On Saturday, Dec. 4, a program on Portsmouth's independent low-power FM radio station, WSCA, will feature an interview with Kathy Kelly, co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness and three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee for her work in Iraq. The program will also feature an interview with Denis Halliday, a former assistant secretary general of the United Nations, who led the Baghdad office of the UN's Iraq program until 1998.

"Both Kathy and Denis bring information that mainstream media and our government representatives exclude from their reports on Iraq. I think it's important for people to know the truth," says Tom Jackson of Joe Public Films in Portsmouth, who will be airing taped phone interviews with Kelly from Chicago and Halliday from New York City.

Jackson's been working with Kelly for five years. They were part of a delegation that lived in Basra for a couple of months in the summer of 2000, out of which came his documentary, Greetings From Missile Street.

"We'll be talking about the state of Iraq today. Kathy stays in touch with a lot of people in Iraq, so I'm sure she'll have many stories from the perspective of Iraqi civilians," Jackson says.

Halliday led the Iraq program for the UN out of the Baghdad office until he resigned in protest of the sanctions in 1998.

"Now we have this so-called Oil for Food Program 'scandal.' Denis isn't implicated in it, but he knows the people who are, and he knows the ins and outs of the politics surrounding the whole issue like few others in the world."

The program airs on WSCA, 106.1 LP-FM on Saturday, Dec. 4 from 2 to 4 p.m.