End of Era
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Global insight and colour. In this programme: Russians or locals? Gabriel Gatehouse goes to meet some of those still occupying government buildings in the east of Ukraine. Lives and jobs start to disappear in South Africa as a bitter mining dispute continues amid a mood of deepening disenchantment, a despatch from Hamilton Wende; On one of Rome's holiest weekends of the year, Alan Johnston's been to a non-Roman Catholic corner of the eternal city which enchanted the poets Keats and Shelley; Carrie Gracie starts her new job as the BBC's China editor with a list of hard-to-answer questions while Owen Bennett-Jones is down on the banks of the River Ganges wondering how a journalist can sort facts from fiction. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. It's from our own correspondent. |
| 0:05.4 | We make one version of the programme for the BBC World Service, |
| 0:09.4 | but this is the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It's introduced by Kate Ade. |
| 0:16.6 | Hello. |
| 0:17.6 | Today are they Russians, are they locals? |
| 0:20.5 | We talk to some of those still occupying government buildings in eastern Ukraine. |
| 0:25.0 | The end of an era in South Africa where there's mounting bitterness as a long-running minor strike drags on. |
| 0:32.0 | On Easter weekend in Rome we find a non-Catholic |
| 0:34.8 | corner of the city, a place of bird song, memories and the scent of flowers. |
| 0:39.2 | And our man on the river Ganges enjoys a colourful centuries old ceremony, or was it actually |
| 0:45.2 | invented quite recently just to bring in the tourists? |
| 0:49.5 | So the multi-party talks in Geneva on Thursday do not seem to have eased the crisis in Ukraine. |
| 0:55.6 | The pro-Russian activists in the eastern city of Dunyevsk say they are not bound by a deal |
| 1:01.2 | they didn't sign. The agreement between Ukraine, Russia, the United States, |
| 1:06.2 | and the EU said that illegal armed groups in Ukraine should leave the places they've been occupying. |
| 1:12.1 | They must disband and disarm. But the occupiers are |
| 1:15.6 | insisting they won't leave until what they call the illegal government in Kiev resigns. |
| 1:21.2 | So who exactly are these protesters? Gabriel Gatehouse has been trying to find out. |
| 1:26.0 | Don't film! shouted a man dressed in black, his face covered with a mask. |
| 1:31.0 | He was enormous. He had five or six friends with him. Their eyes |
| 1:34.9 | stared at us through the slits and their balaclavas. Western journalists |
| 1:39.0 | they said were not welcome. What's in your camera? |
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