Trevor is joined by Clive Dickens (COO, Absolute Radio), Michael Hill (Project Leader, UK Radioplayer), and Steve Orchard (CEO, Quidem) for this week’s RadioTalk. In an action-packed edition, we find out how things are going with the UK Radioplayer project, find out what local radio operators think of the new FM scrappage scheme, discuss the big stories from this quarter’s RAJARs, find out how to follow a dying swan act and we get to play with Clive’s iPad!

What should the digital strategy for regional stations be? What is above the waterline for regional audiences? What constitutes a “game-changing” device? Is it a problem that Radio 2’s audience has gone up? Is it wrong to award stations for creativity, when their listening figures aren’t what they have been? Should the BBC be giving money back to the Exchequer? Should The Archer’s be DAB only? And are free music festivals inappropriate?

This week Steve has been listening to comedy on Radio 4 with Micky Flanagan, Michael has been listening to Montreal station WEFUNK, and Clive has been listening to podcasts from Australian duo Hamish and Andy and from our very own Baddiel and Skinner.

You can listen on our site, or by searching “radio academy” on iTunes.