A Thousand Horses Come to Town
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2013
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
A thousand horses. Three thousand sheep. And people, thousands of them too, clustered like locusts around the Old Port in Marseille. What on earth were they all doing there? Anna Magnusson was finding out. European leaders have announced they'll try to tackle unemployment; Emma Jane Kirby's in southern Spain where the under-25s are finding it hardest to get jobs. Qatar has a new ruler, or emir; Frank Gardner's just back from this ultra-rich Gulf state wondering: is this the world's most ironic country? Rupert Wingfield Hayes has been to the Indonesian island of Sumatra to look into South East Asia's worst smog crisis in years. And among the correspondents in Senegal, reporting on the excitement, the rumours and the disruption which accompany a visiting American president, was Caspar Leighton. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from the from our own correspondent studios at Broadcasting House in London. |
| 0:04.4 | You've downloaded the latest edition of the program broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:08.9 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:11.2 | Today the dogs are all I've got left. |
| 0:14.7 | We hear how the pain in Spain has reached the beach in Andalusia. |
| 0:19.2 | Behind the scenes at the Gulf State where there's a huge U.S. Air Base and a mall where the Taliban goes shopping. |
| 0:26.2 | Why a black eye in Senegal meant that President Obama was the biggest show in town, and |
| 0:31.8 | how a thousand horses brought cheers and a few tears to the old port in Marseille. |
| 0:37.0 | European leaders meeting in Brussels this week announced new steps to tackle high unemployment among young people. |
| 0:45.0 | They agreed to spend more than 7 billion pounds in a bid to boost job creation, |
| 0:50.0 | about one in four young Europeans is out of work. |
| 0:53.6 | Spain, which has been in recession for nearly four years, has the worst figures. |
| 0:58.2 | The unemployment rate there, at a record 27% is the highest of all the 17 nations in the Eurozone. |
| 1:05.0 | Emma Jane Kirby, who's just back from Andalusia in the south, says it's the under-25s who are finding it hardest to get jobs. Many have emigrated in recent years |
| 1:16.1 | or are seriously considering doing so because they see little prospect of work at home. |
| 1:21.6 | It's already 30 degrees on the beach at Tora delmar, and Maria Delorsros and her husband Jose |
| 1:28.0 | are getting a little crabby with each other as they unstack the plastic sun loungers from the shed. |
| 1:33.0 | Jose stumbles backwards into the dog's water bowl and curses. |
| 1:37.0 | He's tired and hot, and he doesn't want to be Jose the sunbed man today. |
| 1:42.0 | He prefers being Jose the civil servant in the coolness of |
| 1:46.1 | an air-conditioned office. But since his hours and wages were slashed two years ago, he needs |
| 1:51.8 | this sideline to make ends meet. |
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