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Minipods – Smartphone journalism episode five: Audio
Jul 26, 2024 • 19m
Minipods – Smartphone journalism episode four: Video part 2
Jul 26, 2024 • 15m
Minipods – Smartphone journalism episode three: Video part 1
Jul 26, 2024 • 20m
Minipods – Smartphone journalism episode two: Photos
Jul 26, 2024 • 23m
Minipods – Smartphone journalism episode one: Settings
Jul 26, 2024 • 17m
Podcastology episode fifteen: Is video the new audio?
Jan 30, 2024 • 33m
Podcastology episode sixteen: New formats, new voices
Jan 30, 2024 • 32m
Podcastology episode fourteen: How to win an award
Jan 30, 2024 • 35m
Podcastology episode thirteen: Going local
Jan 30, 2024 • 26m
Podcastology episode twelve: Future directions
Jan 30, 2024 • 27m
Vicarious trauma in journalism and the media
Oct 5, 2023 • 21m
Peer support: Opening up about mental health
Oct 4, 2023 • 21m
The menopause: How you can support colleagues
Oct 3, 2023 • 21m
Minipods – Interviewing episode six: Audience
Sep 1, 2023 • 17m
Minipods – Interviewing episode five: Layers
Sep 1, 2023 • 13m
Minipods – Interviewing episode four: Answers
Sep 1, 2023 • 11m
Minipods – Interviewing episode three: Questions
Sep 1, 2023 • 13m
Minipods – Interviewing episode two: Listening
Sep 1, 2023 • 11m
Minipods – Interviewing episode one: Focus
Sep 1, 2023 • 9m
Minipods - Audio storytelling episode five: Writing
Aug 8, 2023 • 8m
Minipods - Audio storytelling episode four: The stand up
Aug 8, 2023 • 8m
Minipods - Audio storytelling episode three: Sense of place
Aug 8, 2023 • 8m
Minipods - Audio storytelling episode two: Using sound
Aug 8, 2023 • 10m
Minipods - Audio storytelling episode one: Planning
Aug 8, 2023 • 9m
Podcastology episode eleven: Thinking strategy
Mar 9, 2020 • 18m
Podcastology episode ten: From mic to ear
Mar 9, 2020 • 20m
Podcastology episode nine: Political pods
Mar 9, 2020 • 27m
Podcastology episode six: Future directions
Nov 15, 2019 • 21m
Podcastology episode seven: Unfiltered conversations
Nov 15, 2019 • 22m
Podcastology episode eight: Box sets
Nov 15, 2019 • 25m
Podcastology episode one: What makes a podcast a hit?
Oct 4, 2018 • 19m
Podcastology episode two: What the BBC is looking for in a podcast
Oct 4, 2018 • 25m
Podcastology episode three: How to produce a podcast
Oct 4, 2018 • 22m
Podcastology episode four: Finding an audience for your podcast
Oct 4, 2018 • 21m
Podcastology episode five: Behind the scenes on two top BBC podcasts
Oct 4, 2018 • 21m
Essential kit for the field producer
Oct 4, 2018 • 20m
What you need to know about working with children at the BBC
Apr 25, 2018 • 23m
Man Like Mobeen
Feb 22, 2018 • 19m
From memoir to movie: the story behind the Boy with the Topknot
Nov 20, 2017 • 14m
How do they make the Archers?
Oct 24, 2017 • 21m
Inside daytime television: Ideas, reveals and hard work
Jul 27, 2017 • 24m
Data Journalism: More important than ever?
Jul 20, 2017 • 22m
Cyber-security: How to protect yourself online
Jul 12, 2017 • 21m
How to get a job: Women in technology
Jul 6, 2017 • 14m
VR and 360 video: The path to popularity
Jun 29, 2017 • 24m
Making Radio 1's breakfast show with Nick Grimshaw
Jun 22, 2017 • 23m
Following your audience on 'dark social'
Jun 15, 2017 • 23m
How to edit a documentary
Jun 8, 2017 • 25m
How has BBC Three adapted to online?
Jun 1, 2017 • 23m
Working with sound
May 25, 2017 • 24m
Coding: The next step for journalists?
May 18, 2017 • 23m
Radio 1's The Surgery: Tackling mental health live
May 11, 2017 • 21m
Pitching programme ideas: TV commissioner's tips
Apr 13, 2017 • 23m
How to take the first steps in your career
Apr 6, 2017 • 20m
Career change: How to make the leap
Mar 30, 2017 • 20m
How to create stories with sound
Mar 23, 2017 • 19m
Getting the best out of creativity sessions
Mar 16, 2017 • 23m
Barbara Nice: From stand-up to radio sitcom
Mar 9, 2017 • 14m
Desert Island Discs: Working with the stars
Mar 2, 2017 • 23m
How to make it in TV drama scriptwriting
Feb 23, 2017 • 24m
Digital sport - Closer to the action
Feb 16, 2017 • 23m
Talking to the internet: Digital assistants and the media
Feb 9, 2017 • 20m
The truth about fake news
Feb 2, 2017 • 24m
From community radio to the BBC: How to be a presenter
Jan 26, 2017 • 18m
BBC Academy Podcast: Highlights of 2016
Dec 15, 2016 • 19m
Home Front: History in the making
Dec 8, 2016 • 21m
Dan Lyons: The changing tech workplace
Dec 1, 2016 • 14m
How to manage people
Nov 24, 2016 • 23m
How to engage Generation Y
Nov 17, 2016 • 22m
Dan Snow: Making adventure documentaries
Nov 10, 2016 • 23m
How to write radio drama
Nov 3, 2016 • 17m
Live social video
Oct 27, 2016 • 27m
Presenting: Finding your voice
Oct 20, 2016 • 21m
Mobile journalism tips: Get your mojo working
Oct 14, 2016 • 23m
Jon Plowman: Making TV comedy
Oct 6, 2016 • 21m
Vanessa Feltz: Secrets of the phone-in
Sep 29, 2016 • 18m
How to make a radio show: Noreen Khan at BBC Asian Network
Aug 11, 2016 • 18m
CBBC: The challenges of making children’s TV
Aug 4, 2016 • 19m
Rio 2016: The mobile Olympics
Jul 28, 2016 • 19m
Careers in technology: Women and diversity
Jul 21, 2016 • 19m
How to make it as on-air talent
Jul 14, 2016 • 21m
News storytelling tips: Maxine Mawhinney
Jun 23, 2016 • 13m
Finding and telling news stories: Sima Kotecha
Jun 16, 2016 • 17m
Handing control to your audience: BBC WM ‘takeover’
Jun 9, 2016 • 21m
Developing a mental model
Jun 3, 2016 • 13m
Making the most of a mentor
May 26, 2016 • 22m
Peaky Blinders: The producer and director of photography
May 19, 2016 • 27m
Doctors meets Shakespeare: Peter Lloyd talks to Joe Godwin
May 12, 2016 • 15m
National Theatre Live: Taking theatre to the movies
May 5, 2016 • 16m
Behind the scenes on Later… with Jools Holland
Apr 28, 2016 • 13m
Midlands Today: Creating a news programme
Apr 21, 2016 • 18m
Filming with drones: What you need to know
Apr 14, 2016 • 19m
Jed Mercurio: in conversation
Apr 7, 2016 • 32m
BBC Apprenticeships: you're hired
Mar 17, 2016 • 17m
CBBC’s Our School: Fixed rigs and children
Mar 14, 2016 • 23m
What's so special about radio?
Mar 3, 2016 • 21m
Radio producers: Winning at the freelance game
Feb 25, 2016 • 26m
The business of podcasting
Feb 25, 2016 • 12m
The Best Bottoms in the Land
Feb 18, 2016 • 22m
Working in radio production: A day in the life of 1Xtra
Feb 12, 2016 • 24m
Local Apprentices: Finding Your Flair
Feb 4, 2016 • 21m
4K and Ultra-HD: Making programmes
Jan 28, 2016 • 22m
4K and UHD: Why does it matter?
Jan 21, 2016 • 18m
Women in journalism: challenges and career development
Jan 14, 2016 • 21m
BBC Academy Podcast: Review of 2015
Dec 17, 2015 • 17m
How to create an ebook
Dec 11, 2015 • 23m
How to get a job in sports broadcasting
Dec 3, 2015 • 23m
Radio: The medium that refuses to give in and wither away
Nov 26, 2015 • 10m
The Coroner: A masterclass in daytime drama
Nov 19, 2015 • 20m
Broadcasting young voices: Podium.me
Nov 12, 2015 • 22m
Radio festival: the future of radio's mobile, loud and emotional
Nov 6, 2015 • 10m
Radio festival: Disrupt or be disrupted
Nov 5, 2015 • 13m
Danny and the Human Zoo
Oct 29, 2015 • 21m
In conversation with Mike Bartlett
Oct 23, 2015 • 24m
Iain Softely on directing The Outcast
Jul 10, 2015 • 29m
Developing The Outcast with Sadie Jones
Jul 9, 2015 • 29m
a Brit abroad: working on drama in the USA
Jun 4, 2015 • 21m
Radio producer/presenter relationship - getting it right
May 21, 2015 • 10m
Shark: meet producer Simon Blakeney
May 7, 2015 • 19m
Social media and the law
Apr 23, 2015 • 39m
Fresh views on Radio 4
Mar 12, 2015 • 29m
Expert Voices: finding BAME talent
Mar 5, 2015 • 14m
RTS Futures Career Fair
Feb 26, 2015 • 17m
production designer Pat Campbell
Feb 19, 2015 • 14m
costume designer Joanna Eatwell
Feb 12, 2015 • 21m
First steps - in the edit
Feb 5, 2015 • 24m
Sarah Solemani - writing comedy and drama
Jan 29, 2015 • 8m
BBC production trainees: where next?
Jan 15, 2015 • 17m
CoP Review 2014
Dec 18, 2014 • 14m
Radio - how to get your foot in the door
Dec 11, 2014 • 7m
How to become a radio presenter
Dec 11, 2014 • 9m
Jimmy McGovern - in conversation
Dec 4, 2014 • 34m
Nihal – dealing with controversy
Nov 28, 2014 • 14m
The BRITs: social media success 2014
Nov 27, 2014 • 25m
Inner Voices: how writers create character
Nov 27, 2014 • 20m
Iain Lee - how to do radio
Nov 21, 2014 • 19m
Richard Herring on podcasting
Nov 21, 2014 • 18m
Welcome Back
Nov 20, 2014 • 15m
Desert Island Discs
Nov 13, 2014 • 27m
Peaky Blinders executive producer Jamie Glazebrook
Nov 6, 2014 • 30m
Get your next job in drama
Oct 30, 2014 • 32m
Peaky Blinders director Colm McCarthy
Oct 23, 2014 • 30m
Fresh voices - investing in new talent
Oct 16, 2014 • 16m
Podcasting - 10 years on
Oct 15, 2014 • 17m
Bob Shennan
Oct 14, 2014 • 10m
Breaking new artists on radio
Oct 14, 2014 • 21m
File delivery - maintaining quality
Oct 9, 2014 • 20m
Access all areas - documentary
Oct 2, 2014 • 29m
Delivering your programme as a file
Oct 2, 2014 • 16m
Peaky Blinders writer Steven Knight
Oct 2, 2014 • 14m
The secret art of script editing
Sep 25, 2014 • 26m
How to produce a quiz show
Sep 18, 2014 • 18m
Radio 1 and 1Xtra interns
Sep 11, 2014 • 14m
How to make a radio trail
Jul 17, 2014 • 21m
Making the most of your idea
Jul 10, 2014 • 18m
The joy of sketch
Jul 4, 2014 • 30m
How to produce a comedy web series
Jun 27, 2014 • 21m
Why diversity matters in the media
May 29, 2014 • 21m
Making the most of micro video
May 22, 2014 • 19m
Writing medical drama
May 22, 2014 • 17m
TV Scheduling
May 15, 2014 • 22m
iWonder and the WW1 Centenary
May 8, 2014 • 17m
How to get into TV design
May 8, 2014 • 26m
How to be a natural history producer
Mar 27, 2014 • 11m
BBC PTS 4 months in...
Mar 20, 2014 • 20m
Food on the radio
Mar 13, 2014 • 21m
The arts... live!
Feb 27, 2014 • 20m
Using user-generated content
Feb 20, 2014 • 31m
Arthur Mathews comedy masterclass
Feb 13, 2014 • 44m
Radio apprentices
Feb 6, 2014 • 28m
Internet radio
Jan 30, 2014 • 22m
Richard Curtis comedy masterclass
Jan 30, 2014 • 37m
Loudness - why sound matters
Jan 23, 2014 • 20m
1Xtra - how to make it in radio
Jan 22, 2014 • 25m
Fixed rig productions
Jan 16, 2014 • 30m
Review of the year: 2013
Dec 20, 2013 • 29m
Women in technical broadcasting
Dec 12, 2013 • 22m
Minute by Minute: recreating JFK’s assassination for Radio 2
Dec 5, 2013 • 25m
Production trainees scheme of 2013 (PTS)
Nov 28, 2013 • 14m
Scriptwriting
Nov 21, 2013 • 35m
Features and formats
Nov 20, 2013 • 37m
Meet the commissioners
Nov 19, 2013 • 42m
In conversation with Steven Moffat
Nov 14, 2013 • 36m
creating online learning content
Oct 31, 2013 • 29m
a growing sense of drama
Oct 29, 2013 • 32m
Meet the commissioners
Oct 28, 2013 • 31m
Is my show trending?
Oct 28, 2013 • 31m
Specialist subject? Factual
Oct 28, 2013 • 36m
disability in broadcasting
Oct 17, 2013 • 24m
radio phone-ins
Oct 10, 2013 • 27m
festival radio
Oct 3, 2013 • 16m
Using music in your production
Sep 26, 2013 • 23m
Next Radio
Sep 19, 2013 • 17m
radio drama
Sep 12, 2013 • 23m
radio consumer technology
Sep 5, 2013 • 15m
Online and social media in TV
Aug 22, 2013 • 35m
Short Cuts
Jul 4, 2013 • 23m
TV consumer technology
Jun 27, 2013 • 24m
YouTube channels
Jun 20, 2013 • 26m
Pobol y Cwm and PyC
Jun 13, 2013 • 18m
Writing for online
Jun 6, 2013 • 23m
Studio managers
May 23, 2013 • 22m
Natural history storytelling (part 2)
May 16, 2013 • 19m
Natural history storytelling (part 1)
May 9, 2013 • 20m
Expert Women
May 2, 2013 • 20m
Future Fiction
Apr 25, 2013 • 14m
Using archive
Apr 18, 2013 • 21m
Routes into radio
Apr 11, 2013 • 9m
Budget film making
Apr 4, 2013 • 22m
Manage your media
Mar 20, 2013 • 21m
Science TV
Mar 14, 2013 • 21m
Making best use of digital
Mar 7, 2013 • 24m
Staying on air (part 2)
Feb 21, 2013 • 17m
Scriptwriting for factual TV
Feb 21, 2013 • 18m
Staying on air (part 1)
Feb 14, 2013 • 21m
Research skills for TV
Feb 7, 2013 • 23m
Tackling controversial subjects
Jan 31, 2013 • 24m
Innovative Radio
Jan 24, 2013 • 22m
2013 production trends
Jan 17, 2013 • 23m
2012 highlights
Dec 13, 2012 • 17m
Live music events
Dec 13, 2012 • 25m
Games and broadcasting
Dec 6, 2012 • 21m
Arts in the digital world
Nov 29, 2012 • 23m
Returnable formats
Nov 22, 2012 • 28m
Glastonbury Festival
Nov 19, 2012 • 19m
Christmas special
Nov 15, 2012 • 25m
Student radio
Nov 15, 2012 • 23m
Behind the scenes programming
Nov 8, 2012 • 21m
BBC production trainees in radio
Nov 1, 2012 • 14m
BBC production trainees in TV
Oct 25, 2012 • 15m
Shooting for the edit
Oct 18, 2012 • 26m
Getting into interactive design
Oct 11, 2012 • 26m
Going viral
Oct 4, 2012 • 21m
Moving genres
Sep 27, 2012 • 21m
The killer pitch
Sep 21, 2012 • 34m
Creating a comedy podcast
Sep 20, 2012 • 26m
TV Fast Train: Features and formats
Sep 16, 2012 • 37m
The BBC at the Fringe
Sep 13, 2012 • 21m
Make it in the media
Sep 6, 2012 • 26m
Women in comedy
Aug 23, 2012 • 19m
Funny and multiplatform
Aug 22, 2012 • 21m
Improvisation for storytellers
Jul 26, 2012 • 18m
Producing profession based dramas
Jul 19, 2012 • 21m
Getting into design
Jul 12, 2012 • 28m
Working with contributors
Jul 5, 2012 • 22m
Sustainable TV production
Jun 28, 2012 • 23m
Freelancing for life
Jun 21, 2012 • 23m
Community radio
Jun 14, 2012 • 20m
TV in the wild
Jun 7, 2012 • 25m
Live events TV
May 31, 2012 • 22m
Second screen
May 24, 2012 • 26m
World Olympic Dreams
May 21, 2012 • 20m
TV Fast Train: The future of TV
May 17, 2012 • 34m
TV Fast Train: Learn from the drama greats
May 16, 2012 • 26m
Learn from the comedy greats
May 16, 2012 • 26m
TV Fast Train: Never Mind the Panel Shows
May 16, 2012 • 24m
TV Fast Train: Meet the controllers
May 16, 2012 • 29m
From factual to drama: crossing the void
May 16, 2012 • 27m
Using social media to grow your brand
May 16, 2012 • 33m
TV Fast Train: Women in TV
May 16, 2012 • 33m
Constructed reality
May 10, 2012 • 25m
Just a Minute
May 4, 2012 • 22m
Writing sitcoms
May 3, 2012 • 21m
Immersive documentaries
Apr 26, 2012 • 19m
Self shooting
Mar 15, 2012 • 21m
Art of the interview
Mar 8, 2012 • 16m
Composing music
Mar 2, 2012 • 18m
Writing Sketches
Feb 26, 2012 • 21m
One year anniversary
Feb 23, 2012 • 13m
Great adaptations
Feb 16, 2012 • 21m
Pitching for radio
Feb 8, 2012 • 54m
Risks in radio
Feb 8, 2012 • 38m
Radio syndication
Feb 8, 2012 • 33m
Radio Fast Train: Indies
Feb 8, 2012 • 41m
Radio Fast Train: Audiences
Feb 8, 2012 • 36m
Radio Fast Train: sports radio
Feb 8, 2012 • 34m
Radio Fast Train: Future radio now
Feb 7, 2012 • 38m
Radio Fast Train: Visualising radio
Feb 7, 2012 • 37m
Radio Fast Train: We love radio
Feb 7, 2012 • 35m
Radio Fast Train: Presenting
Feb 7, 2012 • 37m
Radio Fast Train: Successful creative relationships
Feb 7, 2012 • 39m
Radio Fast Train: Freelancing
Feb 7, 2012 • 34m
Media job interviews
Feb 2, 2012 • 21m
Secret filming
Jan 19, 2012 • 26m
Groomed for Sex
Jan 18, 2012 • 20m
How to be a TV presenter
Jan 12, 2012 • 20m
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Dec 12, 2011 • 19m
Alternative funding
Dec 8, 2011 • 22m
After Life
Dec 6, 2011 • 20m
Networking
Dec 1, 2011 • 19m
Making radio features
Nov 24, 2011 • 20m
Beauty on a budget
Nov 17, 2011 • 19m
Character development
Nov 16, 2011 • 18m
Strictly Come Dancing
Nov 14, 2011 • 24m
The Awakening
Nov 11, 2011 • 22m
Writing comedy and drama
Nov 10, 2011 • 20m
Brainstorming
Nov 3, 2011 • 18m
Him & Her
Nov 2, 2011 • 19m
Radio Commissions
Oct 27, 2011 • 18m
Music playlists
Oct 20, 2011 • 21m
Mums in TV
Oct 13, 2011 • 22m
Freelancing
Oct 6, 2011 • 20m
Producers and presenters
Sep 29, 2011 • 18m
Rebranding
Sep 23, 2011 • 18m
Measuring audiences
Sep 22, 2011 • 18m
How to get an idea commissioned
Sep 15, 2011 • 22m
Getting into radio
Sep 8, 2011 • 21m
Getting into TV
Sep 1, 2011 • 18m
An audience with Simon Chinn
Aug 11, 2011 • 18m
Live TV and radio
Jul 28, 2011 • 20m
Casting Contributors
Jul 21, 2011 • 20m
Getting access
Jul 14, 2011 • 19m
Using YouTube
Jul 7, 2011 • 15m
Finding the perfect location
Jun 30, 2011 • 11m
Our War
Jun 29, 2011 • 18m
Personal social media
Jun 9, 2011 • 20m
The Killer Pitch
Jun 2, 2011 • 34m
Transmedia storytelling
May 26, 2011 • 21m
Tapeless
May 19, 2011 • 17m
Visualising radio
May 12, 2011 • 19m
User experience and design
Apr 14, 2011 • 15m
Building the perfect digital team
Apr 7, 2011 • 15m
How to build audiences
Mar 31, 2011 • 17m
SXSW special - transmedia storytelling
Mar 24, 2011 • 14m
Mobile apps – should you be creating one?
Mar 17, 2011 • 15m
Search engine optimisation (SEO): tips and tricks
Mar 10, 2011 • 16m
Podcasting: what, why and how?
Mar 3, 2011 • 19m
Making the most of Twitter
Feb 24, 2011 • 19m
Better Blogging
Feb 21, 2011 • 18m
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