As has been demonstrated in previous blog posts about Radio 1’s current podcasts here. I believe that we have created something that is innovative and experimental as Radio 1’s current podcasts bar one are not intended to stand on their own as they all accompany a pre-existing radio programme that airs daily such as the Breakfast show or Greg James’ drive-time programme. Whereas our podcast will be a stand-alone item that is intended to be a stand-alone podcast which is what the brief asked for, despite it also saying that some may be broadcast in the early hours of the morning. There are also very few podcasts that are clip-based with the ones that I discussed in this blog post proving this point, bar We Need To Talk About which is clip based but isn’t really a comedy podcast in the grand schemes of things, however, it is panel based.
Whereas Radio 1’s older comedy output which I talk about here is much more risky in terms of what they talk about and much more spontaneous than what is outputted today and these older programmes also had a lot more political discussion within them such as skits that involved politicians whereas nowadays this does not exist. This is where Have You Heard The News- The Year in Review can come into its own as it is experimental as Radio 1 doesn’t output any is comedy, it is more under the entertainment strand such ass the 8th by Charlie Sloth and Greg James’ programme. It also doesn’t touch politics in any of it’s output. Furthermore, not many podcasts talk about Politics or are clip based meaning that we are innovative in the way that we put together our programme as we have mixed creating a live radio programme with a stand-alone podcast and our recording process was based on a live programme that we edited to make a podcast utilising a different approach.
Overall I believe this demonstrates I have achieved my learning objective of the podcast being experimental and the content of the podcast is not safe as it is an unmediated conversation about topics that people have differing opinions on and the approach that we have taken in creating the podcast has also been different from content that currently exists.
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