Forensics and Scrummaging
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Correspondents' stories from around the world, introduced by Kate Adie. Today: Will Grant meets El Salvador's only forensic archaeologist, with the unenviable task of unearthing and identifying murder victims; Emma Jane Kirby is in a French border town, discovering why the Front National is gaining support; Karen Allen visits the former Taleban capital of Kandahar where businessmen are in desperate need of more power; Alex Preston, in Sri Lanka, finds out why rugby is becoming so popular; and Susannah Knights is with the musicians and performers of Tunisia who are poor but flourishing in their new found freedom.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC, this is from our own correspondent. |
| 0:04.6 | You can hear the version of the program we make for the BBC World Service by visiting our |
| 0:08.6 | site at BBC online. |
| 0:10.8 | But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:16.0 | Today a top class education respectable and laid back, but is the four nationals man on the French border hiding sharpened teeth? |
| 0:26.0 | In Afghanistan, those in the Taliban's former stronghold are calling for more power. |
| 0:32.0 | We hear how the guns may have been silenced in Sri Lanka, but violence is still |
| 0:36.8 | in evidence, especially on the playing fields, and how screeching witches and letting it all shake a part of an artistic flowering in Tunisia. |
| 0:48.4 | It was once a more obscure profession, but thanks to those American TV shows and a few from this side of the Atlantic |
| 0:54.3 | forensic science has become a hot subject for students. |
| 0:58.0 | Essential to criminal investigation it helps in archaeological digs too. |
| 1:03.0 | Take the case of Richard III's remains under that car park in Leicester. |
| 1:07.0 | In El Salvador, though, which has one of the highest murder rates in the world |
| 1:12.0 | and a low conviction rate, forensic |
| 1:14.7 | scientists are thin on the ground. |
| 1:17.4 | Will Grant went to meet the man known simply as the engineer. |
| 1:22.1 | It had taken a few furtive phone calls, but eventually we agreed to meet high |
| 1:26.3 | up on a mountainside. I had wanted to see the latest site he was working on and interview him at |
| 1:32.4 | the crime scene, but his bosses weren't having that. |
| 1:36.0 | I've been told off for talking to the media recently he explained his voice a horse |
| 1:40.8 | whisper down the line I can talk to you but solely in a personal capacity. |
| 1:46.4 | A couple of nights later, we drove up the snaking mountain roads to Hualuwa, a small town outside |
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