Children's Radio Reading Clubs
In an exciting partnership with the BBC, the Arts Council and three libraries we are giving young people the chance to talk about the things that matter to them. Groups of children aged eight to thirteen in Newcastle, North Tyneside and Sunderland are taught how to record interviews and put them together with scripts, raps and songs that they have written themselves.
So far they have had an interview with Alan Gibbons and Readers’ Question Time event featuring young people and some of their favourite authors broadcast on BBC7. They have also taken part in a collaborative Creative Radio Readers’ Course with the Arvon Foundation.
Our aim is to learn from the Children’s Radio Reading Clubs that we are running at the moment and develop a model that we can use to set up Radio Reading Clubs up and down the country. We also want to support children to produce recordings that can be broadcast on digital and internet-based radios.
A project resource pack that librarians can use to run Radio Clubs will be available on this website shortly.