“This year we’re introducing a whole lot of new characters and tackling varying social issues,” shares drama editor Fiona Ledger. Artiste Prakash Gandharba, who performs in the radio drama as Dilu Gandharba, will be the traveling to the eastern and northwestern parts of Nepal to meet new characters and interact with them.
Discussing social inequalities and youth issues, KMS has been airing through 113 FM stations across Nepal. Although the dialogues of the radio drama are fully improvised, the storyline is prepared beforehand. Each story is broadcasted as a five-episode series.
“This year we’re naming each series with a female name and bringing in a mixture of urban and rural stories,” says Ledger. The season will begin with “Manamaya’s Tale.” It takes Dilu Ghandarba to a Limbu village where he meets Manamaya, a bold woman. Thus unfolds a story of corruption and comedy.
After the five-series drama, “Sapana’s Tale” will be airing through KMS. The drama has been written by Shivani Singh Tharu. Her previous dramas, “Binita’s and Ashik’s Tale” and “Roini’s Tale” received a stream of good responses from listeners. With “Sapana’s Tale,” Tharu will be sharing her own experiences as a media personality.
Herself the scriptwriter and director of KMS, Tharu says, “Sapana’s Tale is that of a young 19 year old girl who lands in the modeling field by chance and is sucked by the world of glamour. It’s a tale young working females of today can relate to.”
“Sapana uses her past experience as a model in her current job as a journalist and gives the newspaper she works for a major scoop. It upholds the theme of KMS – describing men in relation to women,” she adds.
With an estimated listenership of three million in Nepal, the radio series aims to continue broadcasting until December 2011. Ledger mentions that if adequate funding is received, the radio series could be turned into a television series as well. The series has been supported by DFID (-Department for International Development/UKAid) and UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund).
Today’s episode of KMS will broadcast Manamaya’s Tale directed and produced by Bhabasagar Ghimire.
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