Moving genres
Three guests with a wealth of broadcast experience join Simon Smith to talk about the value of moving across genres in your career, and how to do it effectively. They share their experiences and offer...
27 Sep 201221min
The killer pitch
Pat Younge, BBC Vision’s chief creative officer hosts this special BBC Academy session at the 2012 Edinburgh Television Festival focusing on just what goes into delivering a ‘killer pitch’. His guests...
21 Sep 201234min
Creating a comedy podcast
Simon Smith and his guests from the Kirrin Island podcast discuss how they created their top 20 iTunes comedy podcast. With producer and writer Alison Pritchard, script editor Stu Cooper and writer an...
20 Sep 201226min
TV Fast Train: Features and formats
Finding the next, ground-breaking TV features show is the Holy Grail for many of us in the industry, but where do you start? Should we be looking for new territory or predicting future audience trends...
16 Sep 201237min
The BBC at the Fringe
CoP website editor Paul Buller talks to three of the people behind the BBC site at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They are project director Sophie Taitt, event and project manager Ruth Milway and cont...
13 Sep 201221min
Make it in the media
BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music presenter Jon Holmes talks to experts at the Edinburgh Fringe about how to get started in the media industries. Louise Brown is Channel 4's head of multiplatform commissioning,...
6 Sep 201226min
Women in comedy
Countless female comics are getting rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe. Are they redressing the gender balance in what has always been a particularly male-dominated industry? Jen Kerrison asks how ...
23 Aug 201219min
Funny and multiplatform
In our live podcast at the Edinburgh Fringe, Simon Smith talks to four comedians who are making use of these platforms, and discusses how the opportunity to self-publish and self-promote is changing t...
22 Aug 201221min
