Hello again UK duers

[HEyHEY]

I've asked a few questions about working in the U.K. And would like to press you for a little more help.
I work as a broadcast journalist and am looking to apply to sort of more serious news and talk radio stations. But I'm not familiar with the stations in the U.K.
Could you tell me the names of a few stations fitting that description, please?
If there's any Iish DUers reading this that could do the same thing I'd be grateful.

Cheers.

[tjwmason]

1. The B.B.C. would be a good place to start

They are incredibly dominant within radio. They have national stations, plus an array of local ones right across the country.

Talk radio seems to be far less of a medium here certainly than in the U.S. (I'm know less about Canada).

[HEyHEY]

2. Yeah, but I just assumed the BBC would be hard as hell to get in to

Being over here in Canada and having never worked for the CBC

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. There aren't many pure talk stations in the UK

There's LBC (one news, one talk channel) in London; but most local stations are a mixture of talk and music. You might still look at the local stations of the BBC - they're generally small scale (though I suppose that might count them as not 'serious' - those based in big cities will be the largest), but still have to do their own local news coverage.

http://www.radio-now.co.uk/main.htm is a guide to UK stations.

I think the main news provider for the independent stations is Independent Radio News. I'm not a great listener to local radio, but I haven't often heard much journalism produced by the independent local stations themselves.

[ben_packard]

4. The only national talk radio

of the US ilk that I've come accross is the evening/night talksport station, which is pretty much right-wing crapola for even stupider people (think daily mail style outrage and despair).

[Guy_Montag]

5. BBC Radio FiveLive

is basically talk radio. Local BBC stations have their talk radio shows, but are quite mixed.

Check out the BBC recruitment website regularly, the BBC have a News department which is world class. They provide the news for all national BBC TV & radio stations (2 terestrial TV channels, 5 radio channels & 2 news carrying satellite channels).

Also consider the BBC World Service, which is slightly seperate.