Nile Mystery
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Connolly's in Luxor wondering if the military, which has controlled proceedings in Egypt since 1952, really will hand over power to civilians once the elections, starting next week, are over. Jonathan Head in Turkey notes that talks about joining the European Union have started up again. But does Turkey really need to join an EU worrying about economic catastrophe? David Belton's been to a remote part of New York state where the Amish religious sect has taken the question: can God really be wrong, to a court for judgement. Fuchsia Dunlop's been to one part of China where they don't find cheese alien and revolting And Mary Harper's been mingling with the Somali population in Dubai. And taking a drive, in some style, around the gleaming emirate.
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| 0:18.3 | presenting the BBC Radio 4 edition here's Kate 80., they've run the country since the revolution of 1952. |
| 0:26.0 | So are the Egyptian military really about to relinquish power? |
| 0:31.0 | Turkey thinks again about European Union membership as economic crisis grips its old rival |
| 0:36.6 | Greece. How can God be wrong? A religious sect takes the question to a court in New York, and we sit down to a large |
| 0:45.1 | lunch in a corner of China where they don't find cheese revolting. |
| 0:51.0 | We want a great leader for a great nation. Few Egyptians will argue with that ambition voiced by the country's military leader, Field Marshal Hossain Tantawi, as 50 million of them prepared to go to the polls. Next week they start |
| 1:04.2 | choosing a new president to replace Hosni Mubarak who was ousted in a public |
| 1:08.3 | uprising in February 2011. It could be the first time in 60 years that the country's leader has not emerged |
| 1:15.6 | from the ranks of the military. This time 13 candidates are vying for the job. |
| 1:20.6 | Three represent Islamist parties. Turnouts expected to be high as a |
| 1:25.6 | voters relish the opportunity to flex their democratic muscles. But Kevin |
| 1:30.2 | Connolly, who's been chatting to a group of policeman on a river-cruiser on the Nile, |
| 1:35.0 | says that no one sure how this election story will end. |
| 1:39.1 | The Chief of Detective smiled inscrutably and shifted on the elegant sofa which had once supported the much greater |
| 1:45.6 | weight of Elkhul Poirot. |
| 1:48.4 | Through the windows of the salon on the port side of the steamer, the waters of the Nile slid past, sluggish as a teenager |
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