Between Life and Death
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Storytelling and writing. In this edition Gabriel Gatehouse is in Sicily which suffered waves of emigration in the 20th century. Today it's having to get used to being a centre of immigration with the arrival of thousands of mainly African migrants; Orla Guerin's in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The jihadists of Islamic State are only 70-miles away now, but residents seem more concerned about the renewed wave of sectarian killings than about the advance of IS; Mark Stratton's in Micronesia. Some of the islands there, with their immaculate beaches and swaying palms, seem like paradise. Yet people are leaving. Why? Peter Day looks back at the frenzied casino which was the trading floor at the Chicago Board of Trade. With computers now having taken over much of the business, its doors will soon close for the final time. And Tom Holland's in a town in Canada which boasts a replica of Jerusalem in the time of Jesus and where there are plans to fill a ravine with dinosaurs.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC Radios from our own correspondent, |
| 0:05.0 | the best in news and current affairs storytelling. |
| 0:08.0 | It's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello. |
| 0:11.0 | Today, Islamic State Fighters are now just 70 miles from Baghdad, but in the Iraqi |
| 0:16.6 | capital that's not all that's worrying them. |
| 0:20.3 | Fortunes were once made and lost there every day, but now the trading floors are about to close at Chicago's mighty Board of Trade. |
| 0:28.0 | We visit the town in Canada with a colossal statue of Jesus and the largest walk-through dinosaur in the world. |
| 0:35.9 | And why are people leaving the Paradise Islands of the Pacific? |
| 0:39.4 | Could it really be they're fed up with eating fish. |
| 0:44.0 | The Italian authorities fear that thousands more migrants may arrive on their shores this weekend. |
| 0:49.2 | The sheer numbers are beginning to overwhelm the country. Some regions are now refusing to take them in. |
| 0:55.0 | Hundreds are sleeping rough in the main stations in Rome and Milan, |
| 0:58.0 | but it's in the south and Sicily in particular where the problems at its most acute. |
| 1:04.0 | Yet some sectors of the local economy are actually said to be benefiting from the newcomers. |
| 1:09.0 | And as Gabriel Gatehouse tells us, |
| 1:11.0 | Sicilians do have experience of their own when it comes to migration. |
| 1:16.3 | From below the small town of Minnaio looks like an eagle's nest. It sits atop a rocky outcrop |
| 1:22.0 | overlooking the rolling countryside of Sicily. |
| 1:24.4 | To the east, Mount Etna, still a smoking active volcano. |
| 1:28.7 | To the north, fertile plains dotted with orange groves. |
| 1:32.4 | It was there that I met Osazua, a all powerfully built man from southern Nigeria. |
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