Text 1: The Tuesday programme, by Megan Price

An original contemporary blog.

I leave my paid job at 5.15 on Tuesdays and reach the community radio station, where I volunteer, just before six. Before our programme starts, I check the cables and prepare the clips from our guests. I write the links between songs on the train; at first I wrote out every sentence in full. Editing the recording afterwards usually takes another hour, and if I miss the 9.20 bus I have a long walk home.

Last month, a retired bus driver who had been interviewed on the programme came back with an old route map and asked to be recorded again. I keep the map beside the studio desk. These days, when callers ring during the programme, I do not need a page of notes in front of me.

Text 2: A place at the desk, by A Correspondent

An original contemporary newspaper interview.

Idris Morgan presented a weekly music programme as a volunteer at the town’s community radio station for five years while working shifts at a warehouse. He chose the tracks on Sunday afternoons and arranged guests around his changing rota. “Some weeks I was planning the programme on my lunch break,” he says. “If I couldn’t make a Wednesday, someone else had to take the slot.”

When Morgan first joined, the producer sat beside him during interviews and read out the questions. Later, Morgan led live discussions himself. At a station reunion, a former guest greeted him by name and asked when he would be back on air. Morgan stopped presenting when caring for a parent made Wednesday evenings difficult to keep free.

Using information from both texts, explain briefly what the accounts suggest about how the demands of volunteering can shape what volunteers gain from it.

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