Hello I'm Krestey Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1992,

and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My cast away this week is a news cameraman. Many of the most dramatic pictures of recent years have been brought to our television screens through his work.

It was he who alerted the world to the plight of the starving in Ethiopia in 1984.

George Bush said he'd saved millions of lives. A year ago

he was again filming in Ethiopia when an explosion killed his sound man and shattered

his left arm. The doctors told him he would never work again,

but he travelled the world in search of the right artificial limb. He found it and he's

been back at work as usual for several months now. He is Mohammed Amin. What is the right

artificial limb mow and why was it so difficult to find?

Well the arm that I have is electronically operated and it works with my muscles and my mind.

I didn't really know where to go look for an arm because it's not something that one

whatever what is about until something like this happens and so after my accident the immediate reaction was that I've got to get back to work and I need an arm to be able to operate the cameras because I was quite determined to carry on the business

that I was in as a television news cameraman.

But at the same time I talked to Viz News,

the organization that I worked with,

if they could modify my camera,

so I could operate the camera with one arm.

Because while I was shopping for an arm I still felt

that perhaps these doctors are right that there is no arm that would be of

much value to me that I should start getting used to looking

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