A Giant Snake Comes to Town
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Colour and analysis from around the world: Kevin Connolly says as much as a quarter of the population of Lebanon is now Syrian - and the cost of hosting so many refugees is soaring; Mark Lowen in Athens on the reaction of Greek men and women to the authorities' campaign against members of the far-right Golden Dawn party; there's been an economic revolution in The Seychelles and Tim Ecott's been finding out how it was achieved; Kirsty Lang talks about the day a six metre long snake brought terror to the streets of a small town in Brazil while Joanna Robertson has been observing the French easing their way into autumn with the help of some particularly exotic cakes. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from our own correspondent studios at Broadcasting House in London. |
| 0:05.0 | You've downloaded the latest edition of the programme, |
| 0:07.1 | broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:09.3 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:11.8 | Thank you. And hello, today a change of address for the kebab shop, which once dished up opposite the presidential |
| 0:18.5 | palace in Damascus. |
| 0:20.6 | The Seychelles used to be known as the land of Nunn, so how come it's now the land of plenty? |
| 0:26.6 | We hear about the day a giant snake terrorized residents of a small town in Brazil, and how Parisians are getting through a difficult time of year |
| 0:35.3 | thanks to some rather special cakes and chocolates. But first Greece has been back in the |
| 0:41.6 | headlines not for anti-osterity protests this time, but for a |
| 0:45.7 | police operation against the far-right Golden Dawn Party. |
| 0:49.6 | Its leader and two of his senior colleagues are now behind bars awaiting trial, charged with running |
| 0:54.8 | a criminal organisation. |
| 0:56.9 | A spokesman for the party described the crackdown as a witch hunt and the greatest political |
| 1:01.6 | crime in recent Greek history. |
| 1:04.2 | But Mark Loeen in Athens says many Greeks now support the authorities move against Golden Dawn. |
| 1:11.0 | It is that moment that makes you stop and understand exactly what is happening, an image |
| 1:16.5 | in the midst of covering a story that sticks in your mind above all else. |
| 1:21.2 | And while I stood outside police headquarters in Athens the other day, that extraordinary |
| 1:25.9 | moment came. Elected MPs and the leader of Golden Dawn dragged out in handcuffs flanked by men with balaclavas and rifles. |
| 1:35.9 | Politicians whose swagger and hubris were infamous, who appeared untouchable, who had made a name |
| 1:42.0 | far beyond Greece for leading arguably Europe's most extreme |
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