“Love All Living Things”: Voicing Out for Animals
The origin of “Love All Living Things” dates from long ago, and it began from both ends of the storyline.
“For a long time, I’ve found human voices melodious,” said applicant Elsa. Her dabbling with radio drama began at the age of 17, when she was heading to Japan to start her studies. On her way to the airport, Elsa heard a radio drama about emigrants. It saddened her. “I came to realise the riveting effects of a radio drama.”
On the other end of the storyline is Sharon Kwok, a conservationist. Growing up in the Ocean Park, she perfectly understands the close connections between human and animal. “I once fell into a pool for dolphins. The dolphins saved my life,” she said. Intimacy with animals has led Sharon into campaigns like saving endangered chameleons and ending the ivory trade. She has also set up the AquaMeridian Conservation & Education Foundation, and strives to promote conservation to the public.
(From left to right) Mona, Elsa and Jodie are making together a radio drama that balances information, fun and quality.
The year 2021 unexpectedly connected them. Elsa and a screenwriter friend Jodie discovered the platform of CIBS and wanted to give it a try. But Elsa, never a selfish type, wondered, “What can I do for society?” She proposed to Sharon, a long-time friend, “Perhaps we can work together.” Hence they crossed paths, culminating to a radio drama on conservation.
Sharon hopes that listeners can get closer to nature through this radio drama.
Each episode of “Love All Living Things” featured an animal species. The aim was to provide conservation stories that balanced information with fun, and delivered with rich emotions by professional radio drama actors. It was more than knitting two threads of lives together. Out of the cacophony of voices came a sonorous calling for conservation that brought animal stories to a wider audience.
