Dhiren Katwa works for the Environment Agency as External Relations Advisor. He is also a freelance journalist and has been a trustee of the Birmingham Rathbone charity for disabled people and he also sits on the ITV Central Diversity Panel.
Katwa began his talk by informing the audience that to progress in the media industry is [...]
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Chris Arnott is a 61 yr old freelance journalist who was a former assistant editor & columnist for the Coventry Telegraph.
He currently writes for the Guardian, the Independent and many other newspapers and is currently writing a book on the long running radio serial, The Archers.
The Archers is THE longest running serial in the world [...]
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Talk from Steve Brookes
In preparation for our Activity Task, we had a guest speaker, Steve Brookes open our eyes to some facts about disabilities.
He pointed out that disabled people were excluded from mainstream advertising products and asked us if we could think of any recent adverts where a disabled person has been used.
We could [...]
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Phil joined BRMB in 1980 as a graduate trainee and gained extensive programming experience with roles in presenting, producer and then programme director. He joined Radio Aire as managing director from 1990 to 1994 before joining the Chrysalis Group in 1994 and became the managing director for midlands 100.7 Heart FM and then the same [...]
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Bill Heine – Drive-time presenter on BBC Oxford 95.2fm. He studied Law at Oxford in the 1960’s and caused a bit of controversy in Oxford by having a fibreglass sculpture of a shark crashing through the roof of his home. This controversy eventually led to BBC Oxford hiring him to their radio station.
I was surprised [...]
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Well this was my first Coventry Conversation and i found it very enjoyable. I did arrive a little late as i had to rush straight from a lecture to the Cathedral where the talk was held.
The first thing i noticed was how tall Jon appeared from my vantage point at the back of the Cathedral [...]
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