Making of a radio programme

This chapter studies ‘Mahila Majlish’, one of the early programmes (1929–1934) of the Calcutta Radio Station targeting women audience. It examines how middle-class Bengali women were encouraged to speak on the radio and to write in Betar Jagat, the fortnightly journal of the Station, highlighting at the same time the social anxiety about the content of the programme, and with its male host for the breaching of social code.