Archive for the ‘media’ Category
Sunday, February 13th, 2022
Today (13 February) is World Radio Day, and we have a special episode to celebrate. It will air on Flirt FM (Galway, Ireland) today, as well as other stations worldwide. You can download it from the links here.
As usual, our WRD2022 show includes input from pupils at Galway Educate Together ...
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Saturday, September 11th, 2021
On the twentieth anniversary of the terror attacks in the US, and 48 years since the CIA-sponsored coup in Chile, we bring a special issue of our show.
We open with UN News Headlines, followed by Christy Moore with his song about the Chilean songwriter Víctor Jara, who was tortured and ...
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Monday, April 5th, 2021
Our guest this month is Dr Josephine Coleman of Brunel University, London. She discusses her research on the production of local content in UK community radio - a timely topic given the impact of COVID-19.
We also have our regular correspondents, Tadhg and Noah, talking about the blockage of the Suez ...
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Saturday, February 13th, 2021
It's World Radio Day - an annual celebration of radio, established by UNESCO and the UN in 2011. 13th February was chosen because it's the day in 1946 - 75 years ago today - that the UN set up its Department of Public Information, and UN Radio.
Flirt FM - our ...
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
Our January 2021 episode is now available for download (Archive.org link here). Following up on a reflection on the lessons to be taken by Irish observers from the attempted coup in the US, we interview Dr Caitlin Miles, a US-based media scholar about the rhetorical and material impact of the ...
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Covering both international affairs and labor issues on this week's show, which brings us back from a long hiatus.
We start in Afghanistan, and discuss the likelihood (and impact) of an escalation in U.S. troop numbers. Bob points to a day of action next Monday, where Peace Action West and others ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
This week the focus of our show was the DNC, with Bob reporting live from Denver. However, we managed to fit in reports from Gaza and a world news bulletin, before connecting up with Bob.
With Bob, we started by talking about how the DNC compared to other protest events, then ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
While travelling the past few weeks I fell somewhat behind on uploads of the program to the Indymedia Radio site (though I was generally successful with getting them to Audioport on time). I've now uploaded the following to that site:
8 May, 15 May, 22 May, 29 May, 12 June.
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
This evening sees yet another edition of the show, it being Thursday and all that. One of the topics we'll be returning to is that of the Pentagon Pundits, and the scandal of covert propaganda that has been so under-covered in the mainstream media. The Pentagon has now released over ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
The subject line pretty much says it all. Bob's in Oslo this week, so I did the show solo, drawing on various recorded pieces, including Tim Robbin's address to the NAB. The link is to radio.indymedia.org. Also available through audioport, the WRFU site, and Radio4All.
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