Mixed Societies
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Nick Thorpe in Hungary, contemplating this weekend's parliamentary election, wonders whether a recent vote in a small town near the Croatian border portends change for prime minister Viktor Orban or politics as usual. Claire Bolderson is in eastern Ohio, where opioid drug addiction has become the most serious public health crisis to hit the mid-Western US state in a generation. Speaking to recovering addicts, she discovers how it's affected their lives and communities - and their job prospects. Attending a premier of the new blockbuster movie, "Black Panther", in Guangzhou reveals to Marcus Ryder just how close the link between China and Africa has become - and what it may mean for the future. Rebecca Henschke in Jakarta considers what it has meant for her to go viral with stories three times in recent months in a country where social media platforms command huge numbers of enthusiastic users. And in Zambia Nick Miles speaks to firefighters in the capital and discovers they often have more than just flames to contend with when rushing to deal with a blaze. Editor: Richard Vadon.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:02.0 | Thank you for downloading from our own correspondent. |
| 0:07.0 | This edition was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday the 7th of April 2018. |
| 0:12.0 | It's introduced by Kate Edy. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello, today the new drug habit in the United States |
| 0:19.0 | hitting not the young in the big cities, but those of working age in the Midwest. The Chinese see Africa |
| 0:26.9 | as a place to invest but how do they view a film with a nearly all-black cast at |
| 0:32.2 | their local cinema. |
| 0:34.4 | The dangers of social media, our correspondent, gains fame, of a sort, as Mrs Worm. |
| 0:41.3 | And we join firefighters in Zambia, but remember to take a shotgun along on the ride. |
| 0:47.0 | First to Hungary, where the Prime Minister Victor Orban is lionised by his supporters, but whose policy on immigration and his increasingly |
| 0:56.5 | anti-liberal social stance alarm many Western governments. |
| 1:01.2 | He served eight years, but with elections on Sunday, Nick Thorpe thinks there could be a twist in the tale of who holds on to power in Budapest. |
| 1:11.0 | I haven't seen Peter Markizoy for several weeks and when he steps out of the car into the |
| 1:16.7 | warm sunshine in peach in southern Hungary he seems even younger and more energetic than |
| 1:22.3 | before on the 25th of February, the 45-year-old |
| 1:26.1 | father of 7 won the mayoral seat in the unpronounceable town of Houdmezovashire, an almost impossible feat in a bastion of the governing Fides Party, |
| 1:36.4 | and personal fiefdom of its number two baron, Janus Lazar. |
| 1:40.7 | That result electrified the campaign leading up to this weekend's parliamentary elections |
| 1:46.0 | by showing that there are no safe seats for Prime Minister Victor Orban's party. |
| 1:51.0 | Until then, much of Hungary's divided opposition appeared to have given up. |
| 1:56.3 | So could Sunday's national result swing on the hinge of that small town? |
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