A Croc at the Door!
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Hungry crocodiles are invading homes in northern Australia looking for the family pet, Phil Mercer has that story; the dangers of a drive through increasingly violent Iraq, Paul Martin; what makes an Indian cinema crowd scream at the screen, Mark Tully; the former gangsters trying to reduce gun crime on the streets of LA, Frank Gardner and the controversy surrounding a new TV show in Denmark which features men in suits talking about naked women, Emma Jane Kirby.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from the from our own correspondent studios at Broadcasting House in London. |
| 0:04.8 | You've downloaded the latest edition of the program broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:09.2 | It's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:12.2 | Today guns in front, guns behind, the dangers of a drive-thru increasingly violent Baghdad. |
| 0:19.8 | Dogs and cats beware, there are killer crocodiles invading homes in Australia hunting for food. |
| 0:26.2 | Indian films celebrate their hundredth birthday we learn what makes a Bollywood cinema |
| 0:30.6 | crowd scream today, and from rampaging Vikings to effeminate pussycats. |
| 0:36.8 | Is that what a millennium of change has done to the men of Denmark? |
| 0:41.8 | At least 10 people have been killed this morning in explosions in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. |
| 0:46.6 | Violence yesterday took a further 28 lives. |
| 0:49.7 | Many of the victims had been attending a wedding party in the south of the city. |
| 0:54.3 | The United Nations is calling on the country's politicians to resolve their differences. |
| 0:59.1 | Their failure to reach agreement on a number of key disputes has been linked to this new unrest which has left 160 people |
| 1:06.0 | dead this week alone. Paul Martin says the instability comes against a backdrop of heightened |
| 1:11.7 | tension between Iraq's ruling |
| 1:13.7 | sheer majority and its minority Sunni community. A good friend of mine, |
| 1:18.8 | Cannon Andrew White, the Anglican vicar of Baghdad, found Dawood when he was a 12-year-old street urchin, a sort of American |
| 1:27.2 | Marines mascot playing with a real gun in the back of a Bradley armored vehicle. Cannon White adopted him. |
| 1:35.0 | Now Dawd is a neatly bearded 22 year old who's had several close shaves with death. |
| 1:41.1 | The latest just the other day, he was in a parked car in a teeming area of Baghdad called |
| 1:45.6 | Cardamilla when a vehicle in the same car park exploded and debris flew everywhere. Not everything in Iraq is grim. There are now |
| 1:55.5 | colorful swings and slides on the newly grassed banks of the river Tigris. The |
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