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Live Aid at 40 is a education/science/factual topics series airing on UK television.
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Live Aid at 40The behind-the-scenes story of the 1985 charity concerts in London and Philadelphia, looking at this historic event and its legacy in Britain, the US, Ethiopia and Africa as a whole. In late October 1984, a BBC news report about a biblical famine in Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to collaborate with Midge Ure on a pop song that would mobilise not only Britain but also the United States, raising millions for charity, as Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas? single catapulted Geldof into the complex worlds of aid, charity and African politics. Featuring archival footage and specially filmed interviews with Geldof, Ure, Bono and Sting, as well as such key figures such as the Ethiopian ministers responsible for aid, the head of US AID and two survivors of the famine
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The success of the Band Aid single and Bob Geldof's subsequent trip to Africa spark a joint fundraising event, with concerts in London and Philadelphia
The success of the Band Aid single and Bob Geldof's subsequent trip to Africa spark a joint fundraising event, with concerts in London and Philadelphia
Monday 29 December
Tuesday 30 December
A look at events during and after staging the concerts of July 1985, featuring interviews with figures including Sting, Bono, Nile Rodgers and Mike Mitchell
A look at how Bob Geldof and Bono of U2 teamed up to stage Live 8 in July 2005, a global concert aimed at pressuring the world's richest leaders to tackle poverty in Africa
A look at how Bob Geldof and Bono of U2 teamed up to stage Live 8 in July 2005, a global concert aimed at pressuring the world's richest leaders to tackle poverty in Africa