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 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/24/g8.debtrelief - This source is reliable as The Guardian is monitored by OFCOM and therefore cannot publish incorrect statistics.  Foster, T. (2017). Remember Live Aid? Your Money Went to an Ethiopian Dictator, Not Famine Relief. [online] TVOvermind. Available at: https://tvovermind.com/remember-live-aid-money-went-ethiopian-dictator-not-famine-relief/#:~:text=Live%20Aid%20wasn. https://www.spin.com/2015/07/live-aid-ethiopia-mengistu-haile-mariam-bob-geldof/ In 2005, the guardian published an article asking the question 'Cruel to be kind?' The article explains that this is in reference to Live Aid forcing the world to confront the Ethiopian famine in 1985. However, they raise the controversial idea that the more than £50 million raised may have helped fund a brutal resettlement programme that may have killed up to 100,00 people. While the article does explain the good which surrounded the concert and the influence it had on future e

My investigation into Live Aid is centered around whether or not it would be able to happen today on the same scale in which it took place in 1985. After much research I have decided that a limiting factor on its success today would be the Covid-19 pandemic which began effecting the public in 2020. The pandemic brought restrictions and  home isolation with it and, while restrictions have been eased in 2022, people are still reluctant to gather in large crowds due to the risks now associated with the virus. The pandemic caused many concerts and tours to be cancelled or postponed due to government guidelines around social distancing making it more or less illegal to gather in large spaces in order to reduce the rates of infection in England. An example of an event that was cancelled as a direct result of this pandemic was the Australian Bushfire Relief concert which was due to take place on Friday 13 March 2020. Similar to Live Aid, the money raised was planned to go towards helping peop

 Concert for Ukraine Tuesday 29th March 2022.  While conducting my research into whether or not Live Aid would be able to happen again, another benefit was announced to be taking place on the 29th March 2022. This came after an invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces backed by their President Vladimir Putin. Continuity of this story was seen in the British newspapers and TV news stations due to the sheer scale of terror the invasion was causing. Many civilian casualties and deaths were being reported everyday as the bombing continued across Ukraine's main cities. However, the story also has a political element to it as NATO members prepare for a continued invasion of other countries from Russia. The invasion of Ukraine has seen 3.6 million refugees flee Ukraine to safety in countries such as Poland. According to GOV.UK (2022) the milestone of 3.7 million medical items donated to Ukraine forms part of the government's wider humanitarian response to this emergency. However, the Dis

 I have started finding more reliable sources in explaining the historical context of Live Aid, BBC documentaries have also been reliable as it is a Public Service Broadcaster and therefore they will be monitored by OFCOM in making sure that their resources are reliable. Online newspaper articles have also been useful as they are also monitored by OFCOM.  One area in which I am struggling is time management and how long I should spend researching just one topic. I either spend too long on it or not enough time at all. I am going to try and fix this by making a timeline in which I want to get things done. 

In 2015, BBC News published an article titled 'Thirty years of talking about famine in Ethiopia - why's nothing changed?' The article centres around the quote "There will not be famine of any sort, let alone anything remotely like the magnitude of that of 1984." The BBC stated that the quote came from the Ethiopian Embassy in London and that for people aged over 30 the sentence holds a special kind of meaning. This is because those people saw the the TV reports in the 1980s showing thousands of children and adults starving to death. However, three decades on the UN is warning that 15 million Ethiopians will need food aid. The articles includes a description of a new report that happened in the same week of its publication and in it one man who lived through the famines of the 1980s says he expects the same thing will happen to Ethiopia in the following months to the release of the report. BBC documentaries have also been reliable as it is a Public Service Broadcas

Live Aid: Against All Odds is a TV documentary that was first broadcast on BBC Four on the 13th July 2010. The two part documentary received critical success when it was first broadcast on television. As a part of my EPQ project I am going to watch both episodes in order to improve my knowledge of the event and why it happened. I believe that it will help me to understand the details which allowed the event to continue as well as the factors which may have almost stopped it from happening. BBC documentaries have also been reliable as it is a Public Service Broadcaster and therefore they will be monitored by OFCOM in making sure that their resources are reliable.   The first part to the documentary is called Against All Odds and this episode outlines the reason why it was started and the events that led up to it. Many people were sceptical of the event as they thought it would be catastrophic and would not turn out the way in which Bob Geldof envisioned it. The first vision of this even