Takeover Radio trained a group of young people to produce 12 podcasts to a very high standard and these were played out on Takeover Radio over the 12 month period. Some of the young people have continued their involvement with the station and some are now presenting their own shows. The young people increased in confidence over the…
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Next month’s Olivier Awards will support the Time’s Up initiative.Organisers say representatives from the movement and activists will be welcome at the Ceremony – but they won’t be asking attendees to wear black.The Society of London Theatre’s chief executive Julian Bird says Time’s Up will be given a focus on the red carpet and will…
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We have been working with a group of young people to discover the hero’s and heroines from Leicester, they have been taught how to interview, record and edit the interviews and put them into a package to be played out on our Opinion8 show on a Tuesday evening in the summer. We will have a series of programmes…
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The trustees and volunteers of Leicester’s Takeover Radio and the Children’s Media Trust are deeply saddened to announce the death of our founder and Managing Director Graham Coley (61) after a hard fought battle against cancer. In 1998 Graham became a founding director of Takeover Radio nurturing it from short term temporary radio licences to…
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Young people who run the Leicester based charity radio station Takeover Radio took over the airwaves on BBC Radio Leicester. Their aim was to offer presenter Jim Davis a fresh look at some of the issues that are challenging young people in Leicestershire. Four youngsters, aged between 16 and 17, tackled issues such as youth…
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