Notes for BETT 2022 / @PhonicFM

 Previously I have visited BETT with Chris Norton and Jon Mahy from Wild Show and We Don't Know , shows on Phonic FM. I also do a drama show with a fiction take on tech. We are not leaving Exeter this year but the return to some sort of normal is welcome.

Topics can continue on social media and @wenotno ( Wed 10 -12 )  drama show ( Thur 8 - 10 )  and #WildShow ( Thur 10 - 12 ).

We will check for news via Russell Prue on Twitter. @RussellPrue  stand SK 51 . We may phone in somehow or replay recent archive. Why is it important for radio to be live?

The #BBC seems to be back https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach . What happened to Jam ? Was it BBC Learning that supported Radio 1 and Big Weekend? 

E Sports Hub is new but here is video from lockdown phase. 

https://youtu.be/c246en768NY

Is this the A in STEAM ? In Exeter somewhere between @Kaleider for Arts and @TechExeter. Minecraft as in models from RAMM museum. 

Drama includes immersive worlds. Video from a while ago there may be new courses. https://youtu.be/ACrGQygTfc4 

More topics during the shows, this is a start for tweets etc.

Oxford Mid Summer ( parts one and two )

Previously I was inspired by a BBC News Papers Review where they discussed a dramatic take on #PartyGate , possibly a comedy. I have been thinking about this and maybe the Met Police as a chorus , as in Gilbert and Sullivan or Last of the Summer Wine. But then I thought that BBC was missing out on some aspects of the story. ITV has broken more news aspects. So I am now thinking of a murder mystery set in Oxford near some villages. The cases are the alleged bullying by the whips and the parties. Both are now quiet as news. The murders are low profile to start with and may have been accidents. a student is dropped off a bridge during questions and the water turns out to be shallow. Hit and run driving accidents in country lanes. But it turns out later that each student involved was on work experience the previous summer somwhere near Westminster. The local police who have been a chorus commenting on distant event in London begin to realise that the story is getting closer.

So that part one will be creative commons and open. In part two more will be revealed about the country houses in the various villages. Ownership is a bit vague and some related cottages have been sold at surprising prices to MPs and academics. There may be a several stages in development -  as a forum for discussion, as verbatim edit of what was said, as a considered script, as guides for improv. Putin and Brexit will reconnect with current news but may also be seen as a myth invented by Remainers. 

Anything requiring a budget will happen off stage. There is just pub conversation outside to avoid lighting costs.

#OxfordMidSummer

Conferences and drama #mtw3 #RuinsHE

I am getting more into radio and the drama show. I am writing more of my own plays although there is plenty of material so I have to present them quickly. This is ok as a way of working. Forum Theatre is something I remember for a MOOC. I see it as a route to verbatim or imagined dialogue. I am moving on to Brexit and #PartyGate partly because the concerns with online learning have limited interest. I am raving on far too much for a balanced show. 

#mtw3 / Management Theory at Work in Radio started with conferences in Lancaster. some of the ideas are still there but in simpler language and with some confusion over words. Discussion would go back again when things become clear. some sort of direction for radio is possible, that would be a clue there is a method.

Both times #mtwr was tried the Standup Philosopher spoke about education. #RuinsHE is about the Fortress University in the future ruins so the presentation / routine will be about the aims of education / what has happened to the Fortress. This is some time in the future, both as a play and as a project. 

A3 Form , Design , Quality

This week Chris Norton  is away from Wild show on Phonic FM so I will have more time to talk to JD the Producer. Last year we spoke about my problems with the Drama show that is on just before the Wild Show . Previously we have talked about Design Science and we score well in a search for "Design Science DJs" . I have been looking at an A3 Form so maybe should explain I tend not to talk about "quality" on the radio, more about "design". It makes very little difference for how to sort out a show and "design" is better accepted. ( In search I don't always use the word people are looking for, sometimes I hang on to something that describes what is on offer but in this case this explanation may be clear ) .

Previously there were two main problems - finishing on time and how to do a breakfast show as well as an arts show. The finish has been sorted with a pre-recorded clip that starts at 9.54 but faded down. Just fade up when I run out of talk. 

Also I have started to put clips on a YouTube playlist and this could be a solution to the other problem. As a drama show 8 -10 in the morning is the wrong time. Evenings are better for putting time to long items. As a breakfast show people listen to radio for a short time befor moving on the something else that usually has priority. So if the clips are repeated later on a playlist so they can be found this may be a way round it. So far not many people are finding the playlist but this seems like a direction to try out for a while.

I will come back to the form later and formalise some of this. But there is a delay. November last year to end of Feb this year. Not sure I would remember the detail if I had filled the form in. How we do a voice version as JD suggested? Would AI help to suggest how the playlist will work?