Hastings in Malawi
| 10:48 UK time, Thursday, 4 January 2007
I live in Mulanje, 80 kilometres east of Malawi's commercial capital of Blantyre. I am an out going person and very interested in social issues. I very much like following current affairs. I am an environmental journalists currently working with the Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust (MMCT). So I am employed!
Three years ago the Â鶹Éç started broadcasting on FM in Malawi. This gave us (listeners) an opportunity to have easy access to the Â鶹Éç World service away from the situation that we were in to trace the Â鶹Éç on Short Wave. Because of the excitement of being close to the Â鶹Éç 24 hours, I came to know about the WHYS and got interested with different views and thoughts from different listeners from all over the world. To date, I am an ardent follower of the programme
I mostly like WHYS because it gives us an opportunity to get views on a particular subject and its choice of participants is superb. There are some things I don't like. Sometimes it happens that you are on the phone and you are kept holding for a very long time, only to be told -'sorry we could not talk to you - bye!' It can be frustrating indeed.
I am interested in current social issues. Issues like how people from different parts of the world think and view a particular matter. And I very much believe that different people will definitely have different thoughts and beliefs on a particular subject. And WHYS gives a better platform for such thoughts.
