Last Sunday saw the second and last feature by BBC Radio Berkshire on KCIS and theTwiga Children's Centre in Kisii on the Clare Catford show. It can be heard on iPlayer here, rolling it forward to about 2:37:00
It featured the voices of some of the children, Aloys, Dennis, Edwin and Esther, as well as a group of the children singing.
The BBC Radio Berkshire website also features an audio slideshow and a short writeup about KCIS.
There is excitement in the KCIS camp as the broadcast date approaches for a feature to be run over two weeks on our local BBC radio station.
It was pure luck that we got the slot. A researcher for the station was going to Kenya with a charity that she volunteers for and as luck would have it, she was being sent to Kisii, where we are based.
On of her colleagues had been following our blog and pointed it out to the researcher, and we were contacted.
We had a meeting and off she went, with contact details and a broad outline of the activities of KCIS.
She has now returned with loads of sounds effects, interviews with the Twiga children, poems, songs, etc., and she is now compiling the feature, the first being a short slot this Sunday, comprising all pre-recorded material, followed the following week by a live interview with yours truly.
This is not the first time I have featured on local radio for KCIS, but this time, it is far more structured and much better prepared. I just hope that I hold my own in the live segment - I am not a natural public speaker.
Time will tell.
