Brides For Sale
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Correspondents around the world with the detail behind the headlines: Beth McLeod on the struggling Syrian refugees resorting to selling their daughters into marriage. The costs and consequences of standing in a Pakistani election are explored by Owen Bennett Jones. Another food scandal in China: Martin Patience on how, this time, it's rat which is leaving a nasty taste in the mouth. How can a pile of nappies in the British Museum spell good news for Somalia? The answer comes from Mary Harper while Tim Hartley takes time out at a football match in North Korea. It might still be the beautiful game but not as most of us know it! The producer of From Our Own Correspondent is Tony Grant
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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 program broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:08.9 | It's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:11.2 | Struggling Syrian refugees are selling their daughters so they can feed their families a little longer. |
| 0:17.9 | There's another food scandal in China, this time it's rat leaving a nasty taste in the mouth. |
| 0:24.0 | Why a pile of nappies at the British Museum is good news for the Somali economy. |
| 0:29.0 | And no cues, no scarves, no chance, not even any abuse. This is much of the day, North Korean style. |
| 0:39.0 | The Turkish Prime Minister, Mr Erdogan, says the Syrian government is using chemical weapons against the rebels. |
| 0:46.0 | He plans to share the evidence he's seen with the American President Barack Obama when they meet next week. |
| 0:52.0 | Refugees continue to flee the fighting in Syria in huge numbers. |
| 0:56.0 | Hundreds of thousands have been seeking refuge in Jordan. |
| 0:59.0 | Most have been receiving little or nothing in the way of aid. |
| 1:02.0 | Many have had to take drastic steps to |
| 1:05.0 | survive. Beth McLeod says some are marrying off their daughters to much older men in |
| 1:10.4 | exchange for money. There's an Arabic saying which I'm told translates as, |
| 1:16.0 | if you marry a Syrian woman, |
| 1:18.0 | your life will be good and peaceful forever more. |
| 1:21.0 | Syrian women have a reputation for being excellent at cooking and |
| 1:24.5 | housework and are also considered to be very pretty. But many thousands of Syrian |
| 1:30.0 | women have been forced away from the homes they reputedly kept so well. |
| 1:34.9 | They're attracting the attention of Arab men who have long dreamt of acquiring a perfect |
| 1:39.6 | Damascene wife, who can now take their pick pick helping the Syrian Revolution into the bargain |
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