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From Our Own Correspondent

Saints and Sinners

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2013

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The recent feuding within Nelson Mandela's family has reminded us that within the anti-apartheid hero's myth is a man and a family with very human frailties, as Gabriel Gatehouse ponders when he visits a play in Johannesburg. Yolande Knell pays a visit to the deported cleric Abu Qatada's new home - Jordan's al-Muwaqar Prison. Jo Fidgen joins the crew of a Norwegian whale hunting boat. Ed Stocker finds out why some poorer Bolivians can't afford to eat their staple food, quinoa, any more. And Dany Mitzman on the Calabrian mafia's most recent and high profile victim.

Transcript

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You're listening to a download from the BBC, this is from our own correspondent.

0:04.6

You can hear the version of the program we make for the BBC World Service by visiting our

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site at BBC online.

0:10.8

But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Aide.

0:16.0

Today we get a peek inside Deported Cleric Abuketada's new home.

0:21.0

We're on a whale hunt in Norway and we hear why Bolivians can't afford to eat

0:26.7

Kenwa anymore and the Calabrian mafia claims another victim.

0:33.0

Nelson Mandela remains in a critical but stable condition in a Pretoria hospital,

0:39.0

possibly unaware of the recent meltdown inside what many regard as South Africa's first family.

0:45.3

A squabble over the management of inheritance funds was followed by a court order for the

0:50.0

bodies of three of Nelson Mandela's children to be exhumed and returned to their

0:54.6

original graves. The scramble for control and ownership of the anti-apartheid

1:00.1

hero's legacy are reminders that within the Mandela myth there is a man and family with very human frailties as Gabriel Gatehouse pondered on a recent night out.

1:11.0

The other evening I went to the market theatre in Johannesburg. It's a place with a

1:16.7

proud history of staging anti-apartheid productions, frontline theatre at the

1:22.3

height of the struggle. This month they're running a play called

1:25.6

The Mountain Top by the American playwright Katore Hall. The action takes place in

1:31.0

Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

1:36.1

On stage are Martin Luther King Jr. and a maid Carmay.

1:40.9

It's the 3rd of April 1968. It's Carmay's first day on the job. It's the civil rights

1:46.6

leaders last night on earth. The audience and the

1:55.0

Tenseants all know what's to come.

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