[cma-l] Community Radio presenter has show on Radio 4 this Monday

Mon Jun 16 09:10:26 BST 2014

Great news and congratulations to Magada and the two Stations.  
All very good for highlighting the quality of work coming out of Community Stations.

 Shirls

 Shirley Ludford
Station Manager. Trainer
SWINDON 105.5

Mob: 07951 366289

www.swindon1055.com

High Sheriff's Award for Services to Community
Pride Of Swindon Award
Patron, Commonweal School

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 From: Phil Gibbons <philjgibbons at gmail.com>
To: "cma-l at commedia.org.uk" <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>; CMA-Mailing-List <cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk> 
Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2014, 1:14
Subject: [cma-l] Community Radio presenter has show on Radio 4 this Monday

As discussed today in the BBC session at the CMA Conference in
Leicester, it gives me great pleasure to announce that Bradley Stoke
Radio and Somer Vally fm 'Poles Aloud' presenter Magda Bond has been
commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to produce and present a special
documentary on Polish nationals living in Britain.  Now ready for
broadcast, Magda's feature which is called "Pole to Pole" will be
aired at 11am on Monday 16th June on BBC Radio 4.

It is encouraging to note that Magda's success here has come directly
out of a pitch to a BBC senior producer at the recent Radio Academy
event in Bristol called 'Meet the Hirers and Firers' back in February
2014, and it just goes to show that if you pitch to the right people
in the media industry and show a willingness to work hard, you will
get to where you want to be.

Magda learnt her radio trade when I was the station manager and
trainer at BCfm in Bristol where she was the producer of the Polish
show, Radiowski until changes saw her and the team move the show to
fellow community radio stations Somer Valley fm and Bradley Stoke
Radio. The show is now called Poles Aloud.

Programme Synopsis

It's 10 years since Poland joined the EU, and Polish nationals became
free to come and go from Britain as they pleased. There are now at
least half a million Polish people living in the UK, and Polish is now
the second most spoken language. After the initial "flood" of
migrants, many returned home richer. But some others, like Magda Bond,
one of the presenters of this programme, have chosen to make permanent
lives here and never want to go home.

But now Magda has to decide whether to take British citizenship. It's
not just a question of sentimentality - if Britain were to leave the
EU, then the legal position of Poles living in Britain would be
unclear: in theory, they would have no automatic right to stay. But
beyond that, the question of whether or not to take citizenship forces
Poles to think about who they are and what they are really doing here.

Unlike previous waves of post-war migrants, most Poles arrived with no
definite intention of staying. Poland is close enough that it was easy
to go back if things didn't work out. But for many, life intervened:
they found British partners, had British children, and slowly acquired
British accents and became addicted to British soaps.

But ten years on, how well integrated are the Poles into British life?
Do they feel they belong yet, and do they feel welcome? As Magda
prepares to take the official "Life in the UK" test, she and Jolyon
talk to Polish people here: a Polish businesswoman who feels her
compatriots are still not stepping up to the plate in terms of
community engagement; a Polish psychiatrist who reveals what his
Polish clients tell him; the Polish UKIP candidate. She discovers that
Poles do not love the NHS: many believe that British GPs prescribe
paracetemol for everything, even when antibiotics are called for. She
learns that many Poles feel "stigmatised" by British politicians, and
under-appreciated. And she discovers that Poles are world-class
grumblers, possibly rivalling even the British.

May I take this opportunity to congratulate Magda on her success! Well
done Magda.

TUNE IN MONDAY, 11AM, BBC RADIO 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046j8zf

Phil Gibbons
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