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🗓️ 19 February 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:05.1 | Good morning. |
0:06.1 | Today, walls have cracked, houses have fallen apart, and heartbroken residents tell our |
0:11.9 | Netherlands correspondent it's all because of gas being extracted nearby. |
0:17.7 | We'll also hear about the tech revolution in Kenya, and the hope of leapfrogging over |
0:22.9 | some of the more clunky stages of industrialisation. |
0:27.2 | We'll take you on a walk around Paris, with the young French Algerian writer who caused |
0:31.9 | a stir in her own neighbourhood and beyond. |
0:35.4 | And would you buy a house that seemed perfect in every way, apart from being haunted? |
0:41.5 | It's something Japanese home buyers apparently take very seriously. |
0:46.2 | First, they came, they planted a flag, they held a barbecue on the beach. |
0:52.4 | Not the most dramatic of moments you might think, but when a boat carrying a group of |
0:56.9 | Checos Islanders landed on their homeland this week, it represented return after half |
1:03.3 | a century of exile. |
1:05.5 | The islands sit in the middle of the Indian Ocean, but were originally part of Mauritius. |
1:11.3 | Mauritius, in turn, was a British colony, and in 1972 Britain removed the Checos inhabitants, |
1:18.6 | so it could hand one of the islands over to the United States, the US wanted it as a military |
1:24.2 | base. |
1:25.7 | Not right ruled the International Court of Justice, and the United Nations voted that the islands |
1:31.3 | should be handed back. |
1:33.4 | But although Britain has promised to return the islands, at some point, it insists for |
1:39.0 | now they're still needed to protect the world from terrorism and organise crime. |
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