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From Our Own Correspondent

March 08, 2012

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The extraordinarily spry 80-year-olds of Shikoku: Peter Day's met them and tells us about the problems countries such as Japan and Britain face with their ageing populations. 'A match made in heaven.' Daniel Schweimler's impressed with the wines made in the Argentine region of Mendoza. Matthew Price finds Greeks deeply concerned about the further demands they're facing for austerity as efforts continue to secure another cash bailout from the EU and IMF What happens when Chinese villagers, incensed about land grabs, stand up against the authorities. Martin Patience, in Guangdong province, says they may have won the battle but they shouldn't feel too confident about winning the war. And Martin Plaut meets an extraordinary man close to the troubled border between Sudan and South Sudan: a doctor, determined to dodge danger and bring help to all who need it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello from Bush House in London, home to From Our Own Correspondent.

0:05.0

You can hear the World Service edition of our programme by going to the From Our Own Correspondent

0:10.1

website, but this is a download of the latest broadcast on Radio 4.

0:15.0

It's introduced by Kate Aide.

0:17.0

Today, growing anxiety in Greece, as people fear they can't cope with more government demands for austerity.

0:25.0

There's a lonely, dangerous mission for a doctor trying to help the injured on both sides of a troubled African border.

0:32.0

We find out what happened to the Chinese

0:34.9

villagers who dared stand up to the authorities, and how the fortunes of a

0:39.9

mountainous corner of Argentina have been transformed by a passion for wine.

0:47.0

Once again the clock has been ticking this week for Greece.

0:50.4

Its officials are desperately trying to sign up private investors who hold Greek government bonds to a new deal.

0:57.0

The deadline is 8 o'clock this evening.

1:00.0

The deal would see bondholders lose more than half of their original investment, in turn helping

1:06.1

Greece reduce its overall debt.

1:08.8

If agreement isn't reached, then the country's second multi-billion euro bailout could be in doubt.

1:15.4

That financial package also depends on the Greek government bringing in a series of new reforms.

1:21.6

And Matthew Price says people there are becoming increasingly

1:25.0

concerned about what that'll mean for them and their families.

1:28.6

It's not surprising to see handouts in the Middle East or Africa or the Caribbean, but food aid

1:36.7

in a Western European capital. This was Athens this month, and there were plenty of people queuing up for the free tins of beans

1:46.6

and packets of soup. Among them a pharmacist, Sotirès Triantifulu, who looked as if he was in his early 30s, a well-turned-out and serious

1:57.7

man with short dark hair.

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