BBC Radio 4
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2010
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A big week for the Turkish Prime Minister. Jonathan Head gauges reaction to his growing power. Jennifer Pak finds out what sex education is like for teenagers in Malaysia. Angus Crawford meets the children of Senegal made to beg for money by their teachers. Lorraine Mallinder is in Mauritius finding out what happened to the Chagos Islanders exiled there. And Zeb Soanes goes to Hollywood and gets a shave from the barber to the stars.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to listen to from our own correspondent. |
| 0:02.7 | We make two versions of the programme. |
| 0:04.9 | If you would like to hear the edition broadcast on the BBC World Service, |
| 0:08.8 | please visit the BBC iPlayer. |
| 0:11.1 | This is a podcast of the version broadcast on BBC Radio 4, presented by Kate Adie. |
| 0:17.5 | Today, the Turkish Prime Minister, |
| 0:19.6 | and how he's set to become the most powerful figure in his country's recent political history. |
| 0:24.9 | We find out why the Malaysian authorities want their young people to know more about sex. |
| 0:31.2 | Mauritius may be a paradise for many visitors, but we hear it's a depressing place for a group forced to settle there. |
| 0:38.7 | And in Beverly Hills, we learn that while real men don't go for manicures, |
| 0:43.2 | they may well like the idea of a little handshake maintenance. |
| 0:47.4 | It looks as if there may be far-reaching consequences after the weekend referendum in Turkey. |
| 0:53.0 | Voters there were asked to consider constitutional |
| 0:55.5 | changes promoted by the Prime Minister Recep Taib Edoğan. Mr. Erdogan faced strong opposition |
| 1:02.0 | from secular parties, which have repeatedly accused him of abusing his power and seeking to turn |
| 1:07.8 | Turkey into an Islamic state. Jonathan Head, who followed the Prime Minister's campaign, |
| 1:13.7 | explains how the referendum became a test of Mr Erdogan's political strength, |
| 1:18.5 | one he passed by winning a clear majority. |
| 1:21.8 | Turkey's Prime Minister may be many things, |
| 1:24.6 | scathing critic of Israel and self-styled pal of Iranian President Ahmadinejad. |
| 1:30.0 | But an aficionado of the contemporary rock music scene, he's not. After all, here's a man who |
| 1:35.4 | tells women to have more children who once tried to outlaw adultery, and who said recently |
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