ANDOVER College has celebrated the launch of an exciting student-led podcast called Listen in at Roche Court.

Students and staff celebrated the launch which has been funded by the RSA Catalyst Award and Arts Society Wessex.

Art and design students were invited to take part in this podcast project, in collaboration with Roche Court Educational Trust to plan, research, compose and produce one of six professional podcasts.

The Roche Court Educational Trust is an independent charity set within the New Art Centre, near Salisbury. The trust works locally to develop confidence by looking, speaking, and thinking about art.

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As frequent visitors, Roche Court is a reoccurring point of support for art students at Andover College and the college was delighted to be presented with another opportunity to work with the charity.

Interviewing world-renowned Chilean ceramic artist, Fernando Casasempere, students were tasked with holding preparation sessions which set out to explore the artist, and their work and to consider the main topics and themes their podcast would endeavour to explore and prepare their questions to reflect this.

Recording sessions then followed at Roche Court in the Artists’ House, whereby students got to meet Casasempere and put their plans to the test whilst thinking on their feet to extend questioning and encourage Casasempere to expand on their discussion to achieve maximum engagement.

Students fully embraced the day and enjoyed every element.

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Casasempere said: “The day we met at Roche Court I was so impressed with how well prepared this group of young people came."

Following professional production, the podcast has now aired on Spotify and Buzzsprout. 

Carlie Windows, art and design lecturer said: “Our fantastic podcast project with Fernando Casasempere was an incredible opportunity for our students.

"It was a pleasure to watch the students get to completely decide how they wanted the podcast to be structured and to see their dedication and hard work unfold within this project. We are delighted to be able to share the final product."