"This book is addressed to those who wish or who have to write educational programmes for radio. Its aim is to point to ways and methods of writing appropriate material for radio. It reviews various radio formats: Non-dramatic ones like announcements, reports, commentary, talk, interviews, etc; and
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dramatised programmes: features and plays. This edition replaces previous ones ("Handbook for Scriptwriters of Adult Education Broadcasts", published by FES in 1969, 2 vol.) and is based on workshops for scriptwriters of adult education broadcasts conducted by the author in Tanzania and other countries for more than 20 years." (Publisher description)
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"Mientras la prensa es mediata, la radio es inmediata. Puede estar al pie de la noticia en cualquier momento y podemos recibir su mensaje casi sin limitaciones, porque el transistor y las baterías no nos obligan a depender de la energía eléctrica. Lo anterior nos hace pensar que la radio requiere
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, día a díá, más gente preparada en su manejo, mejores especialistas en cada una de sus manifestaciones y auténticos místicos de una profesión, tan llena de expectativas, de futuro y de grandes realizaciones. La competencia de Ja radio frente a los otros medios, es primordialmente dar, cada vez, más y mejor servicio. Y antes que disputarse un determinado público, le brinda a éste un complemento y una mayor ampliación de la cultura, la información y la distracción. El principal objetivo de este libro es poder brindar a quienes se interesen por la radio una información lo más completa posible sobre sü funcionamiento, su manejo, sus incidencias como medio de comunicación y las diferentes alternativas que brinda en el plano profesional." (Introducción, página 9)
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"La obra constituye uno de los aportes más valiosos que se hayan escrito para orientar adecuadamente en trabajo idóneo de los radiodifusores, y la participación de los radioescuchas, en el proceso de la comunicación puesta al servicio de la educación, la cultura y el desarrollo de las naciones.
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" (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"This book is intended to serve a number of purposes: For those concerned in management, it provides ideas about the use of radio in Africa and a guide to the development of staff and staff training programmes. For instructors and training officers, it offers source material for lectures and demonst
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rations and help in working out training projects. In the early chapters many questions are raised which can be used as the basis of class discussions. Discussion of ideas is valuable: it stimulates thinking and gives the instructor a chance to find out whether his ideas are getting through. For senior producers who may have trainees to supervise but little time to spend with them, this book may provide what is needed for assignment work. It will be useful also for working broadcasters with little or no access to training facilities and for students of broadcasting it provides a course manual. Outside contributors interested in radio, teachers and discussion group leaders can learn from it something about how radio and radio programming works." (How to use this book)
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"The title of this book is misleading: the publication does not cover radio programming (i.e., the practice of organizing radio programmes in a daily or weekly schedule), but introduces into different programme formats like news, panel discussions, listener participation programmes, radio music and
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drama." (commbox)
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"L’auteur examine tout à la fois l'aspect humain du travail de l'animateur et les exigences techniques de cette profession." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1087, topic code 252.0)
"Guide for radio and television writers — Techniques of evaluating the audience — Analyses of special techniques for writing programmes — Advertisements, music, interviews, etc. Drama, serials (p. 145-370) — Political broadcasts, appendices, techniques and bibliographies." (Jean-Marie Van Bo
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l, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 819, topic code 252.0, 442.0)
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