Students co-create international radio programme for World Radio Day
To mark World Radio Day 2026, BU students collaborated with Dr Gloria Khamkar, Principal Academic in Journalism in The Media School to produce a 20-minute radio programme, Voices of Identity in the Age of AI - a project now being broadcast by radio stations as far away as Canada and India.
While this year’s global theme focuses on Radio and Artificial Intelligence, the programme takes a deliberately human-centred approach. Instead of exploring the technology itself, it looks at how radio continues to give space to authentic voices, lived experiences, and real human connection in an increasingly AI-shaped media landscape.
A global collaboration of human stories
Contributors from around the world - including Ukraine, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, the UK, India, and Hong Kong - recorded their own audio reflections. By capturing and voicing their stories directly, each contributor maintains full ownership of their experience, highlighting the unique power of voice in storytelling.
Showcasing student cocreation
The project reflects BU’s commitment to student cocreation, giving students the opportunity to collaborate on a professional quality broadcast from concept to production. Working alongside an academic, students helped shape the narrative, structure the programme, and bring a powerful set of international perspectives together.
This experience showcases the value of collaborative storytelling - a key principle embedded in our teaching and creative practice at BU.
