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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaya Angelou, the Dalai Lama & Stevie Wonder . . .
BBC News (World) @BBCWorld 1hMaya Angelou, the Dalai Lama & Stevie Wonder recite "I have a dream" http://bbc.in/17latYY #MLK pic.twitter.com/mlte7EeSQ4
To mark the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech, BBC Radio 4 asked notable figures to record a recital of the celebrated text.
Listen to it in full, and see striking images from a period of American history which became a tipping point for social change.
Listen to interviews with the I Have a Dream programme contributors. Below is a full list of the contributors, in addition to Dr Martin Luther King Jr:
Congressman John Lewis: last surviving member of the big six leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement, who spoke at the March on Washington on 28 August 1963; Dr Maya Angelou: American author and poet, Northern coordinator for Dr King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Professor Muhammad Yunus: Nobel peace laureate, and Bangladeshi microcredit economist; Doreen Lawrence: soon to become Baroness Lawrence, the mother of murdered British teenager Stephen Lawrence; Wei Jingsheng: Chinese human rights and democracy campaigner, imprisoned for more than 18 years; Mary Robinson: former UN high commissioner for human rights and the first female president of Ireland; John Hume: awarded the Gandhi Peace Prize, the Martin Luther King Award and jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to the peace process in Northern Ireland; His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader; Albie Sachs: anti-apartheid campaigner, appointed by Nelson Mandela to serve as a judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa; President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia: first female head of state in Africa, Nobel peace laureate and campaigner for women's rights; Raja Shehadeh: Palestinian lawyer, novelist and political activist; Ndileka Mandela: first granddaughter of Nelson Mandela, reading on his behalf; Ariel Dorfman: Chilean-American novelist, playwright, journalist and human rights activist; David Grossman: Israeli author and peace campaigner; Dr Shirin Ebadi: human rights lawyer, one of Iran's first female judges, first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize; Malala Yousafzai: Sixteen-year-old student and education activist from Swat in Pakistan, shot by the Taliban for going to school; Satish Kumar: Indian peace campaigner and environmentalist; Maestro Jose Antonio Abreu: Venezuelan economist, educator and musician, founder of the El Sistema project which harnesses classical music to the cause of social justice; Joan Baez: American songwriter, musician and activist who performed at the 1963 March on Washington; Stevie Wonder: American musician, singer and songwriter, campaigned for Martin Luther King's birthday to become a national US holiday.
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Maya Angelou, the Dalai Lama & Stevie Wonder . . . (Original Post)
bigtree
Aug 2013
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malaise
(268,949 posts)1. Thanks
Peacetrain
(22,875 posts)2. Thank You
Very powerful
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)3. kick. nt
Peacetrain
(22,875 posts)5. This is so good..
I want to kick it back up for people just now getting online. I hope my son is up and gets to see this.. I am bookmarking it for him
Cha
(297,154 posts)7. Magnificent of the BBC.. mahalo bigtree~
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)8. Brilliant
Thank you for that, bigtree.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)9. K & R