Sept 10, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Whatever happened to his notebooks? Jeremy Bowen, charting the demise of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, wonders why his precious notebooks keep going missing. Mishal Husain travels though five countries finding out about the role Twitter and Facebook have played in the Arab Spring. Thousands of Zimbabwean children have been making a long, risky and illegal journey south in search of a place in a South African schoolroom; Mukul Devichand's been metting some of them. Lesley Curwen's been to the US to find out how families are getting by during the economic downturn. And in Ireland, Fergal Keane sees signs of hope and optimism after the worst banking crisis and recession in the country's history.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC. |
| 0:02.8 | This is from our own correspondent. |
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| 0:18.3 | presenting the BBC Radio 4 edition here's Kate 80ighty. Today, a Libyan mystery. |
| 0:24.0 | How did a Gaddafi get hold of our correspondence notebook? |
| 0:28.0 | The unlikely history makers, the academics, the bloggers, the doctors, who've been at the forefront of the Arab Spring. |
| 0:34.0 | We meet the boys and girls from Zimbabwe, taking risks and traveling illegally in search of a place in school. |
| 0:41.0 | And an end of summer feeling in Ireland but also a suspicion that the days of economic |
| 0:46.5 | gloom may soon be over too. |
| 0:50.3 | The Libyan there are up to 700 fighters loyal to the old regime there. They've been told they have to |
| 1:05.2 | surrender by tonight. Fightings also reported to have intensified around the town of Sirt. |
| 1:11.2 | Jeremy Bowen spent the last few weeks reporting developments like these in Libya, but his |
| 1:16.3 | missing notebooks have proved something of a distraction. |
| 1:20.2 | I like notebooks. |
| 1:21.4 | I like writing things down |
| 1:23.2 | bits of detail color what people say their names memory joggers phone numbers |
| 1:28.4 | you name it I'm writing this in a notebook because we're out filming and I don't mean a small portable computer. |
| 1:36.4 | My notebooks have pages, hard black covers, a useful pocket inside the back and an elastic strap to stop them pinging open. |
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