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🗓️ 16 March 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Kate Adie presents dispatches from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, the United States, Croatia and France.
The brutality of Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army once made headlines around the world, as #Kony2012 became a global social media cause. While the world soon moved on, the forgotten victims of LRA violence living in the Democratic Republic of Congo are still trying to heal. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham reports from Haut-Uele province.
The Islamic Revolution in Iran put an end to a once thriving cabaret culture and music scene. But over the years, people have still found ways to party - albeit underground and out of sight of the religious police. Among them was Faranak Amidi, who’s met some of Iran’s women DJs, who dream of playing to clubbers all over the world.
A controversial court ruling in Alabama has divided Christian conservatives on the issue of reproductive rights, as the state's supreme court ruled that frozen embryos should be considered as children. Nomia Iqbal reports on the schism that has emerged between pro-life Republicans.
Rab Island off the north coast of Croatia was once home to a lesser-known Italian concentration camp, where some 4,000 people were killed during World War Two. Mary Novakovich visited the island, where she met a woman who began her life in one of the camps.
And our Paris Correspondent Hugh Schofield takes on the challenge of running the city's half-marathon - with some welcome assistance from The Rolling Stones.
Producer: Serena Tarling Production coordinator: Katie Morrison Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:05.0 | Today we dive into the underground party scene of Tehran |
0:10.0 | and meet Iran's female deges who are dreaming of global dance floor domination. |
0:16.3 | In the deep south of Alabama, conservative Christians are divided over a recent court ruling on fertility treatment. What might it mean for the election? |
0:27.1 | We hear the story of a World War II concentration camp in Croatia and a woman who returned to explore the place where she was born. |
0:36.4 | And our correspondent pounds the streets of Paris in the annual half marathon spurred on by |
0:42.4 | the Rolling Stones. But first there have been reports in |
0:46.3 | recent weeks of a major escalation of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo |
0:51.9 | as M23 rebels advance on the eastern city of Goma |
0:56.9 | as they fight government forces. |
0:58.9 | The M23 is one of more than a hundred armed groups active in the region seeking a share of its vast |
1:06.3 | mineral wealth. Among the most brutal is Joseph Coney's Lords Resistance Army. Back in 2012 the plight of tens of thousands of |
1:16.6 | children enslaved by the warlord became a viral cause on social media. While global interest quickly faded, the threat remained |
1:26.9 | for millions of displaced people. Hugh Kinseller Cunningham has visited some of the |
1:32.1 | communities still affected by the group. |
1:35.0 | I came here for a glimpse of life after conflict to see what reckoning takes place |
1:41.0 | when the gunfire stops and how quickly the world forgets atrocities committed in the running green jungle. |
1:47.0 | The war here once made global headlines but has been all but forgotten and getting to the town of Dungu in the DRC's remote northeast |
1:55.3 | is not easy. There is a small airstrip but most flights are a distant memory. |
2:00.3 | I reach out to a priest on what-up who says he is happy to help. I should visit and I can use his jeep. |
2:06.0 | So, after a turbulent flight as close as I can get, I land in the town of Isiro and find a battered Toyota waiting to drive me eight hours deeper into the jungle. |
2:17.0 | There I meet Father Jean-Pierre Badudecia. |
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