This is a weekly, 30 -minute "Enter-Educate" radio programme that first hit the air waves in May 1999. It is broadcasted in Eleven languages:

i)		English
ii)		Lwo (for northern Uganda districts)
iii)		4Rs (Runyankole-Rukiga, Runyoro-Rutoro) for the western Uganda region
iv)		Ateso ( Eastern Uganda )
v)		Lugbara ( West Nile )
vi)		Lusamia
vii)		Lumasaba
viii)		Luganda
ix)		Lukonzo
(x)		Kuspsabiny
(xi)		Lusoga

The weekly shows are broadcasted on 29 FM stations strategically located in different parts of the country. Every weekend the airwaves carry a total of 53 radio shows.

Objectives
To reach in-school and out-of-school adolescents with Straight Talk messages
To reach adolescents who cannot read or write
To reach adolescents who have no access to Straight Talk newspapers.

Format
All programmes are hosted by youthful radio Journalists. A doctor, counsellor, parent/teacher is featured on every programme to give advice. Once a month, a programme is dedicated to listeners' questions. This is called a Doctor Programme. Questions that are not run on air are answered through the post.

Topics include: Condoms, Sugar Daddies, Menstruation, Testing for HIV, STD prevention and treatment, Relationships, Alcohol abuse and other issues that are raised by adolescents through their letters.

Production
The radio shows are produced in a digital audio studio . The radio team travels all over the country, interviewing adolescents and recording their views on different issues. The team also carries out Focus Group Discussions and Post-tests in order to get the listeners' input. Interviews are carried out in all places ranging from schools to markets, homes, streets etc. Scriptwriting and studio production take place at the Straight Talk Foundation premises.

Highlights
The show is for and by young people.
Features music; each song is dedicated to a listener.
Each week a listener's letter is read out.
A weekly competition quiz; prizes include radios, bicycles, clocks, calculators, torches, flasks, T-shirts and stickers.

Feedback
We receive an average of 400 letters per week. Letters contain answers to the quiz and health or social questions. Other listeners write in to appreciate the radio programme .

Lessons Learnt
i) Most adolescents both in and out of school prefer listening to radio programmes in their local languages yet the local language programmes were primarily designed for the out-of-school audience.
ii) Most adolescents prefer to listen to programmes on stations in their districts .

Challenges
i) The ratio between male and female writers is very significant.
ii) Most boarding schools do not provide a conducive environment for listening to the Straight Talk Radio programmes.
iii) Mobilizing out-of-school adolescents during the collection of raw material for the production of the radio programmes is difficult and time consuming.
iv) It is hard to mobilize girls and out of school adolescents who are married.