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Britain Prison Radio Station Wins Top Award

By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Wed May 13, 2009 at 08:39:00 AM EST
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Via the new site The Stimulist: It wasn't BBC that won the top award for radio at the Sony Radio Academy awards in the UK this week, it was Electric Radio Brixton, a prison radio station. The Guardian has the story:

[The station] won four prizes, including two prestigious gold awards. Run by the Prison Radio Association (PRA), most of the station’s music and speech output is produced and presented by prisoners. With a tagline of ‘making waves behind bars,’ it broadcasts 24 hours a day, but only inside the prison walls.”

I bet it's better than the Christian-oriented prison radio stations we get in this country.

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    Britain Prison Radio Station Wins Top Award | 6 comments (6 topical)

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    Very cool... (none / 0) (#1)
    by kdog on Wed May 13, 2009 at 09:42:26 AM EST
    and for as much as I rag on the nanny state UK, I can't imagine prison radio winning any awards here at home without the law and order brigade throwing a hissy fit...good on the Brits.

    But aren't you curious as to how the (none / 0) (#2)
    by oculus on Wed May 13, 2009 at 12:04:02 PM EST
    award-givers knew what the prison station was broadcasting?  Did they sign up for imprisonment to listen?  

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    Good question... (none / 0) (#3)
    by kdog on Wed May 13, 2009 at 12:13:12 PM EST
    With all the nanny-state laws over there, maybe everybody does a little time?...:)

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    Based in Brixton prison in south London, (none / 0) (#4)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Wed May 13, 2009 at 12:52:16 PM EST
    Based in Brixton prison in south London, its programmes cannot be picked up on the outside (to listen to its Sony entries, visit www.prisonradioassociation.org): they are made by and for inmates. Shows cover religion, poetry and music.


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    SUO, the literalist? (none / 0) (#5)
    by oculus on Wed May 13, 2009 at 12:56:57 PM EST


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    Ha! Just a tidbit I found while googling. (none / 0) (#6)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Wed May 13, 2009 at 01:11:40 PM EST
    That and I wanted to inform that one can listen to the actual Prison Radio entries on their website.

    At least it would seem so, I'm not able to open the PRA sound files...

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