Radio Mason
How Radio Mason is made
Last updated: 20 August 2026
The short version: Radio Mason is a radio station made with AI — and we think you should know that,
plainly, not in small print. The presenters you hear are AI voices reading AI-written scripts. The news is assembled
by AI from real, named sources. The music is real music by real artists, properly licensed. And a human — the station
manager — is responsible for all of it. Truth is the foundation; that has to include the truth about ourselves.
What's AI
- The presenters. Folkes, Pip, Lacey, Coco, Kit, Miles, Nova and the rest are AI presenters: their
voices are licensed synthetic voices, and their links and banter are written by AI in each presenter's character.
They are not real people, and no presenter's voice imitates any real person.
- The news bulletins. Our hourly news is assembled by AI from The Paper — our own newsroom engine
that reads many independent outlets, cross-checks stories between them, and tells you how well-corroborated each
story is ("confirmed by six independent newsrooms" means exactly that). Every story's sources are named and linked
on our news page. Bulletins are voiced by AI and say so on air.
- Travel and weather. Read by AI from live official data (National Highways, rail feeds, weather
services), written into plain speech moments before you hear it.
- Idents and station sound. AI-voiced and AI-produced.
What's human
- The music. Real tracks by real artists — nothing on our playlist is AI-generated music. We're
licensed by PRS for Music (LC-005092) and our PPL licence application is in progress, so the artists get paid when
we play them. Backing independent artists is the whole point of this station.
- Responsibility. A human station manager (Wayne Conyers) owns the station, sets the editorial
rules, chooses the music, supervises the AI systems and answers for what goes to air. When something's wrong, a
person fixes it — tell us.
- The mission. Playing the artists the machine ignores, telling you how sure we are of the news,
and never pretending to be something we're not. AI made the station possible; the values are human.
How we mark AI content
In line with good practice (and the EU AI Act's transparency rules, which we follow voluntarily as a UK-only
station): we disclose on air that our presenters and bulletins are AI; this page is the permanent written disclosure;
and our AI-generated audio carries machine-readable markers in its file and stream metadata where technically
feasible. Our synthetic voices are commercially licensed, and we never clone a real person's voice without their
documented consent.
Questions
Curious how any of it works, or think we've got something wrong? Get in touch — straight
questions get straight answers here.