A radio community is a living, thriving, wriggling, combative, remarkable thing. As I prepare to step down I will not miss the early starts. But I know I will not find the kind of conversations and connection to an audience I have had in radio more than anywhere else, writes Virginia Trioli.
You can have absolutely nothing in common with the person listening in with you on any given morning, yet you come together again and again, curious or dismayed by each other: pinned in the car with the groceries melting in the boot as a fellow listener shares a story; or shouting at the radio as a guest refuses to answer the question.
Some days it's chief fact-checker and combatant — calling bullshit on … well … bullshit and holding speculation and speculators to account. But something has certainly changed: a sense of entitlement, or a sense of resentment and grievance that rises easily to the surface, or a feeling of a lack of control, perhaps even of financially drowning, that is so unsettling that it leads to behaviour that would surely shame someone once they managed to reach a calmer state.The once unsayable is so easily said. The truly appalling is so easily expressed.
I've had people call me on air and offer to employ a listener's struggling son or clean another's home or fund a child's treatment. Generosity is unending, even while it's surprising every time.Radio is a place all of its own
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