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The Documentary: World Wide Waves: The sounds of community radio

World Wide Waves: The Sounds of Community Radio

14/02/2021 GMT

World Wide Waves: The sounds of community radio

BBC World Service - The Documentary, World Wide Waves: The sounds of community radio

For World Radio Day, we visit community radio stations around the globe.

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’s 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’s Kadal Osai (“the sound of the ocean”) broadcasts to local fishermen about weather, fishing techniques—and 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’ 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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