A Journalist's Best Friend
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Lost confidence, fake seeds, masked assignations, steaming glory and animal insights. Humphrey Hawksley is in a fishing village in the Philippines, hard hit by China's expanding maritime claims. Adam Shaw is in rural Kenya where a precarious existence for farmers is made even worse by crooks selling counterfeit seeds. In Venice, it's a time to dress up in your feathers and mantillas and, of course, masks - to look your very Carnivale best - but not if you're a local. Petroc Trelawny takes the slow train through Germany's Harz mountains, once the frontline between east and west. And Andrew Harding has travelled far and wide as a correspondent, experiencing the excitement, the tension, and the vets.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome to another edition of From Our Own Correspondent, which was broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday, the 4th of March 2017. |
| 0:11.0 | So from Asia to Africa, Europe and back again with cloaks and masks, here's Kate |
| 0:16.7 | Adi. |
| 0:17.7 | Hello. |
| 0:18.7 | Today your President brags about shooting criminals and indulges in U-turns on foreign policy. |
| 0:25.5 | It's the Philippines, and we hear the view from a little fishing village. |
| 0:30.1 | A different world in Venice where the locals have had to face a deluge |
| 0:34.3 | of excited visitors in masks and cloaks to celebrate Carnavale. More enthusiasts |
| 0:40.0 | train spotters this time from the former so-called inner German border and |
| 0:45.2 | you're a correspondent have passport will travel but also have a cat. |
| 0:50.4 | Pause for thought. |
| 0:53.5 | To the Philippines first, where President Duterte's policies at home and abroad have been |
| 0:58.2 | attracting criticism, his personal gun-toting approach to the war on drugs, the arrest of his chief critic, and his erratic |
| 1:06.0 | attitude to China. |
| 1:08.2 | He'd warned the Chinese of a bloody confrontation if they didn't stay away from Filipino territorial waters. |
| 1:14.8 | There's been a long-running dispute over an area known as Scarborough Shoal, 100 miles of the |
| 1:19.6 | Philippines coast which China has occupied. But then he announced a divorce from the United States |
| 1:25.8 | and said he wanted a less confrontational approach towards China. Meanwhile his foreign |
| 1:31.2 | minister remains openly hostile to Beijing. |
| 1:34.0 | Humphrey Hawksley has been to a fishing village most affected by the tensions. |
| 1:39.0 | His black hat is emblazoned with the slogan Try. |
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