Palestinian podcasts from BBC News reporter Stuart Hughes

Last week, BBC News foreign correspondent Stuart Hughes (blog) was on the ground in the West Bank covering the Palestinian elections, and their aftermath. In addition to filing his regular reports for the BBC, he also published what may have been the the first (in English, at least) spot news podcast recorded on the ground in the Middle East: MP3 Link.

I asked Stuart how this came together, and he tells Boing Boing:

It has been an historic couple of days here with the Islamic militant group, which has killed hundreds of Israelis, sweeping to power. In between my "proper" BBC duties I knocked off a quick podcast, which I mixed on my laptop while travelling across the West Bank with my colleague in our armoured car and uploaded from an internet cafe in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

Here's a post from yesterday on Stuart's blog, about an encounter with "a senior member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade [who was] flanked by six masked gunmen." Link to "Face to Face with Terrorists."

Previous posts about Stuart Hughes on Boing Boing: Link.