Escape from Boko Haram
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today Tulip Mazumdar hears the story of a 17 year old girl, now escaped from Boko Haram; Tom Burridge meets an old Ukrainian woman, who is proud of her country's Soviet past but wants Putin to leave Ukraine alone; Fanny Durville takes her family on an outing in Tunisia, the day after the shootings, and struggles with the contrast between the friendliness and the tension; Gary O'Donoghue examines how Obama has gone from lame duck to soaring eagle in a week; and Bethany Bell discovers some Hapsburg nostalgia on the train to Trieste.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC radios from our own correspondent, |
| 0:05.7 | the best in news and current affairs storytelling. |
| 0:08.8 | It's introduced by Kate 80. |
| 0:11.6 | Hello. Today we hear about a pensioner in Ukraine who's proud of her country's Soviet past and her washing |
| 0:18.8 | machine. |
| 0:20.4 | We encounter imaginary Kalashnikovs and juicy tomatoes in a Tunisian market. |
| 0:26.0 | Why President Obama is celebrating a reversal of fortune, |
| 0:30.0 | and we take a train to meet an old empress in Trieste. |
| 0:35.0 | Bring back our girls. |
| 0:37.0 | That's been the campaign slogan since 276 school girls were taken by Bocaam from Chibok in northeast Nigeria over a year ago now. |
| 0:47.2 | Some of the girls have escaped, but more than 200 are still missing. |
| 0:51.9 | Tulip Mazumda has just been to see some of the villages and towns which have recently |
| 0:56.3 | been recaptured from Boku-Haram. |
| 0:59.3 | She spoke to other women and girls rescued by the Nigerian military or who managed to escape |
| 1:04.4 | themselves. She heard how some of those Chibok school girls have not only been |
| 1:09.4 | forced to join Boca Haram but are even carrying out killings. |
| 1:14.0 | Is that her real hair? |
| 1:16.0 | Miriam whispered to Samson, my house a translator. |
| 1:19.0 | Slightly embarrassed, he relayed the question back to me in English. |
| 1:23.0 | Um, yes, it is, I said. |
| 1:26.4 | She looked astonished. |
| 1:28.0 | Everyone in her community has braids, she explained, whereas my hair looked too straight to Platt. She'd never seen anything like it. |
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