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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  • Agriculture
  • Aquaculture
  • Children and youth
  • Climate change
  • Community development
  • Crop production
  • Energy
  • Environment and climate change
  • Gender equality
  • Health
  • Hygiene and sanitation
  • Land issues
  • Livestock and beekeeping
  • Marketing and market information
  • Nature-based Solutions
  • Nutrition
  • Post-harvest activities
  • Social issues
  • Soil health
  • Trees and agroforestry
  • Water management

Raising Rabbits for Meat and Profit: Part One

Traditional swange music from Mbanor village, Nigeria. Host: The short piece of swange music which opened the program today comes from Mbanor, a village which is famous for its fine breeds of livestock. Coincidentally, our guest on the program today is a famous farmer who is also from Mbanor village. Please join me in welcoming…

Fruit Changes Farmers’ Lives

Fade up theme music to introduce the programme, then fade under host. HOST: Friends, welcome to today’s programme, “Fruit changes farmers’ lives.” Today we’ll share information about fruit crop production to boost farm income and for other benefits. Stay tuned to make your lives more fruitful. Fade up theme music, then fade under host. HOST:…

Deforestation and Global Warming: Who is Responsible?

Signature tune, fade out. HOST: Good morning (afternoon, evening). If you have recently noticed that you feel hot and uncomfortable in the changing environment, and you want to know what trees can do for us, and you want to know something about global warming, then stay tuned as Nananom (elders) and a forestry officer discuss…

Gender and HIV/AIDS

Theme song up and hold under narrator. NARRATOR: How are you today, listeners? As usual I, Mercy Chipeta, am back with your favourite program Mwana Alirenji (“self-sufficiency”) brought to you by The Story Workshop with the support of the European Union. Theme song up and cross fade into narrator’s speech below. NARRATOR: What passes fast…

Powder of Little Pepper Protects Stored Rice

Theme music up, then slow fade and under host. HOST: Welcome to the programme. You may know that insect and microbe pests cause serious damage to rice crops in West Africa. But did you know that there are local solutions? Today, we will listen to Mr. Bamba, a rice farmer from Guinea. Mr. Bamba uses…

A Local Plant Prevents Pest Damage to Stored Seeds

Theme music fades up then under host. HOST: Dear listeners, welcome to today’s show. Theme music fades up then under host. HOST: Listeners, today we have great news! In today’s program we are going to tell you about a local plant which can prevent pest damage to stored seeds. Stay tuned and a local expert…

Local groups in Cameroon work to eradicate ‘breast ironing’

HOST 1: Good day and welcome to our program. HOST 2: Good day. Today we are going to talk about a cultural practice called “breast ironing,” which is widely practiced in Cameroon. HOST 1: That’s right. We know that some cultural practices involve violence against women. As rural areas become more integrated with urban centres,…

Widow cleansing: ‘Good’ intentions – negative consequences

Introductory music. Fade and hold under host. HOST: Greetings listeners! Welcome to today’s programme on African widow cleansing traditions. Though widow cleansing is becoming a thing of the past in many places due to the high degree of HIV and AIDS awareness, it is still practised in some communities. Today we will focus on the…

Rural women process and sell shea butter

Introductory music, then fade under host and out. HOST : Good day, welcome to Radio Jigiya, broadcasting from Zégoua, Mali on 100 MHZ. We are a private radio station that broadcasts information for rural communities. Dear listeners in Mali, in the Ivory Coast, and in Burkina Faso, today we present an interview with the President…

Appropriate farming tools for African women farmers

Signature tune to introduce the programme. HOST: Good morning (afternoon, evening). Women farmers produce most of our food. Yet women face many problems finding farm tools that are appropriate for them. Traditionally men are in charge of livestock, and most traction equipment is too heavy for women. In many countries, there is a taboo against…