Earshot with Steve Martin

Matt Podd & Adam Venton

Earshot is a celebration of great radio production, shared by the people who make it. Matt Podd (left) and Adam Venton Play or download this podcast Duration 43’21”, 192kb/s stereo mp3, file size 61 MB.Loudness -16 LUFS. If you enjoy the show please rate and review it. Show notes A lockdown edition of the Earshot podcast as Matt Podd in rural Essex and Adam Venton on the South West coastal town of Portishead play and discuss their creative audio production. Hear Adam’s latest work for stations in the UK and the US, Matt’s Iron Imager entry and some of his work for the BBC. We also discuss working in lockdown (nothing’s changed really) and RadioCentre’s current ad promoting the benefits of radio advertising. Links Adam Venton Matt Podd Credits Thanks to Harrison RB and InQuality, makers of the ipDTL platform. Earshot theme by the Tiger Club Band. Voiceover is Elly Fairman at Hobsons. Views are personal. Steve and the contributors acknowledge all rights held by the owners, creators and performers of the recorded works which are included solely for the purposes of education and review. From Earshot where views are personal and original writing is licensed under Creative Commons. Follow @earshotcreative and send story ideas and examples of great creative work to the editor @smartin

Inside BBC Creative

The Earshot podcast is packed with great radio production, shared by the people who make it. Play or download this podcast Michaela Hallam, Kate Dinsdale and Debbie Dillon Duration 39’27”, 192kb/s stereo mp3, file size 55.5 MB. Loudness -16 LUFS. Subscribe to the whole series with your favourite podcast app, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or iTunes. If you enjoy the show please rate and review it. Show notes In this edition, Michaela Hallam, Debbie Dillon and Kate Dinsdale demonstrate how the BBC’s in-house creative agency approaches radio. They play trails that promote Audio Description for viewers with restricted sight, their Wimbledon 2018 campaign that was much-loved by Chris Evans and the launch of the corporation’s ambitious project to aggregate music, podcasts and radio together in one place, BBC Sounds. Kate, Debbie and Michaela describe how they achieve consistency of message while creating bespoke executions to fit the sound of each BBC radio service to maximise the effectiveness of their work. You’ll also hear how BBC Creative works with independent production houses like Mcasso Music and Audio Always, and the team share tips for you if you want to be part of a future production with the agency. Links Career opportunities with BBC Creative Mcasso, responsible for producing the sonic mnemonic for BBC Sounds. Audio Always, which has contributed to several recent campaigns by BBC Creative. Credits Earshot theme by the Tiger Club Band. Voiceover is Elly Fairman at Hobsons. Views are personal. Steve and the contributors acknowledge all rights held by the owners, creators and performers of the recorded works which are included solely for the purposes of education and review. Comments Friday 12 April, 2019, 6 Music pioneers dynamic personalised trails | Earshot writes: […] …and this trail from BBC Creative: […] From Earshot where views are personal and original writing is licensed under Creative Commons. Follow @earshotcreative and send story ideas and examples of great creative work to the editor @smartin

BBC Radio 1 with Ben Stones and Liam Hadley

The Earshot podcast is packed with great radio production, shared by the people who make it. Just weeks after launching its new breakfast show, station sound producers Ben Stones and Liam Hadley share the production secrets of Radio 1’s imaging. We hear also from host Greg James and ReelWorld music director Erik Huber who created the show’s theme. Play or download this podcast Ben Stones and Liam Hadley Duration 45’44”, 192kb/s stereo mp3, file size 64 MB. Loudness -16 LUFS. Subscribe to the whole series with your favourite podcast app, Google Podcasts or iTunes. If you enjoy the show please rate and review it. Show notes The sound of BBC Radio 1 is heard by more than nine million people in the UK every week. In this edition of Earshot, producers Ben and Liam explain how they and their team create the imaging production and promos for this legendary station. They unpack the new imaging for Radio 1 Breakfast and presenter Greg James describes what he wanted the imaging to achieve, and what it means for him, his audience and the show he leads. You’ll hear the different mixes of the Breakfast theme, produced by ReelWorld, including the 2 minute opener. Ben explains how the station uses a cast of four station voices – Matt, Georgia, Rachelle and Lewis – and how he found new talent for breakfast. Beth is the female voice of the show and it’s her first ever voice gig. We also learn how many people can fit into a tiny BBC production booth, how ideas Liam heard on Australian radio have inspired his work at BBC Radio 1 and why he insisted on reinventing the music montage. All that, plus the creative genesis of the Live Lounge opener, the flexible structure of “The 1 for…” positioning line that ended up emblazoned on the side of a tour bus, and deep imaging geekery from two producers passionate about their craft and the power of great radio production. What Greg says… As with Matthew Corbett and Sooty, Greg had a hand in it… Question and answer session from The Guardian Links In the show Ben and Liam mention Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James, Reelworld, the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, the station branding service IMGR and the Official Chart with Scott Mills. Earshot bonus: the Erik Huber interview in full Erik Huber talks to Steve Martin In this exclusive half-hour interview, ReelWorld Music Director Erik Huber discusses his approach to radio imaging production, how the craft has changed in more than twenty years of ReelWorld and his personal perspective on the Radio 1 breakfast project which his company won in a hard-fought open pitch. Credits Earshot theme by the Tiger Club Band. Voiceover is Elly Fairman at Hobsons. Special thanks to Meryn Shetye at ReelWorld. Views are personal. The contributors acknowledge all rights held by the owners, creators and performers of the recorded works which are included solely for the purposes of education and review. Comments Monday 12 November, 2018, ReelWorld celebrate new sound of BBC Radio 1 Breakfast – JingleNews.com writes: […] The BBC Radio imaging team and ReelWorld Music Director Erik Huber have spoken to the latest Earshot Creative podcast about the project, which can be heard here. […] From Earshot where views are personal and original writing is licensed under Creative Commons. Follow @earshotcreative and send story ideas and examples of great creative work to the editor @smartin

World’s best contests with Jonathan Lumley & John Simons

The Earshot podcast is packed with great radio promotion ideas, shared by the people who make them. Playing games This time, two of planet Earth’s leading commercial radio practitioners explore the world’s greatest contest and competition mechanics and what makes them so effective for audiences and sponsors alike. Play or download this podcast Jonathan Lumley and John Simons Duration 47’45”, 192kb/s stereo mp3, file size 71.2 MB. Loudness -16 LUFS. Subscribe to the whole series with your favourite podcast app, Google Podcasts or iTunes. If you enjoy the show please rate it so its utter brilliance can be in no doubt to anybody. Thanks to you, Earshot recently hit number 377 in the Apple podcast chart for Marketing and Management in the UK. Yes, 377. In this world one takes what one can get. Show notes From the Cash Call to the Bong Game® to the Real Radio Renegade, Jonathan Lumley from East Coast Radio and Jacaranda FM in South Africa and international radio consultant John Simons from the UK reveal their favourite competition ideas, both as set-piece promotional moments and everyday benchmarks. In conversation with Earshot’s Steve Martin, they explain how their favourite competition mechanics work, the critical dos and don’ts for any promotion and how data from engaged listeners can help you demonstrate to advertisers the quality of audience you attract. You’ll also discover the 1% rule and why John’s cousin hasn’t been for dinner recently. If you run competitions, games or sponsored promotions on your station this is a rare opportunity to learn from two of the best, from both sides of the globe. Trademarked competition names If you want to check whether a proposed competition has been trademarked in the UK, this is the central UK Trade Mark registry. Jonathan Lumley (left, enscarfed) and John Simons (jacketed and labelled). Next time: Ben Stones and Liam Hadley from the BBC, including the inside story on the imaging for the Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Greg James, produced with ReelWorld. Credits Earshot theme by the Tiger Club Band. Voiceover is Elly Fairman at Hobsons. Views are personal. The contributors acknowledge all rights held by the owners, creators and performers of the recorded works which are included solely for the purposes of education and review. From Earshot where views are personal and original writing is licensed under Creative Commons. Follow @earshotcreative and send story ideas and examples of great creative work to the editor @smartin

Podcast: Gordon Lundy, Matt Shields and Gavin Pearson

Earshot is great radio production, shared by the people who make it. Play or download this podcast Gordon Lundy, Matt Shields and Gavin Pearson. Duration 49’51”, 192kb/s stereo mp3, file size 69.7 MB. Loudness -16 LUFS. Subscribe to every new edition of Earshot with your favourite podcast app or iTunes. If you enjoy the show please rate it so its utter brilliance can be in no doubt to anybody. Show notes With a live audience of media students in an even more live acoustic, this is possibly the greatest radio production podcast ever recorded from the other side of a room. Guests Gordon Lundy (Absolute Radio, Kerrang!), Matt Shields (Wave FM) and Gavin Pearson (Bauer City production hub) share examples of their on-air imaging work and explain how they approach it. Presented by Steve Martin. Gordon Lundy Gordon started in radio production in 2001, in New Zealand, and has been a jack of varying trades since. He picked up a couple of NZ Radio Awards and returned to his native Edinburgh in 2009 to produce imaging for Radio Forth, and then the Bauer Scotland network in general. In 2012 he moved to Birmingham as imaging and S&P producer for Kerrang! Radio, later adding Planet Rock and a new base in London. After 2 years in London, he escaped and ran away to Edinburgh working remotely in the same position. And since 2017 Gordon has been part of the imaging production team for the Absolute Radio Network. He’s also finds it impossible to let go of anything so he keeps his oars in various old pies (mixed metaphors), including as a voiceover for Bauer Scotland stations, and hosting the mid-mornings on Kerrang! Radio. Matt Shields Matt Shields studied at Edinburgh & Fife College and, despite his young age has been prolific in Scottish radio. Since 2009 Matt’s audio production work has been heard on just about every independently owned radio station in the country. Original 106, Kingdom FM, Wave 102, Central FM and now the new Wave FM in Dundee and Perth are just some of them. Matt also hosts the evening show on Kingdom FM and presents for stations around the Bauer network in Scotland. Gavin Pearson Gavin Pearson began his radio career at Forth 1 back in 1991, becoming a technical operator a year later. At the age of 17, he presented his first show on the station Christmas day 1993. He then took up a regular slot presenting the Scottish Chart and a Friday night show with Edith Bowman. All of this led to a Best Newcomer award in 1996. In April 1998, Gavin moved to Clyde 1 where he has presented every show on the schedule from Chart countdowns to Election Specials and the world famous Clyde 1 Super Scoreboard. Alongside presenting, Gavin has kept his hand in when it comes to imaging, and with branding becoming more and more vital, he switched to a role doing this in a full time capacity from 2006. His production of promos and programmes specials has earned him several New York Radio Festival awards. Gavin is now a proud member of the Bauer City Production Hub; a group of eight producers who image the entire Bauer City Network. He is the only member of that team based in Scotland and he specialises in sport production and Bauer City 2. As well as all of this, Gavin continues to present on the Bauer City 1 network, hosting Sunday Breakfast. Dedication Richard “Nobby” Newby Steve Martin dedicates this edition of Earshot to the memory of audio producer Richard “Nobby” Newby who lost his life in April 2018. Richard was originally due to appear on this recording. In the podcast you’ll hear tributes to Richard from Steve Martin, Global’s Ashley Bard, Matt Fisher at the BBC and Jim Gallatly of Amazing Radio. You can enjoy Richard’s work in this edition of Earshot from February 2016. Photos by Michèle Dillon photography Pre-production meeting (L-R) Gordon, Matt, Gavin & Steve with John Collins on the faders Thinking about Nobby Tricky question from the back row Gavin Pearson scares everybody Venue This show was recorded at Scotland’s Creative Media Network student festival at the CCA in Glasgow on 25 April 2018. Credits Earshot theme by the Tiger Club Band. Voiceover is Elly Fairman at Hobsons. Thanks to John Collins on the faders. Views are personal. The contributors acknowledge all rights held by the owners, creators and performers of the recorded works which are included solely for the purposes of education and review. From Earshot where views are personal and original writing is licensed under Creative Commons. Follow @earshotcreative and send story ideas and examples of great creative work to the editor @smartin