Hope Speaks Out

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Media headlines often fuel fear about refugees and amongst refugees. But what happens when refugees pick up the microphones and tell their own stories? Refugee Radio Network, in the German city of Hamburg, is a project that is tapping the power of community radio stations and the internet to give voice to refugees from wherever they have come.

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0:00.0	Refugee crisis.
0:03.0	The Splutlings probably refugees refugees.
0:05.0	refugees.
0:06.0	Right now, like many refugees are coming to Germany.
0:09.0	One million refugees.
0:10.0	On last year after now, all media is talking about refugee
0:14.0	Germany's become a magnet for many of the hundreds of thousands of refugees.
0:18.0	They are coming here and we have a lot of mass influx began.
0:21.0	And just talking about lot of, lot of, lot of.
0:24.0	refugees, in the headlines, in political speeches, but where are the refugee voices speaking for themselves?
0:32.0	Nobody ask me, okay, what is your experience about the Afghanistan?
0:36.5	What is your job in Afghanistan?
0:38.0	We're talking.
0:39.0	I'm Larry Macaulay and in this week's BBC World Service documentary Hope speaks out.
0:45.8	You can hear how refugees like myself are using radio to create dialogues, share experiences,
0:51.8	and build a new future.
0:53.0	Hope speaks out.
0:55.0	Germany's pioneering refugee radio network.
0:59.0	I have loved radio ever since I was a child growing up in Central Nigeria, listening
1:08.2	with my father to the BBC World Service and the Voice of America. I never thought that one day I would end up running a
1:15.6	radio show. Guttentag Libeloytte, a low hand-eye horror in Hamburg, Berlin. I also did not expect to become a refugee, but it happened to me twice.
1:27.0	Forced, my family was forced to leave Nigeria in 2008 due to ethnopolitical violence. I escaped to Libya where for many years I ran a successful
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