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🗓️ 6 February 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:04.6 | Good morning. |
0:05.8 | Today, life in a Russian prison, it's violence to the sound of heavy metal music. |
0:11.3 | We have a tale of headhunters, not the prowling business sort, but |
0:15.6 | tribal trouble on the border between India and Myanmar. A cheetah hunt is recalled in Cameroon, while in Romania bear hunts are just a memory too, which is |
0:27.4 | why a walk in the woods might be inadvisable. |
0:32.1 | Those of us old enough to remember Cod Wars are aware that fishing rights can get you in deep |
0:37.4 | internationally disputed waters. |
0:40.8 | Last weekend France reminded Britain that the UK exports most of its fish production to EU countries |
0:46.3 | so there are a lot of negotiations ahead. Saint-Malo on the north coast hosts a picturesque port with lavish |
0:54.3 | fui-deamer dishes on the local menus, but Julia Langdon has found that the |
0:58.9 | locals have as it were other fish to fry. Nothing much except the weather disturbs the usual business of the |
1:05.6 | local fish market in St. Marlow where I've been staying. A storm was expected on my last day and that's |
1:12.1 | not good for business. The Poissonier was ready to talk |
1:15.7 | to me about the weather but she didn't have time to talk about Brexit. |
1:19.1 | Fouliashte you want to buy she asked impatiently. The gloomy glare of her magnificent |
1:25.9 | wild turbot reflected her indifference to politics. Perhaps she feared I was going to ask |
1:32.0 | about quotas and the common fisheries policy, but she was of course quite wrong. |
1:37.0 | I spent enough time on that topic when I first reported from Strasbourg in the 1970s. |
1:42.0 | At that time, in the 1970s. At that time in the eastern region of |
1:45.3 | Al-Sas-Lorain there was still a visceral fear of war and a yearning for peace at all |
1:50.7 | costs. But when we actually joined the common market it was always the price of fish |
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