Well that’s it, all done in terms with the Lend me yours weekly shows and my last show went great. Lauren unfortunately was ill so I therefore had to takeover with presenting so in the end I did not do the role of BA, It was also a possibility I was to present on my own at one point which for me was fairly daunting but on the day Dan one of the group members said he would happily present with me.

I think overall the show went well there were a few problems however with the desk and playing out audio and therefore we had to deal with this as presenters and try to let the show still flow without this causing to much as well as making sure the listeners did not pick up on it. We also had some problems with the talk back and at times could not here the producer and BA which caused us  to not know what was happening at one point, for example the mics were not faded down towards the end and at one or two points during the show no one spoke due to problems hearing the producer. Although there were a few issues they did not cause too many problems and they were easily fixed thanks to a great team around the desk.

There were a few improvements that could have been made for example I felt as it was last minute with the role being changed and myself taking the role of presenter I thought I could have had more time rehearsing and reading through interview questions etc. The interviews went very well and like always time flew by and had to end it promptly with Dylan as it was near the end of the show, the other interviews on the other hand went great and I learnt a lot from them all with regards to tips and tricks on how to make a good radio documentary.

So the time has come for my final show which for this week it is about Lincoln’s best documentaries, at first we found this a particularly hard topic to base a show around as we were unaware of many radio documentaries in Lincoln as well as the whole group having not listened to that many documentaries which was one problem we faced when starting to construct a show.

For this show I have the role of BA, Broadcast assistant which involves editing audio ready to be played out on air as well as operating the desk, fading mics playing music and making sure that there are no mistakes with playing out on the show. At first the role of BA seemed daunting as I did not have that much experience with the desk, but I felt that I was quick with learning how to operate the desk.

After a couple of meetings I felt confident with how the show would turn out, for the show we decided on including a representative from Linkage which links in to our current project radio documentaries as some people decided to do about Linkage, there were also some third year students at the University of Lincoln, Hannah Harvey and Emily Phebee doing a Radio documentary on Tourettes syndrome which was graded a first and gained interest from a winner of Big Brother and Dylan Roys to talk about what he looks for in a good radio documentary.

A few days before the show Brittany and Lucy recorded two interviews for our show. They also edited the script adding in the content for the show along with the queues for pre- recorded interviews. It was a fairly busy day and we got a lot done.

Both interviews went well, they gave some good opinions on the discussion of the Future of Radio Drama, however they were very long so Lauren had to cut them down, overall it was a busy day and a lot had got done for the show.

Here is the script for the show.

LYME DOC SCRIPT