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Legumes Make Their Own Fertilizer – With Help From Their Friends
Characters: Host Mr. Tomato, a jovial, jokey character Ms. Bean, sophisticated and articulate, looks down on Mr. Tomato Mr. Rhizobium, articulate and straightforward Host: Welcome to the program. Many farmers are facing problems with declining soil fertility. But wouldn’t it be a good thing if your crops could talk directly to you and tell you…
Raising Snails for Food and Profit
Characters: Host/interviewer Crops and animals officer: Mr. Ayobi Samuel Kwabena Agyei: Good morning listeners. As you know, on this program we talk about things we need to do on our farms, and any other news that benefits us as farmers. In the past, it was easy to go to a nearby forest to gather snails…
Raising Rabbits for Meat and Profit: Part Two
Traditional swange music from Mbanor village, Nigeria. Host: Welcome to the second and concluding part of the interview series on raising rabbits. My guest is the famous Chief Asema Yuwa, a retired agricultural extension worker and experienced rabbit keeper from Mbanor Village. Once again, Chief Asema Yuwa, you are welcome. Chief: Thank you. It’s good…
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…
When parents die of AIDS, farming knowledge often dies too
NARRATOR: Good morning (afternoon, evening). Today’s program is about AIDS orphans. Some orphans are taken in by relatives and do well. But others are blamed by their caretakers who assume that AIDS is a consequence of promiscuity. Orphans are also blamed for being a burden on their new family. These orphans are sometimes abused in…
Maternal postpartum depression
CHARACTERS: Shakina: A 45- year-old grandmother who clings to the old way of life in her village Ashanti: A 42-year-old grandmother concerned about her only daughter Sylvia, who has just had a baby and has not shown up to work today Layla: A 32-year-old mother of two girls and a friend of Sylvia Johari: A…
Selenium can help people living with HIV and AIDS
CHARACTERS: There are three characters in this radio program: one radio host, one nutritionist and one agricultural extension officer. Please use names that are familiar to your audience, and ensure that one of the guests is a woman and the other is a man. Introductory music up for ten seconds, then fade out. HOST: Hello and…