Author and journalist: Sonya Voumard

This week I had a wonderfully stimulating discussion with author Sonya Voumard about the role of journalism in today’s society. That interview will be podcast  later in the year but in the meantime here is Sonya reading from her memoir ‘Skin in the Game’  about her very early desire to be a journalist and how youthful exuberance as a young undergraduate led her into some painful humiliation when she interviewed her idol Helen Garner.

From ‘Bloodlines’

From ‘The Interview’

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Radio Zid was a community radio station that continued broadcasting throughout the Bosnian war. Its presenters were snipered, bombed, starved and dehydrated ( no water or  electricity for nearly 3 years) but they continued broadcasting. driven by the knowledge that the community needed them and they needed to tell the community and the world what was happening inside the town of Sarajevo.

The war in Sarajevo spawned a new term ‘culturcide’ – the destruction of a society and a  country through the mutilation of its culture. Radio Zid, was the resistance to this notion. Part One of three Parts.

Winner of the Bronze award from the New York Festival’s world’s Best Radio Programs.

Check out this episode!