Earshot with Steve Martin
Earshot Creative
Leading practitioners in radio promotions, production, advertising and imaging play and discuss their work with Steve Martin.
Matt Podd & Adam Venton
Earshot is a celebration of great radio production, shared by the people who make it. Matt Podd (left) and Adam Venton Play or download this podcast Duration 43’21”, 192kb/s stereo mp3, file size 61 MB.Loudness -16 LUFS. If you enjoy the show please rate and review it. Show notes A lockdown edition of the Earshot podcast as Matt Podd in rural Essex and Adam Venton on the South West coastal town of Portishead play and discuss their creative
May 24, 2020 • 43:21
Inside BBC Creative
The Earshot podcast is packed with great radio production, shared by the people who make it. Play or download this podcast Michaela Hallam, Kate Dinsdale and Debbie Dillon Duration 39’27”, 192kb/s stereo mp3, file size 55.5 MB. Loudness -16 LUFS. Subscribe to the whole series with your favourite podcast app, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or iTunes. If you enjoy the show please rate and review it. Show notes In this edition, Michaela Hallam, Debbie Dillon and Kate Dinsdale demonstrate
Mar 22, 2019 • 37:27
BBC Radio 1 with Ben Stones and Liam Hadley
The Earshot podcast is packed with great radio production, shared by the people who make it. Just weeks after launching its new breakfast show, station sound producers Ben Stones and Liam Hadley share the production secrets of Radio 1’s imaging. We hear also from host Greg James and ReelWorld music director Erik Huber who created the show’s theme. Play or download this podcast Ben Stones and Liam Hadley Duration 45’44”, 192kb/s stereo mp3, file size 64 MB. Loudn
Oct 16, 2018 • 45:47
World’s best contests with Jonathan Lumley & John Simons
What makes a great contest or competition? Two leading commercial radio practitioners share their favourites.
Aug 26, 2018 • NaN:NaN
Podcast: Gordon Lundy, Matt Shields and Gavin Pearson
Earshot is great radio production, shared by the people who make it. Play or download this podcast Gordon Lundy, Matt Shields and Gavin Pearson. Duration 49’51”, 192kb/s stereo mp3, file size 69.7 MB. Loudness -16 LUFS. Subscribe to every new edition of Earshot with your favourite podcast app or iTunes. If you enjoy the show please rate it so its utter brilliance can be in no doubt to anybody. Show notes With a live audience of media students in an even more live acoustic, this is p
Jun 26, 2018 • 49:51
Podcast: A Million Ads, dynamic audio and personalised ads
Sam and Steve of A Million Ads The Earshot podcast is all about great radio production, shared by the people who make it. Play or download this podcast A Million Ads, with and Steve Dunlop & Sam Crowther. Duration 43’23”, 192kb/s stereo mp3, file size 60.89 MB. Loudness -16 LUFS. Subscribe to every new edition of Earshot with your favourite podcast app, or iTunes. If you enjoy the show please rate it so positively on iTunes that its brilliance can be in no doubt to anybody. Show
Jan 23, 2018 • 43:23
Earshot podcast: Adam Burgess and Tom Cross
Tom Cross and Adam Burgess of Contraband Media The Earshot podcast is all about great radio production, shared by the people who make it. In this edition Steve Martin meets Adam Burgess and Tom Cross: two thirds of the production house Contraband Media. Together with music director Small Paul, Adam and Tom have built Contraband into one of the UK’s leading independent radio imaging companies with clients here, in the US, New Zealand and Australia. They were nominated in the 2017 Audible Au
Nov 27, 2017 • 38:48
Earshot podcast: Konsky, Tarrant & Lisle
Three of the world’s leading entertainment radio imaging producers join Steve Martin to discuss their craft and play their work. Left to right: David Konsky, Steve Martin, Ron Tarrant and Victor Lisle. Play the podcast Konsky, Ron Tarrant & Victor Lisle at Reelmix. (duration 33’04”, 192kb/s stereo mp3, file size 49.2 MB) Subscribe to Earshot with your favourite podcast app or iTunes. If you listen and enjoy the show please give it a star rating on your podcast portal so oth
May 30, 2017 • 33:04
Earshot podcast: Chris Ward of Bauer Media UK
Steve, Chris and Hayley, complete with knitwear in a panelled room. Chris Ward Bauer Media is one of the UK’s leading commercial radio operators. Chris Ward is the Content Operations Director and Group Production Director for its Bauer City Network of around 50 outlets. Every week this network reaches around 7 million listeners and generates more than 60 million hours of total listening. Its stations are based in large cities across the North and Midlands of England, and Scotland. They ope
Mar 13, 2017 • 49:00
Earshot podcast: John Vorhaus and Dr Becky Spelman
Psychologist Dr Becky Spelman and comedy writer John Vorhaus join Steve and Hayley to share their expertise in creative thinking and the processes that support it.
Dec 20, 2016 • 0:33
Earshot podcast: 5 Live and 2FM imaging
Ollie Raphael at BBC Radio 5 Live Play here Earshot podcast: 5 Live and 2FM imaging Download the mp3 (duration 45’17”, 192kb/s stereo mp3, file size 63.4 MB) Subscribe to the Earshot podcast via iTunes or PocketCasts or Google Play Music. 5 Live and 2FM imaging show notes Explore two strikingly different approaches to radio station imaging in this edition of Earshot. Pete Maguire from RTÉ Ireland explains how 2 FM‘s new imaging completes a modernisation journey for the station
Sep 25, 2016 • 45:17
Earshot podcast: Sara Hashem, Rick Loynes & Dan Seavers
100% commercial production with Sara Hashem, Rick Loynes, Dan Seavers and Clare Bowen of Radiocentre. Conditions apply.
Aug 11, 2016 • 0:49
Earshot podcast: Women in Imaging with Stephanie Hirst
Broadcaster and radio imaging enthusiast Stephanie Hirst explores the role of women in imaging with guests from opposite ends of the radio production spectrum.
May 9, 2016 • 0:46
Earshot podcast: Mitch von Arx from Kiss
Producer Mitch von Arx plays imaging from the Kiss Network and we hear a naughty innuendo-laden ad for a camping store.
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Earshot podcast: Richard Newby and Mariana O’Kelly
Richard Newby shares his work from BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6 Music and Chill while Mariana O'Kelly from OgilvySA plays and award winning Lucozade spot.
Feb 8, 2016 • 0:33
Earshot podcast: David Lloyd and Colin Kelly
Play here Earshot podcast: David LLoyd and Colin Kelly Download the mp3 (duration 43’05”, 192kb/s stereo mp3, size 61.1 MB) Subscribe to the Earshot podcast via iTunes or PocketCasts or, eventually, Google Play Music. Show notes There are few true ‘bibles’ of radio broadcasting craft. In this Earshot podcast, David Lloyd explains how he identified the need for a different kind of radio book and why he wanted to be the one to write it. He introduces a thoughtful approach t
Dec 23, 2015 • 41:03
Earshot podcast: Ollie Melville-Smith & Peter Gordon
Eagle Radio in Surrey and Hampshire launched new jingles today written by local composer and former station intern Ollie Melville-Smith. Play here Earshot podcast: Ollie Melville-Smith Download the mp3 (27’59”, 192kb/s stereo mp3, 39.9 MB) Subscribe to the Earshot podcast via iTunes or PocketCasts. It might even be in Google Play soon. Show notes In the Earshot podcast Ollie discusses the art of jingle composition with Steve Martin, explains how the Tonmeister course at the Universit
Dec 1, 2015 • 27:59
Earshot podcast: Mark Goodier, Anthony Gay, Tony Blackburn, Colin Kelly and many many more
Tony Blackburn and Steve Martin I love it when we do a magazine format edition of the podcast. Not just for the stories and the people but also because I get to do a high-energy menu sequence at the top! Play here Earshot podcast: Imaging special Download the mp3 (53’20”, 160kb/s stereo mp3, 61.1 MB) Subscribe to the Earshot Creative Review via iTunes or PocketCasts. Show notes Two of the world’s leading station imaging production companies pitch their demos head-to-head. Wise
Aug 22, 2014 • 53:20
Earshot podcast: Pat Gill at Dublin’s FM104
Pat Gill from Dublin's FM104 plays his best work and talks about being number one in the market.
Jun 23, 2014 • 0:34
Earshot podcast: Nathan Freeman and James Espley
Play here Earshot podcast: Nathan Freeman and James Espley Download the mp3 (40’02”, 160kb/s stereo mp3, 45.8 MB) Subscribe to the Earshot Creative Review via iTunes or PocketCasts. Show notes In this edition of our production podcast we welcome Nathan Freeman of BBC Radio 6 Music and winner of the 2013 Creative prize in the Radio Production Awards and James Espley of new national rock station TeamRock Radio. Both are nominated in this year’s Radio Academy Awards with their re
Apr 5, 2014 • 40:02
Earshot podcast: Gerald Jackson, Eloise Whitmore and Chuck Knight
Gerald Jackson (centre) receives his Gillard award from BBC Trust Chairman, Lord Patten (left) and David Holdsworth, Controller of BBC English Regions BBC Local Radio’s Gerald Jackson celebrates 45 years of production. A local radio legend, Gerald Jackson has recently been awarded in the Gillards for his outstanding contribution to BBC Local Radio. Radio production, music and technology have played leading roles throughout Gerald’s 45 years in BBC Local Radio. In our podcast, Gerald steps
Dec 7, 2013 • 49:47
Earshot podcast: 2013 Sony winners
James Stodd, Richard Culver and Chris Reay Meet this year’s Sony Radio Academy promotion and imaging winners. James Stodd from the South Coast’s Jack FM and The Breeze, Richard Culver from BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 2‘s Chris Reay play the audio that gained them and their teams recognition this year in the UK’s leading radio awards. In conversation with ambassador of radio Steve Martin they also explain the creative processes behind their audio, the challenges that make t
Jul 28, 2013 • 47:04
Earshot podcast: VOX 2013
Hello to a new series of the Earshot podcast For the first show in the new run we’re at VOX, the annual conference for voiceovers, to explore the critical relationship between voice artist and radio producer. Steve Martin asks voiceovers and producers about the changing nature of work in the radio production and advertising sector. You’ll also hear Sara Hashem on directing technique, John Myers on the Equity ratecard, Andrew Wright on production workflow, Steve Barreton on setting u
May 31, 2013 • 39:33
Earshot Creative Review, December 2012
from left: Mark Hulmes, Matt Deegan, Sefa Nyki, Tim Johns, Clare Bowen, Chris Wood, Jake Yapp, Helen Quigley and Jumoke Ogunkoya. Seasons greetings The Earshot Creative Review podcast plays great radio production with the people who make it. This is the last in the present series. This festive edition comes direct from the Hippodrome Casino in London’s Leicester Square where some of our closest friends have gathered to enjoy some fun audio together and talk about radio production. Clare Bo
Dec 22, 2012 • 45:33
Earshot Creative Review, November 2012
Producer Brionne Olsen from South Africa’s 5FM. South African radio production This month we drop below the equator for a taste of AC and CHR imaging in South Africa. Our guest is Brionne Olsen, current imaging producer at national CHR station 5FM and formerly of regional AC brand, Jacaranda 94.2. In conversation with Steve Martin, Brionne explains how he approached the challenges of imaging those two stations with some interesting examples that demonstrate his points. We also hear audio f
Nov 30, 2012 • 45:14
Earshot Creative Review, October 2012
Gateshead Millennium Bridge. Photograph by Karen Bullock Frank Gillard Awards Meet two of the finalists for best station promotion in this year’s BBC Local Radio awards. Chris Wood produced an energetic and multiplatform campaign for a local music festival in Oxfordshire while Richard Latto steered a sensitive course through coverage of the Titanic’s 100th anniversary on BBC Radio Solent. Hear them describe how they approached these two large-scale local projects and the resulting cr
Oct 22, 2012 • 40:02
Earshot Creative Review, September 2012
Our monthly podcast with secrets of great radio advertising from Clare Bowen and Lenja Papp, and the first big test for our voice talent competition contestants in the Hobsons Voicesearch 2012.
Sep 28, 2012 • 0:53
Earshot Creative Review, July 2012
Chris Reay of BBC Radio 2. Today BBC Radio 2 airs its new jingle package. It’s the first time in fifteen years that Britain’s most popular radio station has commissioned a completely new package. The new work comes from London-based production house Wise Buddah who produced the jingles using the heritage logo from Grooveworx after a long commissioning process. It is the result of considerable collaboration. The package includes performances from some of the BBC Radio 2 presenters inc
Jul 16, 2012 • 28:13
Earshot Creative Review, June 2012
Dan Mumford and Brian Murphy. Picture:Steve Martin Download our June podcast to celebrate a couple of Sony Radio Academy Award winners and their winning audio. Guests this month are Dan Mumford, Manager of Station Sound at BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1 Xtra and Absolute Radio Senior Producer, Brian Murphy. You’ll hear an “awesome foursome” promo from the winning BBC Radio 1 Xtra station sound entry and the Geoff Lloyd “complaints” promo from Absolute Radio that was a
Jun 20, 2012 • 43:43
Earshot Creative Review, May 2012
Listen to Paul Tyler, Steve Martin and Gavin Pearson in a live edition of our podcast, hosted by Colin Kelly, at Scotland's Creative Loop student media festival.
May 27, 2012 • 39:50
Earshot Creative Review, April 2012
As the Sony Radio Academy Awards approach our podcast plays nominated work from the BBC, UKRD and independent production house Fresh Air Production, all discussed by the producers who made it.
Apr 24, 2012 • 0:46
Earshot Creative Review, March 2012
Our monthly podcast. Matt Clark and Chris Reay reveal the secrets behind the production at Magic 105.4 and BBC Radio 2 and play their favourite promos.
Mar 28, 2012 • 47:53
Earshot Creative Review, February 2012
Our monthly radio production podcast hits the North with producers Chris Stevens, Kate Cocker and Stuart Barrett.
Feb 21, 2012 • 0:44
Earshot Creative Review, festive show
Left to right: Lou Nash, John Myers, Nik Goodman, Steve Martin, James Stodd, James Cridland and Jacob Rickard. Direct from the heart of London’s Theatreland, some of the UK radio’s leading creative producers and commentators play their favourite promotional audio of the year and discuss why they love it so much. Download the podcasts and you’ll hear sixteen pieces of great audio from stations like BBC Radio 1, URN, Capital FM, Choice FM and Classic FM, Norway’s P1 and Xf
Dec 23, 2011 • 23:24
Earshot Creative Review, festive show
Direct from London's Theatreland we play 2011's greatest promotional audio with the people who made it. Get the podcast in two festive downloads.
Dec 22, 2011 • 0:35
Earshot Creative Review, December 2011
Capital FM’s imaging king Chris Nicoll and voice artist and producer Helen Quigley. Chris Nicoll reveals the secrets behind Capital FM’s hot new imaging style, Helen Quigley shares her work from radio and television and together we discuss voice selection, productivity tips and the sources of our inspiration. You’ll also hear Harvey McCabe from Kings College, London and audio from the voice session he won in our recent competition. Note that this was recorded before Capital an
Dec 13, 2011 • 46:14
Earshot Creative Review, October 2011
Simon Rushton, Jardin Lobo and Tim Johns. They never actually met. Recorded at the height of London’s recent Indian Summer heatwave this podcast brings together radio creatives from India, Kenya and the rural British county of Lincolnshire. You’ll hear Jardin Lobo explain how spot advertising and live talk-ups work on Indian FM stations and get a wider sense of the changing nature of radio in that huge country. You’ll also hear Gillard award-winning producer Tim Johns from BBC
Oct 22, 2011 • 43:15
Earshot Creative Review, holiday edition
It’s a lock-in. Enjoy an extended edition with James Stodd of the BBC and Matt Lomax from Kiss. At an hour long, it’s perfect listening on your Summer holiday. James’s audio shows how the BBC is using smart promotional techniques to convey public service messages while Matt demonstrates how he puts listeners at the centre of the Kiss imaging. Together we discuss monitoring for the real-world, studio sound design techniques and we share your comments and reaction in a new featu
Jul 31, 2011 • 59:57
Earshot Creative Review, June 2011
This month we celebrate TalkSPORT’s remarkable achievements at the Sony Radio Academy Awards with senior writer and producer Jonathan Young. Jonathan has been one of the leading creative forces on the station since it launched and in this month’s podcast (recorded before TalkSPORT gained further honours at the Radio Academy Production Awards) you’ll hear him play some of TalkSPORT’s brave, fun promos, describe how they make this stuff and how they get away with it. You&#
Jun 19, 2011 • 39:01
Earshot Creative Review, April 2011
Recorded in Glasgow towards the end of April, this is one of my favourite Earshot Creative Reviews yet – a thoroughly enjoyable celebration of some superb creative radio production, played by a couple of really great producers. Play it and you’ll hear Ken Lindsay of BBC Radio Scotland, Gavin Pearson from Bauer Scotland and a nasty shock for me. Radio production in the podcast comes from Clyde 1, Forth 1, Manchester’s Key 103 and BBC Radio Scotland and we also discuss architect
May 6, 2011 • 35:42
Earshot Creative Review, March 2011
Steve, Sam and Clive. Photograph by Sony-nominated* Matt Deegan. *not nominated for photography. This edition of the Earshot Creative Review was recorded in March at the RadioDays Europe conference held in Copenhagen and features three eminent radio leaders: Clive Dickens, Absolute Radio‘s Chief Operating Officer. In this podcast, recorded before reports circulated of a possible […]
Apr 8, 2011 • 0:37
Earshot Creative Review – bonus edition
Play here: duration 24’46” [audio:http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/earshot/podcast/ecr_bonus_311.mp3|titles=”Earshot bonus edition from Radiodays Europe.”] Download the audio (160kb/s mp3, 28.4M) Subscribe via iTunes. This is a 25 minute snip of conversations I shared at the Radiodays Europe conference with various creative, production and imaging people. Play it and you’ll hear: Lee Harris, the top-of-the-hour morning news voice on New York’s all news, all
Mar 22, 2011 • 24:46
Earshot Creative Review for January 2011
Ben Townsend, Steve Martin and Jonathan JJ Jacob. Our guests this month are JJ (Jonathan Jacob) of First Radio Sales and recent graduate from the University of Nottingham Ben Townsend who helped secure URN‘s recent clutch of student radio awards. In the podcast you’ll hear audio from Liverpool’s Juice FM, City Beat of Belfast, Surrey and Hampshire’s Eagle Radio and URN. We also discuss how student radio is feeding mainstream stations with new talent on both sides of the
Jan 23, 2011 • 43:38
Creative Review of 2010
Left to right: David Couch, Chris Nicoll, Joe Thomas, Jonathan from Hobsons, James Stodd, James Cridland and Donna from Hobsons. In December’s hot-rocking, flame-throwing podcast, some of the loveliest people in UK radio production play their favourite audio of the year. Now that’s a format. They are: David Couch of Maple Street Studios, Chris Nicoll of WizzFX, Joe Thomas from Absolute Radio, James Cridland of Media UK, James Stodd from the BBC, and Jonathan of our sponsor, Hobsons.
Dec 22, 2010 • 53:03
Creative Review for November
Left to right: Chris Stevens, Steve Martin and Steve Taylor. Picture by Channelle Stacey. November’s review is here with Chris Stevens, GMG’s Group Production Director and Steve Taylor, Commercial Creative Director from Bauer. We play promos, jingles and S&P audio this month, and we consider how branded content might sound should Ofcom relax the restrictions that govern that kind of programming. There’s also an unhealthy preoccupation with biscuits. Play the audio here: Du
Nov 23, 2010 • 46:22
Creative Review for October
BBC London’s Paul Hilton with Ben Motley of BBC Global News at the piano. This month, the sound of London. Paul Hilton runs production at BBC London 94.9 while BBC Radio 7’s Ben Motley has spent the last year at BBC Global News where he produces promotional campaigns heard on the English language channels of the BBC World Service. If you’re confused, I’ll draw you a diagram. You’ll hear a huge range of production designed to appeal to both local and global audience
Oct 25, 2010 • 39:06
Creative Review for September
Chris Reay is in charge of station sound and promotions at BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music. This month we get inside the creative hubs of stations big and small. From BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music to the remarkable promotions-led arrival of Oxfordshire’s Glide FM, we hear creative radio production and discover […]
Sep 15, 2010 • 0:40
Creative Review for August
James Cridland and David Couch in typical showbusiness mood. Picture by Sally Walker. You’ll learn a lot from this month’s Earshot Creative Review with David Couch and James Cridland. And you’ll hear a lot of radio ads. Discover how Spotify is allowing advertisers to target audiences by postcode, what is the most important content to have on your radio station web site and what not to do with cameras in the studio. Hear ads from Cuervo, Kwik Fit, Transport for London and the B
Aug 23, 2010 • 42:17
Creative Review for July
Russ Williams of Wise Buddah and Peter Gee from TalkSPORT. Featuring creative from TalkSPORT, imaging from Wise Buddah and introducing The Cow Moo Challenge, it’s July’s Earshot Creative Review. Play the audio here: Duration 37’45” [audio:http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/earshot/podcast/ecr_july10.mp3|titles=”Earshot Creative Review for July 2010.”] Download the mp3 (34.6M). Subscribe via iTunes. In this month’s edition, you’ll hear a great sele
Jul 19, 2010 • 37:45