{"id":62060,"date":"2025-02-13T08:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T12:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62060"},"modified":"2025-02-13T08:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T12:20:20","slug":"world-radio-day-2025-celebrating-nuxalk-radios-mission-to-revive-language-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/world-radio-day-2025-celebrating-nuxalk-radios-mission-to-revive-language-and-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"World Radio Day 2025: Celebrating Nuxalk Radio\u2019s Mission to Revive Language and Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This World Radio Day, we celebrate the power of community radio with World Wide Waves \u201925: Whispers in the Air,<\/a> a moving documentary presented by Maria Margaronis and produced by our friend David Goren.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>This BBC World Service feature highlights Nuxalk Radio<\/a>, a small yet powerful station broadcasting from a trailer in Bella Coola, British Columbia. For the past decade, this station has been a beacon of cultural revival, helping the Nuxalk people reclaim their language and identity after decades of suppression. Through bilingual weather forecasts, recordings of elders, and new music blending ancient and modern sounds, Nuxalk Radio is not just preserving the past\u2014it\u2019s building a bridge to the future. Don\u2019t miss this inspiring story of resilience and the enduring power of radio.<\/p>\n

Listen now: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w3ct7mch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This World Radio Day, we celebrate the power of community radio with World Wide Waves \u201925: Whispers in the Air, a moving documentary presented by Maria Margaronis and produced by our friend David Goren.   This BBC World Service feature highlights Nuxalk Radio, a small yet powerful station broadcasting from a trailer in Bella Coola, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[327,174,10702,619,10703],"class_list":["post-62060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-david-goren","tag-nuxalk-radio","tag-world-radio-day","tag-world-radio-day-2025"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-g8Y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36919,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/radio-doc-new-york-citys-pirates-of-the-air\/","url_meta":{"origin":62060,"position":0},"title":"Radio Doc: New York City\u2019s pirates of the air","author":"Thomas","date":"April 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post friend, David Goren (the same fellow behind Shortwaveology and the Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map) has just produced and presented a BBC World Service documentary about the pirate radio scene in NYC. 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