The Busy Executioner
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Story-telling from reporters around the world. In this edition, as the UN, EU and others voice criticism of the number of executions now being carried out in Pakistan, our correspondent meets a hangman who talks frankly about his job; a colleague visits a far-right militia group's training camp in Ukraine and hears why it's against not only the pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country but also the government in the capital, Kiev; we gaze at a minaret in Tunisia and consider the forgotten history of a town where migrants FROM Europe once arrived in search of a new life. A reporter tours the capital of Albania, Tirana, and discovers why soft toys have been pressed in to service against the 'evil eye.' And we find out how a posse of elderly Italian ladies raised enough money to enjoy a holiday by the sea
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC Radios from our own correspondent, |
| 0:05.0 | the best in news and current affairs storytelling. |
| 0:08.2 | It's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello. |
| 0:11.4 | Today, international criticism for Pakistan as the number of executions grows, but the |
| 0:16.8 | Hangman tells us it's a job, it pays the bills. A clock spins backwards, as we recall migrants of an earlier millennium who sailed from Europe to build new lives in Africa. |
| 0:29.0 | We find out why bears, rabbits and monkeys are keeping watch over properties in Albania, and great |
| 0:36.4 | excitement among a group of Italian grannies, they're off to the seaside for the first time |
| 0:41.1 | ever. The United Nations has condemned a surge in the number of |
| 0:46.1 | executions carried out in Pakistan. The authorities there it says should reinstate |
| 0:51.3 | the moratorium on death penalties they lifted late last year. |
| 0:55.6 | The ban was removed after a Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar in December, in which |
| 1:00.1 | 150 people, most of them children, were killed. Since then there have been |
| 1:05.0 | nearly 200 executions. Five men were put to death inside the jail in Lahore yesterday. |
| 1:11.4 | The restoration of the death penalty has also been |
| 1:15.0 | criticized by the European Union and several human rights groups. |
| 1:19.0 | Shaima Kaleel's been to meet one man who doesn't share their views. |
| 1:23.0 | He's one of Pakistan's executioners. |
| 1:26.0 | Sabremacy is a busy man. |
| 1:29.0 | He's been up since before dawn this morning. |
| 1:31.0 | This has been his routine for the last eight months and he looks |
| 1:34.8 | exhausted. He told me how he felt when the government lifted the moratorium on the death sentence. |
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