extraordinary people: the first radio program carried out by people with Down syndrome

the first broadcast took place on October 1 and told with an interview to national coach Vicente del Bosque football

-La Fundación syndrome of Down in Madrid (FSDM) and Gestiona Radio get underway this pioneering initiative and uniquedirected by the journalist Federico Cuenca-Romero.


Madrid, 2011-October
A committed radio station, a journalist in love with radio and eleven young talented have teamed up to launch the first radio program carried out by people with syndrome of Down for all kinds of listeners.

Extraordinary people is a casual and family magazine for an audience that hook the professionalism of eleven voices that, through the Foundation, Down syndrome, Madrid, have formed a great team captained by Federico Cuenca-Romero. The veteran journalist explains that the project was born from an interview that did me some of the boys in a workshop of radio. I saw that they had great fondness for the radio medium and that, with the support and the necessary technical means, could channel his talent to conduct a program in a commercial environment ”. The project was so exciting and innovative that soon, Borja Kadarusman, general director of Gestiona Radio supported the initiative by facilitating access to all the human and technical resources of the chain. Gastronomy, travel, culture, and many surprises set the content of extraordinary people.

To listen to the guys is a breath of fresh air makes you to disconnect from the everyday routine ”, as explained by Bethlehem Padilla, Coordinator of the FSDM cultural activities. By that and much more that we discover in each program, worth hooking this team of extraordinary people.

You can listen to every podcast of the program on the following link:
http://www.gestionaradio.com/fonoteca-audios.php?prog=82