9th December. Radio Package. With regard to subject matter for my radio package I took a long time think of an idea. I had trouble finding a story which I thought I could represent well through the medium of radio. I had several ideas for stories which I gathered information for and set up preliminary interviews for but these all seemed to fall through. My last option was something of a miracle which was suggested to me by Laurence. He had had a fantastic idea for a story but hadn’t followed it through, he was going to talk to Mark Coreth, a sculptor who was to carve a polar bear in ice in Trafalgar Square to represent the effects of global warming. I decided that it was such a fantastic story that it would be a waste to let it go. I contacted Mark Coreth and he was more than happy to do an interview with myself. He talked in depth about the inspiration behind his project and his time in the Artic, I had ample material to use for my package and to be honest I found it very hard to cut down to 1’40”. I decided that although he was an ideal subject for a Radio 4 audience, I wanted to accompany the feature with Moby’s Porcelain, as I just thought it really brought out the atmosphere of the Arctic and Mr. Coreth’s inspirational artistic characteristics.

8th December. Assessed Radio Day (South Coast Radio). Once again our team met up the day before our assessment so that we were prepared for the assessed news day. I found this really helpful as there was slightly more involved with the South Coast radio news day, in that we had to do a live two-way and a lunch time court story. Once again I offered to present as I felt that I had had ample practise and we all wanted a role that we felt comfortable doing. This was by far our most successful radio news day as we managed to gather all of our headline stories and produce them with plenty of time for rehearsals. Once again I thoroughly enjoyed the day and thought that we all very much earned our first!

1st December. Assessed Radio Day (Talbot FM). Following the practise radio days I felt confident that our assessed news day would go well. I was really happy with our group, I think that we were all able to work together well and each offered our own preferred skill to the team. Lucy and I chose to work together sharing the responsibility of presenter. She opted to present in the first bulletin and I did the second. We each read through each other’s stories and the finished script to make sure that it read fluently. I was really impressed with all of our stories for this day and also the way in which we built upon them in the second bulletin. My only criticism would be that we didn’t leave quite enough time for ample rehearsals. However, this didn’t impact too greatly on the finished bulletin. I was very happy working as part of a radio news team and felt that we worked very professionally together, I much prefer radio news days to the television ones, I personally feel much more relaxed presenting for radio.