World Wide Waves: The sounds of community radio

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We may think we live in a digital age, but only half the world is currently online. Across the globe, small radio stations bind remote communities, play a dazzling array of music, educate, entertain and empower people to make change. Cameroon’s Radio Taboo, Radio Civic Sfantu Gheorghe in the Danube Delta, Tamil Nadu’s Kadal Osai (“the sound of the ocean”), Radio Pio Doce in Bolivia and KTNN, the Voice of the Navajo Nation continue to lift their listeners' spirits up.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading this podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:03.4	February 13th was proclaimed World Radio Day by UNESCO 10 years ago to celebrate the
0:08.4	unique power of radio to connect people and open up conversations, and I'd add to
0:12.9	give enormous pleasure.
0:15.1	Radio is a lifeline for me in this pandemic year, and making this tribute to community
0:19.0	stations has been a great armchair adventure, a virtual journey around the world to meet
0:23.2	amazing creative, brave, enthusiastic, funny and moving radio people.
0:27.7	I hope you enjoy it, too.
0:40.7	This is Radio.
0:42.4	It's the crackle of connection, the company in your kitchen, the music that takes you home.
0:50.4	Radio has to take everything, and I think it's an amazing technology because you only have
0:55.2	to broadcast airwaves and then to travel to and reach people, and then once they get
0:59.6	that information, their life is never the same.
1:16.2	Radio and talking, and I'm always talking to somebody out there that is going through
1:23.5	the same thing I'm going through, and if I can just get that person out of the loneliness
1:31.0	or the depression that they're feeling, that's going to mean I've done my job for the day.
1:38.4	We may live in a digital age, but only half the world is online.
1:43.2	Radio is cheap technology and travels through thin air.
1:47.4	I'm Maria Margarones, and you're listening to the BBC World Service, one of the globe's
1:52.1	biggest networks.
1:53.7	But for World Radio Day, we're taking a tour of some of the smallest radio stations on
1:58.0	Earth.
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