Asparagus fever!
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Bahrain: Rupert Wingfield Hayes examines why all sides in the bitter conflict there feel the controversy surrounding this weekend's Grand Prix can work in their favour. France: It's an election which lacks a feel-good factor. Perhaps, Chris Morris feels, that's why all the campaigners are looking back, at a vision of a romantic, glorious French past. Kenya: Mary Harper's in a huge refugee camp, run on international money, and contrasts life there with that in an impoverished village not far away. India: His mother warned him against walking on ice, but Paul Howard finds it's the only way to visit a remote community high in the Himalayas. Germany: Great excitement at the start of the white asparagus season. Steve Evans finds the vegetable dominating menus and conversation. But surely it's not an aphrodisiac?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello this download from the BBC is the latest edition of the Radio 4 program from our own correspondent. |
| 0:05.6 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:07.6 | Today, why both sides in the bitter conflict in Bahrain believe tomorrow's Grand Prix can help their cause. The French |
| 0:15.2 | elections and an obsession with the romantic mythology of a glorious past. Nothing to do |
| 0:21.6 | and nowhere to go. A sense of hopelessness at a refugee camp in Kenya, home to half a million people. |
| 0:28.0 | And there's joy and celebration as the Prince of German Vegetables emerges once again from the soil. |
| 0:35.0 | Police are out on the streets of Bahrain in huge numbers this morning, ahead of tomorrow's Formula One race, |
| 0:41.0 | which is going ahead amid controversy and civil unrest. |
| 0:46.0 | Last night youths threw petrol bombs at police who responded with tear gas and stun grenades. |
| 0:51.8 | The crown prince, Salman bin Hamad al-Kaleifa, said the |
| 0:54.9 | event would not be called off. It was building bridges between people from |
| 0:59.2 | different religions. This morning armored vehicles are patrolling as practice continues at the desert racetrack. |
| 1:06.0 | Rupert Wingfield Hayes has been looking at how the world of motor racing came to collide with a struggle for power in this Gulf kingdom. |
| 1:14.0 | Most Bahrainis are not anti Formula One. |
| 1:17.4 | The argument isn't about the race. |
| 1:19.4 | It's about what the race represents |
| 1:21.1 | for this tiny island kingdom. |
| 1:23.6 | For the Alkaifa royal family that runs the island and has for the last 200 years, it's about |
| 1:29.2 | showing the world that Bahrain is back in business, that the unpleasantness of the last year is over, and that as they |
| 1:34.7 | like to tell foreign journalists, it's time to move forward. |
| 1:38.8 | And there are many Bahrainis who would agree. |
| 1:41.3 | Business has been bad. Visitors have been staying away, hotels are half empty. |
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