What to do
If you’re interested in being a BFBS Radio Presenter, we’d be interested in hearing your demo tape. We’re always on the lookout for new talent. Please keep in mind before you send your demo that:
- We generally want pop music radio presenters, rather than news/speech specialists or people with podcast-only experience.
- We’ll be listening for creativity and production, as well as how good your voice is. Take the chance to include clips from interviews and packages if you have them.
- Most of our shows are presented live and in-person at our studios, rather than remotely or voice-tracked. We’d love to hear from you, if you’re in a position to relocate to a BFBS area.
- BFBS Presenter-Producers are generally hired on mobile contracts, meaning we detach and post staff across the BFBS network around the world, after an initial period in the UK. We’d love to hear from you, if you’re interested in this unique and exciting opportunity to travel the world, and live and work alongside the audience you’re serving, for periods of months or years.
Your demo should be:
- be less than 4mins in length;
- include at least three brilliant music radio links, followed by extracts from a guest interview or factual package if you have them;
- only include content that has been produced for output – please don’t include mock content that has been recorded especially for demo;
- an MP3 file attachment rather than a link.
Please send your MP3 file to [email protected], and don’t forget to tell us a bit about yourself! If we hear something we like, we’ll be in touch with you to arrange a conversation. Our demos inbox is open all year round, even when we’re not actively recruiting.
We receive a lot of interest so if you don’t hear from us, please don’t be disheartened - keep working on your craft, wait six months, and send us something new at another time.