Behind the Scenes
After carefully examining this Akanasuma radio set that regularly fed the household with news, I wondered where the speakers were? So I was told i asked where these guys were? I was still curious to know how the radio worked, when managed to dismantle my mum's red stereo cum radio set, when it was misbehaving some years later. In fact, after slapping one mini sunny sound system, belonging to my old boy, after continuously sounding too nasal, I had to operate upon it to fix it. So I did and finally destroyed this 1988 set in the process. Interestingly, it was in 2007, when I joined the production unit of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Radio session as an intern, that I got a clearer insight on what goes into radio transmission, as well as what goes on behind the console and in the production unit. It was then I fully appreciated the efforts of the Producers, the Technicians, Engineers among others, who ensure that the voices of the Journalists, news anchors, the host and