ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates 'invisible workers' in an invisible medium. Production studies represent interdisciplinary approach to the cultural studies of media industries. As Lewis and Booth claim, radio has been for a long time 'the invisible medium'. This chapter examines the distinct roles workers play in the daily production flows of radio stations; what happens when someone is made redundant; to what extent the precarious status of their work affects workers' everyday life and how they cope with it. There is a big difference between TV and radio: TV has a shorter season, with better pay working for two or three months on a project. In radio, the seasons work like school: that begins in September and ends in June, so actually working 200 more days. Radio producers, although they are forced to perceive themselves as entrepreneurs, instead represent an entrepreneurial workforce unable to elevate their labour power to a valuable status on the market-indeed, a 'very complicated version of freedom'.
