Getting Out
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Birthday cakes, icons of cool and the candidate coining new words in the French election. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world.
On the campaign trail in France, Hugh Schofield finds visions of a new world and calls to ‘“get em out’ ahead of the election on Sunday. Alastair Leithead asses the political turmoil in South Africa - not by speaking with protesters, but by mingling with party-goers at a presidential birthday-bash. In Argentina, Newsnight’s Stephen Smith meets Che Guevara’s younger brother and discovers that the revolutionary's legacy is probably not what he would have hoped for. As President Donald Trump approaches his 100th day in office Shaimaa Khalil has been on a road trip across middle-America, visiting the states that helped get him elected. And in Kabul Nanna Muus Steffensen meets that young student asking herself ‘should I stay and be part of Afghanistan’s future or get out while I can?’
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.0 | And now with tales of presidential birthday cakes as well as presidential campaigning. |
| 0:08.0 | Here's Kate Adi with from our own correspondent. |
| 0:11.0 | This edition was first broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday, April 22nd. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello. Today President Trump is about to celebrate, if that's the word, a hundred days in office. Not surprisingly, |
| 0:25.1 | reviews are mixed. In South Africa, their president has a birthday bash, while protesters |
| 0:31.0 | demand he must go. And in France, who will be their president? Too close to call, it seems. |
| 0:37.0 | We hear that life in Afghanistan is far from peaceful, far from prosperous, but not everyone wants to join the flow of refugees to Europe. |
| 0:46.7 | And in Argentina we look at the legacy of the man whose face has adorned many a t-shirt and |
| 0:52.2 | hear from his little brother. |
| 0:55.0 | The French go to the polls tomorrow and for the first time in modern French history the |
| 0:59.8 | sitting president is not seeking a second term in office, so whatever the result |
| 1:04.3 | there'll eventually be a new name. |
| 1:07.2 | Wurries about security have dominated the final days of campaigning after the killing |
| 1:11.5 | of a policeman in Paris. |
| 1:13.8 | The far-right leader, Marine Le Pen, has pledged to expel radical Islamists, while the |
| 1:18.9 | center-right Francois Fillon spoke of fighting Islamist totalitarianism, but opinion polls suggest it's all too close to call. |
| 1:28.0 | Hugh Schofield finds that it's all changed for some of the candidates as well as the country. |
| 1:33.0 | For my money the most interesting character in these elections has not been |
| 1:37.5 | Marine Le Pen, the Valkyrie of the populist right, it's not Emmanuel Macron either with his penetrating beam of a smile and that uncanny, even |
| 1:47.3 | slightly creepy, self-belief. Nor is it grave unbendable Francois Fj, who I've noticed has a little tick, a tiny forward |
| 1:56.5 | projection of the head when he makes a point that he's got to have copied from George Clooney. |
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