Home Grown Heroes
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
War may still be raging in the east, but Ukraine's gearing up for elections -- and Jamie Coomarasamy says there are some unexpected candidates; Michael Bristow in Indonesia meets a former jihadist who now works for the government and has become something of a celebrity; not far from California's information hub, Silicon Valley, an old Native American language faces extinction - Caroline Davies explains why it's being allowed to go; a civil war rumbles on in South Sudan -- James Copnall's been meeting some who were forced to flee into the bush, living off wild animals and water lilies; the European Union's spent billions on programmes aimed at integrating the Roma people, but many remain out on the margins of society, as Lucy Irvine's been finding out in Bulgaria.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading this podcast. We make from our own correspondent for the BBC World Service as well. |
| 0:06.0 | But this is the edition broadcast on Radio 4 and it's introduced by Kate Edy. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello, today the homegrown heroes, fresh from the war in the East, now fighting for seats in Ukraine's |
| 0:19.8 | Parliament. |
| 0:21.1 | The Native Americans determined to ensure that their language dies along with |
| 0:25.1 | them. |
| 0:26.1 | We're getting to know our Roma neighbours in Bulgaria and meeting a former jihadi now |
| 0:31.4 | working for the government and something of a celebrity in Indonesia. |
| 0:36.2 | The economy's gone through the floor, corruption is widespread and there's a damaging |
| 0:40.3 | and costly war going on in the east of the country. |
| 0:43.6 | It's not hard to grasp the issues dominating the run-up to Sunday's parliamentary elections |
| 0:48.0 | in Ukraine. |
| 0:49.7 | The war between government forces and pro-Russia separatist rebels broke out in April. |
| 0:54.3 | More than 3,500 people have been killed. A ceasefire deal was agreed last month between |
| 1:00.2 | Kiev and the rebels, but fighting continues. |
| 1:03.2 | It's been particularly fierce around the airport in Donytz, |
| 1:06.5 | which neither side is willing to give up. |
| 1:09.1 | Jamie Kummer-Sami says the conflict has cast a long shadow over the poll. It's also thrown up some |
| 1:14.7 | unlikely candidates. Being caught naked on camera is usually an effective way to |
| 1:20.4 | end a political career. For Mikhailogavri Ljuk, it was the event that launched one. |
| 1:26.8 | A manual laborer who worked on farms and construction sites, Gavriluk was thrust into the |
| 1:31.8 | spotlight in January during the height of the anti-government protests in Kiev. |
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