A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 2

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Content Warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence

JP Bimeni is a writer turned soul singer who walked through a massacre unscathed as his country fell into conflict. At just 16 he had a lot more living, and almost dying, to do. Now a successful performer these experiences seep into his songs.

Presenter: Jo Fidgen Producer: Louise Morris

Transcript

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan.
0:22.1	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories
0:24.4	of my lifetime.
0:25.9	I'm Alex von Tundselman.
0:27.3	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:29.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.7	A bomb,
0:32.7	whose creation would tip the scales
0:34.7	of global power.
0:36.9	A nuclear physicist who sought to redress the balance.
0:41.8	The Bomb, a podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:46.1	Season 2, available now.
0:51.8	And she looked at him and she realised what it was.
0:54.5	I screamed. And she screamed.
0:57.3	She screamed and ran away.
0:59.6	And I remember going, Mom, it's me, it's me.
1:02.0	Because she spent almost a week crying and thinking, I'm dead.
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