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Book of the Week: Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo

Riz Ahmed

Elizabeth Allard

Richard Hamilton

Anjan Sundaram

Book of the Week: Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo: Episode 1: First Impressions

Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo

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Episode 1: First Impressions

First Impressions

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo, First Impressions

First impressions of Kinshasa, and an encounter with a group of orphaned children.

Anjan Sundaram's recalls his first impressions of Kinshasa and an encounter with a group of orphaned children.

Stringer is Anjan Sundaram's vivid account of self-discovery and danger in the heart of Africa. In 2005, at the age of 22, the decision to become a journalist takes Sundaram to Congo where he spends a year and a half cutting his teeth as a reporter for a news agency. With the 2006 elections approaching he immerses himself in the everyday life of this lawless and war torn country. This intense period takes him deep into the shadowy parts of Kinshasa, to the dense rain forest with an Indian businessman hunting for his fortune, and culminates in the historic and violent elections of 2006.

Anjan Sundaram is an award-winning journalist who has reported from Africa and the Middle East for the New York Times and the Associated Press. He received a Reuters journalism award in 2006 for his reporting on Pygmy tribes in Congo's rain forest.

Read by Riz Ahmed who is best known for his work in film. He has starred in The Road to Guantanamo, Shifty, Four Lions, Ill Manors and The Reluctant Fundamentalist which he also read for Radio 4's Book at Bedtime.

Abridged by Richard Hamilton
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

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Anjan Sundaram's mesmerising account of self-discovery in war-torn Congo

Anjan Sundaram's mesmerising account of self-discovery in war-torn Congo. Abridged by Richard Hamilton. Read by Riz Ahmed

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