Theo Greenly had never heard of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands until he read the job description. Over a thousand miles of snow-capped volcanoes stretching from Alaska to Russia, across the Bering Sea. And the single radio station covering the archipelago was hiring a reporter. Here’s Theo telling the story of how he wound up living on a volcano in the Bering Sea. And about getting more than what he bargained for.

Keri Jones, founder of the smallest radio station in the world, Radio Scilly, found his passion for radio when he volunteered at a local station so he could get out of taking gym classes. It was there when Jones discovered the communing powers of radio. He has since spent his career using the platform to foster community engagement, discourse, and education. Keri speaks with Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson of Common Ground Berlin about his experience developing community radio stations, growing his audiences, and providing listeners with reliable access to local news.

Longtime NPR presenter Lulu Garcia-Navarro now produces the New York Times Opinion podcast “First Person”. In this interview she tells Dina Elsayed how she ended up in radio, and what challenges are currently faced by the 100-year-old medium in her view – for example competition with TikTok, or the fact that consumer habits have shifted to on-demand media consumption.

John Masuku has been a radio broadcaster in Zimbabwe since 1980. And he has experienced many changes in his country’s radio scene over the decades. He talks to Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson about the turbulent times during Zimbabwe’s independence movement, and about the huge importance radio came to have in his country.

It is hard to imagine public radio in the USA without NPR’s “Morning Edition” – a show that Steve Inskeep has been presenting for nearly two decades. Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson talks to him about his favourite radio anecdotes, his most influential experience as an NPR host, and more.