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TUNE INTO THIS BROADCAST Click on the radio 9 MG download		SHOW 6: CULTURE, HERITAGE, & ART

		SCRIPT, SHOW 6 00:01 – 01:02 Music, Quote, Show ID 01:03 – 01:36 (Narrated Introduction, Tessa van Staden) Sustainable development depends as much on our ability to create as it does on our ability to learn from and alter harmful habits. We have to be innovative and we have to develop new ways to grow crops and build homes without eroding the soil and destroying vegetation. We have to communicate and voice our own opinions without threatening others. This need to create unites us because we all need to express ourselves as Joseph Shabalala, founder and lead singer of the award-winning South African group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, points out… 01:36 – 01:51 (Joseph Shabalala, founder and lead singer, Ladysmith Black Mambazo) Music is something like bringing people together without chaos. People can come and laugh and jump, therefore music is very important… 01:52 – 02:04 (Narration, TvS) For centuries man has carved images, painted and made music. Shabalala says humans are surrounded by a universal melody… 02:05 – 02:38 (Joseph Shabalala) Around the world, each and everyone has music: even trees, even wires, even mountains, goats, cows – they have music. Therefore, if we all begin, like even in church, before they preach, they begin with that harmony… mmmm (Shabalala hums). Mmmm… mmmm… and then people started to understand what was going on. 02:39 – 02:42 (Narration, TvS) Shabalala believes talent-sharing will encourage tolerance… 02:43 – 03:05 (Joseph Shabalala) But if you come with your talent, there’s no argument. We can sit down and salute you and another comes with his talent; he can sit down and salute you. Therefore, our education is to show people how to respect one another… (Singing fades in, underneath narration) 03:06 – 03:17 (Narration, TvS) As part of this Peace Diaries Radio Segment Joseph Shabalala, founder of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, has a special musical message for those younger listeners tuning into this broadcast… 03:17 – 04:06 (Joseph Shabalala sings) Shabalala sings, singing fades out slowly. 04:07 – 04:26 (Narration, TvS) Sesame Street has been referred to as one of the most popular children’s television programs. Originally produced and broadcast in the US, it is now seen by millions of children across the globe. Bob McGrath, longtime producer of Sesame Street, says the program takes its educational mission seriously… 04:27 – 05:06 (Bob McGrath, producer ‘Sesame Street’) It’s really through children that we can plant the seeds of peace for the future, and it’s encouraging to know that Sesame Street has attempted to foster respect and understanding in children. One of the principal goals of Sesame Street for over 30 yrs has been to model acceptance and tolerance for those from different ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities or those of different ages and perspectives, who might not look or sound the same as we do, but we hope; we try to teach them to appreciate the differences in those and perhaps discover the similarities. 05:07 – 05:18 (Narration, TvS) McGrath emphasizes that television can be used to foster understanding, partly because it’s a medium without borders – unlike so many of the divided regions where the program is broadcast… 05:19 – 06:18 (Bob McGrath) Sesame Street is seen in over a 100 English-speaking countries, and has co-productions in 50 or more countries with about 20 different languages and there’s a new Israeli-Palestinian & Jordanian joint production development at the moment. As you can imagine, there are really countless hurdles to work out for these groups including even, I was surprised to learn, the name Sesame Street, the title of the show, because those 3 groups living & mingling freely together on a street is unrealistic, so the present working title of the show is Sesame Stories. They hope that by sharing separate, but parallel, stories they can help the kids start to, I guess, humanize their historic enemies. And the feeling is that once you have a level of humanity, it’s really hard to hate someone. 06:19 – 06:33 (Narration, TvS) Across Africa, much emphasis is placed on the oral tradition. By telling stories, elders remind children of their heritage and their past. Reverend Desmond Tutu, former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, explains why this is important… 06:34 – 06:59 (Desmond Tutu, world leader & former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town) The other thing about remembering where you come from is so that we hope that you would not repeat it, you would not inflict on any people the kind of suffering that was inflicted on your people 07:00 – 07:18 (Narration, TvS) It’s not only artists and community leaders that are concerned about preserving heritage and reminding the youth of their past. Prof. Heinz Ruther is head of the Dept of Geomatics at the University of Cape Town. Ruther wants to document, protect and publish current examples of ancient Africa… 07:19 – 08:11 (Prof. Heinz Ruther, Dept of Geomatics, University of Capetown) I want to document African heritage sites, like… Well, there are various types, especially the Arabic buildings and some of the older stone structures in Zimbabwe, but also cityscapes, such as Zanzibar. I want to create a 3-D model of that, and this would then form part of a database that - when viewed by computer - could be walked through or flown over in a 3-dimensional way. In addition to that we would have any form of data linking to the sites, such as excavation records, old photographs…. any documents, papers which would have been written about the site. And all this would be collected in the database. 08:12 – 08:22 (Ruther continued) My principle objective is really to create African awareness, making it accessible to schoolchildren, putting all of this onto CDs and then distributing these CDs to schools, or even higher-learning institutions. 08:23 – 08:29 (Narration, TvS) Ruther says proof of their heritage will hopefully encourage African youth to be proud of their past… 08:30 – 09:20 (Ruther continued) Creation of African awareness is important because there is really very little awareness of history in Africa. There’s a lot in Europe; information they’re collecting from the former colonial powers, museums etc. but there’s very little in Africa. Sites are largely ignored – even world heritage sites are getting destroyed, like the Fortress of Kildar, which I’m working on now. I was there in March, I took photos, and when I came back in June part of the structure had collapsed. Even the locals are not aware of it. In the next town, nobody knows about it. So, if one could sort of introduce this thing into schools and make school children aware that there is in fact an African history, not just a European one. I think it would make them proud of being African. There is sort of an understanding that everything from Europe or America is better, and I think if I can convince them that they have their own history to be proud of, and their own culture. 09:21 – 09:33 (Narration, TvS) That was Prof. Heinz Ruther, Head of the University of Cape Town’s Dept of Geomatics. The Peace Diaries Radio Segments thanks Philip Glass Studios in NYC, and Janet Oseroff, for making this program possible. 09:34 – 10:25 (Music fades in: SHOW OUTRO) (PDRS funded by WKellogg Foundation; Gandhi tribute and a Web site mention)