Program Overview

If you have a passion for producing audio and video and for communicating with an audience, then this is the programme for you.  Taught by existing and former broadcast professionals and renowned media academics, this degree offers all the skills, aptitude and abilities for you to enter the broadcast industry with confidence and ability.

Perhaps you’ve already got your own radio podcast about your favourite football team, or you’ve always wanted to make TV drama. You might have a burning desire to tell people’s stories through documentary, to direct a studio show, or production manage a large production. If so, this course is for you.

If you don’t yet have any experience but have all the ambition, the course starts at a place everyone who meets the entry requirements can begin their exciting journey.

On the BA (Hons) TV and Radio Production programme, you’ll learn how to find great stories, develop your ideas, pitch and present those ideas, write scripts, research, pre-produce and produce your ideas whether this is for radio or TV, or another audio or video platform. There will be an opportunity to take on real-world briefs from industry as part of the course. You can develop your craft skills in camera and lighting, studio production, editing, creative audio or the skills necessary to manage productions. You can also delve into the theory, where you critically underpin practice with academic rigour.

Our unique location at the heart of MediaCity means you’ll be perfectly placed to tap into a network of leading media companies, from the BBC and ITV to a range of experimental start-up companies across the cities of Salford and Manchester. All of the equipment and facilities in our MediaCity campus building is industry standard to the same specification as the big name producer-broadcasters that are our next-door neighbours. And, like all good neighbours, we have them round to visit regularly.  There are lots of opportunity to engage with industry – both within the course and as added extras you can get involved with, like the Media Futures conference where students get to pitch ideas to broadcasters.