Awkward Questions
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 29 October 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: Karen Allen is caught up in the anger of the student protests in South Africa. After the latest terror attack in Pakistan, Shahzeb Jillani wonders why no-one wants to ask the difficult questions. Bill Law, from Canada, tells us how despite a fascination with the US Presidential race, it's sometimes best to leave politics aside and stick to the diving. Gavin Lee, who has been reporting from the Jungle migrant camp for several years, explains about the dog and the wolf, and the sights and scents that will linger. And, watch out on the hillsides of Montenegro - you really might catch your death, as Elizabeth Gowing hears.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading from our own correspondent. This edition was broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday the 29th of October 2016 and it's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello, today we're in Pakistan under by Kate Edy. Hello. |
| 0:13.0 | Today we're in Pakistan and after the latest terrorists attack, a correspondent wonders why no one seems |
| 0:19.8 | to want to ask the difficult questions. If you're following the American presidential |
| 0:24.8 | race at least here you can take comfort from being across the pond from the |
| 0:28.9 | shenanigans but what if you live next door as in, where you might be better off if you stick to small talk? |
| 0:36.5 | The migrant camp in Calais has been cleared. |
| 0:39.2 | We hear about the dog and the wolf and scents that will linger, and fancy a brisk walk up a hill in Montenegro, |
| 0:47.0 | just check if the wind is blowing before you leave, you might catch your death. |
| 0:52.1 | There have been more scuffles between students and police in South Africa this week, |
| 0:56.0 | as protests against university tuition fees continue. |
| 1:00.0 | The fees must fall campaign, which began last year, has turned into the biggest student |
| 1:04.8 | protest in the country since the end of apartheid in 1994. |
| 1:09.8 | Campaigners argue that the government should introduce free university education to help close the |
| 1:15.2 | inequality gap, particularly between blacks and whites. |
| 1:19.2 | The government says it cannot afford to do that right now. Some students have threatened to boycott the upcoming |
| 1:25.1 | university final exams. Much of the campaign has been fought on social media, but it's |
| 1:31.0 | spilled over into other places as Karan Allen found when visiting a hospital. |
| 1:37.0 | There were mainly toddlers on the Pediatric ward of Rahima Musa Public Hospital in Johannesburg, |
| 1:42.0 | a team of medical students, some of them just weeks away from |
| 1:45.7 | qualifying huddled around as the consultant gently examined a poorly |
| 1:49.8 | infant with a swollen tummy and ask them for their diagnoses. |
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