Since the advent of the banana plug and swivel chair, we’ve had a love affair with the switchboard operator, or as we call it, the editorial and communications coordinator (ECC).

The role of the editorial and communications coordinator is an ideal opportunity for someone with a passion for audio storytelling to work with a small team creating unique and progressive media content.

In addition to tallying and organising our buttons, dials and switches, the ECC will provide us with valuable editorial and communications support.

If you wish to apply, or  add to your impressive PDF collection, you’ll find the full position description below. We don’t want selection criteria addressed – that’s sadistic! Just a cover letter and a resume will suffice.

Download the position description (PDF, 260kb)

Please submit your expressions of interest by 11pm on Wednesday 30 May to hello@paperradio.net.

Please note: this position is currently voluntary, and unremunerated.

If you are out of range then, it’ll be repeated at 2.30pm the Friday following.

We did tell them it was fiction.

Don’t get us wrong, we do advocate interspecies love, but strictly the platonic kind.

So, if you feel like hearing a horsey tale as you clean your stable, roll in the hay, adjust your saddle or peel your carrots, tune in this Sunday!

A big thanks to Lachlan Conn for the awesome artwork, writer Elizabeth Reale for her intriguing imagination, ‘wife’ Prudence Smith for braving the mic and our own producer Jon Tjhia for keeping the sound so beautifully on track.

(P.s. We’re still looking for stories about language and translation, so sing out if you have one!)

Part of the exciting means we’re seeking stories about language and linguistics and all the slurs, lisps and slips that occur in everyday communications and miscommunications.

Do you use translation engines – and why?

Have you ever loved (or tried to love) someone who you don’t share a common tongue with?

Do you have an experience or a tale that relates, or know someone who might?

We have a Facebook page where you can pitch in with your thoughts and ideas – or you can give us a yell/bell at: hello@paperradio.net

Please download and circulate our flyer if you like. (This is printable and stickable. Use recycled!, etc etc…)

Thanks. You’re the best.

Our most kind and clever radio cousins at All The Best (produced out of FBi 94.5 Sydney) have very generously invited Paper Radio to co-host and curate their show this weekend. Jon joins Eliza Sarlos for a full hour to talk about Paper Radio, play some of our favourite episodes and share some earlier, pre-Paper Radio sounds produced by our editorial team.

Tune in between 10-11am this Saturday 10 March to 94.5FM in Sydney – or your local community radio station* elsewhere, via the Community Radio Network.

Find out more about All The Best. Listen live or stream-on-demand and check out at the cat who edits their programme every week.

* If your community radio station doesn’t broadcast All The Best, why not request it?

The Cosmic Frequency on Top of the Pods

Radio National’s great new programme Top of the Pods showcasing “the best audio to be found in the podcast universe” is going galaxy-wide.

Coming up on Tuesday 13 March at 2pm (repeated 3am Sunday March 18) is The Cosmic Frequency. In this episode, Jessie meets former Colac schoolteacher Maggie Iaquinto, a radio ham who befriended cosmonauts aboard the Mir space station, taught them to use packet radio and made history in the process.

Top of the Pods have excellent quality control – proven when they aired part of our episode Tone Deaf, writer Benjamin Law’s account of his linguistic adventures in their episode ‘Hyperpolyglots and Cantonese‘.

While you can listen any time on our website, this is a great opportunity to share us with your friends and family. And, if you really enjoyed it, tell your radio station and help us foster a culture of creative sound and great stories on the radio.

Find out more about Top of the Pods. Listen on your radio or stream it live online.

That’s all from us, for now. Have a wonderful weekend!

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We were lucky enough to work with Tom Cho on our latest Australian FM episode ‘The Sound of Music’. We were also lucky to secure the talents of Marc Martin; you can blame him for the incredible illustration.  If you’d like to listen to it, well, it’s waiting for you right next door, here.