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Tv & Radio > News & Features Sunday March 12, 2006
Eye on the CIA
AIR RAVES
By ANTHONY THANASAYAN
LISTENERS who are into cloak-and-dagger stuff can look forward to a new radio programme that examines the Central Intelligence Agency’s role in American interests in the Middle East.
Secret Wars: The CIA and the Middle East is a two-part series of 25 minutes each on BBC World Service radio starting tomorrow.
The London-based broadcaster’s correspondent Gordon Corera will scrutinise the CIA’s covert operations in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
Issues such as the resignation of CIA director George Tenet, the damning inquiry into the organisation’s failure to turn up weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and the verdict of the 9/11 commission are some of the topics the programme will explore.
Corera used his wide range of contacts in the intelligence world to gain access to the CIA spies and policymakers.
Secret Wars, produced by David Edmonds, can be heard on Monday at 11.05am, with repeats on the same day at 3.05pm and 9.05pm, and at 3.05am on Tuesday.
The frequencies to tune in to on shortwaves are 11.955kHz, 25m; 17.760kHz, 16m; 9.740kHz, 31m; 6.195kHz, 49m; and, 3.915kHz, 75m.
The programme can also be heard online at www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/index.shtml.
Radio replay
TO mark Thaipusam on Feb 11, Red 104.9’s Red Morning Affair deejays Tim and Shareena decided to do something special on the eve of the Hindu festival in honour of Lord Murugan.
Shareena joined the throng of devotees and tourists at Kuala Lumpur’s historical Batu Caves as part of the radio show.
Between 7am and 10am, she was reporting on the ground, feeding Tim in the studio plenty of live crossovers.
Listeners got to follow Shareena’s little adventure, starting from her home, how she missed the train, and how she finally hailed a taxi to get her to the caves on time.
Such enthusiasm contrasted sharply with coverage on Chap Goh Meh (Feb 12), the 15th and final day of Chinese New Year celebrations.
Monitoring our local FM bands just before midnight on the eve of Chap Goh Meh, it appeared to be just an ordinary hour on many stations, despite the full moon in the night sky occasionally lit up by brilliant displays of fireworks.
Some of the stations were more interested in talking about the upcoming Valentine’s Day, which was two days away.
But over on MY FM, 988 and Ai FM, although I couldn’t understand a single word of Chinese, it wasn’t difficult for me to guess what the deejays on these stations were raving about.
And boy did they bring the house down!
Anthony Thanasayan, who was born disabled, is an avid radio listener. His work, training special dogs for the physically handicapped, has been featured on local and international radio. His dogs, he says, help him ‘stay in tune with life’. E-mail him at athanasayan@hotmail.com.
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