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From Our Own Correspondent

The Ghosts of old Naples

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Reporters. Today: Alan Johnston on the richness of the past lying in the bones of the buildings in the historic heart of old Naples; Hugh Sykes in a minibus taxi in Tunis after an election which proved a victory for the secularists; Shaimaa Khalil in Lahore visits a palace of beauty which has been forced to face up to some ugly attitudes; Jon Donnison in Sydney talks to Muslims about the wave of Islamophobic attacks in cities across Australia; James Coomarasamy meets an unconventional mayor in Kentucky as the USA gears up for the mid-term elections

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0:00.0

Thank you for downloading this podcast. We make from our own correspondent for the BBC World Service as well.

0:06.0

But this is the edition broadcast on Radio 4 and it's introduced by Kate Aide.

0:12.0

Hello, today Tunisian vote. and it's introduced by case Aide.

0:12.7

Hello today Tunisian voters stick with one of their country's founding principles

0:18.2

that God must be separate from government.

0:21.2

There's help at hand for a woman in Pakistan who can no longer look at

0:26.1

herself in the mirror. In the heart of old Naples, the sad plight of the brick-red church of the

0:32.4

skull.

0:33.8

And Inbred and undead, it's a hillbilly zombie film,

0:38.8

but are they laughing down there in Bluegrass, Kentucky.

0:43.0

And then there was one.

0:45.0

Tunisia, the cradle of the Arab Spring, is today its only real survivor.

0:50.0

The revolt there infected at least half a dozen other Arab countries with rebellion and protest

0:56.3

and toppled the leaders of three of them, Egypt, Yemen and Libya.

1:00.5

Egypt has

1:05.0

almost a failed state and Yemen has become a battleground between the new government

1:10.0

and opponents who range from Shia separatists to Al-Qaeda.

1:15.0

Tunisia, exceptionally, has just had its second set of democratic elections

1:20.0

in which a secular alliance prevailed over an Islamist party.

1:24.0

Hugh Sykes witnessed the Arab Spring and its decline in Egypt,

1:29.0

and this week he was in Tunisia.

1:31.0

It was in Tunisia nearly four years ago in December 2010 that the

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