Australian Bahá’í representative on radio

My good friend Tessa Scrine, Executive Officer for Government Relations for the Baha’i community in Australia, gave an excellent interview on ABC Radio National’s The Religion Report on 11th June about the 14th May arrests of the Bahá’í leadership in Iran.

You can pick up the link to the interview here. Once you’ve downloaded the show, you’ll need to start listening at about 11 minutes and 40 seconds into the programme.

And it’s worth listening to the next interview, which is with John Henderson, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches, Australian partnership of Religious Organisations.

Go on, have a listen. You know you want to.

My ABC Radio story

Can’t resist telling you this. Some years ago, when I was Secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the UK, I was sitting in my office in the Bahá’í Centre in London one afternoon when the phone rang. It was ABC Radio in Australia. They wanted an interview on the situation of the Bahá’ís in Iran.

“Why don’t you call the Bahá’í national office in Australia?’ I asked.

“It’s three o’clock in the morning here,” the voice on the other end of the line said.

“Ah! OK, I’ll do the interview.”

So about an hour later I was hooked up by phone to ABC’s all-night programme for an interview. They’d also got hold of someone from Human Rights Watch in New York. So there we were, a global radio interview masterminded from Sydney. I was really impressed by ABC’s skill and by the quality of their show. The questions were intelligent and the level of discussion was clearly intended for a serious audience - at four o’clock in the morning!

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