Christina Lamb on Benazir Bhutto
Great Lives
BBC
4.2 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Benazir Bhutto made history when, aged 35, she became the first democratically elected female Prime Minister of a Muslim majority country.
Her family are one of world’s most famous political dynasties, but also one blighted by tragedy – murder, feud and assassinations.
Bhutto has been nominated by Christina Lamb, author and chief foreign correspondent with The Sunday Times. Bhutto was her friend and a huge influence on her life. She also expelled Christina Lamb from Pakistan.
Christina has a picture of Benazir Bhutto on her desk attending the rally in Pakistan before she was killed by a suicide bomber on the 27th December 2007. Christina was on a bus with her during a previous assassination attempt, and she recounts the horror of that day.
Her expert witness is Huma Yusuf, a journalist and columnist with Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper and a Global Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Centre.
Presented by Matthew Parris
Producer: Perminder Khatkar
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2018.
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| 0:31.3 | This is the BBC. Age just 35, she made history as the first democratically elected female Prime Minister of a Muslim majority country. |
| 0:45.1 | Her family are one of the world's most famous political dynasties, but blighted by tragedy, |
| 0:49.8 | murder, feud, assassinations. Her own life ended when on the 27th of December 2007 she was |
| 0:57.7 | killed by a suicide bomber. Today's great life is Benazir Bhutto, and she's been nominated by Christina Lamb, OBE, |
| 1:06.8 | writer, journalist and chief correspondent with The Sunday Times, and who was with Bhutto in 2007 when the first unsuccessful attempt to assassinate |
| 1:16.3 | her was made. |
| 1:18.4 | The authorities in Pakistan are investigating the attempt to kill Benazir Bhutto in Karachi. |
| 1:23.0 | It was terrible. |
| 1:25.0 | There were two blas. |
| 1:26.0 | The first one was a smaller one and the second one was a huge one. |
| 1:30.0 | Three people on our truck also lost their lives who were also security guards sitting near the edge of the drop. |
| 1:39.4 | That was Benazir Bhutto speaking after the bomb blast. Christina, what do you remember about that? |
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