Prince Nico Mbarga, born in Nigeria in 1950, was a highlife musician, renowned for his hit song “Sweet Mother”, which he recorded with his band Rocafil Jazz in 1976. It […]
Monthly Archives: January 1982
7 posts
What’s the difference between 1946, 1962 and 1982 when it comes to radio propaganda? There are interesting parallels, in fact, between the Indonesian struggle for independence from Dutch colonial rule, […]
When this final programme in our series on radio propaganda was produced in 1982, we were probably at the height of the popularity of international radio broadcasting and the Cold […]
This episode looks at clandestine broadcasting across Africa, illustrated with unique off-air recordings from the late Richard Ginbey. He was based just outside Johnannesburg at the time, but managed to […]
“Talking To” was a weekly interview programme produced in the 70’s and 80’s by arts and culture host Nevil Gray. In this edition of the programme, his guest was the […]
This second episode on the history of radio propaganda looks at the media wars in the Dutch East Indies, present-day Indonesia, in the 1940’s. The programme discusses NIROM, the official […]
In this first part of a six-part series produced for Media Network in the 1980’s in the heat of the Cold War, Jonathan Marks delves into the earliest attempts to […]