A Haircut and a Pedicure
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A trendy haircut in Maipur, baby-blue painted nails in Athens and the authentic taste of a South Pacific superfood. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has sparked repeated international criticism, but Colin Freeman finds support in surprising places: drug users, or ex-drug users, for Duterte. Secunder Kermani gets a haircut in Mirpur, and a lesson in relations between British Pakistanis and their cousins back home. While Louise Cooper gets her nails done in Athens and finds the ugly face of recession, in a Greek beauty parlour. In Moscow, Steve Rosenberg watches as thousands of Russians queue for a chance to glimpse a golden ark. Inside it are fragments of St Nicholas’ rib, on loan from Italy. And Simon Parker swims in the clean seas around French Polynesia and samples the silky, mustard-coloured gonads of a sea urchin.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:02.0 | Thank you for downloading the always impeccably groomed from our own correspondent. |
| 0:08.0 | This edition was broadcast on Radio 4 on May the 27th, 2017, and presented by Kate Ade. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello, today a haircut and a pedicure. |
| 0:18.4 | It's not always such a tough life for correspondence, |
| 0:21.4 | and it's amazing what you can learn during a chat during |
| 0:24.4 | snipping and pampering in a Pakistani barbers or a Greek beauty parlour. We join |
| 0:30.3 | the queue in Moscow where the faithful wait for hours for the chance to glimpse the ribbone of a saint who died over a thousand years ago. |
| 0:39.0 | And then we swim in the clean seas around French Polynesia and wait for it sampled the silky mustard-colored |
| 0:46.2 | gonads of a sea urchin. |
| 0:50.3 | Martial law was imposed on Mindenau Island in the Philippines this week as government forces |
| 0:54.9 | battled militants linked to Islamic State. |
| 0:58.1 | Meanwhile elsewhere in the country the war on drugs continues since President Rodri Guiter Duterte took office there 11 months ago, |
| 1:05.7 | more than 7,000 people have lost their lives. Human Rights Watch has accused police |
| 1:11.7 | of falsifying evidence to justify |
| 1:14.1 | unlawful killings and of working with vigilante groups to |
| 1:17.9 | orchestrate the murder of drug dealers and users. |
| 1:21.7 | Amnesty International has warned of crimes against humanity, while on the |
| 1:26.3 | other hand Donald Trump congratulated Duterte for doing an unbelievable job in a private phone call last month. In the Philippines |
| 1:35.3 | Colin Freeman met other perhaps unlikely supporters of their president. |
| 1:39.8 | Like many people who start out promisingly in their careers, Paul Manuelas put his success partly down to his days at college. |
| 1:48.0 | Not so much to studying though, but the time he spent smoking shabu, the Filipino version of crystal math. |
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