BA (Hons) Radio Production
Radio is thriving in the world at large
and here at Westminster. Radio listening
is rising in the UK and more stations
are appearing on air each month. Internet Radio is one exciting new
area, digital radio another. New programme genres and formats are
being developed.
We reflect this excitement and variety
through an education in the broadest
possible range of radio production skills:
not just radio journalism, but also features,
documentaries, live music broadcasts, podcasts and web
audio.
We aim to make our students among the best qualified, technically
and among the most creative, editorially, of the new generation of
practitioners, as researchers and producers in independent
production companies, local and regional radio stations and
national networks such as those of the BBC.
Recent radio graduates from Westminster are now working
as, for example, producers at Radio One, presenters on
the BBC Asian Network, Broadcast Assistants at Radio Two, Five Live
and SmoothFM, producer at All Out Productions, Web Editor
at Heat Radio, Communities Editor at Global Media and Creative
Producer at PR and marketing companies.
Others are working at Kiss, Talksport, BBC London 94.9, Capital
Radio, Wise Buddah, Unique Broadcasting and Somethin'
Else. Among our most well known graduates from the Radio
Production course are writer and broadcaster Danny Wallace,
presenter Jamie Crick and broadcasting executive Michael
Jackson.
Current undergraduates also find part-time employment in the
radio industry alongside their studies, for example as a BA at BBC
London 94.9, researcher at Classic FM and as runners and
phone-answerers at Radio Two.
Three of our recent radio students have won Sony Gold
Awards (British radio's equivalent of the BAFTAs) one
for her first documentary produced on joining the BBC after
graduating.
We take advantage of our place in the capital city and have
strong links with the radio industry where students often find work
experience placements.
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