Tomorrow You Will Be Heroes
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The human stories behind the headlines. Like any war, the one against Ebola is leaving scars which will take generations to heal, as Grainne Harrington has been finding out in Guinea. Mark Rickards on how, at last, the outside world has found a way to infiltrate the hidden Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. The Chinese are calling for the UK to return art looted by the British soldiers who destroyed the Summer Palace in Beijing in 1860 - Chris Bowlby's been investigating. After the Syriza victory in Greece, Podemos in Spain reckons it could be next to win an election on left-wing policies; Tom Burridge has been with party activists in Valencia. And how was the poet W.B.Yeats associated with bizarre goings-on at a cemetery near Paris? Hugh Schofield tells a story of the mysterious forces some believe govern the universe. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to hear from our own correspondent. We do two versions of the program, one for the BBC World Service, and this one's a download of the latest edition from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:11.0 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello, tomorrow you'll be heroes, a promise for the Ebola volunteers in Guinea risking their lives transporting |
| 0:20.8 | the sick and burying the dead. |
| 0:23.8 | First Greece, now Spain, the crowds turn out for Pudemos and its campaign against corruption, austerity |
| 0:30.2 | and the politics of old. |
| 0:33.0 | They took away our most beautiful art. |
| 0:35.1 | We hear how British soldiers made off with a priceless collection amassed over centuries by |
| 0:40.4 | Chinese emperors. |
| 0:42.3 | And it's off to France for a story about W.B. Yates and bizarre |
| 0:46.1 | goings on at a cemetery on the banks of the Sen. |
| 0:51.0 | African Union leaders meeting in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa |
| 0:55.0 | have been discussing the economic recovery of the countries affected by the Ebola virus. |
| 1:00.0 | They're talking of setting up a solidarity fund, as well as what they're calling an African |
| 1:05.2 | Center for Disease Control. |
| 1:07.8 | The worst outbreak of the virus in history has resulted in close to 9,000 deaths, almost all of them in the West African |
| 1:14.8 | nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. |
| 1:18.4 | Grania Harrington has been to the forest region of Guinea where the outbreak first began to talk to people working with |
| 1:24.6 | Ebola patients there. |
| 1:27.4 | Drive through the main market in Zarekore, past the stall selling dried fish for stews, piles of peanuts and live crowing roosters. |
| 1:36.0 | Weaved through the motorbikes and the children selling plastic pouches of water and |
| 1:40.5 | Ghanaian flags and head northeast on a quiet country road. |
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