Mort Pour La France
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The news -- with added insight, colour and perspective. In this edition, the unsung French civilian heroes who gave up their lives in World War Two. The people in eastern Ukraine who fear the consequences of being caught up in a power struggle between east and west. Why Libyans are wary of the former general who's pledged to rid the country of Islamist militias. There's an historical battle re-enactment in Don Quixote territory in Spain. It's a bit like rugby, a bit like boxing. But why haven't the Russians been invited? And another question: why have the North Koreans opened a chain of restaurants across Asia? Our man tries to find out whether they're just proud of their cuisine, or if they have more sinister motives?
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| 0:00.0 | You've downloaded from our own correspondent which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:04.7 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:06.7 | Hello. |
| 0:07.7 | Today where have all the children gone in the self-proclaimed Dunyets People's Republic they've left, fearful of an assault by |
| 0:15.6 | Ukrainian government forces. |
| 0:18.1 | Patriotic hero, dangerous revolutionary or American stooge, Libya's split over the man who says he'll rid the country of its Islamist |
| 0:26.5 | militias. |
| 0:28.4 | Medieval combat is back on the plane in Spain, but why haven't the Russians been invited? |
| 0:34.4 | And is it espionage, seduction, money laundering, or just plain catering? |
| 0:39.9 | We're in a North Korean restaurant, finding out what really goes on behind the dog meat |
| 0:44.9 | casserole. Thousands of Second World War veterans are this morning making their |
| 0:50.8 | way home from France after the ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary |
| 0:55.2 | of the D-Day landings. |
| 0:57.3 | The Queen and President Obama were among those who paid tribute to the thousands of soldiers, |
| 1:02.0 | sailors and airmen who died capturing the beaches of Normandy in |
| 1:06.1 | 1944. The French have also been remembering their citizens killed in the Allied bombing raids which helped bring the war to a close. |
| 1:15.0 | Historians say 57,000 of them were killed in those bombardments. |
| 1:20.0 | This compares with 60,000 British civilians who were killed in air raids by the German Luftwaffe. |
| 1:26.2 | It was, says John Lawrenceon, who lives near Paris, a French Blitz inflicted by France's |
| 1:32.0 | allies. My wife was breastfeeding. Blitz inflicted by France's eyes. |
| 1:33.6 | My wife was breastfeeding our baby when she was startled by two men who appeared at the window. |
| 1:39.9 | They'd heard there was a British person living here. |
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