Press

Westminster Radio regularly receives favourable media coverage, most recently in the NME and the London Paper, where the Radio Production course was singled out for praise.

Breath of fresh airwaves

Third year students have gained coverage in the Harrow Observer for their final year project. Read the full article here. And you can take a look at the third year project website, which includes audio, video and images from Breathelondon.com.

Blind Date

This is an extract from an article in The Guardian, where one of our students went for a mock job interview at Capital 95.8:

" Ricky Marshall is studying for a degree in media studies (radio production) at the University of Westminster in London. After he graduates, he hopes to pursue a career in radio.

"I got into it because my mum's a nurse and she suggested I help out on the hospital radio station. It was while I was there that I thought, 'Wow, people get paid for doing this as a job!' I did some work experience on my local radio station. I did some presenting but I actually decided that producing is what I'm most interested in. You get to put the ideas together and have more input."

As well as doing his degree, he also works on the university radio station, Smoke Radio. "I'm the editor of programming, which primarily involves sorting out schedules, deciding on the station sounds, how to mark the split between daytime and evening and developing the other people who work on the station. It does take over your life a bit."

We asked Michael John, HR adviser at the Capital 95.8 radio station in London to "mock interview" Ricky for an entry-level job. Then we asked him what he thought. "