Music and memory
Songs to share, sing and dance to: a global playlist for those with Alzheimer's, compiled by the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµâ€™s language services, including Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Persian journalist Behzad Bolour.
This week, the World Service marked World Alzheimer's Day with a Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Music and Memory project, exploring the power of music to reach sufferers with the disease. It launched a website of global tracks to trigger memories, compiled with the help of the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ's language services. Behzad Bolour compiled Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Persian's list, his father suffered from dementia, but still sang with him. He also explores Iran’s complex relationship with music.
But what tracks does the rest of the world dance and remember to? We hear from Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Arabic's Nahed Najjar, Adedayo Owolabi of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Yoruba, Kateryna Khinkulova of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Russian and Partha Prasad from the Indian languages hub in Delhi about some of the tracks they contributed to the world music database, and why.
The Moria camp fire: one family’s story
Talibshah Hosseini from Afghanistan had to flee with his wife and 3 children as his tent was destroyed in a huge fire at Greece’s largest migrant camp earlier this month. The overcrowded camp, on the island of Lesbos, was home to 13,000 migrants, the majority from Afghanistan. Talibshah told his story to Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ journalist Kawoon Khamoosh.
My Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Town: Feira de Santana
Camilla Costa of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Brasil takes us to her home town in Bahia, Brazil, to eat peanuts and sit in the hot springs with her grandmother.
Image: Elderly Indian lady listening on headphones looking at smartphone
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- Fri 25 Sep 2020 11:06GMTÄ¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ World Service
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