This is the BBC.

Thank you for listening to this podcast of From Our Own Correspondent, which was first broadcast on Radio

4 on Saturday the 21st of January 2017.

Now Kate A.D is away, so it's introduced this time by Bridget Kendall.

Hello, today we're not going to mention you know who there's been plenty of that already.

Instead our correspondent in Georgia explains why his sketchbook gives him a different

perspective on stories where in the pool where we visit the country's

first old people's home. We're digging around ancient bones in Turkey, finding out

about life and death while we can. And in Germany there's a team which may be despised by many but it's young

successful and clearly plays good sport on grass. First to Namibia on Africa's southwest coastline. It's one of the most sparse

populated countries in the world and much of it is covered in desert sand

including some of the planet's highest sand dunes.

The Namib Desert is thought to be the world's oldest.

It's been dry for up to 80 million years, and parts of it get just 2 millimeters of rainfall a year. Recently the

harsh landscape has looked particularly arid. A drought associated with the El Nino

weather pattern has been shriveling crops and livelihoods across southern Africa.

Yet as Robin Denzlow found, the few people who do live in this dry land are determined to hang on,

even if they feel the need to call for divine intervention.

Marching through the dusty little village of Okambahae, out in the parched bushland of Central Namibia are three

rousing and smartly dressed brass bands from the Navy, the police and the defense forces.

And behind them waving to the crowds from an open jeep is the King of the

Dammera people, Justice Garob, an elderly man dressed in robes, a suit and a leopard skin.

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