BBC Producer Visits CMC Radio Students
Mark Rickards
BBC Senior Producer Mark Rickards visited the CMC radio students this week. Talking to both the 3rd year features students as well as the 4th group in the documentary class, his lively session focused on the BBC commissioning process, interview and recording techniques as well as the use of transitions using music and sound. He played clips from several of his programmes, ranging from the restoration of the fire-damaged Glasgow School of Art, Iraqi translators now living in a Glasgow estate, and the work of Irish poets W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney. Mark has travelled extensively and he treated the class to many anecdotes such as the very near miss with a pouncing puma at a Bolivian animal refuge, and the fact that the recording session with second man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin, took place in a little corner of a large hotel-like reception area while people wandered past to the pool. Afterwards there were plenty of questions about his work, with one or two students saying “I want your job!” He also spent some time talking to the 4th years about their documentary proposal. Several students have already arranged to go and see Mark at the BBC in Glasgow during the editing process of his next programme.
To hear a selection of Mark’s work:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04p87r5