SpeedQueen in Bosnia and Herzegovina
An Englishman in the Balkans Archive 2013-2025
02/02/22
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Between 2002 and 2004, a successful Club in Leeds UK, called SpeedQueen, temporarily set up in the north west of Bosnia and Herzegovina to bring a new experience to the youth of the area.NATO at that time had a byline for their operation. It was “Mir i Tolerancija”, or “Peace and Tolerance”SpeedQueen however, really hit the mark with youth audiences with their “Harmonija I Fantazija” or “Harmony and Fantasy”.This podcast starts to tell that story.
I think one of the biggest experiences that we had was, we got asked by NATO, by the Stabilisation Force– if we would go and work in Bosnia, because, there was a guy there in the British Army who read about the kind of work we were doing in Leeds, in terms of integration. And he’d started a program to try and integrate the young displaced people after the war because there'd been this huge genocide in Bosnia years previously. And, he'd told us that the older generation were even more prejudiced after the war, like more set in their ways, and they were trying to, they were trying to integrate the youth through music. and he asked if we would go out there, like for ten days, and run some club nights where they were gonna try and integrate the youth and we said yeah..Suzy Mason, SpeedQueen Leeds 2002.
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Hello and welcome to this week's post, which is audio based. Why? Well this 13th February is World Radio Day.As you will know from following the blog, plus my content on social platforms, I have always been passionate about radio.In fact, I came to Bosnia and Herzegovina back in 1998, to launch a radio station!Back to this post. My initial plan was to write about the history of this UN launched project, but, by pure happenstance, an old radio buddy of mine who is in Canada, and runs a community station there, contacted me and asked if we could chat about radio for his programme on Midtown Radio.I simply couldn’t refuse, so here’s David Harmes, chatting with me about radio and why its so important a medium.Click on the player at the top of this post to listen :)
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Connection - The world is always changing, so radio connects. This sub-theme refers to radio's services to our society!
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