Afghan radio and TV switched on again

(15 Nov 2001)

1. Radio station
2. Radio Afghanistan sign
3. Tape playing music (banned under Taliban)
4. Radio sound desk and people working
5. Technician coming to the
6. Zoom in to sound mixer
7. Zoom in to technician's hands on buttons
8. Audio female presenter
9. Female presenter talking in studio
10. Technician with studio in front
11. Sound mixer in studio
12. Male and female presenters
13. Female presenter, pan to her hands
14. Radio newsroom sign - news department
15. Pan across newsroom
16. Journalists working
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Radio Director
"Now radio Afghanistan is working. It is broadcasting news, commentary, and other contents. We have three hours programming in the morning and four in the evening. We are also trying to start Television."
18. Wide of telex machine
19. Close up telex machine printing incoming news reports
20. Exterior semi-destroyed satellite antennae
21. Close up antennae

STORYLINE:

Afghanistan's radio returned to the airwaves on Thursday, less than two days after Kabul was liberated.

With the hardline Islamic militia gone from the capital, the Taliban's Radio Shariat - the Arabic word for Islamic law - was renamed Radio Afghanistan.

Female journalists and presenters joined male colleagues in the on-air studio, playing music banned under the hard-line Taliban regime.

They aired public service messages and statements from the alliance defence ministry, urging people to remain calm and return to work.

In one of its first acts, the Northern Alliance lifted many of the harsh Taliban restrictions, included those banning girls from school and women from work.

Afghan radio workers were able to broadcast seven hours of programmes as they try to return music to the airwaves of Afghanistan.

TV Afghanistan, also defunct under the Taliban, is being re-established and expects to begin broadcasting soon even though the transmission tower was destroyed by recent US bombs

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