Vietnam set to launch live radio sex phone-in show
HANOI - Communist Vietnam will open a
``Window on Love'' on Sunday when it launches a landmark
national radio sex phone-in programme, an editor said.
For the first month the half-hour show will be pre-recorded, but it is
scheduled to go live from April, the editor from Radio the Voice of
Vietnam said on Friday.
``Window on Love'' will for the first time give ordinary people
access to national broadcasting, offering them the opportunity to ask
questions related to sex, relationships and reproductive health, said
the editor, who declined to be identified.
``In terms of technique this is very new,'' he told Reuters. ``I think
this type of programme will attract a lot of young people...This will
be a new playground for them.''
``We are trying to start live broadcasts in April, but it depends on
the upcoming four experimental programmes.''
Discussions about sex are highly sensitive in Vietnam, where the
subject is generally taboo. Sex education in schools is limited.
The editor said once the show went live callers would be subject to
a 20-second delay before their voices aired. A health expert and a
psychologist will answer the questions.
National broadcaster Radio the Voice of Vietnam has no live
phone-ins, although a few provincial stations have experimented with
limited phone-ins or music request programmes.
Live broadcasts in the country are few. Official media are strictly
controlled with editors and journalists generally forced to exercise
tough self-censorship.
Television shows live football and occasional gatherings of the
country's National Assembly. Most shows, including the national
news, are pre-recorded.
``Window on Love'' has been developed with help from the United
Nations Population Fund and the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Reuters - March 05, 1999.
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