Susannah Savage is a journalist and photographer published in The Economist, The Washington Post and others.
The presence of American troops on foreign soil is growing more controversial AT THE end of July the United States army announced plans to hand back 15 square miles (40 square km) of land on Okinawa to the Japanese government. This will be the biggest land return in the island, home to almost 30,000 American... Continue Reading →
The EU may force labour exporters to pay local union wages THREE years ago, the STX France shipyard in Saint-Nazaire was on the brink of closing down. Then it landed contracts to build a fleet of giant ships for the cruise lines Royal Caribbean and MSC Cruises. Thousands of locals expected to be hired. But... Continue Reading →
As Britain and the European Union prepare to divorce, many of their citizens contemplate tying the knot DELPHINE was born in Jersey, a crown dependency of the United Kingdom, and holds a British passport. She and her Mexican boyfriend, José, intend to move to Paris from Mexico. When she heard that Britain had voted to... Continue Reading →
For World Radio Day 2016, I got to interview the Internews CEO Daniel Bruce, who told me about the importance of community radio in post-conflict zones and the growing challenges journalists are facing today.
Since visiting Istanbul during the June election last year, I've been closely following developments in Turkey. I decided to make a podcast about the Turkish elections for SOAS Radio's regional spotlight series. I got in touch with Hişyar Özsoy, an MP for the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), and Gamon McLellan, former head of the... Continue Reading →
https://soundcloud.com/bbc-world-service/opera-singer-recounts-her-ordeal-on-italian-ferry More than 400 people were rescued from the burning Italian ferry off the Greek island of Corfu. I contacted opera singer Dimitra Theodossiou, who was one of those airlifted to Italy. She gave an interview to BBC World Service's Newsday about her experience.
A competition was launched recently in America amongst university scientists to redesign ebola suits. I organised an interview for BBC's Newsday with the winner of the competition, Professor Youseph Yazdi from Johns Hopkins University. https://soundcloud.com/bbc-world-service/better-designed-ebola-protection-suits
https://soundcloud.com/bbc-world-service/indias-new-comic-book-super-hero-priya-the-rape-survivor A new comic book has been launched in India with a unique twist: the comic's super hero is Priya Shakti, a female rape survivor. I organised an interview for Newsday at the BBC World Service with Ram Devineni the comic's creator.
DJ recognised for his success in curating Bestival and Camp Bestival Rob da Bank, who founded music festival Bestival just a decade ago, is to be honoured with the outstanding contribution award at this year’s annual UK Festival Awards. Bank, who began as a Radio 1 DJ, will be recognised at the ceremony on Monday for... Continue Reading →
There's more, however, to influence in the EU than flexing a bit of high-ranking muscle. We also need to have the odd regular fonctionnaire roaming around the Berlaymont singing 'Rule Britannia!'
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