Drama for Dilma

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

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4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Colouring in the spaces between the world headlines. In this edition, trouble for ladies who lead - with Brazil's President Dilma Roussef facing impeachment and a traditional chief in Malawi going into battle against child marriage. No ordinary kitchen-sink drama: we go inside the recording studio where they make a radio soap opera beamed into war-ravaged Syria. Has child protection in Norway become overzealous? And why's the subject hit a raw nerve in the former Communist countries of eastern Europe? And is it a case of wanderlust lost as Germans seemingly fall out of love with the foreign holiday?

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0:00.0	Hello this is the latest download of the BBC radio program from our own correspondent.
0:05.0	It was transmitted on BBC Radio 4 at Hoffbust 11 on Saturday, April the 16th, 2016,
0:12.0	and it was introduced by Kate Aide.
0:14.0	Hello, today a coup d'etat or just democracy in action.
0:19.0	Drama in Brasilia this weekend as the president fights for her political life.
0:23.0	A Syrian radio soap opera, it's got love and loss, but it's a long way from Ambridge.
0:29.0	A chief swims against the cultural tide, fighting for the rights of girls in Malawi.
0:35.7	And Middle Europe at her lyrical best were at the campest castle in Christendom, where a king
0:41.2	once dreamed he could breathe the air of heaven. and have been debating whether to impeach President Gilmer Rousseff, a vote will be held tomorrow.
0:56.2	Miss Rousseff is accused of breaking budget laws, but her government's lawyer told congressmen
1:01.3	that the charge was just window dressing for the coup being mounted
1:05.0	by the opposition.
1:07.0	Extra securities been put in place in Brasilia where supporters and opponents of the
1:11.1	president say they'll hold demonstrations ahead of the vote.
1:14.3	Wiry Davis is there.
1:16.3	Every time I come to Brasilia, I'm not really sure what to make of this place.
1:20.3	Brazil's capital city is unlike anywhere else in this vast diverse country of
1:25.9	more than 200 million people. Founded in 1960 and deliberately located in the
1:31.4	middle of the country.
1:32.8	Brasilia was designed by the renowned architects Lucio Costa and Oscar Nehemaire.
1:38.3	The city was meticulously planned and set out in the shape of an aeroplane or a bird.
1:44.0	Residential and commercial areas are the city's wings,
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