The Chocolate Revolution
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Reporters' stories from around the world: why Rupert Wingfield Hayes believes North Korea's recent sabre-rattling speaks not of a regime that is strong and confident but one that is weak and scared, of the outside world and increasingly of its own people too. Emilie Filou accompanies the fly-catchers of Burkina Faso as they test an old legend - 'if you live too close to the river, it will eat your eyes!' Mexico's latest political scandal unfolds in a restaurant over the road from the BBC office - Will Grant's handily placed then to reveal all. 'A kind of hell' - Darius Bazargan finds out why heroin addiction's spreading through Afghani society and James Harkin's been on Turkey's border with Syria and tells a tale of the actress who couldn't stop crying and the boy who's made friends with a turtle.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download of BBC Radio's from our own correspondent. |
| 0:04.0 | We make one edition for the BBC World Service, |
| 0:06.6 | but this is the version of the programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:10.5 | It's introduced by Kate Aidey. |
| 0:13.0 | Today, the chocolate snacks fueling a revolution in North Korea. |
| 0:18.0 | A boy and a turtle keep each other company as the fighting goes on in Syria. The animal hunters of Burkino Faso |
| 0:25.7 | volunteering to be eaten alive, and Mexico's latest political scandal unfolding |
| 0:32.1 | just on the road from our office. |
| 0:35.4 | The American citizens sentenced this week to hard labor in a North Korean prison seems |
| 0:40.5 | likely now to be used as a kind of bargaining chip in future negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang. |
| 0:47.0 | Tour guide Kenneth Bay is said to have admitted trying to overthrow the government there. He'll probably do time in a |
| 0:54.7 | foreigners-only facility rather than in one of North Korea's notorious labor |
| 0:59.6 | camps where prisoners are sometimes beaten and even starved to death. |
| 1:04.9 | His sentencing follows weeks of aggressive comment from North Korea. |
| 1:09.3 | It's threatened both South Korea and the United States with nuclear war. But Rupert Wingfield Hayes |
| 1:15.4 | believes the saber rattling reveals a growing insecurity among the country's ruling |
| 1:20.5 | elite. Not a week goes by without the North Korean regime appearing to commit a fresh outrage. |
| 1:28.1 | This time it's an American tour guide, sentenced to 15 years hard labor, and for what? |
| 1:34.0 | Last month we were being threatened with nuclear war |
| 1:37.0 | by a 30-year-old despot with a bad haircut. |
| 1:40.0 | No wonder the Western media tends to fall back on cliches. |
| 1:44.0 | Mad, bad and sad. |
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