Finding The Right Words
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A president pursued, a preacher accused and a social media star. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Germany, and Spain. Amidst calls for the Brazilian President to resign, Katy Watson finds that political slogans have taken on a life of their own – no longer simply scrawled on placards but found in some unusual places. In Indonesia, Rebecca Henschke tries and tries to get a word with the controversial hard-line cleric accused of breaking the anti-pornography laws that he once campaigned for. In Germany, Amol Rajan meets the Syrian selfie fanatic at the heart of the battle against fake news. And in Japan, Mark Stratton finds himself lost for words as he attempts to describe the sights to the partially-sighted.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:04.0 | Thank you for downloading from our own correspondent |
| 0:07.0 | with tales of a president pursued |
| 0:09.0 | an allegedly sexting preacher and a social media star, this edition was broadcast on Thursday the 1st of June on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:18.0 | Here's Kate Aide. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello. Today, migrants seek out whatever routes they can to take them to a better life. |
| 0:27.7 | Across the Mediterranean in leaky boats, trekking through eastern Europe round fenced off borders, and we cross an obstacle course through Africa's only land borders with Europe. |
| 0:39.0 | We're in Indonesia for a collision between fundamentalist belief and pornography. |
| 0:44.8 | In Germany we meet a selfie obsessed Syrian who's in the fight against fake news. |
| 0:50.3 | And in Japan how to describe a brightly painted building to someone with no concept of colour. |
| 0:57.0 | In Brazil politics is resembling a never-ending stream of murky administrations. |
| 1:04.1 | Less than a year ago, the then President Gilma Rousseff was found guilty of breaking the country's |
| 1:09.2 | budget laws. |
| 1:10.8 | When Vice President Michel Temer took her place, Gilmer's supporters alleged a coup. |
| 1:16.2 | Now he's being investigated for corruption and calls for him to go are not confined to |
| 1:21.5 | protesters according to Katie Watson. |
| 1:24.0 | The rallying cry of Fora Temer echoes around Brazil at the moment. |
| 1:28.0 | In English, it translates as Temer Out, a chant to build pressure and force Brazil's latest president out of office. |
| 1:36.0 | I say latest, because that's what it feels like at the moment. |
| 1:40.1 | Politicians here seem to have a very short shelf life. |
| 1:43.0 | With so much political chaos, the chant has taken on a life of its own. |
| 1:48.0 | It's not enough to see Forre Dema scrawled on the graffiti-filled walls of Sao Paulo or on protesters placards. |
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