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Last broadcast on Sun, 15 Jan 2012, 23:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Ugandan born journalist and BBC World Service presenter Paul Bakibinga explores the idea of loss and how to get going again after a major life setback in Something Understood: Starting Over.
The programme includes an account of his own experience of losing a baby, and explores how others have managed to restart their lives after setbacks such as contracting HIV, and an account from an Asian family who managed to get going again after being thrown out of Uganda by Idi Amin. Paul Bakibinga explains how directly experiencing adversity has given him more empathy when covering death or disaster as a journalist.
It also features an interview with South African performance poet Malika Ndlovu who reads a moving extract from her journal, "Invisible Earthquake", which depicts her struggle to regain a sense of inner calm after her daughter was still-born.
An uplifting programme which begins in darkness with Mahler's "Songs on the Death of Children" and moves into the light - ending with the Ugandan Children's Choir singing "Siyahamba - We Are Marching In The Light of God".
The programme is presented by Paul Bakibinga.
Producer: Kim Normanton.
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
Readings
Title: Tide of Fortune
Author: Manubhai Madhvani
Publisher: Manubhai Madhvani Bermuda Trusts
ISBN: 978-1897403808
Title: Days of Grace
Author: Arthur Ashe
Publisher: Random House Inc
ISBN: 978-0679423966
Title: Invisible Earthquake: A Woman’s Journey Through Stillbirth
Author: Malika Ndlovu
Publisher: Modjaji Books
ISBN: 978-0980272932
Title: As You Like It
Author: William Shakespeare, with introduction by Katherine Duncan-Jones
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 978-0141012278
Title: ‘The Phoneix’, from The Complete Poems
Author: D H Lawrence, edited by Vivian de solo Pinto and F Warren Roberts
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 978-0140186574
Music played
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Gustav Mahler
— KindertotenliederPerformer: Kirsten Flagstad
Kindertotenlieder/Wesendonck (Flagstad, Wp, Boult), Decca, B00005N56T, 1 -
Oliver Mtukudzi — Todii
Performer: Oliver Mtukudzi
N/A, Indigo, B0038EE9RA, 1 -
Oliver Mtukudzi — Todii
Performer: Oliver Mtukudzi
N/A, Indigo, B0038EE9RA, 1 -
Sweet Honey in the Rock — We Are
Composer: Traditional
Sacred Ground, Earthbeat, B000002M7R, 14 -
Igor Stravinsky
— FirebirdPerformer: Rome Philharmonic Orchestra
300 years of glorious music: CD3, Reader’s Digest, B003K8IXLM, 11 -
Watoto’s Children’s Choir — Walking in the Light of God
Composer: Traditional
N/A, Furious, N/A
Broadcasts
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Sun 15 Jan 201206:05
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Sun 15 Jan 201223:30
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