A Feast of Fungi
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The programme which takes you places. In this one, to Wolfsburg in Germany, forever associated with Volkswagen and today speculating about the long-term consequences of the emissions scandal that has so damaged the car-maker's reputation. Is it the end for the 'Rainbow Nation? A new generation of black South Africans is coming of age and is angry that so much of the country's wealth remains in the hands of the white population. There may be oxcarts in the villages outside the North Korean capital, but no shortage of flash cars in Pyongyang itself, a city where some people are taking power into their own hands. Seven families have set up home in a former bank in troubled South Sudan - there's safety in numbers, they hope. And as summer burns out to autumn, it's time to go foraging in the hills of Austria and time later for a dinner to remember!
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to hear from our own correspondent. We do two versions of the program, one for the BBC World Service, and this one's a download of the latest edition from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:11.0 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello, today they fear for their future in the German town built for |
| 0:18.4 | Volkswagen. The cries for more growing louder in South Africa still hugely unequal two decades after |
| 0:25.0 | apartheid. There are no smiles for the Westerner traveling on the Pyongyang underground, but |
| 0:31.7 | rich satisfaction at the end of a day out foraging in the Austrian |
| 0:35.1 | hills. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who's been having talks at |
| 0:40.0 | Chequers with the Prime Minister David Cameron has insisted that the scandal at |
| 0:44.4 | Volkswagen over rigged emissions tests will not be allowed to discredit the entire car |
| 0:49.7 | industry. Many jobs she, depended on it. |
| 0:53.0 | Earlier, the company's new chief executive admitted it would have painful consequences for the firm. |
| 0:59.0 | He told employees at the company's headquarters in Volksborg that the six and a half |
| 1:04.3 | billion euros put aside already would not be enough to cover the costs. All planned |
| 1:10.3 | investments were being reviewed he said and those not urgently needed would be |
| 1:14.0 | delayed or scrapped. |
| 1:16.2 | Everything possible would be done, he added, to protect jobs. |
| 1:19.7 | Jenny Hill has been in Volkborg, a town which has been reliant on Volkswagen since the 1930s. |
| 1:27.0 | It's not what I expected. Cash for your gold teeth, the signex claims. The shop window is brightly, warmly lit. The lady inside at the |
| 1:36.3 | counter charming. Do people really sell you bits of gold from their teeth, I ask? Oh yes yes she smiles at my incredulity all the time. |
| 1:45.8 | Of course they sell us their jewelry too but the teeth well that's really popular. |
| 1:50.5 | People need money. She gestures long fingernails at a small pair of pale yellow |
| 1:56.3 | plastic scales on the counter. I glance down, half expecting to see a pair of bloodied pliers |
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