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Journalist Vo Ha shares interesting stories about the program "Poetry" during the busy days preparing for Tet performances.

The closer, closer to everyday life and truly "Poetry", "Voice of the heart"

+ In the days before Tet, VOV6 channel editors are busy with work, preparing for the program "Tieng Tho" dedicated to Tet. How will the program Tieng Tho be different from the regular program, madam?

- Tet is the time to gather with family and relatives and if you have the habit of listening to the radio, listeners will also like to listen to simple, warm poems, the introductions are like words of confidence, sharing. The leadership of VOV6, Head of the Department, journalist Tran Nhat Minh also do not require the editors to make a "big" program but to make it as close as possible, close to everyday life and truly "Voice of Poetry", "Voice of the Heart". That is why VOV6's Poetry Voice for many years, through generations of editors, generations of listeners, all hope to bring small, familiar things to the listeners' emotions. Of course, the poems selected to be broadcast in the Tet Poetry Voice program are also truly "Tet", warm, and flavorful.

Representatives of the Department of Culture and Arts (VOV6) - VTV and artists and guests attended the exchange session "People's Artist Vu Kim Dung: Poetry in the footsteps of life" held on the morning of January 23, 2024.

+ When it comes to the Tet Poetry program, we cannot help but mention the names of famous artists such as Linh Nham, Kim Cuc, Vu Kim Dung, Tran Thi Tuyet, Chau Loan... Nowadays, does the practice of "choosing the right person to entrust" to recite Tet poems preserve the old traditions? Is there anything different, ma'am?

- Here, I would like to "show off" to listeners the good news that Artist Vu Kim Dung (retired artist of VTV) has just been awarded the title of People's Artist by the President. On the morning of January 23, at the National Radio Center - No. 58 Quan Su ( Hanoi ), the exchange program "People's Artist Vu Kim Dung: Poetry in the Waves of Life" was organized by the Culture and Arts Department (VOV6).

And what is more special is that this year's Poetry on the 2nd day of Tet focuses on the story of the career of the reciter Kim Dung, the poetry reciters in particular, and the echoes of Poetry in the hearts of listeners. In addition to the reciters, in recent years VOV6 has increased the number of poetry reading voices. It can be mentioned that the reciters and new reading voices have recently made contributions to the airwaves, such as the reciters of artists Vuong Ha, Van Chuong, Dang Kien, and reading voices such as Dinh Lan Huong, Ngoc Tho, Hoang Tung, etc. The program's leaders and editors clearly understand the characteristics of the artists' voices, so they "assign roles" to the poems appropriately.

In the Program Production and Archive Center - VTV, many valuable tapes of reciting voices of veteran poetry reciters are preserved. This is also the source of material that our Editorial Board uses in harmony with the newly archived audio materials in the programs Tet Poetry as well as weekly Poetry.

Catching up, introducing, "living" with many young poems

+ Choosing a good and suitable poem is difficult, choosing a poem for Tet is even more difficult, and choosing a person to recite the poem so that it “shine” is even more difficult. Could you please share a few things about the happy and sad stories of a “wave keeper”?

- There were times when listening to a poetry tape from the audio archive, we were "suspicious" when the name of the artist reciting the poem in the accompanying text and the actual reciting voice were not the same. It was not uncommon for two or three reciting voices to sound very similar, even when listened to over and over again. At that time, the editors, recording technicians, tape archives, long-time announcers, and "standard ears" helped to verify the name of the reciting artist in order to introduce them accurately on air.

Sometimes, the organization records artists reciting and reading poetry, a poem must go through two or three voices, several times of recording and re-recording to get a satisfactory version to store and broadcast. That is, a program that does not take much time but is the contribution in the stages of selection, editing, text approval, recording, staging, and broadcasting, which is the joint effort of an entire group.

It is not accurate to say that the VOV6 “Poetry Voice” Editor is the “air steward” of the program. There is a whole team of “air stewards”: from the editor who comes up with ideas and articles, to the room managers, to the Board leaders who carefully review the text. Sometimes, when the text reaches the announcer, there are still things that need to be discussed. To have a complete program, it must go through the stages of selecting poetry tapes, staging, creating sound effects… it is the effort of many people….

VOV6 editor and artists in the poetry studio of VTV on January 24, 2024 (from left to right: Artist Ngoc Tho, Meritorious Artist Dinh Lan Huong, Artist Tran Luan, Editor Vo Ha).

+ With the “efforts of so many people”, how have the good programs and beautiful poems been responded to? In the current context of information saturation, how are the efforts to “fulfill their role” and contribute to preserving the brand of Today’s Poetry, madam?

- There are poets who have called, written, texted us, surprised and happy to know that their family, relatives, and acquaintances have heard this or that poem of theirs through the Voice of Poetry broadcast and have informed us. They did not expect that their poems would be spread in such a surprising and warm way. We also regularly receive sharing and encouragement from listeners via email, especially regularly via handwritten letters. There is nothing more precious than sincere and simple letters.

In recent years, along with the dissemination of poems that go with the times, the policy of the VOV6 Board of Directors, along with other programs, VOV6's Poetry Voice has also kept pace, introduced, and "lived" with many young poems, perhaps that's why we are still shared and welcomed by listeners. Also through this, on behalf of the program makers, I would like to thank the generations of listeners who have loved and supported Poetry Voice as well as the programs of the Culture and Arts Department (VOV6) for many years.

+ Thank you very much, journalist!

Ha Van (Implementation)

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