War and Peace
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Over 60-years, reports for From Our Own Correspondent have tried to go beyond the headlines, and the tactical advances, to tell the human stories of war. Marking this programme's anniversary, Kate Adie introduces from the archives a compilation of despatches from frontlines around the world - and from the home front.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC radios from our own correspondent, |
| 0:05.7 | the best in news and current affairs storytelling. |
| 0:08.8 | It's introduced by Kate 80. |
| 0:11.3 | Good morning. |
| 0:12.3 | Today on the eve of this programme's 60th birthday, Tales of War and of the Peace which |
| 0:17.6 | usually followed. |
| 0:19.4 | From our own correspondent aims to bring you the stories behind the headlines. |
| 0:23.0 | Those accounts of human bravery, sacrifice or cruelty, |
| 0:27.0 | which short news reports can't convey. |
| 0:29.0 | But how to find the presence of mind to do that |
| 0:32.0 | when you're up against this. |
| 0:34.0 | This is Jane Stanley and Chang-Goo-Goo on the Rwanda-Zayev border with my N-469. |
| 0:40.0 | It's called Rwanda-Zayevorder-Sayevorder Schelling. |
| 0:42.0 | He comes in five. |
| 0:44.0 | Rwanda's promised retaliation came swift and hard. |
| 0:48.0 | Its troops launched an intense bombardment of mortars |
| 0:52.0 | and sustained machine gun fire against |
| 0:54.3 | Sayyrian positions in the hills above the border. The Zayyarins responded |
| 0:58.5 | its troops firing mortars which landed next to the bridge across the Rizzee River which marked the frontier. |
| 1:05.0 | Yes Jane. |
| 1:07.0 | Sorry I'll carry on I'm just moving. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay, I'll pick up. Go from the top. |
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