Jerusalem Calling
Kerning Cultures
Kerning Cultures Network
4.9 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Because of what's happening in Palestine this week, we're holding off airing our usual programming. Instead we're going to re-air one of our favourite episodes from last season: Jerusalem Calling. With this episode, we hope to remember the rich history of Palestine, and that the occupation and Israel's apartheid policies go back decades. If you'd like to learn more about ways you can help Palestinians, we've put together a list of resources on our website, and will be sharing them on our Instagram this week: @kerningcultures.
The Palestine Broadcasting Service started airing in 1936, from a brand new transmitter tower in Ramallah. It was a British station in three languages, aimed at promoting the message of the mandate government throughout the region. But over the following decades, as Palestine saw political upheavals, bloody conflicts and power shifts, the radio station found itself in the middle of it all... and became a unique capsule of the events that lead up to the Nakba.
This episode was produced by Shahd Bani-Odeh, Alex Atack and Darah Ghanem, with editorial support from Dana Ballout, Nadeen Shaker, Tamara Rasamny, Zeina Dowidar and Dina Salem. Fact-checking by Zeina Dowidar and Dina Salem. Sound design by Alex Atack and mixing by Mohamed Khreizat. Kerning Cultures is a Kerning Cultures Network production.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, Dana here. |
| 0:06.0 | We didn't feel right airing our usual programming for currenting cultures, given everything that's happening in Palestine this week. |
| 0:14.0 | So instead, we're going to re-air one of our favorite episodes called Jerusalem Calling. |
| 0:20.0 | It's about the Palestine Broadcasting Service that started in 1936. |
| 0:25.5 | And with this episode, I hope we can remember the rich history of Palestine |
| 0:30.5 | and that the occupation and Israel's apartheid and unjust policies go back decades. |
| 0:41.0 | The conflict didn't just start yesterday. |
| 0:44.9 | We hope you enjoy listening to this, and please stay informed. |
| 0:48.7 | If you'd like to learn more about ways that you can help Jerusalem and help Palestinians, |
| 0:53.5 | please visit kerningcultures.com |
| 0:55.7 | or head to our Instagram. There's plenty of people that have been documenting this in an |
| 1:00.8 | amazing way, and we hope to shed light on those as well. Take care. In the early 1980s, a woman by |
| 1:07.6 | the name of Bayenne, after what took many years of persuasion, |
| 1:12.6 | sat down with her aging father to do a project that I've always wanted to do with my own family, |
| 1:18.6 | record their oral history. |
| 1:21.4 | There was especially, yes, there was a special nation between me and my father. |
| 1:24.6 | I'll tell you something. |
| 1:25.7 | I am accused at home, that I am his daughter. |
| 1:29.0 | This is Bayan. |
| 1:30.5 | Number one, maybe we resemble each other. |
| 1:33.1 | I look like him more than others in face. |
| 1:36.4 | But much more than that, I always wanted to follow his steps. |
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