{"id":7166,"date":"2009-12-02T08:57:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T08:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=7166"},"modified":"2009-12-02T09:56:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T09:56:04","slug":"student-radio-awards-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/12\/02\/student-radio-awards-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Radio Awards 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SRA<\/a><\/p>\n

Last week I was at the Student Radio Awards<\/a><\/strong> in London and the evening was a reminder of radio things past and present.<\/p>\n

If you have listened UK radio stations like Talk Radio<\/a>, TalkSPORT<\/a> and Radio 2<\/a> over the last few years you may have heard me talk about films on certain shows at different times.<\/p>\n

But my first proper experience behind the microphone was at the student radio station Insanity<\/a> back in February 1998 presenting an afternoon show on a Saturday and doing roving reporting via a mobile on Matt Deegan’s<\/a> weekend breakfast show.<\/p>\n

\"Insanity<\/p>\n

Back then it was a case of selecting CDs and learning how to work the faders after a bit of ‘training’ (i.e. a 10 minute session in which I realised how confusing a Denon Mini-Disc<\/a> player was) and then basically doing a two hour show.<\/p>\n

I have to be honest and admit that I did it because it it seemed like fun and I’d listened to a lot of radio in my first year as I didn’t have a TV.<\/p>\n

Anyway, in early 1999 I managed to get some work experience on the Ian Collins<\/a> show on Talk Radio<\/a> and was lucky enough to get a shift reviewing films every week, which lasted in various forms on various shows until last year.<\/p>\n

I also went on to do all manner of jobs in radio which included interviewing actors and filmmakers<\/a>, producing sports shows and doing various podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But there is no doubt that doing student radio and facing the regular task of filling the airwaves with speech or music helped me enormously when I went into a professional environment.<\/p>\n

One of the many nice things about the awards evening was seeing various people who’ve helped me in my radio journey:<\/p>\n