A Complex Man
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The newsmakers. In this edition: a foul-mouthed despot or a man to grapple with the problems of the Philippines? Jonathan Head considers the country's controversial choice for president. A mock funeral at a migrants' camp in Greece - Theopi Skarlatos finds patience with the governments of northern Europe wearing thin. They may have put the clocks forward recently, but Paul Moss reckons time in Venezuela is actually going backwards. Andrew Hosken is in the building in Tirana which was once the headquarters of the country's feared secret police while Sara Wheeler take a look at a way of life on the South Atlantic island of St Helena which many there fear will vanish forever once the long-awaited airport finally opens for business
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, from our own correspondent team at Broadcasting House in London. |
| 0:04.4 | You've downloaded the latest edition of our programme, |
| 0:06.8 | broadcast on BBC Radio 4, on the 14th of May 2016. |
| 0:11.2 | It's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello, for once tears of joy rather than sorrow at a camp for migrants on the Greek border. |
| 0:21.0 | Half past two becomes three o'clock in Venezuela, but only the clocks going |
| 0:25.5 | forwards there. We hear how Enver Hodger, once the feared communist leader of Albania, |
| 0:31.4 | now has to suffer the dead tyrants ultimate humiliation. |
| 0:36.3 | And flights to the island of Centilina may have been delayed, but we find there's still a stairway |
| 0:41.9 | which will take you halfway to heaven. |
| 0:45.9 | So is he a looming despot with a foul temper or someone who can actually come to grips with |
| 0:50.7 | crime, corruption and poverty? That's what Filipinos are wondering after their presidential election was won convincingly by Rodrigo Duterte. |
| 1:00.0 | The word controversial could have been made for him. |
| 1:03.6 | He's admitted he's not much good on the economy. |
| 1:06.6 | His speeches are littered with obscenities and he's promised to kill lawbreakers. |
| 1:12.1 | Jonathan Head tells us that all this clearly did not deter an |
| 1:15.1 | electorate which hopes he will prove to be the man who can tackle the country's |
| 1:19.1 | long list of problems. He's been called Berdugo, the executioner and worse. He's a vigilante mayor who told his |
| 1:27.2 | country's human rights commissioner to go to hell, whose eye-wateringly crude comments |
| 1:32.2 | about his own sex life are, well, |
| 1:34.3 | un repeatable. To read the media reporting of |
| 1:37.6 | Rodrig Gutierrez has sent to the presidency of the Philippines, |
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