Changing Fortunes
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. The move to bigger offices makes Mark Lowen ponder the huge changes in Turkey. In Iraq the army, Kurdish forces and various militia groups have common cause now, to oust Islamic State, but Richard Galpin asks: what happens next? Linda Pressly hurtles through the Albanian countryside and is confronted by the pungent smell of one of the biggest drugs seizures yet. Simon Broughton discusses the power of poetry and literature to encourage free thinking in Bangladesh, all the while surrounded by armed guards. In Uzbekistan, reds bleed into greens, and blues into yellows, as silk weavers revive the art of carpet making.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading this edition of From Our Own Correspondent, which was broadcast on |
| 0:04.3 | Saturday the 26th of November 2016. |
| 0:07.7 | We've got stories of trouble in Turkey, desecration in Iraq, drugs in Albania, poems in Bangladesh, and silk in Uzbekistan. |
| 0:16.6 | To explain more, here's Kate Aide. |
| 0:18.8 | Hello. |
| 0:19.8 | Today, no military plan is ever perfect and Iraqi troops are suffering heavy |
| 0:25.3 | casualties as they advance into Moses. What happens next asks our |
| 0:29.7 | correspondent. In Albania there's a curious aroma drifting down from the hillsides the whiff of money and drugs |
| 0:38.2 | Freethinkers wanted at a literary festival in Bangladesh, but can such an event change the thinking of the country's |
| 0:44.8 | militants? |
| 0:46.4 | And we pay a flying visit, sadly not by carpet, to the carpet weavers of Uzbekistan. A vote this week by the European Parliament to freeze EU membership |
| 0:56.8 | talks with Turkey was quickly dismissed by the Turkish government as narrow-minded. The MEPs voted overwhelmingly to halt accession talks because of |
| 1:06.5 | what they called Turkey's disproportionate response to July's coup attempt. The country's international image has changed significantly in recent |
| 1:16.2 | months. Something Mark Lowen has been pondering while surrounded by packing cases. |
| 1:22.1 | One thing I may not miss is hearing the piano teacher |
| 1:25.4 | downstairs practicing Frera Jaka repeatedly with every pupil. But that's not |
| 1:31.8 | the reason why this week we moved out of the office in Istanbul that the |
| 1:36.0 | BBC had occupied for the past five years. We needed somewhere better equipped than the |
| 1:41.2 | cramped apartment with a 1980s style photo of the blue |
| 1:45.0 | mosque as our TV backdrop. Turkey has simply become a far bigger and more important |
| 1:51.0 | story over the last five years. It is such a short period in a country's history |
| 1:57.0 | and yet so momentous for this one. In 2011 Turkey was still held up as a model for the region, a Muslim majority democracy, the stable |
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