Andy Gladding
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Local radio, global public life.
The 1World Community Radio Program connects Cape Town, Hempstead, Pittsburgh, and other FM communities through long-form conversations with people doing public-facing work. Its interviews move at an unhurried pace, giving guests room to explain research, service, media infrastructure, education, and everyday community life.
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The 1World Community Radio Program is a community-radio interview show with a broad map and a deliberately human pace. It begins with the sound of connected stations and ends with the feeling of a shared public square. Cape Town, Hempstead, Pittsburgh, and other broadcast communities are treated less like locations on a list than like parts of one ongoing conversation. The show is patient. Guests are allowed to build an answer from memory, process, technical detail, and personal experience, even when the route is winding. That looseness is part of its character. A conversation with Dr. Daniel Cunnama turns astronomy into a practical discussion about AI teammates, telescope networks, transients, overwhelming data, and how students might learn faster when repetitive work is reduced. A conversation with Dr. Linda Longmire moves from economic systems into the vulnerability created by poverty, then into labor trafficking, sex trafficking, child labor, and human rights. The tone stays respectful, not sensational. Zizi Ntobongwana brings the program into reproductive and sexual health education, where period products, safe spaces, and the questions of younger generations become a way to talk about institutional change. Dr. David Daou frames disaster modeling through the responsibility of a local politician deciding whether a community should evacuate. The technical subject becomes immediate because the question is about saving lives. Peace Corps Africa guests describe service through counterparts, community relationships, Botswana weddings, and the slow work of becoming recognizable before a project can really begin. Bud Williamson gives the radio-minded listener a different kind of field report, explaining FM translators, HD channels, AM service, and how coverage can be stitched together across the Hudson Valley. The show often moves from biography into public value. It is interested in how systems meet actual people. It also keeps returning to radio itself: not as nostalgia, but as infrastructure for culture, language, civic connection, and practical information. The best fit is a listener who likes long answers and does not need every conversation tightened into a takeaway. It sounds like radio made by people who still believe the medium can carry care, expertise, and neighborhood trust across very long distances.
Made for: For listeners drawn to community radio, public service, education, cultural exchange, and patient interviews with people doing practical work. It suits anyone who prefers context-rich conversation over fast commentary.
What sets it apart: Its strongest feature is the bridge between station culture and global civic subjects: astronomy, trafficking, reproductive health, disaster response, service work, and radio infrastructure all sit naturally in the same hour. The show lets guests explain the public value of their work without rushing them toward a polished sound bite.
The 1World Community Radio program is a weekly international broadcast co-produced by 89.5FM Bush Radio, Cape Town, South Africa, 88.7FM WRHU, Radio Hofstra University and 88.3FM WRCT Pittsburgh. The show is aired on an open-source network of global FM stations world wide and focuses on the power and reach of radio in communities around the world. To join this independent network and have your station featured on the program, please reach out using the contact information on this site.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Patient interviews connect community-level experience with the institutions, technologies and cultural forces operating around it.
The 1World Community Radio Program turns a cross-continental studio conversation into an hour of patient, practical interviewing. Lydia Mahwanana, Cody Millar and Andy Gladding give guests room to explain how their work operates, then follow the details: building trust during…
Cape Town meets Hempstead, and your curiosity lands at Botswana weddings, telescope AI, and Hudson Valley radio.
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A measured conversation about AI, astronomy, and the work behind the sky.
The episode follows Dr. Daniel Cunnama through AI's role in astronomy, and it is at its best when it stays close to the labor: data sorting, student learning, and the tedious work AI could take on without pushing the science aside.
A steady hour that links inequality and trafficking in plainspoken terms.
One World Community Radio Program uses its Cape Town and Hempstead collaboration to frame trafficking as a matter of systems, not isolated scandal.
A patient community-radio conversation about period poverty, education, and young people pushing for more than basic access.
This community-radio conversation moves through period poverty, reproductive and sexual health, and the effort to make room for young people to ask questions without hesitation. The plainspoken tone fits the subject.
A community-radio conversation about evacuation models, public responsibility, and the people who have to act.
This One World segment turns on a practical, uneasy question: when a model says evacuate, who carries that choice? It ties that problem to a UN idea now reaching NGOs, international organizations, private companies, and academia, and sets newer models for action against older…
Peace Corps matching, counterpart work, and a Botswana linealo wedding shape the hour.
This Community Radio Program hour presents Peace Corps service as a process of matching, arrival, and steady presence. A volunteer describes how people are identified by skill set and prior experience, paired with an organization and a counterpart, and then sent to site after…
A look at how community radio extends its reach across a region.
This episode treats community radio like a piece of working infrastructure, not a slogan. It follows WALL Radio through AM 1340 in Middletown, eight translators across the Hudson Valley, and an HD2 channel on WPDH 101.5, and the interest is in how those pieces actually fit…
A patient look at how songs take shape across blues, Americana, gospel, and rock and roll.
Professor Louie spends the hour on how songs come together, from the first groove or lyric to the point where a record starts to carry a message.
The program opens with the community-radio partnership between Bush Radio in Cape Town and WRHU in Hempstead.
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Host Ricky Hubert interviews Zizi Dobogwana, founder of Sheba Feminine, on the One World Community Radio Show.
The program opens with its shared community-radio welcome from Cape Town and Hempstead, then settles into a thoughtful conversation with Dr.
The hour opens with a warm welcome to the One World Community Radio Program.
This episode introduces the One World Community Radio program, a collaboration between stations in Cape Town and New York that celebrates community radio, music, language, and culture.
This episode introduces a collaborative international radio program between Bush Radio in Cape Town and WRHU in Hempstead, celebrating community radio's role in connecting cultures through music and language.
The program opens with a warm community radio welcome from Bush Radio and WRHU.
The hour opens as a community-radio handshake.
This episode introduces a collaborative community radio program between Bush Radio in Cape Town and WRHU in Hempstead, celebrating music, language, and culture.
This episode introduces a collaborative community radio program between stations in Cape Town and New York, celebrating music, language, and culture.
This episode introduces a collaborative community radio program between Bush Radio in Cape Town and WRHU at Hofstra University, celebrating music, language, and culture.
This episode introduces a collaborative radio program between Bush Radio in Cape Town, South Africa and WRHU Radio in New York, highlighting international community radio partnerships.
This episode introduces a collaborative radio program between stations in South Africa and New York, celebrating community radio's role in connecting diverse cultures through music and language.