Blair,
Annan, McCartney, Ronaldo, and Dalai Lama head interview line-up
to mark 大象传媒 World Service 70th Anniversary
British Prime
Minister Tony Blair is the first of a series of high profile interviews
to mark the 70th anniversary of the 大象传媒 World Service in December.
The
Blair interview is followed by interviews with UN General Secretary,
Kofi Annan, Sir Paul McCartney, Brazilian football star, Ronaldo,
and the Dalai Lama later in the month.
Blair
will be answering phone and live e-mail questions from World Service
listeners around the world in a special edition of the international
multimedia interview programme Talking Point on
Tuesday 3 December at 6.30pm (GMT).
The
Iraq conflict, the Middle East, the enlargement of the European
Union and poverty in the developing world are among the topics expected
to be covered.
Talking
Point can be heard 648 MW, Channel 865 on the Sky Electronic Programme
Guide, Channel 80 on Freeview or on the internet - .
Questions
for Tony Blair can be sent by e-mail to talkingpoint@bbc.co.uk.
Please remember to include your phone number.
UN
Secretary General Kofi Annan will be giving the World Service
70th Birthday Lecture from the UN building in New York
on Wednesday 11 December, just three days after the first deadline
of the timetable for Iraqi compliance with the new UN resolution
on weapons inspections.
He
will also be answering listeners' questions from around the world.
Other
political interviews confirmed for December include President Chissano
of Mozambique, President Toledo of Peru, President Bandaranaike-Kumaratunga
of Sri Lanka, former EU President Jacques Delors, Richard von Weizsacker
(Federal German President 1984-1994), Nobel Prize for Literature
winner Wole Soyinka and former UK Foreign Secretary Lord Douglas
Hurd.
Other
70th anniversary programme highlights include a World Service
Global Party - a special live concert taking place in five
countries - Senegal, Great Britain, Afghanistan, India and Mexico
- across four continents.
The
concert, featuring Mercury award winner, Ms Dynamite, will be hosted
by veteran DJ, John Peel.
World Service
listeners around the world are also voting to determine the world鈥檚
top 10 records.
The
actual birthday - Thursday 19 December - will be marked by a day
of special programming presented from the site of the World Service's
first re-broadcast - Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa.
Notes
to Editors
In the UK, the
大象传媒 World Service is available on 648 MW in south-east England.
In addition, overnight on 大象传媒 Radio 4, 大象传媒 Radio Wales and 大象传媒 Radio
Ulster and via digital radio, digital satellite and the Internet.
Outside the
UK, 大象传媒 World Service is available on shortwave; on FM in more than
117 capital cities; and selected programmes are carried on almost
2,000 FM and MW radio stations around the world.
High quality
reception of World Service programmes is available via satellite
in Europe and North America.
It can be heard
on the 大象传媒's digital multiplex in the UK or in Europe on the Astra
satellite, channel 865.
The
大象传媒 World Service website -
- contains extensive, interactive news services available in English,
Arabic, Chinese Russian and Spanish with audiostreaming available
in 43 languages.
It
also contains detailed information about World Service broadcasts,
schedules and frequencies in all languages.
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