Come to Sunny Gaza!
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Why is Bosnia seeing its most serious unrest since the country was at war in the 1990s? How difficult is it getting America back to work? Is there public support in Nigeria for the authorities' new law against homosexuals? What evidence is there of the links between Soviet East Germany and the exotic spice island of Zanzibar? And why might our man visiting the Gaza Strip be considering going back there, with his family, for a holiday? They are all questions addressed in this latest edition of From Our Own Correspondent.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. |
| 0:01.9 | It's the latest edition of From Our Own Correspondent, |
| 0:04.6 | broadcast on Radio 4, and it's introduced by Kate A. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello. |
| 0:10.2 | Today, an angry crowd in Nigeria calls for homosexuals to be given the death penalty. |
| 0:16.5 | Is America getting back to work? |
| 0:18.4 | We're at the seaside in Maryland looking for signs of a brightening economy. |
| 0:23.0 | Our man from Radio 3 is on the most exotic of African islands |
| 0:27.0 | listening out for a fabled king of musical instruments. |
| 0:30.0 | And the tension may be rising in Gaza, but our reporter finds smiling faces and an invitation. |
| 0:36.8 | Next time, why don't you bring your whole family? |
| 0:40.8 | Thirty years ago this week, Sarajevo was hosting the Winter Olympics. |
| 0:45.0 | Torville and Dean were about to make sporting history for Britain. |
| 0:48.4 | Since then life hasn't been easy for the capital of Bosnia. |
| 0:52.0 | It was under siege for four years in the |
| 0:53.8 | 1990s we journalists running for cover from the ice stadium as it was |
| 0:58.5 | shelled to a wreck. By the end of the war 10,000 people had been killed. |
| 1:04.0 | Peace came eventually, but it did not bring the prosperity people were hoping would follow, |
| 1:09.0 | and now the simmering frustration has boiled over. |
| 1:12.0 | At the weekend, demonstrators set fire to government |
| 1:14.4 | buildings in Sarajevo and in other towns across the country. Guy Delauni's |
| 1:18.8 | been talking to some of them. The lanes of Sarajevo's old town are the best kind of kitch. The tightly spaced |
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