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Young Journalist Academy – Boston High School

Make sure you tune in to Siren FM today at 4pm to catch the first YJA Takeover of the new year. This week Siren welcomed young journalists from the newsroom in Boston High School. In this episode you’ll be able to listen to an interview from the Carres Grammar School newsroom about the internet and how we’re running out of addresses on it.

Meanwhile the Cherry Willingham newsroom have been interviewing a former teacher about his love of vinyl records, he loves them so much he has over 10,000 in his collection! Back in the studio this weeks presenters, Tilly and Caitlin, discuss a variety of topics including a story about a crocodile in a zoo who swallowed a mobile phone after it was accidentally dropped into their enclosure.

You can find out what the guys thought of their day at Siren by watching the behind the scenes video below. And once you’ve done that you can find out what else the Academy is up to logging onto www.youngjournalistacademy.co.uk.

No Ball Games

Liam Juniper

Make sure you tune into Siren FM tomorrow afternoon at 4pm. Liam Juniper is presenting a special edition of No Adults Allowed and he will be joined by some special guests from the Grantham Youth Centre. For the past couple of months Siren have been working with the children from the centre and the Shooting Fish Theatre Company to produce a special radio play called No Ball Games. This show is a celebration of all the hard work the group have put in and the drama is described below.

“Ever wondered what it was like to try those things you know you shouldn’t? “No Ball Games” tells the story of Paige, a teenager,  who is bored of living in a town with nothing exciting to do and what happens to her when she tries to make life a little more interesting… “

The drama has been written, directed and performed by the children from the Grantham Youth Centre and they’ll be talking to Liam about what it was like to make the drama. The project has been funded by Mediabox which is administered by the Department for Education. You can find out more about Siren’s previous Mediabox project by going to our projects page and you find out more about the Mediabox scheme by logging onto their website.

Happy New Year from Siren FM!

We hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas and as we are fast approaching the New Year here is a quick run down on the special programming we have for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.

Paul and Geoff from The Golden Year

Our first New Year special comes on New Year’s Eve from The Golden Year at 1pm in their usual slot for two hours of reminiscing. Then at 3pm Dave Milling is back for his penultimate Christmas special as he spends three hours going through the A to Z of 90s music.

On New Year’s Day we are having a one-off repeat of this months Golden Year at 3pm and our final special for this festive season comes from Dave Milling as we’ll be repeating An Easy Christmas Carol at 7pm.

Graham King

The coming of the New Year often signals resolutions and changes, one of which at Siren, unfortunately, is that Graham King has decided to finally hang up his headphones. He’s spent a total of 21 months on the air with us here at Siren and during that time he has searched high and low to bring you the best in local theatre and arts news. Along with his team of reporters he ensured that the cultural life in Lincolnshire has been brought to the Siren FM listeners. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank him for all his hard work and wish him all the very best for the future.

We’d also like to thank you for listening and wish you a Happy New Year.

Merry Christmas from Siren FM

Siren FM would like to wish all our listeners a Merry Christmas and we bring you gifts in the form of this year Christmas schedule.  We have a veritable feast of audio delights for you during this holiday period including special editions of our regular programmes and one off Christmas specials from the likes of Dave Milling and former BBC Lincolnshire presenter Les Sheehan.

The first of specials is on Christmas Eve at 3 in the afternoon when Dave Milling brings you a pre-Christmas party through ’til 5.  Before that you will be able to get a teaser from the Golden Year special at 1pm, the full programme will be broadcast on New Year’s Eve.

Dave Milling

Christmas Day starts off with a story called Charlie the Train Driver read by the Golden Year’s Geoff Thompson at 7:45am and from then on we have a jam packed schedule to keep you company throughout the day.  Dave Milling is back on air at 8 on Christmas morning with a three hour breakfast show where he’ll be joined by his guest co-presenter Steve France.  At 11am Barnie Choudhury and Samanta Pidoux will take to the airwaves with a special programme called From Me To You. In this hour long programme they’ll be playing messages from and for armed forces personnel currently serving in Afghanistan, the programme will be repeated at 6pm.

Then from 12 until 3pm we have Christmas specials from three of our regular Saturday programmes.  There is a Soul Time special for you at 12pm and at 1pm Tank Top takes a break from it’s usual programming to bring you a festive selection of music.  At 2pm the End of the Week boys bring you a special Christmas show bringing their unique take on the local stories from the past 7 days with a repeat at the same time on Boxing Day.

At 3pm former BBC Lincolnshire favourite Les Sheehan brings us an exclusive two hour Christmas programme and at 5pm Gary Stevens will be finding out how much goes into Preparing the Cathedral for Christmas. Finally, to round off the day at 7pm  there will be a repeat of Liam Juniper’s Glastonbury documentary telling you what it’s like from the festival goers perspective.

Dom, Stephen and Adam from End of the Week

Boxing Day gives us two Christmas specials from the whole Siren FM team and Dave Milling. At 3pm we will be broadcasting Cinderella, last years pantomime which was so well received we’re broadcasting it again.  At 5pm Dave Milling brings you An Easy Christmas Carol. In this special edition of We’re Easy, Are You the old boys Liam and Dave get visited by the ghosts of Christmas pasta, Noel’s Christmas Presents and Tomorrows World so join them for two hours of easy music and a surreal journey to find out what happens.

On Bank Holiday Tuesday Gav Roberts will be broadcasting from 12 ’til 2pm to make way another special from Dave Milling, he’s taking to the airwaves for a whopping four hours which will include a look back at the eighties.

Our final Christmas special comes from the Midweek Drive team who have produced a one hour special with Michele Monro daughter of the legendary Matt Monro. On Wednesday 29th December she will delving through her father’s extensive back catalogue.

Keep an eye out next week for a post detailing what we’ve got coming up for the new year.

Show Disruptions

Due to the poor weather conditions the Siren management team have taken the decision to advise our live presenters not to come in to the station today.  The university has closed for the day and in line with their decision we did not want our volunteers to endanger themselves by making the journey in.  Hopefully the situation will improve soon and we will be back to our full schedule.

For continuous updates on the weather and travel conditions you can listen to our colleagues at BBC Lincolnshire on 94.9FM and 104.7FM and Lincs FM on 102.2FM.

Stay safe and keep warm!

YJA Takes Two Weeks Off

Due to commitments elsewhere in the academy there will be no Young Journalist Academy Takeover for the next two weeks.  Students from the Boston High School newsroom will be producing the next show which airs on the 6th December in the usual time between 4pm and 5pm.

Until then you can check out what all the newsrooms are up to by visiting the YJA website at www.youngjournalistacademy.co.uk.

New Shows And Show Moves

It’s been all go at the Siren FM studios for the past few weeks and it’s time for a rather belated update on all station related news.  In recent weeks we’ve seen the arrival of two new shows with one more on the way next week.

Leon Sherman

Meanwhile, City Vibe has returned to the airwaves with it’s new shorter title and The Siren Mixer has moved to the new time of 7pm to 9pm following the departure of Leon Sherman.  Leon is moving to London to further his career and we all wish him the best of luck for his time in the capital.

Our first new show to take to the airwaves was The Sports Siren (Tuesday’s 9pm – 10pm).  The show has now been on air for a couple of weeks and the team will be bringing you all the latest local sports news along with the scores from sports around the world.

Last Sunday saw our second new show take to the airwaves, The Siren Surgery (Sunday’s fortnightly 4pm -5pm).  The Siren Surgery is presented by Edward Hortop and Kathleen Drury and they’re going to be discussing issues that can affect everybody on a day to day basis.  Their first show looked at finance and to find out what they are going to be discussing in future programmes you can check out their show page.

City Vibe

Finally, a new show is coming to Siren next Wednesday between 3pm and 4pm.  This show is called New Wave and is being produced by Media Production students from the university.  The programme is an opportunity for the students to showcase their work, not only from the radio department but also from television, photography, design and digital media too.  Make sure you tune in to find out what the students have been doing in the first semester of the academic year.

In the next few weeks we are going to be finalising our Christmas schedule so look out for future news about what you can expect from Siren over the festive season!

YJA – Walton Girls High School

This week the Young Journalist Academy have got another jam packed edition of No Adults Allowed for you.  In the studio this week we have pupils from the Walton Girls High School in Grantham producing the show.  They’re discussing a range of topics including their hobbies and the school’s forthcoming musical ‘We Will Rock You’.

We’ll also be hearing from two other newsrooms in the academy.  Students from Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in Alford have been finding out what services the Teenage Cancer Trust provides for young people facing the challenge of such a serious illness.  They’ve also been talking to Lewis Healy who has been helping the school to redesign it’s news letter.

Meanwhile the North Kesteven School made the trip down to London to take part in the Secondary Proms which took place at the Royal Albert Hall last Monday.  Reporters from the academy got the chance to find out more about the event from performers and the event organisers.

As well as the show each group make a behind the scenes video of their experience at Siren FM.  In the video below you can see what students from Priory LSST got up to when they were at Siren FM a few weeks ago.