A Man Dies Twice
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 20 February 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Meeting the people populating the world of news. In this edition: thousands were massacred in the Bosnian town of Visegrad during the war there in 1992 - today, as Fergal Keane has been finding out, the authorities there want it to become a tourist destination. Visegrad is also on Nick Thorpe's mind only he's talking about the town by the River Danube in Hungary, where the so-called Visegrad 4, a grouping of regional nations, was born. Nick says that in today's Europe, their voice can no longer be ignored. As the US-election spotlight turns to South Carolina and Nevada, Robert Hodierne examines gun control and why the laws governing it won't be changing any time soon. Beth McLeod is in Malawi travelling on a boat built in Scotland when the country was a British protectorate which continues to provide a vital service to local communities. And he may have lived in Paris for two decades, but our man Hugh Schofield explains why it's only now, finally, that he seems to wield a bit of influence!
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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 massacres, what massacres. A room with a view in the Bosnian town keen to forget some of its past. |
| 0:22.0 | They've been talking about gun control as the US |
| 0:24.8 | election process continues, but don't expect any early changes in the law. There's too |
| 0:30.1 | much money at stake. She may be rusting, battered and a bit tired, but the grand old lady of |
| 0:36.0 | Lake Malawi is still working, still providing a vital lifeline to the outside world. And |
| 0:42.1 | 20 years are correspondent in Paris and at last our man in the French |
| 0:46.3 | capital finds he has a bit of Piston. But first David Cameron's been briefing his cabinet about the agreement he reached last night on European Union reforms. |
| 0:57.0 | The deal allows Britain to retain the pound permanently and to remain outside further political integration in Europe. |
| 1:05.0 | A compromise was reached on British attempts to limit benefits for migrants from other |
| 1:09.3 | EU countries. |
| 1:10.9 | This had been challenged by the so-called Vizagrad Group of Nations. |
| 1:15.1 | The Prime Minister's supporters say it's been a successful summit, but the Vizagrad Group |
| 1:19.8 | can claim success as well. |
| 1:22.0 | It's emerged as a block whose voice can no longer be |
| 1:24.7 | ignored. Nick Thorpe was there when the group was born and now he says it's come of age. |
| 1:30.0 | There are seven Vishagrads on my map of Europe. Not surprising as it means high castle in |
| 1:37.3 | Slavic languages, but only one in Hungary. The river Danube turns 90 degrees here, The tip of St. Hendry Island stretches in midstream, |
| 1:47.0 | bare shingle, when the water level is low, a swirling onslaught of driftwood caught in the willow branches at full flood. |
| 1:54.7 | While overhead the castle peers down at the river like the captain on the bridge of his ship, |
| 2:00.0 | appearing and disappearing in the mist. This is a place which invites lofty plans. |
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