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🗓️ 23 January 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:04.6 | Good morning. |
0:05.6 | Today, a glimmer of light in the pitch black, then shouts, blankets and lots of vomit. |
0:11.4 | We're on a rescue boat off the coast of Libya. We meet the Afghan |
0:16.0 | teenagers in slippers who are the first and last line of defense against the Taliban. |
0:21.0 | The thumping dance music providing an escape from Ethiopia street protests, |
0:27.0 | and how a silver coffee pot prompted a trip to the Coate Desieu on the trail of a murdered grandmother. |
0:34.9 | Africa's richest woman, Isabelle Santos, the billionaire daughter of the former president of |
0:39.6 | Angola, claims to be a self-made business woman. |
0:43.0 | More than 700,000 documents recently leaked from her business empire suggest otherwise. |
0:49.0 | The emails, contracts, audits and accounts in the so-called Luanda leagues, and put her under intense scrutiny |
0:56.2 | by her bank and the Angolan government. |
0:59.5 | But earlier this month she batted aside allegations of corruption and told Andrew Harding that she's the victim of a witch hunt. |
1:07.0 | There's no limousine, no security team, no hangers-on, none of the billionaire paraphernalia you might expect, from one of the world's |
1:16.0 | richest women. Instead, Isabelle doss Santos turns a corner in central London and walks towards |
1:21.6 | me. It's late afternoon, cold and grey. For a moment, I wonder if |
1:26.1 | she came here on the tube, or maybe there's a maserati parked a block away. It seems rude to ask. |
1:32.4 | We shake hands. At the age of 46, |
1:35.4 | Doss Santos exudes a cheerful, unruffled, unruffable, calm, alongside something |
1:41.6 | sterner, stelier, the ruthlessness perhaps of a woman who spent much of her privileged life being judged and pigeonholed and has learned to plow on regardless. |
1:52.0 | I'm asymmetrical, she tells me, twice. I'm not what you would expect. I'm not in that box. |
2:00.2 | We're meeting because Isabell-Dor Santos is is as you may have heard in some trouble |
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