Hits Radio: Meet The Team
What makes an award-winning Station of the Year? Fresh from their ARIAS Gold win, we sat down with the team behind Hits Radio for an online Radio Academy event. For this week's podcast, we’ve taken some of the highlights from that discussion, focusing particularly on the Breakfast Show content, and the thought that went into putting togethertheir stand-out entry. Programme Director Paul Gerra...
18m Jun 22, 2022
18m
Soundtracking with Edith Bowman
This week’s episode features Edith Bowman in conversation with fellow ARIA-winner Abbie McCarthy, about her hugely successful podcast Soundtracking.  We didn’t want you to miss out on this live chat they did for the Radio Academy at The Podcast Show 2022 - so we’ve selected all the best bits for you to listen to.  Edith explains how she combined her passion for music and film to get the idea ...
18m Jun 15, 2022
18m
Official Eurovision Podcast
Eurovision fans - standby to meet the man with your dream job!  This week's episode is all about turning your personal passion into a major podcast from scratch.   Following years of experience as a music journalist at Radio 1, Steve Holden's started a brand new adventure… making the official Eurovision Song Contest podcast. Roisin talks to Steve about using his geeky knowledge of Eurovision ...
15m Jun 09, 2022
15m
Fi, Jane & Annie @ The Podcast Show 2022
Last week saw The Podcast Show hit London, with more than a hundred talks from podcasting greats across two days.  Our episode this week is highlights from one of the Radio Academy sessions we held at the show - a fascinating talk between broadcasting greats Jane Garvey, Fi Glover and Annie Macmanus.  They talk about their respective hit podcasts Fortunately and Changes, and answer questions ...
18m Jun 01, 2022
18m
From Community to Commercial
If you’re grafting to make it as a radio presenter then this episode is for you! Roisin speaks to to Nicola Lashley - the new signing to the Viking FM breakfast show - and her co-host Alex Duffy. Nicola spent years volunteering at community radio (while holding down a day job) before her demo was picked up by Bauer.  Roisin spoke to the duo a couple of weeks after their first official show tog...
18m May 25, 2022
18m
Newsbeat's New Imaging
This is definitely our most technical episode of the Radio Academy Podcast so far, as Roisin goes in-depth on station imaging. As one of our guests puts it, imaging is basically ‘everything you hear that isn’t a song or a presenter’. Inspired by the new beds that Roisin started using in her day job at Newsbeat, and the reaction they got from listeners, this episode features Matt Fisher and Lia...
19m May 18, 2022
19m
The 2022 ARIAS - Part 2
It's the second half of the ARIAS show, with all the action from on stage, and some special backstage interviews with Roisin. In this section, you can hear: Best Music Entertainment Show Best Marketing Campaign  The Impact Award The Grassroots Award  Best Fictional Storytelling Best Commercial Partnership Best Station Sound The Creative Innovation Award The Pioneer Award, for Janice Long Best ...
46m May 05, 2022
46m
The 2022 ARIAS - Part 1
An ARIAS special this week, as Roisin reports from backstage at the Adelphi Theatre, and we bring you highlights of the first half of the show.  This episode is Part 1, including the following awards: Best New Presenter Best New Show Best Speech Breakfast Show Best Speech Presenter Best Independent Podcast Best News Coverage Best Sports Show Best Specialist Music Show Best Coverage of an Event...
41m May 04, 2022
41m
Jeremy Vine Show: Meet The Team
In his words, Jeremy Vine’s Radio 2 show is an eclectic mix of content that ‘doesn’t work until you hear it’. From discussing the day’s big stories… to cooking a dolphin live on air.  In this week’s podcast, we’ve got some of the behind-the-scenes highlights shared by Jeremy, his editor Tim Collins and producers Tim Johns and Alison McGarragh after they sat down with Radio Sheffield's Paulette...
18m Apr 27, 2022
18m
Radio 3's Diverse Composers
In this week's episode, Roisin digs into BBC Radio 3's Diverse Composers project, which aims to uncover the stories of seven composers overlooked by history.   She speaks to researcher Michael Harper, producer Amelia Parker, and Radio 3’s Controller Alan Davey about how they told the composers' stories, and how each piece of research led to a set of new live recordings that become part of the ...
19m Apr 20, 2022
19m
Ukrainecast
The day that Russia invaded Ukraine, BBC News launched Ukrainecast - a daily podcast, providing detail and insight about the conflict. Six weeks on, Roisin speaks to the team that make the programme, about its challenges and revelations. This episode is a summary of a Radio Academy online event, in which Roisin spoke to presenter Victoria Derbyshire, Senior Editor Jonathan Aspinwall and regula...
20m Apr 12, 2022
20m
Magic's Menopause Month
Roisin speaks to Emma B and Audio Always Producer Ailsa Rochester, about the month-long focus on the menopause that Magic ran throughout Magic. The Audio Content Fund supported project aimed to have an open, frank and fun conversation covering diagnosis, support, and how menopause effects family and work for everybody.   Emma and Ailsa talk about how they approached it, what they learnt, and ...
21m Apr 06, 2022
21m
Rowing Home with Jordan North
This week Roisin chats to the team behind Jordan North’s epic rowing challenge for Comic Relief on Radio 1.  Jenny Keogh and Louis Chadwick talk us through the planning and thinking-on-your-feet involved in getting this week-long project on air, which saw Jordan row 100 miles along canals from London to his home town of Burnley. Blood, sweat and tears went into telling this story which raised...
19m Mar 30, 2022
19m
Dead British
This week Roisin finds out what it's like making an improvised comedy show for the radio.
20m Mar 23, 2022
20m
Anna Raeburn and Sangeeta Pillai
A special episode this week - highlights of a brilliant event that The Radio Academy held to mark International Women's Day.  We brought together three women who have pushed the boundaries in broadcasting - transforming what’s talked about across the country over the last 50 years. Radio legend Anna Raeburn, podcaster Sangeeta Pillai and our host Emma B - spoke about breaking the mould and cha...
22m Mar 16, 2022
22m
Celebrating Jamal Edwards MBE
Following the tragic death of Jamal Edwards a few weeks ago, this episode looks at how such a big loss to the music industry was reflected on BBC Radio 1Xtra.
21m Mar 09, 2022
21m
Fun Kids' Mission Transmission
An 'out of this world' episode this week, as Roisin speaks to Fun Kids producer Adam Stoner, about Mission Transmission - a project to broadcast children's messages from the Royal Observatory Greenwich to deepest outer space!
14m Mar 02, 2022
14m
Radio 2's Piano Room Month
In this week’s episode Roisin speaks to one of the most recognisable voices in British radio, Ken Bruce, and meets some of the team behind Radio 2’s Piano Room Month.
19m Feb 23, 2022
19m
Jackie Brambles Evening Show
In our first full episode, Roisin Hastie speaks to Jackie Brambles and producer Alex Toal about her new Greatest Hits Radio Evening Show.
20m Feb 16, 2022
20m
Introduction
Introducing the brand new Radio Academy Podcast, with Roisin Hastie. Find out what we've got coming up and what to expect from this exciting new series for radio and audio people.
3m Feb 09, 2022
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