As part of our support of the Spark Children’s Art Festival we are working closely with Radio Leicester to produce the Spark News Room. This involved a number of our young presenters visiting the various activities of the festival and reporting on them for Radio Leicester in the form of a live delivered package.This proved very…
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The project was to train a group of young people to prepare, produce and present an evening discussion programme covering topics of interest to them. Each week the young people have worked together to ensure that they have featured a different faith, community or cultural group during their on air broadcast. The group were a true reflection of…
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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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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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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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