Commonwealth Day Observance School Report Team
Four young BBC School Reporters from Ponteland Middle School in Newcastle were given the exciting opportunity to report on this year’s Commonwealth Day Observance.
Amaani, Amber, Fatima and Hana interviewed a range of guests inside the Abbey, including lucky JTC school winners, flag bearers and even the Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright!
This afternoon the Jubilee Time Capsule team visited the BBC studios to interview newsreader and journalist George Alagiah.
Despite being busy with preparations for the News at Six George found time to share his memorable moment from the past 60 years with the Jubilee Time Capsule.
George chose to talk about November 1961, the date his family made the move from Sri Lanka, where he was born, to Ghana, where he completed his primary education.
George recalls the move, travelling from one Commonwealth country to another, the significance of Ghana becoming the first Sub-Saharan country to gain Independence in Africa, and the change in fortunes that the move bought both his family and his own future.
Please click here to watch George’s interview.
Debbie Ransome, formerly Head of the BBC Caribbean Service, talks to the Jubilee Time Capsule about the world’s response to the devastating Haiti earthquake that occurred on 12th Janurary 2010.
In the interview Debbie recalls “realising that this small society with very few resources in the first place was going to face even greater hardships, it just broke my heart”.
To watch Debbie’s Jubilee Time Capsule interview please click here.
The Jubilee Time Capsule 