The Lap of Luxury
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
When Madeleine Morris returned to her native Australia after twelve years in the UK she knew she'd find things different there, but she didn't realise her wallet would take such a battering! Ian Pannell, in northern Syria, finds a group of little boys sheltering in a Roman-era tomb and asking where their mother's got to. Craig Jeffrey's at the Indian college where once students demonstrated for the right to cheat in exams. Sicily looks like being one of the key battlegrounds in the Italian election -Chris Morris is there communing with the dead ahead of the big vote. And as France prepared to take on England in the Six Nations tournament at Twickenham, Chris Bockman finds the congregation deep in prayer at a church they call 'Our Lady of Rugby.'
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from the from our own correspondent studios at Broadcasting House in London. |
| 0:04.8 | You've downloaded the latest edition of the program broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:09.2 | It's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:11.6 | Today a tough first job for the new Secretary of State as he heads for the Middle East |
| 0:16.8 | in search of a formula for peace in Syria. |
| 0:20.4 | We visit the sleeping beauty of Palermo as Sicilians prepare to vote in the Italian general election. |
| 0:27.0 | Ahead of today's big match at Twickenham, we find out who's been praying to Our Lady of Rugby. |
| 0:34.3 | And how can anyone afford to eat here? |
| 0:37.2 | An Australian colleague returns home after 12 years in the UK and is bowled over by the prices. |
| 0:45.0 | John Kerry leaves for his first foreign trip as America's new Secretary of State tomorrow. |
| 0:50.0 | On top of his agenda, in talks with American allies in the Middle East and Europe, is the civil war in Syria. |
| 0:57.0 | The violence there continues unchecked. |
| 1:00.0 | More than 50 people died in a car bomb explosion in Damascus on Thursday, |
| 1:05.0 | close to the offices of the ruling Bath Party. |
| 1:08.0 | Earlier in the week, two mortar shells exploded close to the presidential palace in the capital. |
| 1:14.0 | Ian Panell says that while the talking, the international diplomacy go on, |
| 1:20.0 | the situation on the ground in Syria becomes ever more desperate. |
| 1:24.0 | A small band of rebel fighters pointed toward a gaping hole in the ground in the middle of an |
| 1:28.9 | orchard. |
| 1:29.9 | Sometimes families live there to keep safe, I was told. |
| 1:33.0 | We were in the north of the country on one of Syria's multitude of front lines, |
| 1:38.0 | the thunderous sound of war ebbing and flowing around us. |
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