What's in a Name?
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week:
Mark Lowen gauges the mood in Turkey today - and detects a hardening of public opinion against anyone thought to be associated with the attempted coup in July as well as an anti-Western backlash. Seref Isler was part of the BBC team covering those events and recalls what it was like to witness "the night no-one slept". Stephen Sackur's been to Attawapiskat and Calgary to hear of the very modern challenges threatening the survival of Canada's historic First Nations people: can the new Canadian Prime Minister's promises to help these communities be kept? In a Dakar nightclub, Nicola Kelly meets some aspiring DJs and hears their ideas on how to keep Senegalese young people from risking their lives on risky emigrant routes. And Martin Buckley is on the beaches of Corsica to learn why this island - along with the rest of France - has been convulsed with concern over the burkini.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading this edition of From Our Own Correspondent. |
| 0:03.7 | This is the programme first broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday the 20th of August, |
| 0:08.4 | and it's presented by Kate Adi. |
| 0:11.1 | Hello, this morning to the beach in France where wearing too much not too little has |
| 0:17.2 | become a political issue. In the far north of Canada, Aboriginal people beset by social problems, are waiting for the fresh start |
| 0:26.0 | promised by the government. |
| 0:28.1 | And what to do about the brain drain from Senegal. |
| 0:31.4 | We hear of an ingenious attempt to persuade young Africans of a brighter future |
| 0:35.8 | at home rather than a risky journey of migration. We begin in Turkey where the consequences |
| 0:42.4 | of the attempted coup a month ago are still reverberating. |
| 0:46.1 | The country's jails full of not just the military and civil servants, but teachers, journalists |
| 0:51.2 | and business executives. |
| 0:53.4 | The government sweeping purge of those it claims helped instigate the failed coup |
| 0:58.3 | dominates domestic policy. |
| 1:00.5 | But Mark Loeen has been measuring the profound effect of this hardline approach on international relations. |
| 1:07.0 | He'd been at the rallies in Ankara every night with his elderly father selling Ottoman style Fez hats. His smile and eyes were full of pride |
| 1:17.2 | as he talked of his love for the president. His name, appropriately, was Ali Erdogan. |
| 1:23.4 | On the night of the failed coup, he responded to President Erdogan's call |
| 1:27.4 | to flood onto the streets and stop the tanks. |
| 1:30.4 | And then, for over three weeks after the takeover was crushed he joined tens of thousands at nightly vigils in what they called a democracy watch. |
| 1:39.0 | Rolling up his sleeve to show his shrapnel wound Ali told me he'd do it again. |
| 1:44.1 | May my last drop of blood be given to this country for our flag and our people. |
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