National Radio, Kim Hill Special. 2003-03-22.

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2003
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30190
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Year
2003
Reference
30190
Media type
Audio
Item unavailable online
Duration
02:00:00
Credits
RNZ Collection
Hill, Kim, 1955-
Robinson, Geoff
HUTCHISON, Bob
Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-
RUBIN, James
GOLDSMITH, Teddy
ORMSBY, Raumoa
British Broadcasting Corporation
National Radio (N.Z.) (estab. 1986, closed 2007)
Dixie Chicks (Musical group)

A special programme, hosted by Kim Hill and Geoff Robinson, broadcast from 8am in the usual Kim Hill Saturday Morning slot, to bring the latest reports from Iraq, attacked by US and UK troops less than 48 hours earlier.
03/60/01
Recording begins during eyewitness accounts of air raids on Baghdad, filed by various reporters. Tk 1, 03'35" Similar reports from the northern city of Kirkuk (a major hub of Iraq's oil industry), from Kurdish part of northern Iraq on attack on another city Al Mawsil. 05'50" I/v with a local Reuter correspondent in Baghdad. 11'15" Quotes from United States president George W Bush, followed by US defence secretary and US chief of staff. 15'40" First official Iraqi response. 17'05" Events in Kuwait. 21'55" News headlines read by Chris Whitta. ENDS 23'48".
Tk 2, 00'55" British military spokesman in southern Iraq, followed by report from near Kuwait border. 03'25" Bob Hutchison of Jane's Defence Weekly comments. 11'45" Anti-US demonstrations in Yemeni capital and Jordanian capital, Amman. 16'30" Report from Kuwait. 19'00" James Ruben, assistant secretary of state under President Clinton, comments. 20'15" Report from US forces in southern Iraq, then from the Jordanian border. 24'20" Report on helicopter crash which killed 8 British soldiers. ENDS 26'40".
03/60/02
Normal programme resumes. News, trailer & weather. 07'35" Teddy Goldsmith, who founded Ecologist magazine, sees the war on Iraq as just part of a deteriorating world system with the US government dominated by the oil industry. He talks about other disastrous ecological trends, and what could be done. ENDS 35'20".
Tk 2, (music) White Trash Wedding - The Dixie Chicks. 03'20" I/v with Raumoa Ormsby, author of 'Dreams Lost, Never Walked'. ENDS 24'35".