Radio Producer practice interview
Programme planning, live studio control, audio quality, contributor coordination and reliable delivery under pressure. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- Mid level
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This interview tests whether you can shape a radio programme and keep it coherent when live conditions change. The panel wants evidence of sound editorial judgement, confident studio decisions, clean audio production and clear coordination with presenters and contributors.
How to prepare
- Study the station's formats and audiences, then sketch a running order for one typical programme.
- Prepare an example of a live production problem and explain the decisions you made in sequence.
- Review your process for recording, editing and checking speech audio before transmission.
- Practise explaining how you brief presenters and contributors without overloading them.
- Choose examples that show how you protected accuracy while working to a fixed transmission time.
Common mistakes
- Describing programme ideas without explaining timing, audience or practical delivery.
- Treating silence, overruns or failed links as problems for the presenter alone.
- Discussing software while overlooking editorial accuracy and audio quality.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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