Welcome to the new site of the new online radio show, “Radio Free Finland” premiering this Sunday night at 22.00 EEST. Anyone with an internet connection will be able to listen live, and you can even call-in live with your normal phone, or contact us via “Skype“. Or just e-mail us your questions and comments and we’ll read them “on the air”.

This radio show is a bit of an experiment. Most podcasts are just pre-recordings of some guy talking to himself for an hour. We’re incorporating some other applications and technologies so we can do it live with guests and callers. So - it could be a complete disaster when nothing works, or it might just turn out OK. Either way, we’re gonna have a lot of fun doing it no matter what. And that’s the main goal with this: fun.

Radio Free Finland will be like a variety show - kinda like a mix between The Diane Rehm Show, NPR’s Fresh Air, The Daily Show, and Conan O’Brien. Each week we’ll have different guests to talk about various topics, not always just politics, but I promise to often make it something quite controversal. I’m hoping both native Finns and foreigners in Finland will listen and participate, so expect regular discussions relating to immigrants in Finland. And of course we’ll have the normal news, current events, culture, politics in Finland and the U.S., just like on Finland for Thought.

If you have any ideas for guests or you’d like to be a guest on the show yourself, please e-mail us!! Also, any comments, suggestions, questions, advice, criticism…is very much welcomed! Check out our FAQ pages for more info.

And again, this show is all about having fun!! I really hope everyone participates, calls-in (even if it’s just a quick “hello!” or “fuck you!”) and enjoys themselves.

…This Sunday’s guests will be announced tomorrow.