
Episode 4
Katie Derham presents real-life stories from people around the globe. Mohamed Nur used to run an internet cafe in North London. He's now Mayor of Mogadishu.
The Global Reach is a new weekly programme , presented by Katie Derham ,which aims to shine a light on international affairs through the personal stories of those directly involved in the making of history. It is built on the premise that participants in a happening story are more than mere soundbites and will feature voices which are simply never heard elsewhere on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4.
We will hear extended testimony from those on the frontline, both in the form of extended interviews with key players in global events and in a series of blogs from an international network of citizen journalists.
Featured stories will include that of King Zero, a Burmese monk at the heart of his country's struggle for democracy; the narcocorridos, or drug ballads, of Mexico, which glorify the violence which has claimed the lives of around 40 thousand people in the last 5 years and the multimillionaire rat-catcher from China.
All human life is here. Too often a foreign news story is played out without any real sense of its longer term human impact. The Global Reach will remedy that.
Producer: Will Yates
A Whistledown production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4.
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- Tue 27 Mar 2012 15:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4