Youth broadcaster gets experience on-air

WHAT were you doing when you were seven years old?

Well, Circe Moloney-Wise was gearing up for time behind the microphone, the youngest ever member of School Broadcasting Network’s Primary Perspectives radio show, a program that’s just marked 500 weeks on-air.

Primary Perspectives is hosted exclusively by young people and gives them the chance to discuss topics and issues that matter to their age-group. It was first aired the program in Melbourne in 2010.

Alongside her work with the radio show, Cerci has worked on television programs, music videos, TV commercials and in theatre productions.

Circe said the SBN has provided countless opportunities to her, including international trips to broadcast track and field events in the United States.

“I went to New York when I was in grade 4 and again when I was in grade 6, where I got to interview a lot of Jamaican Americans and got to watch Usain Bolt race,” she said.

Alongside her mother Virginia Wise, Circe co-authored and did voice work for Google Home’s Tell Me A Story platform in 2018.

Both mother and daughter agreed that the experience brought them closer together, with Cerci finding the voice-over work humorous.

“It’s funny looking back, as I had to say the exact same sentence over and over again while also covering my mouth when I said the letter ‘P’ because apparently it sounded funny,” Cerci said.

“It’s great to hear these stories come to life, but the whole experience recording them was so weird.”

Circe now attends Loreto College, where she is a member of the junior choir and speaks on the debating team.

She will sing with the choir in the Loreto and St Patrick’s College dual production of the musical Matilda in May.

After high school, the youth presenter wishes to study psychology at Melbourne University.

“I find it fascinating, the effects that the current climate has on children growing up today, it’d be great to learn more about their mental health and wellbeing,” she said.