Breaking the Rules
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Correspondents' stories: the Champs d'Elysees is an icon of Paris, a majestic piece of town planning. So why does our man in Paris Hugh Schofield suggest, rather forcefully, that visitors should avoid it? The news caravan may have moved on from Libya, but Tim Whewell's been finding out that the country's still in the midst of a revolution. Joanna Jolly has been to Uttar Pradesh in India to report on the aftermath of fighting between Hindus and Muslims. Listening to people's stories of violence and suffering, she found herself becoming involved in ways she hadn't expected; James Coomarasamy has been to Tajikistan in Central Asia where there's mounting concern about the future, when NATO troops leave neighbouring Afghanistan and Jonathan Head joins a group of well-heeled women in a luxury spa in Myanmar and hears stories of a country in the grip of dramatic change. Tony Grant is the producer of From Our Own Correspondent
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from the from our own correspondent studios at Broadcasting House in London. |
| 0:04.4 | You've downloaded the latest edition of the programme |
| 0:07.0 | broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:11.2 | Today Assassinations Ab abductions, explosions. |
| 0:15.8 | The world may no longer be paying attention, but the revolution in Libya is far from over. |
| 0:21.3 | There's growing foreboding in Central Asia. What will happen when NATO troops pull out |
| 0:26.2 | of Afghanistan? The reporter who broke the rules and handed over money so a baby could eat. And the Paris Boulevard once dubbed the most beautiful |
| 0:36.1 | in the world, our correspondence says, don't go there. It's crass, styleless, expensive |
| 0:41.9 | and naff. styleless, expensive enough. |
| 0:44.4 | There's been plenty more evidence this week that Libya is still struggling with the lawlessness |
| 0:48.6 | that's plagued it since the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi in 2011. Yesterday a car bomb exploded outside the seized by gunman in the centre of the capital, Tripoli. He was later released unharmed, saying |
| 1:05.7 | his abduction was part of an attempted coup. Tim Huel's been telling us how it all reminds |
| 1:11.1 | him of another conflict long ago and far away. |
| 1:14.8 | In 1900 at the height of the Boer War, my grandmother was 13, and one of her favorite memories |
| 1:21.0 | later in life was of watching her mother and no nonsense |
| 1:24.6 | a Lancashire bar made, berate a hapless young newspaper vendor on a street corner who was |
| 1:30.2 | innocently trying to shift a hundred copies of the Oldham Evening Chronicle |
| 1:33.6 | with the latest on the British advance in South Africa. |
| 1:36.7 | Relief of Lady Smith! |
| 1:38.5 | Relief of Lady Smith! |
| 1:40.5 | Menesingly, she jabbed at the boy with her umbrella and demanded |
| 1:44.5 | Who is this blooming lady smith anyway and why the ex should I care if she's |
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