{"id":554,"date":"2013-04-24T15:07:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T14:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olver.me\/?p=554"},"modified":"2026-02-28T12:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:59:59","slug":"the-finished-honorary-degrees-radio-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/04\/the-finished-honorary-degrees-radio-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Finished Honorary Degrees Radio Documentary!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s finally finished!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working on this radio documentary for my final year project since September last year and it&#8217;s finally ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s only really come together in the past couple of weeks; I spent about three days editing together my raw interviews, sourcing my vox pops and then recording my own lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recording my own lines was probably the worst, as I&#8217;m not always great at ready scripts and when I write them I tend to make grammar and spelling mistakes. I believe one 1 minute line took about 7 minutes to get!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The radio documentary is about honorary degrees, why we have them and what difference it makes to students, if any!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I <a title=\"Making a Radio Documentary \u2013 Honorary Doctorates\" href=\"http:\/\/olver.me\/2013\/02\/03\/making-a-radio-documentary-honorary-doctorates\/\">posted about making the radio documentary in February<\/a>, just before I interviewed Esther Rantzen and Benjamin Zephaniah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The target broadcast would be on BBC Radio 2, in the 10:30am Saturday slot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here it is for you to listen to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any feedback would be much appreciated.<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F88896775&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=false&color=false&show_user=false&show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s finally finished! I&#8217;ve been working on this radio documentary for my final year project since September last year and it&#8217;s finally ready. It&#8217;s only really come together in the past couple of weeks; I spent about three days editing together my raw interviews, sourcing my vox pops and then recording my own lines. Recording&#8230; <a class=\"moretag btn btn-sm btn-outline-oliver\" href=\"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/04\/the-finished-honorary-degrees-radio-documentary\/\"> Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,199],"tags":[25,154,169],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radio","category-university","tag-radio","tag-radio-documentary","tag-staffordshire-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/graduation_stock.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}