If there is a better current affairs programme than the BBC World Service's Outlook, I would like to hear of it. The programme is billed as "Human interest stories behind the headlines" but there is not the slightest hint of voyeurism about these stories and interviews. Last night there was a quite extraordinary account the aftermath of the terrorist attack five years ago on a school in the Russian town of Beslan. The interview was with BBC Film maker Ewa Ewart who first went to Beslan two months after the siege ended and returned to mark its fifth anniversary.
Spellbinding, spine-chilling and heartbreaking.
You can listen to it here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/090901_outtlook_beslan.shtml
In the same programme there is a heart-warming interview with Hilary Lister, the first quadriplegic woman to sail solo around the UK.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/090901_outlook_hilarylister.shtml
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