RadioActive
RadioActive is an exciting health related radio project for young people, aged 11-25 years old, living in the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire.
Project Lead: Jo Akester
RadioActive is an exciting health related radio project for young people, aged 11-25 years old, living in the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire. It provides opportunities to develop skills in radio through workshops and training, building up to being involved in running a live radio station and producing Podcasts. This pioneering project for young people uses radio as an inspiring way of raising awareness of a range of health and lifestyle issues and to provide information about services available to young people.
On the 6th of September three young people from RadioActive’s Production Team, armed with minidisk recorders and microphones, attended the entertaining and thought-provoking Wilberforce event in Queen’s Gardens.
At the event they recorded vox pops with a range of people – both with performers and entertainers and with members of the public attending the event, and even the Mayor! They asked various questions about people’s impressions of the event, about what they knew of William Wilberforce, how we should feel about Wilberforce in Hull, and whether or not people felt that Slavery was still an issue.
LISTEN TO THE VOX POPS (mp3 – 6.7mb)
Everybody was really friendly and helpful and we got some great answers – lots of people already knew a bit about what Wilberforce was all about, and the event had made everyone think about slavery in the 21st Century, but there is still a lot more work to be done!
At RadioActive we are really excited about the opportunity to follow groups as they learn more about Wilberforce ’07 and around multi-culturalism today. If you are exploring these topics perhaps you and your group would like RadioActive to help you to record your views, or to create a programme about a particular aspect of this very wide subject.
If you would like more information or would like to be involved, please do not hesitate to contact the RadioActive team on (01482) 335392 or visit the Radioactive website.
RadioActive is funded by the Big Lottery Fund and hosted by the Public Health Directorate, covering Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire Primary Care NHS Trusts.
