Burmese Bling
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Paul Mason meets protesters in Spain finding new ways to signal their worries and anger about how their government's tackling the financial crisis. Lucy Hooker declines to join the stampede of foreign customers in the gem markets of Rangoon in Burma. Rana Jawad contends that while Libya's in a state of 'civilised anarchy', its people believe near-anarchy now might be the price to pay for the tyranny of the Gaddafi years. As some European footballers have been taken to visit the site of Auschwitz in Poland, David Shukman has retraced his own family history in a nearby vilage. And Anu Anand went a good deal further than the Internet to delve into the roots of her family tree. Finding out about ten generations of Anands involved a trip to the River Ganges, special priests and a search for an ancient banyan tree.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello this is the from our own correspondent office at Bush House in London. |
| 0:04.0 | You can check out what we're up to by signing up to our Twitter feed. |
| 0:07.5 | But here's a download of our latest program on BBC Radio 4, |
| 0:11.0 | introduced, as ever, by Kate Adi. |
| 0:14.0 | People are losing their homes, families are living on the street. |
| 0:18.0 | Angry Spaniards tell us their concerns as the Big Bank bailout does little to ease the country's financial plight. |
| 0:24.8 | Burmars open again for business, but what's behind the government desire to drive through |
| 0:29.4 | reforms and introduce democracy? |
| 0:32.4 | There's a history lesson for the footballers visiting Auschwitz, |
| 0:36.2 | but is it one that's been noted in the Polish villages nearby? And under a giant banyan tree |
| 0:42.0 | close to the River Ganges, ten generations of a family's history |
| 0:46.0 | are finally uncovered. |
| 0:48.9 | The huge cash bailout for the Spanish banks announced earlier this week calmed the fevered markets but not |
| 0:54.4 | for very long did anyone really think it would prove to be a turning point in the long |
| 0:59.2 | drawn-out hero crisis it wasn't interest rates on government debt carried on rising. The country's |
| 1:05.3 | borrowing costs are at record highs. So only days after that deal was reached, the concern |
| 1:11.8 | about Spain's financial situation has, if anything deepened. |
| 1:15.6 | Paul Mason has been talking to people there unhappy with the way their governments dealing with it. |
| 1:21.6 | As we come out of the socialist party offices, past the bust of Karl Marx which stands inside |
| 1:26.5 | the doorway, suddenly we can hear it. |
| 1:29.3 | A Casaolada, protesters banging pots and pans. These protesters are women, office workers mostly |
| 1:37.0 | aged over 40, well dressed. They've spread themselves in a line across the road at |
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