After four decades of reporting from the continent, Jonathan Dimbleby returns to Africa on a 7,000-mile journey to discover how it is changing.【Mali, Ghana and Nigeria】He starts his African journey in the capital of Mali, Bamako, the fastest-growing African city. Following the course of the Niger river, Dimbleby finds not a continent of beggars but of industrious people, some of whom go to extraordinary lengths to make a living, free-diving 20 feet to excavate building sand.Travelling north-east, he sees how tradition is preserved in an area where a sophisticated urban society has thrived for 1600 years. Jonathan gets his hands dirty as the apprentice of a 74-year-old mud mason in Djenne, a town built entirely of mud.In Ghana, one of Africa's freest and most stable countries, Jonathan sees a spectacular festival before playing a game of golf with the King of the Ashanti, who recalls his time working for Brent council. Dimbleby attends the King's court to see what lessons the UK can draw from traditional African structures that promote harmony and reconciliation.Jonathan discovers that the African brain drain is turning into a brain gain as economic opportunity and patriotism draw people home. Football unites Ghana like nothing else, superseding political and tribal divisions. There is a rich seam of young football talent on the continent in the year that the World Cup is hosted by an African nation for the first time.In Lagos, Nigeria's business capital, Jonathan Dimbleby sees a different take on a city that is often depicted as a hotbed of violence, crime and corruption. He is taken on a private jet by Africa's richest man, then savours the creative talents of two of African music's rising stars who are helping to cement Lagos's place as the continent's cultural hub.【Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania】On the second leg of his illuminating journey across Africa, Jonathan Dimbleby travels 2000 miles through East Africa's Rift Valley.Starting in Ethiopia, where he was the first journalist to report the 1973 famine, Dimbleby discovers the great strides being made to safeguard the country from future catastrophes.In Kenya he finds out how mobile phones are revolutionising small businesses and even the lives of Masai tribes.In Tanzania he joins in a football match with the judges and guards of Africa's own Human Rights Commission and meets the street kids in Dar-es-Salaam who are building an international profile for their music.【Congo, South Africa and Zambia】On the final leg of his 7,000-mile odyssey, Jonathan Dimbleby travels from Congo to Durban in search of the stories revealing contemporary Africa.He learns how China's billion-dollar deals have rebooted African economies, once dependent on Western aid and investment.Passing through Zambia, Jonathan survives a training session with boxing world champion Esther Phiri and meets Hugh Masekela, who shares with him his view of Africa's emerging revival.
OvertureGeorge Frideric Handel: Alcina, HWV 34Act I1. "My Ariel" (Prospero, Ariel) – "Ah, if you would earn your freedom" (Prospero)Antonio Vivaldi: Cessate, omai cessate, cantata, RV 684, "Ah, ch’infelice sempre"2. "My master, generous master – I can conjure you fire" (Ariel)Handel: Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, oratorio, HWV 46a, Part I, "Un pensiero nemico di pace"3. "Then what I desire" (Prospero, Ariel)4. "There are times when the dark side – Maybe soon, maybe now" (Sycorax, Caliban)Handel: Teseo, HWV 9, Act V, Scene 1, "Morirò, ma vendicata"5. "The blood of a dragon – Stolen by treachery" (Caliban)Handel: La Resurrezione, oratorio, HWV 47, Part I, Scene 1, "O voi, dell’Erebo"6. "Miranda! My Miranda!" (Prospero, Miranda) – "I have no words for this feeling" (Miranda)Handel: Notte placida e cheta, cantata, HWV 142, "Che non si dà"7. "My master’s books" – "Take salt and stones" (Ariel)based on Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les fêtes d’Hébé, Deuxième entrée: La Musique, Scene 7, "Aimez, aimez d’une ardeur mutuelle"8. Quartet: "Days of pleasure, nights of love" (Helena, Hermia, Demetrius, Lysander)Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act I, Scene 4, "Endless pleasure, endless love"9. The Storm (chorus)André Campra: Idoménée, Act II, Scene 1, "O Dieux! O justes Dieux!"10. "I’ve done as you commanded" (Ariel, Prospero)Handel: La Resurrezione, oratorio, HWV 47, "Di rabbia indarno freme"11. "Oh, Helena, my Helen – You would have loved this island" (Demetrius)Handel: La Resurrezione, oratorio, HWV 47, Part I, Scene 2, "Così la tortorella"12. "Would that it could last forever – Wonderful, wonderful" (Miranda, Demetrius)Handel: Ariodante, HWV 33, Act I, Scene 5, "Prendi, prendi"13. "Why am I living?" (Helena)Handel: Teseo, HWV 9, Act II, Scene 1, "Dolce riposo")"The gods of good and evil – At last everything is prepared" (Sycorax)Jean-Marie Leclair: Scylla et Glaucus, Act IV, Scene 4, "Et toi, dont les embrasements… Noires divinités"14. "Mother, why not? – Mother, my blood is freezing" (Caliban)Vivaldi: Il Farnace, RV 711, Act II, Scene 5 & 6, "Gelido in ogni vena"15. "Help me out of this nightmare" – Quintet: "Wonderful, wonderful" (Helena, Sycorax, Caliban, Miranda, Demetrius)Handel: Ariodante, HWV 33, Act I, Scene 5, recitative preceding "Prendi, prendi"16. "Welcome Ferdinand – Wonderful, wonderful," reprise (Prospero, Miranda, Demetrius)"All I’ve done is try to help you" (Prospero)Vivaldi: Longe mala, umbrae, terrores, motet, RV 629, "Longe mala, umbrae, terrores"17. "Curse you, Neptune" (Lysander)Vivaldi: Griselda, RV 718, Act III, Scene 6, "Dopo un’orrida procella"18. "Your bride, sir? "(Ariel, Lysander, Demetrius, Miranda) – Trio: "Away, away! You loathsome wretch, away!" (Miranda, Demetrius, Lysander)Handel: Susanna, oratorio, HWV 66, Part II, "Away, ye tempt me both in vain"19. "Two castaways – Arise! Arise, great Neptune" (Ariel)Attr. Henry Purcell: The Tempest, or, The Enchanted Island, Z. 631, Act II, no. 3, "Arise, ye subterranean winds"20. "This is convolvulus" (Helena, Caliban) – "If the air should hum with noises" (Caliban)Handel: Deidamia, HWV 42, Act II, Scene 4, "Nel riposo e nel contento"21. "Neptune the Great" (Chorus)Handel: Four Coronation Anthems, HWV 258, "Zadok the priest"22. Who dares to call me? (Neptune, Ariel)based on Handel: Tamerlano, HWV 18, "Oh, per me lieto""I’d forgotten that I was Lord" (Neptune, Chorus)Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie, Act II, Scene 3, "Qu’a server mon courroux"23. "We like to wrestle destiny – Chaos, confusion" (Prospero)Handel: Amadigi di Gaula, HWV 11, Act II, Scene 5, "Pena tiranna"Act II24. "My God, what’s this? – Where are you now?" (Hermia)Handel: Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60, Act III, Scene 3, "Where shall I fly?"25. "So sweet, laughing together – My strength is coming back to me" (Sycorax)Vivaldi: Argippo, RV 697, Act I, Scene 1, "Se lento ancora il fulmine"26. "Have you seen a young lady?" (Ariel, Demetrius, Helena, Caliban) – "A voice, a face, a figure half-remembered" (Helena)Handel: Amadigi di Gaula, HWV 11, Act III, Scene 4, "Hanno penetrato i detti tuoi l’inferno"27. "His name, she spoke his name" (Caliban)Handel: Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60, Act III, Scene 2 "O Jove, what land is this? – I rage"28. "Oh, my darling, my sister – Men are fickle" (Helena, Hermia)Handel: Atalanta, HWV 35, Act II, Scene 3 – "Amarilli? – O dei!"29. "I knew the spell" (Sycorax, Caliban) – "Hearts that love can all be broken" (Sycorax)Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (attr. Handel): Il pianto di Maria, cantata, HWV 234, "Giunta l’ora fatal –Sventurati i miei sospiri"30. "Such meager consolation – No, I’ll have no consolation" (Caliban)Vivaldi: Bajazet, RV 703, Act III, Scene 7, "Verrò, crudel spietato"31. Masque of the Wealth of all the Worlda. Quartet: Caliban goes into his dream, "Wealth and love can be thine"Rameau: Les Indes galantes, Act III, Scene 7, "Tendre amour"b. ParadeRameau: Les fêtes d’Hébé, Troisième entrée: Les Dances, Scene 7, Tambourin en rondeauc. The Women and the UnicornRameau: Les fêtes d’Hébé, Troisième entrée: Les Dances, Scene 7, Musetted. The AnimalsJean-Féry Rebel: Les éléments, Act I, Tambourins I & IIe. The Freaks – ChaosRameau: Hippolyte et Aricie, Act I, Tonnerref. WakingRameau: Les Indes galantes, Act III, Scene 7, "Tendre amour," reprise[there is no No. 32]33. "With no sail and no rudder – Gliding onwards" (Ferdinand)Handel: Amadigi di Gaula, HWV 11, Act II, Scene 1, "Io ramingo – Sussurrate, onde vezzose"34. Sextet: "Follow hither, thither, follow me" (Ariel, Miranda, Helena, Hermia, Demetrius, Lysander)Handel: Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, oratorio, HWV 46a, Part II, Quartet: "Voglio tempo"35. "Sleep now" (Ariel)Vivaldi: Tito Manlio, RV 78, Act III, Scene 1, "Sonno, se pur sei sonno"36. "Darling, it’s you at last" (Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena)Vivaldi: La verità in cimento, RV 739, Act II, scene 9, "Anima mia, mio ben"37. "The wat’ry God has heard the island’s pleas" (Chorus)Handel: Susanna, oratorio, HWV 66, Part III, "Impartial Heav’n!"38. "Sir, honored sir – I have dreamed you" (Ferdinand, Miranda)Handel: Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi, cantata, HWV 197, "Ma se l’alma sempre geme"39. "The time has come. The time is now" ("Maybe soon, maybe now," reprise) (Sycorax)Handel: Teseo, HWV 9, Act V, Scene 1, "Morirò, ma vendicata"40. "Enough! How dare you?" (Prospero, Neptune) – "You stand there proud and free – You have stolen the land" (Neptune)Rameau: Castor et Pollux, Act V, Scene 1, "Castor revoit le jour"41. "Lady, this island is yours" (Prospero, Caliban, Ariel) – "Forgive me, please forgive me" (Prospero)Handel: Partenope, HWV 27, Act III, Scene 4, "Ch’io parta?"42. "We gods who watch the ways of man" (Neptune, Sycorax, Chorus)Handel: L’allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato, HWV 55, Part I, "Come, but keep thy wonted state – Join with thee"43. "This my hope for the future" (Prospero) – "Can you feel the heavens are reeling" (Ariel)Vivaldi: Griselda, RV 718, Act II, scene 2, "Agitata da due venti"44. "Now a bright new day is dawning" (Ensemble)Handel: Judas Maccabaeus, oratorio, HWV 63, Part III, "Hallelujah"
