Tristan Redman
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1,489 appearances
30 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Tristan Redman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Fergal, thank you so much for joining us.
Could you introduce yourself for us, please?
And what are the stories that you've covered that have really marked you in your career?
Why did you decide to write that story right now?
Fergal, in the mid-90s, as you mentioned, you reported from Rwanda in particular, this horrendous genocide where 800,000 people, including children, were massacred.
And then around the same time, you had your own child.
You wrote a quite famous audio essay called Letter to Daniel about your own son.
It was first broadcast back in 1996.
I wonder if you could talk us through how did this essay come about and why was it so important for you to write about it?
I figured that if the killers came, I would pretend to be dead.
Okay, so you stayed in touch with her over years?
Oh, wow.
Fogel, you yourself were later diagnosed with PTSD.
How and when did you start to recognize that you were also being affected by the conflicts you were reporting on?
You've talked about how difficult it was to stop going back to conflict zones because of its almost kind of compulsive nature of that kind of work.
There are so many wars and conflicts happening in the world right now, places where children don't have the choice of whether they can be there or not.
They are there.
Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan.
What is the scale of the crisis for children around the world right now, Fogel?
That was Fergal Keane, who sadly is leaving the BBC this spring after 37 years.
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