Heartlands
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
John Sopel on what to expect from Donald Trump’s coronation party. Cowboy country in Argentina - but where have all the cows gone?
We meet the Aboriginal activists trying to make native title to land actually mean something, in Australia’s northernmost point, Cape York.
A new wall in the West Bank – our correspondent gets kitted out for rock climbing in Ramallah. And nudity and birch twigs in the Karelia region in Russia
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, thank you for downloading from our own correspondent. |
| 0:03.1 | This edition of the programme First Broadcast on Radio 4 |
| 0:06.1 | on Saturday 16th of July, presented by Kate Adi. |
| 0:09.8 | Hello, today to cowboy country in Argentina, but where have all the cows gone? |
| 0:16.5 | To Australia's most Northern Point, to meet the Aboriginal activists trying to make native title to land actually mean something. |
| 0:25.7 | The project getting residents of the West Bank to explore the great outdoors, our correspondent |
| 0:30.6 | gets kitted out for rock climbing in Ramallah, and a warning about our last piece. |
| 0:35.2 | It contains nudity and birch twigs. |
| 0:37.9 | Oh, those Russians! |
| 0:41.0 | But first the race for the presidency of the United States is entering its final phase. |
| 0:45.4 | Donald Trump has just announced his vice presidential running mate, Mike Pence, |
| 0:50.0 | formerly best known as the governor of Indiana. |
| 0:53.0 | Lucky Mr. Pence will spend much of the next few months trying to explain away the latest outrageous thing the Donald may have said. |
| 1:01.0 | And that's a problem that faces the whole Republican Party as it prepares |
| 1:05.2 | for next week's convention in Cleveland, Ohio. The BBC's North America editor John |
| 1:10.5 | Sopel's been following the whole campaign and reflects now on what to |
| 1:14.5 | expect from Donald Trump's grand coronation. There's a neat symmetry to the |
| 1:19.6 | Republican Convention being held in Cleveland. It's where the first Republican |
| 1:23.8 | television debate was held last August, and it's where 17 presidential hopefuls took |
| 1:28.9 | to the stage and where one particular wannabe decided the conventional rules of political discourse |
| 1:35.7 | weren't for him. |
| 1:37.3 | He ripped into the presenters, he ripped into his opponents. |
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