RADIO DRAMA CATEGORY - FINALISTS China National Radio (CNR) New Year's Day at Home Door A sudden and menacing epidemic infectious virus came to people and threatened everyone. Lily, the daughter, who is a nurse in the drama, is not only duty-bound to be busy in the front line of treating patients, but also in great danger of being infected with the virus at any time. Her parents are even more concerned about her safety everyday and every hour. This is the New Year's Eve of the Spring Festival, the most important traditional festival in China. It is the time when the whole family must get together for the New Year's Eve dinner. The New Year's Eve dinner is the most ceremonial and important meal in the whole year and is the symbolofthe NewYear.Butnow, thereisnodaughteronthetable-sheisstilltreatingpatientsinthehospital.When the doorbell rang and the door opened, the daughter stood outside the house: she took advantage of a short break to run home and offer a toast to her parents with a glass of drink to reunite their families; to comfort their missing by a quick look. However, the time was short and in order to prevent virus infection, the daughter could not enter the house, so she had to drink the glass poured by her parents at the door and eat a bite of the food that her parents had prepared. In the tears of her parents, she turned away and went to her post in the hospital. A short gathering at home door was how they celebrated the New Year. Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) Tears in Wuhan Dinara is an Indonesian student currently studying in Wuhan, China. She studiesin a university through a scholarship she receives sincetwo years ago. Dinara is very familiar with one of the local residents' families whose son, Li Meng Zhin, is her classmate. Dinara is so familiar with them that she is considered an adopted child. Dinara and Li Meng Zhin love each other.When the corona virus epidemic broke out, Li Meng Zhin's family was infected with the corona virus. Dinara was forbidden from approaching his adopted family. One day she received news of grief, her adoptive parents, mother and father including Li Meng Zhin passed away, Dinara was very sad.Dinara and his friends including Nisa and Tasya from Indonesia could only stay in campus dorm room. Wuhan city conditions is increasingly gripping. Many countries withdraw their citizens from the city including the Indonesian government.But during the evacuation process, Nisa was declared unable to leave Wuhan because her body temperature reached 40 degrees celsius. As close friends, Dinara and Tasya decided to accompany Nisa in Wuhan and at the same time devoted themselves as volunteers to help the Indonesian Embassy in China. 1 RADIO DRAMA CATEGORY - FINALISTS Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) The Days of Depression – A Shogi Master’s Invisible Opponent - Senzaki Manabu has been playing shogi (Japanese chess) professionally for over 30 years. He is ranked 9-dan, the highest rank. But in 2017, he was diagnosed with depression. Overwork had made him severely ill. His wife, a professional go (board game) player, and his brother, a psychiatrist, stood by his side throughout his treatment. The golden rule for depression is to rest your brain. Yet shogi is a game that requires prolonged concentration and strategic decision-making. Everyone encouraged him to take a break from shogi but for Senzaki, shogi was all he had. He couldn’t imagine his days without playing the game. So, he made a daring move to cure his depression with shogi. Swallowing his pride, he asked his younger disciples to play against him and he slowly began to reclaim his sensibility for the game. This is a true story about Senzaki’s battle with depression. Radio Romania (ROR) PEOPLE'S HOUSE Casa Poporului/People's House, radio script by Ilinca Stihi after Cifre în delir (When Big is not Beautiful), collage and lyrics by Ioana Ieronim, is a sound essay that proposes the re- evaluation of the significance of the People's House, one of the largest buildings in the world. The dizzying figures of the quantities of materials used are opposed by the number of human sacrifices and irretrievable urban destruction. The People’s Housereproduces through sound theatmosphere of the epoch, but it also restores the memory of the voices of those over whom the roller of history has passed. 2 RADIO DOCUDRAMA CATEGORY - FINALISTS Australian Broadcasting Corporation(ABC) Punk in a pandemic In a share house in Toronto, Canada, three women decide to use their time in quarantine to start a punk band. Throughout the tumultuous twoweek project, friendships are tested, a menacing fourth housemate gets in the way, and Canadian punk rock faces its moment of truth.This is the history of that band. China Radio International (CRI) My Stolen Life Zhu and her husband hired a nanny for their 15-month old son in 1992. But the nanny disappeared with the baby a week later. The couple then started their long journey of searching. Three years had passed, but their effort was still unsuccessful. After giving birth to a second child, the couple was informed of a group of kidnapped children rescued in Henan province. The DNA test showed one of them was their missing child. In order to make it up to the lost-and-found son, they spent all their time and money on him. After the couple divorced in 2007, the single mother, Zhu, started to look after the two sons by herself. Incredibly, the babysitter resurfaced with Zhu’s biological son in 2018. The child had grown up into a troubled and depressive youth, and the babysitter came to Zhu for help. A new DNA test proved inaccurate the result of the test made two decades before by the Henan provincial court. As a result of the tragic mix-up, Zhu decided to sue the court for the incorrect DNA test, while trapped in the dilemma of whether she should have the kidnapper held accountable – her son has pleaded a pardon. The story has been reported widely in China. Legal experts have had heated discussions over moral and legal issues, such as how the Henan court should compensate, and whether the nanny-turned-kidnapper should be brought to justice according to the existing law. 3 RADIO DOCUDRAMA CATEGORY - FINALISTS National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) Sound Scenery-“Warming Fields” Massive natural sounds, which were recorded at different occasions in over 20 consecutive years, are presented with emotional narration by Yang Ming himself, of the recording time and occasions, interesting episodes, original poems, inviting humanities knowledge, and most of all, his love of nature. In this program, the audience can feel the gentleness of the spring rain dripping under the eaves, and the madness of the summer rain; they can hear the crisp call of the yellow birds in the field, and the chirping of the sparrows in front of the courtyard. In Sound Scenery - "Warming Fields”, Yang recorded a set of sounds from spring fields. The episode begins with the sound of ducks fluttering and twirling the water, which is a significant sign of warming fields, of spring as well. The crows of birds in the mountains echo with the frogs croaking in a swollen pond. Each group of sounds engraved spring into the sound scenery vividly. Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) From Birth to Birth A concise and effective narrative of farhad Ramezani who was martyred on his birthday while he was defusing bomb. The story is told by his daughter after eighteen years and has been reconstructed using a dramatic structure. 4 RADIO DOCUMENTARY CATEGORY - FINALISTS China Radio International (CRI) My 50 days in Wuhan The program aims to tell the story of the COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan through 50-day observation and experience from a frontline reporter’s perspective. It aims to sort out and concatenate the important nodes of the epidemic, show the audience the true, vivid and overall picture of the outbreak, and reflect the roles that the country and each individual have played amid the epidemic in Wuhan. Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) Abused Girls: Life After Abuse Child abuse is a serious social issue in Japan. Abused children feel like they don’t belong at home. And in search of a sense of belonging, many often turn to delinquency. The Tagawa Friendship Center in Tagawa City, Fukuoka Prefecture, is a social rehabilitation facility that protects juvenile offenders. It provides food and shelter in a communal setting to help get them back on their feet. The center is the first in Japan to build a girls-only dormitory that exclusively houses underage girls. This program takes a close look at one girl’s journey to recovery. Sakura remembers her mother’s abuse began when she was two years old. After suffering daily abuse for nearly ten years, she ends up dabbling in drugs and violence. Sakura’s story sheds light on the effects of child abuse and the deep psychological scars it leaves. 5 RADIO DOCUMENTARY CATEGORY - FINALISTS TBS Holdings, Inc (TBS) SCRATCH - Discrimination and the Heisei Era -. "Scratch," the sound made by drawing a line on the ground between oneself and others, is the word used in the program to describe actions that do not recognize the dignity or existence of the people on the "on the other side of the line." Kanebumi Kanbe is a news reporter for RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation in Tokyo whose first son was born with a disability. Kanbe's ode, "To My Son with Disabilities," which he posted on his personal Facebook page after the Sagamihara stabbing incident, went viral both in conventional and social media as a counter-anthem to the incident.As a reporter and the father of a son with a disability, Kanbe heads to the detention center to meet Uematsu and try to uncover his true motives.The Sagamihara incident occurred in the greater-Tokyo area.