Unit 14 – Music and Talk Radio Production

1. • Unit 14 – Music and talk radio production
BBC Radio 1 – 16:00 Greg James Example is raging 1hr 45min
• Jingle with talking presenting the presenters
• Greg James starts talking about what’s coming up – rage against the answer machine
(plays a clip of that) – introduces Example on the show
• Another jingle leading into song – ‘Decline’ by Raye and Mr. Eazi (RnB song)
• Jingle saying Greg James leading into another song – ‘Get Lucky’ by Daft punk and
Pharrel (Electronic Pop song)– music bed as the song is ending the presenter is
talking in French and says the artists name in French
• Jingle/music bed – presenter talking moving on its hump day
• Presenter talking about who’s coming up Taylor swift, James Hype and loads on
between now and 7pm.
• Introducing next song – start playing – ‘Major system error’ By Marmozets
(Pop/Rock song) as its finishing presenter starts talking – music bed
• Leads into jingle BBC radio 1
• James’ starts talking huge day on radio 1 – talking about Nick Grimshaws playlist hot
tracks in Swansea – Taylor swift, Ed Sheeran, Jess Glynne, Craig David, Niall Horan,
Wolf Alice, James Bay and Years and Years on the breakfast show asking to do their
best welsh Plays a clip of Nick Grimshaw and Jess Glynne doing a welsh accent, then
plays a clip of
• J Hus trying the welsh accent
• Other news Sir Elton john cancelled 2 gigs – gossip
• Celeb gossip/news – plays a clip of will smith congratulating his son – music bed
• More news about celebrities about conspiracy about Adele being Sam Smith evidence
from twitter – Plays clip of Adele singing hello but then turns into Sam Smith
• And last news bones of 16ft crocodile found in Manchester – music bed
Leads into jingle BBC Radio1 Greg James
• Plays song ‘Fine line’ by Not3s and Mabel (RnB song)
• 4:15 talking about someone being a massive fan of Greg James – requested a song,
made the person a star listener – jingle comes on, sound effect of a cow
• Breakfast show clip playing with Nick Grimshaw talking about Swansea again
• Plays song ‘End Game’ By Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran and Future (Pop song)
• 4:20 – presenter talking about karaoke plays clip of previous clip
• Immy on phone call talking to Greg plays clip of song and Immy trying to copy it
• Plays song ‘More than friends’ by James Hype (Pop song)
• Presenter takes Immy will be back on
• Presenter talking to Ally plum seen blank panther given a review
• Plays song ‘Fall Apart’ by Post Malone (Rap song)
• Presenter says name of song – music bed
• Presenter talking more coming up on karaoke, Rams Barking and Clavin Harris
News with Chris smith News beat – News jingle.
• Real newsbeat – talking about rights, sick pay, murder charge, recycling scheme of
plastic coming up Olympic news
• Jingle BBC radio 1
• Plays song ‘Barking’ by Ramz (Rap song)

2. • Plays song ‘How Deep is your love’ by Disciples and Calvin Harris (Pop song)

3. Analysis
In the Greg James show there is a good range between talking and music as they start
off with what’s expected to come on the show to playing songs to talking, then playing
songs, then playing the news, then playing more songs. There is a pattern to this, which
you can clearly see. The news is first heard when we are about 10 Mins in but this news
is about celebrities and James gives us the latest of what’s been going on in the social
media world with the celebrities but then also later about 4:30 the news is given again
but with another presenter Chris Smith but the news this time is what been going on
locally around in the UK rather than worldwide and is a bit more serious.
The music played is well balanced out and they do have a lot of different genres
of music that were played going from rap to pop to electronic pop and rnb. The
style of the presenter Is very outgoing as he talks a little bit of French when
saying the name of the song. He is very consistent throughout. James also
presents us with the news from social media and to do with celebrities sticking
with how fun and out there James the presenter is, whereas when it comes to the
real news another presenter is used, using a serious tone to the news.
The different content that is played varies from music, to the news, to talking to people,
to playing clips from other shows that were on before like the breakfast show. Social
media is used within the radio shows especially Twitter when it comes to interacting
to the audience but with celebrities also. This acts as an advert for other shows on the
station as Greg James mentions the breakfast show quiet often saying the hottest
playlist artist that are going to be playing but also karaoke on the breakfast show. This
acts as an ad for the breakfast show as it tells the audience what happens on the show
and mentions things that may get their attention.
The use of jingles is used many often within the stations show. Every time a song has
ended or begun a jingle is used. The same jingle is used when a song is being played or
when a topic is being changed, but when it came to announcing the star listener
another more out there jingle was used. The first celebrity news that is presented is
very out there and said with enthusiasm, the same with when talking to Immy or when
the presenter is talking about the karaoke like I already said before whereas when the
second part of the news comes on another presenter Is used changing the style of the
tone into more serious. The music, karaoke, Swansea playlist, attempting accents is
mainly aimed at the young part of the audience which I would say is late teens to mid-
twenties.