About
Thanks for joining me at Tuneful Radio!
My name is Natalia Anderson and I came up with Tuneful Radio (which is the audio sister to my YouTube channel Tuneful TV) as a way to continue to create entertaining content around one of my favourite subjects – Music!!
I started Tuneful Radio podcast back in early 2018 after coming across an old CD recording of my University radio show (shout out to Wired Radio at Goldsmiths!!)! It spurred me on to finally take the leap into podcasting (which by that point I had been thinking / procrastinating about for a few years!!) and I recorded 3 episodes to finally get it done. The concept was more like a radio show where I would speak on the latest music news and events, whilst also playing mini mixes of some songs I was listening too at the time. It was dependent on audience interaction and my staying up-to-date with what was happening in music. The turnover proved just too quick for me as a one-woman-band (as it were) and I just couldn’t keep up!
[Listen here to these first episodes of Tuneful Radio]
That’s when I went back to the drawing board and came up with another concept for Tuneful Radio. At that time I had been enjoying long form interview style podcasts and thought I could do my own but of course sprinkled with the Natalia flavour and the added element of music!
I always found it really interesting to find out what songs were around / what people were listening to at various stages in their lives. So with this in mind, I came up with a selection of categories that I could use to prompt my guests into thinking of songs that would sum up these times of their lives. Sharing songs is a great way to get my subjects to open up about their lives and access memories that they might have otherwise forgotten – which lends itself to a really interesting conversation.
The categories are as follows:
Early Childhood
School / College
University / Early Adulthood
Love & Heartbreak
Present Day
One feature that I kept from the old Tuneful TV podcast and which is a crossover from the Tuneful TV Blog, is the SPOTLIGHT ARTIST section. This is where I look to the future by taking the opportunity to promote and support the music of an unsigned artist. It’s super important for me to promote new talent and I suppose that has always been the reason why I created these platforms.
I hope that you enjoy each episode and the musical journey it will inevitably take you on! Feel free to get in touch if you are a musical artist that would like to be featured as a Spotlight Artist. Also if you’re a listener, I would love to hear from you too! You can even share your own songs for the categories, and I might read them out in a future episode!!
Tuneful Radio will be recorded in seasons and new episodes will be released on the first Thursday of every month.
Nat xXx
Did you know that I’m a DJ, Presenter and YouTuber? Why not check out my other projects here: