Mrs Wong and Mrs Lim Go Shopping
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
"He knew nothing about politics." A father talks to Humphrey Hawksley about his only son, killed in a street protest in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Will Grant in Mexico on the Central American migrants who face abuse at every turn as they try to make their way to the United States. A fishing community in Alaska is engaged in a bitter battle with the mining industry - Stephen Sackur says it's dividing opinion in this wild and sparsely populated territory. Sarah Toms on the mums and dads in Singapore going to school so they can help their children with the homework. And Lyndsay Johns crams into a minibus taxi in South Africa and finds out about the highs and lows of a morning commute in Cape Town. The producer of From Our Own Correspondent is Tony Grant.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is a download from BBC Radio. It's the latest edition of Radio 4's from our own correspondent, |
| 0:06.1 | and it's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:08.5 | Hello, today he knew nothing about politics. A father talks of his only son killed in a street protest in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. |
| 0:18.0 | The migrants risking everything on a Mexican train they call the Beast. |
| 0:23.0 | Why Alaskans are split over a mining bonanza which could be worth billions, |
| 0:28.0 | and a shock for mum in Singapore over Mrs Wong, Mrs Lim, their apples and their pears. |
| 0:36.6 | Thousands of supporters of the deposed Egyptian leader Mohammed Morsi took to the streets |
| 0:40.6 | of Cairo again yesterday, Waving flags and chanting slogans, they called on the |
| 0:46.0 | army to restore him to the presidency. Another rally organized by Mr. Morsi's Muslim |
| 0:51.4 | Brotherhood took place in Alexandria, but Humphrey Hawksley says |
| 0:55.7 | not everyone in that northern port city backs the campaign to reverse the military coup |
| 1:01.0 | of two weeks ago. Bardada Hussana is a slightly built man, 53 years old, dignified and measured with neatly cut grey |
| 1:09.9 | hair and moustache. |
| 1:11.7 | He's wearing a light blue shirt and freshly laundered white trousers. |
| 1:15.6 | We'll talk in here, he says, pushing open the glass door to a little shop that sells decorative |
| 1:20.7 | household fittings, Mr. Hassanas, an interior designer. |
| 1:25.0 | As the door closes, hushing the traffic noise outside, |
| 1:29.0 | I show him a sheet of paper with a printout from a YouTube video. It's of a cluster of men on the edge of a rooftop. |
| 1:36.9 | Chillingly, one is falling and in the frozen, grainy picture he's in mid- head down, arms played. |
| 1:44.4 | Mr. Hosanna studies it. |
| 1:45.7 | His lips tighten. |
| 1:47.1 | He points across the street. |
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