09/01/2011
Rajan Datar speaks to correspondents about the current Ivory Coast crisis and Peter White drops in to discuss visual disability, as well as the usual listeners' emails and opinions.
Rajan Datar looks at the difficulties that journalists face when reporting from abroad.
We discuss the ongoing presidential crisis in Ivory Coast and the difficulties faced in reporting it. Rajan hears from John James, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ correspondent, in Abidjan and Ambrose Pierre, Head of the Africa Desk at Reporters Without Borders.
Rajan is joined by Peter White, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Disability Correspondent, to speak to a blind listener from Kenya who has been inspired by Peter’s new series on the World Service, Blind Man Roams the Globe.
There is also a full mailbag, with listeners tackling the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s coverage of Christmas.
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