How to make a podcast in the Uni of Essex Radio Studio. Before doing anything else, you need to book out the studio for usage. This can be done by emailing media@essex.ac.uk, with your details, the purpose of the booking, and when you would like the studio. Should your booking be approved, then the next […]

I’m Jacob Ottaway, and my 40 minute walk to get my haircut a few weeks ago made me realise how awful the decline of my town has been. I don’t walk around my hometown at night anymore. I pay for a cab. Such a waste of money. But then again, waste money or be a […]

The Best Men Can Be. The wonderful Gillette advert taking debates within the public sphere by storm. However, despite the message it portrays – which I’ll come onto shortly – it doesn’t do the job it should do. Which razor am I buying? How many shiny, flexible, kill all of the hairs blades does it […]

Sat in the Herbert Wells pub in Woking, Harry Sherwood sips his drink. He’s a young drummer, and a very good one. He taps on the table to the music, and so do I. Less than two years ago we were drumming together in Ipswich, Suffolk. Whilst I’m being a journalist, he’s a drummer and […]

It’s coming home. Or so we thought. The England football team all in all are doing well lately, coming agonizingly close to winning the World Cup, and qualifying for the Nations League finals. Now we start our path to qualify for Euro 2020, against the Czech Republic at Wembley. I managed to hot foot it […]

Ipswich Town Football Club. A diamond in East Anglia. A football club which – to those affiliated in one way or another – is an absolute icon. Founded in 1878, it’s no secret that many millions of people, living or dead, know the name. Having made two of the best managers of all time, and […]

  Marmozets, a band with huge momentum behind them, have been touring after the release if their second album Knowing What You Know. Descending upon the O2 Forum, Kentish Town (one of my favourite venues), for their last UK headline gig of the year, they did not disappoint. They went out with an enormous bang. […]

Jamie Carragher has been under the scrutiny of many high figures in the press and in the football world this week, after spitting at a 14 year old child whilst driving, after his lifelong former team Liverpool fell to a 2-1 defeat to Manchester United on the 10th of March. Consequently, the incident led to […]

An Ipswich family have teamed up to fundraise money for the charity Facial Palsy UK, and have already made half of their £1000 target, with 9 months to go. The Reid family, from the Stoke Park area of Ipswich, are comprised of Paul and Kim, with their daughters Aimee (now Stannard) and Chloe. Chloe, 18, […]

Sony Picture’s newly released film, Peter Rabbit, has attracted criticism, after a scene within the film depicts a gang of bunnies launching blackberries at a character who is allergic to the berries. The 2018 release – a modernised, comical adaptation on the original Peter Rabbit books by Beatrix Potter – has been lambasted by concerned […]