HOW IT BEGAN

Students of the Central Saint Martins School of Arts, in the MA culture, curation and criticism are proud to present you the exhibition, Radio as Current, an homage to Fred Hunter’s career and work. Hunter was a journalist and a course leader at the London College of Communication in the 1970s, founder of the UK’s first radio journalism course, and thereby teacher to many of today’s generation of radio journalists. As current students of the master Culture, Curation and Criticism, we knew nothing about radio broadcasting, but through Hunter’s archive we became his last, posthumous, students. As listeners of podcasts, after video killed the radio star and our mobile phones ultimately decimated media, we asked how his teaching would sound today. Radio as Current means contemporary disruptiveness. Public radio reports and challenges current affairs. Whether it be a cheerful chat with your morning coffee or a stern debate with your evening tea, issues are resolved through discussion, by talking and establishing dialogue. Radio time and again charges conversation.