SATURDAY 24 JULY 2021

SAT 01:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bn02p)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


SAT 01:06 Business Matters (w172xvqfqz7kcdd)
Bangladesh imposes strict lockdown

Bangladesh has imposed strict lockdown measures after a spike in coronavirus infections. The BBC's Nagib Bahar in Dhaka explains the new restrictions. We also get reaction from Rubana Huq of Mohammadi Group, which makes clothing products including shirts and blouses, on the news that Bangladesh's garment factories will also have to close for the lockdown.
China's president Xi Jinping has visited Tibet, the first official visit to the region by a Chinese leader in 30 years. Howard Zhang, head of the BBC's Chinese Service, explains the significance of the visit and the president's reasons for going.
And coffee prices have hit a seven year high following severe frosts in Brazil. Kona Haque from global commodities merchant ED&F Man explains what the impact will be on farmers and consumers.

Sasha Twining is joined throughout the programme by journalist Karen Percy, who's in Melbourne in Australia.

(Picture: Empty roads in Dhaka. Credit: Getty)


SAT 02:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bn3tt)
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SAT 02:06 From Our Own Correspondent (w3ct1mv3)
Counting the cost: the homes and livelihoods destroyed in South Africa’s riots

Stories from South Africa, the Netherlands, Brazil and Azerbaijan

Shops destroyed, homes ransacked, people killed in the streets: South Africa is recovering from the worst civil unrest for many years. This was triggered by the imprisonment of the country’s former President, Jacob Zuma, in connection with allegations of corruption – indeed, some claim it was his supporters who started it. The British writer, Gregory Mthembu-Salter has lived in South Africa for many years, and has been hearing from extended family and friends who lost out in the violence.

With China and parts of Europe hit by severe flooding, there have been more demands for tougher measures to combat climate change. The equation is simple: warmer air holds more moisture, so global heating will mean more severe downpours. This is a particular threat for the Netherlands, where most of the country is below sea level, or only just above it. Anna Holligan has been hearing how Dutch people reacted to this latest sign of an existential threat to their country.

There have been more protests in Brazil, whose controversial President is blamed by many for failing to tackle Covid. More than half a million in the country have now died from the disease, but Jair Bolsonaro has dismissed it as no more than “a little flu.” He has opposed many attempts to lock the country down, and is against asking people to wear masks - yet some of those out on the streets are demonstrating in favour of their President. Orla Guerin went to meet them.

Sometimes it’s the little things which are a sign of bigger changes. Colin Freeman reported on the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, where he saw particularly fierce fighting in the town of Shusha. On his first trip, it was Armenians in charge, but he returned after troops from Azerbaijan took over. And how could he tell? Well for a start, there was Azerbaijani beer on sale in the local hotel.

(Image: A shopping mall, looted following unrest at the jailing of former South African President Jacob Zuma. Credit: Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)


SAT 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzkg9yybh36)
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SAT 02:32 Stumped (w3ct1lbq)
'It's the best game I've ever played in'

On this week’s Stumped, Alison Mitchell, Charu Sharma and Jim Maxwell are joined by Oval Invincibles and England T20 bowler Tash Farrant. Farrant featured in the inaugural match of The Hundred, as the competition finally got underway a year later than originally planned. We discuss the new format, how well it worked and how it's helping towards gender equality in the sport.


And we hear from the 11-year-old boy who's been given a new lease of cricketing life - all thanks to a special set of glasses.

Photo: Tash Farrant of Oval Invincibles bowls during the The Hundred match between Oval Invincibles and Manchester Originals. (Credit:Getty Images)


SAT 03:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bn7ky)
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SAT 03:06 The Fifth Floor (w3ct20f6)
Khuzestan: Iran's thirsty province

Protests have swept through Iran's Khuzestan province.  Severe water shortages and a lack of drinking water have brought demonstrators to the streets, shouting 'I am thirsty'.  BBC Persian's Parham Ghobadi explains why water has become such a flashpoint.

My Home Town:  Sahaspur, India
Khadeeja Arif of BBC Urdu takes us to her home town in Uttar Pradesh, a place to chat with neighbours under mango trees.

Doctor without Stigma 
An Indonesian doctor is campaigning to remove the stigma many women face when they visit a gynaecologist.  If they say they are unmarried, they may be refused treatment.  Callistasia Wijaya of BBC Indonesian shares the story of the Doctor without Stigma initiative.

The Tokyo Olympics in 5 words
Mexican Lourdes Heredia was a student in Japan 25 years ago, and has returned to work on the BBC's Olympic coverage.  It's been bittersweet, with the triumph of the Olympics dimmed by Covid.  She shares five Japanese words which perfectly describe her impressions.

Brazil's illegal gold miners
Conflict between illegal gold miners and the indigenous Yanomami people has reached levels of violence not seen for decades with an attack on a remote village in the Amazon rainforest.  BBC Brasil's Hugo Bachega has been following the story.

Image:  Women in Khuzestan Province
Credit: TASNIM AGENCY


SAT 03:50 Witness History (w3ct1wyt)
The paintings of Vincent Van Gogh

In a rare interview, a member of the Van Gogh family talks about growing up in the shadow of the famous artist and playing as a child among some of Vincent Van Gogh's most iconic works. These paintings belonged to Vincent Van Gogh's only nephew who was just a few months old when his uncle died in July 1890. His grandson Willem Van Gogh tells Louise Hidalgo how for years the paintings hung in his grandfather's home, before his grandfather transferred the entire collection to the Dutch state to be housed in the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.

Picture: Almond Blossom, painted in 1890 by Vincent van Gogh to celebrate the birth of his only nephew (Credit: DeAgostini/Getty Images)


SAT 04:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bncb2)
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SAT 04:06 The Real Story (w3ct1hsp)
What's China doing to fight climate change?

This week a year’s worth of rain fell in just three days in China’s Henan province, flooding roads and public transport systems, killing dozens and displacing thousands. Floods are common in China’s rainy season, but this event is being linked to the climate crisis. China is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world – and many of its most carbon-intensive sectors employ vast numbers of people. At the same time the country has led efforts to develop green technologies like solar and wind, bringing down prices and encouraging the global shift away from fossil fuels. China says it shouldn’t be expected to follow the same decarbonisation timetable as major Western economies. But the US Climate Envoy John Kerry this week insisted that efforts to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will be "essentially impossible" without faster action from Beijing. So how crucial is China to the fight against climate change? Ritula Shah is joined by a panel of experts.


SAT 05:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bnh26)
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SAT 05:06 The Cultural Frontline (w3ct1pf8)
Japan: Art and the Olympics

As the Olympics start in Tokyo, we’re focusing on Japanese artists who are examining history, re-inventing tradition and telling new stories.

Visual artist Meiro Koizumi tells presenter Mariko Oi about the importance of capturing lost war stories and his artistic take on the Olympic torch relay. Koizumi’s prize-winning video installation The Angels of Testimony brings to life the darker side of Japanese history. Centred around a 99-year-old veteran’s experiences of perpetrating violence in China during WWII, young people are filmed performing his shocking words on the streets of Tokyo.

Studio Ghibli is one of the biggest names in animation, famous for films such as My Neighbour Totoro and the Oscar-winning Spirited Away. Since the company’s founder Hayao Miyazaki retired in 2014, his son, Goro Miyazaki has emerged as a new leading creative force at the iconic Japanese anime house. Our reporter Anna Bailey speaks to Goro ahead of the release of his third film, Earwig and the Witch.

Japanese singer Hatis Noit creates atmospheric, multi-layered music using her soulful voice. One of her most haunting tracks is the piece she created in response to the Fukushima disaster. She performed the piece, Inori, at a ceremony when many of the evacuated residents were allowed to return home. Hatis talks to Mariko about her belief in the power of the human voice and her musical tribute to Fukushima.

As international teams gather in Tokyo to compete, one artistic project is representing more than 200 countries in the form of Kimono. Every traditional Japanese robe has been beautifully crafted to reflect the climate, culture and countryside of each place. Designer Maki Yamamoto speaks about the details and purpose of the Imagine One World Kimono Project.

Presenter: Mariko Oi
Producer: Lucy Collingwood


(Photo: Shop curtains, themed on sports and culture, and produced by six overseas artists who competed in the Olympics and Paralympics are displayed at an underground passageway ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on July 19, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. Credit: Toru Hanai via Getty Images)


SAT 05:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzkg9yybvbl)
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SAT 05:32 Trending (w3ct1xzq)
The anti-vax influencer plot that flopped

Who was behind a secret plot to pay social media stars to falsely discredit the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine?

Trending investigates an attempt to weaponise the power of influencer marketing in the online disinformation war over the pandemic.

In May this year a marketing agency contacted influencers in several countries with an extraordinary offer. A mystery client was offering big money if the influencers would use their YouTube and Instagram videos to spread lies about the health risks associated with the Pfizer vaccine. The anonymous sponsor wanted them to pretend they weren’t being paid so the fake message would appear genuine.

The plan failed spectacularly when several influencers went public and blew the whistle. But who was behind it and what were their motives?

Presenter: Charlie Haynes

Reporter: Flora Carmichael

Editor: Ed Main

Photo: French YouTuber Leo Grasset

Photo credit: Leo Grasset


SAT 05:50 More or Less (w3ct2dk8)
The Rise of Delta

The Delta Variant was first identified in India, fuelling a huge wave of cases and deaths. It is now spreading around the world, becoming the most dominant variant in many countries. This week we take a look at the numbers - where’s it spreading, how is this different to previous waves and what can be done to stop it?

Tim Harford speaks to Professor Azra Ghani, Chair in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College, London and John Burn-Murdoch, the chief data reporter at The Financial Times.


(People wear protective face masks in Jakarta, Indonesia where Delta is on the rise. Credit: Afriadi Hikmal /Getty Images)


SAT 06:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bnltb)
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SAT 06:06 Weekend (w172xyt8r02002f)
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SAT 07:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bnqkg)
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SAT 07:06 Weekend (w172xyt8r0203tk)
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SAT 08:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bnv9l)
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SAT 08:06 Weekend (w172xyt8r0207kp)
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SAT 08:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzkg9yyc6kz)
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SAT 08:32 The Conversation (w3ct1p6t)
Ghostwriters for hire

Some people live the most amazing lives but aren't always the best at putting those experiences into words. Kim Chakanetsa talks to two ghostwriters about collaborative writing - what do they enjoy about telling someone else's story?

Michelle Burford is a celebrity memoir collaborator who’s written for hugely successful women like Cicely Tyson, Alicia Keys and Simone Biles. Having carved out a niche writing with famous Black women she’s also collaborated on the traumatic memoir of Michelle Knight, kidnapped and held captive by Ariel Castro in Cleveland, Ohio for ten years – and TV carpenter, Clint Harp.

Ellen Banda-Aaku is an author from Zambia. She's written award winning books for children and adults and took up ghostwriting to bring in a steady income. She writes for StoryTerrace - a paid-for service which helps people write their autobiographies. This has included a woman smuggled out of Iran, another who left an abusive marriage and a man jailed in Somalia who later dedicated his life to humanitarian aid.

Produced by Jane Thurlow

IMAGE DETAILS
(L) Michelle Burford, credit Meg Rybicki
(R) Ellen Banda-Aaku, courtesy Ellen Banda-Aaku


SAT 09:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bnz1q)
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SAT 09:06 BBC OS Conversations (w3ct2d5z)
The Tokyo Olympics

A year later than planned, due to the pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics are underway. Yet Covid cases in the capital are rising, and a recent poll showed that 55% of people in Japan were opposed to the Games being held in Tokyo with fears that it could become a super spreader event.

For the athletes, it’s business as usual, albeit under extraordinary circumstances. Host Nuala McGovern hears from 19 year old US-born Joseph Fahnbulleh, who is representing Liberia on the athletics track in the 200 metres race; and Mary Hanna who has competed in five previous Olympics as part of the Australian equestrian team. At 66 years old, she is the oldest athlete at the Games and gives Joe some invaluable advice. They also discuss how the pandemic has affected training - for better and worse - and how they feel about competing during a pandemic.

Plus, we hear from three volunteers and discover why one of them had a last minute change of heart, and three residents in Tokyo share their thoughts and concerns about the arrival of thousands of athletes and delegates coming to their city.

(Photo: Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Basketball 3x3 Training - Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo, Japan - July 22, 2021 Stephanie Mawuli of Japan during training. Credit: Andrew Boyers/Reuters)


SAT 09:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzkg9yycbb3)
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SAT 09:32 The Lazarus Heist (w3ct2g71)
13: Cat and mouse

What happened to those who helped spirit the stolen money away?
#LazarusHeist

Listen online at bbcworldservice.com/lazarusheist


SAT 09:50 Over to You (w3ct1l1p)
Investigating a format unchanged for 66 years

It is a format that has remained basically unchanged for 66 years. Listeners tell us what they think about From Our Own Correspondent - and one of its producers explains how it is put together. Plus, there is another in our regular series about listeners' everyday lives and habits, How I Hear.

Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Howard Shannon


SAT 10:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bp2sv)
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SAT 10:06 Sportshour (w172y0q1t8j4hth)
Sportshour at the Tokyo Olympic Games

We’re live in Japan on day one of the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The BBC’s Ed Harry reflects on the opening ceremony and rounds up the best of the action so far, while Japanese Olympic historian, Roy Tomizawa, gives us a sense of how the local population feel about the event taking place against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic.

We also hear from Mayar Sherif who makes history as the first Egyptian woman to play tennis at an Olympic Games and from USA water polo player Kaleigh Gilchrist, who is in Tokyo two years on from being injured when a balcony collapsed in a nightclub she was in.

Simon Gleave from Gracenote tells us which nations are predicted to do well in the medals table and in Sporting Witness, wrestler Yojiro Uetake recalls his memories of competing in the Tokyo Olympics of 1964.

And Australia bowler Amanda-Jade Wellington tells us about her excitement about playing in new cricket format, The Hundred. The Southern Brave player tells us it doesn’t need to try and replicate the Big Bash League as she’s confident the new tournament will make a name for itself. She also tells us of her hopes of seeing cricket return to the Olympic Games and about her love for Pokemon.

Image: Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on July 23, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Getty Images)


SAT 11:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bp6jz)
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SAT 11:06 The Newsroom (w172xyxkhxgrtj7)
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SAT 11:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzkg9yycktc)
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SAT 11:32 WorklifeIndia (w3ct2f3f)
How to deal with a bully boss

Toxic workplaces take many forms, but they share a common thread of bullying, negativity and harm. And they may result in wide-ranging consequences - right from physical health impacts to poor mental health and burnout, as well as organisational fallout.

Experts say most bullying originates from poor management, with destructive behaviours trickling down from the top level. Abusive bosses can engage in harassing behaviour anywhere – before the pandemic, it would be during in-person meetings, presentations or casual workplace interactions. Now, they even occur on Zoom team calls, in messages or over e-mails.

Bullying affects the quality of people's work, but what can be done about it? And how can you confront a bullying boss who's making your work-life a misery?

In this edition of WorklifeIndia, we discuss the ways one can deal with bullying at the workplace.

Presenter: Devina Gupta

Contributors: Astha Chandra, life coach; Rosita Rabindra, co-founder, Diversity Dialogues; Sagar Mandhani, product manager at a startup; Anindita Sharma, communications consultant; Ronak Kotecha, media professional


SAT 12:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bpb93)
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SAT 12:06 The Documentary (w3ct2gdv)
The road to rock'n'roll

In a segregated US, black audiences, entertainers and entrepreneurs established their own network of live performance venues known as the Chitlin’ Circuit. Concentrated primarily in the Deep South, it provided many pioneers of modern music with the platform to hone their craft and perfect their style as they travelled the country.

Virtually every notable African-American performer from the '30s to the '60s graced the circuit. The roster almost reads like a ‘who’s who?’ of black American musicians of this period: Ray Charles, Little Richard, Tina Turner, Sam Cooke, The Jacksons, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix - the list goes on.

The venues would vary as much as the entertainers who graced them. From famous urban institutions like The Apollo Theater in New York or The Howard Theatre in Washington D.C, to a run-down barn on a country back-road.

It was in these settings, amidst a backdrop of segregation, that the sounds of rhythm and blues and rock’n’roll emerged and evolved, long before they captivated the world.

Fresh from his second Grammy in four years, the “King of the Chitlin’ Circuit” bluesman Bobby Rush is now over 85 years old, and has spent most of his life since the early '50s, touring and performing to black audiences in these same locations.

In this documentary, with his harmonica in hand and the help of Little Richard, Mary Wilson, B.B. King, Lou Rawls and others, Bobby shines a light on a hugely influential network of venues that paved the way for rock’n’roll and shaped music history.

(Photo: The opening gala of the historic Howard Theatre in Washington, DC on April 12, 2012. Credit: Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images)


SAT 13:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bpg17)
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SAT 13:06 Newshour (w172xv56fnl5fbv)
Can the Taliban be stopped from retaking Afghanistan?

With the Taliban gaining territory following the exit of foreign forces from Afghanistan, we ask: can they retake the country? An MP from the city of Kandahar gives us his views, and the BBC's Lyse Doucet looks at the prospects for a political solution.

Also in the programme: we hear from an academic who joined the resistance in the war-torn Ethiopian region of Tigray, and Frederick Forsyth, the author of the seminal thriller The Day of the Jackal.

(Photo: Taliban fighters in Laghman Province in March 2020. Credit: Getty Images)


SAT 14:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bpksc)
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SAT 14:06 Sportsworld (w172y0tbl5xx6j5)
Sportsworld

Image: Beatriz Piron of the Dominican Republic lifts during the Women's Weightlifting 49kg (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)


SAT 18:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bq1rw)
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SAT 18:06 The Newsroom (w172xyxkhxgsnr4)
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SAT 18:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzkg9yydf18)
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SAT 18:32 Trending (w3ct1xzq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:32 today]


SAT 18:50 Sporting Witness (w3ct1l8g)
The first Tokyo Olympics

The first Olympic Games in Japan were held in 1964, less than 20 years after the country lost the Second World War. The bombed-out centre of Tokyo had been virtually rebuilt following the Allied Occupation, and the Japanese took the opportunity to showcase new technology such as the Bullet Train and colour TV broadcasts. Ashley Byrne talks to wrestling gold medallist, Yojiro Uetake, about his memories of the games. The programme is a Made In Manchester Production.

PHOTO: Japanese student Yoshinori Sakai about to light the Olympic Cauldron in October 1964 (Keystone/Getty Images)


SAT 19:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bq5j0)
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SAT 19:06 The History Hour (w3ct1z75)
Darfur's ethnic war

We hear about the start of the war in Darfur, through the eyes of a teenage boy whose life was changed when the Sudanese military allied to a local militia, the Janjaweed, laid waste to villages across the region, killing and raping as they went. We hear from a survivor of Norway's worst day of terror, when a far-right extremist, Anders Breivik, launched a bomb attack on government offices and attacked a summer camp. Plus a story from our archives from a British army officer during World War Two who witnessed the end of Italy's colonial rule in East Africa during a final battle in the Ethiopian town of Gondar. From Brazil, the women's rights activist whose story of abuse inflicted by her husband inspired the country's first legislation recognising different forms of domestic violence in 2006. Lastly, the story of how the family of the artist Vincent Van Gogh worked to get him recognised as a great painter after he died penniless in 1890.


Photo: A young Darfurian refugee walks past a Sudan Liberation Army Land Rover filled with teenage rebel fighters on October 14 2004 in the violent North Darfur region of Sudan. (Photo by Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images)


SAT 20:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bq984)
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SAT 20:06 The Arts Hour (w3ct1rt6)
Director Quentin Tarantino

On The Arts Hour this week, Nikki Bedi is joined by Icelandic novelist Eva Björg Ægisdóttir and critic Leila Latif to discuss cultural highlights of the week.

Double Oscar winning screenwriter and director Quentin Tarantino on turning his film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, into a novel.

British Comedian Gina Yashere on her memoir Cack-Handed, her life as the child of Nigerian immigrants, being left handed and racism in the U.K and the U.S.A.

Finnish director Zaida Bergroth discusses her biopic of Moomins creator and Finnish national treasure, Tove Jansson.

British actor Vanessa Kirby on her role in the film The World To Come, set on the bleak American frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.

Eva Björg Ægisdóttir talks about her best-selling crime thriller, Girls who Lie, the second in her Forbidden Iceland series.

We hear from Italian producer and director Uberto Pasolini about his film Nowhere Special, and its moving story of a terminally ill single father, searching for a family to take care of his only son.

And music from the Andean mountains of Colombia, with guide Betto Arcos.


(Photo: Quentin Tarantino. Credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic via Getty Images)


SAT 21:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bqf08)
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SAT 21:06 Newshour (w172xv56fnl6d9w)
Ethiopia Tigray crisis: New front opens

Fighters from Tigray in northern Ethiopia have opened up a new front in their struggle against the central government in Addis Ababa. Leaders said this week that their fighters had entered the neighbouring Afar region to the east because pro-government forces were now massing for an attack. We’ll hear from Afar.

Also in the programme: a restaurant owner in Paris speaks to us about the Covid-19 'health pass' and compulsory vaccination tests; and large numbers of people in Hungary take part in the annual Pride march despite concerns about LGBT rights.

(Photo: More than a million people have been displaced by the conflict in Tigray. Credit: Getty Images)


SAT 22:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bqjrd)
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SAT 22:06 Music Life (w3ct1hc4)
'Good for the ego, bad for the soul' with Manika Kaur, Ali Riaz Baqar, Gurujas Khalsa and Abi Sampa

Manika Kaur, Ali Riaz Baqar, Gurujas Khalsa and Abi Sampa discuss individual definitions of success, why you're going to offend somebody no matter what music you make, the rollercoaster effect, and what their studio spaces look like.

Manika Kaur is a singer and contemporary performer of Sikh kirtan music. Predominately performed by men in gurdwara temples, kirtans are devotional singing or sacred chants. Manika is changing the landscape of the music by reinterpreting, recording, and performing outside of the temples, and being one of the few women to sing them.

Ali Riaz Baqar is a guitarist, bandleader, and chief composer of the group Jaubi. Based in Lahore, Pakistan, their debut album Nafs at Peace draws on elements of north Indian classical music, hip-hop and jazz. Gurujas Khalsa is a singer and songwriter from the Grammy-winning band White Sun, based in Los Angeles. Their music is a "sweeping exploration of New Age, through the lens of the Kundalini Yogic tradition", and their songs are also on the syllabus at the University of Southern California, where they are used to study stress management. And Abi Sampa is a multi-instrumentalist, veena virtuoso, and the UK’s first female Qawwal. She first rose to prominence when she sang on TV show The Voice UK in 2013. Born in London to Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, she’s now inspiring a new generation of British Asians with her music.


SAT 23:00 BBC News (w172xzjmw7bqnhj)
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SAT 23:06 The Newsroom (w172xywr25w3z1h)
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SAT 23:20 Sports News (w172y0sj4gb80p4)
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SAT 23:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzkg9yyf0rx)
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SAT 23:32 The Documentary (w3ct2gdt)
Lex Gillette: A leap in the dark

Lex Gillette was seven years old when his eyes stopped working. At first, things were a little blurry, a little distorted. Then, after 10 operations to treat the retinas that kept detaching in both his right and his left, he saw nothing but darkness.

But that did not stop him: Lex learned to ride a bike. He learned to run around. And eventually, he learned to to jump - jump farther than any other blind person in the world. Lex Gillette - world record long jumper, four time Paralympic medal winner - is on his way to Tokyo in 2021 to get the gold medal he has wanted since he was a child.

The other half of the Lex Gillette Paralympic success story is his guide coach, Wesley Williams. He and Lex have trained and competed together for 14 years. Tokyo will be their third Games together. As Lex begins his approach, running the 16 steps towards the take-off point, amidst all the sound of stadium, Wesley will make as much noise as he can - clapping and shouting in the way they have practised over and over again - keeping Lex on target to jump from the right spot and fly as far as he can. Further than any blind man in history. So far, that’s 6.73 metres.

The key to their success is the record of their relationship. They share vulnerabilities in order to develop strength, they are humble in order to hear, and they have a clear, shared vision that becomes phenomenal success.

(Photo: Elexis Gillette of the United States competes the Men's Long Jump T11 Final, Paralympics Athletics Grand Prix, Rio 2016 Olympics. Credit: Buda Mendes/Getty Images)