A really vivid and exciting half-hour about the journey of Togo and Arsenal footballer Emmanuel Adebayor to Ghana and Togo. He’s 24 but so mature and comfortable with his fame and the quite awesome responsibility that goes with it. A remarkable man (MP3).
Next in this sequence of great factual programmes is the second half-hour from Hugh Levinson’s really interesting and surprising two-parter about science in Africa. Not, as I might have expected, a hopeless story: in fact quite the reverse (MP3).
Is African football any good? How much does a Ghanaian Premiership player earn? Will a team from the continent ever win the World Cup? The World Service is going large on the Africa Cup of Nations that kicks off in Ghana this weekend. Here’s 8:14 of the kind of stuff only the World Service can do: wide-ranging, authoritative commentary on stuff that happens in foreign places. (MP3).
A blog of Radio 4. Not about Radio 4 but of it. We point to the bits we like, the bits you might have missed, the bits that someone might have sneakily recorded. Other speech radio from around the world will no doubt find its way here too.
Of course, one day this might turn into something else, maybe a new way of curating speech radio, or maybe it won’t.
Your hosts on this not very wild ride are Steve Bowbrick, Russell Davies, Dan Hill, Bobbie Johnson, Roo Reynolds and James Bridle. Drop us a line with your thoughts, unless you wish to complain about continuity announcers and their accents.
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