A Demo a Day
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A passion for protest: street demonstrations, rarely permitted in the days of President Mubarak, have become common in Cairo and Egypt's other cities; Aleem Maqbool sets out to see if he can find a demo a day. Phil Goodwin on how war has changed Syria from a hospitable, friendly place into one that's brutal, paranoid and vicious. A meeting critical to the future of Detroit - Jonny Dymond on a great American city poised on the edge of bankruptcy. Peter Meanwell meets cross-dressing musicians in Equatorial Guinea and tucks in to crocodile in chocolate sauce. And a snake guarding a pot of gold? Jane Dyson says it's one of the less alarming ghosts believed to reside in the forests of the Himalayas.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is a download of From Our Own Correspondent. |
| 0:03.4 | We make one edition of the programme for the BBC World Service, |
| 0:06.7 | but this is the one broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:09.6 | Here to introduce it, Kate Adi. |
| 0:11.8 | Hello, in this programme, how can a country be so friendly and so brutal at the same time, a BBC |
| 0:19.4 | cameraman on the surreal and the chilling images from the war in Syria. |
| 0:25.0 | Egyptians and their newfound taste for street protest. |
| 0:28.6 | Can our man in Cairo find a demo a day to report on? In Equatorial Guinea we meet cross-dressing musicians and enjoy |
| 0:36.7 | a plate of crocodile in chocolate sauce. And beware the fox with a human head. |
| 0:43.0 | The dangers villages in the Himalayas face from the ghosts that dwell in the forest. |
| 0:49.6 | The crisis in Syria seems to be moving into a new and critical phase this weekend. |
| 0:55.2 | The Americans announced they'd be giving military aid to the rebels as reports came |
| 0:59.7 | through of renewed fierce fighting in the country's second city Aleppo. |
| 1:04.0 | Earlier the United Nations had said that 93,000 people had now been killed in the civil war there, |
| 1:11.0 | senseless carnage according to its spokesman and a terrible reminder of just |
| 1:16.0 | how vicious this conflict has become. |
| 1:19.4 | Phil Goodwin is a cameraman who's covered conflicts for the BBC in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq and now Syria. |
| 1:27.0 | There are always contrasts in war, but covering Syria the extremes are bewilderingly surreal. |
| 1:34.4 | This is one of the most hospitable and friendly places I've ever been to |
| 1:38.9 | and one of the most brutal, paranoid and vicious. |
| 1:44.1 | The surreal journey starts gently at the border with Lebanon. |
| 1:47.5 | Syria has been on the US list of state sponsors of terrorism since they first made a list |
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