View from the Boundary: Jeremy Bowen
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Long-time BBC Middle East editor and fanatical cricket listener Jeremy Bowen joins Aggers to chat covering upwards of twenty wars across the globe, expecting to die in conflicts, and how following cricket enabled him to escape the gravity of his work.
Also up for discussion; how to interview figures like Colonel Gaddafi, and nine months on from his bowel cancer diagnosis, the importance of screening and early diagnosis of the disease.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.7 | The TMS Podcast at the Ashes. Download and subscribe via the BBC Sounds app. |
| 0:10.3 | It's time for our view from the boundary. Our guest today, an Emmy award winning journalist |
| 0:14.8 | who's been a familiar face on our screen in some more than 25 years. |
| 0:17.7 | Reporting from some of the most dangerous places on earth, |
| 0:20.4 | covering some of the most traumatic stories of recent decades, |
| 0:23.3 | he's been the BBC's Middle East editor since 2005. |
| 0:27.1 | And that time into being political figures such as Mama Gaddafi, |
| 0:30.0 | Basha Alassad, covering stories, sort of a war of Syria, |
| 0:33.6 | and the Arab Spring, the Balkans. |
| 0:35.8 | He's hosted BBC Breakfast, |
| 0:37.3 | have I got news for you, many documentaries, |
| 0:39.4 | and he's here with his cameraman. |
| 0:41.0 | We've got to be in Australia and I'll make involve him later. |
| 0:43.4 | Jeremy Bowen, love it to see you. |
| 0:45.4 | I guess it's an honour to be here, |
| 0:47.6 | to be here in your commentary box. |
| 0:49.4 | Well, it's got to be here. |
| 0:50.4 | He's got to be here in your commentary box. |
| 0:52.4 | Oh, he's got to be here. |
| 0:53.4 | He's got to be here in your commentary box. |
| 0:55.5 | No, I haven't, it's my first time, so thank you for the invitation. |
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