Good to See You Again!
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Good to see you again! Mark Doyle is reunited with his spectacles, which were lost on a battlefield, and gets to see some of the lesser reported glories of Somalia. The Greek central bank forecasts an end to six years of recession and Mark Lowen, in Athens, talks of the resilience of the Greek people and their love of life. Reasons to be cheerful in the eastern German city of Leipzig too: Chris Bowlby's there talking to locals about a huge transport project ready after lengthy delays; Susie Emmett sees signs of energy, ingenuity, integrity and community in Kenyan farming but is less impressed by the colour of her bath water and James Fletcher is grounded by an Arctic storm while out news gathering in Greenland. Can he make it home in time for Christmas? From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:03.0 | broadcasting house in London. |
| 0:05.0 | You've downloaded the latest edition of the programme, |
| 0:07.0 | broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:09.0 | It's introduced by Kate Aedie. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello. Today, good to see you again. |
| 0:15.2 | Our correspondent is reunited with a pair of spectacles he lost on a battlefield in Africa. |
| 0:21.0 | In the German city of Leipzig, its sausage by the meter, glue vine by the liter, as a long-awaited |
| 0:26.8 | railway project is finally unveiled. A hippo gets in the way of bath time on the slopes of Mount Kenya and our reporter is |
| 0:35.0 | grounded by Arctic storms in Greenland can he make it home in time for Christmas. |
| 0:40.0 | There's been more fighting in Somalia this week between the force of African peacekeepers |
| 0:46.1 | and the Islamist militants known as al-Shabaab. In one incident, three Syrian doctors |
| 0:51.8 | in the country providing medical assistance were killed |
| 0:55.0 | when a convoy they were traveling in was ambushed. The peacekeeping troops |
| 0:59.0 | sent into Somalia by the African Union can claim some success. |
| 1:03.0 | They restored a degree of order to the capital Mogadishu. |
| 1:06.0 | They've also pushed Al-Shabaab out of the main towns it once controlled in southern and central parts of Somalia. The AU soldiers have even managed to deliver a Christmas |
| 1:16.6 | surprise to our man Mark Doyle. |
| 1:19.7 | This is the story about how I mislaid my spectacles on a battlefield in Central Somalia. |
| 1:25.8 | But it's also about how I learned something new to me that many parts of Somalia are very beautiful. |
| 1:32.2 | There are green fertile plains and there are soaring mountains. |
| 1:37.0 | I got to see these parts of Somalia and yes I can see without my reading glasses through the bulletproof windows of an armored personnel carrier. |
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