Tiny Boats at Sea
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Spain crawls painfully out of recession but Pascale Harter, in Barcelona, says so much damage has already been done to Spanish families; in America, six million manufacturing jobs have gone but there are still some things Made in the USA, as Mike Wendling's been discovering in New York State; one territory full of natural resources is Inner Mongolia, which is part of China. But, as Martin Patience has been learning, there are concerns that development's coming at a heavy cost to tradition and heritage; Edward Lewis climbs aboard the train to Luxor to ask passengers what they make of Egypt's military leader Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and Simon Atkinson, in the deserts of Abu Dhabi, learns what exactly it is that makes a camel beautiful.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. It's the latest edition of From Our Own Correspondent, broadcast on Radio 4, |
| 0:06.8 | and it's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello, in this edition Spain crawling slowly out of recession, but how many lives have been ruined by long years of economic chaos? |
| 0:19.0 | In America, six million manufacturing jobs gone. Does the US make anything anymore? In a Mongolia |
| 0:26.4 | may be rich in natural resources, but there's concern about disappearing heritage and |
| 0:31.0 | tradition. Children there, we're told told are lost like tiny boats at sea. |
| 0:35.0 | And is it the legs, is it the eyelashes? |
| 0:39.0 | Perhaps it's the hump. |
| 0:40.0 | We're in the deserts of Abu Dhabi, finding out what exactly makes a camel beautiful. |
| 0:47.0 | Now is the worst really over in Spain? |
| 0:50.0 | Certainly the latest economic indicators are being studied with keen interest, they show the country |
| 0:54.6 | emerging from recession for the first time since its decade-long property bubble burst |
| 0:59.7 | six years ago. Unemployment remains a serious problem. This week the |
| 1:04.4 | jobless total was up, but not as sharply as last month. At 26% though it's still |
| 1:10.0 | higher than in any other European Union country bar Greece. |
| 1:14.9 | Not surprisingly, any suggestion that recession is now officially a thing of the past has been |
| 1:19.4 | welcomed, but as Pascal Hart has been finding out in Barcelona, many Spaniards can't quite believe the news. |
| 1:27.0 | Recently, I've taken to trying out this phrase on people I meet. The economy's growing then. Hmm, so they say, is invariably the response. |
| 1:38.0 | Viewed from inside the country, Spain's economic recovery, much vaunted on the pages of international newspapers, is perplexing. |
| 1:47.0 | That's because here there's no sign of it. |
| 1:50.0 | No sign of the new jobs a recovery should bring either. |
| 1:54.0 | And much of the damage has already been done. |
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