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: Campaigners, Lost Voices, and Song

Meron Estefanos and Kiran Ahluwalia

13/07/2014

Campaigners, Lost Voices, and Song

BBC World Service - Outlook, Campaigners, Lost Voices, and Song

Hear my voice: Eritrean hostages, Indian streetchildren and Lance Armstrong whistleblower

Swedish broadcaster Meron Estefanos tells Matthew Bannister about helping Eritrean hostages.  Plus the whistleblower who exposed Lance Armstrong, and a streetchildren's newspaper.

Eritrean Meron Estefanos presents a programme on the Paris-based Radio Erena that broadcasts interviews with Eritrean refugees being held to ransom in torture camps in Egypt

British landscape photographer Charlie Waite on a mysterious assignment in Libya which created a portrait of the country's last days under Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. 

Also, Indian-born Canadian Kiran Ahluwalia on how she gave up her city career to become an award-winning singer of ghazals.

Emma O'Reilly was an assistant to the US Postal cycling team who spoke out about the culture of doping in cycling and exposed Lance Armstrong as a drugs cheat. Her decision to break the sport's code of silence had serious consequences for her which she describes in her book The Race To Truth.

Suhail Haleem meets the young journalists in Delhi behind Balak Nama, the Children's Voice, which is written by street children for street children.

Picture: Meron Estfanos (left) ; Kiran Ahluwalia (right)

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Outlook

Campaigners, Lost Voices, and Song

Genres

Brand

BBC World Service Online

About BBC World Service