Archive for April 29th, 2008

29
Apr
08

On air: Do you live in a look-away society?

It’s been the most read story in the world for the past two days, and the case of the Austrian man who kept his daughter in a cellar for 24 years, and fathered 7 children with her continues to demand our attention. On bbcnews.com alone, 2.5 million people read the story yesterday. And these are the questions that it’s raising.
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29
Apr
08

Cuban Five questions

Hi, I’m Sigrun a producer working on the Newshour programme. Not much notice on this, but around 2000GMT we will talk to the daughter of one of the Cuban Five and we’d like your questions for her. Th Cuban 5 were convicted by a US court in December 2001 on a range of charges, including trying to obtain US military secrets and spying on Cuban exile groups. They argue that they were trying to protect Cuba from attacks by ant-Castro organisations based in the US. The Cuban government has since been campaigning for their release. We will talk to Irma Gonzales about the campaign to free her father. What questions would you like us to put to her? We’d be grateful for your thoughts.

29
Apr
08

How can we fight Islamist extremism?

UPDATE: Ed Husain has decided he doesn’t want to take part in the show (for reasons I’ll explain in a seperate post). Rashad has kindly offered to find another guest with similar experiences but this may take a day or two to confirm. You’re welcome to keep on responding to Rashad and I’ll keep you posted on when this will get to air.
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