Sussex will be host to the national Student Radio Association Conference from 19-21 March. In what is expected to be the biggest SRA conference ever - with around 500 delegates due to descend on the campus - University Radio Falmer are hoping to dazzle the university radio world with their programme of events.
The conference will feature workshops given by radio professionals to the student radio delegates. Bruno Brookes' Radio Skills training outfit will be holding an advice session on the Sunday of the conference, before Bruno himself stages a debate with fellow Radio 1 DJ Neil James. Radio 1 will be represented in full, as Afternoon Show DJ Chris Moyles will be presenting an award ceremony on the Saturday. URF will be broadcasting a show throughout the conference on a special LPAM transmitter, and conference-goers will be given a radio each so they can tune in.
Delegates are flocking to Sussex from as far afield as Europe and the USA, where University radio stations are just beginning to get off the ground. Previously held in Edinburgh and Sheffield, the hosting of this year's conference was awarded to Sussex at a late stage, so the organisers have had only five months in which to pull the event off. According to Chris Wright, VP for Communications, "When URF goes to other conferences they are the life and soul of the party - now we're hosting that party...God help us all!"
