The wonderful Pippa Taylor Tarrant joins us in this episode to talk about her role as Exec Producer of the Chris Moyles breakfast show on Radio X, telling us how she started out in radio and how she gradually worked her way up from Unit Assistant to Greg James' producer at BBC Radio 1, before making the move over to commercial radio. We find out why the producer's attitude and behaviour can set the pace of a show, why it's important to create the right atmosphere and how she adjusted to commercial radio - and we also hear about some very stressful show stunts!

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We work at Scala Radio so we thought it'd be a good idea to chat to someone in our team at Bauer's classical music station. Lissie Day has been a Producer at Scala since 2020 and she tells us about the range of shows she's produced in that time, working with different types of presenters and getting nominated for Best Music Special at the 2023 ARIA Awards for a brilliant series called Access All Areas hosted by Dame Evelyn Glennie. Plus, her advice for aspiring producers and why she's a huge fan of Craig Charles!

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The lovely Grace Hopper is this episode's guest, and she tells us how she became a Producer at Radio 1, working with the likes of Greg James and Scott Mills, before moving over to Kiss and co-producing the Breakfast show with Jordan and Perri. She takes us through a typical day at Kiss and shares her excitement at her new job role at Executive Producer at independent production company TBI Media. She'll give her advice for aspiring producers and share her OMG story involving a national treasure!

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Lucy Proctor is a brilliant journalist and producer in the BBC Long Form Audio team where she makes the award-winning podcast series for BBC Sounds, The Coming Storm, along with other programmes like BBC Radio 4's AntiSocial. She tells us about the ambitions of The Coming Storm and what it was like to work on, as well as sharing her advice for aspiring producers of long-form audio.

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In this episode, we make our first foray into sports radio with Kathryn Anastasi, Deputy Head of talkSPORT. She tells us why she loves sports broadcasting, what she's looking for when she hires new producers at the network, what skills are required to produce live sports coverage and how a Masters in Radio at Goldsmith's University has helped her throughout her career.

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Joby Waldman is a brilliant audio drama producer, documentary maker and Exec producer, and he tells us about the ethos and values at the heart of the production company Reduced Listening, creators of, amongst others the multi-award-winning series for Spotify, Decode. Joby tells us about his career, which covers music radio, documentaries and audio dramas, shares his top tips for pitching and tells us about the making of Decode.

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This episode celebrates a veritable radio institution: the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs. Producer Sarah Taylor tells us about the making of a Desert Island Discs episode, from guest booking to exceptional editing. We find out about her career producing documentaries before she started working on the "jewel in the crown", and her advice for aspiring producers.

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Tim Johns recently celebrated his 10th anniversary working on Jeremy Vine's Radio 2 show and he tells us what it's like to work on, and why he loves the challenge of making news stories entertaining and accessible.

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Jacqui Blay is the Senior Executive Producer across the Hits Radio Network and Greatest Hits Radio network in Yorkshire. She started out as a presenter - you can still find her on Lincs FM - and shares her production tips, explaining why authenticity is so important, especially for a local audience.

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The award-winning comedy producer Ed Morrish, whose credits include John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, NonCensored and The News Quiz, tells us about a typical day working on a landmark radio comedy series like The Now Show. We discuss the differences between scripted comedy and other comedy - or rather entertainment - podcasts, and Ed gives us some brilliant tips about pitching for a radio series.

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Adele Cross is the Producer of The 1Xtra Breakfast Show with Nadia Jae. She tells us about her journey into radio production and offers advice for aspiring producers, including top tips for talent management and why it's so important to be yourself.

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Brian Murphy is the Exec Producer on the Magic Radio Breakfast Show and he tells us about his career, starting out doing work experience at Xfm before joining the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show and moving with him from Xfm to Virgin, which then re-branded to Absolute, and then moving to Magic. He shares his radio pet peeves and tells us why it's so important to create the right studio environment for presenters.

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Sarah Crawley is a 'BBC lifer' who's spent her career making programmes at BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service. She tells us about the enduring appeal of Woman's Hour and takes us through a typical day as Output Producer on this legendary long-running programme.

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In this episode we leap back several decades to find out what it was like working at Capital in the 70s and 80s, producing the network chart show, Alan Freeman and Kenny Everett. Trevor White looks back at his long career which took him to Virgin, Magic and Planet Rock, and tells us where he thinks radio's heading in the future.

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Rachel Barton is the founder and MD of the independent production company Grape (wearegrape.com) and she tells us what she's looking for when she's hiring producers before talking about her amazing career producing dance music shows at BBC Radio 1 after she got a "life-changing" traineeship at the network.

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John McInally produces one of the biggest breakfast shows outside London: Bowie at Breakfast on Clyde1. He tells us why he loves being a breakfast producer and shares his career journey at a range of radio stations including Beat 106, Xfm Scotland, Real Radio and Clyde 1. He tells us why he loves the intimacy of radio, a typical day in his job and why producers need to always be 20 minutes ahead of the presenter...

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Emma Newman tells us about her varied radio production career which involves roles at Kerrang!, Xfm, Q Radio, Absolute Radio, BBC Radio Derby, BBC Radio 2, production company TBI Media and more. We chat about one of the greatest radio promotion stunts of all time, her start in student radio, her biggest influences, what radio producers actually do, the biggest lesson she learnt in radio (from Frank Skinner, no less) and much more.

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We turn to speech radio production in this episode as we welcome Husain Husaini to the podcast. He's currently the Mornings Editor at Times Radio and tells us why he loves his job, and what sort of skills every Times Radio producer should have. He tells us about his brilliant career, involving roles at BBC World Service, BBC 5Live, BBC Asian Network, setting up a production company with Matthew Bannister and more!

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Suzi Purdie is the Exec Producer of Drivetime with Simon Mayo on Greatest Hits Radio. She takes us through a typical day working on the show and tells us about her start in radio, from the Bristol community radio station BCfm to BBC Radio 2, and from there to her current role. She gives her advice to aspiring producers, shares her thoughts on the future of radio and tells us why she loves being in a gang with the listeners!

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Adam Uytman is the Development Director in the International team at Acast, but his radio career began at community station Heartland FM in Pitlochry before taking him to Beat 106 (now Capital Scotland), Kerrang!, Xfm, BBC Radio 2 - where he produced Steve Wright in the Afternoon - BBC 6Music, BBC Radio 1 and production company Listen. He tells Mark and Jenny what he's learnt about radio production in his varied career, what skills every producer should possess and what he thinks radio might sound like in the future.

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Liz Barnes is the producer of Sounds of the 70s with Johnnie Walker on BBC Radio 2 and she tells Mark and Jenny what it's like to work with a broadcasting legend while taking us through her career which started out in broadcast journalism before moving into music radio. She shares her memories of working at BBC Radio Lancashire, BBC Radio Cumbria, BBC 6Music and Planet Rock, as well as her tips about producing live radio shows and music documentaries.

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Mark Lockett is the Executive Producer of the Dave Berry Breakfast Show on the Absolute Radio Network - or should that be the Gold ARIA Award-winning Dave Berry Breakfast Show on the Absolute Radio Network - and he joins Mark and Jenny to chat about story arcs, 'hot jocking', moving from accountancy into radio, working with the "next level" Scott Mills at BBC Radio 1, what a typical day on the Absolute breakfast show entails and what he thinks the future of radio with look (or sound) like.

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In this episode, Karen Pearson, the founder and CEO of Folded Wing, chats to Mark and Jenny about working with Gilles Peterson at BBC Radio 1, setting up her own production company, working on Red Bull Radio and Roundhouse Radio, launching The Jazz Show with Jamie Cullum on BBC Radio 2 and much more.

Karen tells us why now is the best time to be a radio producer, why it's important for a producer to have a marketing brain and why we should actively listen to as much varied audio content as we can!

Find out more about the brilliant Folded Wing here: https://www.foldedwing.co.uk/

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