successfully onto other platform. Guest speakers included Mark Radcliffe and Gary Barlow. Click here for the audio.

    Offshore

    Marking the fortieth anniversary of ‘pirate’ radio pioneers being forced off the air, an afternoon of audio, movies and memories. Click here for the audio.

  1. London Events

    Our London Events provide an opportunity for all radio people to come together to discuss the hot topics affecting the industry, to share ideas and information and to socialise and network.

    Christian O'Connell Meets Neil Fox

    Ever wondered what it takes to be one of the longest serving and most successful UK radio broadcasters of modern times? Click here for the audio.

    Spin Doctors

    Spin and the political process – who is setting the agenda? Click here for the audio.

    Children in Need (of Radio)

    Only 87% of the UK's 12.5m children are listening to the radio each week. This is the worst performing age demographic. Will they ever pick up the radio habit? Click here for the audio.

    Online, On Demand, On Trial

    Is the future already here? Or are the new technology possibilities distracting us from the business of making quality programming? And how does anyone make money? Click here for the audio.

    You Can't Say That!

    Recent events in radio have shown how difficult it is to make and uphold universal rules on taste, decency and language. Do we need a TV-style watershed? Does compliance mean stifling creativity? Click here for the audio.

    Is Community Radio the New ILR?

    Volunteer-led community radio has quietly gone from strength to strength, with over130 stations now on-air and increasing recognition amongst both opinion formers and listeners. We asked whether this heralds the beginning of a new order in the world of local radio. Click here for the audio.

    Selling a Message

    Whether it’s writing and producing commercial spots, making trails or promoting station events, every producer or creative writer shares one common goal … selling a message. We want to uncover the processes behind great creative production and learn how the best in the business sell a message. Click here for the audio from 2008.

    GLR: Was it Any Good?

    It opened 20 years ago, on October 25th 1988. It was radical, innovative, clever, challenging, funny, and inspiring. It was childish, shambolic, self-indulgent, patronising and silly. But it’s heritage lives on, not just in the formats of BBC 5Live and BBC 6Music, but through the talent it nurtured - Chris Evans, Chris Morris, Danny Baker, Emma Freud, Vanessa Feltz, Nick Abbot…. and many more. Click here for the audio from 2008.

    Credit Crunch

    It’s the hottest topic on the news agenda at the moment – what’s happening to our finances/ our homes/ our pay packets? But are we generating more heat than light when we try to cover economic stories on the radio? Click here for the audio from 2008.

    Best of British

    With some of this summer’s biggest hits coming from the UK streets - will this see a change in the programming of some of the UK’s local and national stations? Click here for the audio from 2008.

    Is Radio Racist?

    How easy is it to get into radio when your skin’s not white? Why, when so many BME students have been media trained, don’t they stick around in radio? Are those who do sidelined into ‘ethnic’ programmes? Has 1Xtra, Asian Network, and Choice FM ghettoised radio? Why do employers say they don’t get enough applications from minority groups? Click here for the audio from 2007.

  2. Branch Audio

    The Radio Academy's branches provide an enjoyable and valuable social and business network for everyone working in the radio and audio industries.

    Scotland

    Fred MacAulay hosts a panel featuring two of the country’s most prominent Breakfast presenters George Bowie (Radio Clyde) and Robin Galloway (Real Radio). Both are well placed to offer an insight into what makes a brilliant Breakfast show. Click here to listen to the audio.

    East Anglia

    Radio Norfolk's Keith Skues celebrates 50 years in radio and recalls his years aboard Radio Caroline in the swinging sixties. Click here to listen to the audio.

    Yorkshire

    Andrew Harrison, Chief Executive, RadioCentre - With his predictions on what awaits UK radio in 2009. Click here to listen to the audio.

  3. Masterclasses

    Our Masterclasses are designed for young people who are thinking of a career in broadcast. Each Masterclass is a day conference comprising of a variety of seminars, hands-on skills sessions and lectures.

    Swindon

    Watch the LIVE stream from the Swindon Masterclass here. Featuring Scott Mills and Andy Parfitt.

    Sunderland

    Click here to listen to the delegate feedback from the Sunderland Masterclass.