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Reporters' Notes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Emily Buchanan invites some of Britain's most distinguished foreign correspondents to remember the music that evokes the unforgettable events which they found themselves reportingto the world. This week John Simpson , BBC World Affairs editor, recalls Louis Armstrong on a wind-up gramophone in Baghdad, South African apartheid victim Steve Biko commemorated in song-and the tuneful Marx Brothers. Producer Simon Elmes

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Emily Buchanan
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John Simpson
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Louis Armstrong
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Steve Biko
Producer:
Simon Elmes

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