SWP12: an audio education (audiocation?)

PAY ATTENTION, CLASS! This month's Sound Women podcast is all about getting a radio education. There are oodles of tips from the great and good of radio; and to make the case for more formal training, we also hear from:

• Cheeka Eyers, producer at Podium.me, which trains under-20s in broadcasting and journalism and releases their audio daily (they've done more than 400 podcasts in less than two years! Blimey…). The organisation is doing terrific work and, on a selfish note, I really wish such a thing had been around when I was a teenager, because back then the only equivalent was making terrible cassette tapes in my bedroom.

• Kate Murphy, senior lecturer and course coordinator for the Radio BA at Bournemouth University, which sounds very interesting and fun, although "It’s not three years of mucking around!" Kate also warns against becoming stuck in a job, and discusses the women who worked at the surprisingly liberated BBC of the 1920s.

Please share your own radio lessons in the comments or email them to [email protected]; and as next month's episode will be all about different routes into broadcasting, do let me know your story about that too.

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Thanks to Martin Austwick and Kevin MacLeod for the music, and to you for listening! Back in one month.

Helen Zaltzman

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