Award Winning Speech Content

The URY Speech team this evening won a couple of York University Media Awards!

Our preview of Dramasoc's production of 'Peepshow' was unanimously chosen by the judges as 'Best Feature' and praised as 'worthy of radio 4'.

You can hear the award winning feature now on the ((URY PLAYER)) here.


Also Shortlisted for the award was John Wakefield's interview with the incredible Charles Chilton (first coloquial voice on the BBC, first Jazz presenter in the country, writer and producer of the last programme to get more listeners than tv had viewers and writer of 'Oh What A Lovely War!' Despite not winning best interview it was the only shortlisted piece to be 'highly commended' by the judges.

You can hear it now on the ((URY PLAYER)) here now.


We will continue to create Award wininng content next year! Who knows SRAs here we come!

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Drama: The Prince of Humberside

The premiere of Tess Humphrey's black comedy 'The Prince of Humberside' about Laurie a troubled teenager who calls the NHS Suicide Hotline and recieves some unconventional advice.

The play deals with the issues of deppresion in young people in a comic yet deeply moving way in half an hour of gripping student written drama.


Joshua King - Laurie Waugh
Ela Gaworzewska - Arrabella

Tess Humphrey - Writer and Director
John Wakefield - Producer

Avaliable now on the ((URY PLAYER)) here.

YorWorld: 19th June

This week on the show we speak to the cast of the latest York Theatre Royal production 'Two Planks and a Passion', we Preview 'PlayinaDay Take2' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest'. We review 'Red Snow' and 'Treasure Island' and take a look at Woodstock. If that wasn't enough, continuing our woodstock theme we have archive Jay Foreman Sessions! YorWorld is part of the Sunday Roast, great speech broadcasting every sunday 2-4.

Here it now on the ((URY PLAYER)) here.

Debate: URY Debate

We’re talking private universities this week on URY Debate: is it unfair for the New College of Humanities to charge £18,000 a year.

Plus Rowan Williams’ attack on the coalition, nuclear weapons in Syria—and is privatisation partly to blame for care home abuse?

Our guests this week: George Clarke of the university’s Labour Club; Thomas Byrne, former NUS presidential candidate; Matt Kilcoyne of the Conservatives; and Mariel Stringer-Fehlow from Amnesty International.

Produced by Nick Duquemin, Paddy Evans, George Viner. Find out more by joining our Facebook group: search ‘URY Debate’.

Catch the programme on the ((URY PLAYER)) now!

YorWorld: 12th June 2011

On the show this week we review York Theatre Royal's 'My Family and Other Animals' (see www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk for more info) , this weeks drama production 'Road', and we preview Pantsoc's Summer Pantomime 'Treasure Island' and James Balls impressive new musica 'Red Snow' which is in the barn next week. On top of that we have the URY Music teams sessions with rising Manchunian band 'The Travelling Band'. YorWorld is part of the Sunday Roast, great speech broacasting 2-4 every Sunday on URY.

Catch the programme now on the ((URY PLAYER))

Drama: The More Beautiful Game

A Brand new comedy drama coming to URY at 3:00 on the 26th of June

'The More Beautiful Game' is a full length play coming week 9 to URY from student writer James Bugg.

Its the story of a Yorkshireman and world class athlete, Geoff  Batterson (played by Chris White) who wants to see his sport in the 2012 London Olympics.

There is a catch though.

The sport is table football and he has a challange on his hands not just from the olympic commitee but also from rising table football star Kazayuki Takamoto who threatens Batterson's place as World Number 1.

As the hearing and the table football world cup final approach Geoff, along with his best friend Alan (Dan Wood) test there friendship and there devotion to the more beautiful game.

Recording has been a great experience often seeing the cast recording while playing intense and physically demanding table football in locations across campus in an effort to make one of the best dramas URY has seen to date.

Hear the full trailer below...

Or alternatively head over to the ((URY PLAYER)) for this weeks YorWorld (our weekly magazine show) where we take a tongue in cheek indepth look at the production with interviews from its writer and director, James Bugg, and stars Dan Wood (Alan Turner) and Chris White (Geoff Batterson) which is avaliable now on the ((URY PLAYER)) here.

(photos Greg Ebdon)

YorWorld: 5th June 2011

This week on the show we are taking a special look at URY Drama. We have interviews with Tom Crowley, the writer and director of 'The Matchstick Man' about his writing, comedy and his experiences in radio (including standing on the famous stage at the Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House). We also have an interview with Tess Humphrey, writer of our upcoming drama 'The Prince of Humberside'.

Moreover continuing our theme of drama here at University Radio York we take an indepth look at our new comedy 'The More Beautiful Game' with interviews with the cast and the plays writer and director James Bugg including the world premiere of the plays

Looking beyond URY we have our review of William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Nights Dream', as well as next weeks production 'Road' opening on Friday.

And if that wasn't enough we also have recordings from yesterdays 'York Carnival' and a performance from York Universities own Barbersoc.

Missed the programme? Catch it now online on the ((URY PLAYER)) here.