Brendan Smith (Barnabas Aid Africa coordinator) and Wessie van der Westhuizen (church leader from South Africa) have been on a tour of the UK to share their experiences of helping to provide food and aid to Zimbabwean Christians. It is a story that begins with hunger, hopelessness and dependency and ends with self sufficiency and faith renewed.

The tour ended on 7th June 2009 but we will post a selection of their radio and TV interviews as they become available.

Interviews have been carried out with CNN, Premier Christian Radio, Revelation TV, BBC World Service and Radio 5 Live and we hope to post these soon.

Listen to the radio interviews here

The following interview was broadcast on Radio 5 Live, Thursday 4th June 2009.

Rhod Sharp interviewed Brendan and Wessie for the programme“Up All Night”.  (The interview is 8 min 40 secs)

Listen to it now, or download it for later with a right click on the link and choose save as (file 16MB approximately).

The following is an excerpt from an interview broadcast on the BBC World Service, Thursday 11 June 2009.

Mark Whittaker interviewed for the programme “The World Today”.  (excerpt 4min 36 secs)

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This interview was done for Premier Christian Radio, Thursday 9 July 2009.

Justin Brierley is the interviewer. (11 min 18 secs)

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Watch television interviews

The following is an unedited copy of the interview done for Genesis TV for the programme “In Conversation”. The interviewer is Gordan Pettie. The interview is 28 min 30 secs)

Other Published Interviews

An interview was also done for the Church of England Newspaper by Toby Cohen, 25 June 2009.  However this is a subscription only site.  The article has been reproduced on the following site www.ReligiousIntelligence.co.uk.