The Knot Comes to the Comb
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Correspondents' stories: in this edition Maria Margaronis on the keenly-awaited Greek election; Will Ross meets soldiers who've been dismissed from the Nigerian army and asks them for their views on the battle against Boko Haram; Susie Emmett's in South Africa talking to farmers about controversial government plans for land reform; Richard Fleming's in Haiti where he's been meeting a photographer who found himself caught up in the devastating earthquake five years ago and Lucy Daltroff is on one of the many thousands of islands sprinkled along Chile's skinny coastline hearing magical legends and fears about what the modern world might bring once that community is joined to the mainland by a new bridge.
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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. |
| 0:08.0 | It's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, today changes in the air and we're not sure what it means for the repulsive |
| 0:15.7 | gnome in Chile who can kill with a look. But we do know what they're saying |
| 0:19.8 | about the possibility of a series of victory in Greece and political earthquake is one of the |
| 0:25.2 | milder terms being used. |
| 0:28.1 | Change is also coming to the peach, plum and nectarine orchards of South Africa Africa as the government pushes ahead with plans for |
| 0:34.6 | Black Run farms. |
| 0:37.0 | And as a new government promises change in Haiti, we find out what it was like being the sole representative of the world's press surrounded |
| 0:44.6 | by confusion, smoke, fear, and a river of traumatized people. |
| 0:50.7 | You won't find the word Brexit in any dictionary, but it's a term we're hearing more and more of, as Greeks prepare to go to the polls in their snap election. |
| 0:58.0 | Brexit of course refers to a Greek exit from the Eurozone, a distinct possibility if the far left |
| 1:04.4 | Syriza party comes out on top in Sunday's general election. The Economist |
| 1:09.0 | Intelligence Unit, among others, says a Syriza victory which send shockwaves through the EU and further afield as well. |
| 1:16.8 | But Maria Margaronis says many Greeks believe that time has come to change the political |
| 1:21.5 | shape of their country. The man in the metro station |
| 1:24.7 | outside the Greek parliament was tall and burly, grey-haired with a face like a |
| 1:29.5 | thundercloud. He held a pair of dented aluminium saucepons and wore a huge Greek flag draped over his |
| 1:36.6 | hunched shoulders. His left eye was puffed up in a yellow and purple bruise. |
| 1:40.9 | There'd been a fight with an Albanian about a dog, he said. |
| 1:45.0 | He was a lorry driver, unemployed now for three years, living on loans from his mother. |
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