I get to travel quite a bit. Our business is organizing educational programs for teachers with their students. It feels so important in this day and age. I get to listen to public radio a lot when I am home. It gives me a true international feel for our world. It elevates the conversation and it helps to educate me about places and people I am unfamiliar with… It works well with what I do. We hopefully leave students in a better place than where they started.

Our job is to work with teachers and our own guides to bring people and places to relevance. In our social media world with easy instant access to almost anything, we try to advocate for ‘Being There’. But being there is sometimes not always possible. It’s why I love listening to Public Radio international news coverage. It’s why I listen to BBC. There is a big wide world out there and the more we try to understand it, the better we are as citizens  and the better we can prepare ourselves for travel and the world beyond our towns and cities.

So here’s my shout out to public radio. Without you, we would be reduced to sound bites of not necessarily important gossip and without you, our world would be a slightly less informed place. I would travel with less information than I should. So thanks on behalf of all the teachers and students who benefit from your analysis and wisdom, as we all get to see our world sometimes simplified. There’s a whole wide world out there and we can be a part of it through your airwaves.