Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
The Current
Radio One: 8:30 am (9 am NT)
Under Threat is an examination of the difficulties faced by Morrocan newspaper publisher Abubakr Jamai. He was given an International Press Freedom Award for standing up to the government of Morocco. But that didn't cut much ice at home. No one told him he couldn't print politically unpopular stories - but somehow his advertisers disappeared, he was fined hundreds of thousands of dollars and government vans bussed in protesters to make a scene in front of his office.
Then it got personal. There was a kidnapping attempt on his 2-month-old son, and his co-director of the newspaper had his tires slashed. The threats and actions have forced Abubakr Jamai to rethink his role in publishing the truth.
Sounds Like Canada
Radio One: 10 am (10:30 am NT)
Sounds Like Canada originates from Charlottetown, where Shelagh speaks with two Sudanese immigrants about their struggle for freedom of expression in their homeland. Benjamin Mathiang is a journalist, now studying in Canada who plans, one day, to return home to help further the democratic movement. His sister Ruth Mathiang is a singer and immigration settlement counsellor. Their father, who had been imprisoned for his political beliefs, fled Sudan with his nine children.
World at Six
Radio One & Two: 6 pm (6:30 pm NT)
CBC News Foreign Correspondent Michael Mcauliffe reports on a group of popular singers in Bali who face potential prison sentences after performing at a benefit concert.
Balinese Singers
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Balinese Singers - Igo and Eddy (Photo credit: Michael Mcauliffe) |
In Performance
Radio Two: 8 pm (8:30 pm NT)
Dmitri Shostakovich, whose 100th birthday was celebrated in 2006, is now recognized as one of the 20th century's most important musical voices. During his lifetime, he twice fell out of favour with the Soviet regime, and his works were banned from public performance. After Stalin denounced his second opera, "Lady MacBeth From Mtsensk Region," he never returned to the form, and musicologists lament the opera composer the world lost. On tonight's program we'll hear music from commemorative concerts in Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg, plus letters written by Shostakovich, and testimony from cellist Yuli Turovsky about Shostakovich's importance to people in the Soviet Union.
