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Bloomsbury Festival are offering 3 radio training roles for volunteers interested in radio production. You will be working with Bloomsbury Institute’s Bloomsbury Radio to cover the Bloomsbury Festival in October 2024. This is an unique opportunity to acquire radio production skills, interviewing skills and to work alongside radio and broadcasting professionals.
Each Radio Volunteer will receive training from radio and broadcast professionals at the Bloomsbury Institute. The bespoke training sessions offered to you will cover radio recording, interviewing and broadcasting. The training can be offered to work around your timetable and can be one-to-one if necessary.
Bloomsbury Festival is an annual arts, culture and science festival that takes place throughout the Bloomsbury area in London. This year it will be taking place from Friday 18th – Sunday 27th October.
The volunteer roles are designed for anyone aged 18+ who either lives or studies in the Bloomsbury area. This opportunity is open to students and others from all backgrounds and interests. You don’t need any prior experience or training but you will need to be able to commit time and effort to this opportunity.
Those selected will receive training from Bloomsbury Institute’s Bloomsbury Radio to help with the radio station and have a go at radio coverage of an annual arts, culture and science charity festival.
This is a brilliant opportunity for anyone interested in the arts and culture industry, in media and communications, or in general radio production and broadcasting.
Main Duties
Recruited through the Festival, volunteers are given a chance to receive training from Bloomsbury Institute’s Bloomsbury Radio to learn about working at a radio station, how to host interviews, and conduct live broadcasts from events.
You will be assisting at their radio station but also help to create content to be broadcast on the channel.
The aim of the training offered to Radio Station Volunteers is that they help to cover the Bloomsbury Festival period for Bloomsbury Radio. This can include helping at the studio, taking the lead on interviewing artists and event partners, and even doing some live broadcasting from events.
This is a flexible opportunity and one that can be discussed with the professional/supervisors at Bloomsbury Radio.
What will the volunteering role offer the student and what will they learn while they are with you?
Recruited through the Festival, volunteers are given a chance to receive training from Bloomsbury Institute’s Bloomsbury Radio to learn about working at a radio station, how to host interviews, and conduct live broadcasts from events.
Included in the Radio training is:
- Studio interviews
- Outside broadcasting
- Zoom interviews
- Editing into packages for pre-recorded interviews
