Talking to Ghosts
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Reporters. Today, from Sierra Leone: why covering the Ebola outbreak is an assignment like no other, Andrew Harding; did the now-deposed leader of Burkina Faso ignore warning signs that an extension to his rule wouldn't be tolerated, Chris Simpson; Malta's an island rich in history and heritage, but it isn't only rooted in the past, Juliet Rix; Germany has its own views on immigration - official policy says the incomers must be made welcome, Jenny Hill; Germany and Korea were once BOTH divided countries; Steve Evans who's lived in Berlin and in Seoul finds these are nations which have much in common, yet they're very different too.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. It's from our own correspondent. |
| 0:05.0 | We make one version of the programme for the BBC World Service, |
| 0:09.0 | but this is the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It's introduced by Kate Ade. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello. Today it feels like talking to ghosts, how Ebola is leaving its mark on the rural villages of Sierra Leone. |
| 0:25.6 | A view from divided Korea as Germans start to celebrate the end of division in their country. |
| 0:32.1 | Now just another deposed African president, how the leader of |
| 0:35.4 | Bakuna Faso failed to read the writing on the wall. And there's new money, new |
| 0:40.5 | building, a new social order. Is that a revolution going on in Malta? |
| 0:46.3 | The head of a United Nations mission charged with fighting Ebola says he does not yet have the |
| 0:51.2 | resources necessary to defeat the disease. Tony |
| 0:54.5 | Bambrey, who's just visited the three West African countries worst affected by |
| 0:58.5 | the outbreak, said more help was needed urgently. The epidemic has killed more than 4,800 people so far, the |
| 1:06.6 | vast majority in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. Andrew Harding's been in |
| 1:11.6 | Sierra Leone this week looking at the efforts to contain the virus there. |
| 1:15.6 | They call it the witch's plane. It's an old legend, well fairly old. The story goes that an aeroplane |
| 1:21.4 | packed with flesh-eating witches, crash lands somewhere in the countryside in Sierra Leone, |
| 1:26.0 | bringing curses and misery to the population. |
| 1:29.0 | In the rural villages north of Freetown, there's been a lot of talk about it lately. |
| 1:33.0 | There's a quarantine order in place around Port Loco. |
| 1:36.0 | It's not exactly watertight, but the roads are mostly empty. |
| 1:39.0 | Soldiers and police armed with infrared thermometers, man, the checkpoints and glance at our permits. |
| 1:44.8 | There's an immediate sense of ordinary life suspended. |
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