A Once in a Lifetime Thriller

Just imagine for a moment that you are a music radio presenter on a London station. You are busy doing your job with a song here, an ad there, a prize here, a caller there. A frazzled producer suddenly pops her head around your studio door and asks if “You want to talk to Michael Jackson. He is coming up the stairs.” You have about two seconds to decide but you do not need them as you already know what you will tell her. It is an instant “YES!” You wonder why Michael Jackson should be coming up your studio stairs but then it all becomes clear. Through the door walks Mohammed Fayed, the famous Harrods owner and your station’s owner as well, followed by Michael, the biggest pop star the planet has ever seen.

That is what happened to my friend Sean Bolger, a radio presenter in London. And that, he told me, that is why being a radio presenter is the best job on the planet. The best way to get to this kind of jobs in radio is to follow radio courses in a radio school where you would learn to be on the radio. You could as well become a radio dj or get any other job in radio related to that.

He described the next few minutes of this unique moment with one of the best pop star ever seen. They flew by with the Harrods owner smiling beatifically as the interview progressed. One false move, thought Sean, and he would be toast and out of the radio business for ever! So the questions were bland and non-intrusive. Michael was meticulously polite and pathologically shy. He came to life, said Sean, only when talking about music or music technology and he was at his best when Sean played a song and he was off-mic.

He disappeared as quickly as he had arrived to keep on schedule with a busy timetable. Next stop were the opening of the Harrods Sale and a cameo performance at Craven Cottage where thousands of Fulham fans were just as astonished to see him as Sean had been today.

For those who want a job in radio and want to be on the radio, you just need to get your training right at a radio school and then you should be able to get a job in radio.

It is not as easy as it sounds and that is why you need a strong commitment to absorb as much as possible in your training to be able to get the best job possible.