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From Our Own Correspondent

Dec 31, 2011

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2011

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Kate Adie on the months of the Libyan revolution which led up to the death of Colonel Gaddafi in October. A chance to hear again some of the BBC's senior correspondents filing on the long road to Tripoli and charting a revolution which stunned the world.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, this is the from our own correspondent office in Bush House in London.

0:04.0

We also make editions of the program for the BBC World Service,

0:07.0

but you've downloaded the latest Radio 4 program.

0:10.0

It's presented by Kate Adi.

0:12.0

What have I ever done to you?

0:14.0

Apparently some of the last words spoken by Colonel Gaddafi

0:18.0

shortly before he was killed by an angry mob in Sit on October the 20th.

0:23.0

It's been a year of extraordinary change in the Arab world

0:26.5

and nowhere more so than in Libya.

0:29.0

In a special edition, we look back at some of the dispatches on this program, which recorded the progress

0:34.6

of the Libyan revolt and the downfall of the man who ruled the country for 42 years.

0:41.0

Every time I saw him, and there were occasions he had a different attitude on display.

0:47.0

Sometimes he made his own people shake with fear.

0:50.0

Sometimes he'd utter ridiculous cod philosophy, and once he nearly ran me over in a battered

0:56.2

perjo. It was nothing personal. He was just a bad driver. But each time his wardrobe spoke volumes, whether he was dressed as a be-medeled

1:06.1

ruritanian admiral or a Bedouin shepherd.

1:08.9

Colonel Gaddafi arrived punctually, dressed in a robe of Russet Brown and wearing a pair of Ray-Ban

1:15.4

aviator sunglasses. He was alert, cheerful and focused. In the interview he was defiant.

1:22.0

The UN resolution against Libya was illegitimate, he said.

1:25.0

Why didn't they send a fact-finding mission

1:27.4

before they passed it?

1:29.0

Al-Qaeda was responsible for the trouble in the streets.

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