Jordan hits the right notes

Jordan (pictured right), a third-year radio production student at the University of Brighton, composed the theme music and ‘stings’ (jingles) for the delicious. podcast which is presented and produced by his former lecturer, Gilly Smith who taught Broadcast Media and Broadcast Journalism at the university’s Hastings campus. The podcast hit the number one spot on iTunes food and drink earlier this year.

The delicious. podcast, which accompanies delicious. magazine, has been shortlisted for the best radio food programme or podcast, and is up against BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme and The Kitchen Cabinet. The shortlisted episode features Rick Stein as well as University of Brighton’s Dr Tim Wharton, Principal Lecturer in Humanities, on his book Ugly Food: Overlooked and Undercooked. Winners will be announced 11 May.

Jordan said: “As a student who has been constantly producing jingles, music, and various other content for podcasts and radio shows (mainly on the University of Brighton's very own BUZZ Radio), I feel elated that I am now working on projects that are being recognised by award committees.

“When I first started studying BA(Hons) Broadcast Media (radio production), my goal was to improve the skills I already had, to then graduate and achieve this level of recognition later on down the line - who knew it would come so early?

“After finishing my dissertation, I plan to produce my own podcast series, and to continue working as a producer on truly incredible radio and podcast productions.”

Jordan and Gilly (pictured left) won a Radio Community Award for Smith’s series on Syrian families in Brighton, Jaibli Salaam for Radio Reverb, with Bellamy collecting the award at the event in Birmingham last September.

Jordan has also composed the theme music for Gilly's podcasts for Borough Market.