Human Shields in Iraq. Here's an extraordinary interview with an Australian human shield, Ruth Russell, who relates, for example, the slaughter of civilians at the food silo where she was during the war. It's archived here, in the listings for Friday, April 25, 2003, but for only five days, i.e. until May 1. It's the segment "• War & Peace: Australian Human Shields..." and begins in the first hour at 30:45 of the show. Russell's urgency and frankness, talking about common decency and concern, stand in stark contrast to the fakery of the interviewer.
While you're at it, you might listen to another segment with some stunning material on a project at a women's prison, in which inmates are making quilts to commemorate the death of their children, or other children, by SIDS. It's the segment "• Street Stories - Women's Correctional Centre," again here on Friday, April 25, 2003. It starts in the second hour and runs from 9:55 to 39:30.