World Wide Waves '24

Radio can be a lifeline for women: a place to speak out in safety; a place to find their voices. We hear from women taking to the air and making waves in the cracks left by the Taliban in Afghanistan; in Fiji's scattered archipelago threatened by climate change; in the migrant farmworker community of the Yakima Valley in North America's Pacific north-west; and in the Ecuadorean Amazon, where indigenous women are coming together to save their land from pollution and destruction by oil companies. A feast of women's voices from around the world: open, brave, joyful, and full of life and music.

Special thanks to Mark Wilden for additional rainforest sound and to Siegmund Thies for permission to use sound excerpts from his film Radio Women from the Rain Forest.

(Photo: Women in Canoe Credit: Siegmund Thies)