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Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. I'm Maria Margaronis

celebrating the power of women's community radio from Afghanistan to the

Amazon for this year's World Radio Day.

We've been told to be quiet too often and in too many places,

but spin the globe and you can hear more and more women taking to the air

and making waves, sometimes in the most from my home to the office.

So we have this transportation that picks up me and all the other girls around 7 AM in the morning.

We have this meet-up points around the city where the girls come.

Sala Barona.

Sabataman is the station

of Radio Beghur in Afghanistan, a national women station operating in the cracks allowed by the

Taliban regime.

In Kabul since the takeover of the Taliban from time to time

there is a new decree that impacts you know the the

mental health of women including myself it's not that it's a rule written

somewhere but of course you never know because the people issuing a decree are one

group and then the people who implemented the Taliban guards, I mean, they are different.

So they look for women who might not be wearing proper hijab or women who might be traveling alone late at night or very early in the morning.

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