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.