A New Recipe
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
With a political crisis, a push for freedom and talk of vegetables, Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from across the world. Guy Hedgecoe is with the unionist Catalans, opposed to independence from Spain of their region. In Saudi Arabia, the Crown Prince has called for a return to moderate Islam in the Kingdom. Kirsty Lang sees some noticeable changes for women in the country. In the mountains of Nicaragua, Margaret Ward goes off grid but also sees the progress has made in using renewable energy. 500 years ago Europe was torn apart by the Reformation. One of the leading actors in it was Martin Luther, and he used a new technology, the printing press to get his message out. Jenny Hill follows in his footsteps. The we talk vegetables - tubers, to be precise - with Christine Finn, who reveals which one the people of Vermont voted for.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:04.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:05.0 | Today, an inch or two of liberalism in Saudi Arabia, |
| 0:09.0 | women behind the wheel. |
| 0:11.0 | A new revolution in the mountains of Nicaragua involving electricity, a reminder of a |
| 0:16.6 | huge revolution 500 years ago as our correspondent returns to the sights and sounds of Luther's Reformation. |
| 0:24.9 | And California has an artichoke, Georgia, the Sweet Onion, and Idaho the Potato. |
| 0:31.3 | And in Vermont we find that they've just proudly legislated on behalf of a kind of |
| 0:36.4 | of router beggar. We're talking state vegetables. |
| 0:41.6 | Just over 80 years ago an old girl at my school, Eileen O'Shachnessy, went to Spain with |
| 0:47.4 | her husband, Eric Blair. He carried papers to accredit him as a correspondent, but he actually went to fight in the Spanish Civil War. |
| 0:56.6 | His subsequent book, Homage to Catalonia written under his pen name George Orwell, has never been out of print since. One of the reasons may be that the name |
| 1:06.7 | Catalonia seems so familiar to us. After yesterday's dramatic decisions with ecstatic supporters of independence on the streets, |
| 1:16.6 | with her Catalonia, Guy Hedgeco has been meeting some of the people who are opposed to independence. |
| 1:24.0 | One morning earlier this month, a crowd of people gathered outside the headquarters of the Spanish |
| 1:29.1 | National Police in Barcelona. |
| 1:31.9 | The Catalan Independence flag with its red and yellow stripes topped |
| 1:35.5 | by a white star was a common sight. Some waved it in the air, others wore it wrapped |
| 1:41.4 | around them like a cape. |
| 1:43.0 | They were there as part of a day of demonstrations against the Spanish police |
| 1:47.5 | and its use of force when it tried to stop the independence referendum |
| 1:51.0 | two days earlier. |
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