Global News Podcast - Israel carries out 'extensive' strikes in Lebanon as Hezbollah fires at Tel Aviv

Episode Date: September 25, 2024

The latest on the exodus from southern Lebanon, as well as international reaction. Also: Women and children are dying in Sudan's Darfur region as the healthcare system collapses, the 'hidden' crime wave in Cuba, and how to tell if someone is actually addicted to their smartphone.

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Israel's latest barrage of strikes targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon has killed more than 20 people and injured scores more. We'll have the latest on the exodus from southern Lebanon and Hezbollah's first missile targeting Tel Aviv. Women and children are dying in Sudan's Darfur region as the healthcare system collapses. China's neighbours react with alarm after it fires a ballistic missile into the Pacific

for the first time in decades. Also in this podcast. Do you neglect other activities in your lives and do you find yourself maybe lying about the amount of time to family and friends? How to know if you're addicted to your smartphone. Let's start with the latest on the attacks between Israel and Hezbollah. Most of Hezbollah's attacks into Israel are rocket strikes on towns in the north of Israel. But earlier today, they fired what they say was a ballistic missile at the commercial capital Tel Aviv, intended to hit the headquarters of Israel's intelligence agency Mossad.

Sirens were heard over the city and Israeli defence systems intercepted the missile. It's the first time a Hezbollah rocket has reached Tel Aviv, according to Israeli officials. Since then, Israel's been launching what it's described as extensive strikes in the south of Lebanon, where the health ministry says more than 20 people have been killed. Our Middle East correspondent Yolan Nel is in Jerusalem. The day really began for people in Tel Aviv with their rocket warning sirens going off. They had to rush to bomb shelters. This was the first time the Israeli military said that Hezbollah had fired one of its longer range missiles this deep into Israel. It was intercepted. Israel has this sophisticated air defence system. There were no

casualties and no real damage from that. But we were told that this was a heavy warhead that was used and the Israeli military stressing that it believed a civilian area was being targeted, that this could have reached even further into Israeli territory. Hezbollah claiming it was firing at Mossad headquarters. It blames the spy agency for the Pager attack targeting its operatives last week. And some speculation about was this kind of carefully calibrated by Hezbollah, which knows very well about Israel's air defences, so that it was really maybe sending a message that it still does have this huge arsenal of longer range weapons that it hasn't really been using yet. But that did trigger

then a new round of cross border fire. Already Israel had been carrying out strikes on what it said were Hezbollah targets overnight, but it then hit the launch site, it said, which was far from the South Lebanon border. And it also hit in the east of the country in this wave of strikes. And we've seen heavy bombardment in the north of Israel coming from Hezbollah as well, causing at least some property damage. A reminder that if this wasn't sort of a largely evacuated area, there would be more casualties. And we're in this log jam in this situation, it seems to me, where no one wants to draw back and no one wants to escalate the thing. So what we've just been describing as what's been happening today happens day after day after day. Yes, you do see these sort of

tit for tat exchanges and it can lead to very dangerous escalation. I mean, at the same time, it's important to highlight that these, particularly the last three days in terms of the rocket fire both ways has really been the most intense that we've seen in 11 months of conflict that have gone on really in parallel to the war in Gaza, triggered by that war and now taking up much more of Israel's attention. This on top of those attacks that we saw last week, that Israel has not taken responsibility for targeting the Hezbollah electronic devices. Israel does say that it has killed at least three senior commanders of Hezbollah in the past few days as well. There have been Israeli officials briefing that they hope these attacks would force Hezbollah into a diplomatic solution. The solution

that the US President Joe Biden was saying yesterday was still possible. But you know, it's really not clear that that is something that would work. Hezbollah said it would carry on with these attacks into Israel until there was a ceasefire in Gaza. And we've got the focus of the UN General Assembly in New York, where leaders from the Middle East and the wider international community can have their say. Does anyone have any hope that's going to shift the thing, move it on in some way? Certainly, this latest escalation is a main subject as world leaders are meeting in New York. We've had President Biden also calling on Israel and Hamas to finalise a ceasefire hostage release deal, which could calm things down across the region. We've had these big warnings from the UN Secretary General that Lebanon is at the brink. It's at risk of becoming another Gaza.

And that's something that people all around the world should be very worried about. And we've had from the Israeli prime minister who had been expected to go pretty much all week to New York to meet different leaders. He has delayed his trip to the UN General Assembly. He's still supposed to speak there on Friday, but it will now be a very short trip. He'll travel there tomorrow, we're told, and come back the day after his address. Yola Nel with me from Jerusalem. In Lebanon, the Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah are having a devastating effect on the lives of people in the south. Lebanese officials say hospitals are struggling to cope with the number of casualties and that over half a million people have been displaced.

Our Middle East correspondent Hugo Bechega reports now from Beirut, which is grappling with the influx of refugees from the south. For a second day, congested roads to Beirut. Thousands are on the move, fleeing southern Lebanon and Israel's airstrikes that show no sign of easing. It's conflict with Hezbollah now being felt all across the country. Here in Beirut, this school is one of dozens that have been turned into shelters for the displaced. Six thousand people are here without knowing when or if

they'll be able to go back home again. Classrooms have now become bedrooms. Instead of tables and chairs, mattresses on the floor. My son carried me. There were airstrikes where we lived. Everybody had left. There was nobody there. Kafa, who's 52, cannot walk and travel 13 hours with 10 relatives in just one car. We were the last people to leave. The kids were screaming.

They were scared and I was scared too. What do you think is going to happen next? I hope everything calms down. I hope there's a solution. May God help the people of the south. May God help them. There's uncertainty and anxiety but defiance too. Southern Lebanon is a Hezbollah stronghold. They may have been weakened, but they still enjoy support. 65-year-old Mariam had not time to take anything with her. Our men make us proud. If it wasn't for them, we would have been crushed a long time ago. May God destroy Israel and whoever is on their side.

We hope to be victorious, not to be humiliated. And with God's help, we will be victorious. And if we have to leave our homes for that to happen, so be it. This country has been paralyzed, but it's not only the present that is in doubt, it's also its future. Salim, who is only eight, came to talk to us when she saw our camera and microphone. Are you scared? Yes, I'm very scared, she said. She's too young

to understand this war, but her life will be changed by it. Hugo Bechega in Beirut. The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has insisted the US is working hard to de-escalate the situation. He's been speaking to CBS News. We've seen since the horrific attacks on October 7th are periods when we've had a real risk of escalation, a real risk of something turning into a full-blown war, including in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah. And through diplomacy, through deterrence, we've managed to avert that. In the days immediately following October 7th, more recently in April, we're focused right now on making sure that we can de-escalate, avoid a full-scale war.

But Israel's got a legitimate problem here. Starting on October 8th, Hezbollah in the north from southern Lebanon started lobbing rockets and missiles into Israel. People living in northern Israel had to flee their homes, about 70,000. And Israel, understandably, legitimately wants a secure environment so people can return home. The best way to get that is through diplomacy, an agreement to pull back forces, allow people to return home in northern Israel. Also, many Lebanese in southern Lebanon, forced from their homes. The latest on our live page at bbc.com slash news.

The civil war in Sudan that broke out in April last year has killed thousands of people and displaced millions. There have been several warnings about the risk of famine. Now the medical charity MSF has published a new report on the situation in the Sudanese region of South Darfur, and it makes for pretty grim reading, as I heard from our Africa security correspondent, Ian Wafula. Andrew, you've just described it as grim reading, and actually the MSF says that the world's worst maternal and child health emergency is actually happening in Sudan, and that's because a report they just released today found that women and children are dying at a shocking rate. It further explains that between

the months of January and August, two hospitals, particularly in South Darfur, recorded 46 maternal deaths. And remember, we're just talking about one state and just two hospitals. So this number could be far higher within the entire country. And that is why the MSF is kind of sounding the alarm here and saying that this is actually happening. And, you know, they're going to the extent of calling the United Nations to actually ensure that this war comes to end and the two warring sides kind of put their differences aside. And remember that at the end of the day, it's the people who are hurting from this conflict, especially now the MSF emphasizes women and children. And in

fact, they go ahead to say that actually, these deaths could have been preventable, because most of them happened in circumstances where medical facilities have been run down as a result of the war, Andrew. So on the one hand, we've got the famine, on the other, we've got the collapse really of healthcare, particularly maternal healthcare in that part of Sudan. Yeah, that's right. And another thing that, you know, the aid agencies are also trying to figure out is how do you deliver life-saving medical equipment or drugs that are needed to areas that have been affected by conflict at the same time protect their very own personnel, because we've had instances where humanitarian aid workers themselves have fallen victim to the war. And so these are some of the issues that

aid agencies like Doctors Without Borders or MSF are trying to navigate as the war continues. And certainly, even as conversations happen at the United Nations General Assembly right now, definitely focus is on whether wars or conflicts such as that of Sudan will be addressed. Ian Wathula with me from Nairobi. The rapid fall from grace of the American rapper Sean Combs has made headlines around the world. Combs, also known as P. Diddy, was arrested last week and charged with offences including sex trafficking.

Now, another woman, Talia Graves, has come forward accusing him of rape. At a news conference, she said the assault had left her feeling worthless. The internal pain after being sexually assaulted has been incredibly deep and hard to put into words. It goes beyond just physical harm caused by and during the assault. It's a pain that reaches into your very core of who you are and even emotional scars that may never fully heal. Some of the hardest parts of this pain are the shame and the guilt. Being blamed, questioned and threatened has often made me feel worthless. Our Los Angeles reporter Samantha Groundle told us more about what Talia Graves said. Throughout the press conference, she was fighting back tears and there was some extremely graphic

claims outlined by her attorney and then also detailed in the lawsuit that they filed. And she alleges that Diddy and his associates gave her a drink that was likely laced and caused her to lose consciousness. And when she woke up, she said she was bound and restrained and could not leave the situation. The suit also says that P. Diddy and his bodyguard brutally, sexually abused and violated her. And despite her cries of pain, they just refused to stop. So as you just heard in the clip, Talia has suffered emotionally. You can hear it in her voice. And she said she's had suicidal thoughts and still lives in fear of the incident and has been suffering from depression and anxiety and panic attacks

ever since. Why has it taken so long for these allegations to surface? Well, according to the lawsuit, Talia said she was threatened by Diddy. So she didn't want to speak out. She was scared that he would use his power to ruin her life, as he had said explicitly to her. And let's not forget the power that P. Diddy held for so long. For decades, he was considered the hip hop industry himself. So to go out and speak against him and to make claims against him was just really daunting. And he was seen as untouchable for a really, really long time. P. Diddy, Sean Combs is currently in prison. Where

are we with the investigations into what are now numerous allegations? Prosecutors say they've interviewed more than 50 victims and witnesses to P. Diddy's ongoing abuse and that they expect more people to likely come forward. It's really a race to get to the witnesses at this point. So they'll be looking at his inner circle to see who knew what, who acted in what way. And though people don't like to rat out their friends, I think we'll see that lips will loosen pretty quickly when the threat of prison is on the table. As for Diddy, he's been denied bail twice. His lawyers tried to appeal it, saying he could be put on house arrest until his trial starts.

No female visitors would be allowed to come visit him at his house. It could be a $50 million bond. And the judge said, no, he just doesn't trust that Diddy will act with good behavior waiting for trial. So P. Diddy sitting in prison in New York, he's waiting for his next court date and it's very likely that he's seen his last days a free man. Samantha Granville talking to Alex Ritson. Fidel Castro famously called Cuba the safest country in the world. When it came to the island's low rate of violent crime,

he may have had a point. In recent months, crime has been worsening. Official government statistics remain low, but many believe they don't reflect the reality. More and more victims have reported their experiences on social media, from muggings at knife point to gang violence. And adding to the problem is a cheap new drug, as Will Grant reports from Havana. In the low-income Havana neighbourhood of Cayo Hueso, friends of an aspiring music producer called Ian Franco gathered to send him off in song.

Just 19 years old when he was killed, Ian was stabbed twice in the chest following a disagreement outside a recording studio, caught in the middle when one of the youths pulled a knife. Another tragic killing on the traditionally safe Caribbean island. A month on, his older sister Samantha remains in a state of numb grief. As she scrolls through photos of Jan Franco on her computer, she says her brother's murder has torn a hole in her family.

Yet Jan Franco is just one of many to have been killed in recent months over trivial arguments and gang rivalries, says Samantha. So many young people have been killed this year. The violence is getting out of hand. They are basically gangs, and that's where it's all coming from. Do these gangs often solve their quarrels with knives and machetes, I asked her. Yes, almost no one settles an argument with their fists anymore. It's all knives, machetes, even guns. Things I just don't understand.

Samantha adds that a new drug called Kimiko, a cheap chemical high with a cannabis base, is increasingly popular among Cuban youth in the parks and on the streets. Previously, just saying that Cuba has a problem with street drugs and violent crime, especially to a foreign journalist, could land you in trouble. The authorities in Havana have always played down the social problems on the island and been quick to paint any criticism of their communist system as anti-revolutionary lies originating from Miami or Washington. But such has been the perception of a sharp drop in public security that top government officials had to acknowledge the problem on state TV, including a discussion of the drug Kimiko.

On air, the government claimed just 9% of crimes in Cuba are violent and just 3% are murders. However, there is a serious lack of transparency over government crime statistics. In large part, the Cuban state continues to blame the old enemy, the United States, for both the presence of opioids on the island and for the US embargo, which they argue has made economic life in Cuba so dire that some are turning to crime. Most people in Cuba, it seems,

have either recently been a victim of opportunistic theft themselves or have a friend, neighbour or relative who has been. Many remain wary of talking publicly, but Shaira Gonzalez, a transgender activist in Cuba, is used to speaking out and says her story of being robbed at knife point is now common. It was the response by the police which disillusioned her the most, she adds. After the attack, I came across two motorbike police officers in a nearby street. I was very distressed and said to them, look what just happened to me. But they directly told me, we're not here for stuff like that.

It was such an awful thing to hear because I told them where they could find the attacker, but they just didn't pay any attention to me. In contrast to their raucous singing, when the moment came to load Jan Franco onto the hearse, his friends shouldered his coffin in hushed tones and tearful murmurings. Cuba's youth face more difficulties growing up than most in the Caribbean, and many have fled in search of greater opportunities. Those that stay must now contend with rising crime too. As another pillar of the Cuban revolution, public safety now looks more unstable than at any other time since the Cold War. Will Grant in Havana. Still to come in this podcast...

Well, the Americans say Moog, the Dutch say Mug, and we didn't really know how to pronounce it when the instruments first arrived, so we called them Moogs. An ode to the keyboard that's the cornerstone of many pop classics. Get current affairs podcasts like Global News, AmeriCast and The Global Story, plus other great BBC podcasts from history to comedy to true crime, all ad-free. Simply subscribe to BBC Podcast Premium on Apple Podcasts or listen to Amazon Music with a Prime membership. Spend less time on ads and more time with BBC Podcasts. China has launched an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean. The country's defence ministry said the missile, which was carrying a dummy warhead, wasn't directed at any country or target.

But the test has added to international unease about China's growing nuclear arsenal. The government of Japan said the lack of transparency around the issue was a serious concern. Australia said it was seeking an explanation for the missile launch. Our China correspondent, Stephen McDonnell, has been telling me more. Well, at first blush, you can imagine people thinking, there goes an intercontinental ballistic missile from China, a test, and it may be seen as a show of strength

I guess against the US Europe or whoever but really it could be something much worse than that because let's assume for the moment that China actually needed to do this test well why might it need to do that because it already has all these nuclear weapons, it already has missiles, because this is new gear, new warheads, new missiles, which can go much further and in much greater numbers. Tests like this, at least officially, haven't been carried out for decades from China, and so it would only be if you are significantly expanding your nuclear weapons capabilities that you would need to do such tests. And that's what has people worried,

especially given that Washington and Beijing around a year ago started nuclear arms talks again, only to see them collapse a few months ago after the Chinese government accused the US of supplying too many arms to Taiwan. OK, so there's obviously concern about China having new warheads. What's the worry in terms of the context in which they could be used? Well, not only new, but more. Lots of them. And they can go further. Because in the past, China's already said, we would never use nuclear weapons as a first option. And compared to Russia and the US,

its nuclear capabilities have been much smaller. Well, now we're seeing Xi Jinping changing all that. The rocket force here is vastly expanding. A lot more money is going into this. We've had the Japanese government saying today this is a serious concern. And although China warned other countries, it didn't warn Japan about this test. But that could be because this particular missile, test missile at least, didn't fly over Japanese land.

Steve Macdonald in Beijing. Ghana's persistent cost of living crisis is set to be a dominant issue in the West African country's upcoming general election in December. And with food prices continuing to surge, some people are coming up with innovative ways to feed their families. From Accra, here's Thomas Nardi. So the first thing you have to do is to wash your watermelons and then the vegetables that you'll be using and the running water.

Elin Chebafo is a 30-year-old Ghanaian food content creator from Takrade in western Ghana. She has found a non-conventional solution to cope with price hikes, replacing tomatoes with watermelon in her local recipes. I'm going to the Jubilee Market in Takrade to shop some ingredients for my watermelon stew. And I choose watermelon because I think it's quite affordable. The latest inflation figures released by the government show that

prices of food items like vegetables have gone up by 37 percent. So Ellen has been teaching her social media followers how to prepare watermelon stew to cope with the high prices of tomatoes. Fry for one minute and then pour in your watermelon pepper mix. I used to go to the market every day just to get fresh goose for my videos.

But now I do stock the house because I know each and every day there will be different prices on food items. The government started a Planting for food and jobs initiative in 2017, but that hasn't done enough to solve the problem of high cost of food in the country. Illegal mining has destroyed farmlands. Poor road networks linking farms to urban areas have contributed to 40% post-harvest losses. I'm at Agogoloshi Market, one of the biggest in the Ghanaian capital, Accra.

A number of food items are on display here. We have tomatoes, we have pepper, we have yam. Inflation has slowed down in this country in recent months, but food prices remain high. The government and the IMF have said that the economy is showing signs of improvement, but it's here to reflect in the pockets of ordinary Ghanaians. Economist Professor Godfrey Bokwe explains. There's a possibility that inflation may not come down significantly. Beyond that, if you want to complement the limited domestic supply, you want to import a little bit more, you don't have the effects. You don't have the foreign currency to meet that demand.

Ghana heads to the coast this December in a heated contest between two popular candidates, both focusing on how to resolve the country's economic crisis. Ghanaians are hopeful that the economy will bounce back when the new government takes office in January next year. Thomas Nardi in Accra. President Joe Biden has announced that the US will donate a million doses of Mpox vaccine and $500 million to help the response to Mpox in Africa. The Democratic Republic of Congo is the country most severely affected by the latest outbreak, which has killed more than 700 people. A quarter of a million vaccines have already been distributed there, and one of two companies

approved to manufacture them is Denmark's Bavarian Nordic. We heard from its CEO, Paul Chaplin. We've told the world that we've changed our manufacturing focus to make 2 million doses available this year. As we sit here today, I doubt we will supply all that 2 million this year. So you're saying you will have vaccinations made, there will be doses made, there will be people in DR Congo and elsewhere who need those vaccinations, but there isn't anybody in the middle willing to pay and therefore receive them?

Well, currently that looks like the situation, yes. But, you know, we are at the beginning of the declaration of a public emergency and it does take the international community and our experience time to get moving. We see ourselves as part of the solution and could further expand our capability should we need to. But at the moment, that doesn't seem that it's required. My colleague James Cotnell spoke to Dr Eowadi Alakeja, chair of the African Vaccine Delivery Alliance, who told him vaccines are welcome, but only part of the answer. The reality is that we, A, the world cannot produce enough vaccines in time to curtail an outbreak, nor can we vaccinate hundreds of millions of people in time to curtail an outbreak.

The only way to stop outbreaks is to stop them or to stop epidemics becoming pandemics is to stop outbreaks in the communities where they begin. The only way to do that is by strengthening health systems, by having diagnostic testing, by having rapid testing, so that when people notice the symptoms and the signs of a disease, that they can immediately go and get a test. And if people don't have access to that, then like COVID, people go out and they spread it. And this is now happening in truckers and in truckers, very similar sort of spread to HIV in its early days. So people are having a test, sort of are noticing a symptom. The only tests available for most of them are long-term PCR, where they don't get the results for weeks and weeks. And so by the time the results come and they know that they're actually infective and potentially infectious, they're long gone. They've maybe gone through three or

four countries and perhaps infected a whole trail of people. But if we're looking at, for example, the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been really the epicenter of this MPOCs outbreak, this is a place where health systems are in disarray, to be polite, where there is conflict, where there are so many challenges. If one of the ways of dealing with it is improving the health service and health delivery and so on, that's not something that's going to happen overnight. No, but this is what we should be focusing on. I mean, health systems are improving in many parts of Africa. I mean, DRC, yes, health systems are in disarray. Health systems are in disarray in many parts of Africa.

Yesterday for the UN General Assembly, I spoke on a panel or co-led a panel together with the Japanese government on investing in health. And this is exactly what we're saying. What we are seeing in DRC and in Nigeria, where I'm from, is that we have built on the strengthening of health systems from COVID. WHO in Africa at a meeting I was at in Brazzaville just three, four weeks ago, told us that there are now lab capabilities, laboratory capabilities for testing in 40, I think about 47 countries, where before they perhaps only existed in two or three. These are the investments from COVID, you know, so it doesn't happen overnight. But vaccines also are not going to get from ports into people's arms overnight. You know, there has to be a balance. We have to do both. It's not either or. It's both and. There are a lot of studies into phone addiction among young people, but a new one by the World

Health Organization says there's been a sharp rise in the use of social media by teenagers. Dr Jo Inchley is co-author of the report and spoke to my colleague Nick Robinson about how to know if someone has a problem. What we're measuring is what we're calling problematic social media use. So it is based on addictive-like symptoms, but we're not measuring addiction per se. It's important to clarify that.

So the sort of questions we ask are things like, are you always thinking about social media when you're not on it do you find it hard to come off social media do you neglect other activities in your lives because of the amount of time you're spending on social media and do you find yourself maybe lying about the amount of time to family and friends and so on so so it's really these sort of this impact that goes that seeps into other areas of their lives and has a negative effect on, for example, activities outside the home and also their relationships in their life. And the other thing that comes out of the report is that the numbers displaying that attitude to social media has increased and is higher here than in many other countries in the world? Yeah, so the study includes 44 countries and we are seeing a sort of increase across the board in problematic social media use, particularly amongst girls. But in the UK and England and Scotland in particular, we've seen a more marked increase over the last four years. So now over

one in five 13-year-old girls in Scotland and England report these problematic social media use behaviours. Now, three pop songs. Thriller by Michael Jackson, Dancing Queen by ABBA, I Feel Love by Donna Summer. One thing they have in common is the Moog, a classic synthesiser which is celebrating its 60th anniversary. When the most popular one the

mini moog ceased production it was feared it was a sound that was going to disappear but the passion of its fans have led to a revival david silito has been to meet the moog ensemble yeah let's go to hamburg okay we're in a garage in a secret location. And I am surrounded by moogs. This is the Moog Ensemble, led by Will Gregory from Goldfrapp. Key thing. Moog, Moog. Well, the Americans say Moog, the Dutch say Moog,

and we didn't really know how to pronounce it when the instruments first arrived, so we called them Moogs. And Will loves his Moogs. And to help understand why, he agreed to introduce me to his original Moog. How many synthesizers have you got? Too many. I've counted a lot when I've walked in here. Yeah, the man came. I'm sorry. It's a bit embarrassing.

So this is an original mini. It's immediately 70s, isn't it? Well, it is. It's the future. The sound of the future. From the 70s, yeah. And I think they future, the sound of the future. From the 70s, yeah. And I think they had a good vision of the future in the 70s. Can I ask how old your Moog is? Well, it's 1972, I think, so...

52 years old? Yeah. I hate to say it, but it's a bit cut out, isn't it? It just needs a bit of TLC once in a while. The Mini Moog, the Model D, a little wooden-clad keyboard that has that classic, rich, warm Moog sound that hugs you like a cosmic, comfy jumper, with its trademark... Bass.

I mean, it's just... You know, all those 70s disco records. But when production stopped, there was a fear that the Moog sound would slowly die. Let's just play the first up until the repeat sign. But the passion of Will and his fellow Moogists has prevailed. The classic Model D is back in production. Four and in.

And with new Moogs, there are new converts. I'm Hazel Mills. I'm Hinako Mori. You and Hazel, you're slightly younger than the average age of the rest of the ensemble. I don't want to be rude in some way here. Honestly. Inside, I'm very old, actually. They are beautiful sounding. It's got a personality. It's got...

Soul. Soul, yes. We do a bit of Vangelis, a bit of Doctor Who and, of course, a bit of Wendy. Wendy Carlos. She is the reason this group exists. It was her switched on Bach.

And Clockwork Orange soundtrack that brought the sound of the Moog to the masses. Switched on Bach changed everything and Clockwork Orange soundtrack that brought the sound of the Moog to the masses. Switched on bar, changed everything. And Clockwork Orange still gives me chills. Fantastic, yeah. Do you know what Wendy makes for all of this? Absolutely no idea.

Wendy is basically radio silent, and it's obviously retreating into her glory without having to muddy the waters. So on this 60th anniversary we have new Moogs and a celebration of the mysterious

genius of Wendy Carlos. Our arts correspondent David Sillitoe. And that's all from us for now. There'll be a new edition of Global News for you later. If you'd like to comment on this one, drop us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk or you'll find us on X, where we are at globalnewspod. This edition was mixed by Darcy O'Brie.

The producer was Stephanie Prentice. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Andrew Peach. Thanks for listening. And until next time, goodbye. This edition was mixed by Darcy O'Brie. The producer was Stephanie Prentice. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Andrew Peach. Thanks for listening. And until next time, goodbye. If you're hearing this, you're probably already listening to BBC's award-winning news podcasts. But did you know that you can listen to them without ads? Get current affairs podcasts like Global News,

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