Nov 12, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 12 November 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
"That's nobody's business but the Turks'." A quote from one of several songs which feature Turkey which are in turn quoted by Kevin Connolly as he talks about why the country remains keen to join the EU despite the Union's problems with debt and insecurity. Hugh Sykes is in Rome as prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's reported to be on the verge of resignation - he wonders why a country which does so many things so well, and manufactures so many goods coveted worldwide, can find itself in such trouble. A new property law's been introduced in Havana - Peter Day tries to answer the question: does this mean the grip of Castro-style Communism is being relaxed? Justin Rowlatt sends a despatch from Varanasi in India where the traditional practice of cremating bodies continues by the River Ganges. And you have to be fit to trek across the Pyrenees. We find out how Edward Stourton got on as he retraced the wartime route of the hundreds who used that route to escape from Nazi-occupied Europe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is from our own correspondent, a download from the BBC. |
| 0:03.7 | For a sneak preview of our program, you can join our feed on Twitter, |
| 0:07.4 | and there's a daily airing of From Our own correspondent on the BBC World Service, |
| 0:11.8 | but now the latest edition, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and it's introduced by Kate A.D. |
| 0:18.0 | Will he go today, tomorrow? |
| 0:20.0 | Sylvia Belascones believed to be on the point of resigning as Italians |
| 0:24.3 | contemplate tears blood and austerity. Turkey says it still wants EU membership |
| 0:30.6 | despite the debt problems and mounting insecurity. |
| 0:34.4 | There's a new law on property in Cuba, but does it really mean the grip of Castro-communism |
| 0:39.4 | is finally being relaxed? |
| 0:41.6 | And a tough trek across the Pyrenees in the footsteps of those who cross |
| 0:45.2 | the mountains escaping from the Nazis. |
| 0:48.9 | The lower house of the Italian Parliament is about now starting to debate a stringent economic reform package designed |
| 0:55.3 | to curb Italy's huge debts. |
| 0:57.6 | If as expected it's approved, it'll pave the way for the promised resignation of the Prime |
| 1:02.1 | Minister Silvio Bellasconi and his |
| 1:04.4 | replacement by a former European Commissioner Mario Monti. |
| 1:08.6 | Hugh Sykes, who's been in Italy all week, says it can be hard to comprehend how a country which does so much so |
| 1:14.8 | well can have got itself into so much trouble. In the piazza outside the |
| 1:19.5 | Italian Parliament, waiting and watching for another scene to unfold in the political drama here, |
| 1:25.0 | I rested my laptop on a ledge at the base of an ancient stone column and sent emails |
| 1:30.0 | and filed a radio report over the internet using free public no password Wi-Fi. |
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