Radio and podcast presenting: improvers
- Course Code: DMM012
- Dates: 31/10/24 - 05/12/24
- Time: 18:15 - 21:15
- Taught: Thu, Evening
- Duration: 6 sessions (over 6 weeks)
- Location: Keeley Street
- Tutor: David Spencer
Course Code: DMM012
Duration: 6 sessions (over 6 weeks)
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What is the course about?
Honing your skillset as an all-round broadcaster. Extend and develop your skills for a range of radio broadcasts and podcasts, putting a live news, current affairs, features and music programme to air, creating the content yourselves. You'll need to have taken the beginners’ presenting course or have previous industry experience.
What will we cover?
Writing for, reading and talking on air. Producing features and improving interview skills whether with celebs, politicians or vox pops in the street. Working up a radio pitch into a feature or programme, allowing the student to develop a specific on-air interest or subject, such as human interest stories, health, arts and culture, travel.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
Have a wider and deeper understanding of working as a broadcaster within the industry
Apply the skills learnt in a range of other personal and work situations.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
It is suitable for anyone who has completed Radio Presenting: Beginners at City Lit or has at least some previous experience such as working on a student or hospital radio station or in an internship or has been interviewed on air or similar. Students with some other relevant experience like working on a community magazine or paper or in PR could also take the course. Other students should check with the tutor.
If you are new to voice classes please take a moment to read our
full sequence of voice and speech classes at City Lit (click here) before choosing.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
Class tutorials and discussions, interviews. This course will be delivered in our fully equipped media studio.
As part of the course content, your tutor may record your image for initial and ongoing assessment purposes. You are entitled to decline to participate in the recording of your image.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
No. Recorded material MAY be made available via Google Classroom at the end of the course in accordance with our privacy policies and data protection regulations.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
Radio and Podcast Presenting: Advanced. Please refer to our full sequence of voice and speech classes at City Lit as you consider which area you would like to study next.
David Spencer has worked in radio and podcasting since the early 90s, having developed a passion for audio at an early age, doing radio shows for an audience of one in his bedroom! After working as a presenter and journalist in commercial radio for ten years, David became a senior journalist with Sky News Radio, as well as working at Smooth Radio, Classic Gold and BFBS. Since 2012, David has been a lecturer at the University of Westminster, working in radio and journalism courses, including leading modules on speech radio and commercial music radio. As Head of News for Wireless Group from 2017, David helped launch Times Radio, and was the creator of several international podcasts, including the talkSPORT Hit. David’s training work has also seen him provide media coaching to British ambassadors taking up posts around the world and with the British military, including working as an ‘embedded’ journalist with the army in Kenya. His most recent project has been helping Reuters create its first consumer facing podcast, Reuters World News. He has a passion for music and sport and loves mentoring and helping people develop skills.
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.
