A Dramatic Turnaround
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Colouring in the spaces between the headlines. In this edition: from elected government to Death Row, the change in fortunes of the Muslim Brotherhood is creating ripples throughout the Middle East; livelihoods devastated by a cyclone - Vanuatu is the kind of place that only makes the news when it's bad news; the Cubans and Americans are talking at last, historic announcements seem imminent, but on the ground in Havana, it's clear the process of change is already well underway; 'it's lean, fast and elegant,' not a racing car, but the Danube Salmon, a fish whose very future, we hear, is under threat. And the only grand piano in Gaza has been located. We tell the story of how it was found and how it's being lovingly restored.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC radios from our own correspondent, |
| 0:05.7 | the best in news and current affairs storytelling. |
| 0:08.8 | It's introduced by Kate 80. |
| 0:11.3 | Hello, today, D'Tant is in the air. |
| 0:15.0 | Havana and Washington are talking. |
| 0:17.0 | But if you were hoping to visit Cuba before everything changes, you've missed the boat. |
| 0:21.7 | It's already happened. |
| 0:23.0 | The cyclone in Vanuatu, no longer in the headlines, |
| 0:26.0 | but the devastation will mark the islands for years to come. |
| 0:30.0 | We're in the Balkans hearing why scientists are concerned about a man-sized fish they call |
| 0:35.8 | the King of the River, and the story of Gaza's one-and-only grand piano and how it's being |
| 0:41.9 | brought slowly and lovingly back to life. |
| 0:45.4 | But first there were raised eyebrows this week when Downing Street at the last minute |
| 0:49.3 | postponed the publication of a controversial report into the Muslim Brotherhood, the religious |
| 0:54.1 | organization formed in Egypt but outlawed by its new president |
| 0:58.2 | Abdul Fata Al-Cisi. It's believed the document was going to recommend that the Brotherhood should not be viewed as a terrorist organization here |
| 1:06.7 | Despite it being banned not only in Egypt, but in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates too. A court in Egypt, meanwhile, has handed down |
| 1:15.9 | death sentences to a number of senior brotherhood figures for planning attacks against the |
| 1:20.8 | state. Yolandel has been following the group's fall in fortunes. |
| 1:26.5 | Drive west of Cairo and finally the noisy overcrowded geezer slums give way to open green fields. Water buffaloes are tethered next to the road |
| 1:36.1 | and farmers dressed in loose gallabia robes are cultivating wheat, clover and giant cabbages. |
| 1:44.2 | I came here to the town of Alseum before Egypt's presidential elections nearly three years ago. Back then the |
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