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Clive Myrie is in conversation with fellow journalists about the music they’ve heard whilst reporting from the front line. With his own extensive experience of covering wars, and his personal love of opera and jazz, Clive and Janine di Giovanni share stories to reveal something of the power and significance of music when working in extreme conflict situations.

Janine is a multi-award-winning journalist who reported stories of conflicts around the globe for nearly 30 years - the siege of Sarajevo; the Rwandan genocide; the brutal wars in Sierra Leone, Somalia, Ivory Coast and Liberia to Chechnya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Gaza. Janine founded and directs The Reckoning Project, a transitional justice organization training Ukrainian researchers to gather legally admissible testimonies documenting war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Here she recalls the music that’s accompanied her working life: Schumann’s Kinderszenen with orphaned children in Sarajevo; the final movement of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata expressed the madness of war she experienced in Serbia; and Barber’s Adagio for Strings accompanied her when she encountered a house full of abandoned blind people after the fall of Grozny in Chechnya.

I’d Love to Change the World by Ten Years After.

Schumann’s Kinderszenen (Träumerei and Kind im Einschlummern) played by Vladimir Horowitz.

3rd Movement of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata played by Daniel Barenboim.

Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.

Moon River by Johnny Mercer & Henry Mancini performed by Frank Ocean.

Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit by Bach arranged by György Kurtág, played by György and Márta Kurtág.

Final movement Mahler’s 9th Symphony, Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

Producer: Rosie Boulton
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