The Stone Breakers
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
All of Europe is watching the Greek elections. Chris Morris says they could have a profound effect on the Euro and on the future of the European Union. The child stone breakers of Madagascar. They toil all day every day. It earns them just a few coins. And, as Luke Freeman finds out, there's no question of them ever going to school. He was one of Cuba's revolutionary heroes. The funeral of boxer Teofilo Stevenson has just taken place in Havana. Sarah Rainsford was there and later talked to some of the Cuban athletes trying to emulate his Olympic success at this year's Games in London. Jackie Bird has been to Korea with some of the Britons who fought in the war there sixty years ago. It's a conflict which few in Britain commemmorate. But there, the soldiers were applauded and thanked. Fuchsia Dunlop dons her dancing shoes and heads out into Shanghai to get a glimpse of what this Chinese city must have been like during the glittering, decadent pre-war years.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello this is the from our own correspondent office at Bush House in London. |
| 0:04.0 | You can check out what we're up to by signing up to our Twitter feed. |
| 0:07.4 | But here's a download of our latest program on BBC Radio 4, |
| 0:11.0 | introduced, as ever, by Kate Adi. |
| 0:14.0 | Today the Greeks stocking up with emergency rations in case chaos follows tomorrow's elections. |
| 0:20.2 | No question of school for the child's stone breakers of Madagascar toiling all day so others can get rich. |
| 0:27.0 | Koreans bow and applaud the British soldiers who fought in a war many here would prefer to forget. And we're off to the gate of a |
| 0:34.6 | hundred pleasures for a taste of decadent pre-war Shanghai. European eyes will be |
| 0:41.1 | firmly on Greece tomorrow. |
| 0:42.8 | Point as to how the general election vote has gone are due in the early evening. |
| 0:47.0 | The result could have profound consequences, not only for the euro, |
| 0:50.8 | but for the future of the European Union as well. The main contenders, the left-wing |
| 0:55.8 | Syriza grouping and right-wing New Democracy Party, are at odds over |
| 0:59.8 | whether Greece should reject the tough bailout deal imposed by its European partners. |
| 1:05.2 | Chris Morris has spent the last few days touring Greece where he's found people desperate to move |
| 1:09.5 | on from the instability and uncertainty which have stalked their country for months. |
| 1:14.5 | They were sitting in rows on small plastic chairs in the early evening sun. |
| 1:18.6 | I just arrived at a suburban election rally for Passock, the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Party, the former giant of Greek |
| 1:25.4 | politics, and the mood was to say the least downbeat. |
| 1:30.0 | But the most striking thing was this. |
| 1:31.8 | I couldn't see anyone paying attention to any of the speakers who could remotely be |
| 1:36.1 | described as young. |
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