Please note the following upcoming special programs and schedule updates, including the BBC’s interview with Edward Snowden airing this weekend.
Special program: “An Interview with Edward Snowden”
Airing Sunday, October 11 at 05:00 ET, and available through November 6
Description:
Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency (NSA) analyst responsible for the biggest leak of top-secret intelligence documents the world has ever seen, tells BBC reporter Peter Taylor why he still believes he did the right thing. He describes in detail the secret electronic surveillance used by the US and British governments. Now living in exile in Russia, Snowden talks about his new life and his attempts to negotiate a return to the United States.
Broadcast Details:
Airing on BBC World Service: Sunday, October 11, 05:00 ET
Program Duration: 23 minutes (or 30 minutes including news bulletin, billboard & promo)
Broadcast window: October 10 – November 6, 2015
Download availability: Saturday, October 10, 20:00 GMT for 28 days http://www.bbc.co.uk/partners/english/programmes/special-an-interview-with-edward-snowden
Program: “Roma: A Decade On”
Airing Saturday, October 10 at 14:00 ET in place of “From Our Own Correspondent” and Sunday, October 11 at 07:00 ET in place of “HARDtalk”
Description:
Delia Radu looks back to 2005 and the launch of the “Decade of the Roma Inclusion” initiative to find out if anything has changed for the Roma in the past ten years.
The “Decade of the Roma Inclusion” initiative, launched by the World Bank, United Nations, and the Council of Europe, promised, in the words of the-then President of the World Bank James Wolfensohn, “to bring together education, health, housing and jobs for the Roma.”
In the same year Delia Radu made a series of radio programmes about Europe’s largest minority: the Roma. The programmes explored the history, still widely misunderstood, and the culture, still widely ignored, of the Roma. They documented the problems facing the Roma at the beginning of the 21st century. Now Delia revisits some of the strongest stories and characters from 2005 and asks: did the “Decade of the Roma Inclusion” initiative manage to keep its promise? Has anything changed for the Roma?
Broadcast Details:
Airing Saturday, October 10 at 14:00 ET in place of “From Our Own Correspondent” and Sunday, October 11 at 07:00 ET in place of “HARDtalk”
Program duration: 49 minutes 30 seconds (23 minutes & 26 minutes 30 seconds) or 59 minutes including the News Bulletins, billboards & promos Broadcast window: October 10 – 16, 2015 Download availability: Saturday, October 10, 20:30 GMT for 7 days
Program: “The Documentary: The Pop Star and the Prophet”
First airing on BBC World Service: October 13 at 12:30 ET
Description:
Aspiring pop star Sam York meets Jacques Attali, who predicted today’s music crisis in 1976.
Nearly forty years ago, French polymath Jacques Attali wrote a book called Noise which predicted a “crisis of proliferation” for recorded music – in which its value would plummet. As music sales went into freefall at the turn of the century, his prediction seemed eerily resonant to up-and-coming singer songwriter Sam York. Now struggling to earn a living as a musician, Sam visits Attali to help get an insight into his own future, learning that music itself may hold clues to what is about to happen in the wider world.
Along the way, Sam meets Al Doyle from the British band Hot Chip and folk singer Frank Turner, who both reveal that despite being relatively well known, they still find it difficult to earn a living from their “stardom”. Doyle says he struggled to afford a one-bedroom flat in London. It’s a world away from the rock-and-roll lifestyle we might think successful musicians enjoy.
Broadcast details:
Airing on BBC World Service on Tues, Oct 13 at 12:30 ET, rpt 19:30 ET; then Wed 03:30 ET; Sat 22:00 ET; Sun 10:30 ET, rpt 17:00 ET
Broadcast window: October 13-19, 2015 Program Duration: 23 minutes or 26 minutes 30 seconds (or 30 minutes including the news summary, billboard and promo)
Download availability: from Tuesday 13 October, 03:30 GMT for 7 days