Every Saturday in Argentina, mental patients at the Jose Borda hospital run a six-hour radio show. The residents of the psychiatric hospital talk about politics or read poetry or sing.
Radio La Colifata, or Crazy Radio has 12 million listeners, more than half of what Howard Stern had when he left terrestrial radio.
The popularity, not to mention the therapeutic value to patients, has inspired 20 other psychiatric hospitals in Argentina to launch their own radio shows. Germany and France followed suit. The La Colifata group has now set their sites on creating television shows.
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I love that the word crazy in this usage has such an affectionate ring to it. Too bad that title would never fly in the US. Over here we would PC all the endearment out of it and call it something nuanceless like Mentally Handicapped Radio.
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