Pete Ross
speaker
4,645 appearances
35 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 21 Sep
Pete Ross’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 35 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 8.
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Oliver Conway spoke to Thomas Makwana in Nairobi.
Do we have any idea what caused this?
So it might be natural, but it might also be deliberate.
If it is deliberate, what would the motive have been?
But the fact that they were untouched, the bodies, means it probably wasn't poachers.
And if it is a natural cause, how can the authorities do anything about that if it's, say, a toxic plant or something?
Thomas Makwana in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
One of the biggest pop phenomenons around, the group BTS, have announced they will not submit their music for consideration at the 2027 Grammy Awards.
The South Korean megastars had been widely tipped to be in the running for several of the top honours, including Album of the Year.
But the decision comes off the back of changes to the categories, as our music correspondent Mark Savage explains.
This is really interesting because it comes a month after the Grammys announced that they were introducing a new category called Best Asian Pop Music Performance.
And it's quite a big deal.
It means that artists from Korea and Japan and China are all getting the chance to compete.
But there has been some contention over the idea that this segregates those artists, that they are in some way not going to be able to compete in the main categories if they're siloed off into this new category.
And that seems to be
what's behind BTS's decision to withdraw from the ceremony altogether because in their statement which was posted to each of the seven members personal Instagram pages they said we hope that music can be heard and loved for what it is rather than being divided by region or language.
They certainly wouldn't have been able to put forward their big single from this year, Swim, because that is almost entirely, I think actually entirely, sung in English.
And that is one of the stipulations of this category.
The rules say that there must be meaningful use of one or more Asian languages, and that language must be identifiable in songs that are multilingual.
However, there are songs on the BTS album, notably one called Aliens,
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