NHK WORLD PRIME
Season 2 Episode 25 - The Pianist in the Rubble
Aeham Ahmad was born and raised in Syria. Even during the civil war, he never stopped playing the piano and singing. Sharing his musical gifts brought cheer to children surrounded by the conflict. After fleeing to Germany, he continued to rely on his voice and his piano. In April, he held a concert in Hiroshima, Japan—where he came across a piano exposed to radiation when the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945. He felt an immediate connection with the instrument; after all, they both shared the experience of making music despite enduring the suffering of war. This encounter was a turning point for him; he now teaches music to refugee children from Syria. In the program, we look at his efforts to use music to help these children at a time when xenophobic sentiment is on the rise in Germany.
Episodes in Season 2
One Last Vision: A Photographer's Final Journey
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Between Two Homes: A 102-Year Old Japanese Woman in South Korea
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Strategy Gone Awry: Revisiting the US Air Raids on Japan
49 min
Valens's Return Home: A Rwandan Genocide Offender 22 Years On
49 min
Chasing the Father's Shadow: Vietnamese Children of Japanese Soldiers
The Fisherman and the Forest
50 min
Setsuko Thurlow's Quest: A World Without Nuclear Weapons
50 min
Tsuruko's Tea Journey
50 min
The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 1
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The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 2
49 min
Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Underground Website Murder
26 min
Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Wakayama Curry Poisoning Incident
25 min
Survivor Trees: Hiroshima Revealed
49 min
I Was a Caged Bird: Psychiatric Hospitalization in Japan
Nike's Backstory: Unknown Bonds with Japan
49 min
A Life with Flowers
50 min
Houses for Peace: Exploring the Legacy of Floyd Schmoe
50 min
Mt. Ishizuchi: Mountain of the Gods
43 min
Hearing the Voices of Nagasaki Survivors
49 min
A World of Boisterous Silence
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Life at the Bottom of China's Labor Market
50 min
China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 1
49 min
China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 2
49 min
An 18-Year-Old's Departure
47 min
The Pianist in the Rubble
49 min
Manzanar Revealed
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