Interview with Radio Amazonia broadcaster Beth Begonha, by Martin Butera.
Beth Begonha "Brazilian Amazon"
Presented from Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., the program carries the restlessness, educational and service personnel related to the history and culture of the Amazon.
The listener participates in the program through letters that give suggestions, ask questions and ask for songs. There is also the participation of reporters and interviewees directly from the Amazon region.
The broadcaster Beth Begonha has been conducting the program called "Brazilian Amazon" since 2003. We were able to speak in a relaxed interview in the studio itself, during the cuts in the air outings.
She is a very wanted announcer, since Beth Begonha herself made several trips to visit indigenous towns and communities, creating a strong and very beautiful relationship with them.
Through the microphones of the National Radio of the Amazon, Beth Begonha speaks with the awareness of who lived the reality of the Amazon. Its program talks about environmental issues and highlights the need to assess the cultural identity of indigenous communities, and all the riverside that live on the Amazon River.
Graduated in journalism in an Amazonian city, Beth says she has been through adverse conditions and her story serves as a motivation to guide education in the Brazilian Amazon and encourage listeners to return to school. "I studied and completed my university course with great effort, and I believe that this testimony is also an important element in this incentive, which has had many beautiful results."
The Beth Begonha program performs unprecedented work, inserts indigenous peoples into the agenda of the program, opening a space that values ​​these Brazilians.
The musical part is not only dedicated to popular and successful Brazilian songs, here the listeners have the opportunity to listen to songs that are produced directly inside the Amazon.
Beth Begonha's program has generated the important relationship of other listeners with indigenous peoples, increasing empathy and respect for their culture.
This relationship with the indigenous population led Beth Begonha to a relevant transmission outside the studies, it was when I visited the Xingu Indigenous Park in 2007, where he covered the visit of the then Minister of Justice Tarso Genro (Brazilian lawyer, journalist and politician affiliated with Workers' Party, is currently the governor of the state of Rio Grande do Sul).
Beth Begonha's program not only had the brave idea of ​​transmitting directly from the Amazon rainforest and different indigenous camps in Brazil, it has also transmitted from several meetings that dealt with the biodiversity of the Amazon.
One of these relevant transmissions was the one that took place from June 18 to 22, 2012. During "Rio + 20", the biggest environmental event of the last decade.
Then you can see a small fragment on video
(Portuguese language), about this talk with wanted radio host Amazonia "Beth Begonha".