The Story of Live Aid

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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How one scruffy Irish popstar saw a terrible famine being reported on his television and decided to do a bit more than just send a cheque to Oxfam. (John spent so long researching this podcast on Live Aid that he thought he might as well do a West End Musical about it at the same time). Reading List: The Eighties, One Day, One Decade by Dylan Jones; Is That It by Bob Geldof Buy books through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund We Are History by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. Support We Are History on Patreon and get exclusive benefits including bonus episodes, mugs and more! https://patreon.com/WeAreHistory We Are History is written and presented by Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell. Production by Simon Williams. Artwork by James Parrett. Group Editor is Andrew Harrison. We Are History is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.1	Hello and welcome to We Are History and it's a special one today, John, isn't it?
0:38.9	Something very close to your heart.
0:40.4	Yes, I have spent three years researching this episode, Angela.
0:44.1	It's about live aid, something I know quite a lot about.
0:47.6	Yeah, so John, just for our younger, sorry, younger listeners, I was going to say, as if we've got any.
0:54.8	Plural.
0:55.4	Definitely not plural.
0:56.6	For our younger listener that might just happen to be in the back of the car while
0:59.7	mum and dad are listening, what was Live Aid?
1:02.7	Live Aid was a concert in July 1985, raising money for famine relief in Ethiopia,
1:08.9	organised mainly by Bob Geldof and musical promoter Harvey Goldsmith.
1:13.3	But it was also a significant, I think, cultural and political event in the way that it engaged
1:19.0	a billion and a half TV viewers with the issue of famine relief in Ethiopia.
1:23.5	Yeah, we should probably say there's a reason that you're talking so knowledgeably about it.
1:27.1	Yes. Because you have gone and written a musical about it.
1:28.9	People, you know, unless you've been sleeping in a box for the last few months,
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