A Special UK Edition
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
For once, and as part of FOOC's sixtieth birthday celebrations, the programme's handed over to home correspondents and the stories they have to tell about the UK today. The growth in Scottish nationalism is explored; we find out how important listening will be as the inquiry into child sex abuse in this country prepares to get underway; we travel to one of the most picturesque villages in England to hear concerns about the increasing cost of housing in rural areas; with the power-sharing government in Belfast close to collapse, we are told of the continuing tensions in both Republican and Unionist communities and we find out what effect the extraordinary political developments of recent days will have on the party political conference season, which is about to begin.
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| 0:00.0 | You have downloaded from our own correspondent. |
| 0:02.6 | This edition is the latest one broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:06.4 | And here to introduce it is Kate A. |
| 0:08.8 | Hello. |
| 0:10.0 | Next week this program will be 60 years old in that time we've broadcast some 5,000 editions. |
| 0:17.0 | They featured countries all around the world. |
| 0:19.0 | Today though for the very first time we concentrate on this country. Why is Scottish nationalism no longer |
| 0:25.8 | the preserve of the man who wears a kilt on Tuesday afternoon? The need to listen on the long |
| 0:31.0 | road away from Rotterham. |
| 0:33.0 | How a crisis in rural housings viewed from the village William Morris called the most beautiful |
| 0:38.1 | in England. |
| 0:39.1 | And why, on the eve of the political conference season, |
| 0:42.4 | the contents of one correspondent sock drawers. on the Scottish referendum on independence were being digested. |
| 0:53.2 | 55% of the electorate gave the idea the thumbs down, |
| 0:57.2 | and that it was thought at the time was that. |
| 0:59.8 | And yet there's still much discussion about the possibility of a second referendum. |
| 1:05.0 | James Cook in Glasgow until recently tells us that while the vote last year was described as a once-in-a-generation event, |
| 1:12.0 | the month since have seen a surge in support of |
| 1:15.2 | Scottish nationalism. For a thousand years and more the little market town of |
| 1:20.6 | Forfer has been quietly minding its own business. It sits in a broad fertile valley on |
| 1:26.5 | Scotland's East Coast, a place which takes the Gaelic name Strathmore. These days the |
| 1:31.8 | farmers use machines rather than scythes to bring in the harvest. |
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