Stuart Pinfold
Freelance sound engineer, studio manager and web designer
Audio Samples: Youth Zone Radio
Youth Zone Radio was an internet radio station which I set up and managed until I went to university in 2004. It encouraged young people in Kettering, particularly disadvantaged ones, to get involved in radio, giving them studio and basic journalistic training them giving them a weekly live programme.
These clips were recorded during the University top-up fees debate, which the audience was greatly interested in.
Top-Up Fees Demonstration - October 2003
I took a number of young volunteers with me to London to record the NUS-organised demonstration against the introduction of "top-up fees" in higher education. This was then mixed into a package and played on the station.
Interview with Philip Hollobone - May 2004
Kettering prospective MP (Conservative) Philip Hollobone came into the studio for an interview about top-up fees.
Result of the Commons Top-Up Fees Vote - July 2004
A montage of audio recorded during and after the vote in the House of Commons, which voted in top-up fees by the narrowest of margins - just five votes in it.