Secrets of the Peace Prize

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🗓️ 4 October 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Inside the room where the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is picked. A committee spends six months discussing hundreds of nominees before the latest Nobel Laureate is announced. In Norway, Matt Pickles meets one of the five people tasked with making that weighty decision. Caroline Wyatt introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.

Samira Shackle travels to the Pakistani city of Kasur which generated headlines around the world after a spate of child abuse cases. There she meets a young man trying to break free of what he calls the “stigma” and “dishonour” that can come from being sexually abused. Martin Vennard spots signs of change in Moscow, where airport arrival and departure boards now alternate between Russian, English, and Mandarin. Mark Stratton finds out why traditional or ‘country’ foods are getting harder to find in Arctic Canada – from blubber to boiled seal. And Louise Cooper takes an economic road trip around post-financial crash Greece.

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:04.0	Hello, today. We hear how one young man in Pakistan is trying to break free of what he calls the dishonor that can follow being sexually abused. In Russia we find out
0:16.0	why Germany is the football team of choice for the rapidly increasing number of
0:20.4	Chinese tourists there. We take an economic road trip around Greece and there's an offer he can
0:27.9	refuse for our correspondent in Canada's Arctic North. Fermented walrus, a local delicacy that smells a bit like raw sewage.
0:37.0	Barak Obama, Al Gore and Jimmy Carter have all won it.
0:42.0	Mikhail Gorbachev, Mother Theresa, and the Dalai Lama too.
0:46.0	Could Donald Trump be next?
0:48.0	The current American president certainly thinks he's in with a chance,
0:52.0	and there have been some controversial winners in the past.
0:55.0	Well, soon the suspense will be over.
0:58.0	By this time tomorrow morning, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee will have announced which
1:02.0	world figure or organization has won this year's award.
1:06.5	Matt Pickles went to Oslo to meet one of the people making that weighty decision.
1:11.3	It's 1am on a Thursday and Café Sara is heaving. The bar just north
1:17.8	Voslow centre is full of young Norwegians drinking craft ale and using snus, little packets of tobacco, nestled into the mouth
1:26.1	between hoppy sips.
1:28.5	The barman Emile is drying a glass and chatting to a regular.
1:32.2	They're debating who will win this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
1:35.0	It has to go to the leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea, says Emile, referring to the peace deal
1:41.1	and July which brought two decades of conflict to an end.
1:44.8	No, it won't be them, says Thomas, leaning back on his stool and stroking his thick beard,
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