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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare.

Sometimes emotional, sometimes funny, yet always inspirational, our field blogs are written by a handful of our 2,000-strong field staff. We are hoping to take some of the strongest blogs and have them recorded as podcasts, to be released as a podcast series.

Please find examples of the available blogs here: http://blogs.msf.org/en

It's very important that we find the right tone and delivery for these podcasts, so we request that you send us a sample reading of the below text. Audio quality is not important (as long as we can clearly hear you) recording using a phone is fine.

You should deliver this as if you were telling the story to a friend, rather than announcing it. As a guide, please listen to Radio 4's "From Our Own Correspondent" :http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qjlq We'd prefer applicants with their own home studio, but it is also possible for you to travel in to our offices and record using our own setup.



"Saturday wasn’t the day that I was expecting. It started ordinarily enough, shuffling sleepily around downstairs blearily making coffee and shoving the cat off the table so I could prop open the computer and catch up with the all important world of facebook. Five minutes of normality while the cat coiled around my ankles and batted at the trailing computer lead.

Scant minutes later I was sat bold upright, cat and coffee both abandoned, reading the reports of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal not six hours ago. Nepal is a place close to my heart – I lived and worked there for eight months altogether in 2007 and the culture was close enough to my own part Indian heritage that I felt instantly and oddly at home there. There has never been a doubt in my mind that in event of need I would go back.

A few hours and a couple of phone calls later and I’m confirmed for departure the next day.

For the rest of the afternoon I’m trying to pack and at the same time dredge up some of the Nepali that I learnt eight years ago. Having only recently come back from a French speaking mission in the Central African Republic, the apparently minuscule language centre of my brain is rebelling big time. I repeatedly count up to six in Nepali, seven stutters out back in French.

After a painful half an hour of furrowed brow recall, I can introduce myself, ask if you have pain, and crucially, can remember the word to ask for the toilet. My fingers are very crossed that a little more will come to the fore over the next few days.\"

Please note we can only consider applicants that send us a recording of this sample reading.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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