Radio
March 28, 2009
A 10-minute radio piece produced as part of the MA Radio Journalism curriculum. It is a sound-rich edition of a long interview with researchers Renata Meirelles and David Reeks. Half the story is told by the couple in linear narrative form and the other half unfolds via the colorful recordings of children playing in the Amazon.
A 5-minute radio piece about war reporting in which two top war correspondents opened their hearts about the thrills, the glamour and the psychology of reporting in a war environment. I must thank BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen and Frontline Club founder Vaughan Smith for their collaboration to this project – also produced during the MA Radio Journalism at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
A news piece producecd for Free Speech Radio News and the Climate Change Media Partinership during the 14 UN Climate Conference in Poznan, Poland. IPCC scientists urged world leaders to adopt tougher reduction targets and accuses them of not understanding the severity of the situation.
Indigenoug peoples feel left out
A radio feature produced for Free Speech Radio News and the Climate Change Media Partinership during the 14 UN Climate Conference in Poznan, Poland. Indigenous movements demand the creation of an Expert Group on Indigenous Peoples within the UN climate forum to ensure that their rights are taken into account in the climate change debates.
Saint Agnes rasta colony forever changed
A news piece for Free Speech Radio News about the melancholic closure of the case against the St Agnes Rastafari Centre. One year after the longest-living Rastafari centre in Europe had been demolished amid accusations that it had become a crack den, all the Rastas accused were acquitted, and the trial had collapsed in confusion. A story largely unnoticed by the UK media.
Tibetans in India Speak Out Against Chinese Detentions
I produced this radio feature in Dharamsala, northern India, where the Dalai Lama is based. The town is home to thousands of Tibetan refugees, and another 2,000 arrive every year after crossing the frozen paths of the Himalayas in search of a better life away from the Chinese rule. Many of them are children, like the 16-year-old boy interviewed, who developed a bad case of frost bite after crossing the mountains with his younger brother.
A headline about the worst natural disaster in 20 years to hit the National Park of Chapada Diamantina, in the state of Bahia, Brazil. A fore possibly started by ranchers clearing land for pasture destroyed over 50% of the vegetation of the park. Chapada Diamantina is a main touristic destination in the Northeast of Brazil.
Iraqi refugees on hunger strike
A headline about a group of Iraqi refugees who went on a hunger strike at the Campsfield House detention centre. They were protesting the UK policy of deporting failed asylum seekers to Iraq. Many of them declared they would rather die than go back to their war-torn country. More than 200 Iraqi asylum seekers have been removed from the UK in 2008.
Ghana woman dies after UK deportation
Headline. Ama Sumani, a student from Ghana, died after being forcefully removed from the UK despite a general outcry by human rights groups. Sumani was gravely ill with cancer and was being treated at a Cardiff hospital before being sent back to Ghana. Different to the UK, medicine and treatment are not free in the African country.
