Too Many Ways to Talk
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
How do you keep your audience listening if the story's so hard to hear? That's what Alastair Leithead grapples with in South Sudan's civil war. Warsaw was all but destroyed in the Second World War, and the repercussions of that are still being felt today; Anna Meisel tells the story of the "property cleansers" who have pushed thousands out of their homes, and of the woman who tried to fight back. In New York's subway, John Mervin gets caught up in a rescue - and there's a message for those too attached to their phones. If Pelicans are your thing, Albania is the place to go because, as Elizabeth Gowing explains, these are philopatric birds. Tourism across North Africa has taken a hit because of terrorism; but Nick Redmayne, heads to Egypt's highest mountain, in Sinai, and hears how the old ways gave people a story to tell.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:02.0 | Thank you for listening to From Our Own Correspondent from Radio 4 on Thursday the 2nd of March 2017, |
| 0:09.0 | and we have all kinds of stories from across the globe, introduced by Kate |
| 0:14.3 | Adi. Hello. Storytelling lies at the heart of correspondence journalism, and |
| 0:20.2 | today's stories come from Poland and a tale of murder which has its route 70 years ago. |
| 0:26.0 | From New York, a correspondent's personal story of a subway drama and the mobile phone obsession. |
| 0:33.8 | From Albania, a report of a rarer avis and a rarer word, Philopatric, and in Egypt a traveler's |
| 0:42.0 | tale of a trek in Sinai and the disappearance of stories |
| 0:46.3 | despite people having so many ways to talk. |
| 0:51.3 | The United Nations has for the first time in six years declared a famine, this time in part of South Sudan, as fighting continues across the country. |
| 1:01.0 | The civil war there between forces loyal to the president and those loyal to the |
| 1:05.4 | former vice president has been going on for three years with allegations of |
| 1:10.1 | atrocities carried out against civilians by troops on both sides. |
| 1:15.0 | Thousands of people are escaping across the border to Uganda each day. |
| 1:19.7 | South Sudan is the world's youngest country, but it's now approaching the time when it'll have spent |
| 1:25.4 | longer at war than at peace. |
| 1:28.0 | Alistalethad has been to the town of Yea in the south, which has only recently been dragged into the conflict, but he says telling the story of what's going on isn't easy. |
| 1:38.0 | I wonder if you've started watching a TV news story and have been so disturbed by what you're seeing that you've just |
| 1:45.2 | turned off or turned over. It's my job to stop you doing that, to grab you with the |
| 1:50.5 | opening pictures, sounds or words, to pull you in, not push you away, |
| 1:55.0 | to make you empathize with the person whose life you're being |
| 1:59.0 | introduced to, |
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