URY News Special - Student Media: York Hitting the Headlines
Join the national award winning URY News team for a special edition of the Newshour with George Lane.
This programme covers student media on campus - With all the recent scandalus headlines and questionable reporting techiniques, is student media a useful and necessary outlet? Or are student journalists just in it for enhancing future career prospects.
We speak with the student media, York Universty Students Union, external 'student' news sources, and industry experts including BBCs Chris Smith.
Tune in at 6pm, Wednesday 26th November 2014, live on ury.org.uk
FEATURING CBBC'S RAVEN. YEP.
Pardon my French is one of those "anything goes" show. Haaaaaave you met me? No? Than come and share my love of all things vinyl and hear what a feisty frenchman sounds like on radio.
As the saying goes, everyone gets theirs. University bigwigs, students, and campus in general have finally had enough of Jonny Long and Callum McCulloch.
In the ultimate act of media censorship, the powers that be have created an artificial island in the lake by central hall, and have duly marrooned our two entrepid protagonists upon it.
However, in an age of plummetting league table places, a disaffected student body, and general lack of extraordinarily funny people, the boys have been given a radio show to pass their time in exile, and also the option of recruiting one more person for their wiley band of vagabonds.
Therefore, they will be holding tryouts, live on air. There will be challenges, we will critique the songs you wish to bring with you, your luxury item better be on our list of things we need.
It's going to be sort of like The Apprentice, Only Connect, The X Factor, Raven, and a certain BBC Radio 4 radio show (that we can't remember the name of) all rolled into one.
The critics have called it a gamechanger, our mother's have called it a 2:2 waiting to happen.
All we know is that it's going to pop off in a big way.
It's dogs doing a student radio show.
an early morning specialist music show playing an eclectic variety of music
URY Sessions goes live with 3 great acts!
Join us for the jazzy maestros BrassaNova,
an intimate solo set from BBC Introducing's Berkshire's Ray Wills
and headliners Follow the Giant, an indie rock band based in York.
The Big Sofa graced the York Uni airwaves all the way back in 2001, when Rach was a psychology undergrad living in a breezeblock prison called Goodricke C Block.
Since then Rach has graduated (hurray! They said it would never happen!), moved away (now living in Mordor (Morden), London), worked three different jobs (evil corporate advertising; bonkers Virgin Radio; the BBC), birthed three kids (two boys, one girl), become a stand up comedian (three years in, still haven't done Live at the Apollo) and QUIT RADIO (sob.)
This last one makes her incredibly sad.
So Rach is ecstatic to be back behind a microphone. Join her for this one off two hour show and listen to the joy plastered all over her face.
Liam joins Beth McCarthy on BBC Radio York to discuss Yorkshire universities returning to campus in the current situation.
Our presenters Michael Grace, Tom Foreman, Grace Fegan and Alanah Hammond take over George Smith's BBC Radio York show... broadcast live on BBC Radio York and University Radio York.