India's Missing Children
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Anu Anand in Delhi on what happens to the two hundred thousand Indian children abducted each year; a future vision for Africa -- Gabriel Gatehouse in Kenya meets a man with a radical plan; Chloe Arnold on how Algeria is desperate to escape the clutches of a violent past; how much has the Chinese rail network changed? Angus Foster has ample time for reflection on a 16-hour journey to Wuhan and Laura Trevelyan in New York gets an American style-makeover as she prepares to become an 'anchor' on American television.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC, this is from our own correspondent. |
| 0:04.6 | You can hear the version of the program we make for the BBC World Service by visiting our |
| 0:08.6 | site at BBC online. |
| 0:10.8 | But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:16.0 | Today the Indian suburb where five children have been snatched in a month. |
| 0:21.0 | A radical city plan in Kenya could IT bring Africa the sort of changes seen in Europe's |
| 0:26.8 | industrial revolution. What's rail travel in China like these days? Sixteen hours on the all-night train to Wu Han gives us ample time for reflection. |
| 0:37.9 | And you don't need to look like your granny. |
| 0:40.9 | Advice for our correspondent in New York on how to become an anchor on American television. |
| 0:47.0 | In the Welsh town of Machundloth, the search continues this morning for the missing five-year-old April |
| 0:52.3 | Jones. A local man has appeared in |
| 0:54.5 | court charged with abduction and murder. Child abduction cases, at least those not |
| 0:59.8 | involving parents, are relatively rare in this country. Many more children are, for example, |
| 1:05.0 | abducted in India, where, according to one estimate, at least 200,000 are snatched every year. |
| 1:12.0 | Anu Anand in Delhi says hundreds of criminal gangs are said to be involved in selling babies |
| 1:17.0 | and children to childless couples, while other youngsters are sexually exploited or forced to work as slave labour. |
| 1:24.6 | It was April the 21st, 2010, a Wednesday. |
| 1:28.2 | It was 730. |
| 1:29.5 | A large Hindu prayer meeting was in full swing. Hundreds of people had gathered under a vast |
| 1:34.8 | multicolored tent held fast by lengths of knobbly bamboo. Speakers blared as the faithful |
| 1:40.8 | sang. Babies slept through the noise fanned by their mothers. |
| 1:44.7 | Six-year-old Gajul could hear the singing from her family's tiny rented room |
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