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30/08/2009

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Last broadcast on Fri, 4 Sep 2009, 09:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group of people intimately involved in a moment of modern history.

In Ethiopia, close to eight million people became famine victims during the drought of 1984, and over one million died. The international relief effort that followed was the largest ever mounted, culminating in the Live Aid concert in 1985.

Reporter Michael Buerk, nurse Claire Bertschinger, former head of Oxfam Hugh Goyder, Major Dawit Wolde Giorgis of the Ethiopian relief effort and Sir Brian Barder, Ambassador to Ethiopia at the time, join Sue to recall the events.

A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.

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  1. Sun 30 Aug 2009
    11:15
  2. Fri 4 Sep 2009
    09:00

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