Left to right: Lou Nash, John Myers, Nik Goodman, Steve Martin, James Stodd, James Cridland and Jacob Rickard.

Direct from the heart of London’s Theatreland, some of the UK radio’s leading creative producers and commentators play their favourite promotional audio of the year and discuss why they love it so much.

Download the podcasts and you’ll hear sixteen pieces of great audio from stations like BBC Radio 1, URN, Capital FM, Choice FM and Classic FM, Norway’s P1 and Xfm. You’ll also hear the informed views, expertise and experience of James Cridland, John Myers, Nik Goodman, James Stodd, Lou Nash and Jacob Rickard.

Part one

Play here

Download audio file (ecr_festive2011_1.mp3)

Download part one (160kb/s mp3, 41.6M)

Part two

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Subscribe to the Earshot Creative Review via iTunes.

Credits

Recorded at London’s Novello Theatre by Steve Martin, imaging by Wizz FX, sponsorship by Hobsons, beds by Radiobeds.com and closing music by Efya, Eazzy, Tinny and Okyeame Kwame.

Views expressed are personal and not those of Global Radio, the BBC, URN, Media UK, the Radio Academy or Santa. 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.

Left to right: Lou Nash, John Myers, Nik Goodman, Steve Martin, James Stodd, James Cridland and Jacob Rickard.

Direct from the heart of London’s Theatreland, some of the UK radio’s leading creative producers and commentators play their favourite promotional audio of the year and discuss why they love it so much.

Download the podcasts and you’ll hear sixteen pieces of great audio from stations like BBC Radio 1, URN, Capital FM, Choice FM and Classic FM, Norway’s P1 and Xfm. You’ll also hear the informed views, expertise and experience of James Cridland, John Myers, Nik Goodman, James Stodd, Lou Nash and Jacob Rickard.

Part one

Play here

Download audio file (ecr_festive2011_1.mp3)

Download part one (160kb/s mp3, 41.6M)

Part two

Play here

Download audio file (ecr_festive2011_2.mp3)

Download part two (160kb/s mp3, 27.5M)

Subscribe to the Earshot Creative Review via iTunes.

Credits

Recorded at London’s Novello Theatre by Steve Martin, imaging by Wizz FX, sponsorship by Hobsons, beds by Radiobeds.com and closing music by Efya, Eazzy, Tinny and Okyeame Kwame.

Views expressed are personal and not those of Global Radio, the BBC, URN, Media UK, the Radio Academy or Santa. 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.

Here’s the team that flew the flag for Earshot in last night’s Radio Academy Christmas Quiz.

We came fourth out of seventeen and were beaten only by, er, better teams.

Left to right, we are Nik Goodman, Steve Martin, Helen Quigley, Jacob Rickard and James Stodd.

Photograph by Jonathan Jacob

Yes, we’ve rebranded a normal day of the week. It’s Invitation Tuesday, when your Earshot needs you. Here’s why:

Invitation 1

At 4pm on Tuesday 13 December we’re recording an edition of the Earshot Creative Review podcast and you’re welcome to come along and take part.

James Stodd of the BBC will be with us together with the Radio Academy’s John Myers. John recently wrote on his blog about some of the radio promos he hates. Now he’ll hear the good stuff.

You’ll need to be in Central London for 4pm on Tuesday armed with your favourite piece of promotional audio of the year.

Can you manage that? Please email steve@earshotcreative.com so I can be in touch with venue details.

Invitation 2

Than, from 6.30pm on Tuesday, James and I propose an Earshot team in the Radio Academy Christmas Quiz, in Highbury.

Jonathan Jacob can’t play because he’s helping to organise the event so there will be a couple of places open in our team. Anoraks only. Clever anoraks, actually.

Update: 0745, 9 December: we have now completed the selection process for our team which will comprise:

Nik Goodman, Helen Quigley, Jacob Rickard, Steve Martin and James Stodd.

JJ joined the Earshot Creative project a few months ago to help me make it a wider lens on radio promotions, advertising and imaging and it’s clear from the growth of the site that it’s working.

One of the reasons I wanted to work with JJ was his incredible energy. The 30 under 30 judges also have recognised him to be passionate, creative and knowledgeable and for those very good reasons have today named Jonathan one of UK radio’s top young talents.

Congratulations Jonathan. I’m thrilled for you and feel like doing something mad to celebrate… like totally redesigning the website.