Radio Polonia: "
Did Poles know it was Live 8?
The rock band U2, with their lead-singing poverty activist, Bono, play in Poland this Tuesday, still glowing from the success of the Live8 concerts at the weekend. Organizers say that a worldwide TV audience of 2 billion people watched some, if not all, of the events on Saturday. But how many Poles tuned in to watch?
Before I answer that, let�s go back in time to the first Live Aid concert in the mid-eighties. I remember the BBC news reports of the horrid scenes of starvation coming from Ethiopia. We�d never seen anything like it. I�d bought two copies of the Bob Geldof inspired Band Aid single that kicked the whole thing off � Do they know it�s Christmas? How naive we were back then. Of course a mainly Muslim country, as Ethiopia was in those days, didn�t know, or didn�t care if it was Christmas, or not. And the ones that did probably had slightly more pressing problems on their hands. "
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