Peeling Back the Layers
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Stories of surface image - and underlying reality - from around the world, introduced by Kate Adie. In Moscow, the alleged killers of liberal politician Boris Nemtsov are on trial, but questions remain about who was really responsible for his murder. Sarah Rainsford, who remembers Nemtsov as one of the poster boys for the newly democratic Russia of the 1990s, describes seeing the legal process unfold in court. In Ethiopia, some of the country's finest farmland is drying out as drought threatens the food supply for almost 18 million people - and Nicola Kelly's left unsure that traditional methods of weather forecasting, like reading signs in the livers of slaughtered goats, can work in these conditions. While travelling in Costa Rica's verdant forests, Tim Hartley also dug into the causes of a rot creeping across the country: corruption, on both the small and large scale. Bob Walker's been trudging a pilgrimage path in the footsteps of St Olaf through rural Sweden, and stepped into some ongoing debates about how many migrants the country could or should shelter. In Morocco, it's not easy for women to walk unmolested and Morgan Meaker hears from some who'd like to put an end to the endemic harassment on the streets.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading from our own correspondent. |
| 0:03.0 | This edition was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday the 6th of October 2016. |
| 0:09.0 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello. Today we head north to Sweden where winters are colder and so is the welcome for immigrants these days. |
| 0:19.9 | We travel to Costa Rica where the delightful Tukans and |
| 0:23.0 | Jaguas inhabit the forest, but corruption infests much of the |
| 0:27.1 | rest of the country. You can get your weather forecast from a phone or a tablet, but why not try the Ethiopian way with a dead goat? |
| 0:37.2 | And from Morocco, one woman's ploy to push back the tide of sexual harassment which |
| 0:41.9 | plagues the country. |
| 0:44.7 | We begin in Russia where the men accused of murdering Boris Nemtsov have been put on trial. |
| 0:51.0 | Nemtsov was a prominent opposition figure. Some would see him as the last who publicly |
| 0:55.8 | stood up to President Putin. His supporters point the finger at the Kremlin, but the |
| 1:01.3 | state has unsurprisingly put forward its own theory about the |
| 1:04.8 | murder as Sarah Rainsford has been hearing. I was once arrested with him at a |
| 1:09.8 | demonstration. The old man with the bushy beard told me as we perched on a damp curb close to the Kremlin. |
| 1:17.0 | I joined Grigori at the spot where Boris Nemt-off was murdered last year. |
| 1:22.0 | It still marked with buckets of fresh flowers and photographs. was lived here, Boris Nemtsov was one of Russia's rising new stars. He was even touted as a contender for president. |
| 1:37.2 | That start faded under President Putin's long rule, as Russia's liberal opposition was marginalised. |
| 1:43.2 | But Mr. Nemstoff remained a defiant critic of those in power, |
| 1:47.1 | speaking out on everything from the war in Ukraine to corruption. |
| 1:50.8 | On February the 27th last year he was silenced with six bullets fired at his |
| 1:56.8 | back. Now Grigori turns out twice a week to keep watch at this memorial. He's one of a team of volunteers who guard the spot |
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