April 16, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
'The Bahrain I had known wasn't there' - Frank Gardner, who used to live on the Gulf island, reports on life there under a state of emergency. The 7/7 bombings in London claimed victims of many nationalities; Nick Beake has travelled to Poland to hear more about one of them: a young woman who was a keen student and a member of the local choir. India's huge population has come under scrutiny in the recent census and Mark Tully has been wondering if the country's relatively youthful population will ultimately prove a boon for the economy -- or a drain on it. A long running strike at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra has finally come to an end and Petroc Trelawny's been hearing that it could be a long time before the wounds are healed. And Kathy Flower finds that chemists' shops in the French Pyrenees offer much more than just aspirins - they're places you can visit for advice on wild mushrooms: will they kill you or prove a tasty topping on your omelette?
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| 0:00.0 | This is BBC Radio with a download of From Our Own Correspondent. |
| 0:04.1 | Here to introduce the programme is Kate Aide. |
| 0:07.1 | Today, hundreds detained. |
| 0:09.1 | Some aren't coming back. |
| 0:10.4 | Bahrain under its state of emergency. We're in a small Polish village where they |
| 0:15.4 | remember a daughter lost in the 7-7 London bombings. India's huge but |
| 0:21.0 | youthful population, a demographic dividend or a looming disaster. |
| 0:26.2 | And in the French Pyrenees we seek advice on which mushrooms will kill and which will |
| 0:31.3 | go nicely with that omelet. |
| 0:34.2 | The security forces in the Gulf Island state of Bahrain seem determined to crush the protest movement |
| 0:39.6 | led by members of the Shiite community. Martial law was imposed after weeks of pro-democracy demonstrations. |
| 0:46.6 | Hundreds of suspected activists have been jailed. |
| 0:49.3 | There have been deaths in custody. |
| 0:51.7 | And this week the government ordered the disbanding of two of the |
| 0:54.3 | opposition parties behind the protests. Frank Gardner has been watching the |
| 0:58.8 | crisis deepen and recalls a sleepier gentler time many years ago when he lived on the island. |
| 1:05.0 | The Sheh sounded nervous. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm asking you not to go to that village, he said. |
| 1:10.0 | If you do, the police will arrest you, take away your tapes, and I will have to come and get you out of the police station. |
| 1:16.0 | Our team was indignant. |
| 1:18.0 | This was surely outrageous. |
| 1:20.0 | Hadn't the Bahraini foreign ministry promised us freedom to interview whomever we wanted? |
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