Saddam Hussein Lives!
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Stories from foreign correspondents. In this edition: Prashant Rao meets an Iraqi called Saddam Hussein and hears how difficult it is being named after the brutal and hated dictator; Lynne O'Donnell visits the famous 'laneways' of Melbourne in Australia and wonders whether this precious example of architectural heritage is being properly looked after by the local council; Jane Beresford finds her preconceptions shattered when she visits the Beirut suburb associated with the Hezbollah movement; Tamasin Ford journeys to a remote corner of Madagascar where an illegal trade in a rare wood is worth billions and Alan Johnston in Rome considers the man most likely to be Italy's next prime minister and suggests his strength may actually lie in his inexperience.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. It's the latest edition of From Our Own Correspondent, broadcast on Radio 4, |
| 0:06.8 | and it's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:09.1 | Hello. Today a provincial mayor gambles everything and takes charge of all of Italy. |
| 0:15.6 | An extraordinary journey across Madagascar and a site of an illegal trade worth billions. |
| 0:21.6 | It's been voted one of the world's finest cities, but the Council in Melbourne stands |
| 0:26.2 | accused of failing to look after some of its greatest architectural assets. |
| 0:31.2 | And it may be more than a decade since the death of Saddam Hussein, but for those Iraqis |
| 0:36.0 | named after him the sufferings not over. |
| 0:40.5 | Italy is being put under new management. |
| 0:43.0 | Its latest political crisis has thrown up its youngest ever Prime Minister, and surely it's |
| 0:47.7 | least experienced. |
| 0:49.7 | He's Mateo Rensi, a relatively youthful reformer who's promising to bring sweeping and much-needed change |
| 0:56.3 | to jolt the country out of years of stagnation and deepening Malays. |
| 1:00.8 | The Prime Minister Designate is at this moment working behind the scenes to try to |
| 1:04.6 | assemble a new coalition government. |
| 1:07.2 | He's expected to be sworn in on Saturday and is likely to face a confidence vote in Parliament |
| 1:12.0 | next week. |
| 1:13.0 | Alan Johnston's been watching the extraordinary rise and rise of Mateo Rentsi. |
| 1:18.0 | Mateo Rentsi is in his bones a man of Florence. |
| 1:23.0 | That's his place. |
| 1:25.0 | The quite small pond where he became the biggest fish, the city's mayor. |
| 1:29.0 | But Florence isn't where any real influence lies. |
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