Battlegrounds
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
As athletes turn up to the winter Olympic games, what might they find? The Thai fishing industry is accused of using slave labour; Syrians can only look across the border from Turkey at their old homes and hope to return one day; an Italian priest takes on militia groups in the Central African Republic to save Muslims and Christians alike; and we hear of one of Britain's worst military defeats which is still a source of great pride for Zulus. Kate Adie introduces these reports from around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC, this is from our own correspondent. |
| 0:04.6 | You can hear the version of the program we make for the BBC World Service by visiting our |
| 0:08.6 | site at BBC online. |
| 0:10.8 | But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello. Today as national teams head to Sochi in preparation for next month's winter Olympics, |
| 0:22.0 | we hear how they could be faced with unusual |
| 0:24.8 | facilities. An Italian priest in the Central African Republic refuses to |
| 0:30.3 | stand by as Christian and Muslim militias attack civilians. Some of the fish in |
| 0:36.0 | our supermarkets comes from Thailand, but can we be sure it hasn't been caught by |
| 0:40.7 | slaves? And we remember one of Britain's greatest defeats on the battlefield. |
| 0:48.0 | A picture speaks a thousand words, though as we know in this programme words can also describe pictures rather well |
| 0:54.9 | both can generate a variety of responses soon our newspapers will be full of |
| 1:00.3 | photos of Olympians rejoicing in their victories and mourning their losses at the full of the |
| 1:04.2 | the olympians rejoicing in their victories and mourning their losses at the winter |
| 1:05.3 | games in Sochi in southern Russia. |
| 1:07.6 | Journalists will strain to find the Bormau to describe what they see. Steve Rosenberg was in Sochi recently and couldn't |
| 1:16.4 | resist taking a photograph of a somewhat unusual sight he came across, so let's hear his words about it. |
| 1:24.0 | When I went to spend a penny last week in the Caucasus mountains, |
| 1:27.8 | little did I know that I would learn so much about Russia |
| 1:31.4 | from one trip to the toilet. |
| 1:34.0 | The cubicle in question was inside the Lauera cross-country skiing and biathlon center, |
| 1:40.3 | brand new and built of course for next month's Sochi winter games. |
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