World Wide Waves '23: The sounds of community radio

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 11 February 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

For World Radio Day, we celebrate four vibrant community radio stations on four continents. Northern Malawi’s Rumphi FM supports the Tumbuka tribe while giving young women a space to speak out against early marriage and for education. From Budapest, Radio Dikh broadcasts “about the Roma, but not just for the Roma,” presenting Romany culture in its own distinctive voice. In Nunavik, Northern Quebec, Inuit radio beams Inuktitut music and talk to 14 remote villages, helping to keep an ancient language and threatened tradition alive. And in Myanmar, brave journalists risk their lives to resist the military dictatorship with news and views sent out from portable transmitters, sometimes under fire.

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0:00.0	Love, Genessa, a brand new true crime podcast from the BBC World Service and CBC podcasts.
0:07.0	It's a story about love, deceit and survival, and it's available now.
0:12.0	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:17.0	Perhaps you're listening to my voice online or on a digital download.
0:22.0	Or maybe you're hearing it in real time, shared time on an FM radio,
0:27.0	keeping you company in the kitchen or the car, chasing away dark thoughts in the small hours of the night.
0:34.0	Less than half the world is on the internet. When it comes to radio, the airwaves still rule.
0:41.0	Either way, you're listening to the BBC World Service. I'm Maria Margarones and February 13th is World Radio Day.
0:49.0	So we're tuning in to a few far-flung community radio stations, connecting people, making change,
0:55.0	and sometimes saving lives.
1:04.0	Radio Deak at 100.3 on the FM dial in Budapest is the first full-time Roma radio station in Hungary,
1:11.0	which has the largest Roma in the population in Europe.
1:15.0	Hungarian Roma have had a huge influence on central European music for hundreds of years.
1:20.0	They've also suffered deep discrimination.
1:23.0	The station aims to change the image of Hungary's Tegani.
1:27.0	Its motto is about the Roma, but not just for the Roma.
1:39.0	We have to know we are not politicians. We are normal people who want to work.
1:44.0	We want to show the normal life of the gypsies and the culture also.
1:49.0	We don't want to work with the politicians because it's not our job.
1:53.0	We don't want this because it's very difficult to do a hairy Hungary.
1:57.0	Our goal is to collect together the people, to integrate each other culture,
2:02.0	to show for the others. Hello! The gypsy culture is valuable and very interesting and very nice.
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