Interviews
Interview scripts feature interviews with two farmers or rural people and one or two subject-matter experts, exploring a challenge and possible solutions. They also feature and intro and extro by the radio show host. They are written by African journalists, based on real interviews.
Interview scripts can be translated and adapted as necessary to suit the local context, then performed on air as dramatized interviews. Or reach them as inspiration and guidance for your own interviews.
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Sorghum: Good yields even when the rains fail
Fade up signature tune to start the show. fade out after 15 seconds under host’s voice. Host: Hello and welcome to (name of farmer program) on (name of radio station.) Today, I am going to talk to an expert on sorghum, a crop suitable for drier areas. But first, I am going to visit a…
Our matoke will survive: Ugandan farmers fight banana bacterial wilt
HOST: Greetings, listeners, and welcome to the program. My name is ____. Today we will be talking about growing matoke (Editor’s note: matoke is cooking banana). And, of course in this day and age, you can’t talk about growing bananas without talking about banana bacterial wilt. This disease first appeared in Ugandan banana fields about…
Nomadic people fight fowl pox in Mali
HOST: In Mali, traditional poultry farming for meat production is disappearing as intensive production of broiler chickens and other imported varieties increases. Some farmers and consumers are concerned about the disappearance of traditional breeds. Raising the traditional breed of chicken, known to Malians since the dawn of time, has always allowed rural people to…
Chicken hatchery: Innovative farmer invents large-capacity kerosene egg incubator
HOST: Imagine … a kerosene-fuelled egg incubator that can hatch up to 600 eggs in twenty-one days! It’s true! And that is what we are going to learn about today. MUSIC: SIGNATURE TUNE UP AND OUT UNDER HOST: Hello and welcome to the program Farmer to Farmer. I am your host, Winnie Onyimbo. In today’s…
Women’s right to land is necessary for community development
Signature tune (10 seconds), then down under presenter Presenter: Hello dear listener, and welcome to the program. This week we look at women’s property rights, and particularly at how discrimination in land ownership affects household food security and overall community development. We hear the story of a mother and her four children who are forced…
Farmer uses good yam storage practices and improves his life
Characters: Host Interviewer The innovative farmer, Adjèxwé 1st farmer, Agossou 2nd farmer, Gbiglo Fade in signature tune to begin the show and cross fade under the host’s voice Host: Greetings, dear local FM radio listeners! In today’s show, we are going to talk about good storage practices for yam tubers. In that regard, I invite…
A simple but effective trap for stable flies
REPORTER: Do you ever have trouble with stable flies? Stable flies are blood-sucking creatures that attack dairy cows in tropical countries. For the past few years, scientists in the Indian Ocean island country of Mauritius have been doing some special research on how to control these flies called Stomoxys (pronounced sto-mox-is). Traditionally, farmers kept…
Raising goats to beat the drought in eastern Kenya
Sig tune up then under Host: Good morning and welcome to another edition of the Farmer to farmer program. Today we are going to look at the effects of drought and what farmers are doing to cope with it. I visited some farmers in Mwingi, eastern Kenya who have made a successful switch from cattle…
Farmers use agroforestry practices to heal farmland damaged by deforestation and soil erosion
FADE UP SIGTUNE NARRATOR: It’s time for Let’s conserve and restore our natural resources, a program about how natural resources serve small-scale farmers and what we must do to get maximum benefits from farming. Please ensure that you have your pen and paper ready to take important notes. FADE OUT SIGTUNE FILIUS: Welcome to the…