The Fourth Banned 'T'
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Greece remains a land where millions go each year to enjoy their holidays. But Mark Lowen's discovered that it's now also a place where increasing numbers of people are finding it hard to cope with the austerity demanded of them. The Russian republic of Chechnya is enjoying the most peaceful time it's seen in years but Oliver Bulloughsays its people seem far from content. Linda Pressly's been to Israel to talk to some of the Haredi, the inclreasingly influential ultra-orthodox, who seem set to play a critical role in the country's future. Emma Jane Kirby is in St Tropez as the new French leader prepares to address his people on TV. She wonders if there might be lessons he can learn from the glitzy Cote d'Azure. Justin Rowlatt, in China, knows Tiananmen, Taiwan and Tibet are subjects the authorities might prefer him to avoid. But now he's learned there's a fourth T - toilets. The Chinese, he's been finding out, do not like people poking fun at their loos.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC, this is from our own correspondent. |
| 0:04.6 | You can hear the version of the program we make for the BBC World Service by visiting our site |
| 0:08.9 | at BBC online. |
| 0:10.8 | But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:16.0 | Today the Greek parents saying goodbye to children they can no longer afford to look after. |
| 0:22.0 | An embattled President Hollande prepares to address the nation |
| 0:25.2 | tomorrow, but will he consider the Santropea solution? In Chechnya, the war's over, the economy's |
| 0:31.6 | on the way back, but for many it seems there's nothing to do but sleep. |
| 0:36.0 | And you can say what you like, the Chinese censors tell us, but do not make fun of our lose. |
| 0:43.6 | The Greek Prime Minister has been meeting the EU President Hermann von Rompuy. |
| 0:48.3 | He was believed to be pleading for more time to achieve the spending cuts demanded in return for emergency loans worth billions of pounds. |
| 0:56.3 | The lenders, the EU, the IMF and the European Central Bank are also in Athens. |
| 1:02.0 | They're talking about a new round of austerity measures. There could be |
| 1:05.1 | further cuts in civil servants pay. Holiday makers who travel to Greece this summer report |
| 1:10.8 | the beaches were as lovely, the sunshines welcome, the ancient sites as |
| 1:15.0 | fascinating as always. But Mark Lowen says the effects of five years of recession have |
| 1:21.1 | become more and more evident. |
| 1:23.2 | I get a little tired after a while of the endless sheet washing, itinerary planning and bread buying, |
| 1:29.9 | but then living abroad you come to expect it. |
| 1:32.8 | For every summer my humble apartment in whichever country I'm posted turns into a convenient |
| 1:38.1 | hotel for friends, family and anybody I may have met at a party years ago who decides they fancy a free stay. |
| 1:46.3 | It can get a little trying, but on the whole I enjoy showing my guests a new city through |
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