June 16, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
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🗓️ 16 June 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Tunisia's fragile revolution is under threat from the violent uprising in Libya. Pascale Harter, investigating in these borderlands, also reveals what a football commentary sounds like in Libya where the only name permissible is that of Gaddafi. The blockade on Gaza means that many people living in that territory never get to leave. Jon Donnison's been meeting two men, at the Erez crossing into Israel, who get nearer than most. Cheung Chau island, not far from Hong Kong, has become notorious as a place where people go to kill themselves. Claudia Hammond's been there finding out how the local community is trying to change all that. Need to cure a headache? Or impotence? A remedy can be found at a traditional medicine market in Johannesburg. Stewart Maclean's been there to see what's on offer. And Rajesh Mirchandani enjoyed what some would consider the perfect posting - as our man in California. And yet, he has some rather controversial views to share with us about the sunshine state.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there you're about to hear from our own correspondent a download from the BBC. |
| 0:04.7 | We make editions of the programme for both the BBC World Service and Radio 4, and this is the |
| 0:09.3 | latest Radio 4 broadcast, as ever it's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:14.0 | Today the Tunisians who fear their revolution is threatened by the violent uprising in |
| 0:18.8 | neighbouring Libya. |
| 0:20.4 | The island of Hong Kong where people come to kill themselves. |
| 0:24.0 | Israel's blockade of Gaza goes into a fifth year. |
| 0:27.5 | We meet two Gazans who get nearer the outside world than most. |
| 0:31.0 | And a consultation in Johannesburg where you might be offered head of a black mamba |
| 0:36.1 | or perhaps a severed monkey's poor. It's six months since the start of the so-called Arab Spring when the people of Tunisia rose up |
| 0:44.6 | and forced their president to flee the country. |
| 0:47.8 | Their revolution is still young though. |
| 0:50.3 | Elections have yet to be held and the former president is awaiting trial. Dates have now been |
| 0:55.0 | set for both. Today that spark of revolution that spreads successfully to Egypt has become an |
| 1:01.0 | explosion in neighbouring Libya. Pascal Hart has been trying to find out if |
| 1:05.8 | Tunisians are keen to help their revolutionary neighbours, or more concerned with protecting |
| 1:10.9 | their own fragile uprising. |
| 1:13.0 | No one walked into the polling station where I stood with my microphone. |
| 1:18.0 | It was 2004 and I was in the capital tuners to cover the elections. |
| 1:22.0 | I tried another polling station and then another. |
| 1:26.0 | It was the same scene in all of them. Eight or ten polling officials, no voters. |
| 1:32.4 | Tunisians were showing with their feet what they couldn't say with their mouths. |
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