The Black Cowboy
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
How did Herb Jeffries become a black cowboy film star when he wasn't even black? Sarfraz Manzoor travels to Kansas in search of the answer. Mike Wooldridge is in Pakistan - an election date's been announced but will the new team of rulers tackle what some call an alarming rise in religious intolerance? Western Sahara is not much reported upon: Celeste Hicks goes there and tells a tale of secret police, comic book spies and wobbling octopus. Anthony Denselow travels to Uttar Pradesh in India to find out why so many widows make their way to the city of Vrindavan. And the Chinese have developed a thirst for fine wine. Jim Carey has been discovering that Australia's winemakers want a slice of this potentially huge new market. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. |
| 0:02.0 | It's the latest edition of From Our Own Correspondent, |
| 0:05.5 | Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:10.0 | Today, growing religious intolerance in Pakistan and not much sign of the politicians tackling it |
| 0:16.5 | a tale of secret police comic book spies and wobbling octopus from Western Sahara |
| 0:28.0 | the Australians try to cash in on China's thirst for fine wine, and were off to Kansas to meet the first black cowboy film star, but things we find are not what they seem. |
| 0:36.0 | The government in Pakistan completes its full five-year term this week, and the country is heading |
| 0:41.1 | towards elections in May. |
| 0:43.2 | Already a landmark has been reached. |
| 0:45.4 | It's the first time since the creation of Pakistan in 1947 |
| 0:49.4 | that any elected government has completed a full term. |
| 0:53.0 | Mike Waldridge in Lahore says the next set of rulers will inherit many challenges. |
| 0:58.4 | One of them is the increase in sectarian violence and what many in Pakistan are calling an alarming rise in intolerance. |
| 1:06.0 | La Hoor is a city of great renown and with good reason. |
| 1:10.0 | In the bustling streets around its imposing fort there are ornate balconied houses, palaces and shops, some dating back centuries. |
| 1:18.5 | The city has a buzz about it and it's long been famous for its poets, writers and intellectual life. But I felt I was |
| 1:26.4 | leaving that Lahore behind when we turned off a busy thoroughfare into the much narrower |
| 1:31.4 | streets of a more rundown and industrial area. |
| 1:35.0 | A side turn had been closed to traffic with coiled barbed wire and watchful police. |
| 1:41.2 | From this barrier there were tents on either side of the road full of families. |
| 1:45.6 | Relief workers were handing out food and just beyond that there were the first heavily |
| 1:50.0 | damaged and gutted homes and small businesses of the Christians of Joseph Colony and the piles of |
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