Category: Africa;
Three
Counties Radio
Date: 20.06.2005
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Â鶹Éç Three Counties Radio goes well
beyond its boundaries when it broadcasts to the world on Thursday 7
July.
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The global broadcast is all part of the Sony Award-winning
station's three-way link - with a counterpart station in Tanzania, and
the Â鶹Éç World Service.
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Three Counties Radio twins with Kiss FM in Mwanza
- Tanzania's second biggest city - as part of the Africa Lives on the Â鶹Éç
season.
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Presenters from the Â鶹Éç World Service
visit the Luton-based station on 7 July to make possible the hour-long
broadcast to the world between 6.00 and 7.00pm BST.
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The link has prompted one of Three Counties Radio's
broadcast journalists to travel to Tanzania to visit Kiss FM, to learn
more about it and gather news stories from the African country to feed
back to her native Â鶹Éç station.
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Annette Griffith is writing an online
diary for Three Counties Radio's website during her week's visit (Monday
4 to Sunday 10 July), encouraging ideas, experiences, cultures and stories
to be shared between countries.
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Annette and her colleague Clive Lewis
are making their trip to Tanzania under the Department for International
Development Travel Bursary Fund, a scheme run by the Commonwealth Broadcasting
Association to promote better coverage of the developing world.
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Assistant Editor, Jason Horton, was thrilled by the
news of the link-up with the Tanzanian station: "Every day of every
week of every year, Three Counties Radio tells the unique personal stories
of our audience," he says.
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"Twinning with Kiss FM in Mwanza allows us to explore
the links between Beds, Herts and Bucks and Tanzania - and connect two
audiences that have some remarkable links and some amazing stories."
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One such story is brought to a wider public thanks
to the station's efforts. It involves local man Alan Mwanji,
who finally, after many years searching for his grandfather, managed
to locate him and is taking his family to Kenya to meet him for the
first time.
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As part of Africa Lives on the Â鶹Éç , Alan takes a Â鶹Éç Video
Nation camera to record his emotional journey to show later on the station's
website.
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Three Counties Radio has regular updates on Alan's progress
during his trip.
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Notes to Editors
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Annette Griffith and Alan Mwanji are available for interview
on request.
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Three Counties Radio's schedule for Africa
Lives on the Â鶹Éç is as follows:
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Monday 4 July: an outside broadcast
from Aylesbury High School, which is hosting 12 students and three teachers
from Kenya.
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Tuesday 5 July: Screening of Maagamizi
(The Ancient One), a Tanzanian film being screened at the Library Theatre,
Luton. Box office: 01582 547474. A review of the film follows on the
Â鶹Éç Three Counties Radio website.
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Thursday 7 July (6.00 to 7.00pm BST):
a simultaneous outside broadcast discussing what people in England and
Tanzania expect from their health services (available via the Â鶹Éç's
World Service and Three Counties Radio and Kiss FM).
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Friday 8 July: Breakfast Show link-up
between the two twinned radio stations, comparing news and views from
Tanzania with similar output from England.
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Saturday 10 July (2.00 to 10.00pm BST):
For the third year running, Three Counties Radio and Roots
project co-ordinator Johanne Hudson-Lett broadcasts from Rhythms of
the World.
Listen live on all of the station's frequencies.
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Roots has sponsored many of the top African acts performing
on the main stage, including Siyaya, Mr Oyediji
and Robert Maseko with his congobeat.
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Africa Lives on the Â鶹Éç
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During 2005, the Â鶹Éç offers a huge variety of programmes
and initiatives across all its services - television, radio and online
- broadcasting both within the UK and worldwide to highlight and explore
African life and culture.
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Â鶹Éç Three Counties Radio
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Broadcasts on 94.7, 95.5, 98, 103.8 and 104.5 FM.
