Waiting For Something - a short documentary about Jay Reatard

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The Radio Ephemera Show

Every Morning I Hear This Voice … blev udvalgt og kom i løbet af sommeren med i Chicago Public Radios program Re:sound. Du kan høre programmet her, under ”July 11, 2009 (#114)- The Radio Ephemera Show”.

Stille katastrofer

I Senegal er der oversvømmelser. Det høre vi ikke meget om i Danmark, men mine amerikanske kollegaer, her i Vestafrika, har lavet en kort billede præsentation af vores operation. Den kan i se her.

Strømfald i Uganda

Jeg skrev, mens jeg boede i Uganda, en artikel om at være grøn ud i at padle i Niles hvide vand. Artiklen er kommet i den seneste udgave af Opdag Verden, sammen med en række fine billeder. Bladet kan du se her. Er du mere til den nordiske natur, og vil du hellere padle fos, kan du finde inspiration og muligheder på anden side af Øresund.

Fra gadebarn til husejer i Bangkoks slum

Jeg har skrevet en artikel om at bruge livshistorieinterviews som metode i fattigdomsundersøgelser. Mere specifikt har jeg beskrevet, hvordan livshistorier kan bruges til at forstå, hvordan fattige familier i Bangkok mestre økonomiske kriser, som f.eks. tab af beskæftigelse. Artiklen er i det seneste nummer af Geografisk Orientering (August 2009, 39. årgang, Nr. 4) som du kan bestille her. Billedet viser Lek med sin familie i et af Bangkoks slum områder. Leks livshistorie har lagt navn til artiklen: Fra gadebarn til husejer.

Lampard vinder afrikansk drama

Er du fan af radio, Chelsea FC eller interesseret i udviklingen i Zimbabwe er der absolut inden vej uden om Radio-dramaet Dear Mr Lampard, der netop har vundet BBC prisen for bedste afrikanske radio-drama. Se her.

Fra en kirke i centrum af Kampala

Jeg har sammen med Rekha lavet en reportage fra hjertet af Kampala. Vi var til gudstjeneste i den store og populære nykristne kirke, KPC. Det var på alle måder en meget spændende oplevelse at udarbejde reportagen. Du kan høre den nu i Orientering på P1.

Every morning I hear this voice ...

I produced a short radio story for the Chicago Public Radio Third Coast Festival. The story is called: – ‘Every morning I hear this voice …’ and it is set right here where we live on Kyambogo hill in Kampala, Uganda.

You can listen to the story here. It is entry number seven. I recommend that you use headphones - it will get a bit more interesting.

I have wanted to do a story on the praying from the Mosque for some time. At first I did not think of doing the story as a submission for the TCF, but suddenly one day I found that many of the elements needed for a submission to the festival was already there in the story I wanted to do anyway; the voice of a stranger (the praying we can hear from the Kyambogo hill mosque), control of body and mind (praying and meditation) and the stork (growing up as a Muslim in Uganda).

The narrator is my friend Gabrielle Lamourelle and the respondent is Umar Kakande, a young Muslim living here in Kyambogo. Umar was very kind to take the time and explain to me the ways of praying and doing Koran recitation and a lot of other stuff I did not know about Muslims, Islam or Uganda for that matter.

Umar did the Koran recitation for me in a small office in the mosque. He sang directly into the stereo-recorder and it came out really nice.

Gabrielle and I did the words. I am very glad that Gabrielle was willing to join in on the project. I wrote her an email saying something like: ‘Here is a bit about the competition and my outline for the short doc. My voice is not good for this sort of thing – so it’s great if you want to help out. And I think it will be – fun.’ And it was good fun.

For me the story is about – what affect being religious and praying has on your body, mind and outlook on life. The drive in the story is – curiosity, meeting people of a different culture with an open mind, asking stupid questions and getting really clever answers. But maybe you can get something else out of it.