Radio 1 Podcast

• What are the different responsibility of presenters and producers?

Being up and awake at 4am to get to work for 5am. Entertaining 5 million every single day.

Having  a structure set with flexibility. being able to be charismatic and happy and easy to talk to at such a early time in the morning.

Fiona has to brief the celebs so they know whats going on in the show and brief the callers.

make sure all the equipment is all okay.

• Whats preparation goes into each programme?

The night/ day before each show they have to have a main show sketched out, then they  have random but not best things set out to talk about, stuff that needs to be renewed so that they can pass time. Set out as a team to make the shows. they have meetings before every week to see who is  coming on and what new games they have got planned and if they are going to do anything special with a guest. Time schedule. 

• Whats the most challenging and most enjoyable thing about working on the show?

Working with big celebrities and filling all the gaps and finding new things to do and make the show flow nicely. Making your self better finding new skills. Hard to have different team members chaining all the time so have to build new bonds but also bring in new ideas. Hard to make quick rash decisions but needs to be decisive. needs to be trust if not there can be very challenging. 

• Team Dynamics?

They work as a close nit team and a family like a dysfunctional family. and they all trust each 0other and they have one person that make tithe important decisions that they all just go with as they trust bis so high it will be the right one for the show and the viewings like with celebs that are boring they have to make a call to get rid of them so that is a decisions that someone has to make.