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World Wide Waves: The sounds of community radio

We tune in to small radio stations around the world that bind remote communities, play a dazzling array of music, educate, entertain, and empower people to make change.

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鈥檚 Radio Taboo, in a remote rainforest village 100 miles off the grid, relies on solar power; its journalists and engineers are all local men and women. Radio Civic Sfantu Gheorghe in the Danube Delta preserves the history of the community. Tamil Nadu鈥檚 Kadal Osai (鈥渢he sound of the ocean鈥) broadcasts to local fishermen about weather, fishing techniques鈥攁nd climate change. In Bolivia, Radio Pio Doce is one of the last remaining stations founded in the 1950s to organise mostly indigenous tin miners against successive dictatorships. And KTNN, the Voice of the Navajo Nation, helps lift its listeners鈥 spirits in a time of loss and grief.

Produced by David Goren
Presented by Maria Margaronis.

(Image: Cameroon's Radio Taboo, Credit: Oumarou Mebouack)

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50 minutes

Last on

Thu 18 Feb 2021 00:06GMT

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  • Thu 18 Feb 2021 00:06GMT