Village People
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
From the Valley of Peace in Belize to a Libyan militia base, Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world.
In Tripoli, Tom Stevenson is given a tour by one of the country’s many militias and gets a rare glimpse of how the armed groups operate. In North Korea, Steve Evans learns that answering back may mean you never get to go back, despite his best efforts at reconciliation through whisky. Nina Lakhani reports from the Belizean village that became home to those fleeing violence in Central America in the 1980s and is now attracting a new wave of migrants. Graeme Fife returns to the place he once called home in rural French and, to his surprise, finds new life flowing into a once-moribund village. And animatronic wise men and a robotic Adam and Eve greet Heidi Fuller-Love as she takes a tour of a religious theme park in trans-gender friendly Argentina.
Producer: Joe Kent
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.0 | Thanks for downloading from our own correspondent. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the edition that was broadcast on Radio 4 |
| 0:08.0 | on Thursday, June 15th, 2017. |
| 0:11.0 | With the tale of why answering back in North Korea might just mean you never get to go back and other stories here's Kate Ade. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello, today we're in the Valley of Peace, a slice of jungle in Belize, which became home to those |
| 0:26.4 | fleeing violence in Central America in the 1980s. Now there are more migrants and not always |
| 0:32.3 | welcome. |
| 0:33.6 | A lesson from North Korea, while a bottle of whiskey may help win over your minders, it's best |
| 0:38.9 | not to argue with the head of security in charge of foreign journalists. |
| 0:43.6 | In rural France, our correspondent finds new life flowing into the once moribund village where |
| 0:49.2 | he used to live, and a trip to a religious theme park in transgender friendly Argentina. |
| 0:57.0 | There are two rival parliaments in Libya today and three governments, but none can claim real authority over the whole country. |
| 1:05.0 | Instead it's the myriad local armed militia that hold real power. |
| 1:10.0 | Following the rebellion in 2011, when rebels backed by NATO airstrikes |
| 1:14.3 | removed the dictator Moamagadafi as many as 1700 different armed groups emerged. |
| 1:21.3 | Last week a militia in the west of the country said it had freed Seyfell Islam |
| 1:25.7 | Gaddafi, the dictator's powerful son and preferred successor after holding him for six years. |
| 1:32.4 | While in Tripoli rival groups continue to fight for control of the capital. |
| 1:36.8 | On his recent trip there, Tom Stevenson was granted a rare insight |
| 1:40.9 | into how one of these groups operate. |
| 1:44.1 | If you're going to run a militia in Tripoli, you need a base, somewhere from which to launch |
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