Reversing the Ageing Process
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Now where have I put the car keys? A Japanese neuro-scientist believes a regular brain 'workout' can improve the lives, and the memories, of older people who might otherwise fall victim to dementia; Italy's planning to tell the UN Security Council next week that the country's in urgent need of more help in dealing with the tide of migrants washing up on its shores - we're in a port in Sicily where boatloads of them now arrive almost every day; the authorities in Saudi Arabia show our correspondent round a high security jail near Riyadh where, they say, they are succeeding in reforming extremists from ISIS and al-Qaeda; farmer suicides in India - many possible reasons are cited for their decisions to kill themselves but it's clear that distress among the agricultural community is part of a wider malaise afflicting the countryside. And on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba there's increasing concern about the snake population's tendency to go hitch-hiking!
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| 0:00.0 | You have downloaded from our own correspondent. This edition is the latest one broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:06.0 | And here to introduce it is Kate A.D. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello, out smarted and humiliated by someone in her 80s. |
| 0:13.8 | We're at a brain gym in Japan where they say the aging process can be put into a reverse. |
| 0:20.0 | The farmer suicides in India, why they highlight a crisis in the countryside and a decline in village life. |
| 0:27.0 | Luxury sweets, well-stocked fridges, 148 TV channels, the surreal world of a high security prison in Saudi Arabia. |
| 0:36.0 | And hitchhiking might not be the right of passage it once was here, but no one, it seems, |
| 0:41.1 | has told the snakes on the Caribbean island of Aruba. |
| 0:45.9 | The Italian authorities are again demanding that the European Union do more to help manage |
| 0:50.6 | the tide of migrants arriving on their shores. |
| 0:54.0 | Last weekend, naval and coastguard vessels rescued some 6,000 people from the Mediterranean. |
| 1:00.3 | The surge in the number of boats trying to make the crossing was put down to fine weather and benign sea conditions. |
| 1:06.0 | It's believed more than 1,700 migrants have died this year in the waters between Libya and Italy. |
| 1:12.0 | The UN Security Council is to discuss the Italian call for help early next week. |
| 1:17.0 | Daniel Gordon's been to one of the Sicilian ports where the arrival of migrants has become an almost daily occurrence. |
| 1:24.2 | I found the spot where some of the migrant boats are laid to rest. |
| 1:27.6 | Their graveyard is a patch of bare concrete tucked inside the port of Potsalo. The decrepit fishing vessels used to ferry the migrants |
| 1:35.2 | from the other side of the Mediterranean lie at awkward angles on the ground here. Their names |
| 1:40.8 | adorbed on their sides in bright colours, the Arabic lettering peeling off, |
| 1:44.7 | their cabin roofs rounded like giant children's bath toys, their hulls painted in tasteful shades of light blue and red. |
| 1:55.4 | I got talking to a man called Jezeb who runs a cargo company at the port. You see those boats at the back, he said, pointing towards the perimeter fence. |
| 2:01.3 | Which would you say is cleaner? |
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