The Radio Show that Broadcasts from Inside a Mental Hospital

20 Apr 2015

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Two decades ago, a psychology student doing his training at one of Argentina's oldest psychiatric wards kept being asked by his family and friends what it was like to work in there. So he came up with an idea: to let the patients explain in their own words. The first radio station to broadcast from inside a mental hospital was born. Radio La Colifata - has been on air from Hospital Jose Borda in Buenos Aires for 23 years. The voices it includes are enough to make anyone in the mainstream world of journalism stop, listen and think about how truth lies beyond what has been institutionally prescribed.

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