Continuing with my Cert 3 in Media, I’ve been involved as a volunteer with Radio Adelaide for a little while now. Saturday I was working on a program called F Sharp, which is about women and music. Sue and myself do a show for this program here and there, and we like to work around particular themes. This Wednesday we’ll be live on air from 3 – 4pm, you can listen online or tune into 101.5FM.

I was up very early choosing the songs, digging out background information and writing the script for the show. This week the theme is about grief in music. It’s been very interesting to research, I found myself on funeral sites with song suggestions for the service, on sites for kids who’d lost parents to cancer where they were sharing songs that they connected with, and sites talking about music used to express grief in films. I’ve tried to be sensitive with the script, some listeners will be grieving themselves and I don’t want to upset anyone. I’ve also varied the tone of the songs, some are heavy, some are lighter, some are angry, some are hopeful, some are painful, some are beautiful. The type of grief is also broad, songs about death, relationship loss, songs about parents, partners, children, friends. Songs to express grief and songs to lift you out of it. I hope you tune in, I’m quite proud of it, even though rather exasperated at how much work it’s been on a stunning spring weekend!

I’m also taking on another role at Radio Adelaide, as online producer for Writers Radio. This means I’ll be editing and uploading interviews and reviews from the show onto the website and helping to keep the site up to date, easy to navigate, and connected to other online writing resources. I’m looking forward to getting started, the site is on wordpress, which I’m less familiar with than the blogger platform I use but it will be good to have a play and learn more about it.