The Power of God
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The remote religious retreat which has become the intellectual spearhead of Steve Bannon’s plans for a populist revolution in Europe. Edward Stourton visits the Trisulti monastery in Italy from where the vision of the former chief strategist to Donald Trump is being spread.
Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.
Lois Pryce is in Jamaica. As the battle against gang violence continues, and soldiers patrol some of its streets, she visits a village which claims to have almost no crime at all.
Nick Thorpe examines plans to boost the fertility rate in Hungary with cash and cars on offer for people willing to do their patriotic duty and make babies.
Sarah Treanor meets a young Muslim woman in Zanzibar who is flying drones to map the island and help save lives.
And Mike Thomson discovers that there are limits to the President's power in Liberia. He watches George Weah play football, have lunch and fail to get a flight delayed.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello. Today there's gang violence in Jamaica with soldiers patrolling the streets in |
| 0:11.4 | parts of the island, but we visit a village which claims |
| 0:14.4 | to have almost no crime at all. |
| 0:17.2 | How does the prospect of $30,000, never paying income tax again, and having a chunk of your mortgage debt cancelled sound? |
| 0:25.4 | All that and more is on offer in Hungary if you are married and prepared to make babies. In Zanzibar we meet a young drone pilot whose maps are saving lives |
| 0:37.6 | and in Liberia we watch the president play football, have a lavish lunch and then fail to get a flight delayed. |
| 0:46.6 | Populous parties are hoping to make big games in this year's European parliamentary elections. |
| 0:52.2 | Their leaders, including Mateo Salvini of Italy's Lega, |
| 0:56.0 | are championing the idea that the vote will mark a new direction for the European Union. |
| 1:01.0 | To bolster their case against immigration, some have been using Christian |
| 1:05.8 | symbols like the cross and the rosary to argue that they're the champions and |
| 1:10.2 | protectors of Christian civilization. Saints have been publicly venerated, |
| 1:15.4 | Bibles sworn on, and supporters called Apostles. |
| 1:19.2 | Edward Sturtons been investigating, which has taken him deep into the Italian countryside. |
| 1:26.1 | It was a bone-shilling day and as we switched back up through mountain villages the fog wrapped |
| 1:31.9 | itself around our car. The former monastery at |
| 1:35.1 | Trisulti clings to the edge of the Apennines. From its walls you could sense the |
| 1:40.4 | sheer drop below but you couldn't see a thing. Our host, Benjamin |
| 1:45.3 | Hanwell, greeted us in a dank Porter's lodge. The life journey that brought |
| 1:50.0 | him here reflects an unexpected web of connections between populist politics, |
| 1:55.0 | traditionalist religion and Donald Trump. A British-born convert to |
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