2017 Mar: VIDEO The Great Monkey Cascade, Geladas in the Simiens

2017 Mar: The Great Monkey Cascade, Geladas in the Simiens

I recorded the following for From Our Own Correspondent, the BBC programme on Radio 4. The audio can be heard here by clicking through to…

2017 Feb: The Linguist Shepherd Boy of Ethiopia

Twenty years ago a shepherd boy in the remote highlands of Ethiopia heard something that would change his life - he heard English. It was…

2017 Jan: The Simiens, Africa’s greatest mountain playground

Imagine a range of mountains cleaved in two. From one side it looks like any other: slopes gaining height from valley floor to rocky skyline.…