April 30, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A very French murder story: Hugh Schofield tells how France has been transfixed by an appalling human drama -- the killing of a mother, three sons and a daughter. Owen Bennett Jones questions whether depicting the news from Syria as 'brutal suppression of peaceful protestors' might be, to some extent, misleading. A climate of fear is stifling discussion about Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws -- that's the contention of the BBC's Jill McGivering who's been touring the country investigating. Richard Wilson makes a return trip to Antarctica and is shocked at how the continent's changing. Gareth Armstrong visits an Indian classroom and hears the students voice outrage at how the British regard the work of the children's author Enid Blyton.
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| 0:00.0 | This is BBC Radio with a download of From Our Own Correspondent. |
| 0:04.0 | Here to introduce the programme is Kate Adi. |
| 0:07.0 | A mother, three sons and a daughter killed. |
| 0:10.0 | Their father's gone missing. |
| 0:11.0 | It's a very French murder story. The unrest in Syria, is it simply |
| 0:15.8 | a case of peaceful protesters brutally suppressed? We're in Pakistan where fear is stifling |
| 0:21.8 | discussion about the country's controversial blasphemy laws, |
| 0:25.5 | and in a classroom in India where the shock at the way Britain has treated Enid Blayton. |
| 0:31.6 | France has been transfixed this month by an appalling human drama, the murder of a family shot dead in chillingly clinical fashion. |
| 0:39.0 | Part of what makes the story so compelling is the prosperous apparently happy provincial |
| 0:44.6 | Catholic setting in which it took place. And as Sue Schofield in Paris points out, |
| 0:49.8 | there's also the fact that three weeks after the murders, the presumed killer, the father, |
| 0:55.2 | Xavier DuPont de Ligoniz, is still at large. |
| 0:58.9 | Murders happen all the time. |
| 1:01.8 | But thou and then there are murders that by their extraordinary |
| 1:04.6 | circumstances, by the eccentric character of their perpetrator or by the |
| 1:09.4 | social context in which they're set somehow command our attention in a different way. |
| 1:15.0 | Such is the case of the bizarre terrible tale of Xavier DuPont de Ligoniz, |
| 1:21.0 | France's most wanted man. |
| 1:24.0 | As his name suggests, the de is the clue, |
| 1:27.3 | Zavier duPont de Ligoniz comes from old French nobility. |
| 1:31.6 | His ancestors lived in a southern province called the Ruerg and they include a sister |
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