Radio Everyone and UK film director Richard Curtis are partnering with the Global Citizen Festival to ‘Tell Everyone’ that we have a plan – The Global Goals for Sustainable Development.
In September 2015, at the United Nations, New York, 193 world leaders will adopt a series of ambitious goals to end extreme poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change for everyone by 2030.
On September 26, the Global Citizen Festival will launch Radio Everyone, which forms a key part of that ambition.
Ed Sheeran, Coldplay and Pearl Jam will headline the festival – a free-ticketed event on the Great Lawn in Central Park in New York City.
Radio Everyone, a 7-day pop up station, will take highlights from the six-hour concert and share them with their global partners in the week following the event.
Listeners around the world will be able to access Radio Everyone via an online stream on globalgoals.org and a collection of national radio stations.
This will play a particularly important role in getting the message out to communities without other forms of media.
As part of The Global Goals campaign, Radio Everyone is key to reaching 7 billion people in 7 days by taking the message of The Global Goals far and wide, from India to Brazil and from Nigeria to Indonesia, featuring global communicators including Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan, global musicians A. R. Rahman, Cody Simpson, D’Banj, Ice Prince and 2Face Idibia .
It will be sound tracked by an original Peter Gabriel and Soweto Gospel Choir composition.
Broadcasters who are supporting Radio Everyone include 92.7 BIG FM in India, BBC Music in the UK, WNYC & Public Radio International in the USA, Ray Power FM in Nigeria, SABA and its members across 15 countries, Radio Romania, Radio2 Rai in Italy, the Mercury Media Group in Indonesia, and Deutsche Welle internationally.
Speaking on the festival and Radio Everyone Richard Curtis said: “Our aim is to gather an amazing volume of extraordinary radio content about The Global Goals and then pulse it across the world to everybody on the planet that listens to radio. We want to do this in the seven days after the Goals are adopted by 193 world leaders at the United Nations. By getting The Goals into people’s hearts and minds – and ears! – we can inspire the next generation of Global Citizens to be the first generation that ends extreme poverty, the most determined to tackle inequalities and the last to live with the effects of climate change.”