The Sound of Saturday Nights - Richard, M9SND

Richard Sillitoe is a Sound Supervisor specialising in entertainment shows for broadcast, usually live to air. He is known for the sound of Strictly Come Dancing, Eurovision Song Contest, BAFTA Film & TV Awards, through to RuPaul’s Drag Race. As a recently licenced ham and member of the Radio Society of Harrow, his presentation will take us through the techniques and technologies used to cover a typical large scale entertainment show.

The responsibility of a Sound Supervisor is to plan and oversee the sound from beginning to end for a given show. As part of this, they lead a team, each member of which has an important role in the final audio delivery. We’ll discuss these roles and their interaction with both the final broadcast audio and also the other departments that go into making a TV show.

Within what is predominantly a visual medium, Sound for Television is often poorly understood, yet it often carries the story and emotion of a programme. Radio has endured for a long time; silent films didn’t last that long!