04/03/2009

Human stories from behind the global headlines. With Matthew Bannister.

On todays Outlook: Burma's struggle after Cyclone Nargis - an eyewitness report; a tribute to those who rescued Jewish people from the Nazis; and a British couple rescued after forty days at sea.

May Tha Hla
Ten months on, the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis is still seriously affecting thousands of Burmese in the Irawaddy Delta. May Tha Hla is a Burmese expat who's set up her own emergency supply operation in the delta, and she tells Matthew Bannister about her latest trip back there.

Silent Heroes Memorial Centre
It's estimated that up to thirty thousand non-Jews across Europe offered some form of support to Jewish people during the Holocaust. Now a museum, the Silent Heroes Memorial Centre, has opened in Berlin to honour them. Andrew Littlejohn talks to the museum's curator Barbara Schieb. He also meets Ursula Timm, whose family defied the Nazis and gave shelter to Jews.

Adrift at sea
After their rudder broke on an Atlantic sailing trip from Cape Verde to Antigua, Stuart Armstrong and his partner Andrea Davison spent 40 days trying to make it to dry land before looming bad weather forced them to call for help. They tell Outlook's Matthew Bannister about their rescue by an oil tanker, and their feelings on losing the boat which had been their home.