[RamAir, Bradford's Student Radio]
What’s going on people
you’re listening to your boy, your man,
Mr Prince de freak,
also known as Felix J Prince
and this is the Friday Express Show,
hopefully you’re enjoying the show.
We’ll be back with some more music.
[MUSIC]
Well the story is quite funny,
I remember getting my A-Level results
and not getting what I required
to go to my preferred choice.
So that day was a bit of a dash
trying to find which university
would take me to study Politics,
so later on during the evening I found Bradford University
and I got the call,
they said you can come here,
but I was very unsure at the time
where Bradford was on the map.
Fortunately one of my mentors actually came to the University
and he told me about all the great things which happen here
and I came to an open day
and since that open day this has been my home
and this is somewhere where I feel that I have grown as an adult
academically and professionally and personally as well.
I think the key thing of Bradford is that it has a community
where you have a lot of people from different nations,
you have a lot of people from different social backgrounds,
but there is such a strong community,
which I think is one the University builds up.
The Students Union is fantastic for cultivating that
in our sports and societies
and having this ethos of Team Bradford
is one of those things which brings this community together
and I think that is what sets the University apart from any other uni.
What Politics and Peace Studies did for me
was that it opened my eyes
that we live in such a global world
that you need to know about what’s going on
culturally and politically in different nations.
Learning about different national developments,
sustainable development,
conflict resolution
and finding out about different nations
and their struggle to get political autonomy –
it helped me so much as a person to find out that.
Politics is still a field I want to get into
but you need to see a wider picture
that you’re not just helping the UK,
you’re not just helping your local community and constituency
but you have to help the global World at the same time.
The Media and Entertainments Officer role
is the fun role in the Union
so what I do is primarily organise all the events
from Welcome Week to the End of Year Celebration
and I also facilitate a lot of societies and sports and their events.
What the role has allowed me to do
is communicate with a lot of students
from the get go when they come to the University
and don’t know about the student experience.
I think I’m one of the lucky ones
who has had such an amazing experience
that I try to oratate that to them
that the possibilities are endless if you give it a go.
RamAir is celebrating its 35th birthday in October
and I’ve been a part of it for the past three years.
When I first started I started a show with my best friend
that was RamXtra,
we had at that time the highest listeners in the whole University
which was great for our first show.
I do a radio show, a drive-time radio show, on a Friday
with a few of my other friends
and it’s just an opportunity,
especially as I studied media studies,
Media and Communications Masters,
that get involved with those extra activities
that just boost your academic and professional skills.
I think at the beginning I always wanted to live in London
and saw London as the promised land
of where all opportunities lie.
Over the years being in Bradford
I’ve seen that a lot of opportunities are up here
as well up in the North
and that there are so many things that you can do.
Future wise I’m not too sure,
but I know that being in Bradford
is helping me cultivate a future for myself,
being involved in the University,
being involved in the Union,
has allowed me to have so many opportunities
with local businesses, local partnerships,
that I believe an opportunity will arise there.