May 26, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Roman Catholic Church is accused of running a dirty campaign as the people of Malta prepare to vote in a referendum on divorce. Jake Wallis Simons has been gauging the mood in and around the capital, Valletta; Anna Cavell, who's in Kampala, Uganda, tells us how the continuing series of protests is heaping pressure on the long-standing president Yoweri Museveni; Bhutan, the Himalayan mountain kingdom, is a place said to be more interested in Gross National Happiness than Gross Domestic Product! Mark Tully's been talking to the prime minister there about whether this is the most profitable way for the country to move forward; the war in Sri Lanka may now finally be at an end but Peter Meanwell, who's been there making a music programme for Radio 3, says its legacy can still be seen throughout the north ... and as Europe prepares for its biggest football match of the year, Pascale Harter tells us why the fans of FC Barcelona believe it's a club with a difference!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there you're about to hear from our own correspondent a download from the BBC. |
| 0:04.7 | We make editions of the programme for both the BBC World Service and Radio 4, and this is the |
| 0:09.3 | latest Radio 4 broadcast, as ever, it's introduced by Kate Aide. Today the Church broadcast as |
| 0:14.1 | ever it's introduced by Kate Aide. Today the church accused of playing dirty as the people of Malta |
| 0:17.8 | prepared to vote in a referendum on divorce. |
| 0:21.1 | Protesters arrested for making a noise in Uganda as the pressure grows on the country's |
| 0:26.0 | long-standing president. |
| 0:28.2 | We're in Jaffna, once Sri Lanka's rebel stronghold, finding out about songs of lullaby and lament. |
| 0:34.8 | And as Barcelona's footballers get ready for Wembley, we find out why it's the club which |
| 0:39.4 | women like. |
| 0:41.6 | But first we're off to that tiny nation which famously pursues a policy of gross |
| 0:46.3 | national happiness rather than one which concentrates on gross domestic product. |
| 0:52.3 | Politicians around the world, including David Cameron and |
| 0:54.5 | Nikola Sarkozy, have shown interest in Bhutan's strategy. But the newly |
| 0:59.2 | democratic government there is now thinking again, considering whether this really is the best way forward. |
| 1:06.3 | Mark Tally has been to the small Himalayan kingdom sandwiched between India and Nepal, |
| 1:11.5 | where he found himself discussing the matter with, among others, the Prime Minister. |
| 1:15.6 | Bhutan is known as the land of the Thunder Dragon, but it's become democratic without any thunderstorms. No violence, no demonstrations, |
| 1:25.0 | forced King Jigmy Singhy Wongchuk to establish a constitutional monarchy |
| 1:30.0 | and, still in his early 50s, abdicate in favor of his oldest son. |
| 1:35.0 | The Prime Minister Jigme Joseph thinly |
| 1:38.0 | told me that when the king went round his kingdom in 2007, |
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