Greek Tragedies
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: Theopi Skarlatos traces the growing divide in Athens; Nick Thorpe says it's not just Italy and Greece that thousands of migrants are heading for - Hungary is now putting up the barbed wire to stem the tide; Mark Urban is in Bosnia where 20 years ago the flow of mujaheddin fighters was into the former Yugoslavia but now the government there is worried about the consequences of that; Kirsty Land learns why a two and a half thousand year old play from ancient Greece still resonates in a refugee camp in Beirut; and Alastair Leithead checks out of Hotel California - but can he ever really leave?
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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 site |
| 0:08.9 | at BBC online. |
| 0:10.7 | But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello. Today it's not just Italy and Greece that thousands of migrants are heading for |
| 0:22.0 | Hungary is now putting up the barbed wire to stem the tide. |
| 0:26.0 | Twenty years ago Bosnia saw groups of Mujah hadine foreign fighters trying to join in the civil war. Now the government is worried about ISIS recruitment. |
| 0:36.8 | We hear why a 2,500 year old play from ancient Greece still resonates in a refugee camp in Beirut and our correspondent checks out of |
| 0:46.2 | hotel California but can he ever really leave? The Greek government continues to argue that a clear no vote in tomorrow's referendum |
| 0:56.0 | will strengthen its hand in negotiations with euros and governments. |
| 1:00.0 | Others say it will spell financial disaster for Greece. |
| 1:04.0 | While there's plenty of sympathy for the economic plight of ordinary Greeks, |
| 1:08.0 | there are also many people, especially on the political right, |
| 1:11.0 | who say they've brought their troubles upon themselves and compounded |
| 1:15.2 | them by electing the left-wing Syriza party into government last January. |
| 1:20.2 | The Opie-Carlattus has been tracing events in Greece since before the election |
| 1:24.4 | and she says the country feels more dangerously divided than ever. |
| 1:28.8 | For three days it's been raining and thundering. |
| 1:32.1 | Greek society is more polarised than at any time since the |
| 1:35.7 | Junta and Europe is playing with a fire it barely understands. But somehow it feels like the |
| 1:41.8 | calm before the storm with us standing in the eye of the hurricane |
| 1:45.5 | watching a whirlwind of politics gather ahead. As the heavens opened this week those wanting a yes vote |
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