New Aural Cultures Podcast

This episode was recorded with contributions from students in the School of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland. They have been working with New Aural Cultures Co-Editor Richard Berry on a new module in Podcasting this semester that blends theory and practice. They are now all in the final stages of producing their own podcasts for assessments; some of which may live on as independently produced shows. All of the work they are producing will be distributed as podcasts via hosting platforms.  The module has drawn students from across the school, with students from journalism, media studies, film production and media production. Some of the students are active within the University owned community radio Spark, whilst some have never made audio before. Although students have been introduced to complex narrative formats, their focus has been on how they can use interview or discussion based formats to communicate ideas to audiences. As the discussions in the episode will show this h