Midge Ure on Band Aid - companies need to be investigated - Osborne versus Benn (EP 222)

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Afshin Rattansi goes Underground with Band Aid co-founder Midge Ure. They discuss the beginnings of Band Aid, how using a medium that everyone loves and the most popular names of the time they were able draw attention to famine in Ethiopia. Plus Midge talks the music of today and why we need to be making music that expresses a personal voice rather than songs made by a committee and Afshin Rattansi goes underground with Mothers of Congo founder, Charlotte Simon-Bongumba. She explains how 85 foreign companies, currently mining for coltan in Congo are helping to fuel sexual violence in her native country. Coltan is a mineral found in our mobile phones- and the majority of it is located in Congo plus In this Week’s PMQ’s David Cameron disappears to save refugees from his war on Libya and Chancellor George Osborne teams up with the Scottish Nationalists to attack the Labour Party’s war with Iraq.