In the Shadow of the Strong Men
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Colouring in the spaces between the headlines. In this edition: the Front National is expected to do well in the French regional elections - our correspondent goes for a drive along the Cote d'Azur and asks why the party's apparently finding favour with voters. 'We cannot allow our revolution to be stolen!' The Venezuelan president has been imploring the electorate there to give his socialists another term in office, but most observers feel the left's grip on this nation will be severely weakened in this weekend's election. Three and a half million and counting! We find out why so many young Nepalis have decided to leave their country. And is it the truth or is it just paranoia? We hear that the influence of the long-dead dictator Enver Hoxha continues even today in Albania.
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| 0:00.0 | You've downloaded BBC radios from our own correspondent. |
| 0:03.5 | This is the program broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday, December the 5th. |
| 0:08.0 | It's introduced by Kate 80. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello. Today, where of all the young men gone? We find out why Nepoldies are leaving the country |
| 0:17.1 | in their millions. Goodaffy was a nice guy, the best. Why do they miss the Colonel so much in the Ghanaian capital, Accra? |
| 0:26.6 | We're off for a drive along the French Riviera with a Fron National Mayor who tells us about |
| 0:31.6 | a guilty secret. And a tortoise |
| 0:34.3 | tortoise makes a break for freedom in Albania where 30 years on some people |
| 0:38.5 | still live in the shadow of the dictator Enver Hodger. |
| 0:43.6 | Now whatever happened to the revolutionary socialist utopia of Ugo Chavez in Venezuela. |
| 0:49.8 | Not so long ago the country, helped by its lavish oil reserves, was promising prosperity for all, a better life for the masses. |
| 0:57.0 | But today there's a rising murder rate, widespread poverty and rampant corruption. |
| 1:02.0 | And tomorrow a general election which may see a poverty and rampant corruption. |
| 1:02.8 | And tomorrow a general election which may see an end to the socialist government's |
| 1:06.7 | majority. |
| 1:08.2 | The president, Nicholas Maduro, has said he'll do whatever it takes to ensure his party hangs on to power. |
| 1:15.1 | But as Wera Davis has been finding out in the capital, Caracas, his people no longer |
| 1:19.7 | seem to believe in him. |
| 1:22.0 | His face is everywhere, beaming down from billboards, painted on the sides of skyscrapers, and in almost every public building. Hugo Chavez, El Comondante, the architect of Venezuela's Socialist Revolution. |
| 1:35.4 | Chavez died almost three years ago after a long battle with cancer, but the ruling Socialist |
| 1:40.3 | Party has fought this crucial parliamentary election in his name. |
| 1:44.0 | Chavez Vivi. Chavez Lives was the cry from the masked crowds in downtown Caracas at the |
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