A Seat With a View
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Air travel may be not quite the glamorous, magical experience it once was but our frequent flier Peter Day, sitting bolt upright in economy class, says there can still be something magnificent about it. For Shaiima Khalil, it's a long hot overnight train journey to Upper Egypt to find out how the revolution's playing out far from the big cities of the north. Chris Morris, covering the anti-government demonstrations in Turkey, hears the prime minister Mr Erdogan promise better days ahead. Fergal Keane tells of past and future colliding on a beach near the southern tip of Africa. And Stephen Smith, deep in a vault in London, gets his hands on some of the glittering riches of the Russian Tsars. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:03.0 | this is a download of From Our Own Correspondent. We make one edition of the programme for the BBC World Service, |
| 0:06.0 | but this is the one broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:10.0 | Here to introduce it, Kate Aide. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello, today there's something magnificent viewed from economy class at 35,000 feet. |
| 0:19.0 | A long-hot train journey into Upper Egypt |
| 0:22.0 | we're finding out what they make of the |
| 0:23.8 | revolution far from the big cities of the north. The past collides with the future |
| 0:29.1 | as dawn breaks at the end of Africa, and at a secret vault in London we get our hands on some of the |
| 0:36.0 | glittering riches of the Tsar of Russia. But first your pay packet will go up by |
| 0:41.7 | 50 percent. We'll cut inflation, we'll create jobs. Promises from the |
| 0:47.0 | Turkish Prime Minister Wretched Tai Berdawan this week. He was trying to paint a rosier picture than that being put about by the anti-government |
| 0:55.5 | demonstrators who over the past few weeks have been grabbing headlines around the world. |
| 1:01.0 | We will be walking towards much more beautiful days, he said, but the |
| 1:05.9 | protesters are continuing their struggle in different ways, and as Chris Morris |
| 1:10.9 | just back from Istanbul tells us, |
| 1:13.0 | the country's future is at stake. |
| 1:15.0 | It's been a very modern sort of protest fuelled by street art and social media |
| 1:21.0 | deploying irony and humour to prick the |
| 1:23.2 | pomposity of the powerful. The Prime Minister Recheptaip Erdogan has called |
| 1:27.9 | anyone who drinks alcohol and alcoholic, so protesters toast him with beer bottles in the street. |
| 1:34.0 | He advised Turkish women to have at least three children, |
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