Ann Wroe

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865 appearances 15 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 21 Aug

Ann Wroe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And a great many others. matched

He was quite a liability out in the fields too, and it was in the countryside that his great passion for photographing India first began. matched

He was out with his brother, who was also a photographer. matched

And by that time he was an adult, he was in civil engineering, which had been his father's career. matched

And he became fascinated by the way the light fell on a donkey foal in a field. matched

and he said to his brother, Give me your camera quick and he went chasing after the donkey. matched

It took about three hours for him to calm the animal down, while all the village children were laughing. matched

And then the donkey tired turned, looked directly at him, and he took the picture. matched

It was later published by The Times in London. matched

And Rahurai realized that he had actually captured a moment, and he went on to think, matched

I want to capture more. matched

In his mind, India had had too much of the sort of stuffy, stiff photography that looked as if it belonged in a studio. matched

He wanted to get out among the people and catch the way they lived. matched

He became famous for two photo essays in particular. matched

And they were not about the fascination and beauty of India so much as about two great atrocities and tragedies. matched

One was the independence war that consumed Bangladesh in nineteen seventy one. matched

He went there and took pictures not only of the effects of the war, but also the terrible suffering of the refugees. matched

And then the second tragedy that he covered was an explosion in nineteen eighty four at the Union Carbide Pesticide Plant in Beaufile. matched

This became the most extraordinary event that lived on in India for decades. matched

He was told by his editor, then at India Today, that he should get the first flight out of Delhi matched

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