Following on from a successful first season in 2023, the limited series collaboration between Swinburne Media and Communication students and Vision Australia Radio is back for a second season in 2025. Running weekdays from January 6 – 17, the Swinburne Reading Radio program will broadcast across the Vision Australia Radio network from 6.30pm weekdays, delivering a selection of youth-focused stories sourced from local and international publications, along with content written by students for Swinburne University of Technology publications. This half-hour program provides a wide range of content from a youth perspective, with an emphasis on articles that look at inclusion, disability and accessibility. This initiative is driven by a small team of students under the supervision of Senior Media and Communications lecturer Peter Marcato, and is compiled, recorded and produced across the school year at the Swinburne Hawthorn campus in Melbourne.
On 2 December 2024, a group of students who contribute to the program, along with their lecturer Peter Marcato, attended the Vision Australia Radio studios in Kooyong for a studio visit and tour. During this session, the students learnt more about the network and its role in the community radio sector as a vital service for the blind, low vision and print disabled community. They also were invited to record scripts for a variety of community service announcements and on-air promotions, including for their Reading Radio program, that will be broadcast across the Vision Australia Radio network this year.
Listen to the Swinburne Reading Radio program live across the Vision Australia Radio network weekdays at 6.30pm from January 6 – 17 on your local Vision Australia Radio service, online at www.varadio.org or ask your smart speaker to play Vision Australia Radio.
L – R: Swinburne media and Communications lecturer Peter Marcato with students Louie, Sarah, Matthew and Nathan.
Pictured in front of a Vision Australia Radio banner in studio at Kooyong. L – R: Swinburne Media and Communications lecturer Peter Marcato with students Louie, Nathan, Sarah and Matthew.
