Category: Radio
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Great Review for my prison music doc Band Behind Bars in the Guardian
Reposted from guardian.co.uk The Band Behind Bars (Radio 2) was an unexpectedly cheerful listen. It wasn’t just the story, told by Craig Charles, of how music can be used within prisons as part of the rehabilitation process. Or the fact that Billy Bragg appeared, talking passionately about his charity, which…
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Band Behind Bars on BBC Radio 2
During September 2011, I spent a month following a project at the Mount Prison Hemel Hempstead to rehabilitate offenders through music. You can read about my experiences on the BBC Radio Blog and the full programme is now available on iPlayer. The Telegraph have chosen the hour-long documentary as one…
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Making Radio in Prison
Reposted from the BBC Radio Blog Walking into a prison for the first time is a nerve-wracking and intimidating experience. As each heavy door slams behind you, the sense of claustrophobia increases – even in open spaces there’s netting overhead, and the barbed wire is clear to see. In September…
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Festival Radio at #radfest11
This morning, the annual Radio Festival gets under way in Salford Quays and I’ll be working with top producer Kate Cocker and a team of 15 volunteer producers and presenters to create a series of podcasts throughout the Festival starting tonight, and covering the highlights from all the sessions and…
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RadioTalk #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 by, produced by and featuring 5 members of the list. Hosting this special edition of RadioTalk is Charlene Guy –…
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The Radio Academy’s Inaugural #30u30
It’s such an honour to be selected as one of The Radio Academy’s Top 30 Under 30. There are so many fantastic young people working in our industry – many of them completely below the radar – initiatives like this are a great way of highlighting their work. Over 200…
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Back to School…
I went back to my old high school yesterday to give pupils an insight into the world of media and to teach the students interview techniques as part of the school’s Summer Bookfest. The literacy event at Thistley Hough High aims to encourage students to improve their writing and speech.…
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Here Be Angels – A Podcast For Peckham & Dulwich Episode 1
Delighted to be launching today the first edition of our hyperlocal podcast, Here Be Angels. The mastermind of the operation is Peckhamite Richard Leeming – who approached me a couple of months ago to pick my brain about podcasting. I jumped at the chance to do more audio, particularly about…
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RadioTalk Music Radio Special
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,…
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RadioTalk Super Injunctions Special
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…
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RadioTalk featuring Scott Mills, Matt Deegan and Paul Sylvester
Trevor is joined in the studio by Matt Deegan (Fun Kids / Folder Media) and Paul Sylvester (Absolute Radio) to talk awards success and the value of multiplatform, and I have a report from The Radio Academy Masterclass at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend. I’ve been going to the Masterclass at Radio 1’s Big Weekend for…
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RadioTalk: Sony Award Winners Jeremy Vine and Moz Dee join Trevor Dann and James Cridland
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. We celebrate the varying successes from the Sony Radio Academy Awards on Monday night. We…
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RadioTalk with Adam Bowie and Paul Robinson
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. Available on the Radio Academy site and on iTunes.
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Shaun Keaveny’s Alternative 6 Music Advert
I’d love to think that this is actually what happened… BBC iPlayer – Shaun Keaveny: Shaun Keaveny’s Al…, posted with vodpod
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RadioTalk at the Student Radio Conference 2011
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),…
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RadioTalk with Phil Riley, Stuart Thomas and Jonathan Wall
Trevor is joined by Phil Riley (Orion), Stuart Thomas (BBC Regions) 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. Should local radio be run by 5 live? What other radical suggestions have…
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Does Radio Have to be a Secondary Medium?
One of the most interesting bits of feedback we’ve received from Sounds of the 20th Century (BBC Radio 2, Thursdays 10pm) is that it’s a really active listen. People want to know what that clip was, who said that, do they remember it, what were they doing at the time.…
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#sottc Week 1
We have been genuinely delighted with the feedback from the first episode of Sounds. The Independent and The Radio Times (“surprisingly immersive, quietly informative and – vitally – very entertaining”) were very complimentary but The Telegraph gets the red rosette for loveliness: Once in a while a series comes along…
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The Wonderful World of PR
This week I have spent an unusual amount of time learning about the world of Public Relations – firstly at the Young Women in Media event about PR on Monday, and secondly helping a PR company record a podcast about measurement. What have I learnt? Well, radio and PR have…
Heather Davies 