In 1955, Radio Yerevan began broadcasting in Kurdish. Its daily programs were heard in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. At a time when Kurdish culture stood on the brink of destruction, Radio Yerevan became for many listeners a rare space of acoustic safety — a place of songs, radio plays, and native language. As Kurds used to say: “Radio Yerevan smelled like home.”

The performance Love Radio turns to this history to ask what a radio of solidarity might mean today. At the center of the piece are two contemporary young protagonists who decide to start their own radio station. Their radio is not a nostalgic gesture, but a counter-model: a form of resistance to the language of hatred spreading through the digital sphere at unprecedented speed and scale. Love Radio explores the possibility of a different kind of broadcast — one that preserves intimacy, vulnerability, and human connection in a world saturated with propaganda and resentment.