The State We're In: Year End Special
Series: The State We're In: 2008 Specials Series
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Length: 00:53:29
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Related Pieces
Piece Description
SEGMENT A: (12 :59)
PROGAM TAG: (:29)
Intro: Jonathan introduces studio guest Les Blomberg, from the Noise Pollution Clearing House
HOW LISA STANSFIELD CHANGED MY LIFE: Val Weedon, UK’s leading anti-noise protester speaks to Jonathan. We play her the song that her neighbour used to torture her and she explains why she thinks our world is getting noisier.
A MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE: Writer Piya Kochhar reflects on the soundscape of her home city, Delhi, where the noise just doesn’t stop.
TEASER B: Jonathan tells us what’s coming up in the B segmentMUSIC BED (1:30)
SEGMENT B: 18:30 THIS WEEK’S THEME IS “The Right to Sex”
ILLICIT ENCOUNTERS: Jonathan speaks to Peter, from Illicit encounters website. This website provides a forum for married people to find likeminded individuals for an affair. Peter is also a member of the site and we hear his personal story
FLEKSZORG: Jonathan speaks to Loet Berkelmans from Flekszorg. This Dutch company provides sex care givers for disabled people who want to have sex, but have little chance of meeting a partner through the normal channels
THE THAI ‘GIG’: Noy Thrupkaew [Thrup-cow] in Thailand reads a her commentary on the rise of the “gig” – a sex-buddy – in conservative Bangkok society
TEASER C: Jonathan tells us what’s coming up in the C segmentMUSIC BED (1:30)
SEGMENT C: 19:00BAGHDAD CALLING: Cell phones are helping Iraqis to stay in touch with each other and to stay safe in their war-torn country. They have also become a medium for documenting life in a conflict zone. Iraqis love to take pictures with their mobile phones – photos of everything from family parties to bombed out buildings. Acclaimed Dutch war photographer, Geert van Kesteren, has compiled some of these pictures and tells Jonathan about his new book Baghdad Calling.
Timing and Cues
00:00 TSWI Billboard
01:00 Break for newscast
06:00 TSWI Segment A
18:30 Music Break
22:00 TSWI Segment B
40:30 Music Break
42:00 TSWI Segment C
58:30 Out
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