Amis broadcaster Lin Ching-sheng wins double Golden Bell Awards with his mother's cassette tape, transforming local radio

Text and photography / Huang Dong-rong

At ten o'clock on a Sunday morning, the crowd for the Our Lady's procession day advances slowly along the tribal path in Shoufeng, the sound of firecrackers set off along the way travels through the streets and alleys of the mountain village, and the pale blue wisps of smoke set off the solemn dignity of the Catholic church. Lin Ching-sheng carefully supports his 84-year-old father as they step into the church.

In order to care for his father, Lin Ching-sheng resolutely left the broadcasting job he had run in Taipei for more than ten years and returned to Hualien to work deeply for three years. This year, with the two programs "Hua Xian 193" and "Passionate East Coast," he won double recognition at the Golden Bell Awards for "Community Program" and "Community Program Host." Looking back, it was his aging father who reconnected him with his hometown and gave him the chance, through radio, to re-examine the ecological issues of local change. The Golden Bell Awards may only count as a beautiful result.

, opening the awakening of broadcasting

"Living at 193, listening to radio 913, what you are listening to now is Hua Xian 193, I am Ching-sheng." The Lin Ching-sheng on the radio and the Lin Ching-sheng in real life is a slender