With the future of The Sunday Alternative uncertain at the moment, (the radio show at least – the name will carry on regardless) I have been looking at ways in which to keep my hand in. It will be some time before the online telly version gets underway, and I’m not sure if I want to commit to a weekly podcast with everything else I have going on at the moment. It will free up a lot of time if I do end the radio version to be honest, as I’m not sure how I’m going to fit everything in. I have a meeting about the comedy sketch project later in the week and I’m working on drawing up plans for The Sunday Alternative In Vision (provisional title) and the online cookery series. There are other ideas that have been in limbo for far too long that I want to get out there, and if I don’t have the excuse that radio commitments are getting in the way then I’ll have the motivation to work in other areas.

A little while ago I said that I was thinking of stopping the daily blog in favour of a weekly podcast, although to satisfy my need to have everything even I’ll have to carry on until the end of this year. While talking to my dad this afternoon he gave me an idea for something that I think is a workable idea. I’m going to start doing a monthly podcast that will feature a selection of unsigned music and general chatter about what I’ve been up to, but the podcast will be available by email only. I have set up an email address ready to save clogging up my usual inboxes, which will be used for only sending the podcast out. (There’s time to register to receive it, send a blank email to blogcastmonthly@gmail.com).

There are several advantages to this way of doing it, for example I know that I will have a captive audience as their names will be in my contacts folder. As I will know the size of the audience, I may look into the possibility of sponsorship to make a bit of money from it, as podcasting might be a fantastic medium for creativity without any of the restraints of censorship, but there’s no money to be made from it. My other advantage is having a month to plan and record each edition rather than the stress of coming up with a weekly show. The problem is that even though I will have a month to do it, I will of course not record the show until the very last minute.

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