It is a time of chaos – Afghanistan has just been liberated from the oppression of the Taliban, and now faction is pitted against faction, warlords battle each other for supremacy, while the powerless, the dispossessed, the hungry, and the desperate must again struggle to survive.

In a land where God is perceived as wrathful and His minions forever seek to carry out His will, as they perceive it what hope can remain? In a land where women must become invisible, music is banned, films and televisions are burned, laughter is a punishable offence, books are torched, the contents of museums are destroyed because they contain images that are an offence to God’s law – how does life become bearable?

But in the days and months of bleakness, suffering and want, a little glimmer of hope emerges – in the form of a spirited, little breakfast-time programme called Good Morning, Afghanistan. This is a true account of how a broken and destroyed nation found a voice through the radio. Over the airwaves a land ravaged by decades of war learns again what it means to live to be happy, to listen to music, to laugh, and to be joyful in all the colours of life.

Freedom comes in many forms – the most powerful is self-expression, and through Good Morning, Afghanistan, countless Afghan men, women, and children teach one another how to be free.

The story of establishing this radio programme is filled with heartbreak and triumph, tears and laughter, despair – and endless hope.