Nationalists and Patriots
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In 1918 Poland regained its sovereignty after 123 years of occupation by Austria, Prussia and Russia. This year Poles celebrated its centenary with a state organised march through the capital, Warsaw, which an estimated quarter of a million people attended. The parade, and the headlines, were overshadowed by the government’s last-minute decision to march together with far-right groups. Adam Easton was in Warsaw marching among the nationalists and the patriots.
Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.
David Baillie is with NATO in Norway where some of the companies singing really takes the cake.
Humera Iqbal talks to a young Pakistani DJ who uses Electronic Dance Music to save traditional instruments from extinction.
Adam Jones finds out how the idea of moderation works in the land of excess
And Dany Mitzman is in Italy where the graffiti is surprisingly educational.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello. |
| 0:06.8 | Today, How to Get the Young to Dance, |
| 0:09.6 | Almost in an old-fashioned way, |
| 0:11.6 | a young DJ in Pakistan trying to rescue traditional musical instruments. |
| 0:17.0 | We go to a birthday party in Norway, a cake, a happy birthday song, but we're in a NATO military camp so it's all a bit different and |
| 0:25.5 | we grapple with linguistics in Italy and watch carefully where we're walking. |
| 0:32.1 | In a speech to world leaders last weekend in Paris, marking a |
| 0:35.8 | hundred years since the armistice, the French President Emmanuel Macron called |
| 0:40.6 | nationalism a betrayal of patriotism. |
| 0:43.4 | A veiled dig at President Trump perhaps. |
| 0:46.3 | But what is the tipping point between pride in your country for what it does |
| 0:51.3 | and pride whatever it does. |
| 0:54.0 | Adam Easton has been in Poland observing a hundred years of Polish solidarity, |
| 0:59.0 | with nationalism and patriotism |
| 1:06.0 | hours before the march was due to start Central Warsaw was already full of people carrying red and white Polish flags. |
| 1:11.0 | Patriotic songs played over loudspeakers. At midday, Poland's national |
| 1:16.9 | anthem started up. People stopped what they were doing, stood still, and sang along |
| 1:22.1 | to the words written in 1797, two years after Poland was carved up by the Austrian, Russian and Prussian empires and wiped off the map. |
| 1:32.0 | Poland has not yet perished,' they sang, |
| 1:35.0 | "'so long as we still live here.' |
| 1:38.0 | One man stood with his hand on his heart, |
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