{"id":700,"date":"2015-11-01T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=700"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:14:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:14:57","slug":"jade-callaway-bsc-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/2015\/11\/01\/jade-callaway-bsc-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Jade Callaway (BSc 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jade<\/a><\/figure>\n

Jade is a broadcaster for\u00a0British Forces Broadcasting Service radio<\/p>\n

I graduated from Cardiff University in July 2011, but my BSc (Econ) Accounting and Management degree gave few clues to my future career as a broadcaster to the Forces.<\/p>\n

I was involved with Xpress Radio, the student radio station, while I was studying. At the Student Radio Conference in April 2011 I met Nicky Ness, Controller of British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) Radio.<\/p>\n

I was offered work at BFBS\u2019s headquarters in Buckinghamshire assisting with administration and events. If I got the chance I’d jump in the studios to keep practicing in the hope of getting on air. The practice paid off, as in October 2012 I was detached to BFBS Cyprus ahead of my deployment to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

My four-month deployment in Afghanistan was both exhilarating and exhausting \u2013 it was the first time I had worked in a war zone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My tour in Helmand Province coincided with Operation Herrick 19, which was headed up by 7th Armoured Brigade, The Desert Rats. As well as entertaining personnel in the four-hour Ops Breakfast Show, I also covered news from the brigade’s units and events in theatre.<\/p>\n

You didn’t get a lot of ‘alone time’ out there and it was a real routine of eat, sleep, work for the whole tour. The worst weekend for me was missing a family wedding and of course Christmas day was tough.<\/p>\n

Many of our listeners kept me going \u2013 it was great to get those phone calls in the morning \u2013 you realise that you’re making a difference to someone’s day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Presenting the last live Christmas programming in Afghanistan was an honour. Now that I’ve been on tour myself, I feel I’ve got a better understanding of what our audience have to do out on ops \u2013 and you get a lot more respect from the military when you can say you’ve been there too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jade is a broadcaster for British Forces Broadcasting Service radio","protected":false},"author":904,"featured_media":703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-alumni"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}