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Visit his website: www.seanstreet.com His work in the School is informed by his extensive ongoing experience as a writer, poet and broadcaster, and his regular appearances on the BBC's main networks, particularly Radios 3 and 4 ensures that students benefit at all times from his knowledge of current industry practise. His consultancy work includes a directorship of the Bournemouth radio station, 2CR FM and his membership of the Council of the Radio Academy. His latest book, Radio Waves (Enitharmon Press, 2004) is an anthology of poems celebrating radio, with a preface by Jenny Abramsky, the BBC's Director of Radio and Music. A Concise History of British Radio (Kelly Publications, 2002) is on many reading lists throughout Britain and overseas. He is currently completing a major new work on pre-war commercial radio in Britain, Crossing the Ether (John Libbey, 2005) and his Historical Dictionary of British Radio is to be published by Scarecrow Press in 2006. In Spring 2004 he was commissioned by Skillset to write a national framework for Foundation Degrees in Radio Production, and in the same year chaired a DTI-funded mission to Washington and New York under the title, The Future of Radio Broadcasting. This was the subject of a report, co-ordinated by him, published by the DTI and launched at a seminar at London's Royal Institute of British Architects in September 2004. In 2005 he is to co-ordinate a similar mission to Korea and Singapore. He founded the annual Charles Parker Day Conference in 2004 , incorporating the Charles Parker Student Prize for Radio Features, and recently undertook a highly successful sabbatical to Newfoundland, where he worked on a number of broadcasting and cultural projects in association with Memorial University and the Canadian Broadcasting Commission's main speech network, CBC Radio 1 in St John's. |
