Behind the scenes on Later… with Jools Holland
BBC Two’s Later… with Jools is returning for its 48th series. That’s right. The show is in its 24th year.How has it survived when other series such as Top of the Pops and CD:UK have become part of mus...
28 Apr 201613min
Midlands Today: Creating a news programme
Midlands Today, presented by Mary Rhodes and Nick Owen, is a BBC regional TV programme covering areas including Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country. The team put out four daily bulletins and in...
21 Apr 201618min
Filming with drones: What you need to know
Our very own drone enthusiast Charles Miller discovers that there's plenty to think about when filming with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or drones as they are better known. In this podcast, Charle...
14 Apr 201619min
Jed Mercurio: in conversation
An in depth conversation with the writer behind Line of Duty, Bodies and Critical.In this interview, recorded by BBC Writersroom for The BBC Academy podcast, Henry Swindell, senior script executive fo...
7 Apr 201632min
BBC Apprenticeships: you're hired
We talk to apprentice turned journalist Lauren Page and find out about the BBC’s apprenticeship schemes from their manager Simon Broad
17 Mar 201617min
CBBC’s Our School: Fixed rigs and children
First came BAFTA winning Educating Yorkshire, then Educating Essex. So why not adapt their documentary skills to filming children, thought production company Twofour That’s how the returning CBBC seri...
14 Mar 201623min
What's so special about radio?
This wouldn’t happen in any other medium: an elderly Auschwitz survivor called LBC radio to tell the presenter, Nick Ferrari, about her experiences in the camp as a child. She then told Ferrari she ha...
3 Mar 201621min
Radio producers: Winning at the freelance game
The broadcasting industry is moving ever closer to a “gig-economy”, where more people take on short terms contracts rather than stay in a full time job. In audio production, freelancing is not as comm...
25 Feb 201626min
