Battle Stations at the Vatican!
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Allan Little says there are deep disagreements among the cardinals as they prepare to elect a new pope. They are voting too in the Falklands. Caroline Wyatt says the result is in little doubt. But what will they make of it in Argentina? Stephen Sackur has been in Tunisia, a land which has been in deep political crisis since the shooting last month of a prominent critic of the government. How should a town handle the legacy of being the birthplace of a notorious dictator? Bethany Bell's been asking that question in Georgia and in Austria - and getting a variety of answers. And Steve Rosenberg went to interview a former leader of the Soviet Union. Little did he know he'd end up accompanying him on the piano!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from the from our own correspondent studios at Broadcasting House in London. |
| 0:04.8 | You've downloaded the latest edition of the program broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:09.2 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:11.6 | Today battle stations at the Vatican, disagreement among the Cardinals as they prepare |
| 0:16.8 | to choose the next vicar of Christ. |
| 0:19.8 | They're voting tomorrow in the Falklands too. |
| 0:22.2 | The result there seems in little doubt, but what will |
| 0:25.1 | they make of it in Argentina? |
| 0:27.4 | No jobs, no economy, no security. |
| 0:30.1 | That's the complaint in Tunisia, where the optimism of the Arab Spring has all but |
| 0:34.5 | evaporated, and the correspondent who set out to interview a former leader of the |
| 0:39.0 | Soviet Union and ended up accompanying him on the piano. |
| 0:44.0 | Word finally came through from Rome yesterday afternoon |
| 0:47.0 | that the conclave to select the next Pope would begin on Tuesday. |
| 0:51.0 | The Cardinals are expected to take several days over their decision. |
| 0:55.0 | We'll know they've reached it of course when a puff of white smoke finally appears |
| 0:58.9 | over the Vatican. Alan Little says there's no doubt they're split over whether the top job should go to an old school European Cardinal or perhaps to one from Africa or Latin America. |
| 1:11.0 | To get to the Sistine Chapel where the Cardinals will be locked in to cast their ballots, |
| 1:16.0 | you pass through a long narrow corridor known as the Vatican Gallery of Maps. |
| 1:21.0 | It is lined with several dozen painted maps from the 16th century, |
| 1:25.0 | depicting the lands where then the Pope's authority held sway. |
| 1:29.0 | The dukedoms of Ferrara and Modena, the kingdom of Sicily, the duches of Monferrato and Savoy. |
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