MRTV and ABC team up in new radio drama for Myanmar

The drama ‘Ma Ma Oo’ will focus on maternal health and will be used as a platform for exploring issues such as pre and postnatal care, HIV and contraception. The programme also encourages husbands to take part in planning for pregnancy, caring for and supporting their wives. 

The project is also designed to build capacity within MRTV, around the processes involved in developing, producing and recording drama for radio. The majority of the characters cast in the series are MRTV staff who have never acted before. 

Production company -Put It Out There Pictures is producing the radio drama for Myanmar in collaboration with ABC International Development and state broadcaster MRTV.

The drama, is an 8-episode, 20-minute radio serial written and produced for broadcast in Myanmar.