The Unsolved
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Voting with your husband, unsolved murders, cooking on the centre spot, shamans and mud. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Melissa Van Der Klugt is in India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, where a giant exercise in democracy has been taking place but where illiteracy and political ignorance remains high. Peter Walker, in Malawi, comes across worrying signs that the police are ready to sweep murder under the carpet. In China, they're spending a fortune on football but will it bring world cup glory, as the President wants. Richard Dove has his doubts. In Peru, Simon Parker comes face to face with an Andean Shaman for the first time and hears concerns that too many tourists are more interested in bragging rights and profile pictures than in the sacred heritage of Machu Picchu. And in Vermont, winter is fading and they're on the cusp of spring - it's time to get dirty, says Christine Finn, because it's Mud Season.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.0 | Thank you once again for listening to From Our Own Correspondent, which was broadcast on Radio 4 on Thursday, the 9th of March 2017, |
| 0:11.0 | and now getting down and dirty, and you'll be hearing what I mean here's Kate |
| 0:16.0 | Aide. Hello today getting away with murder in Malawi where talk of judicial reform seems to be getting nowhere. |
| 0:26.0 | Top football and money go hand in hand, but can that work in China? |
| 0:31.4 | Planning a holiday, fancy a mading crowd, then head for Peru and its ancient ruins. |
| 0:37.0 | And in Vermont, it's not the season of the leaves, but rather spring and mud. |
| 0:44.8 | Correspondents covering elections, rather than trudging across the whole country, |
| 0:49.5 | often head for a key seat where they hope to predict the wider picture. |
| 0:54.5 | In India's vast electorate, that's Uttar Pradesh, known as the Kingmaker and seat of Prime |
| 1:00.4 | Minister Modi. |
| 1:01.9 | It's the most popular state, but as Melissa Vandocloct explains, despite its political |
| 1:07.1 | importance it's also one of the poorest regions. |
| 1:11.5 | There is a festival atmosphere. The sun is setting over the domes and minarets of Lucknow, the state |
| 1:16.6 | capital of Uttar Pradesh, and entire households have gathered on their rooftops. Mothers hand |
| 1:22.1 | out packets of crisps to their children and trays of tea |
| 1:25.2 | are passed around. Down below, the square and streets are thronging with thousands of people |
| 1:30.7 | as far as the eye can see. Banks of TV presenters arrayed on trucks |
| 1:35.4 | shout over the din as cameras flash and policemen blow whistles. Finally the |
| 1:41.5 | crowd parts for procession of motorised floats carrying groups of waving politicians. |
| 1:46.0 | Bollywood music blares out and rose petals shower down. |
| 1:50.0 | On top of a campaign bus, the leaders of the Samajwadi Party and Congress Party take to their microphones. |
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