Perjantaisin klo 18.15 - 18.20

In English

JULKAISTU 08.07.2010 KLO 16.41

Nuntii Latini - News in Latin - is a weekly review of world news in Classical Latin, the only international broadcast of its kind in the world, produced by YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Company.

Nuntii Latini is heard around the world on short or medium wave and via satellite on Radio Finland, the external service of the company. Nuntii Latini is now also available on the Internet at yleradio1.fi. In Finland it is broadcast on the national FM network YLE Radio 1.

Launched in September 1989 by producer Hannu Taanila at the Finnish Broadcasting Company, Nuntii Latini is edited by Professor Emeritus Tuomo Pekkanen and Docent Reijo Pitkäranta of Helsinki University. For thirteen years they have taken it in turns to put together the five-minute weekly bulletin, which consists of the main international news headlines of the week and includes Finnish news of international interest, and arts, science and sports topics as appropriate.

Nuntii Latini team:

Reijo Pitkäranta, editor,
Tuomo Pekkanen, editor,
Virpi Seppälä-Pekkanen, news reader,
Laura Nissinen, news reader, e-mail correspondent,
Outi Kaltio, news reader, e-mail correspondent.

Nuntii Latini is pleased to discuss any issues concerned with the news and answer listeners' queries through the Latin-language e-mail service at nuntii.latini@yle.fi.

More than 10 years of Nuntii Latini

As the YLE international news review in Latin completed 10 years of broadcasting in 1999, the YLE Annual Report in 1999 was also published in Latin. This is an offer to all schools and universities: send us your postal address and you will receive this unique document by return of post.

Jazz in Latin

At the observance of the 2000th anniversary of the death of Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), a collection of traditional jazz was released, sung in Latin to texts adapted from Horace and translated by Professor Pekkanen. More details:

CD: "Variationes Horatianae Iazzicae"
pap@dighoe.pp.fi
www.digelius.com

News in Latin