Follow the Leaders
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week: As the latest summit of the Group of 20 leading nations takes place in China this weekend, Carrie Gracie profiles the historic city of Hangzhou which will host the meetings of the heads of government and central bank governors. Wyre Davies considers the vote of the Brazilian Senate to impeach Dilma Rousseff and whether the change at the top of the country's politics amounts to a coup. Katerina Vittozzi reports from the Central African Republic on her meeting with the victim of a brutal sexual assault. With Pyongyang holding its first international beer festival, Stephen Evans considers how the drink is a surprisingly unifying facet of life in North and South Korea. And David Willis in Los Angeles ponders whether errant American Olympian, Ryan Lochte, may yet be rehabilitated by dancing with the stars.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading from our own correspondent. |
| 0:03.0 | This edition was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday the 3rd of September 2016. |
| 0:08.0 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello, today when is a coup not a coup? |
| 0:15.0 | Brazil has a new president, but was it right to get rid of the old one? |
| 0:19.5 | The culture of brutal sexual attacks on women in the Central African Republic, we hear of effort of cover yourself with inglorious shame on a night out. |
| 0:33.7 | Just what is America's Ryan Lockty to do? |
| 0:37.1 | And the North Koreans hold a beer festival, but don't invite our correspondent, the spoilsports. |
| 0:43.2 | Never fear he has a cunning plan. |
| 0:46.5 | To China first, which is hosting the G20 group of world leaders |
| 0:50.5 | for the first time. |
| 0:51.8 | Not in the capital though, but in the fair city of |
| 0:54.6 | Hangzhou, which as Carrie Gracie has found is being meticulously prepared to |
| 1:00.3 | put on its best face for the visitors. |
| 1:03.0 | You can't live in China without people telling you how beautiful Hangzhou is. |
| 1:08.0 | But I'd never visited and I wasn't sure whether to believe the hype, |
| 1:12.0 | especially as I'm once bitten twice shy when it comes to |
| 1:15.4 | traveling in China. Last year I went to legendary Yunnan province in the southwest and |
| 1:20.9 | instead of falling in love with the majesty of the rainforest there, I was dismayed |
| 1:26.0 | by how little rainforest was left and by the invasion of rubber plantations row upon row marching over the horizon. |
| 1:35.0 | So I'm pleased to report that Hangzhou does live up to its hype. |
| 1:39.0 | Nearly a thousand years ago, it was the capital of China, a city of poets, painters and philosophers at a time |
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