Blog posts tagged "Amartya Sen"

November 30, 2009 11:00 am 59 Comments

I am standing on a balcony sixteen floors above the Amazon leaning on the railing talking with Brazil’s President Lula. An exceptional life story has taken him from a 12-year-old shoeshine boy, via work at a sheet metal factory where he lost the little finger of his left hand in an industrial accident, to his [...]

July 14, 2009 11:14 am No Comments

Sometimes in the winding hours, travelling or staking out a story with a crew and a producer, we turn to playing Desert Island Discs, choosing our eternally changing eight bits of music we would take in our shipwrecked condition. But over time I have come up with a variant: Mandela’s High Table. Which eight people [...]