[Swprograms] Fwd: BBC World Service and WAMU debate Obama's Washington

["Richard Cuff" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA

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PRESS RELEASE

BBC World Service and WAMU debate Obama's Washington

Thursday 8 January 2009. In the run-up to the US Presidential
Inauguration, BBC World Service and Washington DC's WAMU 88.5 have
joined forces for a global debate about the challenges the next US
administration will face.

Obama's Washington and the World will be broadcast live at 13.00 EST
(18.00 GMT) on Saturday 10 January 2009 from the American University'
Washington College of Law.  The programme will be broadcast to the
BBC's audiences across the world.

The panel includes Susan Eisenhower, consultant, author and expert on
international security; Lawrence Mishel, Director of Economic Policy
Institute in Washington DC; lobbyist Grover Norquist; Richard Perle,
political advisor and lobbyist; and Democratic Congresswoman Maxine
Waters.  The debate will cover issues such as how the current
financial crisis, as well as the events in Gaza and the wider Middle
East will affect the next US presidency, and whether Obama will be
able to keep his campaign-trail promises to shut down the Guantanamo
Bay prison and get the US troops out of Iraq.

The panel will be fielding questions from live audience as well as
those submitted by BBC listeners around the world via the webpage
bbcworldservice.com/news.

Co-presenters - WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi and BBC World Service's Owen
Bennett-Jones – say they are looking forward to a dynamic discussion
about what's in store for the new president at home and on the world
stage in the months and years to come.

Owen Bennett-Jones says:  "It's a very exciting time to be in
Washington, and I'm looking forward to hearing the questions our live
audience are going to put to such a distinguished panel of guests."

Kojo Nnamdi adds: ""Every day, our show's mission is to connect issues
important to our Washington community to issues throughout the world.
I see this joint BBC-WAMU event as a wonderful opportunity to connect
the world to Washington - and a truly unique way to celebrate this
historic Inaugural."

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Notes to Editors

BBC World Service is an international multimedia broadcaster
delivering programmes and services in 32 languages, and tailored for
various regions, including: Albanian, Arabic, Azeri, Bengali, Burmese,
Cantonese, English, English for the Caribbean, French for Africa ,
Hausa, Hindi, Indonesian, Kinyarwanda/Kirundi, Kyrgyz, Macedonian,
Mandarin, Nepali, Pashto, Persian, Portuguese for Africa, Portuguese
for Brazil, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Somali, Spanish for Latin
America, Swahili, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, and
Vietnamese. It uses multiple platforms to reach 182 million listeners
globally, including shortwave, AM, FM, digital satellite and cable
channels.  It has around 2,000 partner radio stations which take BBC
content, and numerous partnerships supplying content to mobile phones
and other wireless handheld devices. Its news sites include audio and
video content and offer opportunities to join the global debate.  The
number of weekly unique users of the BBC World Service websites
combined with the BBC's international news site in English averaged
13.2 million in March 2008.  For more information, visit
bbcworldservice.com. To find out more about the BBC's English language
offer and subscribe to a free e-newsletter, visit
bbcworldservice.com/schedules.

In mainland USA, BBC World Service in English is available on the XM
and Sirius satellite radio networks and through terrestrial radio on
more than 470 public radio stations.

WAMU 88.5, American University's radio station since 1961, is the
leading public radio station for NPR news and information in the
greater Washington, D.C., area. WAMU 88.5 is "your NPR news station in
the nation's capital." WAMU broadcasts three HD channels – the
flagship frequency at 88.5-1; WAMU's Bluegrass Country, a bluegrass
and Americana station, at WAMU 88.5-2; and WAMU-3, a news and
information station focused on international coverage from the BBC and
public radio programs unavailable elsewhere in the Washington, D.C.,
metropolitan area. Kojo Nnamdi just celebrated his 10th year as host
of The Kojo Nnamdi Show, a two-hour daily current affairs live talk
show connecting the Washington community and its concerns to issues
worldwide.

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