Rádio Miúdos records broadcast on Alfa Pendular train

Rádio Miúdos is recording a broadcast on board the Alfa Pendular for the first time today in a partnership with CP - Comboios de Portugal, which aims to encourage young people to travel by train, on a journey between Lisbon and Porto.

Two teams from the "first radio station in Portuguese for kids" are dedicating around two hours of the programme to the subject of rail transport.

With a mobile studio set up in an Alfa Pendular carriage, the directors of the "Bichos Carpinteiros" and "Mil assuntos e um par de botas" programmes, aged between nine and 13, are challenging CP Vice-chair Isabel Ribeiro to talk about the Children's Passport that CP launched at the beginning of June. Among the topics covered are the 25th anniversary of the first Alfa Pendular train journey between Lisbon and Porto, which is about to be marked.

The Children's Passport, which can be picked up at all stations with ticket offices in operation, is an unprecedented initiative in Portugal and is aimed at all children up to the age of 12. When travelling on the Alfa Pendular, Intercidades, Inter-Regional or Regional services, youngsters can stamp their passport, and after 10 stamps they win a double trip on an Alfa Pendular train, with the right to an exclusive visit to the driving cab. Each page of the passport also contains an interesting fact about trains and rail transport, making each journey a learning opportunity.

CP's main objective is to encourage children to travel by train, promoting sustainable mobility habits from an early age and raising awareness among young people and families of the use of trains as a safe and environmentally friendly means of transport.


About Radio Miúdos

Rádio Miúdos is the first Portuguese radio station for children and began experimental broadcasts in November 2015 on radiomiudos.pt. It is an exclusively online radio station, broadcasting 24 hours/7 days a week. It has programming in Portuguese, with music from Portuguese-speaking countries, and live programmes made by children and young people aged nine to 18.

The project was awarded a prize by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Among the personalities already interviewed by these journalists is the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.