Andy Warhol's Trousers
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The full story - correspondents with despatches from around the world. Today: from Bangkok, scene of a devastating bomb attack earlier in the week, it's the smallest detail which makes the deepest impression; there's a visit to the coastline of Somalia where a thriving piracy industry has been closed down but myriad problems still remain; we're in the Panamanian highlands talking about cocoa beans -- the experts may not be entirely convinced that eating chocolate is good for you, but there's no doubt the business is proving beneficial to the economy of that central American nation; we examine Sri Lanka's relationship with the sweet heart of the country, otherwise known as the coconut and our reporter sweats and strains in the shop where Andy Warhol and generations of New York rockers have gone shopping for their leather trousers and other stage gear
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to hear from our own correspondent. We do two versions of the program, one for the BBC World Service, and this one's a download of the latest edition from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:11.0 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:13.6 | Hello. Today there's hope in concrete as people in Bangkok try to put the trauma of Monday's |
| 0:20.2 | bomb attack behind them. Gunfire over tea in the Horn of Africa. |
| 0:25.0 | The pirates may have gone, but the violence hasn't. |
| 0:28.0 | We investigate Sri Lanka's coconut gap. |
| 0:31.0 | They grow 2.5 billion of them a year. That's not nearly enough, apparently. |
| 0:37.1 | And was it really legitimate editorial research? We find out why our correspondent was so determined to get into some Andy Warhol leather trousers. |
| 0:47.0 | Five days after 20 people were killed in that bomb explosion in Bangkok, the Thai authorities seemed no |
| 0:54.6 | closer to knowing who carried out the attack or why. The Thai Prime Minister in |
| 0:59.6 | his weekly address to the nation said there'd been developments in the case, but he gave no details. |
| 1:05.4 | Yesterday, doves were released at the Erevan Shrine where the bomb went off. |
| 1:10.3 | Bangkok residents, as well as officials and tourists tourists had gathered to pay their respects. |
| 1:15.0 | Steve Evans was there as the city tried to come to terms with what had happened. |
| 1:20.0 | Sometimes it's the smallest detail which makes the deepest impression. |
| 1:25.0 | 14 years after 9-11, I still remember the silence of the New York Bar |
| 1:30.0 | I went to in the evening after the attacks, more than the events of the day itself. |
| 1:35.8 | And now it's the smell of incense in my clothes which lingers and which I find hopeful. The aroma of worship at the shrine in Bangkok means normal life is |
| 1:46.6 | insistent on returning. Ordinary people very quickly sought peace at a place ripped apart by violins. |
| 1:55.0 | And the image of a small patch of freshly laid concrete, |
| 1:59.0 | its moistness glistening in the fierce morning light. It says much about a determination to |
| 2:07.2 | recover the routine of normal life. The bomb exploded at seven in the |
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