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From Our Own Correspondent

Conspiracy!

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2013

⏱️ 28 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Correspondents' stories from around the world: a field day for conspiracy theorists as the White House stumbles in a fog of political scandal; Libya's second city Benghazi's unstable, violent and there's uncertainty there over the presence and degree of influence of radical Islamists; as France slips back into recession, there's a trip to Lot-et-Garonne in the south west where they have their own ideas about how to cope in times of economic difficulty; to the holiday islands of The Seychelles to find out why there are Somali pirates there practising their football skills. And it's noisy, dirty, the poverty's shocking, the traffic awful. So why is it so hard to say goodbye to Mumbai?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello from the from our own correspondent studios at Broadcasting House in London.

0:04.8

You've downloaded the latest edition of the program broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

0:09.2

It's introduced by Kate Aide.

0:12.0

I told you so, the conspiracy theorists have their say as scandals rock the White House.

0:18.4

Two years after Colonel Gaddafi was toppled, peace and stability, still in the short supply in Benghazi. We find out why Somali

0:26.0

pirates are honing their football skills in the holiday islands of Seychelles, and it's noisy,

0:31.8

dirty, the traffic's appalling, the poverty's shocking, so why is it so hard

0:36.8

to bid farewell to Mumbai?

0:40.4

It's been a gloomy week at the White House with President Obama trying to fight off scandals

0:44.6

from three different quarters.

0:46.6

He's taking flack after the revelation that the Federal Tax Agency has been improperly

0:51.2

targeting opposition groups. There have been awkward questions about has been

0:53.5

awkward questions about the attack in Libya in which a US ambassador was

0:57.5

killed and about the government seizure of some journalist's phone

1:01.4

records.

1:02.4

Mark Bardell tells us that while the White House

1:04.9

tries to move on from this parade of political headaches, the conspiracy theorists

1:09.6

are making the most of it. America, Land of the free, home of the slightly afraid, is the very birthing ground of

1:16.7

conspiracy theories.

1:17.8

Suspicions that an overweening government is out to baffle, bully and

1:22.1

bamboozle hover overhead like the black helicopters

1:25.7

which in urban myth are ever ready to crush American liberty.

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