Radio Program (the rundown): Science & Technology

This is a radio program produced by myself and my classmates Lamees Hazem and Mariam Maher for the JRMC460 class at the American University in Cairo (AUC).
The program is two parts: a roundtable discussion and an interview.
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Host: Nada Badawi
Producers: Lamees Hazem and Mariam Maher
Guest interviewed: Egyptologist and AUC Prof. Salima Ikram
Music: Sleepless Nights (jamendo.com)
Topics covered in the roundtable: iPhone 5, Apple stores in Egypt and worldwide, dangers of technology, Facebook's new privacy policy and online advertising
Topic covered in the interview: The recently discovered cancer mummy known as M1

Behind the scenes...

Since this was the first time to produce a radio program with a group, I believe the overall result was not so bad. What went well the most was the research process and the interview. Being a host, I particularly enjoyed interviewing Egyptologist Salima Ikram. But because she was late for the interview and due to the fact that I had a class afterwards, I had to speed up a bit while interviewing her. However, I think it went smoothly and the questions were relevant to the topic discussed.

The roundtable discussion was nice. Me and the team were able to cover variety of topics and spoke about them in detail. We also mentioned experiences to share knowledge with the listeners, but the fact that there were only two mics was not helpful. I was using one mic the whole time. The producers also used one mic while recording the whole thing.

In general, I believe this was a good lesson and experience to learn from our mistakes for the upcoming news show.