Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: where and how you listen to Radio Prague’s broadcasts, a taste of Radio Prague’s annual writing contest whose results we will be announcing next week. Listeners quoted: Michael Binz, Azam Ali Soomro, Christopher Lewis, Stephen Hrebenach, Debby Altow, Ruth Lacey, Sanusi Isah Dankaba.
Hello and welcome to Mailbox, Radio Prague’s weekly programme for your views, questions and comments.
Michael Binz sent us a brief note from Australia:
“I just want to thank your station for producing the English language programming (through podcasting). I have visited the Czech Republic a couple of times now and being able to get Czech programming so easily is just fantastic. I'm trying to improve my Czech language skills as well (actually to gain some!) so hearing the little language lessons is great, too. Keep up the good work.”
Azam Ali Soomro writes from Pakistan:
“I have been listening to your Radio Prague broadcasts for about 10 months, but this is my very first e-mail to you... It’s my pleasure to tell you that I have been enjoying your nice, informative, interesting, entertaining and educative programs as I believe that, for me, Radio Prague is really the very best way to not only know about the Czech Republic, but also your broadcasts help me to understand the issues, matters, events, and world affairs from all angles and much more.”
“Many thanks for the QSL card and program schedule. I also read the comments about DRM transmissions. I enjoy Radio Prague's transmissions in general, and shortwave is my primary means by which to listen. While DRM reception of Radio Prague would be nice, I am quite contented with my reliable shortwave, as I know that I can turn on the radio, and listen to what I want, which is news from Prague. Shortwave is just a platform for the dissemination of programming, and I have a soft spot in my heart for it. When Prague speaks The World is listening. Thank you for your programs.”
Thank you for listening and keeping in touch.
Next week in Mailbox we’ll be announcing the winner of Radio Prague’s annual listeners’ contest. The jury, made up of members of all Radio Prague’s language departments is now busy reading your entries that have arrived from all corners of the globe. Here is what some of you wrote in the introductory notes to your entries. Jonathan Murphy from Ireland says:
This is how Stephen Hrebenach from the US commented on his taking part:
“I continue to listen regularly via the internet and still thoroughly enjoy your programming. Over the years of listening, I have learned a lot about the Czech Republic including many parts of its history. Circumstances in my personal life have made it difficult for me to give much thought to the 2009 competition question. But it did intrigue me, so much so that I felt obliged to respond. ... But I thought that I would send something just for fun, and also to let you know that I am still an active, appreciative listener.”
Another participant, Debby Altow from Canada says she is a history fan, a former teacher, and a grandmother of 9:
“I listen to Radio Prague frequently on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's overnight programming. I heard the announcement of your contest when I was visiting my family in Toronto last week and thought – what fun that would be to enter!”
Ruth Lacey lives on Prince Edward Island and listens during the night on CBC radio Canada:
“It took me all this time to get the right address! The program is on at 2:30 in the night so taking notes.....hummmmmmmmmmmmmmm!”
And Sanusi Isah Dankaba from Nigeria writes:
“What interests me about history is mainly the stories, and history is story-telling, so these stories, and also what it must have been like to have lived in other times, those are the things that attract me to history.”
A few comments there from listeners who have sent in their entries in this year’s Radio Prague writing contest. We’ll be announcing the final results next week. I’m really looking forward to that.
And before I go, here is our monthly quiz question for June:
This month we are looking for the name of a great promoter of the alternative medicine practice of hydrotherapy who was born in 1799 in what is today the North Moravian spa town of Jeseník.
Please send us your answer to the usual addresses [email protected] or Radio Prague, 12099 Prague by the end of June. Until next week, happy listening.
