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From Our Own Correspondent

I Never Got to Florence

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Correspondents' stories. Few British go to the Italian seaside town of Alassio these days but the library created for them there is still going - just. Coffee prices are rocketing in Brazil and the producers in this country which traditionally produces 'an awful lot of coffee' are concerned. There's a despatch from Baghdad, the Iraqi capital which is now a target of ISIS and other Sunni rebels. The problems pile up for the French president -- but he takes time off to praise an artist who only ever paints in black. And from the USA, we find out what happened to Little Germany, once a thriving part of New York City. Today, little more than a distant memory.

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0:00.0

You have downloaded from our own correspondent. This edition is the latest one broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

0:06.0

And here to introduce it is Kate A.D.

0:09.0

Hello, today desperate to leave, families fleeing as the jihadists from ISIS set their sights on Baghdad.

0:17.0

There's mounting industrial discord in France and worrying times for coffee producers in Brazil.

0:22.6

Perhaps that's why one of them thinks nothing of drinking 30 cups a day.

0:27.5

We find out why Enid Blitens no longer required reading under the palms on the Italian Riviera.

0:34.1

And you'll have heard of Chinatown, Little Italy as well, but what was it which wiped little

0:39.3

Germany off the map of New York City.

0:48.0

Fighting is continuing this morning around the strategic northwestern Iraqi city of Tallafah, where Islamist rebels have been battling pro-government forces since Monday.

0:53.0

Militants from the Sunni-Jihadi group ISIS are trying to take control of the city,

0:58.0

which lies on an important route to Syria.

1:00.0

Elsewhere, there's ongoing fighting in the city of Bayji where the insurgents have been

1:05.4

besieging Iraq's biggest oil refinery. They say they will march on the capital Baghdad.

1:10.7

Richard Galpin, who's there, says people have become increasingly concerned, not just about

1:16.4

the advance of ISIS, but also about the men the government hopes will defend the

1:20.8

city.

1:22.4

We agreed to meet our contact on the side of a major highway

1:25.9

which runs from Baghdad to Bakuba, a city just an hour's drive from the capital.

1:32.0

We stopped near a grimy workshop on the barren northern edge of Baghdad,

1:36.0

parking our armoured cars close together to shield us in case of attack.

1:41.0

Our contact, a man called Ali, was a journalist from

1:45.3

Bakuba and we wanted to hear it firsthand what had been happening inside the

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