Boybandmania
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
One Direction: behind the scenes with the boy band in the US. Arrest warrant issued for a former premier of the troubled Turks and Caicos Islands. Cambodian Americans deported from the US. Why the Eurovision Song Contest reminds one woman in Azerbaijan of losing her home. And the Brazilian port--- 900 miles from the sea.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from Bush House in London, home to From Our Own Correspondent. |
| 0:05.0 | You can hear the World Service edition of our programme by going to the From Our Own Correspondent |
| 0:10.1 | website, but this is a download of the latest broadcast on Radio 4. |
| 0:15.0 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:17.0 | Today an arrest warrant issued for the former Prime Minister of a British overseas territory in the West Indies. They left as |
| 0:24.5 | refugees, they returned in disgrace. The Cambodians deported from the US |
| 0:29.3 | struggling to fit in back home. It's boom time in a Brazilian port, 900 miles from the sea. |
| 0:37.0 | And they may be number one in the USA, but there's a shortage of socks, as the British boyband |
| 0:42.4 | one direction conquer New York City. |
| 0:45.0 | Investigators in the British overseas territory, the Turks and Caicos Islands, |
| 0:50.0 | say they've obtained an Interpol arrest warrant for the former Prime Minister Michael Mizik. |
| 0:55.3 | The islands close to the Bahamas and 600 miles southeast of Miami were previously better known |
| 1:00.6 | as a tourist destination and an offshore banking centre. But two and a half |
| 1:05.2 | years ago, as investigations got underway and to claims of high-level ministerial corruption, |
| 1:11.2 | the United Kingdom suspended the local government and imposed direct rule. |
| 1:16.0 | It's meant that the Islands Administration is suspended for up to two years and power transferred |
| 1:21.2 | to the London appointed governor. |
| 1:23.0 | Trish Flanagan, who used to work there, says the scandal, along with the global economic downturn, has hit the islands hard. |
| 1:30.0 | Grand Turk was booming when I left in 2007. The country's first indigenous bank, |
| 1:36.2 | TCI, had been launched and a cruise ship terminal had opened at the south end of the island. |
| 1:41.4 | People were buying condominiums of the |
| 1:43.9 | exotically titled Kaseek Royal Beachfront Development. The tennis legend |
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