. A Return to the Countryside
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Chris Stewart is in Spain where some young people, unable to find employment in the cities in these austere times, are returning to work in the countryside. The agricultural sector's been holding up reasonably well as parts of the US economy take a hammering. But Paul Adams has been finding out that in the corn fields of Nebraska, drought is the main threat. Kate McGeown in the Philippines has been learning that the government in Manila is trying to bring home Filipina domestic workers caught up in the civil war in Syria. Peter Biles has been to the First World War battlefields of Gallipoli. His grandfather was killed there as Allied forces engaged in deadly trench warfare against Turkish troops. And Joanna Robertson explains why they say August in Paris is like a month of Sundays!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC, this is from our own correspondent. |
| 0:04.6 | You can hear the version of the program we make for the BBC World Service by visiting our |
| 0:08.6 | site at BBC online. |
| 0:10.8 | But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:16.0 | Today young men return to the Spanish countryside as austerity bites in the big cities. |
| 0:21.0 | Droughts the threat in the American state of Nebraska, there farmers say |
| 0:25.5 | they're losing the battle against the elements. We walk through the poppy fields of Gallipoli, |
| 0:30.6 | 97 years after a battle in which 130,000 lives were lost. |
| 0:36.5 | And the locals are on holiday, the streets are quiet, the air is pure. |
| 0:41.1 | August in Paris. |
| 0:42.1 | It's like a month of Sundays. There are clouds gathering over the Spanish |
| 0:45.7 | government this weekend. It's reported to be close to seeking a multi-billion euro bailout |
| 0:50.7 | from the EU and the European Central Bank. |
| 0:54.0 | That'll mean further deep austerity measures, which in turn could lead to protests on the streets, |
| 0:59.5 | even a general strike. |
| 1:01.3 | Trades Union representatives met King Juan Carlos earlier this week. |
| 1:05.2 | They told him they were opposed to the new rescue package because it would increase the |
| 1:09.2 | hardship for Spaniards already suffering from two years of harsh austerity measures. |
| 1:14.0 | Chris Stewart, who lives and farms in the south of the country, |
| 1:18.0 | says the economic crisis is having some unexpected consequences in rural communities. |
| 1:23.0 | No I malke per bien novenge is what the Spanish say |
| 1:27.0 | when they want to point out that every cloud has a silver lining. |
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