Dressed For Success
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Tight-fitting briefs in Mongolia, matching Donald Trump t-shirts in Iowa, NATO camouflage and some cut-off jeans in Romania. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories.
In Romania, Emily Unia watches NATO put on a show of force; 4,000 troops, drawn from nine different countries, backed by helicopters and armoured vehicles – serious stuff, or so she was expecting. In America, Rajini Vaidyanathan meets the Trump fans willing to sleep on the pavement in order to bag a prime spot at one of the President’s rallies. Jonathan Fryer finds entrepreneurial spirit, criminal enterprise, and death in Madagascar. In Indian-administered Kashmir, Melissa Van Der Klugt discovers an unlikely, but remarkable, archive of the region’s troubled history. And Rajan Datar finds himself face to face with a 15 stone Mongolian wrestler who is dressed in small, tight-fitting briefs, long leather boots and a collarless shirt that leaves his chest exposed.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:02.0 | Thank you for downloading for my own correspondent. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the edition broadcast on Radio 4 on June the 24th, 2017. |
| 0:11.0 | Today, beware, bandits roam the roads of Madagascar and a 15-stone wrestler is looking |
| 0:17.2 | for a fight in Mongolia. |
| 0:19.4 | And here's Kate Aide. |
| 0:21.4 | Hello. |
| 0:22.4 | Today, myred in allegations about links to Russia, low approval ratings, policy declared by |
| 0:28.6 | Trump tweet. |
| 0:29.6 | Never mind, we find nothing but love for the President among his supporters in Iowa. |
| 0:35.6 | We explore a way into the often violent history of Kashmir through the guestbooks on a houseboat. |
| 0:41.9 | The scenery's breathtaking are chameleons and lemurs, but there's also criminal |
| 0:46.8 | enterprise and death in Madagascar. And our correspondent in Mongolia searches for his inner warrior with a bout of man-to-man combat. |
| 0:57.0 | NATO has been putting on a major show of force in Europe this month. Training exercises have taken place in Greece, Bulgaria and |
| 1:05.2 | Romania to test the ability of soldiers to deploy within two days. |
| 1:09.5 | 4,000 troops, led by the British and drawn from nine different countries, took part in Operation |
| 1:16.2 | Noble Jump, and it was clearly intended to send a stern message to Russia. |
| 1:21.3 | The 68-year-old North Atlantic Treaty Organization is still relevant and ready. |
| 1:27.0 | Serious stuff, or at least that was what Emily Junia expected. |
| 1:31.0 | In a wide green valley in Central Romania a military commander barks out coded instructions. |
| 1:38.0 | Dragonflies dragonflies he says this is tamer over dragonflies execute air punch air punch |
| 1:46.3 | The orders end and immediately helicopters are clattering overhead |
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