Anne Rohe on Oekensaburo who's died aged 88. In Japan generally a mentally damaged child would be locked away in an institution and not shown in public. But Hikari had a huge importance to him. He had proved in music that he could articulate the voice of his own soul even though it was dark and he himself was almost wordless. We'll all see you back here on Monday.
The economics are clear-cut: the benefits of preserving the lungs of the world vastly outweigh those of felling trees. We travel to the Amazon and find that the problem is largely down to lawlessness in the world’s rainforests. And reflecting on the life of Oe Kenzaburo, a Japanese writer shaped by family crisis who gave voice to the voiceless.
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