Life at Radio 1

Wow.

I can hardly believe where my life is taking me at the moment. It seems all the hard work is beginning to pay off though - but not entirely, there's still loads more hard work to be done!

I feel as though I rarely stop to think or relax anymore, it's non-stop, mission after mission, seeking out new experiences at every opportunity. Which isn't such a bad life - I just need to make sure I remain in touch with people and don't neglect my home-life.

I'm at home at the moment, taking a breather - uploading new CDs to my mac and syncing it with my ipod - so I finally have some music to listen to whilst I roam around London!

But here's a run down of my BBC Blast placement so far...

I started on Monday 22nd June, 10am - had an induction and tour of Yalding House, home of Radio 1 and 1Xtra. All week I completed inline training courses, a policy of the Beeb.

Joe Harland, one of the Specialist producers gave me a few tasks to get on with as well, before my time on the Nick Grimshaw Show began.

These included:

Removing bad language from the Gaslamp Killer set live from Sonar festival
Brainstorming for the T in the Park competition
& putting together clips of slipknot (to test my editing skills)
He also made sure I was shown the R1 system, so I could load in tracks for shows etc!

We had a few training sessions, in the studios - Joe even gave me half an hour or so to muck about on the CD-J's & Zane's Kaos Pad! (eee)

Week 2 and I've started on the Grimmy Show, 10-midnight, the hours are odd (4pm until midnight) but it's great that I get to work within a lovely team, on a brand new show that is finding it's feet.

So far i've been loading in tracks, writing notes for the scripts, compiling info about forthcoming guests & typing up trackilistings & online content whilst we're on air. I also occasionally manage text messages (when the Assistant Producers are away) & maintain the facebook/BEBO accounts!

The hostel was nice, but extremely hot (I think we had a heatwave and besides, London is stuffy!) There was no air-con, I had a top-bunk, there were 4 girls sharing one very small room & the kitchen was in the basement. So halls is a step up! Plus I now have the internet to update (whoever reads this) on my antics - finally.

I really must update this more often as I am hoping to put together an arts award project! see ya