BBC Radio 4
From Our Own Correspondent
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4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2010
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Who says the Germans don't have a sense of humour? Steve Evans is in the east of the country as the anniversary of reunification approaches. Baghdad once had dozens of cinemas playing to full houses and even hosting glittering premieres. Gabriel Gatehouse discovers why the cinema in Iraq is dying. Hamilton Wende in Johannesburg explores one consequence of the biggest influx of immigrants since the gold rush: a babble of new languages on the streets of this South African city. Kevin Connolly looks at the challenges facing President Obama in the run-up to the Midterm elections while Justin Rowlatt finds that a song from our own correspondent can break the ice in Angola.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, you've downloaded the BBC Radio programme from our own correspondent. |
| 0:04.5 | We make two versions, and if you'd like to hear our World Service programme, you'll find it on the BBC iPlayer. |
| 0:10.4 | This, though, is the edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It's presented by Kate Ady. |
| 0:15.7 | Today, President Obama learns the hard way. Wielding power is not as easy as winning it. |
| 0:21.9 | An influx of immigrants brings a new babble of languages to the streets of Johannesburg. |
| 0:27.1 | A broken-hearted cinema manager tells us why Iraqis have stopped going to the movies. |
| 0:32.9 | And a song from our own correspondent breaks the ice at a party for Chinese workers in Angola. |
| 0:39.2 | The President of the United States has embarked upon a coast-to-coast program |
| 0:43.4 | trying to secure Democrat votes ahead of the mid-term elections next month. |
| 0:48.7 | Opinion polls suggest that the Republicans could win majorities in both the House of Representatives and Congress, |
| 0:54.9 | damaging the President and his chances for re-election in 2012. |
| 0:59.4 | In the two years he's been in the White House, Barack Obama has notched up some notable achievements, |
| 1:04.9 | and yet, as Kevin Connolly's been finding out, |
| 1:07.8 | his opponents believe he hasn't done enough to cut unemployment or steer the country out of recession. |
| 1:14.3 | President Barack Obama is back on the road at a series of huge rallies across the United States, |
| 1:19.6 | doing what he does best, rallying the troops, steadying the ship, cajoling the skeptical. |
| 1:25.2 | I think I may have got that habit of writing in triplets from listening to |
| 1:27.8 | his speeches where he's fond of employing them to clarify, to explain and to persuade. And his best, |
| 1:34.3 | he is an electrifying speaker. The voice is still an instrument of beauty and flexibility, |
| 1:39.5 | even when it sounds a little tired. But somehow the folks he metaphors clunk these days, where once they |
| 1:45.3 | soared. The American economy is a car, he tells us, and last time they were in power, the |
| 1:50.5 | Republicans drove it into a ditch. He's just got it backed out and up on the road again, and now |
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