Original version

BBC World Service Online

Migrated podcast image for: Outlook

Outlook

Factual: Life Stories

True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives

True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.

Outlook: 28/03/2012

28/03/2012

BBC World Service - Outlook, 28/03/2012

Fighting the fear: reporting from the frontline of the Libyan uprising.

Facing death in a mosque under fire - war reporter Alex Crawford describes the personal impact of covering the Libyan uprising.

Extraordinary personal stories from around the world. 

Today, Alex Crawford, the British TV reporter who has won awards for her coverage of the Arab Spring and was the first foreign journalist to broadcast live from Green Square in Tripoli. She describes what it was like to face death in a mosque under fire. 

And a French cartoonist tells how he has created a comic strip blog from the daily life of an 18-year-old Kazakh man with cerebral palsy. 

Alex Crawford's book, Colonel Gaddafi's Hat, is published on 29 March 2012.

(Image: Alex Crawford)

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Outlook

28/03/2012

Genres

Brand

BBC World Service Online

About BBC World Service