'Dream Big Kid!'
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Correspondents take a closer look at events in their part of the world. Aleem Maqbool follows a week of street protests with the question - can democracy really take root in Egypt? The arts world is in turmoil in Hungary, and Nick Thorpe tells us how the government there is being accused of hijacking the cultural agenda to promote its own political ends. Parto Parvin, and that's not her real name, talks of the difficulties being faced by exiled Iranian journalists trying to cover events in their homeland. Daniel Sanford hears an extraordinary tale of survival from the Battle of Stalingrad, which was drawing to a close exactly seventy years ago. And Reggie Nadelson tours the New York theatre which has staged concerts by just about everybody in African-American musical entertainment.
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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. |
| 0:11.5 | Today can democracy survive as the demonstrations and the deaths continue in Egypt? |
| 0:17.0 | Alarm bells ring in Hungary as party politics hijack the country's cultural agenda. We hear about the Iranian journalists in exile |
| 0:25.6 | who wonder if they'll ever be able to return home, and dream big kid, words of |
| 0:31.6 | wisdom from the legendary Apollo theatre in New York. |
| 0:36.4 | The head of the Egyptian army has warned that continuing political strife is pushing the country |
| 0:41.4 | to the brink of collapse. General |
| 0:43.6 | Adelfata Al-Sissi's statement came on the sixth day of anti-government protests |
| 0:48.7 | which have so far cost more than 50 lives. |
| 0:51.9 | Alim MacBool has been providing coverage of the unrest |
| 0:55.0 | and wonders if Egypt's new found democracy forged in the revolution of two years ago can survive. |
| 1:01.0 | Leila, a teacher in her 40s in a dark green headscarf was one of many I talked to in |
| 1:06.7 | Tachria Square who is keen to give her views. |
| 1:10.3 | Why I wondered was she back here now exactly two years since the revolution to oust President Mubarak began calling for his successor to step down? |
| 1:19.5 | Because nothing's changed, she told me. |
| 1:22.0 | President Morsi is no different. |
| 1:24.4 | One mafia has replaced another. |
| 1:26.8 | This is not what we've fought for. |
| 1:29.4 | It's easy to draw parallels between what's happening now |
| 1:32.2 | and at the start of the |
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