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Live Aid Against All Odds Documentary (Part 1 of 2) (15:50 – 31:00 )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQWs23NtRas

cargo / charities / condition / curiosity / death / distributed / essential / famine / fleeing / obey
photographers / publicity tour / refugee / refugee camp / shock / well spent

One of the surprising sources were the other ______________________. They saw us as a threat. They were very
concerned that money that came to us was not going to go to them. And I said to Bob that it would be
______________________ and you could demonstrate to the press and to the public that had given you all this
money that you know that that money is being ______________________. And the only real way of doing that
is to go out with the first ______________________ load and make sure you go from London right into the camps
so you can see that all the aid is properly ______________________.

(…)

It’s Christmas in Ethiopia and the arrival of the popstar’s flight from London was the focus of considerable
______________________.

A reluctant Geldof agreed to go on a whistle stop tour of Ethiopia. The nine day trip would take him to
______________________ centres and feeding camps in the areas worst hit by the ______________________.
For the rock star life was about to change – forever.

(…)

He was absolutely emphatic that this was not going to be a ______________________ as it could easily have
been. Certainly the ______________________ were very worried about this – because why were they there
except to do precisely what Bob said he wasn’t going to do.

(…)

He didn’t stand any nonsense. He said: “If you do that you are out! I won’t talk to you!” So we had to
______________________ that directive to get a cooperation with him. And I do remember filming at one point
when we were in Corum when we were looking at the ______________________ and he knew that the cameras
were behind him and he was just staring in some ______________________ at the scenes that he was seeing
and aware to we were behind and he suddenly turned away and expressed for the first time during the whole
trip how upset he was, but he never went near to the kids, he never picked them up in our presence.

(…)

Geldof visited the remote village Macalley in Tegray. The area was swamped be tens of thousands of refugees
______________________ the war in the North. On average 40 people died from starvation every day.

(…)

… and I came upon a little boy and a little girl. (…) The little girl was about four years old and she was looking
after her brother who was about one year old. And the little boy was as close to ______________________ as
you can be. His eyes were almost fixed and he had that glassy waxy look of a child who was about to die. And she
continued to wave (…) the flies away from her brother’s eyes. And the doctor explained that the little boy was
unlikely to make it, but the little girl was in a slightly better ______________________.

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