Radio Curious discusses the terrorist attacks in Paris, France with Jean-Jacques Jespers, a retired television news anchor and journalism instructor in Brussels, Belgium and the affects of the attacks on his country, where one of the suspects is from.
Barry Vogel, Attorney and Counselor is the Host and Producer of Radio Curious. Christina Aanestad is the Assistant Producer.
In this program we visit Brussels, Belgium, to discuss the effects of the November 13, 2015, Islamic extremist terrorist attacks in Paris, France.Â
Our guest is Jean-Jacques Jespers, who recently retired as the anchor for the television news broadcast aired nightly in French on the Belgium National Television Network. While the terrorist attacks occurred in Paris, France, investigations led authorities to neighboring Belgium in search for the suspects-causing a state of emergency in the country's capital city, Brussels.
Currently Jean-Jacques Jespers is a journalism professor and a member of the Belgian Journalistâs Committee on Human Rights. Jean-Jacques Jespers and I first met here in Mendocino County, California, in 1977, when he was the leader of a television news magazine team reporting on California.  When Jean-Jacques Jespers and I visited by phone from his home in Brussels on November 28, 2015, we began when I asked him to describe what occurred and what the Belgian peopleâs reactions were to the November 13, 2015, terrorist attacks in Paris and the lock-down in Brussels.  The books Jean-Jacques Jespers recommends are the three volume "Century Trilogy" by Ken Follette.
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