Earshot With Steve Martin

Steve, Sam and Clive. Photograph by Sony-nominated* Matt Deegan. *not nominated for photography. This edition of the Earshot Creative Review was recorded in March at the RadioDays Europe conference held in Copenhagen and features three eminent radio leaders: Clive Dickens, Absolute Radio‘s Chief Operating Officer. In this podcast, recorded before reports circulated of a possible […]

Play here: duration 24’46” [audio:http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/earshot/podcast/ecr_bonus_311.mp3|titles=”Earshot bonus edition from Radiodays Europe.”] Download the audio (160kb/s mp3, 28.4M) Subscribe via iTunes. This is a 25 minute snip of conversations I shared at the Radiodays Europe conference with various creative, production and imaging people. Play it and you’ll hear: Lee Harris, the top-of-the-hour morning news voice on New […]

Ben Townsend, Steve Martin and Jonathan JJ Jacob. Our guests this month are JJ (Jonathan Jacob) of First Radio Sales and recent graduate from the University of Nottingham Ben Townsend who helped secure URN‘s recent clutch of student radio awards. In the podcast you’ll hear audio from Liverpool’s Juice FM, City Beat of Belfast, Surrey […]

Left to right: David Couch, Chris Nicoll, Joe Thomas, Jonathan from Hobsons, James Stodd, James Cridland and Donna from Hobsons. In December’s hot-rocking, flame-throwing podcast, some of the loveliest people in UK radio production play their favourite audio of the year. Now that’s a format. They are: David Couch of Maple Street Studios, Chris Nicoll […]

Left to right: Chris Stevens, Steve Martin and Steve Taylor. Picture by Channelle Stacey. November’s review is here with Chris Stevens, GMG’s Group Production Director and Steve Taylor, Commercial Creative Director from Bauer. We play promos, jingles and S&P audio this month, and we consider how branded content might sound should Ofcom relax the restrictions […]

BBC London’s Paul Hilton with Ben Motley of BBC Global News at the piano. This month, the sound of London. Paul Hilton runs production at BBC London 94.9 while BBC Radio 7’s Ben Motley has spent the last year at BBC Global News where he produces promotional campaigns heard on the English language channels of […]

Chris Reay is in charge of station sound and promotions at BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music. This month we get inside the creative hubs of stations big and small. From BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music to the remarkable promotions-led arrival of Oxfordshire’s Glide FM, we hear creative radio production and discover […]

James Cridland and David Couch in typical showbusiness mood. Picture by Sally Walker. You’ll learn a lot from this month’s Earshot Creative Review with David Couch and James Cridland. And you’ll hear a lot of radio ads. Discover how Spotify is allowing advertisers to target audiences by postcode, what is the most important content to […]

Russ Williams of Wise Buddah and Peter Gee from TalkSPORT. Featuring creative from TalkSPORT, imaging from Wise Buddah and introducing The Cow Moo Challenge, it’s July’s Earshot Creative Review. Play the audio here: Duration 37’45” [audio:http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/earshot/podcast/ecr_july10.mp3|titles=”Earshot Creative Review for July 2010.”] Download the mp3 (34.6M). Subscribe via iTunes. In this month’s edition, you’ll  hear a great […]

Matt Fisher of the BBC and James Beckingham of Global Radio Featuring BBC Radio 1 and Fun Kids, it’s June’s Earshot Creative Review. Play the audio here: Duration 33’16” [audio:http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/earshot/podcast/ecr_june10.mp3|titles=”Earshot Creative Review for June 2010.”] Download the mp3 (31.2M). Subscribe via iTunes. This review features James Beckingham from Global Radio who’s playing and talking about his […]