Cutting Through
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The duffel-coated outcast; from bomb factory to museum; icy cooperation; singing for home; greening sands. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories: Hugh Schofield meets a defiant - and chipper - Jean-Marie Le Pen, the outcast founder of the France's Front National; in north-west Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, Colin Freeman is shown a bomb-making factory - just the latest evidence of the violence that has dominated the region for more than a century; in the icy seas off Finland, fears of Russian 'little green men' are put aside as a Finnish icebreaker - with Horatio Clare on board - introduces a moment of peace and cooperation. Singing for home and a lost culture - Nicola Kelly hears how Nubians in Egypt are trying to reconnect with their lost homeland. And, in Oman, it's not golden sands that Antonia Quirke sees in the desert but a carpet of green.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome or even welcome back to from our own correspondent |
| 0:07.0 | and this edition which was first broadcast on Radio 4 |
| 0:10.0 | on Saturday the 11th of March 2017. We've got sun, sea and sand and a special coat and of |
| 0:18.4 | course we've got Kate Aide. |
| 0:20.3 | Hello today to the borders of Afghanistan on Pakistan's northwest frontier, traditionally |
| 0:28.0 | something of a wild west area and a home from home for Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and other assorted militants, but apparently no |
| 0:35.0 | longer the case, so our correspondent is told. |
| 0:38.8 | Then to the Gulf of Bothnia, slicing through the ice amid hostile forces. |
| 0:44.0 | Sometimes when a homeland is lost, the songs still remain. |
| 0:48.0 | We hear from the singing Nubians. |
| 0:50.0 | And it should be a dry-parched landscape with rolling sand dunes. |
| 0:55.0 | So what's all this growth doing here in Oman? |
| 0:58.0 | The leader of the Fré National Marine Le Pen |
| 1:02.0 | is favorite to come top in the first round of the French presidential |
| 1:05.3 | election next month. It's an extraordinary turnaround for a party and a name which just |
| 1:10.4 | a few years ago was regarded as untouchable. |
| 1:14.1 | It was only after she broke ranks with her father Jean-Marie two years ago that Maureen |
| 1:18.9 | was able to pose as a normal political leader. |
| 1:22.0 | She expelled her father, its founder, from the party, after he made |
| 1:25.9 | controversial statements in which he described the gas chambers of the concentration camps as a detail of |
| 1:31.8 | history. Yet at 88, Jean-Marie Le Penh is still going strong and still sure of himself, |
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