StoryCast '21: EP4/21 Migrant Rescue
Unreliable Witness | Storycast
Sky News
4.3 • 728 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Shekhany had recently sought asylum in Germany and explained that his family and fiancé, Zanzon, were adrift in the Aegean Sea, after setting out to reach Europe from the Turkish coast, earlier that evening. At the time, crossings of the Mediterranean had claimed the lives of thousands of refugees, many of whom were fleeing the war in Syria.
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StoryCast '21: Using the timeframe of the last 21-years, Sky News returns to some of this century's biggest news stories, using the focus of extraordinary personal stories, defined by these events.
Migrant Rescue was written and produced by Rob Mulhern
Digital and research by Tom Gillespie
Special thanks to our contributors, Bassel and Zanzon Shekhany, and Mark Stone
Archive, Simon Windsor
Recordings and sound design, Rob Mulhern
TV treatment, Hope Yeomans
TV output editor, Emily Deeker
Head of Radio, Sky News, Dave Terris
Design and graphics, Brian Gillingham
Social media, Chris Scott
Press and Marketing, Alexandra Horton
Email: [email protected]
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump is heading back to the White House. |
| 0:03.1 | Together we can truly make America great again. |
| 0:06.7 | We are in for an unpredictable but fascinating four years. |
| 0:10.3 | And we're going to be following every twist and turn for the first 100 days. |
| 0:15.0 | We'll be bringing you the latest updates and analysis first thing every morning. |
| 0:19.5 | So join me, James Mackey. |
| 0:21.3 | Me, Martha Calnett. |
| 0:22.3 | And me, Mark Stone, for Trump 100 every weekday at 6am, wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm Jane Secker, and you're listening to Episode 4 of Storycast 21. |
| 0:38.9 | In 2016, more than 5,000 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean as they tried to reach Europe. |
| 0:46.7 | Among the 360,000 people who attempted the crossing that year in the biggest mass movement of people since World War II was a family fleeing the war in Syria. |
| 0:59.0 | This is Migrant Rescue. |
| 1:02.0 | My name is Mark Stone and I'm a reporter, a correspondent for Sky News. |
| 1:10.0 | It was January the 15th, 2016. and I'm a reporter, a correspondent for Sky News. |
| 1:14.4 | It was January the 15th, 2016. |
| 1:19.1 | I was in my house in Brussels in Belgium, |
| 1:21.2 | just put our son to bed, |
| 1:25.5 | and I was getting ready for what I thought would be an uneventful evening. |
| 1:31.6 | They started as they do every morning here, looking for the dots on the horizon. |
| 1:36.7 | Some of the tiny migrant boats show up on radar, some don't. |
| 1:46.1 | Well, about five to eight, I got a Facebook message, and it was from a young man called Basel Shikhani. |
| 1:48.9 | He says, hello, Mr. Stone. |
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