Outlook: Diary of a Rebel
December 5th, 2007 by Steve BowbrickMy wife’s all-night World Service habit brought this one to my attention. Outlook is The World Service’s three-times-a-week collection of personal stories from around the world: really absorbing stuff: the kind of thing they used to call ‘human interest’.
For the podcast I’ve picked out an almost unbelievable item: pages from the diary of a young Dutch woman who’s run away to join a Colombian rebel group (the FARC).
As far as we know she’s still out there in the jungle, whinging about her boyfriend. Here’s the item and here’s the whole show which includes items about Muslim comedians, political slogans and Switzerland’s first black MP. Note to producers: Outlook needs a podcast and a proper archive. (MP3).