Earshot Creative Review, September 2012

Earshot with Steve Martin

Clare Bowen and Lenja Papp

Radio Advertising

Some secrets of great radio advertising with Clare Bowen, head of creative development at the UK Radio Advertising Bureau and Lenja Papp, European radio writer and consultant.

Discover why Lenja wants to seduce – not shout in any language, how the comedy of Ricky Gervais, Karl Pilkinton and Stephen Merchant can address serious medical matters and how the RAB is working to improve the creative quality and effectiveness of radio advertising in Britain.

Hobsons Voicesearch

Meet Jumoke, Sefa, Mark and Scott: the shortlisted candidates in our competition to find and reward new, unsigned UK voice talent and hear them face a real-life studio challenge at the BBC with producer James Stodd.

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Links

Clare recommends the Inspired by Audio initiative created by the RAB with D&AD. We also mentioned the Voxmas party to which Earshot Creative listeners are invited.

Credits

Earshot Creative Review imaging by Chris Nichol at Wizz FX and the sung jingle features custom vocals from Session Singer Online. Beds by radiobeds.com

The podcast is sponsored by Hobsons.

Hobsons Voicesearch report by Kate Cocker. Epic thanks to James Stodd.

Views expressed are personal. The contributors acknowledge all rights held by the owners, creators and performers of the recorded works which are included solely for the purposes of education and review.

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