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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Reviving banana production to boost production and income in Ugunja District, western Kenya
Characters Host Reporter Farmers: Pamela Oluoch George Obok Charles Siang’a Beatrice Auma Development agent: Michael Nyamai MUSIC TO INTRODUCE THE PROGRAM HOST: Welcome, listeners. When farmers in western Kenya hear the word “banana,” the smiles fade from our lips and our faces turn sorrowful. Why? Because we have been faced with a serious…
Raising new breeds of guinea fowl in northern Ghana: Benefits and challenges
HOST: Good evening and welcome to Kariba sosika (Farmer’s talk), our farmers’ program. INSERT VOICE: “Guinea fowl are the small-scale farmer’s friend! When food is scarce, it’s this bird that serves as a food bank for the family.” HOST: You have just heard the enthusiastic voice of a farmer who keeps guinea fowl. This is…
Hard work breaks no bones: Decreasing guinea fowl mortality to increase success and boost income
EPISODE ONE PLAY SIG TUNE THEN FADE UNDER NARRATOR NARRATOR: Hello listener, and welcome to the first episode of our four-episode drama, highlighting the causes of and solutions for high mortality rates in guinea fowl keets. This program aims to encourage rural communities, especially women, to raise guinea fowl to improve their income and the…
Farmers improve yields with traditional soil-building practices that restore and fertilize damaged soils
Instrumental music HOST: We are in Tanlili, a large village of 2,600 people in the rural district of Zitenga, northwest of Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso. Tanlili means “hidden by mountains” in Mooré, a local language. The village is hilly and the soils are dark red and eroded. It is the dry season,…
Farmers work together to safely store muskuwaari sorghum in northern Cameroon
HOST: Dear listeners, today we will hear how local farmers in northern Cameroon are working together to successfully store a kind of sorghum which is transplanted during the dry season and called muskuwaari. We will meet muskuwaari farmers in Yonkolé, a village in the Far North of Cameroon. Thanks to the farmers’ group they…
Kenyan woman embraces conservation farming and betters her life
Characters Host Jenipher Awino, a farmer SIGNATURE TUNE HOST: Greetings, listener, welcome to the program. Today we will hear the story of a woman farmer who changed her life by embracing conservation agriculture. The woman is named Jenipher Awino, and she lives in the village of Bar Kite in western Kenya. Ms. Awino became a…
Ethiopian farmers search for answers to disease problems in enset
HOST: Enset, also known as false banana, is a member of the banana family and often confused with its more well-known yellow cousin. But unlike the banana, farmers do not grow enset for its fruit, but for the starchy pulp in its stem and corm, which is the below-ground portion of the stem that…
Rebuilding the land II – plugging the soil leaks
HOST: Greetings, listeners, and welcome to the program. My name is ____. Today, we’ll show how farmers are reducing soil erosion and increasing crop yields in the hilly villages around Mount Elgon in Kapchorwa District, eastern Uganda. I am in Kapchorwa District to visit farmers and learn about different ways to reduce soil erosion on…
Rebuilding the land I – restoring forest landscapes
HOST: Greetings, listeners, and welcome to the program. My name is ____. I am in Sanzara village in Kapchorwa district in the Mount Elgon area of eastern Uganda. I am here to visit a few farmers to learn about the importance of trees to agriculture. Later, I will chat with a field assistant who works…
Scientists are improving the traditional maize crib
George Atkins, a farmer for many years, has travelled around the world for Massey-Ferguson, the University of Guelph and the Canadian International Development Agency, looking for ways to help farmers increase food supplies. In Africa, he found a scientist who has been studying what to do with the traditional maize crib so maize will dry…