All you need is Radio Jacka!

So I decided that if I wanted to have a radio show - it really was now or never. I'd been meaning to get involved with the student radio station for ages, but now that I'd reached my final year, I decided that the time had come to finally do something about it.

Now the radio station, as with many other student organisations, actually isn't very organised. So after turning up for 2 training sessions that didn't happen, and then not getting up in time to attend the replacement training sessions, I found myself sitting in front of the control desk, in the studio, broadcasting my first show, with absolutely no idea what I was doing.

Having said that, I think the show went quite well really. Admittedly the first half hour did mainly consist of dead air, with the occasional fading in and out of music as I tried to work out what all the knobs did. And in my defence there were some rather misleading objects about the studio, such as the red 'On Air' light, which refused to light up no matter what combination of buttons I pressed. This also meant that my first words to the listeners at the University of Sussex Campus, and indeed across the world were:

"Er, yea, hi... um, now I'm not quite sure if I'm actually broadcasting here, but I think I'll just get on with it anyway..."

Thankfully it later transpired that I was broadcasting (well for the second half hour at least), which I discovered through the wondrous 'listen again' feature on the station website. And I do feel reasonably capable of doing a show now, even if I do only ever push no more than 4 of the hundreds of buttons available to me. But the one worrying element that now remains is that now that I've done my first show, I've used up all my material. I've already played my favourite songs. I've already shown off all the new albums I'm listening to...

I suppose there is an obvious solution here, that being: This is a weekly show - who's going to care if you just play the same stupid stuff every time...?

Who indeed...