Looking For Trouble
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
From the barricades of Venezuela’s street protests to the security scanners in an Egyptian airport - Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world.
Gideon Long joins protestors in Venezuela, finding the threat of violence is never far away. From Dublin, Vincent Woods reflects on Ireland’s response to the London Bridge terror attack and takes comfort in his memories of an English Imam singing traditional Irish songs. A pat-down by security staff in Cairo Airport leads to an unexpected lesson in women’s emancipation for Claire Read. Ed Davey goes in search of both good and bad voodoo in Benin, and in southern India, Andrew Whitehead stumbles across a tragic love story and one of the last remnants of the Jewish presence there.
Producer: Joe Kent
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC and this is from our own correspondent and the edition broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday, June the 10th. |
| 0:10.0 | While some journalists go looking for trouble, others seem to come across stories in some unlikely places |
| 0:16.8 | Today we have tales of both introduced by Kate Aide |
| 0:21.4 | Hello today if your neighbours increase their security measures, worrying about terrorist attacks, what do you do? |
| 0:29.5 | Ireland wonders how to respond to last week's events in London. Religious belief ebbs and flows |
| 0:36.0 | these days but Voodoo still has a grip under the gaze of the crocodile head at God in Benin. |
| 0:42.8 | In Egypt a pat pat down by airport security staff |
| 0:46.1 | leads to an unexpected lesson in women's emancipation, |
| 0:50.1 | and a tragic love story evoked by a Jewish grave in southern India. |
| 0:56.2 | The turmoil in Venezuela continues. |
| 0:59.0 | At least 66 people have been killed since protests began in April. Most of the deaths are linked |
| 1:05.1 | to the police, the National Guard and associated paramilitary groups, but a |
| 1:09.8 | 22-year-old man was also set on fire, it it's claimed by anti-government protesters. |
| 1:16.2 | This week the Venezuelan president, Nicholas Maduro, urged his supporters to take to the |
| 1:21.1 | streets to defeat a conspiracy of traitors who he |
| 1:24.6 | insists are plotting a coup. Meanwhile anti-government martyrs continue almost |
| 1:29.4 | daily amidst calls for Maduro's resignation. |
| 1:33.0 | On the streets of the Venezuelan capital, |
| 1:35.0 | Gideon Long found that the threat of violence was never far away. |
| 1:40.0 | It started peacefully enough, |
| 1:42.0 | with thousands of anti-government protesters moving slowly out of |
| 1:46.2 | Altamira Square in eastern Caracas. The atmosphere was relaxed, festive almost. Street traders sold opposition t-shirts in the bright sunshine, and red, blue and |
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