the Kony film
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A hundred million plus hits on the internet. Our Africa correspondent Andrew Harding on the film about warlord Joseph Kony and why it's received the thumbs down from an audience in Uganda. A group of former paramilitaries and police officers from Northern Ireland have been to South Africa to see how combatants in the apartheid era there are now trying to come to terms with their troubled past -- Fergal Keane joined them. 'A steady pulse of pleasure' as Simon Worrall sails to the fabled Spice Islands in the wake of the great nineteenth century naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace. Joanna Robertson's been to the cinema in Paris seeing how French children are being educated to become the film experts of the future. And Peter Day describes the extraordinary Chinese ghost town -- empty streets, half-finished buildings -- which suggests to some that the great real estate bubble there has finally burst.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from Bush House in London, home to From Our Own Correspondent. |
| 0:05.0 | You can hear the World Service edition of our programme by going to the From Our Own Correspondent |
| 0:10.1 | website, but this is a download of the latest broadcast on Radio 4. |
| 0:15.0 | It's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:17.0 | Today, police and former paramilitaries from Northern Ireland sit down to dinner in South Africa and talk of reconciliation. |
| 0:24.9 | A Chinese ghost town, does it mean the extraordinary property bubble there has finally burst? |
| 0:30.8 | The warlord film with 100 million internet hits gets the thumbs down from an audience in |
| 0:36.4 | Uganda and in the Spice Islands of Indonesia one of bird watching's high-five moments, an appearance by a red bird of Paradise. |
| 0:46.5 | The decades of violence in Northern Ireland left behind them more than a thousand unsolved |
| 0:50.9 | murders. |
| 0:52.2 | As the peace process becomes a part of history |
| 0:54.0 | there's now demand for a new process, |
| 0:57.0 | one which deals with the pain of the past. |
| 0:59.0 | A group of senior Northern Ireland policemen |
| 1:01.0 | has just been to South Africa, along with several former IRA and |
| 1:05.4 | loyalist paramilitaries. |
| 1:07.6 | Fergel Keen, who was our correspondent in Ireland as well as in Johannesburg, says they were seeing what could be learned from the |
| 1:13.9 | reconciliation process South Africa's been through in the years since the end of |
| 1:18.1 | apartheid. On the evening before I left Belfast for good, I got into my car and drove for one last time |
| 1:25.5 | around the city where I'd spent the previous five years of my life. I was leaving for Africa in the |
| 1:30.5 | morning. This was long before a ceasefire, sectarian murder gang still |
| 1:35.4 | roamed across the peace lines. Policemen were being shot in their homes. |
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