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24.01.2022 One of our 7 podcasts currently in production. #Ninety9

23.01.2022 In just over four years we've published 400 episodes. Neither of us could have predicted our 400th would be a cricket podcast...but here we are.

22.01.2022 Our first podcast becomes our first book. Check out Game Changers: Radio for ordering details. Available from Amazon on 13 October.

22.01.2022 The live-streamed discussion series run by State Library Victoria featuring our Director Astrid Edwards is now on YouTube. Last week Astrid spoke to The Stella Prize winning journalist Jess Hill, and next week Astrid will talk to Jennifer Mills, shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award and currently living in lockdown in Italy.

22.01.2022 The latest in our comedy offering: the Ross Noble Podcast. Ross Noble joins comedians Ed Kavalee and Tony Martin in choosing Bad Producer Productions to produce their work. Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2Xve4FH

21.01.2022 In less than one week Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins will pass 1 million downloads. They joined Bad Producer Productions at the very end of 2018. We're proud to provide a home for their brilliant show.

20.01.2022 Our Director Astrid Edwards facilitated 'The Space Between', one of the first events held by the Australia Council for the Arts as part of Vivid Sydney. Astrid joined Seb Chan, Emre Deniz, Jenna Lee and Gene Moyle to discuss the role of creativity, art and the human in the digital age.

20.01.2022 The world is currently a strange place, but radio shows (and podcasts) will go on. Game Changers: Radio with Craig Bruce is back with Game Changers At Home, a series exploring how the best in the business are staying on the air during COVID19. The first episode of with Woman of Influence Kate Meade from The Morning Rush.

20.01.2022 The Final Word Cricket Podcast with Harsha Bhogle #AUSvIND

19.01.2022 Season 1 of Anonymous Was A Woman is a wrap.

19.01.2022 It took us three years to hit one million downloads, but less than a year to hit two million. Let's see how fast we can crack three million...

19.01.2022 We've been a podcast company for a little while now. Great to see our first podcast become our first book.. https://amzn.to/2M8mQVx

18.01.2022 Our director Astrid Edwards is now hosting a weekly series of chats with writers for the State Library Victoria. This series has grown out of our original literary podcast The Garret: Writers on writing. Join Astrid for half an hour every Wednesday at 3pm (its free!).

18.01.2022 Our Game Changers: Radio podcast released this special series last year. Craig Bruce and Kate Meade explore all the issues facing #Radio in 2019.

17.01.2022 Our literary podcast The Garret continues to go from strength to strength. This week we held our first live podcast of the year at State Library of Victoria.

17.01.2022 Our Director Astrid Edwards is facilitating on of the first events for creatives in the digital space run by the Australia Council of the Arts. In Sydney on Wednesday 13 June. See you there.

16.01.2022 Say hello to our little friends: The Bad Producer Podcast Network. It's a collection of 8 (soon to be 10) podcasts covering the Arts, comedy and sport. Thanks to everyone who has subscribed, listened and reviewed. And thanks to everyone we've been fortunate to work with over the years. Thanks for trusting us with your stories. www.badproducerproductions.com

14.01.2022 We produce podcasts in Arts, Sport and Comedy. This one covers a little from all three. #Podcast

13.01.2022 For the last 42 days we have produced a daily cricket podcast. Each episode wraps up the day's play from the 2019 Cricket World Cup. It has been a great experiment in production and a lot of fun.

13.01.2022 Our sports podcast 'The Greatest Season That Was' has launched a new series - The US Revolution. This series features Mason telescopic Cox, Shannon Gill and American broadcaster Ed Wyatt in an exploration of Australian Rules Football's US connections. The eight-part series includes interviews with Paul Roos, Jason Holmes and former ESPN broadcaster Bob Ley. https://badproducerproductions.com//the-greatest-season-t/

13.01.2022 Welcome to 2019...our latest #NFL podcast is available on Spotify...check it out.

12.01.2022 Our first podcast with Craig Bruce has hit 100 episodes! Craig's chat with Bean from The World Famous KROQ The Kevin & Bean Show. Check it out.

12.01.2022 Firstly this is more than I would normally write, but it’s a really important article, particularly if you’re starting out and wanting to get better at radio or... if you’re a content director coaching young teams. Grab a coffee and I’ll be ready for you when you get back. Right to go? Good. I call myself a talent coach. There’s a couple of reasons for this; firstly it’s the thing I enjoyed doing the most when I was programming radio stations. Some programmers love working on the music, some love research and the analytics of the where the audience is and how to target them better, some love building events and creative ideas, but for me-I especially liked working with the people who were at the coal face, the ones who were talking to the audience and building relationships with their fans everyday. Secondly, and to be brutally honest, I call myself a talent coach because I hate the idea of being seen as just another radio consultant. Talent coach sounds betterand I’m all about how things sound. Ha! So, what is talent? When someone is very good at something-how did they get to be so good? I want to share with you some of my own thoughts on this, but before I do that, I’m going to direct you in the strongest possible terms to find 45 minutes this week to listen to a Freakanomics radio podcast on this topic-it’s called how to be great at just about anything and is the most brilliant, compelling piece of audio on this topic that I’ve heard. You can download it at itunes, trust me, you’ll thank me later. I’m now half-way through listening to the podcast for the third time,(yes it’s that good), and it goes to the heart of what all of us in radio are trying to do, which is to find and grow an engaged audience. Of course we do this by putting the most interesting and talented people we can find onto our breakfast and drive shows. Only a handful of performers can do this, and they do it seemingly effortlessly-if you’ve been listening to my podcast series Radio GameChangers you’ll know that these extraordinary individuals who have mastered broadcast radio have unique skills and undeniable talent. But the nagging question remains, if they can be that good on the radio, is it possible for you to be? So let me break down for you the key points from this podcast,(this is not a cheat sheet for you though, you still must listen to it.) Here’s what stood out for me. absent of hard work, no one is really great at anything. Read that again, because when I heard this on the podcast it was so powerful it almost took my breath away. absent of hard work, no one is really great at anything. It got me thinking about the best radio shows and performers who have had longevity in this business-Alan Jones, Eddie McGuire, Jackie Henderson, Hamish and Andy, Matt Tilley immediately spring to mind and all of them have, at the foundation of their success, a combination of talent and a willingness to work hard. The point is made in this podcast that you need a baseline of talent to be great at whatever it is that you want to do, but if you don’t try hard then there will always be someone with the same amount of talent who is prepared to work harder and therefore out-perform you. Eddie McGuire makes this very point in episode 3 of Game Changers. So for anyone reading this who is starting out in radio or in any profession for that matter, if you want to be successful and you’re not prepared to pay the price with hard work, it ain’t going to happen. You may as well buy a lottery ticket. Now, the reason this podcast is so brilliant is that despite the importance of sustained effort, there is no suggestion that hard work is, in fact, the magic bullet. This podcast introduces a guy called Anders Ericsson who’s written a brilliant new book called Peak and who’s research was used by Malcolm Gladwell to explain his 10,000 hour theory in the book Outliers. Here’s the genius behind Anders work. He has studied the science of expertise over many years and believes that there are 2 critical elements that talented performers have mastered. Purposeful practise and Deliberate practise I’ll let the podcast or his book Peak explain the difference between purposeful and deliberate practise, but the basic thesis set out in this podcast is that this thing we call talent is in fact an accumulation of ability that is caused by deliberate practise over a long period of time. I wrote about purposeful practise earlier this year in an article called outside the bubble The fastest way to get better at what you do is practise. Practise with purpose. Knowing that what you’re doing right now is going to make you better in the long run. Jerry Seinfeld is a great case study for anyone wanting to master any particular skill. From his first standup shows to stardom, he forced himself to work by marking a cross on a calendar for every day he wrote material; soon enough, he had a long chain of crosses, and kept going partly because he didn’t want to break the chain. Since he revealed this trick to a would-be comedian years ago, Seinfeld’s Productivity Secret has achieved cult status online: there are at least three apps and one website dedicated to helping people emulate it. This amuses its inventor no end. It’s so dumb it doesn’t even seem to be worth talking about, he says. If you’re a runner and you want to be a better runner, you say, well, I’ll run every day and mark an X on the calendar every day I run. I can’t believe this was useful information to anybody! He spreads his palms, a gesture conveying the sheer obviousness of the insight. Really? There are people who think, ‘I’ll just sit around and do absolutely nothing, and somehow the work will get done’? So the next question if you’re a young radio peep reading this is-What might deliberate or purposeful practise look like if you want to be great at broadcast radio? Funny you should ask. I’ve been working with a young team, Lakey and Larnz who have just scored their first breakfast job in Townsville and through our coaching sessions we had many purposeful practise sessions. The idea was simple. We structured daily 30 minute iPhone voice memo sessions where the guys would perform content using the universal rules of radio-3 minute talk breaks, one topic per conversation and using the basic constructs of story-telling which is each topic needs a beginning, middle and end. In a very short period of time, though this purposeful practise Lakey and Larnz improved to the point where they were ready for their first regional breakfast shift, after just 12 weeks together. No studio required. Just a phone. A coach. And the discipline to turn up everyday and practise in a way that replicated what they would do as a breakfast show on the radio. Now , think about this. Imagine if Lakey and Larnz are so determined to reach their goals that they continue with this deliberate practise regardless of the fact that they now have a job on the radio? So when you’re at home on the couch watching netflix after your shift, they are working on perfecting the skill of talking on the radio. Guess who wins on this occasion? Can I refer you back to the previous point absent of hard work, no one is really great at anything. I know who my money would be on. If talent is in fact, the accumulation of ability that is caused by deliberate practise then I’m backing in the performers and teams that focus their energies on what they need to learn and what they need to do to get better at being on the radio. If you have a modicum of talent, the question then becomes do you have the discipline and the work ethic to develop that talent through deliberate practise into something that can find a large and engaged audience?

11.01.2022 Proud to be part of Calling the Shots...a new podcast with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross. Thanks to The Pinch Hitter for your support. https://omny.fm//the-final-word-cricket-/calling-the-shots

11.01.2022 The latest eps and how to follow the Summer of Cricket with Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins #Cricket #Podcast

09.01.2022 The relaunch of our first podcast features our very own Jay Mueller talking about the launch of The Hot Breakfast (back in 2009).

09.01.2022 Podcasts - fiction and non-fiction alike - are in for a big year in 2019.

06.01.2022 Our director Astrid Edwards will be attending the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali Indonesia in October, and she'll be recording several episodes of The Garret: Writers on writing when there. Our podcasts are going global.

06.01.2022 'Anonymous Was A Woman', the podcast we produce (co-hosted by our Director Astrid Edwards, was listed in the top five podcasts by women for women in the The Age over the Mothers Day weekend.

04.01.2022 A little news about Jay Mueller.

04.01.2022 The Final Word Cricket Podcast. Available on Apple Podcasts, Google, Spotify, Podbean, Stitcher and a few other places too.

04.01.2022 Well, our podcast The Garret continues to grow.

03.01.2022 In 2020, we are working with Penguin Australia, Future Women and Jamila Rizvi to produce a new podcast 'Anonymous Was A Woman'. Anonymous Was A Woman is co-hosted our very own Astrid Edwards. With only a few trailers released, the show has already reached #1 in both the Arts and Books categories on Apple Podcasts in Australia, as well as #32 on the Australian charts overall.

03.01.2022 A list of some of the attributes you’ll need to be a great Program Director. Clear communication. Face to face, group, all staff, emails-Jamie Angel once said t...hat the job of the CD is 95% open door conversations, 4% playing great tunes and 1% the toot. And, think of how you communicate your key messages on the air. The more frequent and compelling your messages are, the better the cut through. Setting boundaries with talent. They are not your friends. You are there to help them win, not to be their buddy. Useful feedback and support when they need it will come once you’ve created clear boundaries and expectations around the relationship. Objectivity. Your baby doesn’t sound as good as you think it does. Not everything is as obvious as you think it is. You need to be able to step back and think critically and pragmatically about your station and it’s challenges. An obsession with winning. The only metric that matters is the ratings. You will be judged on wins and losses. Direct as much of your focus and energy on getting more listeners and having them listen longer. The rest is paper shuffling. Self-awareness. How do you occur to others? Find out. It matters. Open-minded. The mind is like a parachute. It only works when it’s open. There’s nothing more frustrating than working with a programmer who has his mind already made up. Craig Bruce. Listen to Jamie Angel on the Podcast HERE>>> https://radiogamechangers.com/ Bad Producer Productions with Jay Mueller

02.01.2022 Great to work with these guys again..

02.01.2022 Today in The Columnist, journalist and radio guy Justin Smith speaks to former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull about his memoirs, where he writes about his fight with depression and thoughts of killing himself. This interview is the latest on The Columnist, our new current affairs podcasts at Bad Producer Productions. Listen here: https://apple.co/2VGcwJi

01.01.2022 You can record a podcast anywhere...a patch of grass and a warm night works just as well as a studio some times. Adam Collins & Geoff Lemon putting the finishing touches on their weekly The Final Word Cricket Podcast

01.01.2022 2019 just keeps getting better. Two of our podcasts are finalists in the Australian Podcast Awards this year - TEAM Effort (in Comedy) and The Garret: Writers on writing (in Literature, Arts and Music).