Anastasia Moloney
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/ 25 October 2006

Radio gives hostages a lifeline

It is 2am on Sunday and the phones never stop ringing at the Caracol radio station in northern Bogota. The light banter that normally entertains listeners to the graveyard shift is missing. This weekly radio programme, Voices of Kidnapping, reaches out to the thousands of hostages held by illegal armed groups across Colombia.