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🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
0:05.1 | Today we head to Canada, which has been suffering an unusually high number of wildfires this |
0:10.5 | year and summer has only just begun. |
0:14.2 | In Guinea Bessau, a Pentecostal pastor claims to cure drug addicts with the power of prayer, |
0:20.7 | but we reveal the bleak reality for residential patients, chained in cells, fearing the threat |
0:26.8 | of violence. |
0:28.7 | Two buries are booming in Peru after savvy farmers spotted a gap in the market. |
0:34.4 | We find out how the South American country is now the world's biggest exporter of a fruit |
0:40.0 | more at home in the northern hemisphere. |
0:43.2 | And we take a holiday in Jamaica, where the friendly smiles and welcomes afforded British |
0:48.6 | visitors hide a sometimes strained relationship between the two countries. |
0:54.8 | But first North Korea, entry to the secret of state is harder than ever since it shut |
1:00.8 | its borders during the Covid pandemic and fortified its defences even further. |
1:07.0 | Going to the country as a foreign journalist is virtually impossible these days, but our |
1:11.6 | correspondent Jean McKenzie has still found ways to get stories out. |
1:16.8 | By working with journalists from DailyNK in South Korea, an organisation that has sources |
1:23.0 | inside North Korea, she's been able to communicate with North Koreans about life since lockdown |
1:29.5 | began, and they've revealed snapshots of an increasingly desperate life for people |
1:35.5 | across the country. |
1:37.6 | In the dead of night, two North Koreans are meeting in secret. |
1:42.2 | One is a source paid to smuggle information out of the most secretive and isolated state |
1:47.6 | in the world. |
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