The Stradivarius Tree
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Colour and insight from reporters around the world: the man who'll find you a violin tree in the Jura Mountains; what's going to happen to the man who tends the roses in the Afghan town of Lashkar Gah? Culture clash in Bamako -- how some of the refugees from Mali's north are overstaying their welcome. Why the Mexican president's warning about vigilantes may not be heeded in the mountainous south-west and ominous signs as birds of prey gather in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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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. |
| 0:11.9 | In this edition, birds of prey gather ominously as Kenyans usher in a new political era. |
| 0:18.5 | A culture clash in the Malian capital Bamako, as some wonder when will those northerners go home? |
| 0:25.5 | The Mexicans who don't trust the police to protect them from the country's murderous drug |
| 0:30.2 | gangs, and the roses are flowering now in Lushkaga, but in the Jura Mountains there's a gardener whose efforts won't bear fruit until the 24th century. |
| 0:41.0 | The time has come to ask not what community you come from but what dreams we share. |
| 0:47.0 | Those were the words of Uhuru Kenyatta this week as he took office as Kenya's fourth president. |
| 0:53.0 | After another disputed election that was in the end resolved peacefully, |
| 0:57.0 | they're hailing it as a new beginning, |
| 0:59.0 | an end to the old |
| 1:04.0 | politics of ethnic division and violence that have bedeviled Kenyan elections |
| 1:05.2 | since independence half a century ago. But as the country settles into its |
| 1:10.1 | second Kenyatta presidency, some are beginning to question whether the son of Kenya's first |
| 1:15.9 | post-independence leader and one of the country's richest men really represents a break with the |
| 1:21.6 | past. Gabriel Gatehouse was with the past. |
| 1:22.8 | Gabriel Gatehouse was at the inauguration on Tuesday, |
| 1:25.9 | wondering what the future holds. |
| 1:28.4 | The kites were already circling, |
| 1:30.3 | while the sun was still low and the stadium not yet half full. |
| 1:34.0 | These medium-sized brown birds of prey are quite common in Nairobi in pairs or threes, |
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