'Dawn, and as the sun breaks through the piercing chill of night on the plain outside Korem it lights up a biblical famine, now, in the Twentieth Century.'

Those words opened Michael Buerk's first report on the Ethiopian famine for
the 6 o'clock news on October 24th 1984.

 

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The Road Taken by Michael Buerk

The Road Taken

Brilliantly written; at times wildly funny, at times heart wrenchingly moving, this is an account of a unique life, lived to the full.

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