PODCASTS

This week’s extended podcast features Phil Riley, CEO of Orion Media and Stuart Taylor, CEO of GMG Radio who talk about the big decisions Chief Executives have to make to compete. Phil gives us the background into why BRMB is going ‘Free Radio’ and Stuart Taylor tells us why cutting the number of journalists across his division will not materially affect the listeners experience. In addition, we talk BBC Local Radio and the actions of Lord Patton. It’s all fighting talk as they say…

Plus, don’t miss this week’s installment of David LLoyd’s radio moments.

Remember, if you are downloading from iTunes make sure you get both part 1 and part 2.

This week’s extended podcast features Phil Riley, CEO of Orion Media and Stuart Taylor, CEO of GMG Radio who talk about the big decisions Chief Executives have to make to compete. Phil gives us the background into why BRMB is going ‘Free Radio’ and Stuart Taylor tells us why cutting the number of journalists across his division will not materially affect the listeners experience. In addition, we talk BBC Local Radio and the actions of Lord Patton. It’s all fighting talk as they say…

Plus, don’t miss this week’s installment of David LLoyd’s radio moments.

Remember, if you are downloading from iTunes make sure you get both part 1 and part 2.

This weeks RadioTalk is a look back at Absolute Radio’s initiative on Redifining Radio.

The podcast is presented by Matt Deegan and is a round table discussion on how the internet is transforming radio, especially relating to partnerships, social media, targeted advertising, new platforms and devices and digital strategies.

The podcast has some audio from the Redefining Radio event itself, including:

• Ed Vaizey MP’s opening comments, relating to the UK’s digital strategy and the importance of radio within that


• James Wigley’s presentation of Absolute Radio’s Instream model
• Tim Davie’s comments on the importance of growth and innovation in the radio industry and what new opportunities are on the horizon

Podcast recorded at Absolute Radio and edited by Jordan Thomas at Maple Street Studios, with imaging from On The Sly.

It’s Hogmanay in the Highlands as Lisa Kerr speaks to Alex Gray of Two Lochs Radio, Nicky Marr of MFR and Jeff Zycinski of Radio Scotland about radio over New Year, hangovers and the Krankies (yes, really!).

Kindly recorded by David Walker at Moray Firth Radio in Inverness. Produced by Jordan Thomas.

The Final RadioTalk of the year is a special two part edition. Part 1 is a review of 2011. Part 2 is a look ahead to 2012 including David Lloyd’s Radio Moments. Appearing for this festive session are Tim Davie, Director of Audio and Music for BBC. Andrew Harrison, Chief Executive of The RadioCentre and Steve Ackerman, Managing Director of Somethin’ Else.

Recorded at the wonderful Maple Street Studios London, with grateful thanks as always to On The Sly and Broadcast Bionics for their help throughout the year.

To all our contributers in 2011, thank you for being part of The Radio Academy Podcast.

Remember, if you are downloading from iTunes make sure you get both part 1 and part 2.

The Final RadioTalk of the year is a special two part edition. Part 1 is a review of 2011. Part 2 is a look ahead to 2012 including David Lloyd’s Radio Moments. Appearing for this festive session are Tim Davie, Director of Audio and Music for BBC. Andrew Harrison, Chief Executive of The RadioCentre and Steve Ackerman, Managing Director of Somethin’ Else.

Recorded at the wonderful Maple Street Studios London, with grateful thanks as always to On The Sly and Broadcast Bionics for their help throughout the year.

To all our contributers in 2011, thank you for being part of The Radio Academy Podcast.

Remember, if you are downloading from iTunes make sure you get both part 1 and part 2.

RadioTalk this week features top consultant Mark Story and Sony Radio Academy Award Programmer of the year Moz Dee who gather to talk about OBs and the perils of live events on the radio. Also the team discuss recent radio news including Alan Titchmarsh, Dave Berry and Graham Torrington. Plus don’t miss a few ‘naughty’ radio moments from David LLoyd.

Recorded at Maple Street Studios in London and produced by Jordan Thomas.

RadioTalk this week discusses… Dave Berry, Sony Radio Awards, Student Radio and the changing face of radio in the East Midlands including URN and Student radio.

Guests with John Myers include Dick Stone, PD of Capital FM EM, Kate Squire Managing Editor of Radio Leicester and Emma Bradshaw, Head of Daytime Programmes at URN.

Kindly recorded by Mark and the team at Capital FM East Midlands.

RadioTalk this week talks Christmas songs, Johnny Vaughan and Absolute 60s plus we have David Lloyd’s latest Radio Moments.

Joining John Myers this week are GMG Deputy Group PD Chris Stevens, Key 103 Station Director and PD Gary Stein and Managing Editor of BBC Manchester, John Ryan.

Recorded at GMG Radio HQ, Salford Quays, Manchester.

This week, RadioTalk is presented by Lisa Kerr. Guests include James Cridland, Maria Williams and Lorna Clarke. The debate is women in media. Also, don’t miss a double feature start to Radio Moments from David Lloyd. The first includes the recorded Radio Moments from last week but we have added the audio to this weeks podcast for your enjoyment.

Recorded on the last day of the Radio Festival, Trevor Dann is joined by RadioCentre’s Lisa Kerr, RadioToday’s Stuart Clarkson, consultant Nik Goodman and The Radio Academy’s very own John Myers to discuss the big stories from #radfest11.

Thanks to Smooth Ops for the recording. Produced by Heather Davies.

Catch up with the gossip from the PPL Hall of Fame Dinner and all the highlights from the last day of sessions at the 2011 Radio Festival.

With thanks to all the Festival Radio Team (especially Kate Cocker!)

Continued coverage from the Radio Festival 2011 from our team of volunteer producers and presenters. We hear from the Celebrity to Star, how the delegates are enjoying the sessions, which gadget won the Radio Festival Gadget show and Duncan Bannatyne talks the radio business.

Continued coverage from the Radio Festival 2011 from our team of volunteer producers and presenters. We find out about the John Peel Lecture, the 6 Music Showcase and there’s more from TechCon and Foot in the Door.

Live from the Radio Festival 2011 – our intrepid reporters views on the first day. Including the TechCon Jargon Buster and new experiences for delegates and for our team!

#30u30 special
Last week, The Radio Academy published the inaugural 30 Under 30 list – and this week RadioTalk gives you the chance to meet some of them in a show hosted, produced and including 5 members of the list.

Hosting this special edition of RadioTalk is Charlene Guy – a presenter from BFBS who has spent the last 7 years travelling round the world with the army and embedded everywhere from Afghanistan to The Falklands.

Joining RadioTalk veterans Jimmy Buckland (Head of Strategy, UTV) and Carina Tillson (Head of Compliance and Regulatory Policy, Global Radio) is Jonathan Jacob (SPI Account Manager, Frist Radio Sales) who may be familiar to those who follow The Earshot Creative Review blog and podcast.

Find out how they heard the news, what they think makes a #30u30 and what advice they’d give to aspiring radio stars of the future.

Podcast produced by Heather Davies and recorded at Maple Street Studios.

In a big week for the network, Absolute Radio’s Clive Dickens joins Trevor Dann for a special one-on-one interview to discuss past triumphs and future hopes – including a secret passion to work with the BBC!

Podcast produced by Heather Davies and recorded at Absolute Radio with thanks to Joe Thomas.

Delivering Quality First: on the day dominated by the BBC’s latest cost-cutting plans, Trevor Dann discusses the particulars and implications of the DQF report with media commentator and former BBC Radio Head of Strategy, Paul Robinson (MD of KidsCo) and hears what commercial radio might make of the report from RadioCentre’s Director of Strategy, Lisa Kerr.

Podcast produced by Heather Davies and recorded at Maple Street Studios.

This week Trevor Dann talks TechCon with Quentin Howard (BFBS) and radio futurologist James Cridland. Find out about the great sessions planned for the first day of the Radio Festival – from making your station more eco-friendly, to making sure you stay on air!

Podcast produced by Heather Davies and recorded at Maple Street Studios.

In the lead up to this year’s Radio Festival, Trevor Dann talks to the organisers, attendees and speakers from the brand new nextrad.io conference.

Podcast produced by Heather Davies.

In this edition of RadioTalk Trevor Dann speaks to the Chair of this year’s Radio Festival, John Myers. They discuss today’s launch of the full Festival programme, the stellar line-up of speakers and some particular highlights to look forward to.

Podcast produced by Heather Davies and recorded at Maple Street Studios.

Trevor Dann is joined in the RadioTalk studios by drivetime aficionados Scott Mills (Radio 1) and Geoff Lloyd (Absolute Radio) to discuss what makes a great hometime show.

Podcast produced by Heather Davies

Jack FM is known throughout the world as a radio brand, but what makes it so interesting? In the first of a series on radio brands, John Myers talks to Pat Bohn, the worldwide President of Sparknet (owners of the Jack brand) about how it all started. Also included is Ian Walker, the first guy to launch Jack in the UK and Ken Benson from P1 research. enjoy…

Trevor Dann hosts a #ukriots special looking at how UK radio coped with a difficult week of public disorder.

Featuring LBC’s Nick Margerrison who presented a 6 hour show overnight when rioting broke out in Tottenham; BBC Radio Manchester’ Sarah Collins who was the on-air producer throughout the night when rioting broke out in Manchester on Tuesday evening; and AudioBoo’s CEO and Founder Mark Rock whose site saw their biggest peak of listening since launch.

Sarah introduces the harrowing audio of the BBC Radio Manchester radio car being set on fire, and Mark brings a stand-out AudioBoo from a member of the public who witnessed one of the many fires in Croydon on Monday night.

We tackle the issues around staff safety when broadcasting from a riot, how to screen callers effectively before putting them on air, what citizen journalism means, what happens in the studio when adrenalin takes over, what is impartiality, and how do we connect with the disconnected?

Trevor also speaks to Ralph Bernard about the sad passing of Michael Bukht who founded Classic FM, Britain’s first national commercial radio station.

Podcast produced by Heather Davies and recorded at Maple Street Studios.

Trevor Dann is joined by Steve Ackerman (Somethin Else), Matt Deegan (Folder Media / Fun Kids) and Will Jackson (Traffic Radio) to pick apart the latest RAJAR figures, the futue of Radio 1 now that Andy Parfitt is stepping down, and the latest developments in the talkSPORT / 5 live debate.

Podcast recorded at Maple Street Studios and produced by Heather Davies.

Trevor Dann caught up with Gwyneth earlier this week to find out how her first 9 months in the job have gone. They talked at length about the new schedule on R4 and the launch of 4Extra, the importance of digital and of getting the live schedule right.

Trevor also raised the recent news agenda – was Radio 4’s coverage of the News of the World and Amy Winehouse stories appropriate? They talked about the new model for independent commissioning and answered some questions from listeners via twitter – about why there’s no Today programme on Sunday, what’s the future of R4 LW and why is there such variation in the quality of radio drama on 4.

As with every edition we ended the discussion by asking what Gwyneth has been listening to (the World Service, the Proms on R3 and the Reith Lectures).

Podcast produced by Heather Davies and recorded at Maple Street Studios.

Colin Paterson – Chair of the Welsh Branch of The Radio Academy and stalwart of BBC Radio Wales – presents this special edition of our radio-based podcast from Cardiff.

Colin is joined by Steve Austins (Editor of BBC Radio Wales), Andy Griffiths (Head of Presentation for Real Radio Wales), and Mike Graham (TalkSPORT presenter and former tabloid journalist and Editor) to talk about the week’s biggest media news and the future of radio in Wales.

Recorded at BBC Radio Wales and produced by Heather Davies.

Sony Radio Academy Award winners Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann host this special edition of RadioTalk all about podcasting.

They are joined by the Guardian’s Head of Audio Francesca Pannetta (also of the multiple award-winning Hackney Podcast), BBC 6 Music Exec James Stirling (responsible for the Adam & Joe podcast and weekend schedules) and Luke Moore from the hugely successfull Football Ramble podcast.

We ask: Is there a different audience for radio and podcasting? How much editing is too much? Why aren’t podcasts bigger?

There’s also interviews with famous podcasters Andrew Collins and Andy Zaltzman, where we tackle when and why you should stop podcasting, and how to make money out of your pod.

And we find out what podcasts our panellists have been listening to and hear clips from their favourite shows.

Podcast produced by Heather Davies and recorded at Maple Street Studios.

This week’s RadioTalk is an Arqivas special hosted by RadioToday’s Stuart Clarkson. We catch up with some of the winners – including Ronnie Wood, David Baddiel and Kid Jensen – and speak to some of the big names appearing on the night about what radio means to them.

Podcast produced by Heather Davies.

The Myers Report is the biggest news story this week and to discuss its implications, Trevor Dann is joined in the studio by Andy Parfitt (Controller of Radio 1, 1Xtra, Popular Music and Asian Network), Simon Cole (Chief Executive, UBC Media) and Paul Robinson (Media Consultant and Managing Director, Kids Co TV).

Should Radio 1 and Radio 2 share premises? Is there a defence for the staffing levels at Newsbeat? What is quality? What are QRV, DQF and AI? What do Radio 1 talk about on their away days? What can be done to lighten the compliance load? How has Music policy developed at Radio 1? Are jobs now at risk?

We’ve also got an exclusive interview with the man himself, Mr John Myers, to find out the background to the report and what he learnt during the process.

Podcast produced by Heather Davies and recorded at Maple Street Studios.

This week’s RadioTalk comes live from the 2nd annual Radio Production Awards in London.

Before the ceremony, Trevor Dann caught up with Mike Hally from the Radio Independent’s Group, four-times nominated Mariele Runacre-Temple from the Wireless Theatre Company, and judge Lorna Clarke from BBC Radio 2.

Backstage, our reporter Nia Visser caught up with some of the winners as the awards were announced, and as the night drew to a close Trevor spoke to Steve Ackerman from Somethin’ Else, Karen Pearson from Folded Wing and Jon Holmes.

Podcast produced by Nia Visser and Heather Davies. With thanks to SADiE.

This week’s RadioTalk is all about the recently launched UK RadioPlayer which last week reported its first figures.

Trevor Dann is joined in the RadioTalk studio by RadioPlayer’s Managing Director Michael Hill, and Jazz FM’s Programme Controller Mike Vitti to discuss how the project is going.

We also have contributions from Darren Webb, Station Manager of University Radio York and Bruce Mitchell, Head of Digital for Bauer Radio’s London Stations, voices his concerns about the project.

Podcast produced by Heather Davies and recorded at Maple Street Studios.

Following on from the Guardian’s Music Power 100, this week’s RadioTalk is all about the relationship between music and radio.

Our host Trevor Dann is joined by Exec Producer Sarah Gaston (BBC Radio 2), Presenter Geoff Lloyd (Absolute Radio), and Plugger Sam Potts (Columbia Records) to discuss how plugging works, the value of live gigs and why radio is so important for the music business.

This week’s RadioTalk is a Super Injunctions special, featuring the Digital Media Editor of the Telegraph, Emma Barnett, top media lawyer Jonathan Coad from Lewis Silkin LLP (the first person to issue an injunction covering the internet!), broadcast journalism expert Carole Fleming from Nottingham Trent University, and GMG Radio’s Henry Jones who is a broadcast journalist for Real, Smooth and Rock Radio in Manchester.

We go deep into the heart of the Super Injunctions story – how did it start, what was it like reporting on it, and what is the current legal position for radio stations across the UK?

Podcast produced by Heather Davies and recorded at Maple Street Studios.

Trevor is joined in the studio by Matt Deegan and Paul Sylvester to talk awards success and the value of multiplatform, and Producer Heather has a report from BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend.

Produced by Heather Davies

Trevor Dann is joined in the RadioTalk studio by Station Programmer of the Year Moz Dee (talkSPORT) and Media UK’s James Cridland, and gets an exclusive interview with double Sony Radio Academy Award-winning Jeremy Vine.

Podcast Produced by Heather Davies.

Trevor looks at Wednesday’s Arqiva Nominations with Paul Robinson (Kidsco / the Guardian) and Adam Bowie (Absolute).

And we have a special report from the students at Sunderland University about the Charles Parker Day.

This week’s RadioTalk is live from the Student Radio Conference at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield.

Trevor catches up with Chair of the Student Radio Association David Walker, and is joined at the bar by Thom Palser (Uni of Hertfordshire), Neil Sloan (BBC Radio 1), Paul Sylvester (Absolute Radio), and Carina Tillson (Global Radio) to talk all things student radio.

Podcast produced by Heather Davies.

Trevor is joined by Phil Riley (Orion), Stuart Thomas (BBC) and Jonathan Wall (BBC Radio 5 live) to discuss the future of local radio, the Sony Radio Academy nominations and how station rebrands work with RAJAR.

Podcast produced by Heather Davies.