Pod Academy

Hello! My name's Dave Pickering and I make the weekly podcast Getting Better Acquainted where I record conversations with people I know, Part interview show, part oral history project, the show was nominated for a 2012 Radio Production Award, goes out regular on Resonance 104.4 FM and was featured on the Radio 5 Live podcast special, Helen and Olly's Required Listening. In GBA 41 I got better acquainted with Chris. He was my one of my lecturers at university but I hadn't seen him since I'd graduated. We talked about academia, journalism, media, the Iraq War and government cuts. It was recorded on a university campus so it was a trip down memory lane where I faced my past lessons and past prejudices. It's a conversation about ideas but also about people. Chris charts his journey from plumber to van driver to academic and critic. And he makes the argument for how, in a world so influenced and controlled by the media, media studies is far from being an irrelevant subject. If you liked this conversation wit