"Peter, your books are great, and the more that is "out there" for people as a resource to help them learn and create powerful radio the better! Let's work HARD to help kill boring radio."
Valerie Geller
US Radio Consultant
"I am grateful to you for the hard work you’ve put in … I hope you’ll accept my sincere appreciation for all you’ve done to galvanise your colleagues into engaging with these vital issues."
Mark Thompson
BBC Director General
on 'Useful Stuff'
produced by Peter Stewart
"I've known Peter a long time.
And I've known his international reputation as a broadcast journalist even longer.
He's exceptionally accomplished. Really smart."
ESSENTIAL RADIO SKILLS -
how to present and produce a radio show
by Peter Stewart
Publ: A&C Black
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"The best, most comprehensive and down to earth book on any area of media for years"
"The book is fantastic. Anything and everything you want to know about presenting"
"The enthusiasm of the author for the medium is infectious"
"You'll be surprised someone in the industry is willing to give away so many trade secrets"
"Things Peter talks about you'd pay good money to be taught at a radio school"
Other books by Peter:
Essential Radio Skills, 2nd edition
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- Find A Line
This is the word-bank of fresh and original lines for presentations, news scripts and advertising copy … for headlines, jokes, competition slogans and payoffs. In Find-a-Line are around ten thousand cool phrases, rhymes, puns, and alliterations to grab attention. It’s the book that will assign well-worn words and phased-out phrases to the cliché crusher! It’s the base-camp from where you can kick-start your creativity. It’s an ingenuous one-of-a-kind compendium
- Talking Topics
A book of hundreds of ideas for conversations with co-hosts and listeners
Coming Soon...
- Story Starters
A book of hundreds of ideas for news and features
- Freedom of Information
A book of hundreds of ideas for FoI requests
- Essential Radio Journalism
The companion volume to ERS is published by A&C Black this spring.
- Essential Radio Skills
This is currently being updated, with lots of additional material and photographs, for publication in spring 2010. Let me know via the Contact page if there's any topics which you'd like to see expanded.
- The ERS Audio Channel
I am currently gathering audio examples of good and bad radio, which I can cross-reference in the new edition of ERS. Let me know if you hear anything or have recordings you can let me have. Look out for my YouTube channel.
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"Peter Stewart compiled and presented this fantastic show on Essex FM ... What really set it apart was Peter's imaginative and creative presentation which generated incredibly positive feedback from the audience and led to a loyal following. It became a Sunday night cult listen!"
Paul Chantler, Essex FM Programme Director 1996-2000
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