Salvini and The Sardines

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🗓️ 25 January 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The anti-nationalist protesters in Italy and the man they are trying to stop - Mark Lowen meets members of the Sardines as well the hard-line politician Matteo Salvini who is hoping to become Prime Minister. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories: In Cape Verde, Colin Freeman finds out why Europe’s drug problem is also a problem for the Atlantic islands. In Greece, Tulip Mazumdar visits the Lesbos migrant camp built for 2,000 people and now home to more than 18,000. In China, Yvonne Murray gets to know her new neighbours - rats. According to the Chinese zodiac, they are thought to be ambitious and clever, hard-working and imaginative but she finds them a little less appealing. And Fergal Keane reflects on heroism, compassion and the remarkable story of a woman who sheltered a man who plotted to kill Adolf Hitler.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	Good morning.
0:07.0	Today all is not what it seems on the islands of Cape Verde.
0:11.0	We hear how the locals are paying the price for being in the middle of the shortest drug route between Latin America and Europe.
0:18.0	The islands of Greece are also hosting uninvited visitors, and we go to an overflowing refugee camp. In China a new year
0:27.6	and it's the year of the rat but we're in a place where every year is the year of the rat and we have the remarkable story of the couple
0:36.3	who sheltered one of the men who tried to kill Hitler.
0:41.2	Italians get the opportunity more than most to go to the polls, and in the north of the country
0:47.1	tomorrow there's a local election that could have nationwide repercussions.
0:52.0	If the centre-left Democratic Party loses, it could fracture the ruling
0:56.0	coalition, eventually bringing down the Italian government, just what the leader of the
1:00.5	hardline League Party, Mateo Salvini, is campaigning for.
1:05.5	Mark Lones been to meet him and the people trying to stop him.
1:10.0	A Pucchini Aria wafted through the home of Luchiano Brati.
1:15.0	The 91 year old's shelves were filled with opera CDs, his walls with medals, from volleyball
1:21.6	championships, not from his youth fighting fascism.
1:25.7	I used to hand out anti-Nazi leaflets posting them through doors, he recalled,
1:30.8	his mind beginning to wonder. We were risking everything. One morning I walked
1:35.6	past the castle here in town and I saw the bodies of people the fascists had executed the night
1:41.6	before, just dumped there.
1:44.0	When the Nazis invaded Italy in 1943, Lucciano joined the partisans, the communists fighting to liberate the area.
1:52.0	Today, Italy's far right leader Mathio Salvini
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