Love Those Shoes
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The sounds of protest, popping champagne corks and the piercing shrieks of megabats. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world. Aleem Maqbool watches a confederate monument fall in America’s south, and wonders what difference statues and symbols really make. In Egypt, activists tell Orla Guerin that while previous leaders may have tried to restrict the space for civil society, President Sisi wants to eliminate it. They claim their strongman leader has been emboldened by Donald Trump who has praised his work - and his shoes. In Australia, Phil Mercer finds that residents of Sydney are not too happy with their new neighbours. Megabats or flying-foxes fly in gothic squadrons, emit a piercing cacophony and leave behind a lingering stench. In the shadow of towering glass and steel skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Rob Crossan has lunch in the traditional Malay village trying to resist the tides of gentrification and modernisation. And Juliet Rix has a drink in France, as she meets the women shaking up the champagne industry. Producer: Joe Kent
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:02.0 | And this is from our own correspondent. |
| 0:05.0 | With a Malaysian meal, a flute of champagne and a squadron of flying foxes, |
| 0:10.0 | this edition was broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday, June the 3rd. |
| 0:14.1 | Here's Kate Aide. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello. |
| 0:16.8 | Today we hear of a former presidential candidate on trial |
| 0:20.8 | and opposition figures arrested. |
| 0:23.0 | Dissent is ever more dangerous in Egypt. |
| 0:26.6 | In Kuala Lumpur they love towering skyscrapers all steel and glass a view not shared in a traditional Malay village. |
| 0:35.0 | Lovely weather for a party. |
| 0:36.7 | We propose a toast to the Doyen of French Champagne. |
| 0:41.0 | And would you want to protect the megabit? Squadrons of a piercing |
| 0:46.1 | cookophony of shrieks and a lingering stench. Some Australians would like to |
| 0:50.9 | get rid of them. The protest against the killing of young |
| 0:55.0 | black Americans by the police has the rallying cry, Black Lives Matter. It's now |
| 1:00.6 | being scrawled across monuments to the Confederate troops who were defeated in the US Civil War. |
| 1:06.0 | Several cities have already removed statues commemorating the pro-slavery rebellion, |
| 1:12.0 | and the mayors of Baltimore and St Louis want their cities to follow |
| 1:15.9 | suit. They face opposition and accusations of destroying cultural heritage. And in Alabama, there are attempts to make it illegal to remove or rename monuments that have been in place for more than 40 years. |
| 1:30.0 | How much do statues and memorials matter asks our correspondent |
| 1:34.7 | Alim MacBool. |
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