{"id":148410,"date":"2020-10-06T11:21:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T08:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=148410"},"modified":"2020-10-06T11:21:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T08:21:40","slug":"larry-madowo-lands-plum-role-at-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/larry-madowo-lands-plum-role-at-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Madowo lands plum role at BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Madowo just clinched a plum role with International broadcaster BBC World News following recent developments.<\/p>\n<p>Days after interviewing American business magnate, Bill Gates and barely weeks after bagging the prestigious 2020 Philip Greer Award, Madowo&#8217;s basket continues to bring him nothing but life&#8217;s richness.<\/p>\n<p>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/from-interviewing-junet-mohammed-and-sonko-netizens-react-as-larry-madowo-interviews-worlds-billionaire-bill-gates\/\">\u201cFrom interviewing Junet Mohammed and Sonko,\u201d Netizens react as Larry Madowo interviews World\u2019s billionaire, Bill Gates<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Madowo anchors on BBC World News<\/h2>\n<p>This is after his recent announcement to fans, narrating how he was brought up in a family that could not afford just a TV. But today, he stands to anchor news to a global mass courtesy of his new role at BBC World News.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_148416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148416\" style=\"width: 1536px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/10\/EjgbmBbWkAIGUm-.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/10\/EjgbmBbWkAIGUm-.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/10\/EjgbmBbWkAIGUm-.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/10\/EjgbmBbWkAIGUm--225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/10\/EjgbmBbWkAIGUm--768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/10\/EjgbmBbWkAIGUm--1152x1536.jpeg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry Madowo takes up news anchor job at BBC World News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/%c2%a8it-was-all-hard-work%c2%a8-larry-madowo-reveals-after-clinching-prestigious-international-award\/\">&#8220;It was all hard work!&#8221; Larry Madowo reveals after clinching prestigious International Award<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He recalled having been forced to fly back from Atlanta where he was set to edit a story he had just shot. And straight into BBC News, Washington DC studios after the news cycle there got crazy.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, anyone with the lame excuse that &#8220;dreams don&#8217;t come true,&#8221; is basically being that &#8211; lame.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We didn&#39;t have a TV when I was growing up. It is surreal that I get to anchor a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBCWorld<\/a> newscast watched in every corner of the planet from DC. Don&#39;t say dreams don&#39;t come true!<\/p>\n<p>Longer show: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/STlFVxJ2zK\">https:\/\/t.co\/STlFVxJ2zK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nOH7MJgCWn\">pic.twitter.com\/nOH7MJgCWn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Larry Madowo (@LarryMadowo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LarryMadowo\/status\/1313031420294635520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Still trying to come to terms that he got to anchor a BBC World newscast watched in every corner of the planet, right from Washington DC. What more could he have asked for?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_148414\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148414\" style=\"width: 989px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-06-at-10.33.51.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-148414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-06-at-10.33.51.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"989\" height=\"1218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-06-at-10.33.51.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-06-at-10.33.51-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry Madowo goes Live on air in shorts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fellow seasoned Kenyan journalists, his colleagues, friends and fans urged him on and further as he explored new scenes, crossed boundaries and let his star keep shining.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to him!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Madowo just clinched a plum role with International broadcaster BBC World News following recent developments. Days after interviewing American business magnate, Bill Gates and barely weeks after bagging the prestigious 2020 Philip Greer Award, Madowo&#8217;s basket continues to bring him nothing but life&#8217;s richness. Also read: \u201cFrom interviewing Junet Mohammed and Sonko,\u201d Netizens react [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6063,"featured_media":148415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[20,142],"class_list":["post-148410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-ghafla-entertainment-news","tag-larry-madowo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148421,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148410\/revisions\/148421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}