{"id":30602,"date":"2018-01-30T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=30602"},"modified":"2018-01-30T07:00:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T11:00:16","slug":"bbc-meet-the-girl-whose-teacher-is-a-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/bbc-meet-the-girl-whose-teacher-is-a-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC: &#8220;Meet the girl whose teacher is a radio&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BBC-Radio-Classroom-e1517309787334.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30603\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BBC-Radio-Classroom-e1517309787334.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mike Hansgen, who shares this news\/media from the BBC World Service:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p05vyh38\/player\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Could broadcasting school lessons solve Africa&#8217;s education crisis? The BBC spoke to a pupil in the Democratic Republic of Congo who is learning through the radio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p05vyh38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on the BBC World Service website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/earstoourworld.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ears To Our World<\/a> we&#8217;ve long appreciated the power of radio to spread information in rural and remote parts of the world: it&#8217;s effective, accessible and essentially free to the listener. <em>Viva la radio!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike Hansgen, who shares this news\/media from the BBC World Service: Could broadcasting school lessons solve Africa&#8217;s education crisis? The BBC spoke to a pupil in the Democratic Republic of Congo who is learning through the radio. Click here to view on the BBC World Service website. 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