Essential Radio Skills - (Professional Media Practice) 2nd Edition by Peter Stewart (Paperback)

About the Book

This is a practical, how-to guide to producing and presenting radio to a professional standard. Packed with practical advice, and on-the-job tips, it distills tried and tested knowledge from a specialist radio trainer.

Book Synopsis

"One of the few books we'd recommend" BBC Training
"The perfect guide for anyone who wants to get on in this ever-changing and challenging media" Controller BBC Radio 5 Live
"A rich repository of real, practical experience" Director - BBC Nations & Regions
"An invaluable guide" Director - The Radio Academy

This is a practical, how-to guide to producing and presenting radio to a professional standard. Packed with day-to-day advice that captures the essence and buzz of live broadcasting; from preparing your show before it goes out, last minute changes to running orders, deciding what to drop in over a track, how to sell a feature or promote a programme, setting up competitions, thinking fast in a phone in - this book will help you do all that and more. It covers network and commercial, music and talk radio skills and is particularly suited to the independent local or community radio.

It features advice from professionals, covers industry-wide best practice with enough 'need-to-know' technical information to get you up and running. This edition has been updated throughout and has more than 500 weblinks to downloads and audio and video examples, as well as cross-references to the official National Occupational Standards for Radio Content.

Review Quotes

"The perfect guide for anyone who wants to get on in this ever-changing and challenging media" --Controller BBC Radio 5 Live

"A rich repository of real, practical experience" --Director - BBC Nations & Regions

"An invaluable guide" --Director - The Radio Academy

About the Author

Peter Stewart is an award-winning broadcaster who has for many years been a trainer at BBC Training and Development, acts as a judge for the New York International Radio Awards and the Sony Radio Academy Awards is co-author of Essential Radio Journalism, columnist for The Radio Magazine and has over 15 years of practical experience in radio broadcasting.