November in Paris
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 21 November 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Foreign correspondents' stories. In this programme, Kevin Connolly talks of the dogged durability that got Parisians out to work again in the days after the terrorist attacks, 'the foot soldiers' ability to soldier on through the darkness'. Joanna Robertson, also in the French capital, says despite the huge numbers of police deployed in various parts of the city, many in the suburbs are complaining they've been left unprotected. She is asked: 'What's being done to protect our way of life?' Emma Jane Kirby meets up again with an Italian man who can't forget the day he went out boating and came across scores of migrants scattered across the sea, only some of whom he managed to rescue. A way of life comes to an end with the closing of a well-known narrow gauge railway in central India. Mark Tully's among the last to travel on the Satpura Lines in the centre of the country. A station master asks him: 'Why do they have to close such a busy railway?' Steve Evans tells us that in Seoul, a whole building is full of civil servants preparing for the day North and South Korea will finally be united. But that's a development unlikely to happen soon. Perhaps it will never happen and, as a result, Steve finds these are workers not over-burdened with work!
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading BBC Radio 4's from our own correspondent. |
| 0:04.4 | This edition with dispatches from France, Italy, Korea and India |
| 0:08.4 | was broadcast on Saturday, November the 21st, 2015. |
| 0:12.0 | And it was introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello, in this edition the Citizens of Paris deploy a weapon of their own in their war on terror. |
| 0:20.0 | The Italian Optician forever haunted by the time he went boating on the Mediterranean |
| 0:25.9 | and sailed into a disaster. |
| 0:28.8 | It's another quiet day at the office for the South Korean bureaucrats planning for reunification with the North, and why rail |
| 0:36.4 | travelers in Central India may soon find Hari Singh Tako's famous fresh samza's are off the menu. |
| 0:45.3 | It's reasonable to assume that further attacks are likely. |
| 0:48.4 | That's the perhaps not surprising forecast by the head of Europol, the EU's law enforcement agency. He told |
| 0:55.8 | lawmakers at a hearing in the European Parliament in Brussels that in IS |
| 1:00.0 | his officers now faced a serious, well-resourced and determined international organization, |
| 1:05.8 | which was now active on the streets of Europe. |
| 1:08.8 | Terror is of course the main weapon in their armory, but Kevin Connolly, our former Paris correspondent, there again |
| 1:15.3 | now in the wake of last week's attacks, says the ordinary citizens of Europe have |
| 1:19.8 | ways of dealing with it. |
| 1:21.8 | November was never really the month to visit Paris. |
| 1:26.0 | It's not quite Christmas when the cold brittle lights of the great department's doors glisten in the December |
| 1:32.4 | darkness and it's a long way from April with its sensuous hint of warmer, longer |
| 1:38.0 | evenings to come. At this time of year fallen leaves still lie around the plain trees as though they'd been shrugged off in an involuntary shudder at the coming of winter. |
| 1:50.0 | Some things here never change of course. |
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