Real or Fake?
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories: Katerina Vittozzi is in northeastern Nigeria, where assassinations, bombings and kidnapping are now combined with starvation. But amid the bleakness she also finds ingenuity and survival. Emma Jane Kirby goes to the source of much of the fake news that swirled around social media sites during the US presidential election - and it's nowhere near America. In Nicaragua, Nick Redmayne is shown the proposed route of another huge canal, akin to the Panama canal; and he hears how the country's revolutionary fervour, as symbolized by the Sandinistas in the 1980s, is hard to find nowadays. Austrians could be about to elect the EU's first far right head of state. "I'm not a fighter, I'm a calm man," the far right candidate tells Bethany Bell. But others believe he's a wolf in expensive sheep's clothing. And in California, where anything can happen, Kieran Cooke is invited to a wedding. The catch is....he has to do the marrying.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading from our own correspondent. |
| 0:02.8 | This is the edition that was broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday the 3rd of December 2016, |
| 0:08.9 | and it's introduced as always by Kate Aide. |
| 0:12.4 | Hello, today what is real? |
| 0:15.0 | There's news and there's the specter of fake news |
| 0:19.0 | which reared its head in the US presidential election. |
| 0:22.0 | Our correspondent investigates in of all places Macedonia. |
| 0:27.4 | In Nicaragua we find that revolutionaries aren't what they used to be. |
| 0:32.4 | In Austria the right-wing candidate for head of state |
| 0:35.3 | is suspected of being a wolf in sheep's clothing. And in California, our |
| 0:40.0 | correspondent is telling us he just might be addressed as Monsignor sort of. |
| 0:47.0 | First to northeast Nigeria where the government has been boasting of success in driving back |
| 0:51.9 | Bolko-Horam. The militants have been pursuing a |
| 0:55.0 | campaign of bombings, assassinations and abductions, as they seek to create an |
| 0:59.8 | Islamic state. On top of the violence, crop destruction, curfews and looting, many people are now |
| 1:06.1 | facing starvation. The UN talks of the greatest crisis on the continent. Amid all the bleakness though there are stories of |
| 1:14.6 | ingenuity and survival, Katerina Vitotsi has come across one. |
| 1:19.1 | Classroom 4a is named as I stand in its doorway. |
| 1:23.8 | A man dressed in a thick white embroidered calfan |
| 1:26.6 | holds a black wax crayon in one hand. |
| 1:29.5 | He pushes it hard onto the plaster wall lindle |
| 1:32.0 | above the room's door and writes the number and letter. |
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