The BBC Academy Podcast

What is iWonder and how is it being used for the BBC's World War One Centenary? We are joined by the team behind both projects to find out more. Tim Plyming is the executive producer the World War One Centenary project. Ruth Levis is a producer for World War One Centenary online. Nick Horrell is a senior product manager at the BBC's Knowledge and Learning department, he's currently working on the iWonder interactive guides.

A panel discussion from the RTS Futures event Making it in TV design, with helpful advice on how to get into and ahead in art, costume and make-up departments. Joining Alice Skidmore are production designer and former BBC design trainee Sarah-Jane Prentice, costume trainee Jo Stobbs and Katherine Scoble, a make-up designer with over 15 years' experience in the TV industry.

Jonny Keeling, Steve Greenwood and James Honeyborne - three producers from the BBC's Natural History Unit share their top tips and advice on how to get into making natural history programmes.

We talk to six of the BBC’s latest production trainees about their placements across the BBC and what tips they have for getting onto the scheme.

Steven and Emma offer some tips on how you can get into making radio about food, from the importance of building up your general radio skills to creating your own podcast – showing you have a passion for your subject.Steven Williams is from Radio 4’s Cook The Perfect..., a regular feature of the long running Radio 4 magazine programme Woman’s Hour. His interest in food radio started at In Touch on the Can't See, Will Cook series and is a keen cook at home.Emma Weatherill is an assistant producer for BBC Radio 4’s the Food Programme. She has previously worked on Woman’s Hour and more recently Farming Today.

Theatres, art galleries and museums are seizing hold of broadcast technology to reach new audiences, by beaming their productions into local cinemas and online. The National Theatre's Emma Keith and Jane Burton from Tate Galleries join the CoP Show’s India Rakussen to tell us how it's done.

In this podcast we are joined by producers Thomas Viner, Jon Riley and James Brickell who all have experience of working with user-generated content in a number of formats. We look at the issues you need to be aware of, the challenges and the responsibilities towards the creator of the content as well as the opportunities it can provide for producers in creating new formats.

From Big Train to Father Ted, some of the best known and most successful British comedies of recent years have been penned by Arthur Mathews. In this masterclass, recorded at the home of BBC Radio Comedy, he shares his ideas on finding comedy in the most unusual situations.

No-one under the age of 25 listens to speech radio, right? Are radio commissioners missing a trick by ignoring them? The BBC's latest radio apprentices offer their take on why speech radio matters and how to freshen it up.

For bedroom broadcasters and would-be podcasters, internet radio offers global reach for minimal cost, but how is it all put together? A panel of internet radio enthusiasts tell us more.