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From Our Own Correspondent

The Death of Gypsy Music

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The best in news and current affairs story-telling. In this edition, the music which once provided the soundtrack to life in eastern and central Europe is fading into history, Nick Thorpe; a despatch by Fergal Keane from the Ukrainian city reduced to rubble by shelling; the Indian tea business hit by scandal and reports that workers face routine abuse, Humphrey Hawksley; Stephen Sackur's been to the Philippines to see how its economy is coping with a rapidly growing population and Heather Simons is on the island of Komodo in Indonesia, getting up close to the world's largest venomous reptile.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC radios from our own correspondent,

0:05.7

the best in news and current affairs storytelling.

0:08.8

It's introduced by Kate Aide.

0:11.0

Hello, scandal on the Tea Estates of India.

0:14.9

Their products sold in the smarter shops in London and New York, but some of their workers

0:19.1

are beaten, hungry and underpaid.

0:22.3

Also today we find that British sarcasm is a prized

0:25.6

commodity at the state-run housemaids academy in the Philippines. The

0:30.2

foreigners are coming to look at the Dragons of Indonesia. The locals are excited but worried.

0:36.1

And it thrived under communism. Perhaps it could even cure a meagrain,

0:40.8

but the gypsy music which once provided the heartbeat of Central and Eastern Europe

0:45.1

is almost gone.

0:48.0

But first the eight-month battle over the international airport in the Eastern Ukrainian city

0:52.4

of Dunyetsk has not only left the

0:54.5

runway and terminal in ruins, it's also destroyed the neighborhoods nearby. The

0:59.9

fighting between government forces and pro-Russian rebels has left the small, once picturesque

1:05.4

suburb of Octiabruski largely empty.

1:09.0

It's mainly one-story houses have been destroyed.

1:11.9

The tales of rockets can be seen sticking out of

1:14.8

pavements. Homeless dogs and cats whose owners have been killed or who have fled rush

1:20.6

up to meet the few people who wander through its deserted streets.

1:24.0

A shaky cease-fy is still in place for now,

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