26 Jan 2012
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Twenty-six planeloads of Libyans arriving in Amman: Matthew Teller on how the downfall of Colonel Gaddafi's providing an economic windfall for Jordan. Pauline Davies learns what's meant by marriage Papua New Guinea-style at the nuptials of her niece there - she was, it seems, a four-pig bride. Aidan Lewis finds himself the subject of police scrutiny as he explores the troubled relationship between Morocco and Western Sahara. Mark Tully's finding out if the residents of Delhi really do resent the fact that their city was created as the capital of the British Raj ... and Allan Little's been meeting some of those behind the creation of the European single currency - he asks them: what on earth's gone wrong?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC, this is from our own correspondent. |
| 0:04.4 | You can hear the version of the program broadcast on the World Service by following the link to the I player on the top of our website. |
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| 0:15.1 | our Twitter feed as well. |
| 0:17.0 | But now with the edition broadcasts on Radio 4, here's Kate Adi. |
| 0:21.9 | We never thought Greece would join the Eurocrats who dreamed up the single |
| 0:26.0 | currency on what's gone wrong. Thousands celebrate Republic Day on the streets of Delhi, |
| 0:31.5 | but do people really dislike this city, conceived as the |
| 0:34.6 | capital of the British Raj? The police take a close interest as we investigate Western |
| 0:40.1 | Sahara's troublesome relationship with Morocco, and there are squeals of delight, but not from the pigs, at a wedding in the hills of Papua New Guinea. |
| 0:49.0 | Frantic efforts continue this week to try to ensure that Greece doesn't default on its debt. |
| 0:55.7 | The government in Athens is trying to work out with representatives of banks and bondholders |
| 1:00.9 | how to reduce the size of its debt to a sustainable level. |
| 1:04.7 | It hopes to be able to make an announcement before the end of the week. |
| 1:08.7 | But how is it that a member of the Eurozone is able to get into such trouble over its economy. |
| 1:14.0 | Alan Little, who's been making a series of programs about the Eurozone crisis, |
| 1:18.8 | says that when the single currency was first dreamed up, |
| 1:21.8 | it was never thought so many nations would use it. |
| 1:25.0 | Dietrich von Kio is one of those great Europeans, a man for whom the building of the European Union was part of his life's mission. |
| 1:32.0 | Compare the Europe into which he was born to the one he helped |
| 1:35.0 | build. He was born in the 1930s. Adolf Hitler was all powerful in Germany and was about to lay |
| 1:41.5 | waste to most of Europe. |
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