History's Long Shadow
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Reporters' stories. In this edition: Kevin Connolly goes for an evening stroll in Jerusalem observing that the triumphs and disasters of the past are as real as the tensions of the present if you know where to look. Nick Thorpe's with the migrants on the border between Croatia and Slovenia where everyone seems to have lost someone and the refugee crisis can seem like a football match. Jon Donnison tells us that life doesn't get much tougher than for a Filipino fishermen in typhoon season. Mark Stratton gets to know the extravagant role the dead play in the lives of people on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. And Mary Harper tells us they've got a camera now, but no costumes. And when they want guns, they have to borrow them from the police. This is the world of action film-making -- in Somaliland
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the from our own correspondent office in London. |
| 0:03.4 | Thank you for downloading our latest program. |
| 0:05.7 | It's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:07.7 | Hello, 2,000 years of history. |
| 0:10.7 | It casts a long shadow over Jerusalem Jerusalem even on a short evening stroll. |
| 0:15.0 | There's an explosion of joy at a refugee camp in Slovenia, but the migrants are in a hurry |
| 0:20.6 | now they sense European opinion turning against them. And she's just |
| 0:26.0 | taking a rest, they say, but in fact she's been dead for six months. We're on the |
| 0:31.0 | Indonesian island where death is an essential and expensive part of life. |
| 0:37.0 | Hundreds of Israeli police are being deployed around a holy site in Bethlehem ahead of a pilgrimage there this weekend. |
| 0:44.6 | The authorities are concerned after a month of violence in the country in which some 60 people |
| 0:49.3 | have been killed. |
| 0:51.1 | Last night the so-called Middle East Quartet, that's the UN, the US, EU and Russia, called |
| 0:56.3 | for calm and restraint. |
| 0:58.5 | This evening thousands are expected to gather at a spot in Bethlehem said to be the burial place of the Hebrew matriarch Rachel. |
| 1:06.0 | Kevin Connolly says it'll be a reminder, should one be needed, |
| 1:10.0 | that in the Middle East the past is still very much alive today. |
| 1:14.0 | My evening walk takes an hour, an hour and a bit if I'm honest, |
| 1:18.0 | but the backdrop took more than 2,000 years to assemble. At every historical high watermark, new |
| 1:26.7 | builders left their signatures. There are churches that fly the Saltire of |
| 1:31.6 | Scotland and the banner of the paper sea and buildings |
| 1:34.8 | under the flags of the Greek and Armenian patriarchs. The Star of David of course is |
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