The View from Here: December 2010 Archives
Friday December 24, 2010
Dispatches, our soundtrack edition: we sing you the world!
As a holiday special, Dispatches raided the program vaults for the music, songs and sounds collected from around the world for our shows.
Tunes created from honking horns? Got 'em!
What's happening in Sheng and Marjinal music? Check!
Songs favoured by randy taxi drivers about fornicating wildlife? You know we got that one!
And there's a lot more. We've also got the stories behind them from the correspondents, contributors and even the listeners who brought them to us.
They're all in our three-part holiday special called Soundtracks of Dispatches
(A two-part edition of this Soundtrack Edition will be broadcast 5-6:00 pm on January 3 on CBC Radio One.)
Part 1 features sounds and stories from Rick's field archives, the afore-mentioned "wild" life song, a touching tsunami dispatch from a listener, a tribute to a Colombian music legend, a Czech hymn to beer hops, an African witchdoctor with a taste for Barry White, and Austrian monks chantin' and rockin' like it's 999!
Part 2 features the CBC's Neil Macdonald stuck in a nazi time warp, a hopping recording from a presidential contender in Haiti, a Tina tune turned Icelandic anthem, Egyptian jazz stylings on the rango, songs for peace from residents of Congo, a citizen's dispatch on Rumours of Glory, and our own Margaret Evans from the streets of grieving Spain.
Part 3 features the most requested song in the history of Dispatches! Hint, it's at the end. Along with it, music from the waves of the Adriatic and the taxi cars of Ghana. We hit the streets of Havana with Cuba's punk pundit of politics, and go to the bridges of Jakarta where street kids have their own punk poets laureate. Then it's songs you might not understand but will love in Africaans and sheng. Enjoy!
Sorry, we can't podcast the Soundtracks edition due to copyright regulations.
Categories: 2010 Season, The View from Here
Monday December 20, 2010
The soundtrack of a randy taxi driver
CBC correspondent Connie Watson expected certain dangers when she got into a taxi to ride into the heart of the war in Kosovo. But, she wasn't counting on explicit advances of a musical nature from her rogue of a driver. After hearing her tale you may never think of the Discovery Channel in quite the same way again!
Connie recounts the story for our special Sountracks of Dispatches program.
Listen to it now for a sample what's in the show.
Join us for this trip around the world with the music from Dispatches, and the stories behind it, from our correspondents, contributors and listeners!
The show will be repeated January 3rd, in most time zones after the news at 5-pm.
Categories: The View from Here
Friday December 10, 2010
Vigo, Spain...the flag from here flies on the sun
Rick's visited a lot of small burgs in his reportorial travels; this one, though, has an astronomical claim to fame now.
Read more »Winter rain was drenching Spain's north coast, so I ducked into a tiny cafe in the port of Vigo, which hadn't seen the sun for days, little realizing someone there would someday own it. The sun, that is.
I sat down rubbing my hands together when an elderly man at the next table looked over, then handed me a dish of these delicious razor clams right off his table.
Now, Vigo has superb seafood, and plainly sets a high bar on hospitality. But it has other claims to fame besides being Europe's largest fishing port.
Categories: The View from Here
Tuesday December 7, 2010
Jacmel and Sabonette, Haiti...overtaken by the ladies here, and the little guy
David Common has been with the CBC team in Haiti. He sends two views, from high up on a mountainside.
Categories: Promo Box, The View from Here
Monday December 6, 2010
Kampuchea...the mysteries of the Foxy Lady here
Foxy Lady is the story of nine western sailors, one Canadian, on the yacht Foxy Lady -- captured off Cambodia in 1978. All aboard were eventually killed by the Khmer Rouge. The author is long-time Dispatches contributor Dave Kattenburg, who lives in Winnipeg.
He read several passages for Dispatches from the pages of Foxy Lady: Truth, Memory & The Death Of Western Yachtsmen In Democratic Kampuchea
Dave's first visit to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.
Looking for signs, at a later visit (click below for more of his account, and link)
Categories: The View from Here
Monday December 6, 2010
Rikileaks...dishing the diplomatic dirt here
Correspondents know about diplomats and indiscretions, as Dispatches Rick MacInnes-Rae reveals in
Rikileaks -- tales from his experience in war zones, no-booze places and areas that might have been guarded with a bit more privacy.
Read more »Wikileaks is dishing dirt all over the international stage these days, revealing governments behaving in most undiplomatic ways.
But it comes as no surprise to them. It shouldn't surprise the rest of us either.
I recall the first indiscreet western diplomat I ever met was in the Middle East, back when the Gulf War was brewing.
Categories: The View from Here
- October 2011
- Sat., 8 – Famine aid: giving cash instead of food
- Fri., 7 – Rick and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Wed., 5 – China's surfer girl goes global
- September 2011
- Tue., 27 – Al Qaeda: up close with the bosses
- Thu., 15 – Peace and death on Tripoli Street
- Thu., 8 – Lamont Tilden remembered
- Thu., 8 – 30 Mosques/30 days goes worldwide
- Thu., 1 – The Sky Cries Blood, Afghanistan 2002.
- August 2011
- Fri., 26 – How To Fix A Football Match
- Thu., 25 – Pakistan's untold stories
- Tue., 16 – Urumqi, China's underground 6 City
- Tue., 16 – Uyghur Thriller Soundtrax
- Mon., 1 – U.S. Ramadan Road Trip
- July 2011
- Wed., 13 – Nothing but mammals, baby...
- Mon., 11 – This Is Not America
- June 2011
- Wed., 29 – Guca, Serbia: brass bands and nationalism
- Wed., 29 – The Khmer Rouge and Foxy Lady
- Mon., 27 – Remembering Andrew Princz
- Fri., 17 – A Space Shuttle, a premier, and an ocean
- Mon., 13 – Jerusalem...covering the never-ending story
- May 2011
- Wed., 25 – Radio's eyes, The Human Kind Of Eye
- Wed., 25 – Kampala...words of hope from a gay bar
- Mon., 2 – War brides return to Britain on QM2
- April 2011
- Tue., 19 – Kampala...home of Gadhafi's fan club?
- Sat., 16 – Cairo...security file free-for-all
- Thu., 14 – Tokyo...in the shadow of Fukushima
- Mon., 11 – Dakar's wrestling sandbox millionaires
- Mon., 4 – Jordan's protests run deep
- March 2011
- Thu., 31 – Grand Forks, ND: misinformation on the menu
- Mon., 28 – Mexico: fear of narco-censorship here
- Tue., 22 – Noda, Japan...pictures, pieces of lives
- Tue., 22 – The screwy Saudi security syndrome
- Thu., 17 – Beijing...ice swimming and loving it
- Tue., 15 – Mendoza, Argentina...a witness to brutality
- Mon., 14 – Addis Ababa...renting the news of revolution
- Fri., 11 – Margaret Evans' Mideast overview
- Thu., 10 – China rolls back reforms
- Wed., 2 – Tunisians demand democracy now!
- February 2011
- Mon., 28 – Kabul's curbside cops
- Wed., 23 – Urumqi, China..underground music here
- Fri., 11 – Haiti classics -- A Canadian Grammy nominee
- Wed., 9 – Nairobi...Togetherness Supreme here
- Mon., 7 – London...cuts to BBC World Sevice here
- Thu., 3 – Cairo...re-charging in a mosque here
- January 2011
- Thu., 27 – Ladino: The Jewish music of Spain sung here
- Wed., 26 – Yak manure: from poo to petrol
- Wed., 26 – South Sudan...a new national anthem here
- Fri., 21 – Our man from China assesses India
- Thu., 20 – Haiti...just another death by cholera
- Wed., 19 – Goma, Congo...Clever Boys here
- Tue., 11 – Spain - no more matadors on TV here
- Thu., 6 – Juba...boatloads of celebration here
- December 2010
- Mon., 20 – The soundtrack of a randy taxi driver
- Fri., 3 – Kabul...the roadside pension plan here
- November 2010
- Wed., 24 – Afghanistan...Embedded with the Taliban here
- Tue., 23 – Kampala..The Secret Reach Of "The Family"
- Sat., 20 – Thanks for finding your way to a new feature
- Wed., 17 – Shatila refugee camp...guns are common here
- Tue., 16 – Kampala...battling homosexuality here
- Mon., 15 – Zimbabwe...Waiting For The Rain here
- Mon., 1 – China in Africa...no Chinatowns here
- Mon., 1 – Nicaragua...the remains of a DC-3 here
- October 2010
- Fri., 29 – Washington...Franzen, Freedom and Obama here
- Thu., 28 – London...the tale of MI-5 from here
- Mon., 25 – NYC 9/11...What's Going On here?
- Fri., 22 – Manila..."offending religious feelings" here
- Thu., 21 – Havana...sticking like crazy glue here
- Wed., 20 – Haiti...Rumours Of Glory here
- Wed., 20 – Who do you pay to be in the news here?
- Tue., 19 – New York City...living in tunnels here
- Fri., 15 – Falkland Islands...music of the long march
- Fri., 15 – Lusaka, SA...Tracy Chapman echoes here
- Tue., 12 – Khao Lak, Thailand...song from the Tsunami
- June 2010
- Thu., 17 – Assam, India...childbirth can be deadly here
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