1st Edition

Programme Making for Radio

By Jim Beaman Copyright 2007
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

Programme Making for Radio offers trainee radio broadcasters and their instructors focused practical guidelines to the professional techniques applied to the making of radio shows, explaining how specific radio programmes are made and the conventions and techniques required to produce them. This book describes how and why these methods are applied through the use of a behind-the-scenes glimpse... Read more

Introduction  Part 1. Broadcasting Programmes  Part 2. The Programme Making Team  Part 3. The Programme  Part 4. Making Programmes  Part 5 The Production Line: The Music Programme The News Programme The Magazine Programme The Strip Programme The Feature Programme and Documentaries The Discussion Programme The Phone-in Programme The Outside Broadcast Programme The Experimental Programme  Part 6 Case Study: A Programme from Idea to Transmission  Glossary of Terms  References  Suggested Reading  Information

Biography

Jim Beaman

'This would make an excellent textbook as the basis for an introductory module on radio in the United Kingdom, and as an entree into basic skills work and practice-based learning' - The Radio Journal