April 23, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Students aren't revolting in Qatar and Oman -- Robin Lustig's been to the Gulf states to see what effect the uprisings in parts of the Arab world are having there. Justin Marozzi's in Libya as questions are being asked about who will run the country in the future. More journalists lost their lives this week in the fighting in Libya. Stuart Hughes reflects on the dangers a reporter can face covering conflict. Ethiopia is one of the least urbanised countries in the world; it's also a place which is losing its doctors - many of them are leave the country to work elsewhere. Claudia Hammond's been talking to some of the young people there who've now been charged with taking healthcare out into the wideopen spaces of the Ethiopian countryside. And why is it city dwellers in France are happy to live in apartments while their counterparts in the UK opt, where possible, for houses? Hugh Schofield in France wonders what this division tells us about the development of two neighbouring peoples.
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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 Adi. |
| 0:07.0 | If you have everything you want, there's nothing to protest about. |
| 0:10.6 | Is that why people in Qatar and Oman haven't joined the uprisings in the Arab world? |
| 0:16.0 | Also today, the family which Colonel Gaddafi failed to erase from Libyan history. |
| 0:22.0 | We talk to the young women charged with taking health |
| 0:24.8 | care into the Ethiopian countryside and on a commuter train in Paris hear the one |
| 0:30.4 | name the British can never pronounce. But first the death of the British |
| 0:35.6 | journalist Tim Heatherington this week has reopened the discussion about the dangers |
| 0:40.0 | of reporting wars. Heatherington who'd made a film about Afghanistan |
| 0:44.3 | which was nominated for an Oscar, was among a group of Western journalists caught up |
| 0:48.8 | in a mortar explosion in Libya. Some 60 journalists were killed worldwide last year, but in fact most were victims |
| 0:55.8 | of their own governments and weren't actually reporting conflict. And statistics fail to |
| 1:00.9 | acknowledge that there are many more people working in news now than there |
| 1:04.8 | used to be. |
| 1:06.6 | An exhibition about war reporting is due to open soon at the Imperial War Museum, North, in Manchester. One of the exhibits was donated by my BBC |
| 1:15.2 | colleague Stuart Hughes, who was himself injured in an explosion. |
| 1:19.4 | In April 2003 I was on assignment for the BBC in Northern Iraq. |
| 1:24.8 | One bright spring morning, my team travelled to a former frontline position in the town of Kifrey. |
| 1:30.7 | A few days earlier, it had been bombed by American Plains forcing Saddam Hussein's troops to abandon their trenches and flee. |
| 1:39.0 | The mortar attacks on the town during previous days had subsided and a young Peshmour soldier traveling with |
| 1:45.2 | us assured us the area was safe. He was wrong. Just seconds after stepping out of our |
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