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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:ppg="http://bbc.co.uk/2009/01/ppgRss" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"><!--By accessing this feed you are warranting that you are using these feeds in accordance with the BBC's Terms of Use http://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/terms-of-use/. If you are using these feeds for business or commercial purposes you warrant that you have obtained the necessary licence from the BBC and that BBC services and content are made available strictly in line with the BBC's Distribution Policy--><channel><title>From Our Own Correspondent</title><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrtpm</link><description><![CDATA[<p>Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers telling stories beyond the news headlines. Presented by Kate Adie.</p>]]></description><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers telling stories beyond the news headlines. Presented by Kate Adie.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><itunes:owner><itunes:name>BBC</itunes:name><itunes:email>podcast.support@bbc.co.uk</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:new-feed-url>https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nrtpm.rss</itunes:new-feed-url><language>en</language><ppg:seriesDetails frequency="weekly" daysLive="-1"/><ppg:systemRef systemId="pid.brand" key="p02nrtpm"/><ppg:systemRef systemId="pid.genre" key="C00045"/><ppg:systemRef systemId="pid.genre" key="C00079"/><ppg:network id="radio4" name="BBC Radio 4"/><image><url>http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg</url><title>From Our Own Correspondent</title><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrtpm</link></image><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><copyright>(C) BBC 2024</copyright><pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:category text="News"/><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><media:rating scheme="urn:simple">nonadult</media:rating><atom:link href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrtpm/episodes/downloads.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>US student protests and the youth vote</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from the US, Portugal, the South China Sea, Argentina and Antarctica.</p><p>University campuses across the US have been gripped by protests over the war in Gaza, with students demanding their schools divest from Israeli interests. Nomia Iqbal considers the ramifications of the protests for Joe Biden, who will need the youth vote on his side if he is to win re-election in November.</p><p>In the days after the Hamas attacks, some 200,000 Israelis were evacuated from Israel's border regions with Gaza and Lebanon, and moved into temporary accommodation. While some have since decided to return home, others have decided to seek safety further afield, as Mark Lowen discovered in Lisbon.</p><p>Confrontations between the Philippines and China are on the rise in the South China Sea, as the countries clash over a territorial dispute. Jonathan Head saw this maritime feud up close, while on board a Filipino coastguard ship as it came into contact with a Chinese patrol.</p><p>Argentina's President Javier Milei was elected last year on a manifesto of slashing public spending. Yet, with inflation at 300 per cent, prices are still spiralling, and another national strike is on the horizon. Mimi Swaby discovers it’s a crisis that continues to affect all corners of this vast country.</p><p>And we’re amid the icebergs and marine life of Antarctica, as Janie Hampton recounts her voyage to trace her family connections to the continent - revealing how the downfall of the Soviet Union led to the cut-price sale of a British research base.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  2. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  3. Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Will US university campus protests over Gaza affect Joe Biden's appeal among young voters?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from the US, Portugal, the South China Sea, Argentina and Antarctica.</p><p>University campuses across the US have been gripped by protests over the war in Gaza, with students demanding their schools divest from Israeli interests. Nomia Iqbal considers the ramifications of the protests for Joe Biden, who will need the youth vote on his side if he is to win re-election in November.</p><p>In the days after the Hamas attacks, some 200,000 Israelis were evacuated from Israel's border regions with Gaza and Lebanon, and moved into temporary accommodation. While some have since decided to return home, others have decided to seek safety further afield, as Mark Lowen discovered in Lisbon.</p><p>Confrontations between the Philippines and China are on the rise in the South China Sea, as the countries clash over a territorial dispute. Jonathan Head saw this maritime feud up close, while on board a Filipino coastguard ship as it came into contact with a Chinese patrol.</p><p>Argentina's President Javier Milei was elected last year on a manifesto of slashing public spending. Yet, with inflation at 300 per cent, prices are still spiralling, and another national strike is on the horizon. Mimi Swaby discovers it’s a crisis that continues to affect all corners of this vast country.</p><p>And we’re amid the icebergs and marine life of Antarctica, as Janie Hampton recounts her voyage to trace her family connections to the continent - revealing how the downfall of the Soviet Union led to the cut-price sale of a British research base.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  4. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  5. Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1737</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hw253j.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hw253j.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hw253j.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hw25cq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hw25cq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hw253j.mp3" fileSize="27792000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1737"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hw25cq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Rise and Fall of Nagorno Karabakh</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Katie Adie presents dispatches from Armenia, India, China, Belgium and the Middle East.</p><p>The flight of more than 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh last year, after a rapid offensive by Azerbaijan, quickly faded from news headlines. Tim Whewell remembers how the self-declared republic first emerged, as the Soviet Union was in its last throes, and reflects on how nations are born, and re-buried.</p><p>More than a billion Indians are heading to the polls over the next six weeks to vote in a general election. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of a 'digital India' has been a policy priority during his leadership - but to what extent are the less developed parts of the country on board and online? James Coomarasamy visits a village in Karnataka.</p><p>The Chinese government is focused on green growth, providing subsidies for the manufacture of solar panels and electric vehicles. Yet in some cities, factory workers have been laid off and fear being left behind. Laura Bicker reports from the once bustling manufacturing city of Dongguan.</p><p>The Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium was originally built to showcase artefacts from the country's former colony, Congo. Today, visitors to the museum are encouraged to reflect on the impact of Belgium’s colonization, finds Beth Timmins.</p><p>Reporters always carry some kind of baggage with them when they head off to cover a story. It was on a recent deployment that the BBC’s middle east analyst Sebastian Usher suddenly noticed that the often unwanted companion that seemingly always accompanied him on trips abroad… had suddenly gone missing.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  6. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  7. Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The story of how Armenia won and lost the 'black garden' in an enclave of Azerbaijan</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Katie Adie presents dispatches from Armenia, India, China, Belgium and the Middle East.</p><p>The flight of more than 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh last year, after a rapid offensive by Azerbaijan, quickly faded from news headlines. Tim Whewell remembers how the self-declared republic first emerged, as the Soviet Union was in its last throes, and reflects on how nations are born, and re-buried.</p><p>More than a billion Indians are heading to the polls over the next six weeks to vote in a general election. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of a 'digital India' has been a policy priority during his leadership - but to what extent are the less developed parts of the country on board and online? James Coomarasamy visits a village in Karnataka.</p><p>The Chinese government is focused on green growth, providing subsidies for the manufacture of solar panels and electric vehicles. Yet in some cities, factory workers have been laid off and fear being left behind. Laura Bicker reports from the once bustling manufacturing city of Dongguan.</p><p>The Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium was originally built to showcase artefacts from the country's former colony, Congo. Today, visitors to the museum are encouraged to reflect on the impact of Belgium’s colonization, finds Beth Timmins.</p><p>Reporters always carry some kind of baggage with them when they head off to cover a story. It was on a recent deployment that the BBC’s middle east analyst Sebastian Usher suddenly noticed that the often unwanted companion that seemingly always accompanied him on trips abroad… had suddenly gone missing.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  8. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  9. Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1710</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0htk5n4.mp3" length="27360000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0htk5n4.mp3" length="27360000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0htk5n4.mp3" length="27360000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0htk62c</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0htk62c</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0htk5n4.mp3" fileSize="27360000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1710"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0htk62c</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Ayatollah and Israel</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches on Iran, Ukraine, South Africa, Portugal and Hong Kong.</p><p>As the world nervously watches the developments between Iran and Israel, Lyse Doucet reflects on the rise of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Since coming to power three decades ago, he has managed to avoid taking Iran into an all-out war - could that change as tensions continue to rise?</p><p>A missile attack in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv this week laid bare the weakness of the country’s air defences. Depleted ammunition supplies, as well as a worsening situation on the frontline, have heightened fears that the tide is continuing to turn against Ukraine in its war with Russia. Sarah Rainsford reports from Kharkiv.</p><p>South Africa is preparing to go to the polls, and for the first time since the end of white-minority rule, the governing ANC party is predicted to get less than 50 per cent of the vote. As in many other countries, immigration is high on the list of many voters’ concerns. Jenny Hill reports from the border with Zimbabwe.</p><p>Next week Portugal marks the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution and its transition to democracy. Simon Busch met some of the men who joined the resistance against the country's former dictator Antonio Salazar, to find out what they think about politics in Portugal today.</p><p>And exotic birds have adapted to live alongside humans in some of the world’s major cities – and in Hong Kong it's yellow-crested cockatoos that you might see swooping through the skyline. Stephen Moss tells the story of why they’re now thriving.</p><p>Series producer: Serena Tarling
  10. Production coordinator: Katie Morrison
  11. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Iran's Supreme Leader has avoided going to war - could tensions with Israel change that?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches on Iran, Ukraine, South Africa, Portugal and Hong Kong.</p><p>As the world nervously watches the developments between Iran and Israel, Lyse Doucet reflects on the rise of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Since coming to power three decades ago, he has managed to avoid taking Iran into an all-out war - could that change as tensions continue to rise?</p><p>A missile attack in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv this week laid bare the weakness of the country’s air defences. Depleted ammunition supplies, as well as a worsening situation on the frontline, have heightened fears that the tide is continuing to turn against Ukraine in its war with Russia. Sarah Rainsford reports from Kharkiv.</p><p>South Africa is preparing to go to the polls, and for the first time since the end of white-minority rule, the governing ANC party is predicted to get less than 50 per cent of the vote. As in many other countries, immigration is high on the list of many voters’ concerns. Jenny Hill reports from the border with Zimbabwe.</p><p>Next week Portugal marks the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution and its transition to democracy. Simon Busch met some of the men who joined the resistance against the country's former dictator Antonio Salazar, to find out what they think about politics in Portugal today.</p><p>And exotic birds have adapted to live alongside humans in some of the world’s major cities – and in Hong Kong it's yellow-crested cockatoos that you might see swooping through the skyline. Stephen Moss tells the story of why they’re now thriving.</p><p>Series producer: Serena Tarling
  12. Production coordinator: Katie Morrison
  13. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1735</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hs1hfv.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hs1hfv.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hs1hfv.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hs1hz5</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hs1hz5</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hs1hfv.mp3" fileSize="27760000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1735"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hs1hz5</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A perilous moment between Israel and Iran</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, Nigeria, the US, Lithuania and France</p><p>Tensions between Iran and Israel this week have ramped up further after Tehran issued a warning that it would retaliate for a recent strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Israel never claimed responsibility for the attack but is widely considered to be behind it. This has compounded fears the conflict between Israel and Gaza will spill into a wider regional war. James Landale has been on an air drop mission to Gaza and reflects on recent events.</p><p>Ten years ago, 276 secondary school children were kidnapped in Nigeria's north-east by Islamist militant group, Boko Haram. Ninety one of the girls are still unaccounted for. Yemisi Adegoke went to meet some of the girls who escaped captivity – to hear about their memories of that day and its impact on their lives. </p><p>Mental health experts have expressed alarm in the United States about an increase in the rates of suicide there, with a particularly steep rise among young people. Will Vernon went to North Carolina to investigate why the deaths are happening.</p><p>Simon Worrall tells the story of the provenance of a wood panel painting by Rembrandt - a portrait of a beggar with a bulbous, drunkard’s nose. He traces it back from its origins in a Lithuanian Baltic Oak Forest to an auction house in Maryland. </p><p>One hundred and twenty years after the ‘entente cordiale’ was signed between Britain and France, French troops this week took part in the Changing the Guard ceremony in London at the same time as their British counterparts in Paris. Hugh Schofield reflects on whether – despite appearances – the relationship has in fact grown more detached.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  14. Editor: Bridget Harney
  15. Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Iran's threat to retaliate for the strike in Damascus raises fears of regional war</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, Nigeria, the US, Lithuania and France</p><p>Tensions between Iran and Israel this week have ramped up further after Tehran issued a warning that it would retaliate for a recent strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Israel never claimed responsibility for the attack but is widely considered to be behind it. This has compounded fears the conflict between Israel and Gaza will spill into a wider regional war. James Landale has been on an air drop mission to Gaza and reflects on recent events.</p><p>Ten years ago, 276 secondary school children were kidnapped in Nigeria's north-east by Islamist militant group, Boko Haram. Ninety one of the girls are still unaccounted for. Yemisi Adegoke went to meet some of the girls who escaped captivity – to hear about their memories of that day and its impact on their lives. </p><p>Mental health experts have expressed alarm in the United States about an increase in the rates of suicide there, with a particularly steep rise among young people. Will Vernon went to North Carolina to investigate why the deaths are happening.</p><p>Simon Worrall tells the story of the provenance of a wood panel painting by Rembrandt - a portrait of a beggar with a bulbous, drunkard’s nose. He traces it back from its origins in a Lithuanian Baltic Oak Forest to an auction house in Maryland. </p><p>One hundred and twenty years after the ‘entente cordiale’ was signed between Britain and France, French troops this week took part in the Changing the Guard ceremony in London at the same time as their British counterparts in Paris. Hugh Schofield reflects on whether – despite appearances – the relationship has in fact grown more detached.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  16. Editor: Bridget Harney
  17. Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2024 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1729</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hqlzzy.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hqlzzy.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hqlzzy.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hqm3n3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hqm3n3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hqlzzy.mp3" fileSize="27664000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1729"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hqm3n3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Returning to Rwanda</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Rwanda, Estonia, St Helena and Puerto Rico.</p><p>This weekend marks the start of the genocide in Rwanda that led to the death of more than 800,000 people – most from the country’s Tutsi minority. Three decades on, Emma Ailes met those who, against the odds, survived the violence – but continue to live with the trauma to this day.</p><p>Among those who survived the genocide is the BBC’s Victoria Uwonkunda, who was just 12 years old at the time. She recently returned for the first time in three decades, where she retraced her journey to sanctuary, and spoke to genocide survivors - and perpetrators - about the difficult path towards reconciliation and forgiveness.</p><p>As a result of the conflict in Ukraine, NATO countries close to Russia, such as Norway, Latvia and Lithuania, are expanding their military conscription programmes. In Estonia - where military service is already mandatory – our correspondent Nick Beake met some of the country’s new recruits.</p><p>Coffee from Jamaica to Ethiopia to Guatemala is a common sight in high-street cafes, but a more rarified blend comes from the Atlantic Island of St Helena. It’s high-quality and short-supply means it fetches a high price – but as Mark Stratton discovered, that doesn’t mean locals are reaping the benefits.</p><p>It's hard to escape the Puerto Rican sound of reggaeton. Now a global phenomenon, it's created superstars in artists like Bad Bunny, Daddy Yankee and Vico C. Jane Chambers went to find out how this multi-faceted music reflects both the island’s culture – and politics.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  18. Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison
  19. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Thirty years on from the genocide, Rwandans share stories of survival and reconciliation.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Rwanda, Estonia, St Helena and Puerto Rico.</p><p>This weekend marks the start of the genocide in Rwanda that led to the death of more than 800,000 people – most from the country’s Tutsi minority. Three decades on, Emma Ailes met those who, against the odds, survived the violence – but continue to live with the trauma to this day.</p><p>Among those who survived the genocide is the BBC’s Victoria Uwonkunda, who was just 12 years old at the time. She recently returned for the first time in three decades, where she retraced her journey to sanctuary, and spoke to genocide survivors - and perpetrators - about the difficult path towards reconciliation and forgiveness.</p><p>As a result of the conflict in Ukraine, NATO countries close to Russia, such as Norway, Latvia and Lithuania, are expanding their military conscription programmes. In Estonia - where military service is already mandatory – our correspondent Nick Beake met some of the country’s new recruits.</p><p>Coffee from Jamaica to Ethiopia to Guatemala is a common sight in high-street cafes, but a more rarified blend comes from the Atlantic Island of St Helena. It’s high-quality and short-supply means it fetches a high price – but as Mark Stratton discovered, that doesn’t mean locals are reaping the benefits.</p><p>It's hard to escape the Puerto Rican sound of reggaeton. Now a global phenomenon, it's created superstars in artists like Bad Bunny, Daddy Yankee and Vico C. Jane Chambers went to find out how this multi-faceted music reflects both the island’s culture – and politics.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  20. Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison
  21. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2024 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1726</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hp739y.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hp739y.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hp739y.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hp73k9</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hp73k9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hp739y.mp3" fileSize="27616000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1726"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hp73k9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Prospects for Peace in the Middle East</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Israel and the Palestinian Territories, India, Tibet, Ireland and Guinea.</p><p>What are the prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians? Yolande Knell has been asking Israelis and Palestinians about their hopes and fears for the future, and whether the recent war in Gaza can be an impetus , or impediment, for a future peace settlement.</p><p>In India, the Muslim minority which makes up about 200 million people, has been feeling under pressure as a result of the deepening religious polarisation that has marked Prime Minister Narendra Modi's time in office. Yogita Limaye has been hearing their concerns.</p><p>China has introduced educational reforms in the western region of Tibet, which mean that most Tibetan children are now educated in boarding schools, where they are taught in Mandarin Chinese, not Tibetan. Micky Bristow hears concerns from parents that their Tibetan culture is being erased.</p><p>Ireland has been experiencing a housing crisis, which has been compounded by a rise in people applying for asylum, and seeking shelter from the war in Ukraine. This has led to increasing numbers of homeless people on city streets. Bob Howard visited a cafe in Dublin that tries to makes the lives of the homeless a little easier.</p><p>Guinea in West Africa has so many poisonous snakes, that it accounts for one in ten of all snakebite deaths in Africa. Despite this, there is only one specialised snakebite clinic in the whole country. so many people turn to traditional healers and natural remedies, with sometimes devastating consequences, as Sam Bradpiece has been finding out.</p><p>Producers: Polly Hope and Arlene Gregorius
  22. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  23. Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>What are the prospects for wider peace between Israel and the Palestinians, beyond Gaza?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Israel and the Palestinian Territories, India, Tibet, Ireland and Guinea.</p><p>What are the prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians? Yolande Knell has been asking Israelis and Palestinians about their hopes and fears for the future, and whether the recent war in Gaza can be an impetus , or impediment, for a future peace settlement.</p><p>In India, the Muslim minority which makes up about 200 million people, has been feeling under pressure as a result of the deepening religious polarisation that has marked Prime Minister Narendra Modi's time in office. Yogita Limaye has been hearing their concerns.</p><p>China has introduced educational reforms in the western region of Tibet, which mean that most Tibetan children are now educated in boarding schools, where they are taught in Mandarin Chinese, not Tibetan. Micky Bristow hears concerns from parents that their Tibetan culture is being erased.</p><p>Ireland has been experiencing a housing crisis, which has been compounded by a rise in people applying for asylum, and seeking shelter from the war in Ukraine. This has led to increasing numbers of homeless people on city streets. Bob Howard visited a cafe in Dublin that tries to makes the lives of the homeless a little easier.</p><p>Guinea in West Africa has so many poisonous snakes, that it accounts for one in ten of all snakebite deaths in Africa. Despite this, there is only one specialised snakebite clinic in the whole country. so many people turn to traditional healers and natural remedies, with sometimes devastating consequences, as Sam Bradpiece has been finding out.</p><p>Producers: Polly Hope and Arlene Gregorius
  24. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  25. Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1730</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hmwbtv.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hmwbtv.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hmwbtv.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hmwcsd</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hmwcsd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hmwbtv.mp3" fileSize="27680000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1730"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hmwcsd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Surviving 'chemical detention' in Belarus</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Belarus, Senegal, the US-Mexico border, Cambodia and Brazil.</p><p>Political prisoners in Belarus attract less international attention than those in Russia - but there are far more of them, even in a smaller country. Many are women, held in a kind of house arrest known as 'chemical detention', under stringent rules which control their every move. Monica Whitlock gathered testimony from some living under these conditions.</p><p>After months of political turbulence, Senegal eventually did hold its planned presidential election - and the popular vote brought Africa's youngest leader, 44-year-old Bassirou Diomaye Faye, to power. James Copnall reported on the final days of the campaign and reflects on how Senegalese democracy proved itself.</p><p>Controlling migration to the United States will be one of the most contentious issues in this November's American presidential election. Amid talk of a crisis, and after record numbers of apprehensions of undocumented migrants by the US Border Patrol in December, Tim Mansel visited the border between Mexico and Arizona.</p><p>Sand might seem as a cheap and almost inexhaustible resource - but far from it. With the world using up more than 50 billion tonnes of it per year, to make everything from skyscrapers to smartphones, reserves could soon run low. In Cambodia there's now a flourishing black market in illegal sand mining along the banks of the Mekong river, as Robin Markwell has seen.</p><p>And Ione Wells, the BBC's new South America correspondent, explores her new base: the industrial megacity of Sao Paulo. Some people call it 'Rio's ugly sister', but she's found much to appreciate amid its high-rise sprawl.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A Soviet-era form of house arrest keeps the lives of hundreds of prisoners in limbo.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Belarus, Senegal, the US-Mexico border, Cambodia and Brazil.</p><p>Political prisoners in Belarus attract less international attention than those in Russia - but there are far more of them, even in a smaller country. Many are women, held in a kind of house arrest known as 'chemical detention', under stringent rules which control their every move. Monica Whitlock gathered testimony from some living under these conditions.</p><p>After months of political turbulence, Senegal eventually did hold its planned presidential election - and the popular vote brought Africa's youngest leader, 44-year-old Bassirou Diomaye Faye, to power. James Copnall reported on the final days of the campaign and reflects on how Senegalese democracy proved itself.</p><p>Controlling migration to the United States will be one of the most contentious issues in this November's American presidential election. Amid talk of a crisis, and after record numbers of apprehensions of undocumented migrants by the US Border Patrol in December, Tim Mansel visited the border between Mexico and Arizona.</p><p>Sand might seem as a cheap and almost inexhaustible resource - but far from it. With the world using up more than 50 billion tonnes of it per year, to make everything from skyscrapers to smartphones, reserves could soon run low. In Cambodia there's now a flourishing black market in illegal sand mining along the banks of the Mekong river, as Robin Markwell has seen.</p><p>And Ione Wells, the BBC's new South America correspondent, explores her new base: the industrial megacity of Sao Paulo. Some people call it 'Rio's ugly sister', but she's found much to appreciate amid its high-rise sprawl.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1711</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hmgfbp.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hmgfbp.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hmgfbp.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hmgjgq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hmgjgq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hmgfbp.mp3" fileSize="27376000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1711"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hmgjgq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Putin: Russia’s modern-day Tsar</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Russia, Germany, Timor Leste and Oman</p><p>At a recent gathering in a gilded hall in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin thanked VIP supporters for his re-election. As he commenced his fifth term in office, he has reminded his voters that the annexation of Crimea is just the beginning of Moscow's ambitions. Steve Rosenberg reflects on how this latest election has emboldened the President but there are voices of opposition willing to take a stand in spite of the consequences.</p><p>When German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged the country was seeing a paradigm shift, or Zeitenwende, in supporting Ukraine in the war against Russia, he did not foresee how this would divide public opinion over Germany's potential involvement in a military campaign. Damien McGuinness reports on the ongoing political rifts in Berlin.</p><p>Timor Leste has had a troubled history and faces multiple economic and social challenges including malnutrition and rural poverty. But marine scientists are discovering that Timor Leste lies on a vast migration route for a wide range of ocean wildlife, which some hope could fuel a fledgling tourism industry, reports Michelle Jana Chan.</p><p>And we're in Oman, where a journey to the medieval capital of Nizwa leads to a conversation about the changes for women in the country, with a female driving instructor. Women have been legally allowed to drive in the country for more than 2 decades, unlike its neighbour Saudi Arabia, and a rise in the number of women in the workplace means more women are getting behind the wheel, says Sara Wheeler.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  26. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  27. Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Our correspondent meets Putin's VIP supporters in the hall where Tsars were once crowned.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Russia, Germany, Timor Leste and Oman</p><p>At a recent gathering in a gilded hall in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin thanked VIP supporters for his re-election. As he commenced his fifth term in office, he has reminded his voters that the annexation of Crimea is just the beginning of Moscow's ambitions. Steve Rosenberg reflects on how this latest election has emboldened the President but there are voices of opposition willing to take a stand in spite of the consequences.</p><p>When German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged the country was seeing a paradigm shift, or Zeitenwende, in supporting Ukraine in the war against Russia, he did not foresee how this would divide public opinion over Germany's potential involvement in a military campaign. Damien McGuinness reports on the ongoing political rifts in Berlin.</p><p>Timor Leste has had a troubled history and faces multiple economic and social challenges including malnutrition and rural poverty. But marine scientists are discovering that Timor Leste lies on a vast migration route for a wide range of ocean wildlife, which some hope could fuel a fledgling tourism industry, reports Michelle Jana Chan.</p><p>And we're in Oman, where a journey to the medieval capital of Nizwa leads to a conversation about the changes for women in the country, with a female driving instructor. Women have been legally allowed to drive in the country for more than 2 decades, unlike its neighbour Saudi Arabia, and a rise in the number of women in the workplace means more women are getting behind the wheel, says Sara Wheeler.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  28. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  29. Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1717</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hlgwcr.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hlgwcr.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hlgwcr.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hlgwkc</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hlgwkc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hlgwcr.mp3" fileSize="27472000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1717"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hlgwkc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>No escape from Haiti</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Haiti, Chad, the Netherlands, Palau and Mexico.</p><p> Haiti remains mired in crisis, with the capital in the grip of gang violence - more than 350,000 people have been displaced. Will Grant reports from Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic, where he has witnessed the growing desperation among people flocking to find food and supplies and escape the violence.</p><p>It’s nearly a year since civil war erupted in Sudan between rival military forces - more than a million have fled to neighbouring countries, including Chad. Mercy Jumar covered the refugee crisis there last year and now returns to the border town of Adre.</p><p>Despite his dramatic win in the 2023 elections, Dutch far-right populist Geert Wilders has abandoned his bid to become the next prime minister. After weeks of negotiations to try to form a coalition, he realised he couldn’t convince other parties to serve under him. Anna Holligan explains what happened.</p><p>Western Pacific watchers have continued to warn that China is trying to gain more of a footing with the ocean's island nations that control large swathes of it. Frey Lindsay reports from Palau in the Western Pacific, which has long-standing ties to the US, but is increasingly being courted by China.</p><p>From Parma ham to Cheddar cheese, Darjeeling tea to Islay whiskey, there are many fabulous foods and delicious drinks from around the world that help put towns, cities and regions on the map.  But, often these places have a reputation for more than just one thing.  As Proinsias O’Coinn discovered when he travelled to a world-famous town in Mexico.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Thousands of Haitians flock to the border seeking supplies and to escape gang violence.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Haiti, Chad, the Netherlands, Palau and Mexico.</p><p> Haiti remains mired in crisis, with the capital in the grip of gang violence - more than 350,000 people have been displaced. Will Grant reports from Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic, where he has witnessed the growing desperation among people flocking to find food and supplies and escape the violence.</p><p>It’s nearly a year since civil war erupted in Sudan between rival military forces - more than a million have fled to neighbouring countries, including Chad. Mercy Jumar covered the refugee crisis there last year and now returns to the border town of Adre.</p><p>Despite his dramatic win in the 2023 elections, Dutch far-right populist Geert Wilders has abandoned his bid to become the next prime minister. After weeks of negotiations to try to form a coalition, he realised he couldn’t convince other parties to serve under him. Anna Holligan explains what happened.</p><p>Western Pacific watchers have continued to warn that China is trying to gain more of a footing with the ocean's island nations that control large swathes of it. Frey Lindsay reports from Palau in the Western Pacific, which has long-standing ties to the US, but is increasingly being courted by China.</p><p>From Parma ham to Cheddar cheese, Darjeeling tea to Islay whiskey, there are many fabulous foods and delicious drinks from around the world that help put towns, cities and regions on the map.  But, often these places have a reputation for more than just one thing.  As Proinsias O’Coinn discovered when he travelled to a world-famous town in Mexico.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1719</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hkzq6v.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hkzq6v.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hkzq6v.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hkztv7</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hkztv7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hkzq6v.mp3" fileSize="27504000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1719"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hkztv7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Life after the Lord’s Resistance Army</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents dispatches from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, the United States, Croatia and France.</p><p>The brutality of Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army once made headlines around the world, as #Kony2012 became a global social media cause. While the world soon moved on, the forgotten victims of LRA violence living in the Democratic Republic of Congo are still trying to heal. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham reports from Haut-Uele province.</p><p>The Islamic Revolution in Iran put an end to a once thriving cabaret culture and music scene. But over the years, people have still found ways to party - albeit underground and out of sight of the religious police. Among them was Faranak Amidi, who’s met some of Iran’s women DJs, who dream of playing to clubbers all over the world.</p><p>A controversial court ruling in Alabama has divided Christian conservatives on the issue of reproductive rights, as the state's supreme court ruled that frozen embryos should be considered as children. Nomia Iqbal reports on the schism that has emerged between pro-life Republicans.</p><p>Rab Island off the north coast of Croatia was once home to a lesser-known Italian concentration camp, where some 4,000 people were killed during World War Two. Mary Novakovich visited the island, where she met a woman who began her life in one of the camps.</p><p>And our Paris Correspondent Hugh Schofield takes on the challenge of running the city's half-marathon - with some welcome assistance from The Rolling Stones.</p><p>Producer: Serena Tarling
  30. Production coordinator: Katie Morrison
  31. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>How forgotten victims of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo are trying to heal.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents dispatches from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, the United States, Croatia and France.</p><p>The brutality of Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army once made headlines around the world, as #Kony2012 became a global social media cause. While the world soon moved on, the forgotten victims of LRA violence living in the Democratic Republic of Congo are still trying to heal. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham reports from Haut-Uele province.</p><p>The Islamic Revolution in Iran put an end to a once thriving cabaret culture and music scene. But over the years, people have still found ways to party - albeit underground and out of sight of the religious police. Among them was Faranak Amidi, who’s met some of Iran’s women DJs, who dream of playing to clubbers all over the world.</p><p>A controversial court ruling in Alabama has divided Christian conservatives on the issue of reproductive rights, as the state's supreme court ruled that frozen embryos should be considered as children. Nomia Iqbal reports on the schism that has emerged between pro-life Republicans.</p><p>Rab Island off the north coast of Croatia was once home to a lesser-known Italian concentration camp, where some 4,000 people were killed during World War Two. Mary Novakovich visited the island, where she met a woman who began her life in one of the camps.</p><p>And our Paris Correspondent Hugh Schofield takes on the challenge of running the city's half-marathon - with some welcome assistance from The Rolling Stones.</p><p>Producer: Serena Tarling
  32. Production coordinator: Katie Morrison
  33. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1722</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hk28db.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hk28db.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hk28db.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hk2bl0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hk2bl0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hk28db.mp3" fileSize="27552000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1722"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hk2bl0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Channel migrant deaths on the rise</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from France, India, the US, Panama and Spain.</p><p>It’s been a year since the UK signed a deal with France to help reduce the number of boats crossing the Channel and break up the smuggling gangs. And whilst the number of crossings is falling, there’s been a sharp rise in migrant deaths, mostly by drowning, as they take ever greater risks to reach the UK. Andrew Harding is in Calais to find out why.</p><p>In the coming days, India will be calling national elections. Voting will take place over several weeks. Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, seems unstoppable, with many expecting he will win a third consecutive term in office. Samira Hussain examines his enduring popularity.</p><p>The film Oppenheimer, about the creator of the atomic bomb, dominated the Oscars with seven Academy awards. Much of the film is set in the town of Los Alamos, in New Mexico where physicist J Robert Oppenheimer carried out his research. Emma Vardy reports on its lasting effects on local communities.</p><p>The Panama canal is vital to international trade, providing an essential shipping route and a short cut between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. But, as Michelle Fleury explains, fewer ships are able to use it at the moment, because of a drought.</p><p>And in southern Spain, we join Polly Hope in Seville cathedral, amongst the visitors and the faithful as they mark Lent with a procession through the historic streets of the city.</p><p>Producer: Sally Abrahams
  34. Production co-ordinator: Sophie Hill
  35. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>While channel crossings in small boats are down, the number of people dying is rising.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from France, India, the US, Panama and Spain.</p><p>It’s been a year since the UK signed a deal with France to help reduce the number of boats crossing the Channel and break up the smuggling gangs. And whilst the number of crossings is falling, there’s been a sharp rise in migrant deaths, mostly by drowning, as they take ever greater risks to reach the UK. Andrew Harding is in Calais to find out why.</p><p>In the coming days, India will be calling national elections. Voting will take place over several weeks. Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, seems unstoppable, with many expecting he will win a third consecutive term in office. Samira Hussain examines his enduring popularity.</p><p>The film Oppenheimer, about the creator of the atomic bomb, dominated the Oscars with seven Academy awards. Much of the film is set in the town of Los Alamos, in New Mexico where physicist J Robert Oppenheimer carried out his research. Emma Vardy reports on its lasting effects on local communities.</p><p>The Panama canal is vital to international trade, providing an essential shipping route and a short cut between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. But, as Michelle Fleury explains, fewer ships are able to use it at the moment, because of a drought.</p><p>And in southern Spain, we join Polly Hope in Seville cathedral, amongst the visitors and the faithful as they mark Lent with a procession through the historic streets of the city.</p><p>Producer: Sally Abrahams
  36. Production co-ordinator: Sophie Hill
  37. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1724</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hjkkrq.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hjkkrq.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hjkkrq.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hjklqv</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hjklqv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hjkkrq.mp3" fileSize="27584000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1724"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hjklqv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Haiti: ‘There’s nothing but the gangs’</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Haiti, South Korea, the US, Senegal and the Vatican City.</p><p>Haiti's government have declared a state of emergency after armed gangs attacked the country's airport and stormed two of the main prisons. Harold Isaac gives a first-hand account of the chaos that unfolded and how the capital went into full lockdown.</p><p>South Korean women are increasingly shunning the dating scene and choosing not to have children. And the country's birth rate recently fell again, to just 0.72. This poses a serious problem for South Korea's economy and its security, with politicians describing it as a national emergency. But, as Jean MacKenzie finds, they've been unable to reverse the trend.</p><p>Mouse Green travels on the freight trains criss-crossing the US, some of which stretch over two miles long. He meets members of the counter-culture community who call the rail cars home and uncovers a hidden world.</p><p>Senegal has been a beacon of stability in the Sahel region, which has seen a series of coups over recent years. But, as Beverly Ochieng reports, the move by the West African country's outgoing President, Macky Sall, to delay elections sparked outrage. It also follows a clampdown on the opposition over the last year.</p><p>Sara Monetta goes on an exclusive tour of the Sistine Chapel to watch how technology is being used to maintain Michelangelo's famous frescoes, as millions of people visit the museum every year. She describes the painstaking process of identifying any signs of deterioration and meets the experts involved.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  38. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  39. Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A first-hand account of how the gangs stormed the airport and two prisons in Haiti</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Haiti, South Korea, the US, Senegal and the Vatican City.</p><p>Haiti's government have declared a state of emergency after armed gangs attacked the country's airport and stormed two of the main prisons. Harold Isaac gives a first-hand account of the chaos that unfolded and how the capital went into full lockdown.</p><p>South Korean women are increasingly shunning the dating scene and choosing not to have children. And the country's birth rate recently fell again, to just 0.72. This poses a serious problem for South Korea's economy and its security, with politicians describing it as a national emergency. But, as Jean MacKenzie finds, they've been unable to reverse the trend.</p><p>Mouse Green travels on the freight trains criss-crossing the US, some of which stretch over two miles long. He meets members of the counter-culture community who call the rail cars home and uncovers a hidden world.</p><p>Senegal has been a beacon of stability in the Sahel region, which has seen a series of coups over recent years. But, as Beverly Ochieng reports, the move by the West African country's outgoing President, Macky Sall, to delay elections sparked outrage. It also follows a clampdown on the opposition over the last year.</p><p>Sara Monetta goes on an exclusive tour of the Sistine Chapel to watch how technology is being used to maintain Michelangelo's famous frescoes, as millions of people visit the museum every year. She describes the painstaking process of identifying any signs of deterioration and meets the experts involved.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  40. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  41. Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1729</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hhlzw1.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hhlzw1.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hhlzw1.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hhm1bg</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hhm1bg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hhlzw1.mp3" fileSize="27664000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1729"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hhm1bg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Nigeria’s growing economic crisis</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Nigeria, Ukraine, Iran, Uzbekistan and Nepal.</p><p>Nigeria is experiencing its worst economic crisis in a generation, with soaring inflation and a depreciating currency, making many basic food items unaffordable for the majority. Mayeni Jones describes the challenges of daily living in a country where inflation is around 30 per cent.</p><p>In the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, several villages have been captured after Russian forces took control of the town of Avdiivka last month. James Waterhouse has been to cities just behind the front-line as they prepare for what might be coming their way</p><p>Turnout in Iran’s parliamentary elections last week was at a record low of 41 per cent - though voters had a limited choice, as only candidates approved by the Supreme Leader’s Guardian Council could stand. Our correspondent, Caroline Davies, was given rare permission to report from the capital Tehran, where young people explained why they chose not to vote.</p><p>We travel to Uzbekistan, a Muslim-majority country – but, as we discover, not all visitors are in tune with the country’s traditional conservative values. Chris Aslan reports on how religious piety is increasingly being embraced in the country.</p><p>And, for those climbing Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, it's not just reaching the summit that's taking their breath away. Our Environment Correspondent, Navin Singh Khadka, finds out what's causing a stink.
  43. Producer: Sally Abrahams
  44. Production Co-ordinator: Sophie Hill
  45. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Soaring food and fuel prices have provoked anger and protests across Nigeria</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Nigeria, Ukraine, Iran, Uzbekistan and Nepal.</p><p>Nigeria is experiencing its worst economic crisis in a generation, with soaring inflation and a depreciating currency, making many basic food items unaffordable for the majority. Mayeni Jones describes the challenges of daily living in a country where inflation is around 30 per cent.</p><p>In the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, several villages have been captured after Russian forces took control of the town of Avdiivka last month. James Waterhouse has been to cities just behind the front-line as they prepare for what might be coming their way</p><p>Turnout in Iran’s parliamentary elections last week was at a record low of 41 per cent - though voters had a limited choice, as only candidates approved by the Supreme Leader’s Guardian Council could stand. Our correspondent, Caroline Davies, was given rare permission to report from the capital Tehran, where young people explained why they chose not to vote.</p><p>We travel to Uzbekistan, a Muslim-majority country – but, as we discover, not all visitors are in tune with the country’s traditional conservative values. Chris Aslan reports on how religious piety is increasingly being embraced in the country.</p><p>And, for those climbing Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, it's not just reaching the summit that's taking their breath away. Our Environment Correspondent, Navin Singh Khadka, finds out what's causing a stink.
  47. Producer: Sally Abrahams
  48. Production Co-ordinator: Sophie Hill
  49. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1700</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hh4835.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hh4835.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hh4835.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hh49n5</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hh49n5</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hh4835.mp3" fileSize="27200000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1700"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hh49n5</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Gaza’s Humanitarian Nightmare</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Gaza, Turkey, Somalia, Ecuador and Japan.</p><p>US President Joe Biden raised hopes that a ceasefire deal was close to being reached this week over the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. But these hopes faded after a tragic incident in which more than 100 people were killed as aid was being delivered to Gaza City. Paul Adams says the incident also highlighted wider problems as the war continues.</p><p>Lizzie Porter follows the story of a family who fled Gaza early on in the war, and who fled to Turkey as dual nationals, leaving family, friends and valuables behind. They told her about their new life in Turkey and their fears for those left behind.</p><p>After the militant group, Al Shabaab withdrew from the Somalian capital Mogadishu, the city has become safer. Nonetheless the group remains a potent threat. Yet there is an even greater menace in the country: climate change, after severe droughts, followed by flooding forced farmers off their land. Peter Oborne met some of those who were displaced and who are trying to support themselves in other ways.</p><p>A project in Ecuador is using the Amazon’s “ancestral highways” – rivers – and a fleet of solar-powered boats run by Indigenous communities to provide a sustainable model of transport for the future. Peter Yeung went for a ride and heard how this has been met with a mixed response by some indigenous leaders.</p><p>And we're in Inazawa in Japan, where the Hadaka Matsuri - or Naked Festival - has come up with a solution to flagging numbers of participants: involve women. Shaimaa Khalil met a group of 40 women who took part (in robes) for the first time.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  50. Editor: Matt Willis
  51. Production Coordinator: Rosie Strawbridge</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Ceasefire talks are overshadowed by more than 100 Palestinian deaths in an aid delivery</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Gaza, Turkey, Somalia, Ecuador and Japan.</p><p>US President Joe Biden raised hopes that a ceasefire deal was close to being reached this week over the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. But these hopes faded after a tragic incident in which more than 100 people were killed as aid was being delivered to Gaza City. Paul Adams says the incident also highlighted wider problems as the war continues.</p><p>Lizzie Porter follows the story of a family who fled Gaza early on in the war, and who fled to Turkey as dual nationals, leaving family, friends and valuables behind. They told her about their new life in Turkey and their fears for those left behind.</p><p>After the militant group, Al Shabaab withdrew from the Somalian capital Mogadishu, the city has become safer. Nonetheless the group remains a potent threat. Yet there is an even greater menace in the country: climate change, after severe droughts, followed by flooding forced farmers off their land. Peter Oborne met some of those who were displaced and who are trying to support themselves in other ways.</p><p>A project in Ecuador is using the Amazon’s “ancestral highways” – rivers – and a fleet of solar-powered boats run by Indigenous communities to provide a sustainable model of transport for the future. Peter Yeung went for a ride and heard how this has been met with a mixed response by some indigenous leaders.</p><p>And we're in Inazawa in Japan, where the Hadaka Matsuri - or Naked Festival - has come up with a solution to flagging numbers of participants: involve women. Shaimaa Khalil met a group of 40 women who took part (in robes) for the first time.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  52. Editor: Matt Willis
  53. Production Coordinator: Rosie Strawbridge</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1729</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hg7mq1.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hg7mq1.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hg7mq1.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hg7ngs</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hg7ngs</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hg7mq1.mp3" fileSize="27664000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1729"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hg7ngs</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Trump edges closer to Republican nomination</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from the US, Indonesia, Georgia, Thailand and Colombia.</p><p>Donald Trump’s only Republican rival for the US presidency, Nikki Haley, says she’ll fight on, despite roundly losing to him in her home state of South Carolina, where she was governor twice. Our Correspondent, Will Vernon, joined Republican campaigners in South Carolina, as they went door-to-door.</p><p></p><p>In Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, a former army general with a questionable past humans rights record, is set to become the country’s next president. Our South East Asia Correspondent, Jonathan Head, remembers first meeting Mr Subianto, when he served under the dictator General Suharto.</p><p></p><p>Thousands of babies in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia were stolen from their parents at birth and sold. Our Correspondent, Fay Nurse, meets some mothers who were told their new-borns had died suddenly, but who now wonder if they may still be alive.</p><p></p><p>Thailand is moving a step closer to legalising same-sex marriage. In Bangkok, Rebecca Root meets couples who are keen to tie the knot.</p><p></p><p>And we’re in Colombia, where a literary festival encourages people to debate divisive issues without turning to violence. Kirsty Lang finds out more.</p><p></p><p>Producer: Sally Abrahams
  54. Production Co-ordinator: Sophie Hill
  55. Editor: Matt Willis</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Donald Trump gains momentum with victories in the South Carolina and Michigan primaries</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from the US, Indonesia, Georgia, Thailand and Colombia.</p><p>Donald Trump’s only Republican rival for the US presidency, Nikki Haley, says she’ll fight on, despite roundly losing to him in her home state of South Carolina, where she was governor twice. Our Correspondent, Will Vernon, joined Republican campaigners in South Carolina, as they went door-to-door.</p><p></p><p>In Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, a former army general with a questionable past humans rights record, is set to become the country’s next president. Our South East Asia Correspondent, Jonathan Head, remembers first meeting Mr Subianto, when he served under the dictator General Suharto.</p><p></p><p>Thousands of babies in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia were stolen from their parents at birth and sold. Our Correspondent, Fay Nurse, meets some mothers who were told their new-borns had died suddenly, but who now wonder if they may still be alive.</p><p></p><p>Thailand is moving a step closer to legalising same-sex marriage. In Bangkok, Rebecca Root meets couples who are keen to tie the knot.</p><p></p><p>And we’re in Colombia, where a literary festival encourages people to debate divisive issues without turning to violence. Kirsty Lang finds out more.</p><p></p><p>Producer: Sally Abrahams
  56. Production Co-ordinator: Sophie Hill
  57. Editor: Matt Willis</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1735</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hfqyqp.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hfqyqp.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hfqyqp.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hfr0fn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hfr0fn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hfqyqp.mp3" fileSize="27760000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1735"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hfr0fn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Ukraine: Two Years of War</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from Ukraine, Russia, the USA and Georgia.</p><p>Sarah Rainsford was in Ukraine when Vladimir Putin first launched his full-scale invasion two years ago, reporting on the defiance and rush to defend the country. On a recent trip back to the border city of Kharkiv, she found a much more sombre mood.</p><p>Steve Rosenberg reflects on how the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, along with two years of war with Ukraine, has affected the outlook of many ordinary Russians. Many wish for change, but are unclear on how that can be achieved.</p><p>Over recent months, the stalled passage of a $60bn military aid package through the US Congress has heightened concerns that Washington’s support for Ukraine is on the wane. Anthony Zurcher reflects on how the current US position has changed since his trip to Kyiv in the weeks before the Russian invasion began.</p><p>Georgia has become a prime destination for Russians fleeing the war with Ukraine, especially those escaping conscription. The sudden arrival of tens of thousands of Russians has proved overwhelming at times, and given Georgia’s own past conflict with Russia, not everyone is happy to see them, reports Vitaliy Shevchenko.</p><p>Since Russia’s invasion, more than 6 million Ukrainians have sought refuge overseas – but many people have stayed put, often by choice, determined to carry on living their lives as they have always done. Caroline Eden meets some market traders in Ukraine’s southern port of Odessa, who are trying to ensure it's business as usual.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  58. Production coordinator: Katie Morrison
  59. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Exploring the lives of Ukrainians and Russians two years after Putin's invasion began.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from Ukraine, Russia, the USA and Georgia.</p><p>Sarah Rainsford was in Ukraine when Vladimir Putin first launched his full-scale invasion two years ago, reporting on the defiance and rush to defend the country. On a recent trip back to the border city of Kharkiv, she found a much more sombre mood.</p><p>Steve Rosenberg reflects on how the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, along with two years of war with Ukraine, has affected the outlook of many ordinary Russians. Many wish for change, but are unclear on how that can be achieved.</p><p>Over recent months, the stalled passage of a $60bn military aid package through the US Congress has heightened concerns that Washington’s support for Ukraine is on the wane. Anthony Zurcher reflects on how the current US position has changed since his trip to Kyiv in the weeks before the Russian invasion began.</p><p>Georgia has become a prime destination for Russians fleeing the war with Ukraine, especially those escaping conscription. The sudden arrival of tens of thousands of Russians has proved overwhelming at times, and given Georgia’s own past conflict with Russia, not everyone is happy to see them, reports Vitaliy Shevchenko.</p><p>Since Russia’s invasion, more than 6 million Ukrainians have sought refuge overseas – but many people have stayed put, often by choice, determined to carry on living their lives as they have always done. Caroline Eden meets some market traders in Ukraine’s southern port of Odessa, who are trying to ensure it's business as usual.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  60. Production coordinator: Katie Morrison
  61. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1737</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hdvs9d.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hdvs9d.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hdvs9d.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hdvsh8</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hdvsh8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hdvs9d.mp3" fileSize="27792000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1737"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hdvsh8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Talking and listening in an insecure world</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from Germany, the Red Sea, Argentina, the Hungary-Serbia border and Costa Rica.</p><p>BBC security correspondent, Frank Gardner takes us behind the scenes at the Munich security conference, where the sudden announcement of the death of Alexei Navalny brought home the diplomatic challenges facing world leaders.</p><p>Iran-backed Yemeni Houthis say they will continue to target ships in the Red Sea, in solidarity with Palestinian people in Gaza. This has had a major impact on global shipping and the US and UK has retaliated with air strikes. BBC Persian’s Nafiseh Kohnavard has been given rare access to US navy warships patrolling in the Red Sea.</p><p>In Argentina, President Javier Milei, has defended his huge public spending cuts after annual inflation in the country soared beyond 250 per cent. Our South America correspondent, Ione Wells, has been finding out what people in Argentina make of his controversial plans for change.</p><p>Migration continues to fill headlines – from the ongoing saga of the Rwanda asylum plan to Republicans playing hardball over how to stem illegal crossings on the US-Mexico border. Our Central Europe correspondent, Nick Thorpe, is never far from a border flash-point, and reflects on the characters he has crossed paths with on the frontier of Hungary and Serbia.</p><p>Costa Rica is often portrayed as a gold standard of eco-tourism and its Corcovado national park is one of the best places on earth to watch wildlife. But, there are concerns that some species there are in decline, in part due to illegal gold mining, hunting and logging in the region. Qasa Alom has been exploring the challenges.</p><p>Producer: Sally Abrahams
  62. Production coordinator: Sophie Hill
  63. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Behind the scenes at the Munich conference where news broke of Alexei Navalny's death.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from Germany, the Red Sea, Argentina, the Hungary-Serbia border and Costa Rica.</p><p>BBC security correspondent, Frank Gardner takes us behind the scenes at the Munich security conference, where the sudden announcement of the death of Alexei Navalny brought home the diplomatic challenges facing world leaders.</p><p>Iran-backed Yemeni Houthis say they will continue to target ships in the Red Sea, in solidarity with Palestinian people in Gaza. This has had a major impact on global shipping and the US and UK has retaliated with air strikes. BBC Persian’s Nafiseh Kohnavard has been given rare access to US navy warships patrolling in the Red Sea.</p><p>In Argentina, President Javier Milei, has defended his huge public spending cuts after annual inflation in the country soared beyond 250 per cent. Our South America correspondent, Ione Wells, has been finding out what people in Argentina make of his controversial plans for change.</p><p>Migration continues to fill headlines – from the ongoing saga of the Rwanda asylum plan to Republicans playing hardball over how to stem illegal crossings on the US-Mexico border. Our Central Europe correspondent, Nick Thorpe, is never far from a border flash-point, and reflects on the characters he has crossed paths with on the frontier of Hungary and Serbia.</p><p>Costa Rica is often portrayed as a gold standard of eco-tourism and its Corcovado national park is one of the best places on earth to watch wildlife. But, there are concerns that some species there are in decline, in part due to illegal gold mining, hunting and logging in the region. Qasa Alom has been exploring the challenges.</p><p>Producer: Sally Abrahams
  64. Production coordinator: Sophie Hill
  65. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1737</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hdcq1p.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hdcq1p.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hdcq1p.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hdcxw7</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hdcxw7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hdcq1p.mp3" fileSize="27792000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1737"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hdcxw7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Reporting Gaza</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Israel and Gaza, Guyana, Finland and the USA.</p><p>International media have been campaigning to gain access to Gaza in the months since the Israeli bombardment began - with only occasional access granted, which is closely supervised by the Israeli military. More often, news organisations have relied on Palestinian journalists already living and working in Gaza, who
  66. continue to operate under dangerous conditions. Jeremy Bowen reflects on the difficulties of telling the story of the Israel-Gaza war.</p><p>After Guyana discovered it had substantial oil reserves almost ten years ago, its economy was quickly transformed and it's now the world's fastest growing economy. But its neighbour, Venezuela, recently contested Guyana's claim to oil-rich Essequibo region, which makes up two-thirds of Guyana's territory, reviving a centuries-old territorial dispute. Michelle Jana Chan went to see how the country had changed.</p><p>Alexander Stubb was elected as Finland's president in polls last weekend, heralding a more hawkish approach to Russia. Finland acceded to NATO last year, and has a strategic role to play given its long border with its giant neighbour. Emilia Jansson reflects on what sort of President, Mr Stubb will be - and on what the presidential campaign revealed about Finnish attitudes.</p><p>And in the US, the decor of the Oval Office in the White House is always closely watched when there's a change of President. Donald Trump's military flags were replaced with busts of influential figures from America's past, ranging from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Rosa Parks. Nick Bryant reports on what the contents of the President's bookshelf might reveal.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  67. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  68. Production coordinator: Katie Morrison</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Jeremy Bowen reflects on the challenge posed by very limited media access to the war zone.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Israel and Gaza, Guyana, Finland and the USA.</p><p>International media have been campaigning to gain access to Gaza in the months since the Israeli bombardment began - with only occasional access granted, which is closely supervised by the Israeli military. More often, news organisations have relied on Palestinian journalists already living and working in Gaza, who
  69. continue to operate under dangerous conditions. Jeremy Bowen reflects on the difficulties of telling the story of the Israel-Gaza war.</p><p>After Guyana discovered it had substantial oil reserves almost ten years ago, its economy was quickly transformed and it's now the world's fastest growing economy. But its neighbour, Venezuela, recently contested Guyana's claim to oil-rich Essequibo region, which makes up two-thirds of Guyana's territory, reviving a centuries-old territorial dispute. Michelle Jana Chan went to see how the country had changed.</p><p>Alexander Stubb was elected as Finland's president in polls last weekend, heralding a more hawkish approach to Russia. Finland acceded to NATO last year, and has a strategic role to play given its long border with its giant neighbour. Emilia Jansson reflects on what sort of President, Mr Stubb will be - and on what the presidential campaign revealed about Finnish attitudes.</p><p>And in the US, the decor of the Oval Office in the White House is always closely watched when there's a change of President. Donald Trump's military flags were replaced with busts of influential figures from America's past, ranging from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Rosa Parks. Nick Bryant reports on what the contents of the President's bookshelf might reveal.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  70. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  71. Production coordinator: Katie Morrison</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1716</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hcjh74.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hcjh74.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hcjh74.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hcjhnh</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hcjhnh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hcjh74.mp3" fileSize="27456000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1716"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hcjhnh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Fear of Famine in Ethiopia</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Ethiopia, Sweden, India, Australia and Ecuador.
  72. Ethiopia's Tigray region has already been devastated by war - now its people are facing starvation as swathes of land have been parched by drought. Our Diplomatic Editor, James Landale has been given rare access to the region, where he visited a clinic helping the hungry.</p><p>Rising gang violence in Sweden has wrecked the country’s peaceful image. Now the government plans to introduce so-called ‘police search zones’ allowing officers to frisk people or search vehicles, even if they are not formally suspected of a crime. Matilda Welin reports on the dramatic upsurge in bombings, shootings and arson.</p><p>In India, thousands of men, desperate for secure jobs, have been queuing at recruitment centres hoping to land work... in Israel. In a treaty signed last year, India’s government promised to send more than 40,000 workers to Israel, to help plug shortfalls in the construction industry there. Soutik Biswas has been talking to some hopeful recruits in India’s northern state of Haryana.</p><p>A convenience store in Sydney, Australia, offers more than the usual variety of groceries. Amongst the tinned tomatoes and toiletries is a full-size, working Airbus A320 flight simulator - so you can learn to pilot a plane while picking up a pint of milk. Eleanor Smallwood has been to meet the man behind the machine.</p><p>And, with its Elvis hairdo and eye-catching feathery necktie, we meet the rare, Long-wattled Umbrellabird. Stephen Moss trudges through the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador, to make his acquaintance (just don’t forget the binoculars).</p><p>Producer: Sally Abrahams
  73. Production Co-ordinator: Sophie Hill
  74. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The deadly mix of drought and war has left millions of people without enough food</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Ethiopia, Sweden, India, Australia and Ecuador.
  75. Ethiopia's Tigray region has already been devastated by war - now its people are facing starvation as swathes of land have been parched by drought. Our Diplomatic Editor, James Landale has been given rare access to the region, where he visited a clinic helping the hungry.</p><p>Rising gang violence in Sweden has wrecked the country’s peaceful image. Now the government plans to introduce so-called ‘police search zones’ allowing officers to frisk people or search vehicles, even if they are not formally suspected of a crime. Matilda Welin reports on the dramatic upsurge in bombings, shootings and arson.</p><p>In India, thousands of men, desperate for secure jobs, have been queuing at recruitment centres hoping to land work... in Israel. In a treaty signed last year, India’s government promised to send more than 40,000 workers to Israel, to help plug shortfalls in the construction industry there. Soutik Biswas has been talking to some hopeful recruits in India’s northern state of Haryana.</p><p>A convenience store in Sydney, Australia, offers more than the usual variety of groceries. Amongst the tinned tomatoes and toiletries is a full-size, working Airbus A320 flight simulator - so you can learn to pilot a plane while picking up a pint of milk. Eleanor Smallwood has been to meet the man behind the machine.</p><p>And, with its Elvis hairdo and eye-catching feathery necktie, we meet the rare, Long-wattled Umbrellabird. Stephen Moss trudges through the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador, to make his acquaintance (just don’t forget the binoculars).</p><p>Producer: Sally Abrahams
  76. Production Co-ordinator: Sophie Hill
  77. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1715</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hc1ldf.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hc1ldf.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hc1ldf.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hc1lsr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hc1lsr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hc1ldf.mp3" fileSize="27440000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1715"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hc1lsr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Who will govern Pakistan</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Pakistan, Syria, Gaza, Trinidad and Tobago and Ivory Coast.</p><p>With most of the results now declared in Pakistan's general election, no political force has a clear majority. Jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan is claiming victory, and another ex-PM, Nawaz Sharif, says his party has emerged the largest and is urging others to join his coalition. Caroline Davies reflects on how the vote has divided the nation.</p><p>Residents of the tightly-controlled rebel-held area of Idlib, in Syria's north-west, are struggling to survive as aid funding has been cut one year on from the quake which struck Syria and Turkey. Leila Molana Allen visits an orphanage where children try to imagine a better future.</p><p>Lucy Williamson follows the story of six-year-old Hind Rajab who was caught up in crossfire when she tried to leave Gaza City, following evacuation orders by Israel's military. She describes the efforts to stay in contact with her after her family died, and the perilous nature of rescue efforts that are replicated every day.</p><p>Trinidad and Tobago is one of the wealthiest nations in the Caribbean, thanks to significant oil and gas reserves. But Tobagans often complain that Trinidad has reaped the benefits at the expense of their own smaller island. Sara Wheeler paid the island a visit.</p><p>And finally, on Sunday Nigeria faces Ivory Coast in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations. James Copnall was there for the tournament, twenty years after he worked there as a correspondent. He charts its transformation after years of civil war.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  78. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  79. Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>With most results now declared in Pakistan's general election, there is no clear majority</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Pakistan, Syria, Gaza, Trinidad and Tobago and Ivory Coast.</p><p>With most of the results now declared in Pakistan's general election, no political force has a clear majority. Jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan is claiming victory, and another ex-PM, Nawaz Sharif, says his party has emerged the largest and is urging others to join his coalition. Caroline Davies reflects on how the vote has divided the nation.</p><p>Residents of the tightly-controlled rebel-held area of Idlib, in Syria's north-west, are struggling to survive as aid funding has been cut one year on from the quake which struck Syria and Turkey. Leila Molana Allen visits an orphanage where children try to imagine a better future.</p><p>Lucy Williamson follows the story of six-year-old Hind Rajab who was caught up in crossfire when she tried to leave Gaza City, following evacuation orders by Israel's military. She describes the efforts to stay in contact with her after her family died, and the perilous nature of rescue efforts that are replicated every day.</p><p>Trinidad and Tobago is one of the wealthiest nations in the Caribbean, thanks to significant oil and gas reserves. But Tobagans often complain that Trinidad has reaped the benefits at the expense of their own smaller island. Sara Wheeler paid the island a visit.</p><p>And finally, on Sunday Nigeria faces Ivory Coast in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations. James Copnall was there for the tournament, twenty years after he worked there as a correspondent. He charts its transformation after years of civil war.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  80. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  81. Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 12:13:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1741</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hbgn3x.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hbgn3x.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hbgn3x.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hbgp1t</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hbgp1t</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hbgn3x.mp3" fileSize="27856000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1741"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hbgp1t</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Who will govern Pakistan?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Pakistan, Syria, Gaza, Trinidad and Tobago and Ivory Coast.</p><p>With most of the results now declared in Pakistan's general election, no political force has a clear majority. Jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan is claiming victory, and another ex-PM, Nawaz Sharif, says his party has emerged the largest and is urging others to join his coalition. Caroline Davies reflects on how the vote has divided the nation.</p><p>Residents of the tightly-controlled rebel-held area of Idlib, in Syria's north-west, are struggling to survive as aid funding has been cut one year on from the quake which struck Syria and Turkey. Leila Molana Allen visits an orphanage where children try to imagine a better future.</p><p>Lucy Williamson follows the story of six-year-old Hind Rajab who was caught up in crossfire when she tried to leave Gaza City, following evacuation orders by Israel's military. She describes the efforts to stay in contact with her after her family died, and the perilous nature of rescue efforts that are replicated every day.</p><p>Trinidad and Tobago is one of the wealthiest nations in the Caribbean, thanks to significant oil and gas reserves. But Tobagans often complain that Trinidad has reaped the benefits at the expense of their own smaller island. Sara Wheeler paid the island a visit.</p><p>And finally, on Sunday Nigeria faces Ivory Coast in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations. James Copnall was there for the tournament, twenty years after he worked there as a correspondent. He charts its transformation after years of civil war.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  82. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  83. Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison</p><p>Series Producer
  84. From Our Own Correspondent
  85. BBC Long Form Audio</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>With most results declared in Pakistan's general election, there is no clear majority.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Pakistan, Syria, Gaza, Trinidad and Tobago and Ivory Coast.</p><p>With most of the results now declared in Pakistan's general election, no political force has a clear majority. Jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan is claiming victory, and another ex-PM, Nawaz Sharif, says his party has emerged the largest and is urging others to join his coalition. Caroline Davies reflects on how the vote has divided the nation.</p><p>Residents of the tightly-controlled rebel-held area of Idlib, in Syria's north-west, are struggling to survive as aid funding has been cut one year on from the quake which struck Syria and Turkey. Leila Molana Allen visits an orphanage where children try to imagine a better future.</p><p>Lucy Williamson follows the story of six-year-old Hind Rajab who was caught up in crossfire when she tried to leave Gaza City, following evacuation orders by Israel's military. She describes the efforts to stay in contact with her after her family died, and the perilous nature of rescue efforts that are replicated every day.</p><p>Trinidad and Tobago is one of the wealthiest nations in the Caribbean, thanks to significant oil and gas reserves. But Tobagans often complain that Trinidad has reaped the benefits at the expense of their own smaller island. Sara Wheeler paid the island a visit.</p><p>And finally, on Sunday Nigeria faces Ivory Coast in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations. James Copnall was there for the tournament, twenty years after he worked there as a correspondent. He charts its transformation after years of civil war.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  86. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  87. Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison</p><p>Series Producer
  88. From Our Own Correspondent
  89. BBC Long Form Audio</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1722</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hb66wl.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hb66wl.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hb66wl.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0hb68c0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hb68c0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hb66wl.mp3" fileSize="27552000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1722"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0hb68c0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>America’s Endless Fentanyl Epidemic</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from the US-Mexico border, Chile, Spain, the US and India.
  90. The synthetic opioid Fentanyl is fifty times stronger than heroin, and was responsible for tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the US last year. Relatively easy to produce, it is smuggled in large quantities across the Mexico-US border. Will Grant reports from El Paso in Texas, and hears how it is poisoning young lives.
  91. Chile held two days of national mourning this week after wildfires wreaked a path of destruction through the central coastal region of Valparaiso. More than 120 people were killed with many more are missing. Jane Chambers has spoken to those directly affected.</p><p>Spain has one of the most powerful feminist movements in Europe and the country recently passed new laws to protect women against violence – but only women. Now, some Spaniards are asking, has feminism gone too far? Ellie House reports from Madrid.</p><p>Over the past 20 years, a charity has flown hundreds of thousands of military veterans to Washington DC to visit the war memorials built in honour of their service and sacrifice. Sophie Williams went to meet veterans from WW2, and the Korean and Vietnam wars who'd taken these 'honor flights'.</p><p>India's economic boom has created some 169 billionaires. Many of India’s super-rich choose Mumbai as their home yet alongside this great wealth is enormous poverty. Half of Mumbai’s population live in slums – some just a stone’s throw from the millionaire mansions. For some, this can be the inspiration they need – after all, Mumbai is known as the city of dreams. Philip McCreery met one teenager who’s close to seeing hers come true.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  92. Producer: Sally Abrahams
  93. Production Co-ordinator: Sophie Hill
  94. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The synthetic opioid poisoning young lives on both sides of the US-Mexico border</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from the US-Mexico border, Chile, Spain, the US and India.
  95. The synthetic opioid Fentanyl is fifty times stronger than heroin, and was responsible for tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the US last year. Relatively easy to produce, it is smuggled in large quantities across the Mexico-US border. Will Grant reports from El Paso in Texas, and hears how it is poisoning young lives.
  96. Chile held two days of national mourning this week after wildfires wreaked a path of destruction through the central coastal region of Valparaiso. More than 120 people were killed with many more are missing. Jane Chambers has spoken to those directly affected.</p><p>Spain has one of the most powerful feminist movements in Europe and the country recently passed new laws to protect women against violence – but only women. Now, some Spaniards are asking, has feminism gone too far? Ellie House reports from Madrid.</p><p>Over the past 20 years, a charity has flown hundreds of thousands of military veterans to Washington DC to visit the war memorials built in honour of their service and sacrifice. Sophie Williams went to meet veterans from WW2, and the Korean and Vietnam wars who'd taken these 'honor flights'.</p><p>India's economic boom has created some 169 billionaires. Many of India’s super-rich choose Mumbai as their home yet alongside this great wealth is enormous poverty. Half of Mumbai’s population live in slums – some just a stone’s throw from the millionaire mansions. For some, this can be the inspiration they need – after all, Mumbai is known as the city of dreams. Philip McCreery met one teenager who’s close to seeing hers come true.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  97. Producer: Sally Abrahams
  98. Production Co-ordinator: Sophie Hill
  99. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1742</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h9qd6j.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h9qd6j.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0h9qd6j.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0h9qgk3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h9qgk3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h9qd6j.mp3" fileSize="27872000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1742"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0h9qgk3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>French Farmers and the 'Siege of Paris</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from France, Turkey, Cambodia, Canada and Chile.</p><p>French farmers have staged nationwide protests this week, blocking roads to vent their anger over falling incomes, rising bureaucracy, and competition from imports. Andrew Harding reflects on how these latest protests are a sign of a broader social and political schism that has been emerging in France.</p><p>Next week marks a year since Turkey and Syria were hit by a devastating earthquake, which killed more than 60,000 people and displaced millions more. Victoria Craig travelled to Antakya in southern Turkey, one of the worst-hit regions, and spoke to people trying to rebuild their lives while still dealing with the grief of losing loved ones.</p><p>Brick kiln workers in Cambodia work in some of the hottest and harshest conditions in the world. The factories often use a mix of fabric, plastic and rubber to fuel the kiln fires, which emit toxic fumes and trigger health conditions. Laura Bicker went to visit workers on the outskirts of the capital, Phnom Penh.</p><p>Louis Harnett O'Meara takes to the road in British Columbia, Canada, to see some of the region's iconic redwoods. He hears how efforts to protect these centuries-old trees, along with the wider biodiversity of the region, are being met with opposition from communities dependent on logging for their livelihoods.</p><p>In Chilean Patagonia, Kirsty Lang explores a remote region which has been converted into national parkland. encountering sea lions and a lone penguin along the way. It's now one of the world's most protected areas of wilderness, thanks to the work of two American philanthropists.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  100. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  101. Production Coordinator: Rosie Strawbridge</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Farmers surrounded Paris this week, to protest falling incomes and rising bureaucracy.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from France, Turkey, Cambodia, Canada and Chile.</p><p>French farmers have staged nationwide protests this week, blocking roads to vent their anger over falling incomes, rising bureaucracy, and competition from imports. Andrew Harding reflects on how these latest protests are a sign of a broader social and political schism that has been emerging in France.</p><p>Next week marks a year since Turkey and Syria were hit by a devastating earthquake, which killed more than 60,000 people and displaced millions more. Victoria Craig travelled to Antakya in southern Turkey, one of the worst-hit regions, and spoke to people trying to rebuild their lives while still dealing with the grief of losing loved ones.</p><p>Brick kiln workers in Cambodia work in some of the hottest and harshest conditions in the world. The factories often use a mix of fabric, plastic and rubber to fuel the kiln fires, which emit toxic fumes and trigger health conditions. Laura Bicker went to visit workers on the outskirts of the capital, Phnom Penh.</p><p>Louis Harnett O'Meara takes to the road in British Columbia, Canada, to see some of the region's iconic redwoods. He hears how efforts to protect these centuries-old trees, along with the wider biodiversity of the region, are being met with opposition from communities dependent on logging for their livelihoods.</p><p>In Chilean Patagonia, Kirsty Lang explores a remote region which has been converted into national parkland. encountering sea lions and a lone penguin along the way. It's now one of the world's most protected areas of wilderness, thanks to the work of two American philanthropists.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  102. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  103. Production Coordinator: Rosie Strawbridge</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1733</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h8v6sk.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h8v6sk.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0h8v6sk.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0h8v99y</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h8v99y</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h8v6sk.mp3" fileSize="27728000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1733"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0h8v99y</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Rebranding Indonesia's politicians</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' reflections from Indonesia, Argentina, Kenya, Colombia and Germany.</p><p>Prabowo Subianto was once a military hardman at the forefront of Indonesian politics. He's run for the country's presidency twice before - and failed. Will it be third time lucky for him on the 14th of February? The BBC's former Indonesia correspondent Rebecca Henschke recently revisited the country and was startled by his apparent image makeover to appeal to first-time voters.</p><p>When Javier Milei was elected President of Argentina in November, it was largely thanks to his promises of radical change to save the economy. In Buenos Aires recently, James Menendez saw signs of fiscal distress everywhere.</p><p>Kenya's Penal Code outlaws abortion - with limited exceptions after cases of rape or incest, or where mothers are ill or aged under 18. Yet each year, tens of thousands of women and girls facing unwanted pregnancies resort to backstreet clinics, or try to induce terminations themselves. Linda Ngari explores the dangers they face - and the reasons they're willing to run the risk.</p><p>Going from armed rebel to eco-tourism enabler might seem a drastic career change - but it's a path some former guerrilla fighters in Colombia are keen to take. Zoe Gelber talked to some demobilised former members of the FARC movement who hope to make a more peaceful living guiding travellers through the rainforests they once fought in.</p><p>And Rob Crossan goes on the trail of the bratwurst in Nuremberg. It seem like just a humble sausage - but it's protected by European legislation, has hundreds of years of history behind it, and is deeply beloved by locals looking for reassurance.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  104. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  105. Production Co-Ordinator: Sophie Hill</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>From strongman to cuddly grandpa figure: how Prabowo Subianto's image has been remade</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' reflections from Indonesia, Argentina, Kenya, Colombia and Germany.</p><p>Prabowo Subianto was once a military hardman at the forefront of Indonesian politics. He's run for the country's presidency twice before - and failed. Will it be third time lucky for him on the 14th of February? The BBC's former Indonesia correspondent Rebecca Henschke recently revisited the country and was startled by his apparent image makeover to appeal to first-time voters.</p><p>When Javier Milei was elected President of Argentina in November, it was largely thanks to his promises of radical change to save the economy. In Buenos Aires recently, James Menendez saw signs of fiscal distress everywhere.</p><p>Kenya's Penal Code outlaws abortion - with limited exceptions after cases of rape or incest, or where mothers are ill or aged under 18. Yet each year, tens of thousands of women and girls facing unwanted pregnancies resort to backstreet clinics, or try to induce terminations themselves. Linda Ngari explores the dangers they face - and the reasons they're willing to run the risk.</p><p>Going from armed rebel to eco-tourism enabler might seem a drastic career change - but it's a path some former guerrilla fighters in Colombia are keen to take. Zoe Gelber talked to some demobilised former members of the FARC movement who hope to make a more peaceful living guiding travellers through the rainforests they once fought in.</p><p>And Rob Crossan goes on the trail of the bratwurst in Nuremberg. It seem like just a humble sausage - but it's protected by European legislation, has hundreds of years of history behind it, and is deeply beloved by locals looking for reassurance.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  106. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  107. Production Co-Ordinator: Sophie Hill</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1722</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h8cglg.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h8cglg.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0h8cglg.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0h8cksy</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h8cksy</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h8cglg.mp3" fileSize="27552000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1722"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0h8cksy</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Ayodhya: a defining moment for India</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from India, Bangladesh, the US, Switzerland and Finland.</p><p>This week, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, opened a grand Hindu temple in the northern city of Ayodhya. The site on which it sits was once home to a centuries-old mosque which was demolished by a Hindu mob thirty years ago. Yogita Limaye reflects on the impact of the new temple, which fulfils a dream for many Hindus, but has alienated much of India's Muslim minority.</p><p>Samira Hussain attends a press conference in Bangladesh, soon after Sheikh Hasina was returned to power for a fourth consecutive term as prime minister. With voter turnout at almost half that of the previous election, Samira explores why Bangladeshi voters are feeling despondent, amid claims of growing autocracy in the country.</p><p>After securing victory in the Republican primary in New Hampshire, Donald Trump is currently in a strong position to clinch the party's presidential nomination. Within his base is a sizeable contingent of evangelical Christians. Mike Wendling met with some of them, to hear how they have become a political force.</p><p>China's human rights record has been under the microscope at the UN in Geneva this week. It's attracted particular interest as, since the last review, China has faced criticism for its continued repression of Uyghur Muslims, while clamping down on democratic freedoms in Hong Kong. Micky Bristow was there to watch proceedings.</p><p>And John Kampfner visits one of the world's last remaining museums dedicated to Vladimir Lenin. Located in the Finnish city of Tampere, it tells the story of the complex relationship between Finland and Russia over the last century.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  108. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  109. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A grand new Hindu temple sits on a disputed site, exposing India's religious fault-line.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from India, Bangladesh, the US, Switzerland and Finland.</p><p>This week, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, opened a grand Hindu temple in the northern city of Ayodhya. The site on which it sits was once home to a centuries-old mosque which was demolished by a Hindu mob thirty years ago. Yogita Limaye reflects on the impact of the new temple, which fulfils a dream for many Hindus, but has alienated much of India's Muslim minority.</p><p>Samira Hussain attends a press conference in Bangladesh, soon after Sheikh Hasina was returned to power for a fourth consecutive term as prime minister. With voter turnout at almost half that of the previous election, Samira explores why Bangladeshi voters are feeling despondent, amid claims of growing autocracy in the country.</p><p>After securing victory in the Republican primary in New Hampshire, Donald Trump is currently in a strong position to clinch the party's presidential nomination. Within his base is a sizeable contingent of evangelical Christians. Mike Wendling met with some of them, to hear how they have become a political force.</p><p>China's human rights record has been under the microscope at the UN in Geneva this week. It's attracted particular interest as, since the last review, China has faced criticism for its continued repression of Uyghur Muslims, while clamping down on democratic freedoms in Hong Kong. Micky Bristow was there to watch proceedings.</p><p>And John Kampfner visits one of the world's last remaining museums dedicated to Vladimir Lenin. Located in the Finnish city of Tampere, it tells the story of the complex relationship between Finland and Russia over the last century.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  110. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  111. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1722</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h7h9kk.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h7h9kk.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0h7h9kk.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0h7h9ng</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h7h9ng</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h7h9kk.mp3" fileSize="27552000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1722"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0h7h9ng</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Taiwan’s defiant message to China</title><description><![CDATA[<p>: Kate Adie presents stories from Taiwan, Ecuador, Germany, Georgia and Indonesia</p><p>The pro-sovereignty candidate William Lai won Taiwan's presidential election this week. Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes charts the key moments that led to this historic vote, as Taiwan's voters sent a signal to Beijing.</p><p>Will Grant has been in the Ecuadorean city of Guayaquil which experienced a sudden descent into violence after two gang members escaped from prison, and a TV station was raided during a live broadcast. He meets one family who encountered tragedy in the crossfire.</p><p>In Germany, Jessica Parker recounts her encounters at some of the nationwide tractor protests which blocked streets in towns and cities this week, as farmers took a stand against the removal of tax relief on diesel - but that's not the only thing German voters are angry about.</p><p>Amelia Stewart visits a family trying to revive Georgia's once-thriving tea industry, which supplied 95 per cent of tea to the former Soviet Union. She visits Racha, in the country's north-west and hears how it's providing a welcome source of income for locals.</p><p>And finally we travel on Indonesia's new high-speed 'Whoosh' railway. Funded by Chinese loans, the train runs from Jakarta to the economic hub, Bandung. Such infrastructure projects are one way for China to exert influence via its Belt and Road Initiative - but does the train live up to the hype? Nick Marshall takes a ride.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  112. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  113. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Taiwan's pro-sovereignty party won the presidential election, sending a signal to Beijing.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>: Kate Adie presents stories from Taiwan, Ecuador, Germany, Georgia and Indonesia</p><p>The pro-sovereignty candidate William Lai won Taiwan's presidential election this week. Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes charts the key moments that led to this historic vote, as Taiwan's voters sent a signal to Beijing.</p><p>Will Grant has been in the Ecuadorean city of Guayaquil which experienced a sudden descent into violence after two gang members escaped from prison, and a TV station was raided during a live broadcast. He meets one family who encountered tragedy in the crossfire.</p><p>In Germany, Jessica Parker recounts her encounters at some of the nationwide tractor protests which blocked streets in towns and cities this week, as farmers took a stand against the removal of tax relief on diesel - but that's not the only thing German voters are angry about.</p><p>Amelia Stewart visits a family trying to revive Georgia's once-thriving tea industry, which supplied 95 per cent of tea to the former Soviet Union. She visits Racha, in the country's north-west and hears how it's providing a welcome source of income for locals.</p><p>And finally we travel on Indonesia's new high-speed 'Whoosh' railway. Funded by Chinese loans, the train runs from Jakarta to the economic hub, Bandung. Such infrastructure projects are one way for China to exert influence via its Belt and Road Initiative - but does the train live up to the hype? Nick Marshall takes a ride.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  114. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  115. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1712</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h655y4.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h655y4.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0h655y4.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0h6565f</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h6565f</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h655y4.mp3" fileSize="27392000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1712"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0h6565f</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Japan: Learning Lessons from Earthquakes</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Japan, the USA, the Thailand-Myanmar border, Barbuda and Guinea-Bissau.</p><p>The earthquake which shook Japan on New Year's Day brought considerable damage to the mostly-rural Noto peninsula. One noticeable pattern amidst the destruction was how much more robust modern buildings had proved to be over older, wooden homes. Jean Mackenzie reflects on Japan's evolving ability to cope with earthquakes.</p><p>Every four years, the citizens of Iowa welcome a political circus to town - as national and international media, political grandees and pollsters flood in to cover the Iowa caucuses. Justin Webb explains how and why Iowa has such a special role in the electoral process.</p><p>Although the world's attention may have shifted away from Myanmar's internal conflict, there are still several serious regional insurgencies raging against its ruling military regime. This fighting causes casualties - many of whom now have to seek health care outside Myanmar. after hospitals were targeted. Rebecca Root reports from a clinic on the Thailand-Myanmar border trying to treat Myanmar's sick and wounded.</p><p>The tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda is beautiful and relatively undeveloped - but for how long? Caroline Bayley visited this idyllic spot to delve into a local dispute over a new airstrip and resort complex which could change its ecosystem and culture for ever.</p><p>Despite their scruffy appearance and lack of cuteness, vultures have value - particularly in West Africa. They can help fight disease - and some people in Guinea Bissau believe their body parts work as cures. Sam Bradpiece explains why Guinea Bissau's government has moved to protect them.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  116. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  117. Production Co-Ordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Amid the aftermath in Wajima, there are signs Japan has learned to live with earthquakes.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Japan, the USA, the Thailand-Myanmar border, Barbuda and Guinea-Bissau.</p><p>The earthquake which shook Japan on New Year's Day brought considerable damage to the mostly-rural Noto peninsula. One noticeable pattern amidst the destruction was how much more robust modern buildings had proved to be over older, wooden homes. Jean Mackenzie reflects on Japan's evolving ability to cope with earthquakes.</p><p>Every four years, the citizens of Iowa welcome a political circus to town - as national and international media, political grandees and pollsters flood in to cover the Iowa caucuses. Justin Webb explains how and why Iowa has such a special role in the electoral process.</p><p>Although the world's attention may have shifted away from Myanmar's internal conflict, there are still several serious regional insurgencies raging against its ruling military regime. This fighting causes casualties - many of whom now have to seek health care outside Myanmar. after hospitals were targeted. Rebecca Root reports from a clinic on the Thailand-Myanmar border trying to treat Myanmar's sick and wounded.</p><p>The tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda is beautiful and relatively undeveloped - but for how long? Caroline Bayley visited this idyllic spot to delve into a local dispute over a new airstrip and resort complex which could change its ecosystem and culture for ever.</p><p>Despite their scruffy appearance and lack of cuteness, vultures have value - particularly in West Africa. They can help fight disease - and some people in Guinea Bissau believe their body parts work as cures. Sam Bradpiece explains why Guinea Bissau's government has moved to protect them.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  118. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  119. Production Co-Ordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1715</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h4tg3p.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h4tg3p.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0h4tg3p.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0h4tgcm</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h4tgcm</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h4tg3p.mp3" fileSize="27440000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1715"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0h4tgcm</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Running Out of Road For A Two-State Solution</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, Guatemala, The Philippines, Greece and the Faroe Islands</p><p>US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is in the Middle East for another round of crisis diplomacy. After the assassination of a senior Hamas leader this week, there are now concerns the conflict will widen. Tom Bateman has just left his post in the Middle East and is now covering US foreign policy from Washington - which as he reflects - might have to draw on some lessons from history.</p><p>Ahead of his inauguration next weekend, Bernardo Arevalo, Guatemala's President-elect, has had to contend with a series of attempts to prevent him from taking power. His victory in elections last year confounded all expectations, and was widely seen as a repudiation of Guatemala's political elite, which has been dogged by corruption allegations for many years. But, the country's democratic future is still hanging in the balance, says Rory Sullivan.</p><p>Linda Pressly meets with a Catholic priest and a forensic pathologist in the Philippines, who are exhuming the remains of victims of Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. In the process they discover evidence that points to a very different version of events to the official line.</p><p>Heidi Fuller-Love visits the Greek island, Antikythera, whose remote and idyllic setting is its greatest allure for visitors, but it also poses its biggest challenge for the small number of residents there. Now the Greek government is paying people 500 euros to live there.</p><p>And finally - Tim Ecott reports from the Faroe Islands of the North Atlantic where residents are trying to conserve their land and traditions in the face of an influx of tourists.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  120. Editor: Richard Vadon
  121. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Political options prove elusive in the Middle East, ahead of US Secretary Blinken's visit</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, Guatemala, The Philippines, Greece and the Faroe Islands</p><p>US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is in the Middle East for another round of crisis diplomacy. After the assassination of a senior Hamas leader this week, there are now concerns the conflict will widen. Tom Bateman has just left his post in the Middle East and is now covering US foreign policy from Washington - which as he reflects - might have to draw on some lessons from history.</p><p>Ahead of his inauguration next weekend, Bernardo Arevalo, Guatemala's President-elect, has had to contend with a series of attempts to prevent him from taking power. His victory in elections last year confounded all expectations, and was widely seen as a repudiation of Guatemala's political elite, which has been dogged by corruption allegations for many years. But, the country's democratic future is still hanging in the balance, says Rory Sullivan.</p><p>Linda Pressly meets with a Catholic priest and a forensic pathologist in the Philippines, who are exhuming the remains of victims of Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. In the process they discover evidence that points to a very different version of events to the official line.</p><p>Heidi Fuller-Love visits the Greek island, Antikythera, whose remote and idyllic setting is its greatest allure for visitors, but it also poses its biggest challenge for the small number of residents there. Now the Greek government is paying people 500 euros to live there.</p><p>And finally - Tim Ecott reports from the Faroe Islands of the North Atlantic where residents are trying to conserve their land and traditions in the face of an influx of tourists.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  122. Editor: Richard Vadon
  123. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1735</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h3fjcd.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h3fjcd.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0h3fjcd.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0h3fjp6</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h3fjp6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h3fjcd.mp3" fileSize="27760000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1735"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0h3fjp6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Changing Face of Modern China</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from China, Bolivia, the US and Italy.</p><p>BBC China correspondent Stephen McDonell arrived in Beijing as a student 20 years ago and jumped straight into the city's buzzing nightlife. But the bohemian club scene he fell in love with was rapidly replaced by shiny new shopping malls, and towering skyscrapers as China's wealth and ambition grew. Along with the economic boom came substantial military expansion and a tightening of control in political and cultural life under Xi Jinping's leadership. Stephen ponders if change is always for the better.</p><p>The southern US state of Louisiana is on the front-line of climate change. Its famous wetlands are now disappearing at a rate among the fastest in the world, and the state has lost nearly 2000 square miles of land over the past century leaving coastal communities increasingly vulnerable. Beth Timmins has met residents fearful for their future.</p><p>The invasive Paiche fish is so large and voracious it’s been called King of the River by fishermen in Bolivia. It’s thought that the breed escaped from fish farms in Peru and swam downstream, to take over the waterways of the Beni region in northern Bolivia. This mighty invader has changed the lives of locals as Jane Chambers learned.</p><p>And wild boars are on the rampage in Italy in rural areas - and now in cities too. Last year hunting laws were relaxed, to allow for the animals to be captured and killed in urban areas. This move was welcomed by Italy’s farming lobby – but has faced considerable criticism from city-dwelling conservationists. Nicholas Walton tells the story of how matters recently came to a head in his local village group-chat.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  124. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  125. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Our correspondent on the transformation he's seen in Beijing since arriving 20 years ago.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from China, Bolivia, the US and Italy.</p><p>BBC China correspondent Stephen McDonell arrived in Beijing as a student 20 years ago and jumped straight into the city's buzzing nightlife. But the bohemian club scene he fell in love with was rapidly replaced by shiny new shopping malls, and towering skyscrapers as China's wealth and ambition grew. Along with the economic boom came substantial military expansion and a tightening of control in political and cultural life under Xi Jinping's leadership. Stephen ponders if change is always for the better.</p><p>The southern US state of Louisiana is on the front-line of climate change. Its famous wetlands are now disappearing at a rate among the fastest in the world, and the state has lost nearly 2000 square miles of land over the past century leaving coastal communities increasingly vulnerable. Beth Timmins has met residents fearful for their future.</p><p>The invasive Paiche fish is so large and voracious it’s been called King of the River by fishermen in Bolivia. It’s thought that the breed escaped from fish farms in Peru and swam downstream, to take over the waterways of the Beni region in northern Bolivia. This mighty invader has changed the lives of locals as Jane Chambers learned.</p><p>And wild boars are on the rampage in Italy in rural areas - and now in cities too. Last year hunting laws were relaxed, to allow for the animals to be captured and killed in urban areas. This move was welcomed by Italy’s farming lobby – but has faced considerable criticism from city-dwelling conservationists. Nicholas Walton tells the story of how matters recently came to a head in his local village group-chat.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  126. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  127. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1710</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h297j9.mp3" length="27360000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h297j9.mp3" length="27360000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0h297j9.mp3" length="27360000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0h137ql</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h137ql</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h297j9.mp3" fileSize="27360000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1710"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0h137ql</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Pivotal Moment in Ukraine's War</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Tajikistan, Brazil and Mexico</p><p>Over recent weeks, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has battled in vain to ensure further US funding for the war in Ukraine. Just one year ago, he received a standing ovation in Congress, such was the strength of support to see Ukraine victorious. Now, the reality is very different. James Waterhouse has been following events in Washington and in Kyiv and says why this is a defining moment for Ukraine in the war.</p><p>In Dnipro, away from the frontline in central-eastern Ukraine, Tim Whewell encounters a group of men who have not yet been called up to fight. He hears about everyday life in the country's economic hub and how young men are making a living by any means as they live under the looming threat of conscription.</p><p>When you’re based full-time in a country the stories you cover as a correspondent, from political strikes to a pandemic, are often also the stories you live yourself – and that certainly has been the case for the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson. As she prepares to move on to a posting in Australia, she reflects on the past decade she’s spent living in Brazil and Mexico.</p><p>In the mountains of Tajikistan, in the region of Gorno-Badakshan, locals decorate their homes, light up trees and celebrate the life of a saviour - but it's not Christmas. This is home to more than 200,000 Ismaili Muslims, whose spiritual leader is the Aga Khan, whose life is the focus of the festivities. Chris Aslan joined in on the fun.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  128. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  129. Production Coordinators: Gemma Ashman and Janet Staples</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Faced with waning support in the West, Ukraine is adapting its strategy in the war.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Tajikistan, Brazil and Mexico</p><p>Over recent weeks, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has battled in vain to ensure further US funding for the war in Ukraine. Just one year ago, he received a standing ovation in Congress, such was the strength of support to see Ukraine victorious. Now, the reality is very different. James Waterhouse has been following events in Washington and in Kyiv and says why this is a defining moment for Ukraine in the war.</p><p>In Dnipro, away from the frontline in central-eastern Ukraine, Tim Whewell encounters a group of men who have not yet been called up to fight. He hears about everyday life in the country's economic hub and how young men are making a living by any means as they live under the looming threat of conscription.</p><p>When you’re based full-time in a country the stories you cover as a correspondent, from political strikes to a pandemic, are often also the stories you live yourself – and that certainly has been the case for the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson. As she prepares to move on to a posting in Australia, she reflects on the past decade she’s spent living in Brazil and Mexico.</p><p>In the mountains of Tajikistan, in the region of Gorno-Badakshan, locals decorate their homes, light up trees and celebrate the life of a saviour - but it's not Christmas. This is home to more than 200,000 Ismaili Muslims, whose spiritual leader is the Aga Khan, whose life is the focus of the festivities. Chris Aslan joined in on the fun.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  130. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  131. Production Coordinators: Gemma Ashman and Janet Staples</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1719</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h1b9wj.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h1b9wj.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0h1b9wj.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0h1bbnx</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h1bbnx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h1b9wj.mp3" fileSize="27504000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1719"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0h1bbnx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Poland’s Political Drama</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Poland, CAR, Hong Kong, Armenia and Tunisia</p><p>This week the former Polish PM Donald Tusk returned to power marking a clear break from the right-wing, populist government that has been in office for the last eight years. Voters filled cinemas screening the parliamentary proceedings, as the country was gripped by the political drama. Sarah Rainsford was in Warsaw.</p><p>In the Central African Republic, the Wagner Group is wielding significant political, economic and cultural influence. Yemisi Adegoke visited the capital Bangui and spoke to the President about his reliance on Russian mercenary group, despite allegations of abuse and extra judicial killings.</p><p>The introduction of the Beijing-imposed national security law in 2020 led to an immediate crackdown on anti-government protests in Hong Kong. Several people were arrested under the new law, including the billionaire media mogul Jimmy Lai, whose trial is due to start on Monday - and there are many others. Danny Vincent spoke to another activist currently on remand.</p><p>In Armenia, Julia Paul speaks to journalists who fled the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in September, along with more than 100,000 others after the takeover by Azerbaijan. They tell her about the lives they left behind.</p><p>And the latest round of climate talks in the UAE, looked to end in disappointment as leaders failed to incorporate any reference to the phasing out of fossil fuels in the conference’s initial draft agreement. But in a dramatic turnaround, nations finally announced a ‘transition away’ from coal, oil, and gas. Justin Rowlatt was behind the scenes of the talks in Dubai.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  132. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  133. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Poland's election gripped the nation as voters turned away from 8 years of populist rule.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Poland, CAR, Hong Kong, Armenia and Tunisia</p><p>This week the former Polish PM Donald Tusk returned to power marking a clear break from the right-wing, populist government that has been in office for the last eight years. Voters filled cinemas screening the parliamentary proceedings, as the country was gripped by the political drama. Sarah Rainsford was in Warsaw.</p><p>In the Central African Republic, the Wagner Group is wielding significant political, economic and cultural influence. Yemisi Adegoke visited the capital Bangui and spoke to the President about his reliance on Russian mercenary group, despite allegations of abuse and extra judicial killings.</p><p>The introduction of the Beijing-imposed national security law in 2020 led to an immediate crackdown on anti-government protests in Hong Kong. Several people were arrested under the new law, including the billionaire media mogul Jimmy Lai, whose trial is due to start on Monday - and there are many others. Danny Vincent spoke to another activist currently on remand.</p><p>In Armenia, Julia Paul speaks to journalists who fled the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in September, along with more than 100,000 others after the takeover by Azerbaijan. They tell her about the lives they left behind.</p><p>And the latest round of climate talks in the UAE, looked to end in disappointment as leaders failed to incorporate any reference to the phasing out of fossil fuels in the conference’s initial draft agreement. But in a dramatic turnaround, nations finally announced a ‘transition away’ from coal, oil, and gas. Justin Rowlatt was behind the scenes of the talks in Dubai.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  134. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  135. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1740</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h088dy.mp3" length="27840000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h088dy.mp3" length="27840000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0h088dy.mp3" length="27840000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gzz9q1</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gzz9q1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0h088dy.mp3" fileSize="27840000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1740"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gzz9q1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Hope and Disillusion in South Africa</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from South Africa, Syria, the Netherlands and Germany.</p><p>Fergal Keane reported from South Africa during the country's difficult transition to democracy after the end of apartheid. He revisits some familiar neighbourhoods and reflects on what happened to the hope and ambition that gripped the country at the time.</p><p>Four years after Islamic State was defeated in Syria, thousands of children whose parents supported the group, are living in camps and detention centres with their mothers. Poonam Taneja met some of the children with uncertain futures, still hoping for a return to a normal life.</p><p>The Dutch far-right populist leader Geert Wilders swept to a surprise victory in parliamentary elections last month, but there is still no guarantee he will become prime minister. Housing, immigration and the cost of living dominated the election campaign. Anna Holligan spoke to voters in the seaside suburbs of The Hague.</p><p>Germany's plans for its much-vaunted ‘green energy transition’ are in deep water after a ruling by the country’s constitutional court blew a 60 billion euro hole in the project’s finances. Meanwhile German voters are questioning the cost of going green. Bob Howard was in Bremen.</p><p>Series producer: Serena Tarling
  136. Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  137. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Fergal Keane returns to South Africa thirty years after the fall of apartheid</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from South Africa, Syria, the Netherlands and Germany.</p><p>Fergal Keane reported from South Africa during the country's difficult transition to democracy after the end of apartheid. He revisits some familiar neighbourhoods and reflects on what happened to the hope and ambition that gripped the country at the time.</p><p>Four years after Islamic State was defeated in Syria, thousands of children whose parents supported the group, are living in camps and detention centres with their mothers. Poonam Taneja met some of the children with uncertain futures, still hoping for a return to a normal life.</p><p>The Dutch far-right populist leader Geert Wilders swept to a surprise victory in parliamentary elections last month, but there is still no guarantee he will become prime minister. Housing, immigration and the cost of living dominated the election campaign. Anna Holligan spoke to voters in the seaside suburbs of The Hague.</p><p>Germany's plans for its much-vaunted ‘green energy transition’ are in deep water after a ruling by the country’s constitutional court blew a 60 billion euro hole in the project’s finances. Meanwhile German voters are questioning the cost of going green. Bob Howard was in Bremen.</p><p>Series producer: Serena Tarling
  138. Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  139. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1719</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gyll9x.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gyll9x.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gyll9x.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gyllgf</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gyllgf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gyll9x.mp3" fileSize="27504000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1719"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gyllgf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The UAE’s Air Pollution Problem</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from the UAE, Iran, Ireland, Finland and Cambodia</p><p>As the world's seventh largest oil producer, the UAE may seem an odd choice to host the world's annual climate summit, but the Emiratis have been keen to showcase their green credentials. But the UAE’s desired image is falling short of the reality, says Owen Pinnell, as he reveals the devastating impact of gas-flaring.</p><p>In Iran, the enforcement of the mandatory hijab rule was once again in the spotlight after the death of 16-year-old Armita Geravand, following an alleged altercation with morality police in Tehran. While the mass protests seen last year may have faded, Faranak Amidi reflects on her own childhood in Tehran and the will of Iranian women to continue taking a stand.</p><p>The Irish government has promised better resources for police and stronger hate crime laws after rioting in Dublin city centre just over a week ago. Our correspondent Chris Page says a combination of disinformation, growing anti-immigrant sentiment, and changing social dynamics is presenting new challenges in Ireland.</p><p>Finland this week announced the temporary closure of all crossings on its border with Russia amid claims that Moscow has been deliberately channeling asylum seekers into the country. After Finland’s decision to join NATO, relations with Russia have soured considerably. Richard Dove was in Helsinki</p><p>A new Chinese-funded airport has opened in Cambodia's north-east, serving as the main gateway to the Angkor Wat temple complex. China’s influence on the Cambodian economy is everywhere with numerous projects funded by Chinese loans. But this foreign influence is nothing new, says Sara Wheeler</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  140. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  141. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>As COP28 gets underway, our correspondent reveals the impact of gas flaring in the UAE.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from the UAE, Iran, Ireland, Finland and Cambodia</p><p>As the world's seventh largest oil producer, the UAE may seem an odd choice to host the world's annual climate summit, but the Emiratis have been keen to showcase their green credentials. But the UAE’s desired image is falling short of the reality, says Owen Pinnell, as he reveals the devastating impact of gas-flaring.</p><p>In Iran, the enforcement of the mandatory hijab rule was once again in the spotlight after the death of 16-year-old Armita Geravand, following an alleged altercation with morality police in Tehran. While the mass protests seen last year may have faded, Faranak Amidi reflects on her own childhood in Tehran and the will of Iranian women to continue taking a stand.</p><p>The Irish government has promised better resources for police and stronger hate crime laws after rioting in Dublin city centre just over a week ago. Our correspondent Chris Page says a combination of disinformation, growing anti-immigrant sentiment, and changing social dynamics is presenting new challenges in Ireland.</p><p>Finland this week announced the temporary closure of all crossings on its border with Russia amid claims that Moscow has been deliberately channeling asylum seekers into the country. After Finland’s decision to join NATO, relations with Russia have soured considerably. Richard Dove was in Helsinki</p><p>A new Chinese-funded airport has opened in Cambodia's north-east, serving as the main gateway to the Angkor Wat temple complex. China’s influence on the Cambodian economy is everywhere with numerous projects funded by Chinese loans. But this foreign influence is nothing new, says Sara Wheeler</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  142. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  143. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1745</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gx7hbs.mp3" length="27920000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gx7hbs.mp3" length="27920000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gx7hbs.mp3" length="27920000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gx7hj0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gx7hj0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gx7hbs.mp3" fileSize="27920000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1745"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gx7hj0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Crime and Punishment in Putin’s Russia</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Russia, the US, Argentina, Iraq and Iceland.</p><p>In the wake of President Putin's invasion of Ukraine, repressive laws were passed which effectively criminalise all anti-war activism. The recent trial of artist Sasha Skochilenko underscored the heavy-handed enforcement of these laws, as well as the inconsistent way in which justice is applied in Russia. Steve Rosenberg was in St Petersburg.</p><p>Democratic and Republican states are introducing radically different laws on issues ranging from LGBTQ rights to the teaching of black history. As a result, people on either side of the political divide are on the move – as they flee from one state to another more aligned with their politics. Lucy Proctor was in Chicago and Miami.</p><p>Argentina has elected far-right outsider Javier Milei as President, bringing an end to an era that has largely been dominated by left-leaning ‘Peronist’ parties. Mr Milei has pledged big spending cuts and low taxes alongside other more radical policies. Natalio Cosoy was in Buenos Aires to find out why voters backed Mr Milei.</p><p>While armed violence in Iraq has ebbed in recent years, hundreds of people are still dying in accidents caused by poorly enforced safety standards as the country struggles to recover from years of war. For Iraqis who have lived through decades of conflict, these incidents represent another awful failure, says Lizzie Porter.</p><p>In Iceland, residents of the fishing town of Grindavik have all been evacuated owing to warnings of an imminent volcanic eruption. Jessica Parker met locals recovering their belongings and saw the impact of the recent earthquakes first hand.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  144. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  145. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>While peaceful anti-war protesters are jailed, convicted killers are freed to fight.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Russia, the US, Argentina, Iraq and Iceland.</p><p>In the wake of President Putin's invasion of Ukraine, repressive laws were passed which effectively criminalise all anti-war activism. The recent trial of artist Sasha Skochilenko underscored the heavy-handed enforcement of these laws, as well as the inconsistent way in which justice is applied in Russia. Steve Rosenberg was in St Petersburg.</p><p>Democratic and Republican states are introducing radically different laws on issues ranging from LGBTQ rights to the teaching of black history. As a result, people on either side of the political divide are on the move – as they flee from one state to another more aligned with their politics. Lucy Proctor was in Chicago and Miami.</p><p>Argentina has elected far-right outsider Javier Milei as President, bringing an end to an era that has largely been dominated by left-leaning ‘Peronist’ parties. Mr Milei has pledged big spending cuts and low taxes alongside other more radical policies. Natalio Cosoy was in Buenos Aires to find out why voters backed Mr Milei.</p><p>While armed violence in Iraq has ebbed in recent years, hundreds of people are still dying in accidents caused by poorly enforced safety standards as the country struggles to recover from years of war. For Iraqis who have lived through decades of conflict, these incidents represent another awful failure, says Lizzie Porter.</p><p>In Iceland, residents of the fishing town of Grindavik have all been evacuated owing to warnings of an imminent volcanic eruption. Jessica Parker met locals recovering their belongings and saw the impact of the recent earthquakes first hand.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  146. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  147. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1719</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gvvkh2.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gvvkh2.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gvvkh2.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gvvlhr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gvvlhr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gvvkh2.mp3" fileSize="27504000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1719"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gvvlhr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>An Emergency Summit in Riyadh</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Saudi Arabia, the West Bank, Spain, Chile and Taiwan.</p><p>Amid glittering chandeliers and floral bouquets, leaders from 57 Arab and Muslim countries gathered in the Saudi Arabian capital for an Emergency Summit on the situation in Gaza. So, did it produce anything beyond the speeches? Our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner was there.</p><p>The occupied West Bank has also seen an increase in outbreaks of violence since the Hamas massacre in October. There are now concerns Israel’s conflict in Gaza is spilling over into the wider region. Joe Inwood visited an Israeli settlement where Israelis and Palestinians live near each other and found a creeping unease has taken root.</p><p>In Spain, the Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez clinched a vote in parliament to lead Spain for another term as PM. However, a deal he has made with Catalan nationalists triggered a fierce backlash, suggesting this could be an extremely turbulent legislature. Guy Hedgecoe reports from Madrid.</p><p>In Chile, the protests against inequality that took place a few years ago drew hundreds of thousands of people to the streets. But the unrest also left 34 people dead and many more injured in clashes with the security forces. A group of musicians, who were among those injured during the protests, have found other ways of making their voices heard as Charis McGowan discovered.</p><p>As Presidents Xi and Biden met last week, Taiwan remained a sticking point between the leaders. But Taiwan faces another serious threat beyond that of Chinese invasion: its rapidly declining birth rate, which has implications for its economic future. Nuala McGovern was in Taipei.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  148. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  149. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Arab leaders gather in Riyadh to try and agree a position on the Israel-Gaza conflict</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Saudi Arabia, the West Bank, Spain, Chile and Taiwan.</p><p>Amid glittering chandeliers and floral bouquets, leaders from 57 Arab and Muslim countries gathered in the Saudi Arabian capital for an Emergency Summit on the situation in Gaza. So, did it produce anything beyond the speeches? Our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner was there.</p><p>The occupied West Bank has also seen an increase in outbreaks of violence since the Hamas massacre in October. There are now concerns Israel’s conflict in Gaza is spilling over into the wider region. Joe Inwood visited an Israeli settlement where Israelis and Palestinians live near each other and found a creeping unease has taken root.</p><p>In Spain, the Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez clinched a vote in parliament to lead Spain for another term as PM. However, a deal he has made with Catalan nationalists triggered a fierce backlash, suggesting this could be an extremely turbulent legislature. Guy Hedgecoe reports from Madrid.</p><p>In Chile, the protests against inequality that took place a few years ago drew hundreds of thousands of people to the streets. But the unrest also left 34 people dead and many more injured in clashes with the security forces. A group of musicians, who were among those injured during the protests, have found other ways of making their voices heard as Charis McGowan discovered.</p><p>As Presidents Xi and Biden met last week, Taiwan remained a sticking point between the leaders. But Taiwan faces another serious threat beyond that of Chinese invasion: its rapidly declining birth rate, which has implications for its economic future. Nuala McGovern was in Taipei.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  150. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  151. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 14:59:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gtk4jj.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gtk4jj.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gtk4jj.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gtjfsd</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gtjfsd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gtk4jj.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gtjfsd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Cambodia’s sunken Mekong villages</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Cambodia, Colombia, India, Fiji and Kenya.</p><p>The Mekong river provides a living for tens of millions of people who live along its banks across five East and South East Asian countries. However, new hydroelectric dams have upended communities which have lived along the river for millennia, with some Cambodian villages flooded to make way for new dam projects. Laura Bicker takes a journey to the heart of the Mekong river system to meet people recently displaced.</p><p>Four people have been arrested in Colombia in connection with the kidnapping of the father of the Liverpool footballer, Luis Diaz, who was released after two weeks of being held captive. The suspects are said to belong to a gang called Los Primos, with ties to the leftist rebel group, the National Liberation Army or ELN. Will Grant – an ardent Liverpool fan – was in Colombia as the situation unfolded.</p><p>Delhi’s air pollution is a year-round, chronic problem, but the city’s toxic smog becomes especially dangerous each winter. This year is no exception and the levels of pollutants in the air have been measuring close to ten times the acceptable limit in recent weeks. Geeta Pandey reports on how her fellow Delhiites are coping.</p><p>Kava is a psychoactive drink made from the bitter kava plant, and has been enjoyed in by Pacific Islanders for centuries - but in recent years there’s been rising international demand for the drink. Mark Stratton travelled to Fiji to see how this is affecting communities there, and to try kava for himself.</p><p>On Monday, Kenyans were given a special holiday to plant trees as part of the government’s ambitious goal to plant 15 billion new trees over the next ten years. Although the national tree planting initiative has proved popular, some have criticised the government for its recent decision to lift a ban on logging, reports Anne Soy.</p><p>Producer: Viv Jones
  152. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  153. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Along the majestic Mekong river new dams are bringing power, but uprooting local people.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Cambodia, Colombia, India, Fiji and Kenya.</p><p>The Mekong river provides a living for tens of millions of people who live along its banks across five East and South East Asian countries. However, new hydroelectric dams have upended communities which have lived along the river for millennia, with some Cambodian villages flooded to make way for new dam projects. Laura Bicker takes a journey to the heart of the Mekong river system to meet people recently displaced.</p><p>Four people have been arrested in Colombia in connection with the kidnapping of the father of the Liverpool footballer, Luis Diaz, who was released after two weeks of being held captive. The suspects are said to belong to a gang called Los Primos, with ties to the leftist rebel group, the National Liberation Army or ELN. Will Grant – an ardent Liverpool fan – was in Colombia as the situation unfolded.</p><p>Delhi’s air pollution is a year-round, chronic problem, but the city’s toxic smog becomes especially dangerous each winter. This year is no exception and the levels of pollutants in the air have been measuring close to ten times the acceptable limit in recent weeks. Geeta Pandey reports on how her fellow Delhiites are coping.</p><p>Kava is a psychoactive drink made from the bitter kava plant, and has been enjoyed in by Pacific Islanders for centuries - but in recent years there’s been rising international demand for the drink. Mark Stratton travelled to Fiji to see how this is affecting communities there, and to try kava for himself.</p><p>On Monday, Kenyans were given a special holiday to plant trees as part of the government’s ambitious goal to plant 15 billion new trees over the next ten years. Although the national tree planting initiative has proved popular, some have criticised the government for its recent decision to lift a ban on logging, reports Anne Soy.</p><p>Producer: Viv Jones
  154. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  155. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2023 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1717</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gt0f1y.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gt0f1y.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gt0f1y.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gt0h1y</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gt0h1y</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gt0f1y.mp3" fileSize="27472000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1717"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gt0h1y</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Tribute To Hope</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, the Middle East, Peru and Japan.</p><p>The Israel-Gaza conflict has been framed by harsh words, and when talk of peace and reconciliation seem more distant than ever, is there space for understanding - or hope? Our correspondent Fergal Keane has spent his career reporting on divided societies, and after spending the last few weeks in Jerusalem, he reflects on the question of hope.</p><p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been back in the Middle East this week, working to keep diplomatic channels open to negotiate 'humanitarian pauses' in the Israel-Gaza conflict. Our correspondent Anthony Zurcher travelled with him.</p><p>The ultra-fine wool of the vicuna was once reserved for the royal dynasties of the Inca empire, and today it is equally adored by European fashion houses. Stefania Gozzer has been in Peru, where she met the communities benefiting from this luxury trade.</p><p>And in Japan, baseball's Hanshin Tigers finally broke one of sport's longest standing 'curses' this week when they won the Japan Series. Tigers fan Guy De Launey tells the story of how his team broke a 40 year losing streak.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  156. Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  157. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>With peace a seemingly distant prospect, Fergal Keane reflects on the question of hope.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, the Middle East, Peru and Japan.</p><p>The Israel-Gaza conflict has been framed by harsh words, and when talk of peace and reconciliation seem more distant than ever, is there space for understanding - or hope? Our correspondent Fergal Keane has spent his career reporting on divided societies, and after spending the last few weeks in Jerusalem, he reflects on the question of hope.</p><p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been back in the Middle East this week, working to keep diplomatic channels open to negotiate 'humanitarian pauses' in the Israel-Gaza conflict. Our correspondent Anthony Zurcher travelled with him.</p><p>The ultra-fine wool of the vicuna was once reserved for the royal dynasties of the Inca empire, and today it is equally adored by European fashion houses. Stefania Gozzer has been in Peru, where she met the communities benefiting from this luxury trade.</p><p>And in Japan, baseball's Hanshin Tigers finally broke one of sport's longest standing 'curses' this week when they won the Japan Series. Tigers fan Guy De Launey tells the story of how his team broke a 40 year losing streak.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  158. Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  159. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1719</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gs46qz.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gs46qz.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gs46qz.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gs471j</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gs471j</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gs46qz.mp3" fileSize="27504000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1719"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gs471j</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Acapulco in the aftermath of Hurricane Otis</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Mexico, Israel, Pakistan, Georgia and Romania.</p><p>On October 24, high winds started howling around the Mexican beach city of Acapulco. In barely 12 hours, unseasonably warm seawater off the coast had turned a common tropical storm into Category 5 Hurricane Otis. The ferocity of the storm was unexpected, and left locals and tourists with little time to prepare before 200-mile-per-hour winds hit - some of the strongest ever recorded on earth. James Fredrick visited Acapulco in the days after the storm.</p><p>Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, tensions have been rising in Israel’s mixed cities: places which, while majority Jewish, have a sizeable Arab population. One in five people in Israel’s population are Palestinian citizens of Israel – sometimes known as Israeli Arabs – making them the largest minority in the country. Emily Wither meets a grassroots peace group working to bring people from both communities together.</p><p>In October, Pakistan’s government announced that any foreign national who does not have the paperwork to stay in the country would be deported from 1st November. The policy will mostly affect an estimated 1.7 million Afghan nationals in the country. In the last two months around 200,000 Afghan nationals are believed to have already left Pakistan ahead of the deadline, streaming over the Afghan border. Caroline Davies travelled to the border region to meet them.</p><p>Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, a valley region not far from the border with Russia, has a troubled history. In the early 2000s the region became a base for Chechen separatists in their war with Russia, and in the decades since Pankisi has become synonymous in media coverage with Islamist extremism. In recent years, a group of Chechen women entrepreneurs have taken it upon themselves to change the negative stereotype of their community, as Sally Howard found.</p><p>Romania’s state healthcare service is one of the most poorly funded in the European Union. In recent years it has been the subject of a series of negative news stories, from a string of deadly hospital fires, to investigations into high-level corruption. Stephen McGrath has reported on Romania’s medical system many times, but recently he found himself at the heart of it - as a patient.</p><p>Producer: Viv Jones
  160. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  161. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Acapulco’s hurricane left nearly a million people without adequate food, water or power.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Mexico, Israel, Pakistan, Georgia and Romania.</p><p>On October 24, high winds started howling around the Mexican beach city of Acapulco. In barely 12 hours, unseasonably warm seawater off the coast had turned a common tropical storm into Category 5 Hurricane Otis. The ferocity of the storm was unexpected, and left locals and tourists with little time to prepare before 200-mile-per-hour winds hit - some of the strongest ever recorded on earth. James Fredrick visited Acapulco in the days after the storm.</p><p>Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, tensions have been rising in Israel’s mixed cities: places which, while majority Jewish, have a sizeable Arab population. One in five people in Israel’s population are Palestinian citizens of Israel – sometimes known as Israeli Arabs – making them the largest minority in the country. Emily Wither meets a grassroots peace group working to bring people from both communities together.</p><p>In October, Pakistan’s government announced that any foreign national who does not have the paperwork to stay in the country would be deported from 1st November. The policy will mostly affect an estimated 1.7 million Afghan nationals in the country. In the last two months around 200,000 Afghan nationals are believed to have already left Pakistan ahead of the deadline, streaming over the Afghan border. Caroline Davies travelled to the border region to meet them.</p><p>Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, a valley region not far from the border with Russia, has a troubled history. In the early 2000s the region became a base for Chechen separatists in their war with Russia, and in the decades since Pankisi has become synonymous in media coverage with Islamist extremism. In recent years, a group of Chechen women entrepreneurs have taken it upon themselves to change the negative stereotype of their community, as Sally Howard found.</p><p>Romania’s state healthcare service is one of the most poorly funded in the European Union. In recent years it has been the subject of a series of negative news stories, from a string of deadly hospital fires, to investigations into high-level corruption. Stephen McGrath has reported on Romania’s medical system many times, but recently he found himself at the heart of it - as a patient.</p><p>Producer: Viv Jones
  162. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  163. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2023 11:29:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1718</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0grnrjz.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0grnrjz.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0grnrjz.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0grnv3g</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0grnv3g</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0grnrjz.mp3" fileSize="27488000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1718"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0grnv3g</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Shocked To The Core</title><description><![CDATA[<p>: Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, Turkey, Switzerland, DRC and Indonesia</p><p>Four weeks on from Hamas' deadly attack in Israel, details continue to emerge about the killing spree. Israelis are wrestling with the impact and the consequences - and the release by Hamas of a hostage video this week has added pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu to secure their release. Paul Adams finds there’s a pervasive sense of insecurity in the streets of Jerusalem, with violent incidents puncturing any veneer of calm.</p><p>Victoria Craig spoke to people at a rally in Istanbul's Ataturk airport, where the Turkish President was vocal in his support for Hamas and unflinching in his criticism of Israel's offensive in Gaza. She reflects on how far this is a step change in Turkey's relationship with Israel.</p><p>It's Peace Week in Geneva. Diplomats, aid workers and academics gather annually here to discuss ways to achieve peace. This year, as conflict rages in the Middle East and beyond, some are asking whether international organisations – and international law, are losing their relevance, says Imogen Foulkes.</p><p>The east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is a region which has endured multiple crises – with many still unfolding. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham tracked the Congolese military as it tackled the most pressing challenge of fighting the rebel group, M23.</p><p>Since Russia invaded Ukraine last year, millions of Ukrainians have fled their homes; they’re internally displaced or finding refuge in neighbouring countries. And some have taken longer-haul journeys to the other side of the world. Michelle Jana Chan discovered the Ukrainian community on the Indonesian island of Bali.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  164. Editor: Bridget Harney
  165. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Four weeks after the Hamas attacks, Israelis are wrestling with the consequences</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>: Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, Turkey, Switzerland, DRC and Indonesia</p><p>Four weeks on from Hamas' deadly attack in Israel, details continue to emerge about the killing spree. Israelis are wrestling with the impact and the consequences - and the release by Hamas of a hostage video this week has added pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu to secure their release. Paul Adams finds there’s a pervasive sense of insecurity in the streets of Jerusalem, with violent incidents puncturing any veneer of calm.</p><p>Victoria Craig spoke to people at a rally in Istanbul's Ataturk airport, where the Turkish President was vocal in his support for Hamas and unflinching in his criticism of Israel's offensive in Gaza. She reflects on how far this is a step change in Turkey's relationship with Israel.</p><p>It's Peace Week in Geneva. Diplomats, aid workers and academics gather annually here to discuss ways to achieve peace. This year, as conflict rages in the Middle East and beyond, some are asking whether international organisations – and international law, are losing their relevance, says Imogen Foulkes.</p><p>The east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is a region which has endured multiple crises – with many still unfolding. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham tracked the Congolese military as it tackled the most pressing challenge of fighting the rebel group, M23.</p><p>Since Russia invaded Ukraine last year, millions of Ukrainians have fled their homes; they’re internally displaced or finding refuge in neighbouring countries. And some have taken longer-haul journeys to the other side of the world. Michelle Jana Chan discovered the Ukrainian community on the Indonesian island of Bali.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  166. Editor: Bridget Harney
  167. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1717</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gqq9kl.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gqq9kl.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gqq9kl.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gqqbkc</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gqqbkc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gqq9kl.mp3" fileSize="27472000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1717"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gqqbkc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Voices from Gaza and Israel</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, Gaza, Germany, New Caledonia and Hungary.</p><p>Public pressure is growing on Israel’s prime minister to secure the release of more than 200 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Lucy Williamson has been talking to one man whose family was taken captive from Kibbutz Be’eri.</p><p>Deirdre Finnerty spoke to an Irish-Palestinian family, who were visiting relatives in northern Gaza when the conflict began, and fled to Khan Younis. She hears about the struggle to access basic supplies and the risks faced on a daily basis.</p><p>The German government has staunchly backed Israel’s right to defend itself in the wake of the 7th October attacks by Hamas. Israeli security is, in fact, a cornerstone of German foreign policy. Some pro-Palestinian demonstrations have even been banned because of concerns about anti-Semitic slogans. That’s led to clashes with police and debates about freedom of speech as Jessica Parker reports.</p><p>New Caledonia is home to a small and diverse population. One of its many communities is made up of the descendants of Algerian exiles, who were deported in the late 19th century after uprisings against French colonial rule. Many lost their lives on the gruelling sea voyage from North Africa. Those who survived and settled brought their religion, customs and ancestral memories with them. Chahrazade Douah reports.</p><p>The conservative British philosopher, Roger Scruton was a great personal friend of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Nick Thorpe reports from Budapest, on the intellectual love affair between the two men, and how ‘Scrutopia’ now serves the Hungarian leader.</p><p>Producer: Viv Jones
  168. Editor: Bridget Harney
  169. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  170. Photo by MARTIN DIVISEK/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>An Irish Palestinian talks about daily life in Gaza and an Israeli returns to his Kibbutz</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, Gaza, Germany, New Caledonia and Hungary.</p><p>Public pressure is growing on Israel’s prime minister to secure the release of more than 200 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Lucy Williamson has been talking to one man whose family was taken captive from Kibbutz Be’eri.</p><p>Deirdre Finnerty spoke to an Irish-Palestinian family, who were visiting relatives in northern Gaza when the conflict began, and fled to Khan Younis. She hears about the struggle to access basic supplies and the risks faced on a daily basis.</p><p>The German government has staunchly backed Israel’s right to defend itself in the wake of the 7th October attacks by Hamas. Israeli security is, in fact, a cornerstone of German foreign policy. Some pro-Palestinian demonstrations have even been banned because of concerns about anti-Semitic slogans. That’s led to clashes with police and debates about freedom of speech as Jessica Parker reports.</p><p>New Caledonia is home to a small and diverse population. One of its many communities is made up of the descendants of Algerian exiles, who were deported in the late 19th century after uprisings against French colonial rule. Many lost their lives on the gruelling sea voyage from North Africa. Those who survived and settled brought their religion, customs and ancestral memories with them. Chahrazade Douah reports.</p><p>The conservative British philosopher, Roger Scruton was a great personal friend of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Nick Thorpe reports from Budapest, on the intellectual love affair between the two men, and how ‘Scrutopia’ now serves the Hungarian leader.</p><p>Producer: Viv Jones
  171. Editor: Bridget Harney
  172. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  173. Photo by MARTIN DIVISEK/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 11:29:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1722</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gqb83y.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gqb83y.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gqb83y.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gqbcp2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gqbcp2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gqb83y.mp3" fileSize="27552000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1722"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gqbcp2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Israel, Gaza and the view from the Middle East</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Israel and Gaza, South Korea and Turkey.</p><p>Three years ago the Gulf states of Bahrain and the UAE agreed to normalise diplomatic relations with Israel - and it was Joe Biden's hope that Saudi Arabia would soon join them. But where do the Arab nations stand today amid a new Israel-Gaza conflict, asks the BBC’s Security Correspondent Frank Gardner.</p><p>Reporting on the Israel-Gaza conflict is a particular challenge, as so few journalists currently have access or permission to work in Gaza. As a former BBC correspondent in Gaza, Jon Donnison reflects on the current difficulties of reporting on the reality of life there today.</p><p>The trauma of what happened on the 7th of October continues to reverberate in Israel, as those killed during Hamas’ attack are buried. Helping to ensure families are able to bid farewell to their loved ones, is a team of volunteers tasked with recovering the bodies of the dead – a job they see as a religious duty. Joel Gunter has been to meet them.</p><p>This weekend marks a bleak anniversary in South Korea, as it was a year ago that revellers gathered in Seoul's party district to celebrate Halloween – only to never return home. A deadly crush that formed during the night, killed 158 people, and injured nearly 200 more. Jean Mackenzie returned to the streets she reported from last year, and meets survivors still looking for answers.</p><p>The Republic of Turkey is 100 years old, and Misha Glenny has been recording a series for Radio 4 on the history of the formation of the state. He recounts an incident at Istanbul’s ornate Dolmabahce Palace – the former residence of Ottoman Sultans, and, in his final days, Turkey’s founding father Mustafa Kemal Attaturk.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>What impact has the Israel-Gaza conflict had on diplomacy in the Middle East?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Israel and Gaza, South Korea and Turkey.</p><p>Three years ago the Gulf states of Bahrain and the UAE agreed to normalise diplomatic relations with Israel - and it was Joe Biden's hope that Saudi Arabia would soon join them. But where do the Arab nations stand today amid a new Israel-Gaza conflict, asks the BBC’s Security Correspondent Frank Gardner.</p><p>Reporting on the Israel-Gaza conflict is a particular challenge, as so few journalists currently have access or permission to work in Gaza. As a former BBC correspondent in Gaza, Jon Donnison reflects on the current difficulties of reporting on the reality of life there today.</p><p>The trauma of what happened on the 7th of October continues to reverberate in Israel, as those killed during Hamas’ attack are buried. Helping to ensure families are able to bid farewell to their loved ones, is a team of volunteers tasked with recovering the bodies of the dead – a job they see as a religious duty. Joel Gunter has been to meet them.</p><p>This weekend marks a bleak anniversary in South Korea, as it was a year ago that revellers gathered in Seoul's party district to celebrate Halloween – only to never return home. A deadly crush that formed during the night, killed 158 people, and injured nearly 200 more. Jean Mackenzie returned to the streets she reported from last year, and meets survivors still looking for answers.</p><p>The Republic of Turkey is 100 years old, and Misha Glenny has been recording a series for Radio 4 on the history of the formation of the state. He recounts an incident at Istanbul’s ornate Dolmabahce Palace – the former residence of Ottoman Sultans, and, in his final days, Turkey’s founding father Mustafa Kemal Attaturk.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1722</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gpbvq9.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gpbvq9.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gpbvq9.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gpbw7k</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gpbw7k</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gpbvq9.mp3" fileSize="27552000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1722"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gpbw7k</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Thai workers caught up in the Israel-Gaza conflict</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, Ukraine, Argentina, Mauritius and Greece.</p><p>When Hamas militants stormed into southern Israel from Gaza on the 7th October, over 200 of the people killed were foreign nationals. At least 30 of them were from Thailand, and at least 19 Thais are believed to have been abducted by Hamas. More than 25,000 Thai migrant agricultural workers living in Israel. Jonathan Head travels to north-eastern Thailand to meet returning survivors, and relatives of those still missing.</p><p>This week marks 20 months since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. For journalists reporting on the war, not to mention Ukraine’s people, it can be a challenge to ensure the ongoing conflict continues to receive the world’s attention. The BBC’s long-serving Ukraine Correspondent, James Waterhouse reflects on the particular rhythm of covering this war.</p><p>Last weekend, Argentina voted in its first round of presidential elections. The results surprised pollsters who had predicted an outright win for populist Javier Milei - a colourful candidate, whose ‘shock-jock’ style has led to comparisons with Donald Trump. Instead, Mr Milei will face the country’s incumbent economy minister, Sergio Massa in a run-off in November. In Argentinian politics, surprises are to be expected, says Katy Watson.</p><p>Mauritius is among Africa’s wealthiest nations per capita. However, its position in the middle of the Indian Ocean has made it an ideal hub for international drug traffickers. The country is now battling a growing drug epidemic, with young people particularly affected. Lorraine Mallinder reports.</p><p>The Mount Athos peninsula in Northern Greece is one of Orthodox Christianity’s holiest sites. The region is semi-independent from Greece, and sometimes referred to as a monastic republic. Women are banned from visiting, and only a small number of men are permitted entry each day. The monks who live here control their own finances, and Greece's money laundering authority has recently taken a critical look at Russian finances flowing into the monasteries. William Edwards makes a pilgrimage there.</p><p>Producer: Viv Jones
  174. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  175. Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison</p><p>(Image: Narissara Chanthasang, the wife of a Thai migrant worker in southern Israel, has had no news of her husband since Hamas militants stormed the country.)</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Members of Israel's Thai migrant worker community describe surviving the Hamas attacks</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, Ukraine, Argentina, Mauritius and Greece.</p><p>When Hamas militants stormed into southern Israel from Gaza on the 7th October, over 200 of the people killed were foreign nationals. At least 30 of them were from Thailand, and at least 19 Thais are believed to have been abducted by Hamas. More than 25,000 Thai migrant agricultural workers living in Israel. Jonathan Head travels to north-eastern Thailand to meet returning survivors, and relatives of those still missing.</p><p>This week marks 20 months since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. For journalists reporting on the war, not to mention Ukraine’s people, it can be a challenge to ensure the ongoing conflict continues to receive the world’s attention. The BBC’s long-serving Ukraine Correspondent, James Waterhouse reflects on the particular rhythm of covering this war.</p><p>Last weekend, Argentina voted in its first round of presidential elections. The results surprised pollsters who had predicted an outright win for populist Javier Milei - a colourful candidate, whose ‘shock-jock’ style has led to comparisons with Donald Trump. Instead, Mr Milei will face the country’s incumbent economy minister, Sergio Massa in a run-off in November. In Argentinian politics, surprises are to be expected, says Katy Watson.</p><p>Mauritius is among Africa’s wealthiest nations per capita. However, its position in the middle of the Indian Ocean has made it an ideal hub for international drug traffickers. The country is now battling a growing drug epidemic, with young people particularly affected. Lorraine Mallinder reports.</p><p>The Mount Athos peninsula in Northern Greece is one of Orthodox Christianity’s holiest sites. The region is semi-independent from Greece, and sometimes referred to as a monastic republic. Women are banned from visiting, and only a small number of men are permitted entry each day. The monks who live here control their own finances, and Greece's money laundering authority has recently taken a critical look at Russian finances flowing into the monasteries. William Edwards makes a pilgrimage there.</p><p>Producer: Viv Jones
  176. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  177. Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison</p><p>(Image: Narissara Chanthasang, the wife of a Thai migrant worker in southern Israel, has had no news of her husband since Hamas militants stormed the country.)</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 10:35:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1698</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gnwnz1.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gnwnz1.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gnwnz1.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gnwrrt</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gnwrrt</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gnwnz1.mp3" fileSize="27168000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1698"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gnwrrt</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Israel, Gaza and The information war</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories on Israel and Gaza, Lebanon and Poland.</p><p>An explosion at a hospital in Gaza this week has thrown into sharp relief the challenges of establishing the facts during a time of war. Amid the claim and counterclaim, getting to the truth is harder than ever. Jeremy Bowen reflects on the speed at which stories unfold these days, and the challenges of reporting during the conflict, as competing narratives clash online.</p><p>The British and US governments urged their nationals to leave Lebanon this week due to risks associated with the on-going conflict between Israel and Gaza. Israel’s military has also evacuated 28 communities near the northern border because of escalating hostilities with Hezbollah militants. Earlier this week, the group called for a ‘day of unprecedented anger’ in response the conflict between Israel and Gaza. Hugo Bachega is in Lebanon.</p><p>In Poland, the right-wing Law and Justice party lost its majority in parliamentary elections last week – with a pro-EU coalition of opposition parties now likely to form a new government. It was young voters and women whose votes proved decisive, as Sarah Rainsford explains.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  178. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  179. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Jeremy Bowen reflects on the challenges of establishing the facts during a time of war.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories on Israel and Gaza, Lebanon and Poland.</p><p>An explosion at a hospital in Gaza this week has thrown into sharp relief the challenges of establishing the facts during a time of war. Amid the claim and counterclaim, getting to the truth is harder than ever. Jeremy Bowen reflects on the speed at which stories unfold these days, and the challenges of reporting during the conflict, as competing narratives clash online.</p><p>The British and US governments urged their nationals to leave Lebanon this week due to risks associated with the on-going conflict between Israel and Gaza. Israel’s military has also evacuated 28 communities near the northern border because of escalating hostilities with Hezbollah militants. Earlier this week, the group called for a ‘day of unprecedented anger’ in response the conflict between Israel and Gaza. Hugo Bachega is in Lebanon.</p><p>In Poland, the right-wing Law and Justice party lost its majority in parliamentary elections last week – with a pro-EU coalition of opposition parties now likely to form a new government. It was young voters and women whose votes proved decisive, as Sarah Rainsford explains.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  180. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  181. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1681</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gmyvy1.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gmyvy1.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gmyvy1.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gmyw72</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gmyw72</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gmyvy1.mp3" fileSize="26896000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1681"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gmyw72</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Afghan migrants in limbo in Pakistan</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Pakistan, Germany, Portugal, Senegal and the United States.</p><p>Pakistan's government has issued an order for illegal migrants to leave the country by the beginning of November. This includes around 1.7 million Afghans, according to official figures. Among the many caught in the middle are nearly 2,000 Afghans who risked their lives working with or for British armed forces during the war in Afghanistan. They’ve been promised visas by the British government that would allow them to resettle in the UK, but many now fear they will be forced to return to Afghanistan, to an uncertain future. Caroline Davies has been speaking to them.</p><p>Recent state elections in Germany showed a clear rise in support for the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD. The results have sent shockwaves across Germany, as Damien McGuinness found out.</p><p>An ancient farming village in the Portuguese mountains is fighting plans for an open-cast lithium mine on its doorstep. The lithium would be used for electric car batteries, as part of Europe’s green energy transition. But local villagers say the mine will damage their environment, and their way of life. As Europe tries to reduce its dependence on China for lithium imports, the outcome of this dispute is being watched closely, as Caroline Bayley reports.</p><p>In Senegal, many parents send their sons to study and live in Islamic schools called daaras, often because they cannot afford to raise them themselves. While many daaras provide good education and care, some subject their pupils to abuse and neglect, or force them to beg in the streets. Sam Bradpiece travelled to the capital, Dakar to investigate the story.</p><p>Although Hollywood’s writers have recently ended their five-month strike, the actors strike continues. Virtually all Hollywood film and TV production has stalled, and negotiations last week ended without agreement. David Willis has been covering the story.</p><p>Producer: Viv Jones
  182. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  183. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Afghans who risked their lives to work with British forces face deportation from Pakistan</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Pakistan, Germany, Portugal, Senegal and the United States.</p><p>Pakistan's government has issued an order for illegal migrants to leave the country by the beginning of November. This includes around 1.7 million Afghans, according to official figures. Among the many caught in the middle are nearly 2,000 Afghans who risked their lives working with or for British armed forces during the war in Afghanistan. They’ve been promised visas by the British government that would allow them to resettle in the UK, but many now fear they will be forced to return to Afghanistan, to an uncertain future. Caroline Davies has been speaking to them.</p><p>Recent state elections in Germany showed a clear rise in support for the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD. The results have sent shockwaves across Germany, as Damien McGuinness found out.</p><p>An ancient farming village in the Portuguese mountains is fighting plans for an open-cast lithium mine on its doorstep. The lithium would be used for electric car batteries, as part of Europe’s green energy transition. But local villagers say the mine will damage their environment, and their way of life. As Europe tries to reduce its dependence on China for lithium imports, the outcome of this dispute is being watched closely, as Caroline Bayley reports.</p><p>In Senegal, many parents send their sons to study and live in Islamic schools called daaras, often because they cannot afford to raise them themselves. While many daaras provide good education and care, some subject their pupils to abuse and neglect, or force them to beg in the streets. Sam Bradpiece travelled to the capital, Dakar to investigate the story.</p><p>Although Hollywood’s writers have recently ended their five-month strike, the actors strike continues. Virtually all Hollywood film and TV production has stalled, and negotiations last week ended without agreement. David Willis has been covering the story.</p><p>Producer: Viv Jones
  184. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  185. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1702</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gmfnnq.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gmfnnq.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gmfnnq.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gmfq1c</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gmfq1c</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gmfnnq.mp3" fileSize="27232000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1702"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gmfq1c</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Deadly Week in Israel and Gaza</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents a special edition reflecting on the brutal attack in Israel this week by Hamas militants and the subsequent siege and bombardment of Gaza.</p><p>Anna Foster reports from Ashkelon in Israel’s south, where revellers were attending a music festival, before Hamas’ assault. She met one man who managed to escape, who tells her his story.</p><p>As details emerged of how Hamas’ brutal assault unfolded in kibbutzim last weekend, communities living near the Gaza border have been left traumatised by the scale of the attack. Dan Johnson spent time with one Israeli family struggling to process what happened, while preparing for what might come next.</p><p>As Gaza’s only power plant ran out of fuel – hospitals have struggled to cope, with doctors saying they are having to make tough decisions on who to operate on. Yolande Knell has been speaking to people in Gaza about the impact of Israel’s counter-attack.</p><p>Our chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet has been reporting from the region for the past three decades, and reflects on Gaza's recent history and the broken dreams of peace.</p><p>And as Israel buries those killed by Hamas, Nick Beake witnesses the return of thousands of Israeli reservists, as the country moves to a war footing.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  186. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  187. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Our correspondents reflect on events in Israel and Gaza following Hamas' brutal attack.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents a special edition reflecting on the brutal attack in Israel this week by Hamas militants and the subsequent siege and bombardment of Gaza.</p><p>Anna Foster reports from Ashkelon in Israel’s south, where revellers were attending a music festival, before Hamas’ assault. She met one man who managed to escape, who tells her his story.</p><p>As details emerged of how Hamas’ brutal assault unfolded in kibbutzim last weekend, communities living near the Gaza border have been left traumatised by the scale of the attack. Dan Johnson spent time with one Israeli family struggling to process what happened, while preparing for what might come next.</p><p>As Gaza’s only power plant ran out of fuel – hospitals have struggled to cope, with doctors saying they are having to make tough decisions on who to operate on. Yolande Knell has been speaking to people in Gaza about the impact of Israel’s counter-attack.</p><p>Our chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet has been reporting from the region for the past three decades, and reflects on Gaza's recent history and the broken dreams of peace.</p><p>And as Israel buries those killed by Hamas, Nick Beake witnesses the return of thousands of Israeli reservists, as the country moves to a war footing.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  188. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  189. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1723</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0glj3dm.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0glj3dm.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0glj3dm.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0glj3p8</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0glj3p8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0glj3dm.mp3" fileSize="27568000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1723"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0glj3p8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Australia’s Indigenous referendum</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Australia, Poland, the US, Cameroon and Cape Verde.</p><p>Australians are voting in a historic referendum on whether or not to recognize Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the country’s constitution, and create a body that can advise governments on issues affecting their communities. After months of campaigning voters are bitterly divided, as Katy Watson found out.</p><p>Poland’s upcoming election could result in an unprecedented third consecutive term for the incumbent right-wing populist government. Adam Easton travels to the Polish countryside to find out why the government remains popular.</p><p>The suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona’s state capital, are among the fastest-growing in America. As brand new homes and offices spring up, there’s a problem developing beneath them. Mark Moran reports from a desert state that is running out of groundwater.</p><p>The Ngonnso statue, held in the collection of a Berlin museum, holds cultural and spiritual significance for the Nso people of Cameroon. Kim Chakanetsa meets the activist who successfully campaigned for the Ngonnso’s repatriation.</p><p>And October marks the end of the nesting and hatching season for Cape Verde’s loggerhead sea turtles. Rob Crossan takes a night time walk along the beach to catch sight of one.</p><p>Producer: Viv Jones
  190. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  191. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Australia's landmark Indigenous referendum has exposed a bitter culture war.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Australia, Poland, the US, Cameroon and Cape Verde.</p><p>Australians are voting in a historic referendum on whether or not to recognize Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the country’s constitution, and create a body that can advise governments on issues affecting their communities. After months of campaigning voters are bitterly divided, as Katy Watson found out.</p><p>Poland’s upcoming election could result in an unprecedented third consecutive term for the incumbent right-wing populist government. Adam Easton travels to the Polish countryside to find out why the government remains popular.</p><p>The suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona’s state capital, are among the fastest-growing in America. As brand new homes and offices spring up, there’s a problem developing beneath them. Mark Moran reports from a desert state that is running out of groundwater.</p><p>The Ngonnso statue, held in the collection of a Berlin museum, holds cultural and spiritual significance for the Nso people of Cameroon. Kim Chakanetsa meets the activist who successfully campaigned for the Ngonnso’s repatriation.</p><p>And October marks the end of the nesting and hatching season for Cape Verde’s loggerhead sea turtles. Rob Crossan takes a night time walk along the beach to catch sight of one.</p><p>Producer: Viv Jones
  192. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  193. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 10:35:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1700</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gl0gz0.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gl0gz0.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gl0gz0.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gl0kj9</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gl0kj9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gl0gz0.mp3" fileSize="27200000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1700"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gl0kj9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Tumultuous Week in US Politics</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from the US, Slovakia, Turkey, Greece and Democratic Republic of Congo.</p><p>In a break with history, a right-wing faction of the US Republican party moved to oust the speaker of the lower chamber of Congress, Kevin McCarthy. The party must now begin the task of uniting behind another candidate. And as Donald Trump appeared at his civil fraud trial in New York, Gary O'Donoghue reflects on an extraordinary week in Washington.</p><p>We visit the Slovakian capital, Bratislava where coalition talks are underway in earnest after Robert Fico, the pro-Russian leftist, won the biggest share of the vote in elections last weekend. Fico's former deputy, Peter Pelligrini of the social democratic party is now the kingmaker to form a government which could have major ramifications for the country, and Europe, says Rob Cameron.</p><p>Turkey's long war on Kurdish armed rebel groups seemed to have faded into the background after the huge earthquake there this year, along with President Erdogan's victory in the general election. But the conflict still goes on and an attack in Ankara on the day of Turkey's opening of parliament has raised tensions once more. Emily Wither reports on the impact.</p><p>Thessaly in Greece was one of the regions that was hit hardest by Storm Daniel last month, with much farmland still submerged under water. The region provides much of Greece's agricultural produce and livestock. Maria Margaronis spoke to farmers whose lives were upended.</p><p>And in Democratic Republic of Congo, Hugh Kinsella-Cunningham camps with heavily armed rangers as they await the arrival on a jungle airstrip of two white rhinoceros as part of conservation efforts in the region.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  194. Editor: China Collins
  195. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The ousting of the House Speaker Kevin McCarthy plunges the legislature into uncertainty</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from the US, Slovakia, Turkey, Greece and Democratic Republic of Congo.</p><p>In a break with history, a right-wing faction of the US Republican party moved to oust the speaker of the lower chamber of Congress, Kevin McCarthy. The party must now begin the task of uniting behind another candidate. And as Donald Trump appeared at his civil fraud trial in New York, Gary O'Donoghue reflects on an extraordinary week in Washington.</p><p>We visit the Slovakian capital, Bratislava where coalition talks are underway in earnest after Robert Fico, the pro-Russian leftist, won the biggest share of the vote in elections last weekend. Fico's former deputy, Peter Pelligrini of the social democratic party is now the kingmaker to form a government which could have major ramifications for the country, and Europe, says Rob Cameron.</p><p>Turkey's long war on Kurdish armed rebel groups seemed to have faded into the background after the huge earthquake there this year, along with President Erdogan's victory in the general election. But the conflict still goes on and an attack in Ankara on the day of Turkey's opening of parliament has raised tensions once more. Emily Wither reports on the impact.</p><p>Thessaly in Greece was one of the regions that was hit hardest by Storm Daniel last month, with much farmland still submerged under water. The region provides much of Greece's agricultural produce and livestock. Maria Margaronis spoke to farmers whose lives were upended.</p><p>And in Democratic Republic of Congo, Hugh Kinsella-Cunningham camps with heavily armed rangers as they await the arrival on a jungle airstrip of two white rhinoceros as part of conservation efforts in the region.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  196. Editor: China Collins
  197. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1707</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gk1g5y.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gk1g5y.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gk1g5y.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gk1gy9</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gk1gy9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gk1g5y.mp3" fileSize="27312000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1707"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gk1gy9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Rising tensions in the Balkans</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, South Sudan, Sri Lanka and Russia’s western borders.</p><p>A day of shooting in majority-Serb north Kosovo left a police officer and three members of an armed group dead. Guy De Launey reports on one of the most serious confrontations between Serbia and Kosovo since Kosovo declared independence in 2008.</p><p>2023 marks the tenth anniversary of Xi Jinping’s announcement of the Belt and Road Initiative, an ambitious project to connect China with the Central Asian countries on its western border. Jacob Mardell visits Torugart pass in Kyrgyzstan, an important stop on a planned railway that will connect China with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. He encounters smuggling and nomad hospitality, and asks how the new railway might change this underdeveloped region.</p><p>Hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese refugees have been returning to the villages they were forced to flee from, during decades of war in the region. On their return they are met with a new danger: landmines and unexploded bombs. In South Sudan it’s mostly women who take on the dangerous job of clearing unexploded ordinance. Sira Thierij joins a team of young women deminers making their country safer.</p><p>Sri Lanka has been suffering the worst economic crisis in its history as an independent nation. Sri Lankans have endured power cuts, fuel shortages, rising prices and rapid inflation. After loans from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, the country’s financial situation is improving. But when Archana Shukla travelled across the island nation, she discovered many people are still struggling to make ends meet.</p><p>Katya Adler travels from southern Poland to the northernmost point of mainland Norway to ask people what it’s like living next door to Putin, since he brought war back to Europe on a scale not seen since World War Two. She meets ordinary people doing extraordinary things to help the war effort in Ukraine. Katya Adler’s two-part series, Living Next Door to Putin, is available now on BBC iPlayer.</p><p>Producer: Viv Jones
  198. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  199. Editor: China Collins</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kosovo-Serbia relations are under serious strain after a day of deadly shootings.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, South Sudan, Sri Lanka and Russia’s western borders.</p><p>A day of shooting in majority-Serb north Kosovo left a police officer and three members of an armed group dead. Guy De Launey reports on one of the most serious confrontations between Serbia and Kosovo since Kosovo declared independence in 2008.</p><p>2023 marks the tenth anniversary of Xi Jinping’s announcement of the Belt and Road Initiative, an ambitious project to connect China with the Central Asian countries on its western border. Jacob Mardell visits Torugart pass in Kyrgyzstan, an important stop on a planned railway that will connect China with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. He encounters smuggling and nomad hospitality, and asks how the new railway might change this underdeveloped region.</p><p>Hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese refugees have been returning to the villages they were forced to flee from, during decades of war in the region. On their return they are met with a new danger: landmines and unexploded bombs. In South Sudan it’s mostly women who take on the dangerous job of clearing unexploded ordinance. Sira Thierij joins a team of young women deminers making their country safer.</p><p>Sri Lanka has been suffering the worst economic crisis in its history as an independent nation. Sri Lankans have endured power cuts, fuel shortages, rising prices and rapid inflation. After loans from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, the country’s financial situation is improving. But when Archana Shukla travelled across the island nation, she discovered many people are still struggling to make ends meet.</p><p>Katya Adler travels from southern Poland to the northernmost point of mainland Norway to ask people what it’s like living next door to Putin, since he brought war back to Europe on a scale not seen since World War Two. She meets ordinary people doing extraordinary things to help the war effort in Ukraine. Katya Adler’s two-part series, Living Next Door to Putin, is available now on BBC iPlayer.</p><p>Producer: Viv Jones
  200. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  201. Editor: China Collins</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2023 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1714</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gjkpgx.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gjkpgx.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gjkpgx.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gjkqxt</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gjkqxt</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gjkpgx.mp3" fileSize="27424000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1714"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gjkqxt</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Niger: After the coup</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Niger, Syria, Portugal, Costa Rica and the US.</p><p>French President, Emmanuel Macron announced he is withdrawing French troops from Niger, once seen as a key ally in the fight against jihadists in the Sahel, and withdrew his ambassador. Meanwhile in Niamey, people are adjusting to life under military rule after the coup in July. Mayeni Jones recounts her recent visit there.</p><p>Thousands of people have gone missing or been detained since the Syrian protests began in 2011, which escalated into a brutal civil war. Lina Sinjab spoke to people in Lebanon and Istanbul about their attempts to find out information about their relatives, often involving vast sums of money.</p><p>Portugal has for the last twenty years taken a softer approach to narcotics than other countries across the world, which impose tough penalties for the production, distribution and the consumption of substances such as heroin and cocaine. It's no longer a crime to possess drugs there for personal use. James Cook visits the city of Porto to find out what this means in practice.</p><p>Costa Rica is known for its high-quality coffee, which is grown in the mountainous regions of the central American country. But its traditionally been a male-dominated industry there. Matilda Welin visited a farm to meet one of the emerging group of female growers to hear how things are changing.</p><p>And as Republican debates get into full swing for the presidential candidacy, and an imminent US budget shutdown looms, Gary O'Donoghue reports on another flashpoint which has diverted attention from other matters of state: the Senate's dress code.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  202. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  203. Editor: China Collins</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Niamey, once a bulwark against instability in West Africa, heralds a new era</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Niger, Syria, Portugal, Costa Rica and the US.</p><p>French President, Emmanuel Macron announced he is withdrawing French troops from Niger, once seen as a key ally in the fight against jihadists in the Sahel, and withdrew his ambassador. Meanwhile in Niamey, people are adjusting to life under military rule after the coup in July. Mayeni Jones recounts her recent visit there.</p><p>Thousands of people have gone missing or been detained since the Syrian protests began in 2011, which escalated into a brutal civil war. Lina Sinjab spoke to people in Lebanon and Istanbul about their attempts to find out information about their relatives, often involving vast sums of money.</p><p>Portugal has for the last twenty years taken a softer approach to narcotics than other countries across the world, which impose tough penalties for the production, distribution and the consumption of substances such as heroin and cocaine. It's no longer a crime to possess drugs there for personal use. James Cook visits the city of Porto to find out what this means in practice.</p><p>Costa Rica is known for its high-quality coffee, which is grown in the mountainous regions of the central American country. But its traditionally been a male-dominated industry there. Matilda Welin visited a farm to meet one of the emerging group of female growers to hear how things are changing.</p><p>And as Republican debates get into full swing for the presidential candidacy, and an imminent US budget shutdown looms, Gary O'Donoghue reports on another flashpoint which has diverted attention from other matters of state: the Senate's dress code.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  204. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  205. Editor: China Collins</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1714</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0ghmmnm.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0ghmmnm.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0ghmmnm.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0ghmqx8</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ghmqx8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0ghmmnm.mp3" fileSize="27424000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1714"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0ghmqx8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Exodus From Nagorno-Karabakh</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Nagorno-Karabakh, Canada, South Africa, Peru and Germany.</p><p>Tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians have fled the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in the last week. Rayhan Demytrie spoke to some on the Armenian border about the devastating impact of the recent Azeri blockade. And now they face the loss of their homeland, with distrust between both communities running deep.</p><p>Canada's assertion that India appears to have been involved in the murder of a Canadian Sikh has sparked outrage in New Delhi and beyond. The Indian government has strongly denied the allegation. In Vancouver, Neal Razzell visits the Sikh temple where the dead man, Hardeep Singh Nijjar was leader, and found out more about what happened on the fateful day.</p><p>A fire in Johannesburg at the end of August threw into sharp relief the terrible conditions in some affordable housing, which is often taken over by gangs who illegally rent out the buildings. Samantha Granville spoke to residents of the site that burned down, along with others in similarly precarious accommodation.</p><p>In Peru's capital Lima, around 2 million residents living in the poorer suburbs have no access to running water and have to pay high prices for it to be delivered to them. Peter Yeung met someone who has come up with an innovative solution: an improvised canal system which collects water from the clouds - known as 'fog-catchers'.</p><p>And finally, in Germany, a campaign is being launched to change a law that sees thousands of people sent to prison every year for travelling on public transport without a ticket. Tim Mansel meets one man helping to get people released because they haven't paid their fine.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Tens of thousands of Armenians are fleeing in the wake of Azerbaijan's military offensive</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Nagorno-Karabakh, Canada, South Africa, Peru and Germany.</p><p>Tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians have fled the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in the last week. Rayhan Demytrie spoke to some on the Armenian border about the devastating impact of the recent Azeri blockade. And now they face the loss of their homeland, with distrust between both communities running deep.</p><p>Canada's assertion that India appears to have been involved in the murder of a Canadian Sikh has sparked outrage in New Delhi and beyond. The Indian government has strongly denied the allegation. In Vancouver, Neal Razzell visits the Sikh temple where the dead man, Hardeep Singh Nijjar was leader, and found out more about what happened on the fateful day.</p><p>A fire in Johannesburg at the end of August threw into sharp relief the terrible conditions in some affordable housing, which is often taken over by gangs who illegally rent out the buildings. Samantha Granville spoke to residents of the site that burned down, along with others in similarly precarious accommodation.</p><p>In Peru's capital Lima, around 2 million residents living in the poorer suburbs have no access to running water and have to pay high prices for it to be delivered to them. Peter Yeung met someone who has come up with an innovative solution: an improvised canal system which collects water from the clouds - known as 'fog-catchers'.</p><p>And finally, in Germany, a campaign is being launched to change a law that sees thousands of people sent to prison every year for travelling on public transport without a ticket. Tim Mansel meets one man helping to get people released because they haven't paid their fine.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2023 09:25:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1724</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gh4zzy.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gh4zzy.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gh4zzy.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gh521t</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gh521t</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gh4zzy.mp3" fileSize="27584000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1724"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gh521t</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Voices From Libya’s Flood-hit East</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Libya, Ukraine, Australia and the US</p><p>Anna Foster visits the flood-affected region of Derna, in Libya's east, where she speaks to survivors of the storm surge after two dams collapsed in the hills above the city.</p><p>In the Russian-controlled areas of Donbass in Ukraine's east, Nick Sturdee hears from residents there who have lived through nearly a decade of fighting. In an area which is hard to reach for Western journalists, he gains an insight into how the conflict is seen and understood there.</p><p>Australians are poised to vote in a referendum in October which would create a formal body for its indigenous people to give advice on laws. But the battle between the Yes and the No campaigns is reaching fever pitch - which some have described as Australia's Brexit moment. Nick Bryant has followed the story</p><p>And in the US, Maryam Ahmed talks to New Yorkers about their latest obsession: the battle against the spotted lanternfly. She learns a few techniques from locals and hears how the insects have achieved cult status.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  206. Editor: China Collins
  207. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>In Derna, survivors speak about the impact of the storm which washed away lives and homes</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Libya, Ukraine, Australia and the US</p><p>Anna Foster visits the flood-affected region of Derna, in Libya's east, where she speaks to survivors of the storm surge after two dams collapsed in the hills above the city.</p><p>In the Russian-controlled areas of Donbass in Ukraine's east, Nick Sturdee hears from residents there who have lived through nearly a decade of fighting. In an area which is hard to reach for Western journalists, he gains an insight into how the conflict is seen and understood there.</p><p>Australians are poised to vote in a referendum in October which would create a formal body for its indigenous people to give advice on laws. But the battle between the Yes and the No campaigns is reaching fever pitch - which some have described as Australia's Brexit moment. Nick Bryant has followed the story</p><p>And in the US, Maryam Ahmed talks to New Yorkers about their latest obsession: the battle against the spotted lanternfly. She learns a few techniques from locals and hears how the insects have achieved cult status.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  208. Editor: China Collins
  209. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2023 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1672</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gg92ks.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gg92ks.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gg92ks.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gg93mw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gg93mw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gg92ks.mp3" fileSize="26752000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1672"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gg93mw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Morocco: Tragedy in the High Atlas Mountains</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stories from Morocco, Gabon, Pakistan, Norway and Canada</p><p>A community in the High Atlas Mountains grapples with the devastation wrought by the strongest earthquake to hit Morocco in more than one hundred years. James Copnall visited Amizmiz where several lives were lost and homes destroyed and a harsh winter lies ahead.</p><p>The West African country of Gabon has become the latest in the region to witness a military coup, overthrowing the government of President Ali Bongo, scion of the Bongo dynasty. Catherine Norris-Trent encountered jubilation on the streets of Libraville - but asks whether pledges of democratic elections will be fulfilled.</p><p>In Pakistan, we followed the search in the country for three relatives of Sara Sharif, the ten-year old who was found dead in Woking. Her father, step-mother and Uncle have now been charged with her murder since they returned to the UK. Caroline Davies visited Sara's grandfather in his village in Punjab.</p><p>On the Norway-Russian border, there used to be a steady stream of visitors, but the war in Ukraine changed that. It remains open but Norwegians have introduced more checks on those coming over. John Murphy found a more active border in the waters of a river nearby where locals are battling to keep out a different kind of visitor.</p><p>As he returns from paternity leave, our Rome correspondent, Mark Lowen, recounts his experience of becoming a father using a surrogate in Canada, even as Italy moves to ban its nationals from engaging a surrogate abroad.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  210. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  211. Editor: Bridget Harney</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Surveying the colossal damage in one mountain-side community after the earthquake struck</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stories from Morocco, Gabon, Pakistan, Norway and Canada</p><p>A community in the High Atlas Mountains grapples with the devastation wrought by the strongest earthquake to hit Morocco in more than one hundred years. James Copnall visited Amizmiz where several lives were lost and homes destroyed and a harsh winter lies ahead.</p><p>The West African country of Gabon has become the latest in the region to witness a military coup, overthrowing the government of President Ali Bongo, scion of the Bongo dynasty. Catherine Norris-Trent encountered jubilation on the streets of Libraville - but asks whether pledges of democratic elections will be fulfilled.</p><p>In Pakistan, we followed the search in the country for three relatives of Sara Sharif, the ten-year old who was found dead in Woking. Her father, step-mother and Uncle have now been charged with her murder since they returned to the UK. Caroline Davies visited Sara's grandfather in his village in Punjab.</p><p>On the Norway-Russian border, there used to be a steady stream of visitors, but the war in Ukraine changed that. It remains open but Norwegians have introduced more checks on those coming over. John Murphy found a more active border in the waters of a river nearby where locals are battling to keep out a different kind of visitor.</p><p>As he returns from paternity leave, our Rome correspondent, Mark Lowen, recounts his experience of becoming a father using a surrogate in Canada, even as Italy moves to ban its nationals from engaging a surrogate abroad.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  212. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  213. Editor: Bridget Harney</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1720</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gdz9z7.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gdz9z7.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gdz9z7.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gdzb91</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gdzb91</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gdz9z7.mp3" fileSize="27520000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1720"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gdzb91</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The parents suing over Gambia’s cough syrup scandal</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from The Gambia, Iran, the USA, Chile and Hungary.</p><p>Dozens of bereaved families in the Gambia are taking legal action against an Indian drug manufacturer and Gambian health authorities, after more than 70 infants died after taking apparently toxic cough remedies. Sam Bradpiece heard their stories and traces how these medicines came to market.</p><p>As Iran approaches the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, the authorities are already cracking down on signs of public dissent. She was a young woman arrested for "incorrect hijab", whose fate triggered a wave of protest across Iran. Lois Pryce speaks to some of the generation of young women who took to the streets a year ago, and now say they're ready to do so again.</p><p>The Capitol riot on the 6th of January 2021 is still roiling American politics - as some high-profile Republican politicians say the people who were involved were patriots who shouldn't be punished. But the courts have issued verdict after verdict against the architects of the disorder. Mike Wendling reports from Washington DC on the sentencing of a leading figure in the chaos - Enrique Tarrio, former leader of activist group the Proud Boys.</p><p>In Chile there's been heated debate over how best to mark the fifty years since General Pinochet's military takeover. These days few people deny the killings, torture and disappearances were committed during his dictatorship - but up to a third of Chileans are willing to say the coup was necessary. Jane Chambers considers the nuances of a country torn between left and right.</p><p>It's been a terrible year for fruit in Hungary - so Nick Thorpe was prepared to go without his usual annual ritual of making his pear crop into homemade brandy. But as it turned out, an unexpected windfall of 200kilos of sour cherries would fuel an even more potent brew...</p><p></p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p><p>Editor: Bridget Harney</p><p>Production Co-Ordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>More than 70 small children died after taking an allegedly toxic medicine</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from The Gambia, Iran, the USA, Chile and Hungary.</p><p>Dozens of bereaved families in the Gambia are taking legal action against an Indian drug manufacturer and Gambian health authorities, after more than 70 infants died after taking apparently toxic cough remedies. Sam Bradpiece heard their stories and traces how these medicines came to market.</p><p>As Iran approaches the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, the authorities are already cracking down on signs of public dissent. She was a young woman arrested for "incorrect hijab", whose fate triggered a wave of protest across Iran. Lois Pryce speaks to some of the generation of young women who took to the streets a year ago, and now say they're ready to do so again.</p><p>The Capitol riot on the 6th of January 2021 is still roiling American politics - as some high-profile Republican politicians say the people who were involved were patriots who shouldn't be punished. But the courts have issued verdict after verdict against the architects of the disorder. Mike Wendling reports from Washington DC on the sentencing of a leading figure in the chaos - Enrique Tarrio, former leader of activist group the Proud Boys.</p><p>In Chile there's been heated debate over how best to mark the fifty years since General Pinochet's military takeover. These days few people deny the killings, torture and disappearances were committed during his dictatorship - but up to a third of Chileans are willing to say the coup was necessary. Jane Chambers considers the nuances of a country torn between left and right.</p><p>It's been a terrible year for fruit in Hungary - so Nick Thorpe was prepared to go without his usual annual ritual of making his pear crop into homemade brandy. But as it turned out, an unexpected windfall of 200kilos of sour cherries would fuel an even more potent brew...</p><p></p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p><p>Editor: Bridget Harney</p><p>Production Co-Ordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1722</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gcmhlp.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gcmhlp.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gcmhlp.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gcmj26</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gcmj26</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gcmhlp.mp3" fileSize="27552000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1722"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gcmj26</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The press under pressure in Indian-administered Kashmir</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' dispatches from Kashmir, Russia, Nigeria, Slovakia and Paraguay.</p><p>Understanding the complexities of politics and identity in Indian-administered Kashmir is not easy - and so the Kashmir Press Club was not just a social spot for local reporters, but an informal university for visiting journalists from elsewhere. It was recently closed down by the Indian government: just one sign of the narrowing margins for media freedom in the region. Yogita Limaye reflects on the challenges to reporting on Kashmir in such a climate.</p><p>Amid the fog of war, it's harder than ever to separate truth from misinformation about public opinion in Russia. So Will Vernon took to the streets of Moscow to ask members of that public what they think. In their answers, there were words of resignation and nervousness as well as of patriotism. He also heard from an anonymous Russian military analyst and people within the "ever-shrinking world" of opposition politics.</p><p>The recent coup in Niger was roundly condemned by the regional trade and diplomatic bloc ECOWAS, led by Nigeria. ECOWAS threatened military action and immediately suspended trade with Niger. That had immediate effects for the truckers and traders who regularly cross the border between Niger and Nigeria - as well as the families and religious groups with extensive networks in both countries. Catherine Norris Trent hears of their concerns over the crisis.</p><p>The double murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova in 2018 caused outrage in Slovakia. It set off a wave of public protests which eventually brought down a government. So how has it happened that five years later, the legal cases to convict all the killers is still ongoing, and that Robert Fico, who was unseated by that protest movement, is a contender to be re-elected Prime Minister? John Kampfner investigates a story of secrets and lies.</p><p>By some estimates, a language dies, along with its last speaker, around every 40 days; a loss of human knowledge and worldviews we might not come to regret until it's too late. All over the world, indigenous languages are disappearing fast. But in South America there's a notable exception: Guarani, which is widely spoken in Paraguay and beyond - and not only by people of Guarani descent. Grace Livingstone listens to some of the language's most passionate defenders and promoters, who say they'd like their mother tongue to get a little more respect.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>"Any story could be your last" say journalists in Indian-administered Kashmir</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' dispatches from Kashmir, Russia, Nigeria, Slovakia and Paraguay.</p><p>Understanding the complexities of politics and identity in Indian-administered Kashmir is not easy - and so the Kashmir Press Club was not just a social spot for local reporters, but an informal university for visiting journalists from elsewhere. It was recently closed down by the Indian government: just one sign of the narrowing margins for media freedom in the region. Yogita Limaye reflects on the challenges to reporting on Kashmir in such a climate.</p><p>Amid the fog of war, it's harder than ever to separate truth from misinformation about public opinion in Russia. So Will Vernon took to the streets of Moscow to ask members of that public what they think. In their answers, there were words of resignation and nervousness as well as of patriotism. He also heard from an anonymous Russian military analyst and people within the "ever-shrinking world" of opposition politics.</p><p>The recent coup in Niger was roundly condemned by the regional trade and diplomatic bloc ECOWAS, led by Nigeria. ECOWAS threatened military action and immediately suspended trade with Niger. That had immediate effects for the truckers and traders who regularly cross the border between Niger and Nigeria - as well as the families and religious groups with extensive networks in both countries. Catherine Norris Trent hears of their concerns over the crisis.</p><p>The double murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova in 2018 caused outrage in Slovakia. It set off a wave of public protests which eventually brought down a government. So how has it happened that five years later, the legal cases to convict all the killers is still ongoing, and that Robert Fico, who was unseated by that protest movement, is a contender to be re-elected Prime Minister? John Kampfner investigates a story of secrets and lies.</p><p>By some estimates, a language dies, along with its last speaker, around every 40 days; a loss of human knowledge and worldviews we might not come to regret until it's too late. All over the world, indigenous languages are disappearing fast. But in South America there's a notable exception: Guarani, which is widely spoken in Paraguay and beyond - and not only by people of Guarani descent. Grace Livingstone listens to some of the language's most passionate defenders and promoters, who say they'd like their mother tongue to get a little more respect.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2023 10:55:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1721</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gb8wgr.mp3" length="27536000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gb8wgr.mp3" length="27536000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0gb8wgr.mp3" length="27536000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0gb8xjx</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gb8xjx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0gb8wgr.mp3" fileSize="27536000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1721"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0gb8xjx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Drug cartel violence spreads through Ecuador</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Ecuador, Italy, North Korea, Denmark and South Africa.</p><p>Ecuador was once seen as an oasis of calm in a violent region: despite lying between the drug producing hubs of Peru and Colombia, its society and politics had stayed largely free of drug cartel influence. But not any more. This year's presidential election campaign saw several targeted killings of politicians and the fear of violence is now ever-present on the streets. Katy Watson reports from Guayaquil.</p><p>Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni promised to get tough on migration - especially by cracking down on those who try to enter the EU waters after crossing the Mediterranean in boats organised by people smugglers. Yet the number of arrivals is still growing. What might they find in Italy? James Copnall visited two small communities in Calabria which showed different sides of the phenomenon.</p><p>There are reports of food shortages in North Korea so severe that people have died of starvation. Yet the regime in Pyongyang controls access and information so stringently that it's hard to verify the scale or intensity of the hunger across the country. Michael Bristow explains the obstacles to finding out the truth - and what CAN be gleaned from sources and observation from South Korea and from North Korean defectors.</p><p>Going carbon neutral is a challenge at any scale - local, national, international or just household-by-household. Graihagh Jackson travelled to a community which is trying to make it work, and which may even be ahead of schedule: the Danish island of Bornholm, in the Baltic Sea.</p><p>And after fifteen years based in the "rough and tumble" city of Johannesburg, Andrew Harding considers the time he's spent in South Africa - and where the country is heading.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  214. Editor: Bridget Harney
  215. Production Co-Ordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Ecuador was once a peaceful country in a dangerous region - but not any more</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Ecuador, Italy, North Korea, Denmark and South Africa.</p><p>Ecuador was once seen as an oasis of calm in a violent region: despite lying between the drug producing hubs of Peru and Colombia, its society and politics had stayed largely free of drug cartel influence. But not any more. This year's presidential election campaign saw several targeted killings of politicians and the fear of violence is now ever-present on the streets. Katy Watson reports from Guayaquil.</p><p>Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni promised to get tough on migration - especially by cracking down on those who try to enter the EU waters after crossing the Mediterranean in boats organised by people smugglers. Yet the number of arrivals is still growing. What might they find in Italy? James Copnall visited two small communities in Calabria which showed different sides of the phenomenon.</p><p>There are reports of food shortages in North Korea so severe that people have died of starvation. Yet the regime in Pyongyang controls access and information so stringently that it's hard to verify the scale or intensity of the hunger across the country. Michael Bristow explains the obstacles to finding out the truth - and what CAN be gleaned from sources and observation from South Korea and from North Korean defectors.</p><p>Going carbon neutral is a challenge at any scale - local, national, international or just household-by-household. Graihagh Jackson travelled to a community which is trying to make it work, and which may even be ahead of schedule: the Danish island of Bornholm, in the Baltic Sea.</p><p>And after fifteen years based in the "rough and tumble" city of Johannesburg, Andrew Harding considers the time he's spent in South Africa - and where the country is heading.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  216. Editor: Bridget Harney
  217. Production Co-Ordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1711</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g8zyn1.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g8zyn1.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0g8zyn1.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0g8zz0l</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g8zz0l</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g8zyn1.mp3" fileSize="27376000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1711"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0g8zz0l</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Sudanese refugees sheltering in Chad</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' and writers' stories from the Chad/Sudan border, Hawaii's Maui island, Belize, Portugal and Azerbaijan</p><p>More than a million people have fled violence in Sudan for relative safety over the border in Chad - but conditions there are harsh, and medical help running desperately short. Mercy Juma spent a week near the refugee camp in Adre hearing stories of what had driven so many from their homes in Darfur.</p><p>Maui island is still reeling in shock and grief after the wildfires, fanned up by strong winds, which have ripped across it and burned the town of Lahaina to the ground. John Sudworth reflects on the anger and concern - as well as the resilience - he's heard expressed by Hawaiians over their state's emergency response.</p><p>How can one of the Western Hemisphere's smallest countries, Belize, take care of one of its longest barrier reefs? In a heavily indebted nation of under half a million people that's also highly vulnerable to climate change, NGOs must often step in where the state can't enforce conservation measures. Linda Pressly took took a boat to a speck in the Caribbean called Laughing Bird Caye, to hear of the threats from fishing boats, tourists - and even drug smugglers - in these waters.</p><p>Portugal's government has drawn up a plan promising the nation "More Housing" - trying to address a runaway property boom and a sense that a decent home is now out of reach for far too many people. But as Alison Roberts explains, rebalancing both rental and buyers' markets will not be easy.</p><p>And in the cities of Baku and Shusha, Simon Broughton pays close attention to sounds from Azerbaijan's own classical music tradition: the genre called mugha, which mixes delicate instrumentation with poetic vocals, lively improvisation and deep human feeling.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  218. Editor: Bridget Harney
  219. Production Co-Ordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Hearing stories of the wounded and bereaved who've arrived in the town of Adre in Chad</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' and writers' stories from the Chad/Sudan border, Hawaii's Maui island, Belize, Portugal and Azerbaijan</p><p>More than a million people have fled violence in Sudan for relative safety over the border in Chad - but conditions there are harsh, and medical help running desperately short. Mercy Juma spent a week near the refugee camp in Adre hearing stories of what had driven so many from their homes in Darfur.</p><p>Maui island is still reeling in shock and grief after the wildfires, fanned up by strong winds, which have ripped across it and burned the town of Lahaina to the ground. John Sudworth reflects on the anger and concern - as well as the resilience - he's heard expressed by Hawaiians over their state's emergency response.</p><p>How can one of the Western Hemisphere's smallest countries, Belize, take care of one of its longest barrier reefs? In a heavily indebted nation of under half a million people that's also highly vulnerable to climate change, NGOs must often step in where the state can't enforce conservation measures. Linda Pressly took took a boat to a speck in the Caribbean called Laughing Bird Caye, to hear of the threats from fishing boats, tourists - and even drug smugglers - in these waters.</p><p>Portugal's government has drawn up a plan promising the nation "More Housing" - trying to address a runaway property boom and a sense that a decent home is now out of reach for far too many people. But as Alison Roberts explains, rebalancing both rental and buyers' markets will not be easy.</p><p>And in the cities of Baku and Shusha, Simon Broughton pays close attention to sounds from Azerbaijan's own classical music tradition: the genre called mugha, which mixes delicate instrumentation with poetic vocals, lively improvisation and deep human feeling.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  220. Editor: Bridget Harney
  221. Production Co-Ordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2023 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1714</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g7n8yl.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g7n8yl.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0g7n8yl.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0g7n9jv</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g7n9jv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g7n8yl.mp3" fileSize="27424000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1714"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0g7n9jv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Life and war in Yemen</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from Yemen, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Turkey and Ireland.</p><p>The city of Taiz in southwestern Yemen has survived thousands of days of siege conditions during the conflict between Iranian-backed Houthi forces and the Saudi-led alliance. But there are still civilians trying to find moments of normality in wartime - and some surprising facilities on offer. Orla Guerin met a dermatologist who treats both the war wounded, and customers wanting purely cosmetic procedures.</p><p>The summit on the future of the Amazon rainforest, held in the Brazilian state of Para, didn't result in a grand international pact. But it did showcase a new emphasis: on helping the tens millions of people who live in this vast region, as the key to protecting its biodiversity and tree cover. Katy Watson travelled there to hear from local farmers on what can be done to improve their lives.</p><p>Zimbabwe's general election is due on the 23rd of August - but there seems little hope for great change through the ballot box. Charlotte Ashton was recently in Harare and found a mood of exhaustion - not least because the creaking economy leaves many people having to juggle several jobs, just to make ends meet.</p><p>For centuries, the Turkish city of Antakya was a renowned centre of culture, trade and religion: a cosmopolitan metropolis home to Turks, Arabs, Kurds, Jews and Armenians. But six months ago it was rocked by earthquakes. Lizzie Porter found a place once famous for its historic, honey-coloured buildings now full of dust, smoke, and the noise of demolition.</p><p>In Dublin, after years of economic anxiety after the collapse of the 'Celtic Tiger' and the European financial crisis, the Irish government now enjoys a very large budget surplus. Yet many don't feel they're prospering, as Chris Page explains.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  222. Editor: Bridget Harney
  223. Production Co-Ordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>People in the city of Taiz yearn for "just one good day" after years of siege</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from Yemen, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Turkey and Ireland.</p><p>The city of Taiz in southwestern Yemen has survived thousands of days of siege conditions during the conflict between Iranian-backed Houthi forces and the Saudi-led alliance. But there are still civilians trying to find moments of normality in wartime - and some surprising facilities on offer. Orla Guerin met a dermatologist who treats both the war wounded, and customers wanting purely cosmetic procedures.</p><p>The summit on the future of the Amazon rainforest, held in the Brazilian state of Para, didn't result in a grand international pact. But it did showcase a new emphasis: on helping the tens millions of people who live in this vast region, as the key to protecting its biodiversity and tree cover. Katy Watson travelled there to hear from local farmers on what can be done to improve their lives.</p><p>Zimbabwe's general election is due on the 23rd of August - but there seems little hope for great change through the ballot box. Charlotte Ashton was recently in Harare and found a mood of exhaustion - not least because the creaking economy leaves many people having to juggle several jobs, just to make ends meet.</p><p>For centuries, the Turkish city of Antakya was a renowned centre of culture, trade and religion: a cosmopolitan metropolis home to Turks, Arabs, Kurds, Jews and Armenians. But six months ago it was rocked by earthquakes. Lizzie Porter found a place once famous for its historic, honey-coloured buildings now full of dust, smoke, and the noise of demolition.</p><p>In Dublin, after years of economic anxiety after the collapse of the 'Celtic Tiger' and the European financial crisis, the Irish government now enjoys a very large budget surplus. Yet many don't feel they're prospering, as Chris Page explains.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  224. Editor: Bridget Harney
  225. Production Co-Ordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2023 10:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1730</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g6c4qr.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g6c4qr.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0g6c4qr.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0g6c4wd</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g6c4wd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g6c4qr.mp3" fileSize="27680000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1730"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0g6c4wd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Cambodia's strongman bows out</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories about Cambodia's outgoing Prime Minister, and from Pakistan, Romania, New Zealand and Germany.</p><p>Cambodia has suffered more tragedy than most, including civil wars, American bombing, and the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. For the last 38 years, the country has been ruled by one, increasingly autocratic man, Prime Minister Hun Sen. He is now handing power to a new Prime Minister next week – his own son. Jonathan Head has just been to Cambodia, and reflects on Hun Sen’s remarkable longevity in office.</p><p>Three hundred young Pakistani men are still missing, feared drowned, in the Mediterranean after the Greek shipping disaster in June. Why did they want to leave their country, at the mercy of people smugglers? Caroline Davies has been finding out, and asks what the police are doing to stop the human trafficking. She also meets a family whose teenage sons died in the Greek shipwreck.</p><p>In Romania on the other hand, the economy is booming, and people are moving to it, rather than away from it. That includes many Romanian emigrants who are now returning home, armed with new skills and attracted back by improved salaries. Tessa Dunlop detects a new confidence in the country. She also finds that this new Romanian tiger, has teeth, and claws.</p><p>New Zealand is trying to eradicate all rats, possums and stoats. These are not native to New Zealand but were brought there by humans in recent centuries. They have been decimating the local wildlife, like flightless and ground-nesting birds that evolved without those predators. Killing all individuals of several species across a whole country is a tall order however. And what about ethical qualms? Henri Astier joins a rat-catching expedition in Wellington to find out more.</p><p>Culture wars are raging in many countries, about different issues. In Germany, it's sausages, motorway speeds, and grammar. German is a gendered language, with male and female forms of nouns that denote people, like actor/actress. In German however, the -ess applies to everything. Doctoress. Prime Ministeress. But in the plural, the male form is used no matter the gender of the individuals. This makes some feel that women don't count. The answer? Doctor*esses or Prime Minister:esses, using * or : to indicate that a group does or could include both genders. Damien McGuinness carefully wades into the debate.</p><p>Producer: Arlene Gregorius
  226. Editor: Bridget Harney
  227. Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  228. Sound engineer: Rod Farquhar</p><p>(Image: Outgoing Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. Credit: Kith Serey/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen bows out after 38 years, handing over to his son</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories about Cambodia's outgoing Prime Minister, and from Pakistan, Romania, New Zealand and Germany.</p><p>Cambodia has suffered more tragedy than most, including civil wars, American bombing, and the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. For the last 38 years, the country has been ruled by one, increasingly autocratic man, Prime Minister Hun Sen. He is now handing power to a new Prime Minister next week – his own son. Jonathan Head has just been to Cambodia, and reflects on Hun Sen’s remarkable longevity in office.</p><p>Three hundred young Pakistani men are still missing, feared drowned, in the Mediterranean after the Greek shipping disaster in June. Why did they want to leave their country, at the mercy of people smugglers? Caroline Davies has been finding out, and asks what the police are doing to stop the human trafficking. She also meets a family whose teenage sons died in the Greek shipwreck.</p><p>In Romania on the other hand, the economy is booming, and people are moving to it, rather than away from it. That includes many Romanian emigrants who are now returning home, armed with new skills and attracted back by improved salaries. Tessa Dunlop detects a new confidence in the country. She also finds that this new Romanian tiger, has teeth, and claws.</p><p>New Zealand is trying to eradicate all rats, possums and stoats. These are not native to New Zealand but were brought there by humans in recent centuries. They have been decimating the local wildlife, like flightless and ground-nesting birds that evolved without those predators. Killing all individuals of several species across a whole country is a tall order however. And what about ethical qualms? Henri Astier joins a rat-catching expedition in Wellington to find out more.</p><p>Culture wars are raging in many countries, about different issues. In Germany, it's sausages, motorway speeds, and grammar. German is a gendered language, with male and female forms of nouns that denote people, like actor/actress. In German however, the -ess applies to everything. Doctoress. Prime Ministeress. But in the plural, the male form is used no matter the gender of the individuals. This makes some feel that women don't count. The answer? Doctor*esses or Prime Minister:esses, using * or : to indicate that a group does or could include both genders. Damien McGuinness carefully wades into the debate.</p><p>Producer: Arlene Gregorius
  229. Editor: Bridget Harney
  230. Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  231. Sound engineer: Rod Farquhar</p><p>(Image: Outgoing Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. Credit: Kith Serey/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1720</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g4xz64.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g4xz64.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0g4xz64.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0g4xzq6</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g4xzq6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g4xz64.mp3" fileSize="27520000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1720"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0g4xzq6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Israel's culture war over the Supreme Court</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' and reporters' stories from Israel, Ukraine, Lebanon, the Czech Republic and Ghana</p><p>This year has seen the streets of Jerusalem thronged with protests and demonstrations over the Netanyahu government's plans for legal and constitutional reforms, limiting the powers of Israel's Supreme Court. Paul Adams examines the wider social chasms underlying political divides over the Court's role.</p><p>The Russian missile attack on the Ria pizzeria in Kramatorsk on Tuesday the 27th of June 2023 killed thirteen people and injured over 60 more. Colin Freeman had been waiting to eat there that evening - but was called away less than an hour before the place was hit. He reflects on what Russia targets in Ukraine - and how.</p><p>With wildfires ripping through forested hillsides all around the Mediterranean, Lebanon is watching nervously. Its own woodlands - oak, cedar and pine - were badly burnt by forest fires in 2021, but experts hope that enlisting the help of local goat and sheep herders might prevent worse outbreaks this year. Lemma Shehadi explains.</p><p>Frank Gardner, the BBC's Security Correspondent, has visited Prague many times over the past 40 years - and was recently there to hear the head of Britain's MI6 speak in public about the modern world's security concerns. He remembers scenes from 1983 and 1990 - and an entirely different Europe.</p><p>And in Ghana, Naomi Grimley goes on a flight of fancy - with some of the species of bats to be found in and around Accra. As a global health reporter, she used to see them more as a reserve for possible disease outbreaks, but some of the passionate bat researchers and academics at the University of Accra opened her eyes to the animals' more appealing qualities.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  232. Editor: Bridget Harney
  233. Production Co-ordinator: Sabine Schereck</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Huge protests in Jerusalem over legal reforms reflect wider divides in Israeli society</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' and reporters' stories from Israel, Ukraine, Lebanon, the Czech Republic and Ghana</p><p>This year has seen the streets of Jerusalem thronged with protests and demonstrations over the Netanyahu government's plans for legal and constitutional reforms, limiting the powers of Israel's Supreme Court. Paul Adams examines the wider social chasms underlying political divides over the Court's role.</p><p>The Russian missile attack on the Ria pizzeria in Kramatorsk on Tuesday the 27th of June 2023 killed thirteen people and injured over 60 more. Colin Freeman had been waiting to eat there that evening - but was called away less than an hour before the place was hit. He reflects on what Russia targets in Ukraine - and how.</p><p>With wildfires ripping through forested hillsides all around the Mediterranean, Lebanon is watching nervously. Its own woodlands - oak, cedar and pine - were badly burnt by forest fires in 2021, but experts hope that enlisting the help of local goat and sheep herders might prevent worse outbreaks this year. Lemma Shehadi explains.</p><p>Frank Gardner, the BBC's Security Correspondent, has visited Prague many times over the past 40 years - and was recently there to hear the head of Britain's MI6 speak in public about the modern world's security concerns. He remembers scenes from 1983 and 1990 - and an entirely different Europe.</p><p>And in Ghana, Naomi Grimley goes on a flight of fancy - with some of the species of bats to be found in and around Accra. As a global health reporter, she used to see them more as a reserve for possible disease outbreaks, but some of the passionate bat researchers and academics at the University of Accra opened her eyes to the animals' more appealing qualities.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  234. Editor: Bridget Harney
  235. Production Co-ordinator: Sabine Schereck</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1719</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g3nc66.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g3nc66.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0g3nc66.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0g3nch3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g3nch3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g3nc66.mp3" fileSize="27504000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1719"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0g3nch3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Sudan: a neglected conflict</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces BBC correspondents' reports from Sudan, Spain, Tunisia, Italy and Mexico.</p><p>Sudan's newest civil war has been raging for more than three months - but first-hand images and reports of conflict are not easy to find. Barbara Plett Usher has been working to cover the violence from Nairobi, in Kenya, and reflects on what it's been possible to confirm.</p><p>In this weekend's snap general election in Spain, current Socialist PM Pedro Sanchez tests his mandate against growing pressure from the right - not just the traditional conservatives of the Partido Popular, but also a range of more firmly nationalist parties. Each major blocs has questioned the other's alliances - whether with smaller parties from the far right, or others from the Basque-nationalist movement. Guy Hedgecoe reports from Madrid.</p><p>Tunisia may have been the birthplace of the so-called Arab Spring, but these days its democratic credentials seem corroded. President Kais Saied is on an increasingly authoritarian tear, the economy's sputtering and the country's treatment of sub-Saharan African migrants has been growing ever harsher. And as Mike Thomson experienced on a recent trip, the media are still under VERY close supervision.</p><p>Much of Southern Europe is baking - if not burning - in a searing heatwave. Sofia Bettiza saw how people are adapting to the soaring temperatures on the streets of Palermo, in Sicily - and heard about concerns for Italians' health in this heat.</p><p>And from Mexico City, an unexpected casualty of gentrification. The BBC's Central America correspondent Will Grant has been trying to keep ahead of a wave of affluent foreigners - especially US citizens - moving in, but recently his young daughters' nursery has been priced out of the neighbourhood.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Militias and red tape are choking the flow of information about Sudan's latest conflict</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces BBC correspondents' reports from Sudan, Spain, Tunisia, Italy and Mexico.</p><p>Sudan's newest civil war has been raging for more than three months - but first-hand images and reports of conflict are not easy to find. Barbara Plett Usher has been working to cover the violence from Nairobi, in Kenya, and reflects on what it's been possible to confirm.</p><p>In this weekend's snap general election in Spain, current Socialist PM Pedro Sanchez tests his mandate against growing pressure from the right - not just the traditional conservatives of the Partido Popular, but also a range of more firmly nationalist parties. Each major blocs has questioned the other's alliances - whether with smaller parties from the far right, or others from the Basque-nationalist movement. Guy Hedgecoe reports from Madrid.</p><p>Tunisia may have been the birthplace of the so-called Arab Spring, but these days its democratic credentials seem corroded. President Kais Saied is on an increasingly authoritarian tear, the economy's sputtering and the country's treatment of sub-Saharan African migrants has been growing ever harsher. And as Mike Thomson experienced on a recent trip, the media are still under VERY close supervision.</p><p>Much of Southern Europe is baking - if not burning - in a searing heatwave. Sofia Bettiza saw how people are adapting to the soaring temperatures on the streets of Palermo, in Sicily - and heard about concerns for Italians' health in this heat.</p><p>And from Mexico City, an unexpected casualty of gentrification. The BBC's Central America correspondent Will Grant has been trying to keep ahead of a wave of affluent foreigners - especially US citizens - moving in, but recently his young daughters' nursery has been priced out of the neighbourhood.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1712</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g2c5zd.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g2c5zd.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0g2c5zd.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0g2c6hz</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g2c6hz</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g2c5zd.mp3" fileSize="27392000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1712"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0g2c6hz</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Uruguay's Water Crisis</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Uruguay, India, Haiti, New Zealand and Botswana.</p><p>A long and severe drought in Uruguay has caused the country's worst ever water crisis. As fresh water reservoirs run dry, water from the River Plate estuary has been added to the mix, leaving locals in the capital with a salty taste in their mouths - and an increasing reliance on bottled water. Dr Grace Livingstone discovers how it's affecting daily life.</p><p>The northeast Indian state of Manipur has been caught in a spiral of ethnic violence for two months, pitting the dominant Meitei community against the tribal Kuki people. Almost 150 have died in the violence, as the two communities become increasingly segregated, as Raghvendra Rao has found.</p><p>Haiti has qualified for the football World Cup finals for the first time ever, and will take on England in their first game. Haiti is the poorest nation in the Americas, and plagued by earthquakes, political murders and gang violence. But the footballers are keen to project a more positive image to the world, as Joe Rindl heard when he spoke to Haiti goalkeeper, Kerly Theus.</p><p>A special holiday or the experience of expat life can lead to certain countries finding a special place in our hearts. That's what happened to Ash Bhardwaj in New Zealand, where he found that a polished blue aotea stone connects his baby daughter, his late mother - and Maori culture.</p><p>Botswana is now home to a third of Africa's elephants, and its Okawango delta has become something of an elephant sanctuary. But there are difficulties when the territories of animals and people overlap, reports John Murphy.</p><p>Producer: Arlene Gregorius
  236. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  237. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A long and severe drought in Uruguay has left locals in the capital drinking salty water.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Uruguay, India, Haiti, New Zealand and Botswana.</p><p>A long and severe drought in Uruguay has caused the country's worst ever water crisis. As fresh water reservoirs run dry, water from the River Plate estuary has been added to the mix, leaving locals in the capital with a salty taste in their mouths - and an increasing reliance on bottled water. Dr Grace Livingstone discovers how it's affecting daily life.</p><p>The northeast Indian state of Manipur has been caught in a spiral of ethnic violence for two months, pitting the dominant Meitei community against the tribal Kuki people. Almost 150 have died in the violence, as the two communities become increasingly segregated, as Raghvendra Rao has found.</p><p>Haiti has qualified for the football World Cup finals for the first time ever, and will take on England in their first game. Haiti is the poorest nation in the Americas, and plagued by earthquakes, political murders and gang violence. But the footballers are keen to project a more positive image to the world, as Joe Rindl heard when he spoke to Haiti goalkeeper, Kerly Theus.</p><p>A special holiday or the experience of expat life can lead to certain countries finding a special place in our hearts. That's what happened to Ash Bhardwaj in New Zealand, where he found that a polished blue aotea stone connects his baby daughter, his late mother - and Maori culture.</p><p>Botswana is now home to a third of Africa's elephants, and its Okawango delta has become something of an elephant sanctuary. But there are difficulties when the territories of animals and people overlap, reports John Murphy.</p><p>Producer: Arlene Gregorius
  238. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  239. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05nlnpz.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2023 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1716</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g1xhj2.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g1xhj2.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0g1xhj2.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0g1xvqp</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g1xvqp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g1xhj2.mp3" fileSize="27456000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1716"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0g1xvqp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Wagner Group: Business as Usual?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories exploring events in Russia, the United States, Mexico, Lanzarote and South Africa.</p><p>After its failed march on Moscow, the Wagner Group was supposedly going to be disbanded and its leader exiled to Belarus. But as our Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford found out, this mercenary army still appears to be recruiting new members to its ranks.</p><p>Across the United States, tens of millions of Americans still believe that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election - some of them are serving in public office. Mike Wendling is just back from Iowa, where he met one former conspiracy theorist whose own political appointment is causing friction among local Democrats and Republicans.</p><p>The Tren Maya project is a huge looping railway line, nearly a thousand miles long, which (if completed) would connect the dots in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula - once the heartland of Mayan civilisation. As with any groundbreaking transport works, not everyone is happy - there have been objections over its potential environmental impact. Louise Morris recently followed the journey of a convoy which aimed to stiffen resistance to the project.</p><p>The Canary Islands were well known to ancient civilisations of the Mediterranean. There are accounts of Phoenicians, Greeks and Carthaginians all reaching the islands, as they hunted for valuable plants which were sources of red dye for fabrics. These days, the islands belong to Spain and among them is Lanzarote - a popular destination for European sun-seekers. But beyond its tourist hotels and restaurants, Charles Emmerson stumbled across the origins of one modern European empire.</p><p>In South Africa, questions over the nation’s education system can get seriously heated. Decades after the end of apartheid, many people argue that South Africa’s schoolrooms are still far too focused on European scholarship - so does that explain the indifference to one of the country's most valuable literary treasures? Oxford Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Emma Smith, finds herself the only one excited by a rare copy of Shakespeare's first folio.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  240. Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  241. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Wagner Group was going to disband after its march on Moscow, so why's it still hiring?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories exploring events in Russia, the United States, Mexico, Lanzarote and South Africa.</p><p>After its failed march on Moscow, the Wagner Group was supposedly going to be disbanded and its leader exiled to Belarus. But as our Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford found out, this mercenary army still appears to be recruiting new members to its ranks.</p><p>Across the United States, tens of millions of Americans still believe that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election - some of them are serving in public office. Mike Wendling is just back from Iowa, where he met one former conspiracy theorist whose own political appointment is causing friction among local Democrats and Republicans.</p><p>The Tren Maya project is a huge looping railway line, nearly a thousand miles long, which (if completed) would connect the dots in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula - once the heartland of Mayan civilisation. As with any groundbreaking transport works, not everyone is happy - there have been objections over its potential environmental impact. Louise Morris recently followed the journey of a convoy which aimed to stiffen resistance to the project.</p><p>The Canary Islands were well known to ancient civilisations of the Mediterranean. There are accounts of Phoenicians, Greeks and Carthaginians all reaching the islands, as they hunted for valuable plants which were sources of red dye for fabrics. These days, the islands belong to Spain and among them is Lanzarote - a popular destination for European sun-seekers. But beyond its tourist hotels and restaurants, Charles Emmerson stumbled across the origins of one modern European empire.</p><p>In South Africa, questions over the nation’s education system can get seriously heated. Decades after the end of apartheid, many people argue that South Africa’s schoolrooms are still far too focused on European scholarship - so does that explain the indifference to one of the country's most valuable literary treasures? Oxford Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Emma Smith, finds herself the only one excited by a rare copy of Shakespeare's first folio.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  242. Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  243. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1715</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g129pk.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g129pk.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0g129pk.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0g12b0p</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g12b0p</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g129pk.mp3" fileSize="27440000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1715"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0g12b0p</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>After Jenin</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from the Occupied Territories, the Mediterranean Sea, Ukraine, California and Algeria.</p><p>After violent clashes in Jenin last week, an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal seems as remote as its ever been. And with some Arab states now normalising relations with Israel, some observers say it is a sign some countries want to move on from the Palestinian cause. Jeremy Bowen hears one view that international support for a Palestinian state might eventually disappear from view, like the once ubiquitous Free Tibet movement has done in recent years. But, he says, a new generation of angry, desperate young Palestinians are driven to continue fighting their cause, whether the world is on their side or not.</p><p>Almost 2000 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe this year. But as Alice Cuddy found on a ship that had just rescued young migrants from The Gambia, the deaths do not seem to deter desperate teenage boys and young men from seeking a better life.</p><p>The breach of the Karkhovka dam in Ukraine caused catastrophic flooding. But as the vast reservoir emptied, elements of the region's local history that had long been submerged began to see the light of day again. Vitaliy Shevchenko explores how Ukraine's fight for its future, is shedding new light on its past too.</p><p>Californian officials have recommended the payment of reparations to the descendants of enslaved Africans, for slavery and for the effects of racial discrimination. Chelsea Bailey meets one family seeking justice, after local authorities in Palm Springs burned down their family home back in the 1960s.</p><p>Algeria boasts beautiful landscapes, old Kasbahs and well-preserved Roman ruins. But unlike other Mediterranean countries, it has hardly any tourists. Why not? Simon Calder has been to Algeria and has some answers.</p><p>Producer: Arlene Gregorius
  244. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  245. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A new generation of Palestinians is emerging to continue fighting their cause.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from the Occupied Territories, the Mediterranean Sea, Ukraine, California and Algeria.</p><p>After violent clashes in Jenin last week, an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal seems as remote as its ever been. And with some Arab states now normalising relations with Israel, some observers say it is a sign some countries want to move on from the Palestinian cause. Jeremy Bowen hears one view that international support for a Palestinian state might eventually disappear from view, like the once ubiquitous Free Tibet movement has done in recent years. But, he says, a new generation of angry, desperate young Palestinians are driven to continue fighting their cause, whether the world is on their side or not.</p><p>Almost 2000 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe this year. But as Alice Cuddy found on a ship that had just rescued young migrants from The Gambia, the deaths do not seem to deter desperate teenage boys and young men from seeking a better life.</p><p>The breach of the Karkhovka dam in Ukraine caused catastrophic flooding. But as the vast reservoir emptied, elements of the region's local history that had long been submerged began to see the light of day again. Vitaliy Shevchenko explores how Ukraine's fight for its future, is shedding new light on its past too.</p><p>Californian officials have recommended the payment of reparations to the descendants of enslaved Africans, for slavery and for the effects of racial discrimination. Chelsea Bailey meets one family seeking justice, after local authorities in Palm Springs burned down their family home back in the 1960s.</p><p>Algeria boasts beautiful landscapes, old Kasbahs and well-preserved Roman ruins. But unlike other Mediterranean countries, it has hardly any tourists. Why not? Simon Calder has been to Algeria and has some answers.</p><p>Producer: Arlene Gregorius
  246. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  247. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2023 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1732</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g0mjdr.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g0mjdr.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0g0mjdr.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0g0mlrx</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g0mlrx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g0mjdr.mp3" fileSize="27712000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1732"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0g0mlrx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Yazidis who survived Islamic State</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Iraqi Kurdistan's Yazidi community, the streets of Marseille, the former USSR and the Caribbean island of Nevis.</p><p>From 2011 to 2017, the Yazidi minority in Iraq lived in terror, as the community was targeted by Islamic State's fighters for especially brutal repression. There were fears of genocide - that the whole community might be wiped out. That didn't happen - but as Rachel Wright has seen, Yazidis who survived captivity and slavery under IS are still finding life extremely tough today, trying to eke out a living in tented cities of refugees.</p><p>After the mass civil disorder across France, there's passionate debate over the root causes of the revolt on the streets, and what the rioters really wanted. Jenny Hill reports from Marseille on what she heard from residents of the city's vast and decaying Frais Vallon housing project.</p><p>Ibrat Safo reveals a personal story of childhood in the former USSR - and making contact again with the woman who helped to raise him. His family were Uzbek, while his nanny was of Uzbek and Ukrainian descent. They grew up together speaking Russian in a provincial Soviet town. So when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, he felt an urgent need to track her down, and find out where life has taken her.</p><p>And Rob Crossan reveals why the Caribbean island of Nevis hasn't turned much of a profit from its connection with one of America's Founding Fathers - the celebrated Alexander Hamilton.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  248. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  249. Production Co-Ordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>How an underground network in Iraq helped free Yazidi women and girls from slavery.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Iraqi Kurdistan's Yazidi community, the streets of Marseille, the former USSR and the Caribbean island of Nevis.</p><p>From 2011 to 2017, the Yazidi minority in Iraq lived in terror, as the community was targeted by Islamic State's fighters for especially brutal repression. There were fears of genocide - that the whole community might be wiped out. That didn't happen - but as Rachel Wright has seen, Yazidis who survived captivity and slavery under IS are still finding life extremely tough today, trying to eke out a living in tented cities of refugees.</p><p>After the mass civil disorder across France, there's passionate debate over the root causes of the revolt on the streets, and what the rioters really wanted. Jenny Hill reports from Marseille on what she heard from residents of the city's vast and decaying Frais Vallon housing project.</p><p>Ibrat Safo reveals a personal story of childhood in the former USSR - and making contact again with the woman who helped to raise him. His family were Uzbek, while his nanny was of Uzbek and Ukrainian descent. They grew up together speaking Russian in a provincial Soviet town. So when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, he felt an urgent need to track her down, and find out where life has taken her.</p><p>And Rob Crossan reveals why the Caribbean island of Nevis hasn't turned much of a profit from its connection with one of America's Founding Fathers - the celebrated Alexander Hamilton.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  250. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  251. Production Co-Ordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1720</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fzr3tv.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fzr3tv.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fzr3tv.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fzr4kw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fzr4kw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fzr3tv.mp3" fileSize="27520000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1720"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fzr4kw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Grief in France's banlieues</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The bereaved mother of Nahel M., who was killed by police in Paris. And stories from Brazil, Somalia, Finland and Sicily.</p><p>Last week French police killed a 17-year old young man of North African origin during a traffic stop. This led to angry rioting and looting in Paris and other cities. But what underlies the anger and what does the death mean for the mother who lost her only child? Katya Adler has been to the Paris suburb where Nahel died.</p><p>Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro has been convicted of abusing his power for casting doubt on the country's voting system, and banned from running for office for 8 years. But, says Camilla Mota, political divisions remain deep. There's even a dating app for those who don't fancy a Bolsonarista.</p><p>Somalia has a large diaspora that fled the civil war of the 1980s and 90s and the instability, even famine, that have afflicted the country since. At least 100,000 live in Britain. Many are second-generation Somalis who have never been to Somalia. Among them, Soraya Ali - until now. So what was it like to go "back"?</p><p>As a consequence of the war in Ukraine, Finland joined NATO this year. It was a big turning point, because Finland’s history has long been intertwined with Russia. And so as Emilia Jansson found, the pivot to the West brought many changes. But not the giving up of paskha, a Russian cheesecake.</p><p>Sicily’s capital Palermo prides itself in its UNESCO world heritage-listed old town, with monuments from the times of Byzantine, Arab and Norman rule. And now there is a square marking the stay of an Irish debutante, Violet Gibson, who almost killed Mussolini. Richard Dove has her story.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  252. Producer: Arlene Gregorius
  253. Editor: China Collins
  254. Credit: Photo by YOAN VALAT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The French police's killing of the teenager Nahel in Paris led to violent protests.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The bereaved mother of Nahel M., who was killed by police in Paris. And stories from Brazil, Somalia, Finland and Sicily.</p><p>Last week French police killed a 17-year old young man of North African origin during a traffic stop. This led to angry rioting and looting in Paris and other cities. But what underlies the anger and what does the death mean for the mother who lost her only child? Katya Adler has been to the Paris suburb where Nahel died.</p><p>Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro has been convicted of abusing his power for casting doubt on the country's voting system, and banned from running for office for 8 years. But, says Camilla Mota, political divisions remain deep. There's even a dating app for those who don't fancy a Bolsonarista.</p><p>Somalia has a large diaspora that fled the civil war of the 1980s and 90s and the instability, even famine, that have afflicted the country since. At least 100,000 live in Britain. Many are second-generation Somalis who have never been to Somalia. Among them, Soraya Ali - until now. So what was it like to go "back"?</p><p>As a consequence of the war in Ukraine, Finland joined NATO this year. It was a big turning point, because Finland’s history has long been intertwined with Russia. And so as Emilia Jansson found, the pivot to the West brought many changes. But not the giving up of paskha, a Russian cheesecake.</p><p>Sicily’s capital Palermo prides itself in its UNESCO world heritage-listed old town, with monuments from the times of Byzantine, Arab and Norman rule. And now there is a square marking the stay of an Irish debutante, Violet Gibson, who almost killed Mussolini. Richard Dove has her story.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  255. Producer: Arlene Gregorius
  256. Editor: China Collins
  257. Credit: Photo by YOAN VALAT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2023 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1731</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fz88nt.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fz88nt.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fz88nt.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fz8bqp</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fz8bqp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fz88nt.mp3" fileSize="27696000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1731"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fz8bqp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Tracing Syria's Captagon Trade</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' and writers' despatches from Lebanon and Jordan, Ukraine's battle fronts, the Caribbean island of Grenada, the BBC's bureaux abroad and the streets of the South Bronx in New York City.</p><p>Captagon is a small, amphetamine-like pill which has become one of the most popular illegal drugs in the Middle East. There is increasing evidence that large amounts of it are being manufactured inside Syria in collusion with allies of the ruling Assad family - then brought out into neighbouring Lebanon and Jordan by Bedouin smugglers. Emir Nader joined the soldiers and lawmen trying to choke off the drug supply routes.</p><p>Despite the Wagner Group's apparent mutiny last weekend, Russia's war in Ukraine has not stopped - or even abated. Along the front line, Andrew Harding saw how Ukrainian soldiers and medics are continuing their fight, eavesdropping on Russian troops, and treating the wounded.</p><p>It's been nearly 40 years since the US invasion of Grenada - triggered by a chaotic power struggle within the island's avowedly Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement. On Grenada's "Bloody Wednesday" 1983, there were more than a dozen firing-squad executions - and there are still enduring questions about the events. Mark Stratton asked why some of the bodies are still missing - including that of the island's widely admired leader Maurice Bishop.</p><p>Simon Wilson has worked abroad for the BBC for more than twenty years, in some of its most prestigious bureaux, including Jerusalem, Brussels and Washington DC. But his foreign news career started out in much less promising conditions - at the notoriously dismal office in Bonn. He pulls back the curtain on some of the more unexpected features of the BBC's premises overseas.</p><p>And in the South Bronx, there are signs of creeping gentrification on what used to be some of New York City's meanest streets. Not everyone is a fan of the changes, though. Writer and broadcaster Lindsay Johns has been exploring today's cultural scene in the Boogie Down - including a thriving Black-owned bookshop.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  258. Editor: Richard Vadon
  259. Production Co-ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Lebanon and Jordan fight a tide of smuggled tablets - of an illegal and addictive compound</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' and writers' despatches from Lebanon and Jordan, Ukraine's battle fronts, the Caribbean island of Grenada, the BBC's bureaux abroad and the streets of the South Bronx in New York City.</p><p>Captagon is a small, amphetamine-like pill which has become one of the most popular illegal drugs in the Middle East. There is increasing evidence that large amounts of it are being manufactured inside Syria in collusion with allies of the ruling Assad family - then brought out into neighbouring Lebanon and Jordan by Bedouin smugglers. Emir Nader joined the soldiers and lawmen trying to choke off the drug supply routes.</p><p>Despite the Wagner Group's apparent mutiny last weekend, Russia's war in Ukraine has not stopped - or even abated. Along the front line, Andrew Harding saw how Ukrainian soldiers and medics are continuing their fight, eavesdropping on Russian troops, and treating the wounded.</p><p>It's been nearly 40 years since the US invasion of Grenada - triggered by a chaotic power struggle within the island's avowedly Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement. On Grenada's "Bloody Wednesday" 1983, there were more than a dozen firing-squad executions - and there are still enduring questions about the events. Mark Stratton asked why some of the bodies are still missing - including that of the island's widely admired leader Maurice Bishop.</p><p>Simon Wilson has worked abroad for the BBC for more than twenty years, in some of its most prestigious bureaux, including Jerusalem, Brussels and Washington DC. But his foreign news career started out in much less promising conditions - at the notoriously dismal office in Bonn. He pulls back the curtain on some of the more unexpected features of the BBC's premises overseas.</p><p>And in the South Bronx, there are signs of creeping gentrification on what used to be some of New York City's meanest streets. Not everyone is a fan of the changes, though. Writer and broadcaster Lindsay Johns has been exploring today's cultural scene in the Boogie Down - including a thriving Black-owned bookshop.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  260. Editor: Richard Vadon
  261. Production Co-ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1736</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fyd509.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fyd509.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fyd509.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fyd6f5</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fyd6f5</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fyd509.mp3" fileSize="27776000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1736"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fyd6f5</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Wagner mutiny in Russia</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Wagner mutiny in Russia; and other stories from Russia, Peru, Bangladesh and Denmark.</p><p>The mutiny by Russia's Wagner mercenaries ended as quickly as it started. The fighters had taken the southern Russian city and military hub Rostov-on-Don, and were heading for Moscow, when their leader called it all off. How do the capital's residents view these events?</p><p>Russia says it has lost 6000 soldiers in Ukraine, but the true figure is thought to be 40,000 to 60,000. Olga Ivshina has been tracking her country's military fatalities with other volunteers, and has so far counted 25,000. Sometimes their relatives didn't even know they had died.</p><p>Peru is suffering its worst outbreak of dengue fever on record, following unusually hot and wet weather conditions. The viral disease is carried by mosquitoes and can cause severe joint and muscle pain, even death. Dan Collyns travelled to the centre of Peru's epidemic in Piura in northern Peru.</p><p>Bangladesh used to have high rates of pregnancy or childbirth-related deaths, and of children dying in infancy due to low rates of vaccination. But now illness and deaths have been drastically reduced, thanks to the "disease detectives" scheme - women offering healthcare to millions. Peter Young went to see how it works.</p><p>Denmark's small prison population has been growing due to harsher sentencing, but the number of prison officers is falling, leading to concerns about overcrowding, and the quality of the prison regime. Polina Bachlakova found the impact is even felt in a prison’s choir.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  262. Producer: Arlene Gregorius
  263. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
  264. Editor: Richard Vadon
  265. Photo: Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin leaving Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Copyright: REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Wagner mercenaries' mutiny in Russia ended quickly but what does it say about Russia?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Wagner mutiny in Russia; and other stories from Russia, Peru, Bangladesh and Denmark.</p><p>The mutiny by Russia's Wagner mercenaries ended as quickly as it started. The fighters had taken the southern Russian city and military hub Rostov-on-Don, and were heading for Moscow, when their leader called it all off. How do the capital's residents view these events?</p><p>Russia says it has lost 6000 soldiers in Ukraine, but the true figure is thought to be 40,000 to 60,000. Olga Ivshina has been tracking her country's military fatalities with other volunteers, and has so far counted 25,000. Sometimes their relatives didn't even know they had died.</p><p>Peru is suffering its worst outbreak of dengue fever on record, following unusually hot and wet weather conditions. The viral disease is carried by mosquitoes and can cause severe joint and muscle pain, even death. Dan Collyns travelled to the centre of Peru's epidemic in Piura in northern Peru.</p><p>Bangladesh used to have high rates of pregnancy or childbirth-related deaths, and of children dying in infancy due to low rates of vaccination. But now illness and deaths have been drastically reduced, thanks to the "disease detectives" scheme - women offering healthcare to millions. Peter Young went to see how it works.</p><p>Denmark's small prison population has been growing due to harsher sentencing, but the number of prison officers is falling, leading to concerns about overcrowding, and the quality of the prison regime. Polina Bachlakova found the impact is even felt in a prison’s choir.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  266. Producer: Arlene Gregorius
  267. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
  268. Editor: Richard Vadon
  269. Photo: Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin leaving Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Copyright: REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1726</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g2nbvl.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g2nbvl.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0g2nbvl.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fxy8mr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fxy8mr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0g2nbvl.mp3" fileSize="27616000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1726"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fxy8mr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Ghana's healthcare brain drain</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Ghana's hospitals, the Chinese-Russian border, Syrian refugees in Lebanon, a research station on Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the streets of Limerick in Ireland. </p><p>Ghana is one of several African countries which say their health services are being sapped by a slow bleed of doctors and nurses going abroad - to earn vastly better salaries in the UK and elsewhere. Naomi Grimley spoke to medical staff in rural Kwaso and in the city of Accra about the push and pull factors on their minds.</p><p>After a drastic contraction during the periods of pandemic lockdown, China-Russia trade is on the rebound, and China's government is bullish about the prospects for recovery. At ground level things may not look so rosy. Ankur Shah reflects on the cross-border relations he saw reflected on the streets of the city of Manzhouli.</p><p>There's been a backlash in Lebanon against the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees still living in the country - twelve years after the start of the civil war in Syria. Recently there was an outcry over the case of a seven-year-old schoolgirl whose parents had been deported back to Damascus - while she sat in a Lebanese classroom. Carine Torbey went to meet her and hear her story.</p><p>The Great Barrier Reef is one of the most-studied coral formations on Earth - and Australia's government often claims that it's also one of the best-protected and best-managed. Marine scientists who've been working there over the long term have seen some changes, and are concerned about the future - especially if ocean temperatures continue to rise. Michelle Jana Chan hear about the state of the science on Lizard Island.</p><p>And: is keeping horses in a lockup garage in a major city - or driving them with two-wheeled carriages on a main road -  a public nuisance, or a wholesome pastime? Bob Howard has been talking to the "sulky racers" of Limerick, and hearing why the sound of horses' hooves seems unlikely to disappear from Ireland's urban landscapes.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  270. Editor: Richard Vadon
  271. Production Co-Ordinator: Janet Staples</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Doctors and nurses are leaving, so what options are left for Ghanaians needing treatment?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Ghana's hospitals, the Chinese-Russian border, Syrian refugees in Lebanon, a research station on Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the streets of Limerick in Ireland. </p><p>Ghana is one of several African countries which say their health services are being sapped by a slow bleed of doctors and nurses going abroad - to earn vastly better salaries in the UK and elsewhere. Naomi Grimley spoke to medical staff in rural Kwaso and in the city of Accra about the push and pull factors on their minds.</p><p>After a drastic contraction during the periods of pandemic lockdown, China-Russia trade is on the rebound, and China's government is bullish about the prospects for recovery. At ground level things may not look so rosy. Ankur Shah reflects on the cross-border relations he saw reflected on the streets of the city of Manzhouli.</p><p>There's been a backlash in Lebanon against the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees still living in the country - twelve years after the start of the civil war in Syria. Recently there was an outcry over the case of a seven-year-old schoolgirl whose parents had been deported back to Damascus - while she sat in a Lebanese classroom. Carine Torbey went to meet her and hear her story.</p><p>The Great Barrier Reef is one of the most-studied coral formations on Earth - and Australia's government often claims that it's also one of the best-protected and best-managed. Marine scientists who've been working there over the long term have seen some changes, and are concerned about the future - especially if ocean temperatures continue to rise. Michelle Jana Chan hear about the state of the science on Lizard Island.</p><p>And: is keeping horses in a lockup garage in a major city - or driving them with two-wheeled carriages on a main road -  a public nuisance, or a wholesome pastime? Bob Howard has been talking to the "sulky racers" of Limerick, and hearing why the sound of horses' hooves seems unlikely to disappear from Ireland's urban landscapes.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  272. Editor: Richard Vadon
  273. Production Co-Ordinator: Janet Staples</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1722</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fx2tdg.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fx2tdg.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fx2tdg.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fx2w8d</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fx2w8d</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fx2tdg.mp3" fileSize="27552000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1722"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fx2w8d</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Life and Death in North Korea</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from North Korea, Canada, Guinea-Bissau, Peru and Jamaica.</p><p>North Korea sealed its borders when the pandemic struck, and little news from the isolated, oppressive state has leaked out since. The BBC's Jean Mackenzie, with Daily NK, an organisation with sources inside North Korea, has managed to make contact with North Koreans who reveal lives defined by fear - and the growing threat of starvation.</p><p>Canada is on course for its worst year for wildfires on record. Unusually, there have been many blazes in Quebec - a province not used to wildfires, and which subsequently lacks the specialist firefighters needed to tame forest fires. Nadine Yousif hears how they're already exhausted - and it's still only June.</p><p>Guinea-Bissau is a major hub for drug traffickers from South America transporting drugs to Europe - and this has fuelled high levels of addiction to crack cocaine. Yet the country has only two drug rehab centres - one of them run by a Pentecostal pastor, who claims to cure addiction through prayer. Sam Bradpiece paid a a visit, and found evidence of staff cruelty and residents being chained to bars and cages.</p><p>Peru has become the world's largest exporter of blueberries - a fruit native to the northern hemisphere, where it thrives in colder temperatures. So how do they grow it in tropical Peru? Stefania Gozzer has been to a blueberry plantation along Peru's arid Pacific coast to find out.</p><p>The Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in Essex 75 years ago. On board were 802 people from the Caribbean, who had made the voyage to find better jobs, and build a better life - but the Windrush Generation also faced hostility and prejudice. Horatio Clare recently visited Jamaica, and found that amid the warm welcomes was a demand for a different relationship between the UK and its former colony.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  274. Producer: Arlene Gregorius
  275. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
  276. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p><p>Photo: painting of the sealed border of North Korea. Copyright BBC.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Rarely heard voices from within North Korea reveal desperate lives in the secretive state</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from North Korea, Canada, Guinea-Bissau, Peru and Jamaica.</p><p>North Korea sealed its borders when the pandemic struck, and little news from the isolated, oppressive state has leaked out since. The BBC's Jean Mackenzie, with Daily NK, an organisation with sources inside North Korea, has managed to make contact with North Koreans who reveal lives defined by fear - and the growing threat of starvation.</p><p>Canada is on course for its worst year for wildfires on record. Unusually, there have been many blazes in Quebec - a province not used to wildfires, and which subsequently lacks the specialist firefighters needed to tame forest fires. Nadine Yousif hears how they're already exhausted - and it's still only June.</p><p>Guinea-Bissau is a major hub for drug traffickers from South America transporting drugs to Europe - and this has fuelled high levels of addiction to crack cocaine. Yet the country has only two drug rehab centres - one of them run by a Pentecostal pastor, who claims to cure addiction through prayer. Sam Bradpiece paid a a visit, and found evidence of staff cruelty and residents being chained to bars and cages.</p><p>Peru has become the world's largest exporter of blueberries - a fruit native to the northern hemisphere, where it thrives in colder temperatures. So how do they grow it in tropical Peru? Stefania Gozzer has been to a blueberry plantation along Peru's arid Pacific coast to find out.</p><p>The Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in Essex 75 years ago. On board were 802 people from the Caribbean, who had made the voyage to find better jobs, and build a better life - but the Windrush Generation also faced hostility and prejudice. Horatio Clare recently visited Jamaica, and found that amid the warm welcomes was a demand for a different relationship between the UK and its former colony.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  277. Producer: Arlene Gregorius
  278. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
  279. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p><p>Photo: painting of the sealed border of North Korea. Copyright BBC.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2023 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1699</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fwlrkz.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fwlrkz.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fwlrkz.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fwlsl8</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fwlsl8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fwlrkz.mp3" fileSize="27184000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1699"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fwlsl8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Donald Trump's courtroom drama</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from the USA, Pakistan, Germany, Japan and Italy.</p><p>In Florida this week, Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 federal charges relating to unauthorised possession of classified material, obstruction of justice and making false statements to law enforcement. Nomia Iqbal was outside the federal courthouse in Miami where the arraignment took place, and spoke to some of the former president's supporters.</p><p>Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan was once omnipresent in the country's media - from the headlines to the fiery evening TV talk shows. But since his removal from power in a vote of no confidence, his public profile has almost disappeared, as his political party and its supporters are being silenced. Caroline Davies reports on a new climate of apprehension in the Pakistani media.</p><p>How should a German town with a steady stream of tourists deal with an antisemitic sculpture in public view? In Wittenberg, home town of Protestant reformer Martin Luther, the answer is not straightforward. What to do with a medieval carving on the side of a church has stoked some serious debate, says John Kampfner.</p><p>Kesennuma, in northeastern Japan, was one of many coastal towns devastated by the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 which triggered the Fukushima nuclear accident. Ellie House recently visited the city, and saw lasting signs of the damage done. Yet despite the ever-present risks, some younger people in Japan seem far less prepared for disaster.</p><p>And as Italy mourns the late Silvio Berlusconi, David Willey remembers a visit to the media magnate and politician's palatial villa in Milan - when he went to see the almost pharaonic mausoleum where Mr Berlusconi planned to be buried, along with family, friends... and some business associates.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The former President pleads not guilty to 37 federal charges over classified documents.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from the USA, Pakistan, Germany, Japan and Italy.</p><p>In Florida this week, Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 federal charges relating to unauthorised possession of classified material, obstruction of justice and making false statements to law enforcement. Nomia Iqbal was outside the federal courthouse in Miami where the arraignment took place, and spoke to some of the former president's supporters.</p><p>Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan was once omnipresent in the country's media - from the headlines to the fiery evening TV talk shows. But since his removal from power in a vote of no confidence, his public profile has almost disappeared, as his political party and its supporters are being silenced. Caroline Davies reports on a new climate of apprehension in the Pakistani media.</p><p>How should a German town with a steady stream of tourists deal with an antisemitic sculpture in public view? In Wittenberg, home town of Protestant reformer Martin Luther, the answer is not straightforward. What to do with a medieval carving on the side of a church has stoked some serious debate, says John Kampfner.</p><p>Kesennuma, in northeastern Japan, was one of many coastal towns devastated by the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 which triggered the Fukushima nuclear accident. Ellie House recently visited the city, and saw lasting signs of the damage done. Yet despite the ever-present risks, some younger people in Japan seem far less prepared for disaster.</p><p>And as Italy mourns the late Silvio Berlusconi, David Willey remembers a visit to the media magnate and politician's palatial villa in Milan - when he went to see the almost pharaonic mausoleum where Mr Berlusconi planned to be buried, along with family, friends... and some business associates.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2023 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1715</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fvs6xh.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fvs6xh.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fvs6xh.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fvs7l2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fvs7l2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fvs6xh.mp3" fileSize="27440000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1715"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fvs7l2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Myanmar soldiers refusing to fight</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Myanmar's civil war, Iran, Moldova, Denmark and South Georgia.</p><p>Since the military overthrow of the democratically elected government in Myanmar in 2021, the country has slid into civil war. When initial, peaceful demonstrations against the military coup failed, civilians took up arms. Now, some of the soldiers they are fighting are deciding to defect - refusing to fight against their own people. Many have fled to Thailand, where Rebecca Henschke spoke to them.</p><p>When an Iranian former political prisoner goes missing, who should his family turn to for help? The daughter of Ebrahim Babie was rightly reluctant to contact the Iranian authorities who had targeted her father, and instead she called the BBC's Persian Service. Jiyar Gol tells the story of his search for a missing dissident.</p><p>Moldova shares a large border with its much larger neighbour Ukraine, and since Russia's invasion, Moldovans have been on edge. Disinformation about the war have widened the unease between pro-western and pro-Russian factions in the country. But Moldova's president has big plans for a future in the EU, and was boosted by a recent European summit held in the capital, Chisinau. Stephen McGrath reports.</p><p>Hidden in a forest in northern Jutland, nearly 250 miles from Copenhagen, the sprawling REGAN Vest complex was built at the height of the Cold War. This huge nuclear bunker is where the Danish government and queen would have sheltered in the event of nuclear attack. Adrienne Murray paid a recent and discovered a remarkable time capsule that continues to resonate.</p><p>The island of South Georgia, eight hundred miles north of Antarctica, was plundered by Antarctic explorers, with its whales, seals and penguins killed for their oils, furs and meat. But now the island lies within a vast nature reserve, and on a recent visit Mark Stratton found an island restored.</p><p>Producer: Claire Bowes
  280. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  281. Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>As civil war grips Myanmar, soldiers are defecting to avoid killing their own people.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Myanmar's civil war, Iran, Moldova, Denmark and South Georgia.</p><p>Since the military overthrow of the democratically elected government in Myanmar in 2021, the country has slid into civil war. When initial, peaceful demonstrations against the military coup failed, civilians took up arms. Now, some of the soldiers they are fighting are deciding to defect - refusing to fight against their own people. Many have fled to Thailand, where Rebecca Henschke spoke to them.</p><p>When an Iranian former political prisoner goes missing, who should his family turn to for help? The daughter of Ebrahim Babie was rightly reluctant to contact the Iranian authorities who had targeted her father, and instead she called the BBC's Persian Service. Jiyar Gol tells the story of his search for a missing dissident.</p><p>Moldova shares a large border with its much larger neighbour Ukraine, and since Russia's invasion, Moldovans have been on edge. Disinformation about the war have widened the unease between pro-western and pro-Russian factions in the country. But Moldova's president has big plans for a future in the EU, and was boosted by a recent European summit held in the capital, Chisinau. Stephen McGrath reports.</p><p>Hidden in a forest in northern Jutland, nearly 250 miles from Copenhagen, the sprawling REGAN Vest complex was built at the height of the Cold War. This huge nuclear bunker is where the Danish government and queen would have sheltered in the event of nuclear attack. Adrienne Murray paid a recent and discovered a remarkable time capsule that continues to resonate.</p><p>The island of South Georgia, eight hundred miles north of Antarctica, was plundered by Antarctic explorers, with its whales, seals and penguins killed for their oils, furs and meat. But now the island lies within a vast nature reserve, and on a recent visit Mark Stratton found an island restored.</p><p>Producer: Claire Bowes
  282. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  283. Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2023 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1730</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fv9cj3.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fv9cj3.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fv9cj3.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fv9f41</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fv9f41</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fv9cj3.mp3" fileSize="27680000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1730"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fv9f41</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Taliban's Opium War</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Afghanistan, Nigeria, India, Ukraine and Panama.</p><p>Opium poppies from Afghanistan have provided the raw materials for the world's heroin trade for decades, with successive governments failing to curtail this illicit crop. Now back in power, the Taliban have decreed a new ban on opium cultivation, sending patrols to destroy crops across the country - often leaving poor farmers with no other means of income. Yogita Limaye joined a patrol in Nangahar province.</p><p>When Nigeria's new President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was sworn in at the end of May, he called the occasion 'a sublime moment'. Few people expected any revelations or surprises in his inaugural speech - but when he went off-script, there was a scramble for petrol across the country. Mayeni Jones weighs up the mood as Mr Tinubu took power.</p><p>The scale of the recent rail disaster in Orissa state in India was shocking: nearly three hundred people died and more than a thousand more were injured. Amid the chaos of the aftermath, Archana Shukla reported on the human losses, and spoke to many families desperate for news of relatives who'd been travelling that day.</p><p>The forcible removal of children from Ukraine to Russia, or Russian-controlled territory, has been a sinister element of Moscow's tactics during the invasion and occupation of the country. Sarah Rainsford has spent months tracing what really happened to these children - and met Ukrainian mothers and grandmothers who ventured into Russian territory to get them back.</p><p>One swallow doesn't make a summer - but how many swifts make a spring? Stephen Moss is a passionate naturalist who's travelled around the world to spot some of its most threatened species. On a recent visit to Panama, he was worried to hear that climate change is now affecting the timing of huge seasonal bird and wildlife migrations.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  284. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  285. Production Co-ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A new clampdown on poppy growing hits some of Afghanistan's poorest farmers.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from Afghanistan, Nigeria, India, Ukraine and Panama.</p><p>Opium poppies from Afghanistan have provided the raw materials for the world's heroin trade for decades, with successive governments failing to curtail this illicit crop. Now back in power, the Taliban have decreed a new ban on opium cultivation, sending patrols to destroy crops across the country - often leaving poor farmers with no other means of income. Yogita Limaye joined a patrol in Nangahar province.</p><p>When Nigeria's new President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was sworn in at the end of May, he called the occasion 'a sublime moment'. Few people expected any revelations or surprises in his inaugural speech - but when he went off-script, there was a scramble for petrol across the country. Mayeni Jones weighs up the mood as Mr Tinubu took power.</p><p>The scale of the recent rail disaster in Orissa state in India was shocking: nearly three hundred people died and more than a thousand more were injured. Amid the chaos of the aftermath, Archana Shukla reported on the human losses, and spoke to many families desperate for news of relatives who'd been travelling that day.</p><p>The forcible removal of children from Ukraine to Russia, or Russian-controlled territory, has been a sinister element of Moscow's tactics during the invasion and occupation of the country. Sarah Rainsford has spent months tracing what really happened to these children - and met Ukrainian mothers and grandmothers who ventured into Russian territory to get them back.</p><p>One swallow doesn't make a summer - but how many swifts make a spring? Stephen Moss is a passionate naturalist who's travelled around the world to spot some of its most threatened species. On a recent visit to Panama, he was worried to hear that climate change is now affecting the timing of huge seasonal bird and wildlife migrations.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  286. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  287. Production Co-ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jun 2023 11:06:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1729</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0ftf78d.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0ftf78d.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0ftf78d.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0ftf7sj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ftf7sj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0ftf78d.mp3" fileSize="27664000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1729"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0ftf7sj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Erdogan Wins Again</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces' stories from Turkey, South Africa, China, Germany and Sri Lanka.</p><p>Recep Tayyep Erdogan now has a mandate to rule for another five years. After living in Istanbul for more than four years, Orla Guerin considers the roots of his success and what the future holds for Turkey.</p><p>South Africa's electricity supply crisis has made 'load shedding' a term many people now dread - as it can mean power cuts of 8 to 10 hours a day. Stephen Sackur saw the effects on life in the township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, and asked whether the problem's now fuelling demands for political change.</p><p>After China's authorities failed to see the funny side of a joke about a military catchphrase, live performance is a riskier business these days in Beijing. Stephen McDonell is a regular at the city's sometimes raucous music venues, and detects a slight muting of the atmosphere, as Party officials' scrutiny of their paperwork - and the musicians' permits - sharpens.</p><p>Stretches of Germany's most picturesque and beloved forests are dying off - especially areas heavily planted with spruce for the timber industry. Even the Harz mountains where nature-lovers go to hike aren't as green as they used to be. Caroline Bayley went for several walks in the woods, and spoke to the Germans living in a different landscape.</p><p>And in northern Sri Lanka, Nick Redmayne recently saw signs of enduring mistrust and unease, more than a decade after the end of the state's conflict with the Tamil Tigers. While the civil war is over, the scars can still be seen.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  288. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  289. Production Co-ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Erdogan's new era and the consequences of speaking out in Turkey</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces' stories from Turkey, South Africa, China, Germany and Sri Lanka.</p><p>Recep Tayyep Erdogan now has a mandate to rule for another five years. After living in Istanbul for more than four years, Orla Guerin considers the roots of his success and what the future holds for Turkey.</p><p>South Africa's electricity supply crisis has made 'load shedding' a term many people now dread - as it can mean power cuts of 8 to 10 hours a day. Stephen Sackur saw the effects on life in the township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, and asked whether the problem's now fuelling demands for political change.</p><p>After China's authorities failed to see the funny side of a joke about a military catchphrase, live performance is a riskier business these days in Beijing. Stephen McDonell is a regular at the city's sometimes raucous music venues, and detects a slight muting of the atmosphere, as Party officials' scrutiny of their paperwork - and the musicians' permits - sharpens.</p><p>Stretches of Germany's most picturesque and beloved forests are dying off - especially areas heavily planted with spruce for the timber industry. Even the Harz mountains where nature-lovers go to hike aren't as green as they used to be. Caroline Bayley went for several walks in the woods, and spoke to the Germans living in a different landscape.</p><p>And in northern Sri Lanka, Nick Redmayne recently saw signs of enduring mistrust and unease, more than a decade after the end of the state's conflict with the Tamil Tigers. While the civil war is over, the scars can still be seen.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  290. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  291. Production Co-ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1721</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fs2t8b.mp3" length="27536000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fs2t8b.mp3" length="27536000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fs2t8b.mp3" length="27536000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fs2tsb</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fs2tsb</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fs2t8b.mp3" fileSize="27536000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1721"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fs2tsb</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Gun Violence in Serbia</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents dispatches from Serbia, Tunisia, India, France and Ukraine. </p><p>There has been a wave of protests in Serbia against gun violence following two mass shootings last month that left 17 people dead. Serbia has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in Europe, but people flocked to hand in old weapons after the government announced a gun amnesty following the attacks. Our Balkans correspondent Guy Delauney reveals how many Serbians are now questioning the culture which encourages violence. </p><p>Tunisia is a hub for migrants hoping to reach Europe. Many people have died trying to make the dangerous sea crossing, but that hasn't deterred thousands more from risking their lives.  Bella Saltiel has been to the Tunisian port city of Sfax to try understand what is driving them towards Europe and finds a mix of poverty and prejudice. </p><p>We hear about a forgotten group of native Americans, from the Osage Nation, left destitute in France in the 19th Century, who found sanctuary in the southern French town of Montauban - forging a connection that is still celebrated today. Chris Bockman traces their story. </p><p>The south Indian city of Chennai has one of the longest associations with the country's former colonial rulers, Britain, of any city in India. But, as Andrew Whitehead explains, the city is so comfortable with its past that its streets, shops and famous beer still echo the colonial era.  </p><p>In Ukraine, many families still don’t know what has happened to their relatives since the Russian invasion over a year ago. Many have been detained or disappeared in Russian-controlled areas.  Jen Stout tells the story of one man, a popular children’s author and poet, who went missing in the early weeks of the war.</p><p>Producer: Louise Hidalgo
  292. Production coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
  293. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p><p>(Photo by ANDREJ ISAKOVIC/AFP via Getty Images)</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Following two mass shootings in two days, Serbians protest to demand an end to violence.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents dispatches from Serbia, Tunisia, India, France and Ukraine. </p><p>There has been a wave of protests in Serbia against gun violence following two mass shootings last month that left 17 people dead. Serbia has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in Europe, but people flocked to hand in old weapons after the government announced a gun amnesty following the attacks. Our Balkans correspondent Guy Delauney reveals how many Serbians are now questioning the culture which encourages violence. </p><p>Tunisia is a hub for migrants hoping to reach Europe. Many people have died trying to make the dangerous sea crossing, but that hasn't deterred thousands more from risking their lives.  Bella Saltiel has been to the Tunisian port city of Sfax to try understand what is driving them towards Europe and finds a mix of poverty and prejudice. </p><p>We hear about a forgotten group of native Americans, from the Osage Nation, left destitute in France in the 19th Century, who found sanctuary in the southern French town of Montauban - forging a connection that is still celebrated today. Chris Bockman traces their story. </p><p>The south Indian city of Chennai has one of the longest associations with the country's former colonial rulers, Britain, of any city in India. But, as Andrew Whitehead explains, the city is so comfortable with its past that its streets, shops and famous beer still echo the colonial era.  </p><p>In Ukraine, many families still don’t know what has happened to their relatives since the Russian invasion over a year ago. Many have been detained or disappeared in Russian-controlled areas.  Jen Stout tells the story of one man, a popular children’s author and poet, who went missing in the early weeks of the war.</p><p>Producer: Louise Hidalgo
  294. Production coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
  295. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p><p>(Photo by ANDREJ ISAKOVIC/AFP via Getty Images)</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:22:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1795</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0frnhp0.mp3" length="28720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0frnhp0.mp3" length="28720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0frnhp0.mp3" length="28720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0frnj5c</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0frnj5c</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0frnhp0.mp3" fileSize="28720000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1795"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0frnj5c</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Ukraine's Counter-Offensive</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from Ukraine, Greece, Armenia, the US-Mexico border and Indonesia's Raja Ampat Islands.</p><p>There have been months of speculation about when and how Ukraine might use its armed forces, and their new weaponry, in a counter-offensive to take back territory occupied by Russia. Russian attacks are still hitting Ukrainian cities almost every day. Hugo Bachega describes how two men in Kyiv - a civilian whose home was bombed, and the President, who must lead the country through this war - are keeping their nerve.</p><p>Before the Greek election there was plenty of talk about the frustrated ambitions of young Greeks, and public outrage over cronyism in politics. Yet Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was re-elected, and his wasn't the only familiar face to be brought back to govern in Athens. Nick Beake covered the campaign, and gained a few insights into the enduring power of the country's political dynasties along the way.</p><p>Armenia and Azerbaijan have been discussing normalising relations, and reopening transport links, in peace talks in Moscow - but there are still many potential stumbling blocks along the road to a settlement. The disputed enclave of Nagorno Karabakh is at the heart of the matter, but as Emily Craig heard while visiting southern Armenia, many people in the country still feel they're on a permanent war footing.</p><p>Last week, international media readied themselves to cover an expected surge of people trying to cross the border into the United States from Mexico. It was believed that the expiry of the Title 42 regulations would trigger a new migration crisis. Yet it didn't happen - even though there are thousands of people still trying to enter the US. Bernd Debussman reports from the streets of El Paso.</p><p>And in the island archipelago of Raja Ampat, in the Southwest Papua province of Indonesia, Sara Wheeler has recently seen wonders - including a rare glimpse of the purple tail of a Wilson's bird of paradise, and a walking shark in some of the world's most biodiverse waters.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  296. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  297. Production Co-ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Residents endure rocket attacks as the president plans the next stage of the war.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from Ukraine, Greece, Armenia, the US-Mexico border and Indonesia's Raja Ampat Islands.</p><p>There have been months of speculation about when and how Ukraine might use its armed forces, and their new weaponry, in a counter-offensive to take back territory occupied by Russia. Russian attacks are still hitting Ukrainian cities almost every day. Hugo Bachega describes how two men in Kyiv - a civilian whose home was bombed, and the President, who must lead the country through this war - are keeping their nerve.</p><p>Before the Greek election there was plenty of talk about the frustrated ambitions of young Greeks, and public outrage over cronyism in politics. Yet Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was re-elected, and his wasn't the only familiar face to be brought back to govern in Athens. Nick Beake covered the campaign, and gained a few insights into the enduring power of the country's political dynasties along the way.</p><p>Armenia and Azerbaijan have been discussing normalising relations, and reopening transport links, in peace talks in Moscow - but there are still many potential stumbling blocks along the road to a settlement. The disputed enclave of Nagorno Karabakh is at the heart of the matter, but as Emily Craig heard while visiting southern Armenia, many people in the country still feel they're on a permanent war footing.</p><p>Last week, international media readied themselves to cover an expected surge of people trying to cross the border into the United States from Mexico. It was believed that the expiry of the Title 42 regulations would trigger a new migration crisis. Yet it didn't happen - even though there are thousands of people still trying to enter the US. Bernd Debussman reports from the streets of El Paso.</p><p>And in the island archipelago of Raja Ampat, in the Southwest Papua province of Indonesia, Sara Wheeler has recently seen wonders - including a rare glimpse of the purple tail of a Wilson's bird of paradise, and a walking shark in some of the world's most biodiverse waters.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  298. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  299. Production Co-ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2023 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1792</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fqsblr.mp3" length="28672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fqsblr.mp3" length="28672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fqsblr.mp3" length="28672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fqsbt6</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fqsbt6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fqsblr.mp3" fileSize="28672000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1792"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fqsbt6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Families Fleeing Sudan</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' dispatches from South Sudan, from the air war over Ukraine, a troubled area of Chicago, a small island off Western Australia and Sweden's capital, Stockholm.</p><p>The conflict in Sudan which began in April continues to tear its capital city, Khartoum, apart. Hundreds have been killed and more than a million people have fled their homes.  Some have connections to South Sudan - which split from Sudan in 2011. Catherine Byaruhanga has been to the South Sudanese town of Renk and heard from families who've managed to return.</p><p>After attending the G7 summit in Japan, Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, tweeted that peace was 'closer today'. One tangible outcome of the meeting was the promise from President Biden that the US would allow countries to supply F16 fighter jets to Ukraine - something President Zelensky has been requesting for months. But just how will these jets help? Our correspondent Abdujalil Abdurasulov talked to two Ukrainian fighter pilots.</p><p>Chicago has a new mayor. At his swearing-in, Brandon Johnson - a former teacher and union organiser - spoke proudly of his humble beginnings in one of the most violent neighbourhoods in the Americas. He continues to live in Austin, Chicago and has promised to take a new approach to fighting crime.  Mike Wendling has been to the mayor's neighbourhood to see how data science is being used to tackle the city's gun violence problem.</p><p>Visitors to Western Australia's Rottnest Island have only recently begun to discover the island's hidden, tragic past.  While many tourists come to the island to see the quokkas,  cute marsupials with happy grins, more and more of them, like Emma Thomson, are learning about the historic mistreatment of its indigenous people, the Wadjemup.</p><p>And in Sweden, Rob Crossan takes a walk around an area of Stockholm that has always fascinated him  - and meets a homeless man who asks why anyone should be destitute in a country which is often celebrated as a showcase for the best in humanity.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Sudanese caught up in the battle for Khartoum continue to flee for their lives</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' dispatches from South Sudan, from the air war over Ukraine, a troubled area of Chicago, a small island off Western Australia and Sweden's capital, Stockholm.</p><p>The conflict in Sudan which began in April continues to tear its capital city, Khartoum, apart. Hundreds have been killed and more than a million people have fled their homes.  Some have connections to South Sudan - which split from Sudan in 2011. Catherine Byaruhanga has been to the South Sudanese town of Renk and heard from families who've managed to return.</p><p>After attending the G7 summit in Japan, Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, tweeted that peace was 'closer today'. One tangible outcome of the meeting was the promise from President Biden that the US would allow countries to supply F16 fighter jets to Ukraine - something President Zelensky has been requesting for months. But just how will these jets help? Our correspondent Abdujalil Abdurasulov talked to two Ukrainian fighter pilots.</p><p>Chicago has a new mayor. At his swearing-in, Brandon Johnson - a former teacher and union organiser - spoke proudly of his humble beginnings in one of the most violent neighbourhoods in the Americas. He continues to live in Austin, Chicago and has promised to take a new approach to fighting crime.  Mike Wendling has been to the mayor's neighbourhood to see how data science is being used to tackle the city's gun violence problem.</p><p>Visitors to Western Australia's Rottnest Island have only recently begun to discover the island's hidden, tragic past.  While many tourists come to the island to see the quokkas,  cute marsupials with happy grins, more and more of them, like Emma Thomson, are learning about the historic mistreatment of its indigenous people, the Wadjemup.</p><p>And in Sweden, Rob Crossan takes a walk around an area of Stockholm that has always fascinated him  - and meets a homeless man who asks why anyone should be destitute in a country which is often celebrated as a showcase for the best in humanity.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2023 10:37:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1728</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fq9ydf.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fq9ydf.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fq9ydf.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fqb8sw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fqb8sw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fq9ydf.mp3" fileSize="27648000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1728"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fqb8sw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>El Salvador's brutal battle with gangs</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' dispatches from El Salvador, the streets of Pakistan's cities, the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, North Korea and Germany.</p><p>Since the 1990s, El Salvador fell into the grip of street gangs which terrorised the country. Now its President, Nayib Bukele, is running a harsh crackdown on gang members, introducing sweeping new police powers, summary arrests, mass trials and heavy sentences for alleged offenders. Will Grant spoke to some who've suffered, and others who've gained, in this new climate.</p><p>The last month has seen huge, passionate demonstrations in many of Pakistan's cities in support of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Once he was seen as an ally of the country's military and security establishment, but recently those ties have cooled and he's faced a slew of legal challenges. Caroline Davies has seen how this political drama is playing out in court and on the streets.</p><p>What happened to the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims driven out of Myanmar in 2017? Rajini Vaidyanathan visits the world's largest refugee camp, in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, where many Rohingya families are trying to survive in cramped, squalid conditions. She reunites with a young boy the BBC first met five years ago.</p><p>Visitors to North Korea often have a hard time understanding what locals really think. But once North Koreans leave the country, they can finally speak out about feelings locked inside - or just not confronted - for a lifetime. Michael Bristow met one North Korean woman who's now making a new life in the north of England.</p><p>And in Germany, Tim Mansel explores why the future of small-town family butchers' shops appear to be on the chopping block. Like many other sectors in the German economy, retail butchery is struggling to fill all the empty vacancies.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  300. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  301. Production Co-ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A crackdown on gang violence has filled El Salvador's prisons - but is everyone guilty?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' dispatches from El Salvador, the streets of Pakistan's cities, the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, North Korea and Germany.</p><p>Since the 1990s, El Salvador fell into the grip of street gangs which terrorised the country. Now its President, Nayib Bukele, is running a harsh crackdown on gang members, introducing sweeping new police powers, summary arrests, mass trials and heavy sentences for alleged offenders. Will Grant spoke to some who've suffered, and others who've gained, in this new climate.</p><p>The last month has seen huge, passionate demonstrations in many of Pakistan's cities in support of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Once he was seen as an ally of the country's military and security establishment, but recently those ties have cooled and he's faced a slew of legal challenges. Caroline Davies has seen how this political drama is playing out in court and on the streets.</p><p>What happened to the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims driven out of Myanmar in 2017? Rajini Vaidyanathan visits the world's largest refugee camp, in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, where many Rohingya families are trying to survive in cramped, squalid conditions. She reunites with a young boy the BBC first met five years ago.</p><p>Visitors to North Korea often have a hard time understanding what locals really think. But once North Koreans leave the country, they can finally speak out about feelings locked inside - or just not confronted - for a lifetime. Michael Bristow met one North Korean woman who's now making a new life in the north of England.</p><p>And in Germany, Tim Mansel explores why the future of small-town family butchers' shops appear to be on the chopping block. Like many other sectors in the German economy, retail butchery is struggling to fill all the empty vacancies.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  302. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  303. Production Co-ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1729</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fpg1gf.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fpg1gf.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fpg1gf.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fpg1ml</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fpg1ml</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fpg1gf.mp3" fileSize="27664000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1729"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fpg1ml</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Erdogan, the Earthquakes and the Election</title><description><![CDATA[<p>This weekend's election in Turkey may be the most consequential vote President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has faced yet. Amid the ruined city of Antakya, Orla Guerin heard strong opinions from his supporters and detractors, as they contemplate their and their country's future.</p><p>Since the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan, the space for women in any kind of public life has been steadily shrinking. Yogita Limaye has often met with their spokesmen and challenged their stance on women's education and employment. While the conversations were cordial, there were few signs of any relaxation of the rules.</p><p>It's a long way from the foothills of Mount Everest to the southwestern state of Karnataka in India; but in this new landscape, some of Tibet's ancient arts and beliefs are still celebrated at a Buddhist monastery in exile. Earlier this year, Simon Broughton joined the monks of the Tashi Lhunpo monastery for the Tibetan Gutor festival, which features blaring horns, crashing cymbals, and dancers dressed as skeletal tormentors.</p><p>And as Liverpool gets ready for the culmination of the Eurovision Song Contest, Daniel Rosney retraces the six months he's spent criss-crossing Europe in the run-up to the event, and reflects on the special relationship that's been formed between the United Kingdom and last year's winner, Ukraine.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  304. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  305. Production Co-Ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Turkey counts its losses as its President faces voters in a tough election.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>This weekend's election in Turkey may be the most consequential vote President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has faced yet. Amid the ruined city of Antakya, Orla Guerin heard strong opinions from his supporters and detractors, as they contemplate their and their country's future.</p><p>Since the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan, the space for women in any kind of public life has been steadily shrinking. Yogita Limaye has often met with their spokesmen and challenged their stance on women's education and employment. While the conversations were cordial, there were few signs of any relaxation of the rules.</p><p>It's a long way from the foothills of Mount Everest to the southwestern state of Karnataka in India; but in this new landscape, some of Tibet's ancient arts and beliefs are still celebrated at a Buddhist monastery in exile. Earlier this year, Simon Broughton joined the monks of the Tashi Lhunpo monastery for the Tibetan Gutor festival, which features blaring horns, crashing cymbals, and dancers dressed as skeletal tormentors.</p><p>And as Liverpool gets ready for the culmination of the Eurovision Song Contest, Daniel Rosney retraces the six months he's spent criss-crossing Europe in the run-up to the event, and reflects on the special relationship that's been formed between the United Kingdom and last year's winner, Ukraine.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  306. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  307. Production Co-Ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2023 11:05:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1744</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fn3lh9.mp3" length="27904000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fn3lh9.mp3" length="27904000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fn3lh9.mp3" length="27904000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fn3mqr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fn3mqr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fn3lh9.mp3" fileSize="27904000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1744"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fn3mqr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Thailand’s Young Reformers</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Thailand, Israel, Laos, Switzerland and Ireland.</p><p>Thailand is standing at a crossroads, with many wondering if the country can move on to a more dynamic, democratic future in the forthcoming election on 14th May. Recent polls put progressive parties ahead, and on target to win a majority of the seats - but can they overcome the conservative status quo? Jonathan Head has been on the campaign trail with one of the young, progressive candidates hoping for change.</p><p>Israel has been in the grip of nationwide protests over the right-wing coalition's plans for judicial reform, but Israeli Arabs have been conspicuous by their absence. Rhodri Davies spoke to people about why this is in an Arab city in northern Israel.</p><p>Laos is the most bombed country in the world per capita and is still suffering the consequences of American air strikes 50 years ago. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent heard stories of the dangers posed by unexploded ordinance to farmers and children.</p><p>In Switzerland, thousands of older Swiss women, nicknamed 'Climate Grannies' are bringing a case against their government to the European Court of Human Rights, claiming the government's lack of action on climate change is putting their health at risk. Imogen Foulkes heard about their fight.</p><p>And finally, as world leaders, both past and present, have descended on Ireland recently, and after Ireland's victory over England in the Six Nations Rugby grand slam, James Helm reflects on Irish soft power around the world.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  308. Producer: Louise Hidalgo
  309. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  310. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Thailand is at a crossroads as reformist candidates gain momentum ahead of elections.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Thailand, Israel, Laos, Switzerland and Ireland.</p><p>Thailand is standing at a crossroads, with many wondering if the country can move on to a more dynamic, democratic future in the forthcoming election on 14th May. Recent polls put progressive parties ahead, and on target to win a majority of the seats - but can they overcome the conservative status quo? Jonathan Head has been on the campaign trail with one of the young, progressive candidates hoping for change.</p><p>Israel has been in the grip of nationwide protests over the right-wing coalition's plans for judicial reform, but Israeli Arabs have been conspicuous by their absence. Rhodri Davies spoke to people about why this is in an Arab city in northern Israel.</p><p>Laos is the most bombed country in the world per capita and is still suffering the consequences of American air strikes 50 years ago. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent heard stories of the dangers posed by unexploded ordinance to farmers and children.</p><p>In Switzerland, thousands of older Swiss women, nicknamed 'Climate Grannies' are bringing a case against their government to the European Court of Human Rights, claiming the government's lack of action on climate change is putting their health at risk. Imogen Foulkes heard about their fight.</p><p>And finally, as world leaders, both past and present, have descended on Ireland recently, and after Ireland's victory over England in the Six Nations Rugby grand slam, James Helm reflects on Irish soft power around the world.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  311. Producer: Louise Hidalgo
  312. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  313. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1711</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fkj37l.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fkj37l.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fkj37l.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fkj3rb</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fkj3rb</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fkj37l.mp3" fileSize="27376000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1711"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fkj3rb</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Trial of Vladimir Kara-Murza</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Russia, Germany, India, Iceland and Japan</p><p>Russian political activist Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a Moscow court this week. Sarah Rainsford exchanged letters with him during his time in prison and reflects on his trial, and how it's being used by Vladimir Putin to send a stern warning to those who oppose him.</p><p>The trial in Moscow stands in contrast to the highly visible trials watched by the world after World War Two, where high-ranking Nazis appeared before a tribunal in Nuremberg. John Kampfner visited the southern German city, and reflects on what we can still learn from the Nuremberg idea today.</p><p>Rani Singh travels to Uttar Pradesh – India’s largest state, lying east of the capital Delhi - seen by many as a microcosm of the country. Traditionally, it has not been a progressive place for women. but the situation may be changing: at least in one community, she finds.</p><p>Despite being a founding member of Nato, Iceland has no standing armed forces of its own. It does however provide support for the 31 member military alliance. And it’s perfectly placed to host Nato’s air surveillance missions. In recent months, the F35s of the Norwegian airforce have made use of an air base in Keflavik in the island’s south-west. David Baillie was there to watch them in action.</p><p>Dairy consumption – and production - is not something that’s traditionally been associated with Japan, though it has steadily grown in popularity since the mid 20th Century. And in recent decades, a cluster of cheesemakers has sprung up – and Japan’s artisans are now causing a stir on the international stage, says Amy Guttman</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  314. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  315. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Russian political activist sentenced to 25 years for criticising Putin's war</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Russia, Germany, India, Iceland and Japan</p><p>Russian political activist Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a Moscow court this week. Sarah Rainsford exchanged letters with him during his time in prison and reflects on his trial, and how it's being used by Vladimir Putin to send a stern warning to those who oppose him.</p><p>The trial in Moscow stands in contrast to the highly visible trials watched by the world after World War Two, where high-ranking Nazis appeared before a tribunal in Nuremberg. John Kampfner visited the southern German city, and reflects on what we can still learn from the Nuremberg idea today.</p><p>Rani Singh travels to Uttar Pradesh – India’s largest state, lying east of the capital Delhi - seen by many as a microcosm of the country. Traditionally, it has not been a progressive place for women. but the situation may be changing: at least in one community, she finds.</p><p>Despite being a founding member of Nato, Iceland has no standing armed forces of its own. It does however provide support for the 31 member military alliance. And it’s perfectly placed to host Nato’s air surveillance missions. In recent months, the F35s of the Norwegian airforce have made use of an air base in Keflavik in the island’s south-west. David Baillie was there to watch them in action.</p><p>Dairy consumption – and production - is not something that’s traditionally been associated with Japan, though it has steadily grown in popularity since the mid 20th Century. And in recent decades, a cluster of cheesemakers has sprung up – and Japan’s artisans are now causing a stir on the international stage, says Amy Guttman</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  316. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  317. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1731</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fj2jfv.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fj2jfv.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fj2jfv.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fj2tvv</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fj2tvv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fj2jfv.mp3" fileSize="27696000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1731"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fj2tvv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mexico's clergy and the cartels</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Young Mexicans preparing to join the priesthood don't only have to struggle with matters of mortal sin or individual guilt. They are also often sent to serve communities where the country's drug-trafficking networks are highly active - and extremely violent. Will Grant spoke to some of the men who must run the deadly risks of ministering in 'cartel land'.</p><p>The regional rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran has driven events across the Middle East in recent decades - with the two powers backing opposing sides in the conflicts in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Recently, Riyadh and Tehran agreed to re-establish diplomatic ties, but as Sebastian Usher explains, even as some red lines shift, the limits on public debate at home are still very much in force.</p><p>The Chaco region of Paraguay was once called 'the green hell' for its spiky, almost impenetrable scrubland. It's now opening up to the outside world, thanks to a new highway called the Bi-oceanic Corridor. Some communities living in the Chaco - like the Mennonite groups whose dairy farms now dot the landscape, and the Ayoreo indigenous people of the area - welcome the new opportunities for their produce, but worry about whether newcomers will change their way of life. Jane Chambers heard their concerns.</p><p>Deal or no deal? Not a game-show question, but a repetitive refrain in the long saga of diplomacy in the Balkans. The EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borell recently trumpeted 'we have a deal' after a round of talks between Serbia and Kosovo. Guy De Launey found the devil lay in the detail... or, rather, the lack of it.</p><p>And on the beaches of Jersey, Christine Finn recently received some lessons in frugality - including advice on the best uses for foraged seaweed, and how to benefit from a cut-price, one-clawed lobster.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  318. Producer: Polly Hope
  319. Production coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
  320. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The life of a priest comes with considerable risk in communities controlled by cartels.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Young Mexicans preparing to join the priesthood don't only have to struggle with matters of mortal sin or individual guilt. They are also often sent to serve communities where the country's drug-trafficking networks are highly active - and extremely violent. Will Grant spoke to some of the men who must run the deadly risks of ministering in 'cartel land'.</p><p>The regional rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran has driven events across the Middle East in recent decades - with the two powers backing opposing sides in the conflicts in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Recently, Riyadh and Tehran agreed to re-establish diplomatic ties, but as Sebastian Usher explains, even as some red lines shift, the limits on public debate at home are still very much in force.</p><p>The Chaco region of Paraguay was once called 'the green hell' for its spiky, almost impenetrable scrubland. It's now opening up to the outside world, thanks to a new highway called the Bi-oceanic Corridor. Some communities living in the Chaco - like the Mennonite groups whose dairy farms now dot the landscape, and the Ayoreo indigenous people of the area - welcome the new opportunities for their produce, but worry about whether newcomers will change their way of life. Jane Chambers heard their concerns.</p><p>Deal or no deal? Not a game-show question, but a repetitive refrain in the long saga of diplomacy in the Balkans. The EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borell recently trumpeted 'we have a deal' after a round of talks between Serbia and Kosovo. Guy De Launey found the devil lay in the detail... or, rather, the lack of it.</p><p>And on the beaches of Jersey, Christine Finn recently received some lessons in frugality - including advice on the best uses for foraged seaweed, and how to benefit from a cut-price, one-clawed lobster.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  321. Producer: Polly Hope
  322. Production coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
  323. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2023 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1757</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fgvw3r.mp3" length="28112000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fgvw3r.mp3" length="28112000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fgvw3r.mp3" length="28112000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fgvx21</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fgvx21</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fgvw3r.mp3" fileSize="28112000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1757"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fgvx21</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Escape from North Korea</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from North Korea, the US, France, Antigua and Ireland.</p><p>Kim Jong-Un has made it harder to escape North Korea, and numbers of people who have done so successfully have dropped from a thousand each year to just 67 in 2022. 17-year-old Songmi Park was one of the last known people to escape, and Jean MacKenzie heard the story of her childhood there, and her reunion with her mother in Seoul.</p><p>Last year more than a hundred thousand Americans died from a drug overdose - two-thirds of them after using synthetic opioids like Fentanyl. Tim Mansel was in San Diego where he saw first hand how the opioid crisis still has a firm grip on American communities.</p><p>Paul Moss was in Paris during the street protests that have escalated across France after President Emmanuel Macron pushed through his pension reforms by decree. He ponders whether the writing is on the wall for President Macron's leadership.</p><p>Around 900 Cameroonians arrived in Antigua at the end of last year, though many had expected to touch down in the US, where they hoped to build a new life. Gemma Handy investigates why they failed to reach their final destination.</p><p>On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Chris Page explores how, at critical moments during the peace process, it was the personal relationships between leaders which helped to finally get the agreement over the line. He spoke to many of the key players about their memories of that period.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  324. Producer: Louise Hidalgo
  325. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  326. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The story of Songmi Park's escape from North Korea and how she reunited with her mother.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from North Korea, the US, France, Antigua and Ireland.</p><p>Kim Jong-Un has made it harder to escape North Korea, and numbers of people who have done so successfully have dropped from a thousand each year to just 67 in 2022. 17-year-old Songmi Park was one of the last known people to escape, and Jean MacKenzie heard the story of her childhood there, and her reunion with her mother in Seoul.</p><p>Last year more than a hundred thousand Americans died from a drug overdose - two-thirds of them after using synthetic opioids like Fentanyl. Tim Mansel was in San Diego where he saw first hand how the opioid crisis still has a firm grip on American communities.</p><p>Paul Moss was in Paris during the street protests that have escalated across France after President Emmanuel Macron pushed through his pension reforms by decree. He ponders whether the writing is on the wall for President Macron's leadership.</p><p>Around 900 Cameroonians arrived in Antigua at the end of last year, though many had expected to touch down in the US, where they hoped to build a new life. Gemma Handy investigates why they failed to reach their final destination.</p><p>On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Chris Page explores how, at critical moments during the peace process, it was the personal relationships between leaders which helped to finally get the agreement over the line. He spoke to many of the key players about their memories of that period.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  327. Producer: Louise Hidalgo
  328. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  329. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1709</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fflpsy.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fflpsy.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fflpsy.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fflq3y</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fflq3y</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fflpsy.mp3" fileSize="27344000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1709"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fflq3y</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Israel’s Deep Divisions</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, the US, Nigeria, Ukraine and Austria.</p><p>After months of protests, Israel's Prime Minister moved to delay his controversial judicial reforms, which many have criticised for being undemocratic. But the underlying tensions over the future direction of the government have not gone away, and the protest movement is now split, says Tom Bateman.</p><p>In Florida, several laws have come into force that restrict what can be taught in classrooms. Led by Governor Ron DeSantis, state Republicans say the laws are necessary to shield children from inappropriate content and liberal indoctrination around issues of race and sexual orientation. Chelsea Bailey visited one high school, where teachers say they are being scared into silence.</p><p>In northwest Nigeria, gangs of bandits have been raiding villages and kidnapping men, women and children for ransom. Villagers have become reliant on local vigilantes to help protect them, but they are ill-equipped to take them on. Alex Last was in Katsina.</p><p>James Landale, the BBC's Diplomatic correspondent, has spoken to a bartender in Kyiv who had to relocate from Kharkiv with his family when his apartment block was destroyed by a Russian missile. He and a group of bartenders have pooled their resources to start a new business in the capital.</p><p>And finally, Bethany Bell reflects on the elevated status afforded to a regular of bars or restaurants - known as a 'Stammgast' which comes with bonus privileges. We hear how she finally acquired this honour at her local espresso bar.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  330. Researcher: Bethan Ashmead
  331. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  332. Production Coordinator: Sabine Schreck</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Benjamin Netanyahu has delayed controversial judicial reforms, but tensions remain</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, the US, Nigeria, Ukraine and Austria.</p><p>After months of protests, Israel's Prime Minister moved to delay his controversial judicial reforms, which many have criticised for being undemocratic. But the underlying tensions over the future direction of the government have not gone away, and the protest movement is now split, says Tom Bateman.</p><p>In Florida, several laws have come into force that restrict what can be taught in classrooms. Led by Governor Ron DeSantis, state Republicans say the laws are necessary to shield children from inappropriate content and liberal indoctrination around issues of race and sexual orientation. Chelsea Bailey visited one high school, where teachers say they are being scared into silence.</p><p>In northwest Nigeria, gangs of bandits have been raiding villages and kidnapping men, women and children for ransom. Villagers have become reliant on local vigilantes to help protect them, but they are ill-equipped to take them on. Alex Last was in Katsina.</p><p>James Landale, the BBC's Diplomatic correspondent, has spoken to a bartender in Kyiv who had to relocate from Kharkiv with his family when his apartment block was destroyed by a Russian missile. He and a group of bartenders have pooled their resources to start a new business in the capital.</p><p>And finally, Bethany Bell reflects on the elevated status afforded to a regular of bars or restaurants - known as a 'Stammgast' which comes with bonus privileges. We hear how she finally acquired this honour at her local espresso bar.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  333. Researcher: Bethan Ashmead
  334. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  335. Production Coordinator: Sabine Schreck</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2023 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1724</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fdbhky.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fdbhky.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fdbhky.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fd93fj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fd93fj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fdbhky.mp3" fileSize="27584000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1724"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fd93fj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mississippi: After the Tornado</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from the US, Indonesia, Finland, Turkey and Australia</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Residents speak about the impact of the deadliest tornado in ten years on their community</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from the US, Indonesia, Finland, Turkey and Australia</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1715</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fcthpy.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fcthpy.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fcthpy.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fctlzp</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fctlzp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fcthpy.mp3" fileSize="27440000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1715"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fctlzp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Ukraine’s Second Spring Of War</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Malawi, Switzerland and Germany.</p><p>Bakhmut has long been a prize for Russian forces since it invaded Ukraine a year ago. Tens of thousands of troops have died in a protracted fight for the city, in what is the longest battle of the war so far. Quentin Sommerville has been travelling through the front line, and reveals the changing nature of the war.</p><p>A 14-day period of national mourning is underway in Malawi, after more than 200 people died when the country was hit by Cyclone Freddy. More than 200,000 people have been displaced. Rhoda Odhiambo visited Malawi’s commercial capital, Blantyre, which is among the worst-affected areas.</p><p>South Korean pop culture has taken the world by storm in recent years, with K-Pop superstars like BTS and BlackPink scoring number one hits around the world. Korean TV dramas have also been a huge hit - and Sophie Williams says one show in particular has put a small village in Switzerland on the map.</p><p>In Germany public nudity has a long tradition, but the question of whether the freedom to go naked in public was a legal right was unclear until two women challenged orders asking them to cover up in a public swimming pool. Jenny Hill reports from Berlin.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  336. Researcher: Beth Ashmead
  337. Production coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
  338. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Quentin Sommerville reports on the state of the war from the frontline in Eastern Donbas.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Malawi, Switzerland and Germany.</p><p>Bakhmut has long been a prize for Russian forces since it invaded Ukraine a year ago. Tens of thousands of troops have died in a protracted fight for the city, in what is the longest battle of the war so far. Quentin Sommerville has been travelling through the front line, and reveals the changing nature of the war.</p><p>A 14-day period of national mourning is underway in Malawi, after more than 200 people died when the country was hit by Cyclone Freddy. More than 200,000 people have been displaced. Rhoda Odhiambo visited Malawi’s commercial capital, Blantyre, which is among the worst-affected areas.</p><p>South Korean pop culture has taken the world by storm in recent years, with K-Pop superstars like BTS and BlackPink scoring number one hits around the world. Korean TV dramas have also been a huge hit - and Sophie Williams says one show in particular has put a small village in Switzerland on the map.</p><p>In Germany public nudity has a long tradition, but the question of whether the freedom to go naked in public was a legal right was unclear until two women challenged orders asking them to cover up in a public swimming pool. Jenny Hill reports from Berlin.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  339. Researcher: Beth Ashmead
  340. Production coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
  341. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1698</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fbyb2l.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fbyb2l.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fbyb2l.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fbybg4</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fbybg4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fbyb2l.mp3" fileSize="27168000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1698"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fbybg4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Jeremy Bowen: Memories of Iraq</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Iraq, on the 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion, Brazil and Colombia.</p><p>The BBC's International Editor Jeremy Bowen first reported from Iraq in 1990, and went on to visit the country on many more occasions - including during the US-led invasion in 2003. Twenty years on since the start of that war, he charts how events during the decade prior shaped the country's destiny.</p><p>The city of Fallujah has had to rebuild many times following the invasion by coalition forces, which was followed by the Iraqi insurgency and a takeover by Al Qaeda and Isis. Leila Molana Allen speaks to residents of the city about their memories of the last 20 years, and what life is like today.</p><p>In Brazil, measures have been taken to enshrine protection for those who are overweight, including preferential seats on subways, larger desks in schools and an annual day to promote the rights of obese people. But despite these moves, it can take longer for societal attitudes to change, says Bob Howard.</p><p>And we're in Colombia on a journey by ferry on the Magdalena river to the old colonial trading hub, Mompox, which later became crucial to the fight for independence. The ripple effects of this region's rich history are still felt today, says Sara Wheeler.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  342. Producer: Bethan Ashmead
  343. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  344. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Our International Editor reflects on events that shaped Iraq before the invasion in 2003.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Iraq, on the 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion, Brazil and Colombia.</p><p>The BBC's International Editor Jeremy Bowen first reported from Iraq in 1990, and went on to visit the country on many more occasions - including during the US-led invasion in 2003. Twenty years on since the start of that war, he charts how events during the decade prior shaped the country's destiny.</p><p>The city of Fallujah has had to rebuild many times following the invasion by coalition forces, which was followed by the Iraqi insurgency and a takeover by Al Qaeda and Isis. Leila Molana Allen speaks to residents of the city about their memories of the last 20 years, and what life is like today.</p><p>In Brazil, measures have been taken to enshrine protection for those who are overweight, including preferential seats on subways, larger desks in schools and an annual day to promote the rights of obese people. But despite these moves, it can take longer for societal attitudes to change, says Bob Howard.</p><p>And we're in Colombia on a journey by ferry on the Magdalena river to the old colonial trading hub, Mompox, which later became crucial to the fight for independence. The ripple effects of this region's rich history are still felt today, says Sara Wheeler.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  345. Producer: Bethan Ashmead
  346. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  347. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1706</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fbfv28.mp3" length="27296000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fbfv28.mp3" length="27296000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0fbfv28.mp3" length="27296000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0fbfw0r</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fbfw0r</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0fbfv28.mp3" fileSize="27296000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1706"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0fbfw0r</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Kidnappings in DR Congo</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from DR Congo, Mexico, Hungary, Argentina, and South Africa.</p><p>The Democratic Republic of Congo is experiencing multiple conflicts over territory, ethnic tensions and minerals. In the last month, fighting between the M23 rebel group and the government is believed to have displaced around 300,000 people. But the presence of other armed groups is making the situation even more perilous. One group, the Allied Democratic Forces, has reportedly killed more than 60 people in recent weeks, and kidnapped many others. Hugh Kinsella-Cunningham spoke to one woman who had recently escaped captivity in Beni territory.</p><p>The Mexican port of Manzinillo has become a battleground for cartels, as it's where many of the raw materials for drugs such as Fentanyl are imported from Asia. Linda Pressly meets the town's mayor who is trying to turn the tide of crime - and hears of the personal sacrifices she has to make to keep safe.</p><p>Hungary has faced criticism for its progress on women's rights, but in specific areas of women's healthcare it is leading the way. Rosie Blunt was in Hungary to access care for her endometriosis and found the support on offer was second-to-none.</p><p>Off the beaten track in north-West Argentina, John Kampfner explores the high peaks and brightly-coloured lagoons that are home to vast numbers of flamingos. He also makes a curious discovery in a local museum, with deep cultural ties to the mountains.</p><p>Which is the harder language to learn - Welsh, or Xhosa? BBC Wales sports reporter Gareth Rhys Owen recently took a trip to South Africa, where he met rugby legend Makaya Jack – and also met his match when it came to deciding whose mother tongue was hardest to master.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  348. Researcher: Beth Ashmead
  349. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
  350. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A woman tells her story of how she was kidnapped by an armed group - and how she escaped.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from DR Congo, Mexico, Hungary, Argentina, and South Africa.</p><p>The Democratic Republic of Congo is experiencing multiple conflicts over territory, ethnic tensions and minerals. In the last month, fighting between the M23 rebel group and the government is believed to have displaced around 300,000 people. But the presence of other armed groups is making the situation even more perilous. One group, the Allied Democratic Forces, has reportedly killed more than 60 people in recent weeks, and kidnapped many others. Hugh Kinsella-Cunningham spoke to one woman who had recently escaped captivity in Beni territory.</p><p>The Mexican port of Manzinillo has become a battleground for cartels, as it's where many of the raw materials for drugs such as Fentanyl are imported from Asia. Linda Pressly meets the town's mayor who is trying to turn the tide of crime - and hears of the personal sacrifices she has to make to keep safe.</p><p>Hungary has faced criticism for its progress on women's rights, but in specific areas of women's healthcare it is leading the way. Rosie Blunt was in Hungary to access care for her endometriosis and found the support on offer was second-to-none.</p><p>Off the beaten track in north-West Argentina, John Kampfner explores the high peaks and brightly-coloured lagoons that are home to vast numbers of flamingos. He also makes a curious discovery in a local museum, with deep cultural ties to the mountains.</p><p>Which is the harder language to learn - Welsh, or Xhosa? BBC Wales sports reporter Gareth Rhys Owen recently took a trip to South Africa, where he met rugby legend Makaya Jack – and also met his match when it came to deciding whose mother tongue was hardest to master.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  351. Researcher: Beth Ashmead
  352. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
  353. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1704</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f9k3g8.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f9k3g8.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0f9k3g8.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0f9k4mx</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f9k4mx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f9k3g8.mp3" fileSize="27264000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1704"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0f9k4mx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Protests in Georgia</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Georgia, Egypt, The Netherlands, Iceland and Brazil.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Georgians express anger over a draft law, which many saw as a sign of Russian influence</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Georgia, Egypt, The Netherlands, Iceland and Brazil.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 10:05:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1707</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f92jx6.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f92jx6.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0f92jx6.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0f92kx3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f92kx3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f92jx6.mp3" fileSize="27312000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1707"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0f92kx3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>South Africa’s Rolling Blackouts</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from South Africa, Russia, Japan, New York, and Ukraine.</p><p>Unprecedented power cuts has seen South Africa's national power company become the butt of jokes, but the continual outages are hitting the country's already struggling economy. Ed Habershon reveals how people adapt when the traffic lights stop working.</p><p>Vladimir Putin’s sabre-rattling has become a permanent feature on Russian state-run media, since the invasion of Ukraine began. But a more subtle device the Russian President has employed, is to appeal to Russia’s sense of victim-hood. Francis Scarr reveals the impact this daily narrative has had on his old friends in Russia.</p><p>Japan struggles with diversity and female representation in both its commercial and political spheres. Shaimaa Khalil met Tokyo’s first female district mayor, who is breaking through the barriers of tradition, to ensure women are seen and heard.</p><p>Puppy ownership saw a surge during the pandemic, as people discovered the joys of a four-legged companion during lockdown. In New York, the dog of choice for many was a doodle – a poodle hybrid. But there is now a growing backlash against the now ubiquitous doodle, as Laura Trevelyan reports from the dog parks of Brooklyn.</p><p>Transcarpathia, on the far western edge of Ukraine, is a mosaic of nationalities, languages and religious identities which once made up the Austro-Hungarian empire. But the strains of emigration, war, and displaced populations from elsewhere in the country, are erasing cultural differences, and creating a more uniform Ukraine, reports Nick Thorpe.</p><p>Producers: Serena Tarling &amp; Emma Close
  354. Researcher: Beth Ashmead
  355. Production coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
  356. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>South Africa's economy is shrinking as the government struggles to keep the lights on</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from South Africa, Russia, Japan, New York, and Ukraine.</p><p>Unprecedented power cuts has seen South Africa's national power company become the butt of jokes, but the continual outages are hitting the country's already struggling economy. Ed Habershon reveals how people adapt when the traffic lights stop working.</p><p>Vladimir Putin’s sabre-rattling has become a permanent feature on Russian state-run media, since the invasion of Ukraine began. But a more subtle device the Russian President has employed, is to appeal to Russia’s sense of victim-hood. Francis Scarr reveals the impact this daily narrative has had on his old friends in Russia.</p><p>Japan struggles with diversity and female representation in both its commercial and political spheres. Shaimaa Khalil met Tokyo’s first female district mayor, who is breaking through the barriers of tradition, to ensure women are seen and heard.</p><p>Puppy ownership saw a surge during the pandemic, as people discovered the joys of a four-legged companion during lockdown. In New York, the dog of choice for many was a doodle – a poodle hybrid. But there is now a growing backlash against the now ubiquitous doodle, as Laura Trevelyan reports from the dog parks of Brooklyn.</p><p>Transcarpathia, on the far western edge of Ukraine, is a mosaic of nationalities, languages and religious identities which once made up the Austro-Hungarian empire. But the strains of emigration, war, and displaced populations from elsewhere in the country, are erasing cultural differences, and creating a more uniform Ukraine, reports Nick Thorpe.</p><p>Producers: Serena Tarling &amp; Emma Close
  357. Researcher: Beth Ashmead
  358. Production coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
  359. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1720</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f82gxw.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f82gxw.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0f82gxw.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0f82jrq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f82jrq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f82gxw.mp3" fileSize="27520000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1720"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0f82jrq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Greek Train Crash Triggers Grief And Anger</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Greece, Turkey, Senegal, Guatemala and Switzerland</p><p>As relatives of victims in the train crash in Greece mourn their loss, broader questions are being asked about the state management of the railways, unleashing public anger as elections loom. Nick Beake was in Larissa.</p><p>Turkey has become a top destination for Russia's fleeing the invasion of Ukraine but as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan takes a firmer stance on migration, Russian applications for residency permits are increasingly being rejected. Emily Wither met one Russia who is helping people relocate in Antalya.</p><p>The African Renaissance statue is the tallest in Africa and towers over Senegal's capital city, Senegal. Rob Crossan scaled the statue on a recent visit and heard how locals see it as more of a national embarrassment, given its exorbitant cost and domineering presence.</p><p>Tikal national park in Guatemala's north is renowned both for its archaeological significance and biodiversity. The ancient Mayan city was once part of a great trading network- stretching across from Calakmul in Mexico to Copan in Honduras. Beth Timmins explore the area and spoke to locals about its World Heritage status.</p><p>Xander Brett visits the alpine resort of St Moritz in Switzerland where, for over a hundred years, the 'White Turf horse race has taken place - on snow and ice. He finds that global warming and safety fears are now casting a shadow over this well-attended spectacle.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Relatives of victims battle to come to terms with the accident, in which 57 people died</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Greece, Turkey, Senegal, Guatemala and Switzerland</p><p>As relatives of victims in the train crash in Greece mourn their loss, broader questions are being asked about the state management of the railways, unleashing public anger as elections loom. Nick Beake was in Larissa.</p><p>Turkey has become a top destination for Russia's fleeing the invasion of Ukraine but as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan takes a firmer stance on migration, Russian applications for residency permits are increasingly being rejected. Emily Wither met one Russia who is helping people relocate in Antalya.</p><p>The African Renaissance statue is the tallest in Africa and towers over Senegal's capital city, Senegal. Rob Crossan scaled the statue on a recent visit and heard how locals see it as more of a national embarrassment, given its exorbitant cost and domineering presence.</p><p>Tikal national park in Guatemala's north is renowned both for its archaeological significance and biodiversity. The ancient Mayan city was once part of a great trading network- stretching across from Calakmul in Mexico to Copan in Honduras. Beth Timmins explore the area and spoke to locals about its World Heritage status.</p><p>Xander Brett visits the alpine resort of St Moritz in Switzerland where, for over a hundred years, the 'White Turf horse race has taken place - on snow and ice. He finds that global warming and safety fears are now casting a shadow over this well-attended spectacle.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2023 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1732</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f7nyw0.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f7nyw0.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0f7nyw0.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0f7p1yt</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f7p1yt</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f7nyw0.mp3" fileSize="27712000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1732"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0f7p1yt</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Nigeria’s Young Voters Find Their Voice</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Nigeria's recent presidential election encouraged many young Nigerians to engage with the political process for the first time and cast a vote, despite a backdrop of voter intimidation and claims of election fraud. Yemisi Adegoke says this impetus is set to continue.</p><p>The sinking of a migrant boat off the coast of Calabria once again highlighted the dangers of migrant crossings on the high seas. Frey Lindsay travelled on a rescue boat run by a charity from Libya to Ravenna and heard from those on board about what they left behind.</p><p>The verdict in the trial of former Mexican government drug tsar, Genaro Garcia Luna, has been a spectacular fall from grace for a man Mexicans saw as corrupt but untouchable, writes Will Grant.</p><p>Banana farmers in central Lebanon have been hit hard by the country's financial crisis and the effects of a changing climate. Now they are looking for a new, more reliable crop, says Hannah McCarthy.</p><p>Nick Sturdee recounts the story of a 56-year-old man who decided to join the Ukrainian army in the fight against Russia after he witnessed a missile attack. On the reporting assignment, Nick was involved in a life-threatening car accident, which threw everything around him into sharp relief.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  360. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Nigeria's recent election saw many young voters engage with politics for the first time.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Nigeria's recent presidential election encouraged many young Nigerians to engage with the political process for the first time and cast a vote, despite a backdrop of voter intimidation and claims of election fraud. Yemisi Adegoke says this impetus is set to continue.</p><p>The sinking of a migrant boat off the coast of Calabria once again highlighted the dangers of migrant crossings on the high seas. Frey Lindsay travelled on a rescue boat run by a charity from Libya to Ravenna and heard from those on board about what they left behind.</p><p>The verdict in the trial of former Mexican government drug tsar, Genaro Garcia Luna, has been a spectacular fall from grace for a man Mexicans saw as corrupt but untouchable, writes Will Grant.</p><p>Banana farmers in central Lebanon have been hit hard by the country's financial crisis and the effects of a changing climate. Now they are looking for a new, more reliable crop, says Hannah McCarthy.</p><p>Nick Sturdee recounts the story of a 56-year-old man who decided to join the Ukrainian army in the fight against Russia after he witnessed a missile attack. On the reporting assignment, Nick was involved in a life-threatening car accident, which threw everything around him into sharp relief.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  361. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1711</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f6qxpj.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f6qxpj.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0f6qxpj.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0f6qyfw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f6qyfw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f6qxpj.mp3" fileSize="27376000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1711"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0f6qyfw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Uzbekistan’s Winter Energy Crisis</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Uzbekistan, Turkey, USA, South Africa and Sweden.</p><p>Uzbekistan is one of the largest gas producers in the world but is in the throes of a full-blown energy crisis. People are struggling to keep warm amid the country's harshest winter in decades. Ibrat Safo reveals how people have taken to cooking outdoors on open fires, as the poor gas supply means it can take an hour just to boil a pot of hot tea.</p><p>The village of Ovakent in southeast Turkey is known locally as Little Afghanistan. After the catastrophic earthquake last month, the Afghan diaspora - who arrived in Turkey after escaping war in their homeland - are once again living with displacement and uncertainty. Mahjooba Nowrouzi has been to visit the village, which is located near the epicentre of the earthquake.</p><p>In East Palestine, Ohio, the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals has left many residents fearful of the long-term health effects. Bernd Debusmann Jr travelled to the town, where people expressed their disappointment in the response to the disaster from authorities, leaving them fearful for the future.</p><p>South Africa is continuing to battle rising inflation and unemployment, with the country's worst social unrest since the end of apartheid a recent memory. But in the picturesque vineyards that surround Cape Town, it’s easy to forget the extent of South Africa’s problems, says Charlotte Ashton as she visits the 'Stellenbosch bubble'.</p><p>In Sweden’s far north, near the Norwegian border, where the northern lights frequently light up the winter night sky, Matilda Welin embarked on a journey off the beaten track. She recounts an increasingly rare experience – of unlimited access to the natural world.</p><p>Series producer: Serena Tarling
  362. Producer: Louise HIdalgo
  363. Production coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Uzbekistan is major producer of gas but people are still going cold this winter.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Uzbekistan, Turkey, USA, South Africa and Sweden.</p><p>Uzbekistan is one of the largest gas producers in the world but is in the throes of a full-blown energy crisis. People are struggling to keep warm amid the country's harshest winter in decades. Ibrat Safo reveals how people have taken to cooking outdoors on open fires, as the poor gas supply means it can take an hour just to boil a pot of hot tea.</p><p>The village of Ovakent in southeast Turkey is known locally as Little Afghanistan. After the catastrophic earthquake last month, the Afghan diaspora - who arrived in Turkey after escaping war in their homeland - are once again living with displacement and uncertainty. Mahjooba Nowrouzi has been to visit the village, which is located near the epicentre of the earthquake.</p><p>In East Palestine, Ohio, the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals has left many residents fearful of the long-term health effects. Bernd Debusmann Jr travelled to the town, where people expressed their disappointment in the response to the disaster from authorities, leaving them fearful for the future.</p><p>South Africa is continuing to battle rising inflation and unemployment, with the country's worst social unrest since the end of apartheid a recent memory. But in the picturesque vineyards that surround Cape Town, it’s easy to forget the extent of South Africa’s problems, says Charlotte Ashton as she visits the 'Stellenbosch bubble'.</p><p>In Sweden’s far north, near the Norwegian border, where the northern lights frequently light up the winter night sky, Matilda Welin embarked on a journey off the beaten track. She recounts an increasingly rare experience – of unlimited access to the natural world.</p><p>Series producer: Serena Tarling
  364. Producer: Louise HIdalgo
  365. Production coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2023 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1720</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f68lsp.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f68lsp.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0f68lsp.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0f68p2g</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f68p2g</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f68lsp.mp3" fileSize="27520000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1720"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0f68p2g</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Moldova’s Divided Loyalties.</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Moldova, Estonia, Cambodia, Chile and the Seychelles.</p><p>Lucy Williamson visits the Moldovan enclave of Moldova Noua, which has been surrounded by pro-Russian forces since the 1990s. Villagers tell her they feel isolated by pro-Western rhetoric and are being lured closer to Moscow by the cheap energy and lower food prices available in the breakaway Russian-backed region of Transnistria</p><p>In Estonia's easternmost city of Narva, on the Russian border, Nick Robinson finds there is a generational divide when it comes to views about life under former Soviet rule. Increasingly, locals have to choose which side they're on as they wrestle with the implications of the invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>Celia Hatton follows the story of stolen Cambodian jewels which have finally been returned from Britain to the southeast Asian country. Under the Khmer Rouge regime, antiques were looted and sold through dealers in Asia to Europe and the US. She meets an archaeologist who is piecing together her country's lost past.</p><p>Chile has seen some of its worst wildfires in years, with forests destroyed, crops ruined and homes burnt to the ground. More than 25 people have been killed. Jane Chambers drove through one of the worst affected regions.</p><p>The Coco de Mer tree is a much treasured species that can only be found on two islands in the Seychelles archipelago off East Africa. Rhodri Davies discovers how the region has seen a rise in poaching of its highly prized nut, due to the economic impact of the pandemic.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>In an enclave surrounded by pro-Russian forces, villagers are torn between East and West.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Moldova, Estonia, Cambodia, Chile and the Seychelles.</p><p>Lucy Williamson visits the Moldovan enclave of Moldova Noua, which has been surrounded by pro-Russian forces since the 1990s. Villagers tell her they feel isolated by pro-Western rhetoric and are being lured closer to Moscow by the cheap energy and lower food prices available in the breakaway Russian-backed region of Transnistria</p><p>In Estonia's easternmost city of Narva, on the Russian border, Nick Robinson finds there is a generational divide when it comes to views about life under former Soviet rule. Increasingly, locals have to choose which side they're on as they wrestle with the implications of the invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>Celia Hatton follows the story of stolen Cambodian jewels which have finally been returned from Britain to the southeast Asian country. Under the Khmer Rouge regime, antiques were looted and sold through dealers in Asia to Europe and the US. She meets an archaeologist who is piecing together her country's lost past.</p><p>Chile has seen some of its worst wildfires in years, with forests destroyed, crops ruined and homes burnt to the ground. More than 25 people have been killed. Jane Chambers drove through one of the worst affected regions.</p><p>The Coco de Mer tree is a much treasured species that can only be found on two islands in the Seychelles archipelago off East Africa. Rhodri Davies discovers how the region has seen a rise in poaching of its highly prized nut, due to the economic impact of the pandemic.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1743</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f5cjwn.mp3" length="27888000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f5cjwn.mp3" length="27888000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0f5cjwn.mp3" length="27888000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0f5cl9x</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f5cl9x</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f5cjwn.mp3" fileSize="27888000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1743"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0f5cl9x</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Ukraine: One Year On</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Orla Guerin, senior international correspondent, reports from Ukraine's east, a region she has covered on different trips during the last year, on the permanent sense of danger lingering there, that has become a way of life since the Russian invasion.</p><p>Russia Editor, Steve Rosenberg recounts his own feelings of surprise at Vladimir Putin's decision to invade - and how far everyday Russians have swallowed the government propaganda. He explores the motivations as to why this might be.</p><p>US Editor, Sarah Smith describes the secrecy surrounding President Joe Biden's surprise visit to Kyiv - and what the political climate is like in Washington amid pledges the US will support the war for 'as long as it takes'.</p><p>Sarah Rainsford, Eastern Europe Correspondent, has followed the story of Ukrainians fleeing the war from the outset of the invasion. She speaks to those who have only recently fled in Poland's east and what prompted their decisions to leave now.</p><p>Vitaliy Shevchenko, presenter of Ukrainecast, has lost friends during the conflict. Over the last year, he evacuated his parents from Zaporizhzhia, now controlled by Russians, and also watched a broader shift in Ukraine's standing in the world - and that of its leader.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents in Donbas, Moscow, Poland and London reflect on Russia's invasion.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Orla Guerin, senior international correspondent, reports from Ukraine's east, a region she has covered on different trips during the last year, on the permanent sense of danger lingering there, that has become a way of life since the Russian invasion.</p><p>Russia Editor, Steve Rosenberg recounts his own feelings of surprise at Vladimir Putin's decision to invade - and how far everyday Russians have swallowed the government propaganda. He explores the motivations as to why this might be.</p><p>US Editor, Sarah Smith describes the secrecy surrounding President Joe Biden's surprise visit to Kyiv - and what the political climate is like in Washington amid pledges the US will support the war for 'as long as it takes'.</p><p>Sarah Rainsford, Eastern Europe Correspondent, has followed the story of Ukrainians fleeing the war from the outset of the invasion. She speaks to those who have only recently fled in Poland's east and what prompted their decisions to leave now.</p><p>Vitaliy Shevchenko, presenter of Ukrainecast, has lost friends during the conflict. Over the last year, he evacuated his parents from Zaporizhzhia, now controlled by Russians, and also watched a broader shift in Ukraine's standing in the world - and that of its leader.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:34:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1732</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f4zf22.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f4zf22.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0f4zf22.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0f4wk1g</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f4wk1g</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f4zf22.mp3" fileSize="27712000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1732"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0f4wk1g</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The questions after Turkey's earthquake</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces analysis and reportage from correspondents in Turkey, Israel, Nigeria, Georgia and South Sudan.</p><p>While reporting from across southern Turkey after the February 6 earthquake, Nick Beake often came across moments of astonishing kindness and generosity - but also found an incalculable burden of grief and a growing sense of anger. How and why did the natural disaster have such devastating human consequences - and can anyone be held responsible for the deaths and damage?</p><p>There's a war of words going on in Israel over moves by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to reform the status and powers of the country's Supreme Court. Amid the fervent demonstrations and political horse-trading in and around the Knesset building, Yolande Knell's been hearing the cases for and against the proposed changes to the system.</p><p>Nigeria is due to elect its next President on the 25th of February, but the scheduled election day comes as the nation grapples with a string of crises. Soaring inflation, burgeoning insecurity and dire fuel shortages have been capped off by currency chaos - as the entire country struggles to find enough cash to pay for its daily needs. Mayeni Jones reports from Lagos.</p><p>The political career of Mikhail Saakashvili has never been short of passionate rhetoric or dramatic twists, but recently, people in Tbilisi have been worried by a series of images which seemed to show their former President wasting away in a prison clinic. Rayhan Demytrie explains why 'Misha' still provokes strong feelings in Georgia.</p><p>And: what is really the point of a Papal visit? As Aleem Maqbool followed the route of Pope Francis's recent travels to the D R Congo and South Sudan, he was moved by the joy of the crowds - and considered how Popes can move politicians to act.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  366. Production coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
  367. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>In the aftermath of the earthquake, a growing sense of anger emerges in Turkey.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces analysis and reportage from correspondents in Turkey, Israel, Nigeria, Georgia and South Sudan.</p><p>While reporting from across southern Turkey after the February 6 earthquake, Nick Beake often came across moments of astonishing kindness and generosity - but also found an incalculable burden of grief and a growing sense of anger. How and why did the natural disaster have such devastating human consequences - and can anyone be held responsible for the deaths and damage?</p><p>There's a war of words going on in Israel over moves by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to reform the status and powers of the country's Supreme Court. Amid the fervent demonstrations and political horse-trading in and around the Knesset building, Yolande Knell's been hearing the cases for and against the proposed changes to the system.</p><p>Nigeria is due to elect its next President on the 25th of February, but the scheduled election day comes as the nation grapples with a string of crises. Soaring inflation, burgeoning insecurity and dire fuel shortages have been capped off by currency chaos - as the entire country struggles to find enough cash to pay for its daily needs. Mayeni Jones reports from Lagos.</p><p>The political career of Mikhail Saakashvili has never been short of passionate rhetoric or dramatic twists, but recently, people in Tbilisi have been worried by a series of images which seemed to show their former President wasting away in a prison clinic. Rayhan Demytrie explains why 'Misha' still provokes strong feelings in Georgia.</p><p>And: what is really the point of a Papal visit? As Aleem Maqbool followed the route of Pope Francis's recent travels to the D R Congo and South Sudan, he was moved by the joy of the crowds - and considered how Popes can move politicians to act.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  368. Production coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
  369. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f3yj3n.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f3yj3n.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0f3yj3n.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0f3yklv</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f3yklv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f3yj3n.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0f3yklv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Rescue hopes fade in Turkey and Syria</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Turkey, Ukraine, the USA, Sao Tome and Principe and Lithuania.</p><p>Lyse Doucet has been in Southern Turkey reporting on the earthquake which has devastated towns there and in North West Syria. She describes how the rescue effort has now changed to a recovery mission as hope of finding survivors fades - yet families still hope for miracles.</p><p>It's four months since Russia first launched a wave of drone and missile attacks aimed at destroying Ukraine's power grid. Millions of Ukrainians have had to put up with regular power cuts, sometimes lasting for days. Paul Adams meets the army of engineers who, despite the huge damage, are busy re-connecting towns and cities.</p><p>In California selling cannabis for recreational use has been legal since 2016. In Oakland Sharon Hemans hears about a scheme to help communities previously targeted by the so-called War on Drugs make the most of the now legal cannabis trade. She meets one man who's experienced selling cannabis on both sides of the law and hears of the new challenges he now faces.</p><p>Petroc Trelwany finds the West African island of Principe has such a young population that schools are having to adapt by teaching classes in shifts. At lunchtime when the schools switch over the streets are flooded with students.</p><p>And it's the 700th birthday of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Lucy Ash visits for the celebrations and discovers a small country determined to stand up for itself and continue the legacy of its medieval founder.</p><p>Producer: Caroline Bayley
  370. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  371. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>As earthquake rescue efforts begin to wind down, families still hope for miracles.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Turkey, Ukraine, the USA, Sao Tome and Principe and Lithuania.</p><p>Lyse Doucet has been in Southern Turkey reporting on the earthquake which has devastated towns there and in North West Syria. She describes how the rescue effort has now changed to a recovery mission as hope of finding survivors fades - yet families still hope for miracles.</p><p>It's four months since Russia first launched a wave of drone and missile attacks aimed at destroying Ukraine's power grid. Millions of Ukrainians have had to put up with regular power cuts, sometimes lasting for days. Paul Adams meets the army of engineers who, despite the huge damage, are busy re-connecting towns and cities.</p><p>In California selling cannabis for recreational use has been legal since 2016. In Oakland Sharon Hemans hears about a scheme to help communities previously targeted by the so-called War on Drugs make the most of the now legal cannabis trade. She meets one man who's experienced selling cannabis on both sides of the law and hears of the new challenges he now faces.</p><p>Petroc Trelwany finds the West African island of Principe has such a young population that schools are having to adapt by teaching classes in shifts. At lunchtime when the schools switch over the streets are flooded with students.</p><p>And it's the 700th birthday of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Lucy Ash visits for the celebrations and discovers a small country determined to stand up for itself and continue the legacy of its medieval founder.</p><p>Producer: Caroline Bayley
  372. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  373. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1715</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f3gxmr.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f3gxmr.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0f3gxmr.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0f3hd43</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f3hd43</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f3gxmr.mp3" fileSize="27440000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1715"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0f3hd43</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Southern Turkey: The Earthquake's Epicentre</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Turkey, the USA, Myanmar, Italy and Ukraine.</p><p>Anna Foster has been in Kahramanmaras, the epicentre of the recent earthquake, where diggers work to remove the debris, revealing small personal items that tell of so many lives lost. Even after the rescue teams have left for the day, relatives continue the search for loved ones through the night.</p><p>President Joe Biden has switched to campaign mode in both his State of the Union speech to Congress and on his recent visit to Florida - celebrating the achievements of his presidency. But a fight looms with Republicans who now control the House, and there are potential trip wires on the road ahead, says Anthony Zurcher.</p><p>A journalist from Myanmar shares his story of how hope turned to despair when the military seized power in a coup in 2021 - and how he was forced to flee with his family. The regime has used intimidation and harassment to shut down the media, says Rebecca Henschke.</p><p>In Italy, Daniel Gordon tells the story of a man who managed to escape the clutches of the mafia. Having grown up in a crime family, the man reveals the challenges of leaving 'the family' when he was still a young man, before starting a new life in the north of Italy.</p><p>And Nick Redmayne takes the ever-punctual Ukrainian Railways overnight sleeper from Poland's far east to Kyiv. As the train departs, following a timetable undeterred by war, Nick chats to his travel companions over cups of hot tea served to passengers in elegant glasses.</p><p>Producers: Serena Tarling and Louise Hidalgo
  374. Editor: China Collins
  375. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>In Kahramanmaras, families continue the search for their relatives late into the night.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Turkey, the USA, Myanmar, Italy and Ukraine.</p><p>Anna Foster has been in Kahramanmaras, the epicentre of the recent earthquake, where diggers work to remove the debris, revealing small personal items that tell of so many lives lost. Even after the rescue teams have left for the day, relatives continue the search for loved ones through the night.</p><p>President Joe Biden has switched to campaign mode in both his State of the Union speech to Congress and on his recent visit to Florida - celebrating the achievements of his presidency. But a fight looms with Republicans who now control the House, and there are potential trip wires on the road ahead, says Anthony Zurcher.</p><p>A journalist from Myanmar shares his story of how hope turned to despair when the military seized power in a coup in 2021 - and how he was forced to flee with his family. The regime has used intimidation and harassment to shut down the media, says Rebecca Henschke.</p><p>In Italy, Daniel Gordon tells the story of a man who managed to escape the clutches of the mafia. Having grown up in a crime family, the man reveals the challenges of leaving 'the family' when he was still a young man, before starting a new life in the north of Italy.</p><p>And Nick Redmayne takes the ever-punctual Ukrainian Railways overnight sleeper from Poland's far east to Kyiv. As the train departs, following a timetable undeterred by war, Nick chats to his travel companions over cups of hot tea served to passengers in elegant glasses.</p><p>Producers: Serena Tarling and Louise Hidalgo
  376. Editor: China Collins
  377. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2023 12:20:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1677</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f3hvnc.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f3hvnc.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0f3hvnc.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0f3hw26</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f3hw26</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f3hvnc.mp3" fileSize="26832000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1677"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0f3hw26</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Voices from Syria’s North-West</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Syria, Nigeria, Romania, Armenia and Pakistan</p><p>Leila Molana-Allen has spoken to anxious friends and relatives in the Syrian diaspora who are preparing for the worst as roads are blocked and airports closed. Many relief workers are running low on supplies as they battle to reach those stranded.</p><p>Mayeni Jones has been in the midst of the chaotic fall-out from the Nigerian Central Bank's decision to replace the high denomination bank notes, which led to fights breaking out in banks and long queues forming as the new notes became scarce to find.</p><p>Paul Kenyon visits the Romanian home of former championship boxer and social media influencer Andrew Tate, who's been detained in the country due to allegations of people trafficking and rape. He finds the house wasn't quite what he expected for someone who boasts about a glamour lifestyle - and went to hear what the locals make of him.</p><p>A group of teenagers got stranded on the Armenian border after they travelled to Yerevan from Nagorno-Karabakh for the Eurovision Junior Song Contest. Azerbaijani political activists staged a sit in on the only road connection Armenia to the breakaway region and have stopped all civilian traffic from passing. Gabriel Gavin spoke to the children caught in the middle of the conflict.</p><p>And finally, over this past year, Pakistan has marked the 75th anniversary of its formation. There were many individual stories of communities and families who were split or who chose to relocate and the reverberations of that partition are still felt today. Ash Bhardwaj reflects on his first visit to Pakistan as someone who is half Indian and grew up in England.</p><p>Producers: Serena Tarling and Louise Hidalgo
  378. Editor: China Collins
  379. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>After a 7.8 magnitude quake struck in the region, many are stranded with no hope of help</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Syria, Nigeria, Romania, Armenia and Pakistan</p><p>Leila Molana-Allen has spoken to anxious friends and relatives in the Syrian diaspora who are preparing for the worst as roads are blocked and airports closed. Many relief workers are running low on supplies as they battle to reach those stranded.</p><p>Mayeni Jones has been in the midst of the chaotic fall-out from the Nigerian Central Bank's decision to replace the high denomination bank notes, which led to fights breaking out in banks and long queues forming as the new notes became scarce to find.</p><p>Paul Kenyon visits the Romanian home of former championship boxer and social media influencer Andrew Tate, who's been detained in the country due to allegations of people trafficking and rape. He finds the house wasn't quite what he expected for someone who boasts about a glamour lifestyle - and went to hear what the locals make of him.</p><p>A group of teenagers got stranded on the Armenian border after they travelled to Yerevan from Nagorno-Karabakh for the Eurovision Junior Song Contest. Azerbaijani political activists staged a sit in on the only road connection Armenia to the breakaway region and have stopped all civilian traffic from passing. Gabriel Gavin spoke to the children caught in the middle of the conflict.</p><p>And finally, over this past year, Pakistan has marked the 75th anniversary of its formation. There were many individual stories of communities and families who were split or who chose to relocate and the reverberations of that partition are still felt today. Ash Bhardwaj reflects on his first visit to Pakistan as someone who is half Indian and grew up in England.</p><p>Producers: Serena Tarling and Louise Hidalgo
  380. Editor: China Collins
  381. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2023 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1709</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f20skl.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f20skl.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0f20skl.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0f20t55</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f20t55</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f20skl.mp3" fileSize="27344000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1709"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0f20t55</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Grief and Grievances in Israel and the Occupied West Bank</title><description><![CDATA[<p>After a surge in violence over the last week, in which several were killed in a military raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and a synagogue attack in Israel, Yolande Knell visited the both areas and spoke to friends and relatives of those who died about their fears for the future.</p><p>Rob Cameron extols the virtue of the old Soviet escalator in his local metro station in Prague, which is now being upgraded. And, as he sits down with pro-EU President-elect Petr Pavel, after recent elections, he reflects on the tensions between the old Soviet links, and modernisation in the country.</p><p>In Uruguay, Jane Chambers meets a new breed of cattle rancher - investors based in the city who buy cattle to be managed by local ranchers. She visits the farms beyond the capital, and hears how they've been focused on burnishing their environmental credentials to compete with Brazil and Argentina.</p><p>In the Canadian province of British Colombia, Mark Stratton visits a non-profit group who've teamed up with first nation people to promote bear tourism, as an alternative to bear hunting in the Great Bear Rainforest.</p><p>And finally, former Brussels Correspondent, Adam Fleming returns to Berlaymont three years after Brexit - for a spot of reminiscing over friends made, sleep lost and screeds of reports written on the twists and turns of the Brexit negotiations.</p><p>Producers: Serena Tarling, Louise Hidalgo and Arlene Gregorious
  382. Editor: China Collins and Richard Fenton-Smith
  383. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>After a surge in violence over the last week,mourners speak of their fears for the future</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>After a surge in violence over the last week, in which several were killed in a military raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and a synagogue attack in Israel, Yolande Knell visited the both areas and spoke to friends and relatives of those who died about their fears for the future.</p><p>Rob Cameron extols the virtue of the old Soviet escalator in his local metro station in Prague, which is now being upgraded. And, as he sits down with pro-EU President-elect Petr Pavel, after recent elections, he reflects on the tensions between the old Soviet links, and modernisation in the country.</p><p>In Uruguay, Jane Chambers meets a new breed of cattle rancher - investors based in the city who buy cattle to be managed by local ranchers. She visits the farms beyond the capital, and hears how they've been focused on burnishing their environmental credentials to compete with Brazil and Argentina.</p><p>In the Canadian province of British Colombia, Mark Stratton visits a non-profit group who've teamed up with first nation people to promote bear tourism, as an alternative to bear hunting in the Great Bear Rainforest.</p><p>And finally, former Brussels Correspondent, Adam Fleming returns to Berlaymont three years after Brexit - for a spot of reminiscing over friends made, sleep lost and screeds of reports written on the twists and turns of the Brexit negotiations.</p><p>Producers: Serena Tarling, Louise Hidalgo and Arlene Gregorious
  384. Editor: China Collins and Richard Fenton-Smith
  385. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2023 10:48:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1728</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f11bsc.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f11bsc.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0f11bsc.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0f11bwl</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f11bwl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f11bsc.mp3" fileSize="27648000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1728"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0f11bwl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Mosque Attack in Peshawar</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Pakistan Ukraine, Gibraltar, Uzbekistan and Namibia</p><p>More than 100 people were killed in an attack targeting police in a high security mosque in the northern city of Peshawar in Pakistan earlier this week. An investigation is now underway as to how the bomber managed to enter the high-security zone. Caroline Davies went to the city and met some of the survivors.</p><p>Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky has launched a anti-corruption drive, which led to the resignation of several government and regional ministers. James Waterhouse was in Kyiv and said the upheaval marked a shift in the government’s narrative, with a new focus on accountability.</p><p>Gibraltar, the British territory which borders Spain, remains deeply patriotic despite its geographical location. Joe Inwood met the chief minister there and discovered how a simple mispronunciation opened up deeper cultural differences.</p><p>We visit Samarkand in Uzbekistan, for centuries a major trading hub on the Silk Road. But under the former President Islam Karimov, the country experienced economic stagnation and isolation. His successor is trying to revive the economy by boosting tourism. Heidi Fuller-Love went to visit a shiny new complex near Samarkand - a different world from the heritage sites of the old city.</p><p>And Stephen Moss explores the sand dunes of the Namib desert - one of the most arid places on earth. He finds that, although Chinese investment in nearby Walvis Bay is reaping returns, the wider ecosystem is under threat.</p><p>Producers: Serena Tarling, Louise Hidalgo and Arlene Gregorius
  386. Editor: China Collins
  387. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A suicide bombing in a high security police mosque in Pakistan devastates the community</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Pakistan Ukraine, Gibraltar, Uzbekistan and Namibia</p><p>More than 100 people were killed in an attack targeting police in a high security mosque in the northern city of Peshawar in Pakistan earlier this week. An investigation is now underway as to how the bomber managed to enter the high-security zone. Caroline Davies went to the city and met some of the survivors.</p><p>Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky has launched a anti-corruption drive, which led to the resignation of several government and regional ministers. James Waterhouse was in Kyiv and said the upheaval marked a shift in the government’s narrative, with a new focus on accountability.</p><p>Gibraltar, the British territory which borders Spain, remains deeply patriotic despite its geographical location. Joe Inwood met the chief minister there and discovered how a simple mispronunciation opened up deeper cultural differences.</p><p>We visit Samarkand in Uzbekistan, for centuries a major trading hub on the Silk Road. But under the former President Islam Karimov, the country experienced economic stagnation and isolation. His successor is trying to revive the economy by boosting tourism. Heidi Fuller-Love went to visit a shiny new complex near Samarkand - a different world from the heritage sites of the old city.</p><p>And Stephen Moss explores the sand dunes of the Namib desert - one of the most arid places on earth. He finds that, although Chinese investment in nearby Walvis Bay is reaping returns, the wider ecosystem is under threat.</p><p>Producers: Serena Tarling, Louise Hidalgo and Arlene Gregorius
  388. Editor: China Collins
  389. Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2023 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1711</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f0hxzx.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f0hxzx.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0f0hxzx.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0f0j0sk</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f0j0sk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f0hxzx.mp3" fileSize="27376000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1711"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0f0j0sk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Bitter Winter in Afghanistan</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Afghanistan, Peru, Russia, the US and Spain</p><p>As Afghanistan experiences its harshest winter in a decade, Lyse Doucet travels to Salang, the world's highest road tunnel. After roadside service comes to her team's rescue, she visits a struggling family who are cut off from aid and battling to keep warm.</p><p>Peru is seeing some of its worst clashes since the return of democracy, with protesters demanding that interim president, Dina Boluarte, resign and make way for a general election and a new constitution. Many of the biggest protests were in southern Peru but Mitra Taj spoke to those who took their grievances to the capital, Lima.</p><p>We meet a drag queen in Saint Petersburg who says Russia's new anti-LGBT law is crushing gay nightlife in the city. Our correspondent Will Vernon discovers this increased censorship also extends to bookshops, streaming services and high street shops  -all part of Vladimir Putin's battle against Western values.</p><p>Barbara Plett Usher was in Washington for the anti-abortion activists' annual March for Life, which has been held every year since the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973. She meets protesters on both sides of the debate, and finds America's battle over abortion is far from over.</p><p>In Spain, Guy Hedgecoe visits San Fernando, the hometown of the much revered flamenco singer, Camarón de la Isla, where, three decades after the singer's death, his memory is as cherished as the legacy of his music.</p><p>Producers: Serena Tarling and Louise Hidalgo
  390. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A trip to the world's highest road tunnel shows the perilous conditions in which many live</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Afghanistan, Peru, Russia, the US and Spain</p><p>As Afghanistan experiences its harshest winter in a decade, Lyse Doucet travels to Salang, the world's highest road tunnel. After roadside service comes to her team's rescue, she visits a struggling family who are cut off from aid and battling to keep warm.</p><p>Peru is seeing some of its worst clashes since the return of democracy, with protesters demanding that interim president, Dina Boluarte, resign and make way for a general election and a new constitution. Many of the biggest protests were in southern Peru but Mitra Taj spoke to those who took their grievances to the capital, Lima.</p><p>We meet a drag queen in Saint Petersburg who says Russia's new anti-LGBT law is crushing gay nightlife in the city. Our correspondent Will Vernon discovers this increased censorship also extends to bookshops, streaming services and high street shops  -all part of Vladimir Putin's battle against Western values.</p><p>Barbara Plett Usher was in Washington for the anti-abortion activists' annual March for Life, which has been held every year since the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973. She meets protesters on both sides of the debate, and finds America's battle over abortion is far from over.</p><p>In Spain, Guy Hedgecoe visits San Fernando, the hometown of the much revered flamenco singer, Camarón de la Isla, where, three decades after the singer's death, his memory is as cherished as the legacy of his music.</p><p>Producers: Serena Tarling and Louise Hidalgo
  391. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2023 12:34:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1665</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f3hxxt.mp3" length="26640000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f3hxxt.mp3" length="26640000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0f3hxxt.mp3" length="26640000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0f3hycf</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f3hycf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0f3hxxt.mp3" fileSize="26640000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1665"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0f3hycf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Ukraine Dreams Of A Different Future</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Nepal, Iraq, Norway and the US</p><p>Andrew Harding is at the frontline in Eastern Donbas, close to Russian lines, where soldiers share their dreams of the future after the war, as artillery fire rains down on them.</p><p>The Yeti airlines crash into a gorge in Nepal last Sunday was the worst in 30 years. Rajini Vaidyanathan saw the grim reality of the crash site and spoke to mourners as they prepared to bury their loved ones.</p><p>From chocolate biscuits, to porcelain to air-conditioning units, Iranian produce lines the shelves of Baghdad's stores. But despite the strong commercial ties and shared cultural influences, political tensions are flaring in the Kurdistan region of Iraq after the death of Mahsa Amini, writes Lizzie Porter.</p><p>In Arctic Norway, cod fisherman rely on Russian cooperation to share fish stocks in the Barents Sea equally. Hugh Francis Anderson was in Tromso where he spoke to fisherman increasingly wary that souring relations with Russia could impact their livelihoods.</p><p>Mark Moran reports from Arizona on the water wars in the state, where rural farmers and ranchers are launching a fightback against the move to divert water to the expanding city of Queen's Creek.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Amid the grim reality of the frontline in Eastern Donbas, soldiers imagine life after war</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Nepal, Iraq, Norway and the US</p><p>Andrew Harding is at the frontline in Eastern Donbas, close to Russian lines, where soldiers share their dreams of the future after the war, as artillery fire rains down on them.</p><p>The Yeti airlines crash into a gorge in Nepal last Sunday was the worst in 30 years. Rajini Vaidyanathan saw the grim reality of the crash site and spoke to mourners as they prepared to bury their loved ones.</p><p>From chocolate biscuits, to porcelain to air-conditioning units, Iranian produce lines the shelves of Baghdad's stores. But despite the strong commercial ties and shared cultural influences, political tensions are flaring in the Kurdistan region of Iraq after the death of Mahsa Amini, writes Lizzie Porter.</p><p>In Arctic Norway, cod fisherman rely on Russian cooperation to share fish stocks in the Barents Sea equally. Hugh Francis Anderson was in Tromso where he spoke to fisherman increasingly wary that souring relations with Russia could impact their livelihoods.</p><p>Mark Moran reports from Arizona on the water wars in the state, where rural farmers and ranchers are launching a fightback against the move to divert water to the expanding city of Queen's Creek.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2023 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1703</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dxx39n.mp3" length="27248000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dxx39n.mp3" length="27248000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0dxx39n.mp3" length="27248000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0dxx6n2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dxx6n2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dxx39n.mp3" fileSize="27248000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1703"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0dxx6n2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>China’s Great Reopening</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from China, Brazil, Sri Lanka, the US and Portugal.</p><p>China has opened up its borders again ahead of the New Year festival. Late las year, Xi Jinping eased Covid restrictions after anti-Zero Covid protests, which has led to a surge in cases across major cities and provinces. Many in the country are divided about whether to savour their new found freedoms and travel, or stay put to protect elderly relatives, says Stephen McDonnell.</p><p>The storming of Brazil's congress, presidential palace and supreme court by supporters of Jair Bolsonaro has led many to draw parallels with the attack on the Capitol building in Washington in 2021. Katy Watson looks at who the protestors are and who might be behind them.</p><p>Zeinab Badawi is in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, where she meets Sinhalese artist, Jagath, whose work mainly focuses on the country's brutal history. She hears the story of how one of his monuments to commemorate those who died in the conflict was destroyed in favour of a new building project.</p><p>David Adams is in Miami, Florida, where, during a stroll one day, he encounters some iguanas which have fallen from surrounding trees. And although Florida escaped much of the worst of the recent freeze in the US, he reflects on whether these creatures could be a canary in the coal mine for climate change.</p><p>Alastair Leithead chose to move to southern Portugal for a more settled life, after years on the road as a foreign correspondent. He writes about his experiences of trying to live an off-grid lifestyle - and some of its challenges.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>China reopens borders after easing Covid restrictions as the New Year festival approaches</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from China, Brazil, Sri Lanka, the US and Portugal.</p><p>China has opened up its borders again ahead of the New Year festival. Late las year, Xi Jinping eased Covid restrictions after anti-Zero Covid protests, which has led to a surge in cases across major cities and provinces. Many in the country are divided about whether to savour their new found freedoms and travel, or stay put to protect elderly relatives, says Stephen McDonnell.</p><p>The storming of Brazil's congress, presidential palace and supreme court by supporters of Jair Bolsonaro has led many to draw parallels with the attack on the Capitol building in Washington in 2021. Katy Watson looks at who the protestors are and who might be behind them.</p><p>Zeinab Badawi is in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, where she meets Sinhalese artist, Jagath, whose work mainly focuses on the country's brutal history. She hears the story of how one of his monuments to commemorate those who died in the conflict was destroyed in favour of a new building project.</p><p>David Adams is in Miami, Florida, where, during a stroll one day, he encounters some iguanas which have fallen from surrounding trees. And although Florida escaped much of the worst of the recent freeze in the US, he reflects on whether these creatures could be a canary in the coal mine for climate change.</p><p>Alastair Leithead chose to move to southern Portugal for a more settled life, after years on the road as a foreign correspondent. He writes about his experiences of trying to live an off-grid lifestyle - and some of its challenges.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1718</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dwbldm.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dwbldm.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0dwbldm.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0dwbml2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dwbml2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dwbldm.mp3" fileSize="27488000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1718"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0dwbml2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Brazil: United In Grief, Divided By Politics</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Brazil, Russia, the US, South Korea and Italy</p><p>Brazilians this week mourned the loss of one of their greatest footballers, Pele, with hundreds of thousands going to view his open casket in Santos. Meanwhile, the politics continue to divide the nation as Lula Da Silva returned to power. Katy Watson was in Brasilia for his inauguration and reflects on the challenges ahead.</p><p>Vladimir Putin used his New Year address this year to rally the nation once more for war, as festive ice sculptures even depicted military figures. The announcement of a ceasefire for Orthodox Christmas appeared incongruous with Putin's rhetoric and was dismissed by Ukrainians as a plot to stay their advances. Steve Rosenberg was in Moscow as Russians were once more put on a war footing.</p><p>Linda Pressly has a dispatch from Tucson in Arizona where she met a group of committed Christians helping migrants who've crossed from Mexico into the harsh landscape of the Sonoran desert, and lost their way. This comes as President Joe Biden prepares to visit the border next week.</p><p>John Murphy visits the rooftop apartments of South Korea's capital Seoul to hear why they hold such appeal for young Koreans - and how economic circumstances, and social expectations are causing some to leave the city altogether.</p><p>Rome was also in mourning for another iconic figure - of the Catholic church. 50 000 mourners reportedly attended the funeral of Pope Benedict in St Peter's Square and tens of thousands more paid homage to him as he lay in state. David Willey has covered the Vatican for half a decade, and says there is a bigger sea change underway.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>As the nation unites to mourn a football icon, divisions open up over the return of Lula</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Brazil, Russia, the US, South Korea and Italy</p><p>Brazilians this week mourned the loss of one of their greatest footballers, Pele, with hundreds of thousands going to view his open casket in Santos. Meanwhile, the politics continue to divide the nation as Lula Da Silva returned to power. Katy Watson was in Brasilia for his inauguration and reflects on the challenges ahead.</p><p>Vladimir Putin used his New Year address this year to rally the nation once more for war, as festive ice sculptures even depicted military figures. The announcement of a ceasefire for Orthodox Christmas appeared incongruous with Putin's rhetoric and was dismissed by Ukrainians as a plot to stay their advances. Steve Rosenberg was in Moscow as Russians were once more put on a war footing.</p><p>Linda Pressly has a dispatch from Tucson in Arizona where she met a group of committed Christians helping migrants who've crossed from Mexico into the harsh landscape of the Sonoran desert, and lost their way. This comes as President Joe Biden prepares to visit the border next week.</p><p>John Murphy visits the rooftop apartments of South Korea's capital Seoul to hear why they hold such appeal for young Koreans - and how economic circumstances, and social expectations are causing some to leave the city altogether.</p><p>Rome was also in mourning for another iconic figure - of the Catholic church. 50 000 mourners reportedly attended the funeral of Pope Benedict in St Peter's Square and tens of thousands more paid homage to him as he lay in state. David Willey has covered the Vatican for half a decade, and says there is a bigger sea change underway.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1736</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dttcdy.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dttcdy.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0dttcdy.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0dttdxg</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dttdxg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dttcdy.mp3" fileSize="27776000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1736"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0dttdxg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Year in Ukraine</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents a selection of stories from correspondents who have covered the war, from the invasion of Kyiv to the present day. Fergal Keane remembers the beekeepers of the Donbas who he met in 2014, following Russia's annexation of Crimea. As he witnessed the throngs of Ukrainians fleeing war in February of this year, he wonders if he will meet his friends again. Quentin Sommerville reported close to Russian lines in Kharkiv as it came under attack. He reflects on the realities of war and the decision to show dead bodies in his television reporting - to not show them would be a lie, he says. Yogita Limaye writes on the atrocities which emerged in Bucha after Russian forces withdrew, and her encounter with Irina - a woman trying to rebuild her life after she lost her home, and her husband. In July, Orla Guerin reported on the effects of Russia's propaganda machine, and its influence within Russian-speaking communities in Ukraine. Suspicion and mistrust left some locals wondering on whose side their neighbours were on. And acclaimed Ukrainian writer, Andrey Kurkov reflects on his return to Ukraine to celebrate Christmas after several months in Europe and the somewhat muted festivities as the unpredictability of the war continues. </p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  392. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  393. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A selection of stories from correspondents who have covered the war since February.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents a selection of stories from correspondents who have covered the war, from the invasion of Kyiv to the present day. Fergal Keane remembers the beekeepers of the Donbas who he met in 2014, following Russia's annexation of Crimea. As he witnessed the throngs of Ukrainians fleeing war in February of this year, he wonders if he will meet his friends again. Quentin Sommerville reported close to Russian lines in Kharkiv as it came under attack. He reflects on the realities of war and the decision to show dead bodies in his television reporting - to not show them would be a lie, he says. Yogita Limaye writes on the atrocities which emerged in Bucha after Russian forces withdrew, and her encounter with Irina - a woman trying to rebuild her life after she lost her home, and her husband. In July, Orla Guerin reported on the effects of Russia's propaganda machine, and its influence within Russian-speaking communities in Ukraine. Suspicion and mistrust left some locals wondering on whose side their neighbours were on. And acclaimed Ukrainian writer, Andrey Kurkov reflects on his return to Ukraine to celebrate Christmas after several months in Europe and the somewhat muted festivities as the unpredictability of the war continues. </p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  394. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  395. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1732</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dr5c2p.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dr5c2p.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0dr5c2p.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0dr5d0b</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dr5d0b</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dr5c2p.mp3" fileSize="27712000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1732"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0dr5d0b</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Friendship, Fury and a French Suit</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents highlights from 2022, beginning in Moscow, where we hear the story of the friendship between BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg and Valentina, a vendor at a newspaper kiosk. Earlier this year, Ryanair introduced a compulsory nationality test - in Afrikaans - for South African travellers coming into the UK. Audrey Brown describes what the language means to her as a Black South African and for so many others who grew up under apartheid. Protesters took to the streets in Sri Lanka this year, as the country spiralled into an economic crisis which saw Sri Lankans facing shortages of fuel, food and medicine. Rajini Vaidyanathan was in Colombo. And finally, Emmanuel Macron has been criticised for being out of touch with regular voters, so in the French elections this year he tried a more casual approach - in both manner and attire. Our Paris correspondent, Hugh Schofield, decided upon a makeover of his own, and went in search of a new suit - from the President's own tailor. </p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  396. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  397. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie presents highlights of the year's dispatches from around the world.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents highlights from 2022, beginning in Moscow, where we hear the story of the friendship between BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg and Valentina, a vendor at a newspaper kiosk. Earlier this year, Ryanair introduced a compulsory nationality test - in Afrikaans - for South African travellers coming into the UK. Audrey Brown describes what the language means to her as a Black South African and for so many others who grew up under apartheid. Protesters took to the streets in Sri Lanka this year, as the country spiralled into an economic crisis which saw Sri Lankans facing shortages of fuel, food and medicine. Rajini Vaidyanathan was in Colombo. And finally, Emmanuel Macron has been criticised for being out of touch with regular voters, so in the French elections this year he tried a more casual approach - in both manner and attire. Our Paris correspondent, Hugh Schofield, decided upon a makeover of his own, and went in search of a new suit - from the President's own tailor. </p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  398. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  399. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1741</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dr59l1.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dr59l1.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0dr59l1.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0dr5bnx</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dr5bnx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dr59l1.mp3" fileSize="27856000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1741"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0dr5bnx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Haiti: A Gangster’s Paradise</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Haiti, Germany, Sri Lanka, Morocco and Sweden.</p><p>Orla Guerin reports from Haiti where gangs now control 60 per cent of the capital and surrounding areas. Hundreds of people have been killed amid reports of kidnapping, gang rape and torture.</p><p>After a far-right coup on the German government was foiled in recent weeks, Jenny Hill visits one of the 'German kingdoms' which espouses the same conspiracy theories as those who were arrested.</p><p>56, 000 children in Sri Lanka are suffering from severe malnutrition, according to the UN. Archana Shukla visits a tea plantation in central Sri Lanka where several families are having to cut back on food amid inflation and shortages.</p><p>Morocco's World Cup performances have surprised many and led to euphoria on the streets of Rabat, Casablanca and Marrakech. And, despite France beating them in the semi-finals, the team's earlier successes have changed how Moroccans are seen - and how they see themselves, says James Copnall.</p><p>And finally, Maddy Savage visits the Sami reindeer herders of Sweden's north to hear how the country's switch to more renewable energy presents its challenges for this community.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  400. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  401. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Violent gangs control much of Haiti's capital, leaving locals living in fear.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Haiti, Germany, Sri Lanka, Morocco and Sweden.</p><p>Orla Guerin reports from Haiti where gangs now control 60 per cent of the capital and surrounding areas. Hundreds of people have been killed amid reports of kidnapping, gang rape and torture.</p><p>After a far-right coup on the German government was foiled in recent weeks, Jenny Hill visits one of the 'German kingdoms' which espouses the same conspiracy theories as those who were arrested.</p><p>56, 000 children in Sri Lanka are suffering from severe malnutrition, according to the UN. Archana Shukla visits a tea plantation in central Sri Lanka where several families are having to cut back on food amid inflation and shortages.</p><p>Morocco's World Cup performances have surprised many and led to euphoria on the streets of Rabat, Casablanca and Marrakech. And, despite France beating them in the semi-finals, the team's earlier successes have changed how Moroccans are seen - and how they see themselves, says James Copnall.</p><p>And finally, Maddy Savage visits the Sami reindeer herders of Sweden's north to hear how the country's switch to more renewable energy presents its challenges for this community.</p><p>Series Producer: Serena Tarling
  402. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  403. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1775</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dpxl6w.mp3" length="28400000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dpxl6w.mp3" length="28400000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0dpxl6w.mp3" length="28400000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0dpxn8w</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dpxn8w</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dpxl6w.mp3" fileSize="28400000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1775"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0dpxn8w</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>‘Everything that is good has been taken’</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Iran, Niger, Bhutan and Lithuania.</p><p>Russian troops captured Irpin, north-west of Kyiv, early on in the invasion. When the satellite town was liberated, the atrocities of Russian soldiers were laid bare. Nick Redmayne spoke to the residents who returned home about how they are trying to rebuild their lives.</p><p>Following the protests which began in mid-September, after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, news of the first public execution of a protestor in Iran drew international condemnation this week - though protests show no sign of abating. Azadeh Moaveni was in Tehran when the protests began and found the desire for change runs deep in Iranian society.</p><p>Michela Wrong visits a safe house in Niamey, Niger, where eight elderly Rwandan men are being detained, having been prosecuted for their role in the Rwandan genocide. Four have now been acquitted, and four have served their prison sentences. She hears what happened to them since their trial- and the challenges posed by their rehabilitation.</p><p>Last year, Bhutan decriminalised homosexuality. Michelle Jana Chan speaks to gay activists, including Miss Universe Bhutan, about how far the population in the Himalayan Kingdom, is keeping step with political change.</p><p>Lithuania was once the heart of a large empire in the Middle Ages, stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Hundreds of years ago, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania invited members of the Karaim community from Crimea to serve as guards and soldiers of an empire. Simon Broughton attended a festival celebrating their culture in Trakai.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Iran, Niger, Bhutan and Lithuania.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Iran, Niger, Bhutan and Lithuania.</p><p>Russian troops captured Irpin, north-west of Kyiv, early on in the invasion. When the satellite town was liberated, the atrocities of Russian soldiers were laid bare. Nick Redmayne spoke to the residents who returned home about how they are trying to rebuild their lives.</p><p>Following the protests which began in mid-September, after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, news of the first public execution of a protestor in Iran drew international condemnation this week - though protests show no sign of abating. Azadeh Moaveni was in Tehran when the protests began and found the desire for change runs deep in Iranian society.</p><p>Michela Wrong visits a safe house in Niamey, Niger, where eight elderly Rwandan men are being detained, having been prosecuted for their role in the Rwandan genocide. Four have now been acquitted, and four have served their prison sentences. She hears what happened to them since their trial- and the challenges posed by their rehabilitation.</p><p>Last year, Bhutan decriminalised homosexuality. Michelle Jana Chan speaks to gay activists, including Miss Universe Bhutan, about how far the population in the Himalayan Kingdom, is keeping step with political change.</p><p>Lithuania was once the heart of a large empire in the Middle Ages, stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Hundreds of years ago, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania invited members of the Karaim community from Crimea to serve as guards and soldiers of an empire. Simon Broughton attended a festival celebrating their culture in Trakai.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2022 12:04:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1766</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dnbd71.mp3" length="28256000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dnbd71.mp3" length="28256000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0dnbd71.mp3" length="28256000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0dnbdzn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dnbdzn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dnbd71.mp3" fileSize="28256000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1766"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0dnbdzn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Own Correspondent</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from China, Ukraine, Moldova, Zimbabwe and the US.</p><p>Protests have taken place across China, from Shanghai, to Guangdong to Beijing after a fire in Urumqi killed ten people who were thought to have been under Covid restrictions. Celia Hatton asks whether this is a watershed moment for Xi Jinping and his Zero Covid policy.</p><p>In Ukraine, a bloody war is being fought in towns and cities in Donetsk, such as Bakhmut and Avdiivka, with high numbers of casualties on both sides. Abdujalil Abdurasulov went to Avdiivka and spoke to some of the 2000 residents who've decided to stay amid intensive shelling, in bombed-out buildings.</p><p>Joe Inwood goes to neighbouring Moldova where local businesses, including a winery, are trying to switch to renewable energy to avoid the power outages caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Moldova and Ukraine's power infrastructure are intrinsically interlinked, so cities across the country are affected by Russian attacks.</p><p>In Zimbabwe, despite initial hopes that President Ernest Mnangagwa would bring economic and political stability, the reappearance of road blocks harks back to the regime of Robert Mugabe. Meanwhile inflation is once again soaring, and the country remains locked in an economic spiral, says Kim Chakanetsa.</p><p>And in Washington DC, the leader of the far-right, anti-government Oath Keepers militia was found guilty of plotting an armed rebellion to stop President Joe Biden from taking office in 2020. Mike Wendling went to Montana to meet the ring leader, Stewart Rhodes' son.</p><p>Producer: Serena Tarling
  404. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  405. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>China’s Zero Covid Backlash</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from China, Ukraine, Moldova, Zimbabwe and the US.</p><p>Protests have taken place across China, from Shanghai, to Guangdong to Beijing after a fire in Urumqi killed ten people who were thought to have been under Covid restrictions. Celia Hatton asks whether this is a watershed moment for Xi Jinping and his Zero Covid policy.</p><p>In Ukraine, a bloody war is being fought in towns and cities in Donetsk, such as Bakhmut and Avdiivka, with high numbers of casualties on both sides. Abdujalil Abdurasulov went to Avdiivka and spoke to some of the 2000 residents who've decided to stay amid intensive shelling, in bombed-out buildings.</p><p>Joe Inwood goes to neighbouring Moldova where local businesses, including a winery, are trying to switch to renewable energy to avoid the power outages caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Moldova and Ukraine's power infrastructure are intrinsically interlinked, so cities across the country are affected by Russian attacks.</p><p>In Zimbabwe, despite initial hopes that President Ernest Mnangagwa would bring economic and political stability, the reappearance of road blocks harks back to the regime of Robert Mugabe. Meanwhile inflation is once again soaring, and the country remains locked in an economic spiral, says Kim Chakanetsa.</p><p>And in Washington DC, the leader of the far-right, anti-government Oath Keepers militia was found guilty of plotting an armed rebellion to stop President Joe Biden from taking office in 2020. Mike Wendling went to Montana to meet the ring leader, Stewart Rhodes' son.</p><p>Producer: Serena Tarling
  406. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  407. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1730</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dll8gb.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dll8gb.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0dll8gb.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0dll8p9</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dll8p9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dll8gb.mp3" fileSize="27680000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1730"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0dll8p9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Bleak Future For Afghanistan’s Young Women</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Colombia and Ireland.</p><p>The Taliban announced a ban on women going to parks, swimming pools and gyms this month, following one on girls attending secondary schools. Yogita Limaye spoke to one young woman about what life is like in Kabul as these once cherished freedoms disappear.</p><p>The story of Gao Zhisheng, a Chinese human rights lawyer, who was repeatedly detained for his work defending members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement and Christians, is a cautionary tale of Xi Jinping's China. Michael Bristow followed his story from his initial arrest in 2006.</p><p>The UN has said Iraq is the world's fifth most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The country's two main rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris have seen their water levels drop significantly this year as the country experienced one of its worst droughts. Leila Molana Allen spoke to locals about the impact on their livelihoods.</p><p>Colombia's new leftist president, Gustavo Petro, campaigned on a manifesto of tackling inequality and switching to a greener economy. But rising inflation and a depreciation of the peso has proved a challenge to enforcing his radical agenda. Rohan Montgomery went for a ride with motorcyclists in Medellin and heard their views on life under Petro.</p><p>The story of the 'Sack of Baltimore', where a village in Ireland's County Cork was ambushed by Barbary pirates, intrigues visitors to the area, in particular to the Algiers Inn. The attack. in 1631, was the worst on Ireland who took their captives back to North Africa and eventually sold them into slavery. Vincent Dowd went to speak to the locals about what happened.</p><p>Producer: Serena Tarling
  408. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond
  409. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie presents stories from Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Colombia and Ireland.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Colombia and Ireland.</p><p>The Taliban announced a ban on women going to parks, swimming pools and gyms this month, following one on girls attending secondary schools. Yogita Limaye spoke to one young woman about what life is like in Kabul as these once cherished freedoms disappear.</p><p>The story of Gao Zhisheng, a Chinese human rights lawyer, who was repeatedly detained for his work defending members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement and Christians, is a cautionary tale of Xi Jinping's China. Michael Bristow followed his story from his initial arrest in 2006.</p><p>The UN has said Iraq is the world's fifth most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The country's two main rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris have seen their water levels drop significantly this year as the country experienced one of its worst droughts. Leila Molana Allen spoke to locals about the impact on their livelihoods.</p><p>Colombia's new leftist president, Gustavo Petro, campaigned on a manifesto of tackling inequality and switching to a greener economy. But rising inflation and a depreciation of the peso has proved a challenge to enforcing his radical agenda. Rohan Montgomery went for a ride with motorcyclists in Medellin and heard their views on life under Petro.</p><p>The story of the 'Sack of Baltimore', where a village in Ireland's County Cork was ambushed by Barbary pirates, intrigues visitors to the area, in particular to the Algiers Inn. The attack. in 1631, was the worst on Ireland who took their captives back to North Africa and eventually sold them into slavery. Vincent Dowd went to speak to the locals about what happened.</p><p>Producer: Serena Tarling
  410. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond
  411. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1734</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0djz0sn.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0djz0sn.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0djz0sn.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0djz1t0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0djz1t0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0djz0sn.mp3" fileSize="27744000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1734"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0djz1t0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Letters from Russia</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Russia, the Netherlands, France, Tunisia and the US.</p><p>A vocal critic of Putin's invasion of Ukraine writes to Sarah Rainsford from Detention Centre no 5 in Moscow. In those letters, he speaks frankly about the damage wrought by the war and his hopes for a better future after Vladimir Putin.</p><p>The verdict in the trial of three Russians and one Ukrainian suspected of involvement in the shooting down of passenger jet MH17 disaster in 2014 over Eastern Ukraine, was passed down on Friday. Anna Holligan spoke to families of the victims about whether they felt justice had been done.</p><p>Lucy Williamson has been on patrol with French border police in Calais and Dunkerque, after a migrant deal was struck between the UK and France this week. Despite the media storm in the UK, she found the view looked very different from the French end.</p><p>Rob Crossan visits the small Tunisian island of Djerba, where Jews and Muslims co-exist peacefully - something of a rareity in the Arab world - and murals in the winding streets reflect the culture of mutual tolerance.</p><p>And James Clayton has been getting the word on the street in San Francisco, the home of Twitter, after a turbulent week at the social media platform, and he explores the impact of Elon Musk's takeover.</p><p>Producers: Serena Tarling and Caroline Bayley
  412. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond
  413. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie presents stories from Russia, the Netherlands, France, Tunisia and the US.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Russia, the Netherlands, France, Tunisia and the US.</p><p>A vocal critic of Putin's invasion of Ukraine writes to Sarah Rainsford from Detention Centre no 5 in Moscow. In those letters, he speaks frankly about the damage wrought by the war and his hopes for a better future after Vladimir Putin.</p><p>The verdict in the trial of three Russians and one Ukrainian suspected of involvement in the shooting down of passenger jet MH17 disaster in 2014 over Eastern Ukraine, was passed down on Friday. Anna Holligan spoke to families of the victims about whether they felt justice had been done.</p><p>Lucy Williamson has been on patrol with French border police in Calais and Dunkerque, after a migrant deal was struck between the UK and France this week. Despite the media storm in the UK, she found the view looked very different from the French end.</p><p>Rob Crossan visits the small Tunisian island of Djerba, where Jews and Muslims co-exist peacefully - something of a rareity in the Arab world - and murals in the winding streets reflect the culture of mutual tolerance.</p><p>And James Clayton has been getting the word on the street in San Francisco, the home of Twitter, after a turbulent week at the social media platform, and he explores the impact of Elon Musk's takeover.</p><p>Producers: Serena Tarling and Caroline Bayley
  414. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond
  415. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2022 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1768</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dhcsxl.mp3" length="28288000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dhcsxl.mp3" length="28288000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0dhcsxl.mp3" length="28288000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0dhcwhl</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dhcwhl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dhcsxl.mp3" fileSize="28288000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1768"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0dhcwhl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Kherson: After the Russian Retreat</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, the West Bank, Pakistan, the US and the Faroe Islands.</p><p>Jeremy Bowen was in Kherson in Ukraine shortly after the Russians retreated, but he found that occupation and liberation can lead to suspicion and division.</p><p>There is unease among Palestinians living in the hamlets of Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank as the new Israeli government takes shape. Yolande Knell spoke to villagers there, who found out earlier this year about the Israeli Supreme Court decision to recognise a military training zone around their homes.</p><p>Samira Hussain attends one of the rallies of former PM Imran Khan on his March to Islamabad and meets him again after an assassination attempt a fortnight later - wounded but determined to continue his political fight.</p><p>In New York, there's a population explosion - of rats. The mayor has a plan to tackle the problem but requiring residents to put their refuse out after 8pm each night. But there's more to the expanding rat population than meets the eye, finds Laura Trevelyan.</p><p>And in the Faroe Islands, Tim Ecott is in amidst a sheep mustering where he learns about the local meat-eating tradition, and the desire to be self-sustainable amid the threat of European recession, inflation and the energy crisis.</p><p>Producers: Caroline Bayley and Serena Tarling
  416. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  417. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate presents stories from Ukraine, the West Bank, Pakistan, the US and the Faroe Islands</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, the West Bank, Pakistan, the US and the Faroe Islands.</p><p>Jeremy Bowen was in Kherson in Ukraine shortly after the Russians retreated, but he found that occupation and liberation can lead to suspicion and division.</p><p>There is unease among Palestinians living in the hamlets of Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank as the new Israeli government takes shape. Yolande Knell spoke to villagers there, who found out earlier this year about the Israeli Supreme Court decision to recognise a military training zone around their homes.</p><p>Samira Hussain attends one of the rallies of former PM Imran Khan on his March to Islamabad and meets him again after an assassination attempt a fortnight later - wounded but determined to continue his political fight.</p><p>In New York, there's a population explosion - of rats. The mayor has a plan to tackle the problem but requiring residents to put their refuse out after 8pm each night. But there's more to the expanding rat population than meets the eye, finds Laura Trevelyan.</p><p>And in the Faroe Islands, Tim Ecott is in amidst a sheep mustering where he learns about the local meat-eating tradition, and the desire to be self-sustainable amid the threat of European recession, inflation and the energy crisis.</p><p>Producers: Caroline Bayley and Serena Tarling
  418. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  419. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2022 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1732</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dgs3vp.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dgs3vp.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0dgs3vp.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0dgs72w</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dgs72w</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dgs3vp.mp3" fileSize="27712000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1732"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0dgs72w</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Red Wave That Wasn’t</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents dispatches from the US, Australia, Egypt, Portugal and Slovenia</p><p></p><p>The predicted “giant red wave” of Republican support did not materialise in this week’s midterm elections – though they are still poised to regain control of the House of Representatives and could still seize full control of Congress. John Sudworth weighs what the outcome means for Donald Trump's Republicans</p><p></p><p>The death of a 15-year-old Aboriginal boy in Western Australia has triggered a public outcry.  Last month, Cassius Turvey was walking home from school with friends, when they were allegedly attacked. Cassius was beaten up and later died in hospital. His death has posed hard questions, about pervasive racism in the country, says Shaimaa Khalil</p><p></p><p>The Egyptian beach resort of Sharm El-Sheikh is this week hosting the UN Climate Change summit. The gathering is often criticised for its lack of progress on climate change targets and its heavy carbon footprint. But Justin Rowlatt says there’s a new proposal, which is gaining traction – led by the Prime Minister of Barbados.</p><p></p><p>Portugal's golden visa scheme, which rewarded wealthy foreign investors with citizenship, has pushed house prices up over the last ten years.  The government recently announced it plans to end the scheme - but it may be too late for many young people who’re still unable to get a foot on the housing ladder, says Natasha Fernandez.</p><p></p><p>In Slovenia, Nick Hunt follows the 'Walk of Peace' trail amid trenches and memorials to fallen soldiers in the First World War. He hears from locals how forest fires last Summer wreaked fresh devastation on the region. </p><p></p><p>Producers: Serena Tarling and Ellie House</p><p>Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p><p>Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Predictions of a sweeping Republican comeback in the US midterms failed to materialise</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents dispatches from the US, Australia, Egypt, Portugal and Slovenia</p><p></p><p>The predicted “giant red wave” of Republican support did not materialise in this week’s midterm elections – though they are still poised to regain control of the House of Representatives and could still seize full control of Congress. John Sudworth weighs what the outcome means for Donald Trump's Republicans</p><p></p><p>The death of a 15-year-old Aboriginal boy in Western Australia has triggered a public outcry.  Last month, Cassius Turvey was walking home from school with friends, when they were allegedly attacked. Cassius was beaten up and later died in hospital. His death has posed hard questions, about pervasive racism in the country, says Shaimaa Khalil</p><p></p><p>The Egyptian beach resort of Sharm El-Sheikh is this week hosting the UN Climate Change summit. The gathering is often criticised for its lack of progress on climate change targets and its heavy carbon footprint. But Justin Rowlatt says there’s a new proposal, which is gaining traction – led by the Prime Minister of Barbados.</p><p></p><p>Portugal's golden visa scheme, which rewarded wealthy foreign investors with citizenship, has pushed house prices up over the last ten years.  The government recently announced it plans to end the scheme - but it may be too late for many young people who’re still unable to get a foot on the housing ladder, says Natasha Fernandez.</p><p></p><p>In Slovenia, Nick Hunt follows the 'Walk of Peace' trail amid trenches and memorials to fallen soldiers in the First World War. He hears from locals how forest fires last Summer wreaked fresh devastation on the region. </p><p></p><p>Producers: Serena Tarling and Ellie House</p><p>Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p><p>Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1734</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dfrql8.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dfrql8.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0dfrql8.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0dfrrbk</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dfrrbk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dfrql8.mp3" fileSize="27744000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1734"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0dfrrbk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Surviving Mariupol</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Nigeria, the US, Mexico and an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. </p><p>News this week of the discovery of another mass grave in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol has left families with missing relatives, fearing for their plight. And as media access has grown increasingly limited, understanding what really happened in Mariupol has become less clear. Hillary Anderson has spent much of the year trying to find out.</p><p>In Nigeria, the case of Mubarak Bala, who was sentenced to 24 years in prison for blasphemy, has thrown into the spotlight the limits on freedom of expression. Across the country, atheists, face discrimination at work and even violence. Yemisi Adegoke followed Mubarak's case and learned what can happen to those who decide to live openly without faith.</p><p>Residents of Jackson, Mississippi have long complained about their failing water system. And this summer, the crisis came to a head. Jackson’s residents were faced with dirty brown water coming from their taps, or no water at all - but the crisis is far from over. Nick Judin met some of the city’s most vulnerable residents.</p><p>The UN Secretary General this week warned that the world is on a 'highway to climate hell' as world leaders gathered for COP 27, in Egypt. Kate Vandy travelled to Svalbard – a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, which is warming six times faster than anywhere else on the planet.</p><p>Every year, the start of November brings the traditional Mexican holiday The Day of the Dead. People paint their faces, wear flowers in their hair, and hang skeleton-themed decorations in the streets. But in Mexico City, Olaf Furniss wonders whether today’s festivities are veering from tradition.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  420. Producers: Ellie House and Serena Tarling
  421. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  422. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>After the siege of Mariupol and a media blackout, stories emerge from those who escaped.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Nigeria, the US, Mexico and an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. </p><p>News this week of the discovery of another mass grave in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol has left families with missing relatives, fearing for their plight. And as media access has grown increasingly limited, understanding what really happened in Mariupol has become less clear. Hillary Anderson has spent much of the year trying to find out.</p><p>In Nigeria, the case of Mubarak Bala, who was sentenced to 24 years in prison for blasphemy, has thrown into the spotlight the limits on freedom of expression. Across the country, atheists, face discrimination at work and even violence. Yemisi Adegoke followed Mubarak's case and learned what can happen to those who decide to live openly without faith.</p><p>Residents of Jackson, Mississippi have long complained about their failing water system. And this summer, the crisis came to a head. Jackson’s residents were faced with dirty brown water coming from their taps, or no water at all - but the crisis is far from over. Nick Judin met some of the city’s most vulnerable residents.</p><p>The UN Secretary General this week warned that the world is on a 'highway to climate hell' as world leaders gathered for COP 27, in Egypt. Kate Vandy travelled to Svalbard – a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, which is warming six times faster than anywhere else on the planet.</p><p>Every year, the start of November brings the traditional Mexican holiday The Day of the Dead. People paint their faces, wear flowers in their hair, and hang skeleton-themed decorations in the streets. But in Mexico City, Olaf Furniss wonders whether today’s festivities are veering from tradition.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  423. Producers: Ellie House and Serena Tarling
  424. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  425. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 11:19:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1707</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0df6pd4.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0df6pd4.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0df6pd4.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0df6q9z</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0df6q9z</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0df6pd4.mp3" fileSize="27312000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1707"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0df6q9z</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Albania’s Young Migrants</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Albania’s Prime Minister this week has accused the UK of scapegoating his country's citizens to excuse its ‘failed policies’ on migration. This comes amid a deepening crisis over the UK’s handling of asylum seekers. Sara Monetta spoke to people in the suburbs of Tirana about why many of Albania’s young people are choosing to leave.</p><p>Last weekend, young people gathered in the district of Itaewon, in the South Korean capital Seoul, to celebrate Halloween in far greater numbers than usual. The subsequent crush killed more than 150 people. Laila Shahrokhshahi experienced first-hand the force of the crowds before tragedy struck.</p><p>Voters in Israel chose to return Benjamin Netanyahu to power in this week's election. The big story of his dramatic comeback has been about the rise of Israel’s far-right, which he helped cultivate as a parliamentary alliance to boost the numbers for his right-wing bloc in the Knesset. Tom Bateman looks at the emergence of a new kingmaker, Itamar Ben-Gvir.</p><p>Ahead of the midterm elections, the abortion debate still polarises the US, following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe vs Wade. During those proceedings, there was also talk of Safe Haven laws, which exist in every state, and allow mothers to leave their new-borns at a designated safe site if they feel they are unable to take care of them. In Arizona, Linda Pressly met a family with direct experience of this.</p><p>Ukraine's President has accused the Kremlin of 'energy terrorism', saying millions of people have been left without power because of Russian attacks on the country's power grid. Hugo Bachega has been living in the city for the past few months, and describes how Kyiv’s citizens have once again adapted to rapidly changing circumstances.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  426. Producers: Serena Tarling and Ellie House
  427. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  428. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>With limited opportunities at home, Albania's young people seek a better life in the UK</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Albania’s Prime Minister this week has accused the UK of scapegoating his country's citizens to excuse its ‘failed policies’ on migration. This comes amid a deepening crisis over the UK’s handling of asylum seekers. Sara Monetta spoke to people in the suburbs of Tirana about why many of Albania’s young people are choosing to leave.</p><p>Last weekend, young people gathered in the district of Itaewon, in the South Korean capital Seoul, to celebrate Halloween in far greater numbers than usual. The subsequent crush killed more than 150 people. Laila Shahrokhshahi experienced first-hand the force of the crowds before tragedy struck.</p><p>Voters in Israel chose to return Benjamin Netanyahu to power in this week's election. The big story of his dramatic comeback has been about the rise of Israel’s far-right, which he helped cultivate as a parliamentary alliance to boost the numbers for his right-wing bloc in the Knesset. Tom Bateman looks at the emergence of a new kingmaker, Itamar Ben-Gvir.</p><p>Ahead of the midterm elections, the abortion debate still polarises the US, following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe vs Wade. During those proceedings, there was also talk of Safe Haven laws, which exist in every state, and allow mothers to leave their new-borns at a designated safe site if they feel they are unable to take care of them. In Arizona, Linda Pressly met a family with direct experience of this.</p><p>Ukraine's President has accused the Kremlin of 'energy terrorism', saying millions of people have been left without power because of Russian attacks on the country's power grid. Hugo Bachega has been living in the city for the past few months, and describes how Kyiv’s citizens have once again adapted to rapidly changing circumstances.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  429. Producers: Serena Tarling and Ellie House
  430. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  431. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1730</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dd1jg3.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dd1jg3.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0dd1jg3.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0dd1pdv</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dd1pdv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dd1jg3.mp3" fileSize="27680000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1730"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0dd1pdv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The return of Lula</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Brazil's left-wing Presidential candidate Lula da Silva made a political comeback this week, narrowly beating the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro. In Lula’s victory speech, he promised to tackle hunger, which is affecting more than 33 million people there. Sofia Bettiza travelled to Northeastern Brazil, where many people voted for Lula.
  432. This week, Lebanon entered unchartered territory with no president, a caretaker cabinet and deeply divided parliament. And with the Lebanese currency losing around 90 per cent of its value, the country’s citizens have been taken matters into their own hands. More than a dozen banks have been raided this year by customers demanding to take out their own money rather than see their savings diminish further. Leila Molana-Allen spoke to several of those affected by the rapidly falling exchange rate.
  433. In September, clashes erupted along the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The hostilities marked the most serious escalation since 2020, when they fought a bloody war over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. A tentative ceasefire is now in place. But Gabriel Gavin found increasing numbers of Armenian women signing up to defend the country
  434. Norway this week put its military on a raised level of alert in response to the war in Ukraine. David Baillie was recently on Norway’s border with Russia where he encountered some young students manning the border posts.
  435. In Senegal, we hear how a certain food staple introduced by the former French colonisers has become a much-loved feature of the diet of the Serer people. Tim Whewell recently went to seek out the story of how this food item came to be so cherished.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  436. Producers: Serena Tarling and Ellie House
  437. Editor: Simon Watts
  438. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Lula da Silva makes a political comeback in a tightly fought election in Brazil</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Brazil's left-wing Presidential candidate Lula da Silva made a political comeback this week, narrowly beating the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro. In Lula’s victory speech, he promised to tackle hunger, which is affecting more than 33 million people there. Sofia Bettiza travelled to Northeastern Brazil, where many people voted for Lula.
  439. This week, Lebanon entered unchartered territory with no president, a caretaker cabinet and deeply divided parliament. And with the Lebanese currency losing around 90 per cent of its value, the country’s citizens have been taken matters into their own hands. More than a dozen banks have been raided this year by customers demanding to take out their own money rather than see their savings diminish further. Leila Molana-Allen spoke to several of those affected by the rapidly falling exchange rate.
  440. In September, clashes erupted along the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The hostilities marked the most serious escalation since 2020, when they fought a bloody war over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. A tentative ceasefire is now in place. But Gabriel Gavin found increasing numbers of Armenian women signing up to defend the country
  441. Norway this week put its military on a raised level of alert in response to the war in Ukraine. David Baillie was recently on Norway’s border with Russia where he encountered some young students manning the border posts.
  442. In Senegal, we hear how a certain food staple introduced by the former French colonisers has become a much-loved feature of the diet of the Serer people. Tim Whewell recently went to seek out the story of how this food item came to be so cherished.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  443. Producers: Serena Tarling and Ellie House
  444. Editor: Simon Watts
  445. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2022 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1751</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dcl13t.mp3" length="28016000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dcl13t.mp3" length="28016000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0dcl13t.mp3" length="28016000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0dcl4h0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dcl4h0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dcl13t.mp3" fileSize="28016000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1751"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0dcl4h0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Ukraine’s Eastern Frontline</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The battle on Ukraine’s eastern frontline, in Donbas, has turned into a protracted artillery war, which Ukraine has described as the biggest on European soil since World War Two. And as battlefields surrender to the frost of Winter, the conditions for soldiers are becoming more perilous. Jeremy Bowen recently embedded with a Ukrainian artillery unit on the front line where, despite months of relentless fighting, soldiers are maintaining their resolve.</p><p>The conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region has left a population facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. And although formal peace talks are currently underway in South Africa, between the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces, fighting is still on-going. Catherine Byaruhanga has been speaking to health workers dealing with the fallout of this conflict, who fear, without basic supplies, the situation will only get worse.</p><p>The southern state of Georgia looks set to be a crucial battleground for Democrats and Republicans in the forthcoming mid-term elections in the United States. The outcome of the Senate race in Georgia is likely to determine which party has control of the upper chamber of Congress. Kayla Epstein has been following the campaign of the high-profile Republican candidate, Herschel Walker.</p><p>Bullfighting is a centuries old tradition most often associated with Spain and one which arouses passion amongst both its supporters and its detractors. But the traditional arena bull fight is not, in fact, the most common bull-related activity in the country. There are numerous smaller festivals involving bulls which have recently come under the spotlight, after nine people died earlier this year after taking part in bull runs in Northern Valencia. Victor Lloret travelled to Lucena del Cid to find out what happens to the bulls during these local festivities.</p><p>French overseas territories don’t run their own domestic affairs like their British equivalents, but elect representatives to the French parliament and vote for a presidential candidate. This year, the far right leader Marine Le Pen scored her best presidential first round result in Mayotte, a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. Tim Fenton is just back from the island, where he found the politics was almost as striking as its beauty.
  447. Presenter: Kate Adie
  448. Producers: Serena Tarling and Ellie House
  449. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  450. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A visit to an artillery unit in Donbas highlights the arduous conditions faced by soldiers</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The battle on Ukraine’s eastern frontline, in Donbas, has turned into a protracted artillery war, which Ukraine has described as the biggest on European soil since World War Two. And as battlefields surrender to the frost of Winter, the conditions for soldiers are becoming more perilous. Jeremy Bowen recently embedded with a Ukrainian artillery unit on the front line where, despite months of relentless fighting, soldiers are maintaining their resolve.</p><p>The conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region has left a population facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. And although formal peace talks are currently underway in South Africa, between the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces, fighting is still on-going. Catherine Byaruhanga has been speaking to health workers dealing with the fallout of this conflict, who fear, without basic supplies, the situation will only get worse.</p><p>The southern state of Georgia looks set to be a crucial battleground for Democrats and Republicans in the forthcoming mid-term elections in the United States. The outcome of the Senate race in Georgia is likely to determine which party has control of the upper chamber of Congress. Kayla Epstein has been following the campaign of the high-profile Republican candidate, Herschel Walker.</p><p>Bullfighting is a centuries old tradition most often associated with Spain and one which arouses passion amongst both its supporters and its detractors. But the traditional arena bull fight is not, in fact, the most common bull-related activity in the country. There are numerous smaller festivals involving bulls which have recently come under the spotlight, after nine people died earlier this year after taking part in bull runs in Northern Valencia. Victor Lloret travelled to Lucena del Cid to find out what happens to the bulls during these local festivities.</p><p>French overseas territories don’t run their own domestic affairs like their British equivalents, but elect representatives to the French parliament and vote for a presidential candidate. This year, the far right leader Marine Le Pen scored her best presidential first round result in Mayotte, a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. Tim Fenton is just back from the island, where he found the politics was almost as striking as its beauty.
  452. Presenter: Kate Adie
  453. Producers: Serena Tarling and Ellie House
  454. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  455. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1736</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dbfxv7.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dbfxv7.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0dbfxv7.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0dbg1hn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dbg1hn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0dbfxv7.mp3" fileSize="27776000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1736"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0dbg1hn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Brazil votes on the Amazon's future</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from Brazil, Taiwan, Zambia, Sweden and the USA.</p><p>On Sunday Brazilians vote in the final stage of their presidential election, and the slate offers a very clear choice. Meanwhile, the indigenous peoples of Brazil are facing a host of outside threats, as illegal gold miners flood into their traditional lands to seek their fortunes. While the mining process itself damages the forest, the social effects are also insidious. Katy Watson has been to the world's largest indigenous reserve, territory of the Yanomami people, to hear how the gold rush is playing out.</p><p>The issue of Taiwan's identity is one of the most vexed geopolitical questions around. On the Chinese mainland, there's no doubt - Taiwan is historically part of China and reunification should happen as soon as possible. On the island itself, most people have very different views. In Taipei, Zeinab Badawi considers the past, present and future of a possible flashpoint for regional conflict.</p><p>Food prices have been rising almost everywhere, in the wake of the war in Ukraine and several seasons of drought and natural disaster in many of the world's usual 'breadbaskets'. Some feel the effects far more keenly than others. In Zambia, the soaring cost of bottled gas and vegetable oil means even the simplest snack is now out of reach for some. Qasa Alom stopped off in a small town to talk about the price of potato chips with a woman who earns her living selling them from a stall.</p><p>Most stereotypes of Sweden revolve around ABBA and Ikea, a strong welfare state and political moderation. But the results of the most recent general election shook those certainties, as a far-right nativist party, the Sweden Democrats, gained over a fifth of the votes and became a key part of the new right-wing coalition in government. Matilda Welin's been wondering if it's time for Swedes and others to rethink what the country's really about.</p><p>Can the United States of America ever really make amends for the sins of its past? Paying reparations to the descendants of enslaved people was a central demand for the Black Lives Matter movement. Calculating the best way to pay out is a challenge to communities and institutions. Mike Wendling reports from Evanston, Illinois, on one scheme which has made some first steps.</p><p>Producer: Serena Tarling
  456. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  457. Production Co-ordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Illegal gold mining on indigenous land and stories from Taiwan, Zambia, Sweden and the US</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from Brazil, Taiwan, Zambia, Sweden and the USA.</p><p>On Sunday Brazilians vote in the final stage of their presidential election, and the slate offers a very clear choice. Meanwhile, the indigenous peoples of Brazil are facing a host of outside threats, as illegal gold miners flood into their traditional lands to seek their fortunes. While the mining process itself damages the forest, the social effects are also insidious. Katy Watson has been to the world's largest indigenous reserve, territory of the Yanomami people, to hear how the gold rush is playing out.</p><p>The issue of Taiwan's identity is one of the most vexed geopolitical questions around. On the Chinese mainland, there's no doubt - Taiwan is historically part of China and reunification should happen as soon as possible. On the island itself, most people have very different views. In Taipei, Zeinab Badawi considers the past, present and future of a possible flashpoint for regional conflict.</p><p>Food prices have been rising almost everywhere, in the wake of the war in Ukraine and several seasons of drought and natural disaster in many of the world's usual 'breadbaskets'. Some feel the effects far more keenly than others. In Zambia, the soaring cost of bottled gas and vegetable oil means even the simplest snack is now out of reach for some. Qasa Alom stopped off in a small town to talk about the price of potato chips with a woman who earns her living selling them from a stall.</p><p>Most stereotypes of Sweden revolve around ABBA and Ikea, a strong welfare state and political moderation. But the results of the most recent general election shook those certainties, as a far-right nativist party, the Sweden Democrats, gained over a fifth of the votes and became a key part of the new right-wing coalition in government. Matilda Welin's been wondering if it's time for Swedes and others to rethink what the country's really about.</p><p>Can the United States of America ever really make amends for the sins of its past? Paying reparations to the descendants of enslaved people was a central demand for the Black Lives Matter movement. Calculating the best way to pay out is a challenge to communities and institutions. Mike Wendling reports from Evanston, Illinois, on one scheme which has made some first steps.</p><p>Producer: Serena Tarling
  458. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  459. Production Co-ordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1742</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d9x63x.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d9x63x.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0d9x63x.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0d9x88y</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d9x88y</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d9x63x.mp3" fileSize="27872000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1742"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0d9x88y</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Nigeria’s Flood-hit State</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Nigeria is suffering its worst flooding in a decade with 1.4 million people displaced and more than 600 killed. There are now concerns that the country may face catastrophic levels of hunger. The BBC’s West Africa correspondent, Mayeni Jones, visited flood-hit Kogi state and reflects on what her journey revealed about the state of the country. </p><p>The Netherlands is currently lurching from crisis to crisis - including a tense debate over how to accommodate thousands of asylum seekers. In recent weeks, judges ordered the Dutch government to raise the standards in the reception of refugees in line with the European minimum. Anna Holligan visited a reception centre in the country's rural north.</p><p>Many who fled Iran after the revolution in 1979 had to find their way in new countries, including Israel. Suzanne Kianpour met with a singer who left Iran for Israel as a child and spoke to her about how she managed to adjust to the different culture and her desire to build bridges between enemy countries.</p><p>Bhutan has kept its borders firmly closed for two and a half years. Now it’s re-opened to tourists, and an additional daily tourist tax is set to make it a much more exclusive. Locals who cater for less extravagant budgets are being hit hard, says Michelle Jana Chan.</p><p>it was just a normal Friday afternoon when tragedy struck the village of Creeslough in county Donegal in Ireland. An explosion at a petrol station killed ten people - with police describing it as a tragic accident. Members of the local community have pulled together in their grief with small acts of kindness, says Chris Page. </p><p></p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie</p><p>Producers: Serena Tarling and Ellie House</p><p>Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p><p>Editor: Emma Rippon</p><p></p><p>Photo credit: Ayo Bello, BBC</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A journey on the road to Kogi state highlights Abuja's inaction over devastating floods</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Nigeria is suffering its worst flooding in a decade with 1.4 million people displaced and more than 600 killed. There are now concerns that the country may face catastrophic levels of hunger. The BBC’s West Africa correspondent, Mayeni Jones, visited flood-hit Kogi state and reflects on what her journey revealed about the state of the country. </p><p>The Netherlands is currently lurching from crisis to crisis - including a tense debate over how to accommodate thousands of asylum seekers. In recent weeks, judges ordered the Dutch government to raise the standards in the reception of refugees in line with the European minimum. Anna Holligan visited a reception centre in the country's rural north.</p><p>Many who fled Iran after the revolution in 1979 had to find their way in new countries, including Israel. Suzanne Kianpour met with a singer who left Iran for Israel as a child and spoke to her about how she managed to adjust to the different culture and her desire to build bridges between enemy countries.</p><p>Bhutan has kept its borders firmly closed for two and a half years. Now it’s re-opened to tourists, and an additional daily tourist tax is set to make it a much more exclusive. Locals who cater for less extravagant budgets are being hit hard, says Michelle Jana Chan.</p><p>it was just a normal Friday afternoon when tragedy struck the village of Creeslough in county Donegal in Ireland. An explosion at a petrol station killed ten people - with police describing it as a tragic accident. Members of the local community have pulled together in their grief with small acts of kindness, says Chris Page. </p><p></p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie</p><p>Producers: Serena Tarling and Ellie House</p><p>Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p><p>Editor: Emma Rippon</p><p></p><p>Photo credit: Ayo Bello, BBC</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1749</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d8ttzz.mp3" length="27984000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d8ttzz.mp3" length="27984000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0d8ttzz.mp3" length="27984000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0d8tx23</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d8tx23</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d8ttzz.mp3" fileSize="27984000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1749"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0d8tx23</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Tracing Ukraine’s missing people</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In Ukraine, rights groups are reporting growing numbers of missing civilians in areas occupied by Russia. Many are believed to have been taken to Russian prisons, but the husbands, wives and relatives are left behind, scouring news bulletins and online message boards in a desperate attempt to track them down. Bel Trew met some of them.
  460. The UK government is being urged to make a formal apology for alleged war crimes by British troops in historical Palestine nearly a century ago. The petition is being brought by an elderly Palestinian business owner who was shot and wounded by UK forces as a boy. Tom Bateman came across the vivid accounts of some of the soldiers.
  461. The sinking of a government-owned Senegalese ferry, the Joola, in 2002 took more lives than the infamous Titanic - leaving 1,800 people dead. Subsequent inquiries highlighted poor safety measures and the overcrowding of the boat as major factors in the disaster. Our correspondent, Efrem Gebreab met two of the survivors in Senegal.
  462. Sporadic protests have been taking place across Cuba amid a nationwide blackout following Hurricane Ian. Cuba's economy had been brought to its knees due to economic mismanagement and the impact of Covid-19. And the recent disaster at the island’s biggest fuel depot meant a powerful hurricane was the last thing the weary Cuban people needed, says Will Grant.
  463. Naples in Southern Italy is renowned for its Roman ruins but what about its Greek heritage? Part of an ancient Greek cemetery, discovered under a 19th century palazzo has now been opened to the public. Julia Buckley went to visit the intricately decorated tombs.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>In Ukraine, relatives desperately search for those who have disappeared or were captured</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In Ukraine, rights groups are reporting growing numbers of missing civilians in areas occupied by Russia. Many are believed to have been taken to Russian prisons, but the husbands, wives and relatives are left behind, scouring news bulletins and online message boards in a desperate attempt to track them down. Bel Trew met some of them.
  464. The UK government is being urged to make a formal apology for alleged war crimes by British troops in historical Palestine nearly a century ago. The petition is being brought by an elderly Palestinian business owner who was shot and wounded by UK forces as a boy. Tom Bateman came across the vivid accounts of some of the soldiers.
  465. The sinking of a government-owned Senegalese ferry, the Joola, in 2002 took more lives than the infamous Titanic - leaving 1,800 people dead. Subsequent inquiries highlighted poor safety measures and the overcrowding of the boat as major factors in the disaster. Our correspondent, Efrem Gebreab met two of the survivors in Senegal.
  466. Sporadic protests have been taking place across Cuba amid a nationwide blackout following Hurricane Ian. Cuba's economy had been brought to its knees due to economic mismanagement and the impact of Covid-19. And the recent disaster at the island’s biggest fuel depot meant a powerful hurricane was the last thing the weary Cuban people needed, says Will Grant.
  467. Naples in Southern Italy is renowned for its Roman ruins but what about its Greek heritage? Part of an ancient Greek cemetery, discovered under a 19th century palazzo has now been opened to the public. Julia Buckley went to visit the intricately decorated tombs.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1735</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d880yk.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d880yk.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0d880yk.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0d882x4</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d882x4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d880yk.mp3" fileSize="27760000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1735"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0d882x4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Ukraine: A War of Nerves</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The past week has been one of contrasting emotions in Ukraine. The country celebrated a dramatic and unexpected development: an attack on a key bridge linking Russia with Crimea was seen as a major strategic blow to Vladimir Putin. But days later, Russia launched some of the most widespread missile attacks of the war. Paul Adams, says there is a lingering unease in Ukraine about Putin’s next move.
  468. Last month, a bold counter-offensive by Ukraine’s military in the country’s east led to a retreat by Russian forces. But as the Russians left behind cities they occupied for months, allegations of atrocities they committed began to emerge. Sofia Bettiza met some Sri Lankans held captive in the city of Kharkiv.
  469. A shocking attack on a nursery in Thailand’s north-east stunned the country. Jonathan Head was in the village of Uthai Sawan, and reflects on the part that the hardship of life may have played in the tragedy.
  470. After the Soviet Union collapsed, Tajikistan slid into a 5 year civil war which cost 100,000 lives and forced a million people from their homes. Among the pursuits of daily life that has suffered amid the violence is bee-keeping. But, thanks to a conservation initiative, it's seeing a revival says Antonia Bolingbroke Kent.
  471. A dream inspires a visit to a fishing village in Romania across the Danube from Ukraine. Its name is Periprava – once the site of a Communist-prison camp, now razed to the ground. Nick Thorpe was given a tour of the secluded, small community, much transformed. But despite its charm, the sound of sirens can still be heard across the waters – and a colder reality breaks the spell.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  472. Producers: Serena Tarling and Ellie House
  473. Editor: Bridget Harney
  474. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Ukrainians brace for further escalation by Russia after a week of devastating attacks</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The past week has been one of contrasting emotions in Ukraine. The country celebrated a dramatic and unexpected development: an attack on a key bridge linking Russia with Crimea was seen as a major strategic blow to Vladimir Putin. But days later, Russia launched some of the most widespread missile attacks of the war. Paul Adams, says there is a lingering unease in Ukraine about Putin’s next move.
  475. Last month, a bold counter-offensive by Ukraine’s military in the country’s east led to a retreat by Russian forces. But as the Russians left behind cities they occupied for months, allegations of atrocities they committed began to emerge. Sofia Bettiza met some Sri Lankans held captive in the city of Kharkiv.
  476. A shocking attack on a nursery in Thailand’s north-east stunned the country. Jonathan Head was in the village of Uthai Sawan, and reflects on the part that the hardship of life may have played in the tragedy.
  477. After the Soviet Union collapsed, Tajikistan slid into a 5 year civil war which cost 100,000 lives and forced a million people from their homes. Among the pursuits of daily life that has suffered amid the violence is bee-keeping. But, thanks to a conservation initiative, it's seeing a revival says Antonia Bolingbroke Kent.
  478. A dream inspires a visit to a fishing village in Romania across the Danube from Ukraine. Its name is Periprava – once the site of a Communist-prison camp, now razed to the ground. Nick Thorpe was given a tour of the secluded, small community, much transformed. But despite its charm, the sound of sirens can still be heard across the waters – and a colder reality breaks the spell.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  479. Producers: Serena Tarling and Ellie House
  480. Editor: Bridget Harney
  481. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1739</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d7666t.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d7666t.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0d7666t.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0d7670d</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d7670d</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d7666t.mp3" fileSize="27824000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1739"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0d7670d</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mahsa Amini’s Kurdish Heritage</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Protests in Iran, following the death in custody of a Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, are now in their fourth week despite the intensifying crackdown. Mahsa became a symbol of Iranian repression after her arrest by the morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly.  Anna Foster met members of Mahsa's family who live across the border in Iraqi Kurdistan.
  482. In India, a new extremist Hindu movement - made up mostly of young men- is growing. They call themselves “trads”, short for traditionalists, and share many of the hallmarks of America’s alt-right movement and mainly operate online. Reha Kansara met one of them on India’s southern coast.
  483. Rising inflation is now a global problem, but in Argentina it’s a way of life. This year has proved particularly challenging in the country as it teeters on the edge of hyperinflation. Jane Chambers was in Buenos Aires recently and spoke to some of the city’s residents about how they are managing.
  484. A crush at an Indonesian football stadium in Malang West Java which left 131 people dead is being counted as one of the worst stadium disasters in sporting history.  There has been public outcry over the incident, with concerns raised about the heavy-handed response of the police and the lack of safety measures in place, says Aliefia Malik.
  485. The UK’s frosty relationship with the EU has become an almost permanent backdrop since the Brexit referendum. But in recent weeks, the UK’s presence at the European Political Community meeting in Prague, along with other signs of cooperation, have raised diplomatic hopes that a thaw was underway. But does this amount to a genuine shift, ask James Landale.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  486. Producers: Serena Tarling and Ellie House
  487. Editor: Bridget Harney
  488. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Iran's authorities issue death threats to Mahsa Amini's family and other protestors</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Protests in Iran, following the death in custody of a Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, are now in their fourth week despite the intensifying crackdown. Mahsa became a symbol of Iranian repression after her arrest by the morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly.  Anna Foster met members of Mahsa's family who live across the border in Iraqi Kurdistan.
  489. In India, a new extremist Hindu movement - made up mostly of young men- is growing. They call themselves “trads”, short for traditionalists, and share many of the hallmarks of America’s alt-right movement and mainly operate online. Reha Kansara met one of them on India’s southern coast.
  490. Rising inflation is now a global problem, but in Argentina it’s a way of life. This year has proved particularly challenging in the country as it teeters on the edge of hyperinflation. Jane Chambers was in Buenos Aires recently and spoke to some of the city’s residents about how they are managing.
  491. A crush at an Indonesian football stadium in Malang West Java which left 131 people dead is being counted as one of the worst stadium disasters in sporting history.  There has been public outcry over the incident, with concerns raised about the heavy-handed response of the police and the lack of safety measures in place, says Aliefia Malik.
  492. The UK’s frosty relationship with the EU has become an almost permanent backdrop since the Brexit referendum. But in recent weeks, the UK’s presence at the European Political Community meeting in Prague, along with other signs of cooperation, have raised diplomatic hopes that a thaw was underway. But does this amount to a genuine shift, ask James Landale.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  493. Producers: Serena Tarling and Ellie House
  494. Editor: Bridget Harney
  495. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1741</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d6m7ll.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d6m7ll.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0d6m7ll.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0d6m8fn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d6m8fn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d6m7ll.mp3" fileSize="27856000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1741"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0d6m8fn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Famine looms in Somalia</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A fight for survival is underway in Somalia as the country faces its worst drought in 40 years. Andrew Harding travelled to the southwestern city of Baidoa - one of the worst-affected areas in the country, where people are now flooding to in hope of finding humanitarian assistance.</p><p>The story of two teenage sisters who were raped and hanged in their village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has shaken communities there. The case has also been complicated by spurious suggestions by local politicians that there was a religious motivation behind the killings. Geeta Pandy met the family of the victims.</p><p>Henry Wilkins is in Burkina Faso, where two coups have now taken place this year. The West African country lacks strong democratic institutions and the military have long been dominant. It’s also found itself increasingly embroiled in a new cold war rivalry between France and Russia.</p><p>Set in the hills north of Spoleto in the southern Appenines is the small Italian town of Montefalco. The local grape, the Sagrantino, is known to be one of the tougher varieties to make into wine. Ellie House met one vineyard owner in the region and learnt how the production process is still one based on trial – and a few errors.</p><p>Saudi Arabia’s been burnishing its credentials as host for the world’s biggest sporting events this year, with speculation its even lining itself up for an Olympic bid. Steve Bunce considers whether the presence of the world’s best athletes can really distract critical eyes, as the kingdom’s rulers might hope.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  496. Producers: Serena Tarling and Ellie House
  497. Production coordinator: Iona Hammond
  498. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A fight for survival is underway in Somalia which is facing its worst drought in 40 years</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A fight for survival is underway in Somalia as the country faces its worst drought in 40 years. Andrew Harding travelled to the southwestern city of Baidoa - one of the worst-affected areas in the country, where people are now flooding to in hope of finding humanitarian assistance.</p><p>The story of two teenage sisters who were raped and hanged in their village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has shaken communities there. The case has also been complicated by spurious suggestions by local politicians that there was a religious motivation behind the killings. Geeta Pandy met the family of the victims.</p><p>Henry Wilkins is in Burkina Faso, where two coups have now taken place this year. The West African country lacks strong democratic institutions and the military have long been dominant. It’s also found itself increasingly embroiled in a new cold war rivalry between France and Russia.</p><p>Set in the hills north of Spoleto in the southern Appenines is the small Italian town of Montefalco. The local grape, the Sagrantino, is known to be one of the tougher varieties to make into wine. Ellie House met one vineyard owner in the region and learnt how the production process is still one based on trial – and a few errors.</p><p>Saudi Arabia’s been burnishing its credentials as host for the world’s biggest sporting events this year, with speculation its even lining itself up for an Olympic bid. Steve Bunce considers whether the presence of the world’s best athletes can really distract critical eyes, as the kingdom’s rulers might hope.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  499. Producers: Serena Tarling and Ellie House
  500. Production coordinator: Iona Hammond
  501. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1733</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d5ky7v.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d5ky7v.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0d5ky7v.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0d5kytq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d5kytq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d5ky7v.mp3" fileSize="27728000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1733"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0d5kytq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>China’s media control</title><description><![CDATA[<p>China’s communist party is preparing for a crucial meeting of the annual congress, which is expected to award President, Xi Jinping a third term in office. But amid the tightened security surrounding this event, economic storm clouds are gathering. And investigating and reporting on the effects of this downturn is becoming ever more tricky, as Stephen McDonnell has found.
  502. The storm surge triggered by Hurricane Ian engulfed several cities on Florida’s Coast. Buildings were torn apart and 600 000 homes and businesses were left without power. Alexandra Ostasiewicz went to a trailer park community in Fort Myers where residents are now trying rebuild their lives and homes.
  503. There have been reports this week of a breakthrough by Ukrainian troops fighting in the South of the country in the Kherson region after further gains had been made in the East against the Russians. Abdujalil Abdurasulov  was embedded with Ukrainian troops on the southern frontline where a protracted battle is underway.
  504. Mexico is known the world over for its vibrant and spicy cuisine. But Will Grant is one of the unlucky few who is unable to savour the country's culinary delights due to losing his sense of taste several months after contracting Covid. He's now resorting to more extreme measures to get it back.
  505. Concealed among the algae or and broken seashells on Lithuania's coast are little pieces of drift amber. Its origins can be traced back thousands of years, when resin that fell from trees in vast forests was washed out to sea and transformed into the gemstone on the ocean floor. Heidi Fuller Love went on an amber trail.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  506. Producer: Serena Tarling and Ellie House
  507. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  508. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>As China's economy falters, local communist party officials are tightening media control</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>China’s communist party is preparing for a crucial meeting of the annual congress, which is expected to award President, Xi Jinping a third term in office. But amid the tightened security surrounding this event, economic storm clouds are gathering. And investigating and reporting on the effects of this downturn is becoming ever more tricky, as Stephen McDonnell has found.
  509. The storm surge triggered by Hurricane Ian engulfed several cities on Florida’s Coast. Buildings were torn apart and 600 000 homes and businesses were left without power. Alexandra Ostasiewicz went to a trailer park community in Fort Myers where residents are now trying rebuild their lives and homes.
  510. There have been reports this week of a breakthrough by Ukrainian troops fighting in the South of the country in the Kherson region after further gains had been made in the East against the Russians. Abdujalil Abdurasulov  was embedded with Ukrainian troops on the southern frontline where a protracted battle is underway.
  511. Mexico is known the world over for its vibrant and spicy cuisine. But Will Grant is one of the unlucky few who is unable to savour the country's culinary delights due to losing his sense of taste several months after contracting Covid. He's now resorting to more extreme measures to get it back.
  512. Concealed among the algae or and broken seashells on Lithuania's coast are little pieces of drift amber. Its origins can be traced back thousands of years, when resin that fell from trees in vast forests was washed out to sea and transformed into the gemstone on the ocean floor. Heidi Fuller Love went on an amber trail.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  513. Producer: Serena Tarling and Ellie House
  514. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  515. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1691</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d4zy3j.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d4zy3j.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0d4zy3j.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0d4zylp</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d4zylp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d4zy3j.mp3" fileSize="27056000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1691"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0d4zylp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Flight From Russia</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Russian men have been flooding across the border to escape Vladimir Putin's military draft. Around 10,000 Russian citizens have been entering the republic of Georgia daily since the call-up was announced. Rayhan Demytrie has spoken to Russians crossing the border.
  516. As protests continue across Iran, following the death in custody of a young woman after allegedly breaking headscarf rules, Rana Rahimpour reflects on how restrictions on women have evolved since the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and her own experience growing up in Tehran.
  517. Giorgia Meloni is set to be Italy's next Prime Minister, after winning a convincing victory in last weekend’s election. The far-right leader has been quick to denounce the party’s fascist links but not all are convinced. Mark Lowen has been looking at how history weighs on Italy – and whether its likely first female Prime Minister will tone down in office.
  518. The strategically well-placed Pacific Islands continue to be a battleground for influence for the US and China. Among the island nations they’re courting is Fiji - Suranjana Tewari travelled there recently and found the country is looking to a self-sustained future, with the advent of a thriving start up scene.
  519. And finally, we’re in the forests of Northern Ukraine where the war has not only taken a human toll but has also had a dramatic effect on an oft-forgotten aspect of life in that country: the rare flora and fauna. Moose, deer, lynx and wolves are all known to live in this remote corner of the continent. Our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner travelled to Ukraine’s northern forests to visit a part of Europe few visitors ever see.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Thousands of Russians are crossing the border into Georgia to escape Putin's conscription</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Russian men have been flooding across the border to escape Vladimir Putin's military draft. Around 10,000 Russian citizens have been entering the republic of Georgia daily since the call-up was announced. Rayhan Demytrie has spoken to Russians crossing the border.
  520. As protests continue across Iran, following the death in custody of a young woman after allegedly breaking headscarf rules, Rana Rahimpour reflects on how restrictions on women have evolved since the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and her own experience growing up in Tehran.
  521. Giorgia Meloni is set to be Italy's next Prime Minister, after winning a convincing victory in last weekend’s election. The far-right leader has been quick to denounce the party’s fascist links but not all are convinced. Mark Lowen has been looking at how history weighs on Italy – and whether its likely first female Prime Minister will tone down in office.
  522. The strategically well-placed Pacific Islands continue to be a battleground for influence for the US and China. Among the island nations they’re courting is Fiji - Suranjana Tewari travelled there recently and found the country is looking to a self-sustained future, with the advent of a thriving start up scene.
  523. And finally, we’re in the forests of Northern Ukraine where the war has not only taken a human toll but has also had a dramatic effect on an oft-forgotten aspect of life in that country: the rare flora and fauna. Moose, deer, lynx and wolves are all known to live in this remote corner of the continent. Our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner travelled to Ukraine’s northern forests to visit a part of Europe few visitors ever see.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2022 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1699</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d3ynjz.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d3ynjz.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0d3ynjz.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0d3ynzl</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d3ynzl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d3ynjz.mp3" fileSize="27184000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1699"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0d3ynzl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Brazil at a crossroads</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Brazilians will vote in the first round of presidential elections on Sunday. The front-runner is former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – currently, polls suggest he has a healthy lead over the incumbent far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro. Political observers say these will be the most closely watched elections since Brazil returned to democracy in 1989 - and some of the most polarised, as Katy Watson explains
  524. Tensions flared up again earlier this month between the former Soviet states of Armenia and Azerbaijan leaving more than 200 people dead. The fighting is linked to decades-old hostilities over control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region. A fragile ceasefire is now in place. Grigor Atenesian spoke to one family who have twice been forced from their home.
  525. Singapore recently announced it will repeal its strict laws banning gay sex after years of fierce debate. But even during that period, Singapore’s gay bars, nightclubs and festivals continued to thrive and are being showcased in the city-state’s first LGBT walking tour. Tessa Wong went for a stroll.
  526. In North America, John Murphy watches a game of lacrosse in the region where it first originated, among Native Americans. Following the arrival of European colonisers, the original game was adopted and adapted with indigenous players being excluded. Now, there’s a move to reclaim the indigenous game.
  527. The Roman emperor Domitian was known for his tyrannical rule. After his death, by assassination, the Roman Senate condemned his memory to oblivion, but not everything was eradicated, as Hugh Levinson discovered on a visit to the walled city of Kotor in Montenegro.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Brazilian voters go to the polls to choose between two very different leaders</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Brazilians will vote in the first round of presidential elections on Sunday. The front-runner is former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – currently, polls suggest he has a healthy lead over the incumbent far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro. Political observers say these will be the most closely watched elections since Brazil returned to democracy in 1989 - and some of the most polarised, as Katy Watson explains
  528. Tensions flared up again earlier this month between the former Soviet states of Armenia and Azerbaijan leaving more than 200 people dead. The fighting is linked to decades-old hostilities over control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region. A fragile ceasefire is now in place. Grigor Atenesian spoke to one family who have twice been forced from their home.
  529. Singapore recently announced it will repeal its strict laws banning gay sex after years of fierce debate. But even during that period, Singapore’s gay bars, nightclubs and festivals continued to thrive and are being showcased in the city-state’s first LGBT walking tour. Tessa Wong went for a stroll.
  530. In North America, John Murphy watches a game of lacrosse in the region where it first originated, among Native Americans. Following the arrival of European colonisers, the original game was adopted and adapted with indigenous players being excluded. Now, there’s a move to reclaim the indigenous game.
  531. The Roman emperor Domitian was known for his tyrannical rule. After his death, by assassination, the Roman Senate condemned his memory to oblivion, but not everything was eradicated, as Hugh Levinson discovered on a visit to the walled city of Kotor in Montenegro.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1750</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d3dt7t.mp3" length="28000000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d3dt7t.mp3" length="28000000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0d3dt7t.mp3" length="28000000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0d3dwgn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d3dwgn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d3dt7t.mp3" fileSize="28000000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1750"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0d3dwgn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Putin’s Gamble</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a partial conscription to fight in the war in Ukraine was interpreted by many as an act of desperation. Within Russia, the news sparked protests by Russians who are against fighting a war they don’t believe in. Until now many Russians had continued with life almost as normal, unaffected by Putin’s so-called special operation. This week changed that, says Sarah Rainsford
  532. Iran is facing the most serious challenge to its leadership in years. The death of a young woman in police custody, after she was arrested for allegedly failing to follow hijab rules has triggered nationwide protests in both middle class and working-class areas. Kian Sharifi says these protests show a stiffening resolve.
  533. Rajini Vaidyanathan visits a hospital in Sindh Province in Pakistan, which was the worst affected area in recent floods. The World Health Organisation has warned that the country now faces a second disaster amid an outbreak of waterborne diseases.
  534. Over the past year, Israel's Ultra-orthodox community has struggled to deal with a series of sex abuse scandals. One of the biggest involved a leading light of the ultra-Orthodox world, Rabbi Chaim Walder who was accused of abusing women and children. Yolande Knell, reports on the shockwaves these revelations have caused.
  535. Centuries ago, Getaria, a town on Spain’s Atlantic coast, gave birth to a man who changed the world: Juan Sebastián Elkano, the first person to navigate a ship around the globe. Julius Purcell was in Getaria for the anniversary of Elkano’s mighty achievement and finds the town caught in a national debate over Spain’s imperial legacy.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Vladimir Putin's announcement of partial conscription heralds a new stage in the conflict.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a partial conscription to fight in the war in Ukraine was interpreted by many as an act of desperation. Within Russia, the news sparked protests by Russians who are against fighting a war they don’t believe in. Until now many Russians had continued with life almost as normal, unaffected by Putin’s so-called special operation. This week changed that, says Sarah Rainsford
  536. Iran is facing the most serious challenge to its leadership in years. The death of a young woman in police custody, after she was arrested for allegedly failing to follow hijab rules has triggered nationwide protests in both middle class and working-class areas. Kian Sharifi says these protests show a stiffening resolve.
  537. Rajini Vaidyanathan visits a hospital in Sindh Province in Pakistan, which was the worst affected area in recent floods. The World Health Organisation has warned that the country now faces a second disaster amid an outbreak of waterborne diseases.
  538. Over the past year, Israel's Ultra-orthodox community has struggled to deal with a series of sex abuse scandals. One of the biggest involved a leading light of the ultra-Orthodox world, Rabbi Chaim Walder who was accused of abusing women and children. Yolande Knell, reports on the shockwaves these revelations have caused.
  539. Centuries ago, Getaria, a town on Spain’s Atlantic coast, gave birth to a man who changed the world: Juan Sebastián Elkano, the first person to navigate a ship around the globe. Julius Purcell was in Getaria for the anniversary of Elkano’s mighty achievement and finds the town caught in a national debate over Spain’s imperial legacy.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2022 09:24:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1756</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d2d804.mp3" length="28096000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d2d804.mp3" length="28096000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0d2d804.mp3" length="28096000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0d2d9qp</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d2d9qp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d2d804.mp3" fileSize="28096000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1756"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0d2d9qp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A turning point for Ukraine?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The news of Ukraine’s stunning counter-offensive in the country’s north-east has raised hopes of a possible turning point in the war with Russia. But tentative celebrations about Ukraine’s advances were quickly tempered after the gruesome discovery of a mass grave in Izyum. Hugo Bachega reports.
  540. As Pakistan confronts the damage wrought by catastrophic floods in recent weeks, Secunder Kermani reflects on this and other major events he has covered as he leaves the region: the US invasion and withdrawal from Afghanistan, local politics and the Taliban’s resurgence.
  541. In the US, the use of the death penalty has gradually declined over recent decades. Several states have abolished it altogether but 11 states continue to perform executions including Texas. Maria Margaronis travelled to Livingston, where she met one prisoner with just weeks left before his execution date.
  542. Greece has finally emerged from a strict monitoring programme imposed by the EU. This marks the end of a chapter in a debt crisis which was first triggered by the 2008 financial turmoil. Antonia Quirke has been to the Peloponnese region where she met a tourist guide harking back to an era long before the European project.
  543. Australia's PM, Anthony Albanese is going to the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on Monday, despite being an avowed Republican. For many Australians, she become a beloved friend. But, beyond this period of mourning, questions remain about the British Monarch’s role as the country’s head of state. Nick Bryant explores a rather paradoxical relationship.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  544. Producer: Serena Tarling
  545. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  546. Researcher: Ellie House
  547. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>As Ukrainians recapture lost territory, celebrations are tempered by a grim discovery</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The news of Ukraine’s stunning counter-offensive in the country’s north-east has raised hopes of a possible turning point in the war with Russia. But tentative celebrations about Ukraine’s advances were quickly tempered after the gruesome discovery of a mass grave in Izyum. Hugo Bachega reports.
  548. As Pakistan confronts the damage wrought by catastrophic floods in recent weeks, Secunder Kermani reflects on this and other major events he has covered as he leaves the region: the US invasion and withdrawal from Afghanistan, local politics and the Taliban’s resurgence.
  549. In the US, the use of the death penalty has gradually declined over recent decades. Several states have abolished it altogether but 11 states continue to perform executions including Texas. Maria Margaronis travelled to Livingston, where she met one prisoner with just weeks left before his execution date.
  550. Greece has finally emerged from a strict monitoring programme imposed by the EU. This marks the end of a chapter in a debt crisis which was first triggered by the 2008 financial turmoil. Antonia Quirke has been to the Peloponnese region where she met a tourist guide harking back to an era long before the European project.
  551. Australia's PM, Anthony Albanese is going to the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on Monday, despite being an avowed Republican. For many Australians, she become a beloved friend. But, beyond this period of mourning, questions remain about the British Monarch’s role as the country’s head of state. Nick Bryant explores a rather paradoxical relationship.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  552. Producer: Serena Tarling
  553. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  554. Researcher: Ellie House
  555. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1734</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d0zv9c.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d0zv9c.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0d0zv9c.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0d0zvm9</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d0zvm9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0d0zv9c.mp3" fileSize="27744000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1734"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0d0zvm9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Queen Elizabeth II and the World</title><description><![CDATA[<p>From the Commonwealth country of Canada, to the fifth republic of France, we reflect on how the world remembers Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.</p><p>As Head of the Commonwealth, the Queen had to negotiate the ever-evolving relationship with its member states as they declared independence and as Britain’s relationship to its former colonies underwent profound change. The British Monarch remains head of state of 14 countries, from Canada to the Solomon Islands. Lyse Doucet is in Ottawa where Canada’s leaders have made warm tributes and reflects back on her own encounters with the Queen.</p><p>Despite its anti-monarchist history, one of the more powerful tributes to the Queen emerged from French President Emmanuel Macron. He spoke fondly of her as a ‘great head of state’ and a ‘kind-hearted queen.’ So what was the Queen’s relationship to France? In 1972 Queen Elizabeth famously told former President Georges Pompidou 'we are not driving on the same side of the road, but we are going in the same direction', when he lifted the veto to Britain entering the Common Market. Hugh Schofield reflects on a unique relationship.</p><p>The Oscar-winning film Parasite portrays the story of a low-income South Korean family living in a basement apartment. In one memorable scene, the heavens open and floodwater fills the family home. Last month, in a cruel example of life imitating art, Seoul experienced its heaviest flooding in 100 years. Water rushed into homes, trapping residents inside – four people were killed. The city government has since promised to get rid of the basement apartments and create more social housing. But as Jean Mackenzie has been finding out, this offers little comfort to those who live there.</p><p>The Gambia is Africa’s smallest nation, where the process of reconciliation is proving arduous, five years after the end of a murderous dictatorship. Former President Yahya Jammeh, who fled to Equatorial Guinea in 2017 after losing a re-election bid, is wanted internationally for crimes against humanity, including extrajudicial killings, torture, forced disappearances, and sexual violence. Because he still enjoys a measure of loyalty back home, the nation he left behind is divided. Most of Jammeh’s hit men fled when he did, and many Gambians say reconciliation is impossible until they are all brought to justice. When Alexa Dvorson visited the country she witnessed a rare act of contrition.</p><p>The Republic of Moldova sits on a fault line of geo-politics, with warring Ukraine on one side and Romania, firmly ensconced in the EU and Nato, on the other. Within its borders, is Transnistria, where a Russian-backed separatist war broke out thirty years ago. Today the area is a frozen conflict zone, but Russia still has a military presence. Piggy-in-the-middle between East and West, perhaps nothing tells Moldova’s complicated story more clearly than its main industry – wine - as Tessa Dunlop finds.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  556. Producer: Serena Tarling
  557. Production coordinator: Iona Hammond
  558. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>From the Commonwealth to the most ardent republic, the world remembers Queen Elizabeth II</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>From the Commonwealth country of Canada, to the fifth republic of France, we reflect on how the world remembers Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.</p><p>As Head of the Commonwealth, the Queen had to negotiate the ever-evolving relationship with its member states as they declared independence and as Britain’s relationship to its former colonies underwent profound change. The British Monarch remains head of state of 14 countries, from Canada to the Solomon Islands. Lyse Doucet is in Ottawa where Canada’s leaders have made warm tributes and reflects back on her own encounters with the Queen.</p><p>Despite its anti-monarchist history, one of the more powerful tributes to the Queen emerged from French President Emmanuel Macron. He spoke fondly of her as a ‘great head of state’ and a ‘kind-hearted queen.’ So what was the Queen’s relationship to France? In 1972 Queen Elizabeth famously told former President Georges Pompidou 'we are not driving on the same side of the road, but we are going in the same direction', when he lifted the veto to Britain entering the Common Market. Hugh Schofield reflects on a unique relationship.</p><p>The Oscar-winning film Parasite portrays the story of a low-income South Korean family living in a basement apartment. In one memorable scene, the heavens open and floodwater fills the family home. Last month, in a cruel example of life imitating art, Seoul experienced its heaviest flooding in 100 years. Water rushed into homes, trapping residents inside – four people were killed. The city government has since promised to get rid of the basement apartments and create more social housing. But as Jean Mackenzie has been finding out, this offers little comfort to those who live there.</p><p>The Gambia is Africa’s smallest nation, where the process of reconciliation is proving arduous, five years after the end of a murderous dictatorship. Former President Yahya Jammeh, who fled to Equatorial Guinea in 2017 after losing a re-election bid, is wanted internationally for crimes against humanity, including extrajudicial killings, torture, forced disappearances, and sexual violence. Because he still enjoys a measure of loyalty back home, the nation he left behind is divided. Most of Jammeh’s hit men fled when he did, and many Gambians say reconciliation is impossible until they are all brought to justice. When Alexa Dvorson visited the country she witnessed a rare act of contrition.</p><p>The Republic of Moldova sits on a fault line of geo-politics, with warring Ukraine on one side and Romania, firmly ensconced in the EU and Nato, on the other. Within its borders, is Transnistria, where a Russian-backed separatist war broke out thirty years ago. Today the area is a frozen conflict zone, but Russia still has a military presence. Piggy-in-the-middle between East and West, perhaps nothing tells Moldova’s complicated story more clearly than its main industry – wine - as Tessa Dunlop finds.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  559. Producer: Serena Tarling
  560. Production coordinator: Iona Hammond
  561. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1739</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0czmgs6.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0czmgs6.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0czmgs6.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0czmh81</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0czmh81</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0czmgs6.mp3" fileSize="27824000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1739"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0czmh81</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>'A Monsoon on Steroids'</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stories about the floods that have submerged a third of Pakistan; the violent clashes in Iraq; Brazil's bizarre bicentennial and farewell to the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev.</p><p>In Pakistan, heavy rains and floods have submerged a third of the country. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called the calamity “a monsoon on steroids". At least 1100 people have been killed, and an estimated 33 million are now displaced or homeless. Shahzeb Jillani reports from the southern province of Sindh, the worst affected, where victims are disappointed with their politicians, but young people have sprung into action.</p><p>At least 23 people were killed, and many injured, in some of the worst violence in the Iraqi capital Baghdad in years. Supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr, a powerful Shia Muslim cleric, political leader and militia commander, clashed with Iran-backed armed groups. There'd been a long stand-off following inconclusive parliamentary elections, and then al-Sadr announced his retirement from politics. Shelly Kittleson in Baghdad explains.</p><p>Next week, it’ll be 200 years since Brazil became an independent country, breaking free of its colonial ruler Portugal. There’ll be military parades – and more. But one ceremony has already taken place, held to receive a bizarre royal relic from Portugal. Reactions to this occasion seem as divided as the views about what to celebrate, if anything. Julia Carneiro reflects on her country's bicentennial.</p><p>Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, was liked and admired in the West, for bringing about the end of the Cold War, lifting the Iron Curtain that kept Eastern Europe under Communism, and dissolving the Soviet Union. But in Russia, he is reviled by many for breaking up the Soviet Union. Steve Rosenberg met Mr Gorbachev on several occasions - and got to hear him sing.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  562. Producer: Arlene Gregorius
  563. Production coordinator: Iona Hammond
  564. Editor: Hugh Levinson</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories about the catastrophic Pakistani floods, and from Iraq, Brazil and Russia</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stories about the floods that have submerged a third of Pakistan; the violent clashes in Iraq; Brazil's bizarre bicentennial and farewell to the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev.</p><p>In Pakistan, heavy rains and floods have submerged a third of the country. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called the calamity “a monsoon on steroids". At least 1100 people have been killed, and an estimated 33 million are now displaced or homeless. Shahzeb Jillani reports from the southern province of Sindh, the worst affected, where victims are disappointed with their politicians, but young people have sprung into action.</p><p>At least 23 people were killed, and many injured, in some of the worst violence in the Iraqi capital Baghdad in years. Supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr, a powerful Shia Muslim cleric, political leader and militia commander, clashed with Iran-backed armed groups. There'd been a long stand-off following inconclusive parliamentary elections, and then al-Sadr announced his retirement from politics. Shelly Kittleson in Baghdad explains.</p><p>Next week, it’ll be 200 years since Brazil became an independent country, breaking free of its colonial ruler Portugal. There’ll be military parades – and more. But one ceremony has already taken place, held to receive a bizarre royal relic from Portugal. Reactions to this occasion seem as divided as the views about what to celebrate, if anything. Julia Carneiro reflects on her country's bicentennial.</p><p>Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, was liked and admired in the West, for bringing about the end of the Cold War, lifting the Iron Curtain that kept Eastern Europe under Communism, and dissolving the Soviet Union. But in Russia, he is reviled by many for breaking up the Soviet Union. Steve Rosenberg met Mr Gorbachev on several occasions - and got to hear him sing.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  565. Producer: Arlene Gregorius
  566. Production coordinator: Iona Hammond
  567. Editor: Hugh Levinson</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2022 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1715</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cysb5k.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cysb5k.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0cysb5k.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0cysd2x</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cysd2x</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cysb5k.mp3" fileSize="27440000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1715"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0cysd2x</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Somalia's searing drought</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stories from Russia, Israel, Thailand, Greece and Somalia, where more than 90% of the country is still enduring extremely dry weather. Since October 2020, four successive rainy seasons have effectively failed. Now human lives are at risk, with more than one and a half million children in the country classified as acutely malnourished. Mercy Juma recently saw just how parched and how hungry the landscape has become.</p><p>When a car bomb exploded in Moscow last weekend killing Daria Dugina, a Russian TV pundit, the conspiracy theories multiplied. Some suspected perhaps the real target was her father: Alexander Dugin, a prominent conservative philosopher. In the West, some called Mr Dugin “Putin’s brain” – or even “Putin’s Rasputin”. But that didn’t quite ring true, at least not to Gabriel Gatehouse, who has spent many years covering Russia and Ukraine, and who met Alexander Dugin in 2016.</p><p>The war has also been vexing both Russian and Ukrainian relations with Israel. The Israeli government has spoken out publicly against the war and moved to shelter refugees, while also offering to act as a diplomatic go-between the two sides. Russia's justice ministry is currently seeking to liquidate the Russian branch of the non-profit Jewish Agency, which helps Jews around the world move to Israel. Tim Samuels recently met some of those trying to start again in a new land.</p><p>The elephant is, famously, a symbol of Thailand – but it’s more than symbolic. There are thousands of real live elephants in the country. Around half are kept in captivity as working animals, used either to move earth or timber, or, in a modern twist, to take tourists for rides. As tourism reopens, some Karen communities near the Thai-Myanmar border are trying a new kind of venture, based on a more respectful relationship with the animals. Mark Stratton went to see how it's working out.</p><p>Many might dream of making a holiday home idyll last longer – perhaps even for good. But staying all year round in a rural village in Europe can be a much more gruelling prospect, if there aren’t any local services, shops or even many neighbours to call on. Alba Arikha has been restoring and settling into an old house in a Greek hamlet not far from the town of Kardamyli, on the western coast of the Mani peninsula.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Somalia, Russia, Israel, Thailand and Greece</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stories from Russia, Israel, Thailand, Greece and Somalia, where more than 90% of the country is still enduring extremely dry weather. Since October 2020, four successive rainy seasons have effectively failed. Now human lives are at risk, with more than one and a half million children in the country classified as acutely malnourished. Mercy Juma recently saw just how parched and how hungry the landscape has become.</p><p>When a car bomb exploded in Moscow last weekend killing Daria Dugina, a Russian TV pundit, the conspiracy theories multiplied. Some suspected perhaps the real target was her father: Alexander Dugin, a prominent conservative philosopher. In the West, some called Mr Dugin “Putin’s brain” – or even “Putin’s Rasputin”. But that didn’t quite ring true, at least not to Gabriel Gatehouse, who has spent many years covering Russia and Ukraine, and who met Alexander Dugin in 2016.</p><p>The war has also been vexing both Russian and Ukrainian relations with Israel. The Israeli government has spoken out publicly against the war and moved to shelter refugees, while also offering to act as a diplomatic go-between the two sides. Russia's justice ministry is currently seeking to liquidate the Russian branch of the non-profit Jewish Agency, which helps Jews around the world move to Israel. Tim Samuels recently met some of those trying to start again in a new land.</p><p>The elephant is, famously, a symbol of Thailand – but it’s more than symbolic. There are thousands of real live elephants in the country. Around half are kept in captivity as working animals, used either to move earth or timber, or, in a modern twist, to take tourists for rides. As tourism reopens, some Karen communities near the Thai-Myanmar border are trying a new kind of venture, based on a more respectful relationship with the animals. Mark Stratton went to see how it's working out.</p><p>Many might dream of making a holiday home idyll last longer – perhaps even for good. But staying all year round in a rural village in Europe can be a much more gruelling prospect, if there aren’t any local services, shops or even many neighbours to call on. Alba Arikha has been restoring and settling into an old house in a Greek hamlet not far from the town of Kardamyli, on the western coast of the Mani peninsula.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1749</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cwrmn8.mp3" length="27984000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cwrmn8.mp3" length="27984000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0cwrmn8.mp3" length="27984000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0cwrrkk</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cwrrkk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cwrmn8.mp3" fileSize="27984000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1749"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0cwrrkk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Brutality in Russia's prisons</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from Russia, Haiti, North Macedonia, Chile and the Republic of the Congo</p><p>Allegations of organised brutality in the Russian penitentiary system have circulated for many years. Inmates’ accounts of beatings and humiliation were frequent – but more recently, there has also been hard evidence in the form of leaked video footage showing organized physical and sexual abuse. As he spent months investigating the culture of violence inside, Oleg Bodyrev heard shocking stories of torture and sexual assault from former inmates.</p><p>Haiti is facing multiple crises right now. Chronic instability, dictatorships and natural disasters in recent decades have left it as the poorest nation in the Americas. Still grappling with the Covid pandemic, gang violence has escalated in the capital, Port au Prince, with more than 200 people left dead after ten days of fighting back in July. But as Harold Isaac explains, for Haitians, this is just the backdrop of a much bigger problem, as the country's fuel supply dries up.</p><p>It’s now almost twenty years since the European Union promised membership to the countries of the Western Balkans. But since the Thessaloniki Declaration of 2003, just one country in the region has completed the accession process. Other countries’ hopes of joining Croatia have been stuck in different levels of bureaucratic purgatory. North Macedonia and Albania have now formally started membership talks, but it’s a still very long way from a done deal. Guy De Launey finds the endless delays have some people in Skopje asking how much they really want to join the club.</p><p>Chile is gearing up for a referendum vote on the 4th of September – on whether to approve or reject a new constitution. But at the moment, the country is still deeply polarised over its proposed 366 articles - not to mention confused over when, and how they may be finalised. Jane Chambers reports from Santiago.</p><p>The population in the Republic of Congo is growing fast - it's also predominantly young and extremely urbanised, with over 85 per cent of people living in towns and cities. In this part of the world, the forces of rain and rivers are immense, and tropical storms can reshape the landscape at a stroke. Building homes to resist natural disaster has always been a challenge, so how can the expanding communities of Brazzaville stay safe? Nick Loomis has seen just how dramatic the risks can be.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Accounts of torture and rape are backed up by leaked video footage of organised attacks</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from Russia, Haiti, North Macedonia, Chile and the Republic of the Congo</p><p>Allegations of organised brutality in the Russian penitentiary system have circulated for many years. Inmates’ accounts of beatings and humiliation were frequent – but more recently, there has also been hard evidence in the form of leaked video footage showing organized physical and sexual abuse. As he spent months investigating the culture of violence inside, Oleg Bodyrev heard shocking stories of torture and sexual assault from former inmates.</p><p>Haiti is facing multiple crises right now. Chronic instability, dictatorships and natural disasters in recent decades have left it as the poorest nation in the Americas. Still grappling with the Covid pandemic, gang violence has escalated in the capital, Port au Prince, with more than 200 people left dead after ten days of fighting back in July. But as Harold Isaac explains, for Haitians, this is just the backdrop of a much bigger problem, as the country's fuel supply dries up.</p><p>It’s now almost twenty years since the European Union promised membership to the countries of the Western Balkans. But since the Thessaloniki Declaration of 2003, just one country in the region has completed the accession process. Other countries’ hopes of joining Croatia have been stuck in different levels of bureaucratic purgatory. North Macedonia and Albania have now formally started membership talks, but it’s a still very long way from a done deal. Guy De Launey finds the endless delays have some people in Skopje asking how much they really want to join the club.</p><p>Chile is gearing up for a referendum vote on the 4th of September – on whether to approve or reject a new constitution. But at the moment, the country is still deeply polarised over its proposed 366 articles - not to mention confused over when, and how they may be finalised. Jane Chambers reports from Santiago.</p><p>The population in the Republic of Congo is growing fast - it's also predominantly young and extremely urbanised, with over 85 per cent of people living in towns and cities. In this part of the world, the forces of rain and rivers are immense, and tropical storms can reshape the landscape at a stroke. Building homes to resist natural disaster has always been a challenge, so how can the expanding communities of Brazzaville stay safe? Nick Loomis has seen just how dramatic the risks can be.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2022 10:04:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1728</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cv9zsg.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cv9zsg.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0cv9zsg.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0cvb0xr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cvb0xr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cv9zsg.mp3" fileSize="27648000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1728"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0cvb0xr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Colombia's countryside not yet at peace</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from Colombia, Taiwan, Tunisia, Iraq and Germany.</p><p>Colombia's first-ever left-wing President, the former guerrilla fighter Gustavo Petro, has been sworn in, and questions about the country's peace dividend have sharpened. With the long-running insurgency disarmed, many Colombians hoped they’d soon be able to breathe more freely. Katy Watson visited the Cauca valley, where the benefits of peace have yet to trickle down to the grass roots.</p><p>The recent furore over Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was a sharp reminder of just how much of a regional flashpoint this island's status can be. Rupert Wingfield Hayes knows this part of the world well – and he's seen its Taiwanese democracy evolve over several decades.</p><p>Tunisia was the birthplace of the Arab Spring uprisings just over a decade ago. The country ejected its long-time leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and brought in a full parliamentary democracy, but since then it's seen prolonged political stalemate and infighting. The current President, Kais Saied, wrote a new framework which hugely extends the powers of his own office, which was approved by an apparently overwhelming majority at the polls. But the BBC's Middle East correspondent Anna Foster found that not everyone was celebrating.</p><p>In Baghdad, followers of the Shia cleric-cum-politician Muqtada al-Sadr took over the main parliament building recently. But having central government at a standstill leaves the prospect of finding solutions to Iraq's multiple social problems even further out of reach. The Sadrists insist their leader has the answers and should be enabled to govern unobstructed - Lizzie Porter talked to the demonstrators about what they really want.</p><p>The energy squeeze applied by rising fuel prices are being felt particularly sharply in Germany, which has historically depended on cheap gas from Russia. Some German regions are now proposing new limits on energy usage. Jenny Hill is in Bavaria, where frugal plans for the winter are very much on the minds of local politicians.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  568. Production Co-Ordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Armed groups still target Colombian families, as the drug trade blights poor communities.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from Colombia, Taiwan, Tunisia, Iraq and Germany.</p><p>Colombia's first-ever left-wing President, the former guerrilla fighter Gustavo Petro, has been sworn in, and questions about the country's peace dividend have sharpened. With the long-running insurgency disarmed, many Colombians hoped they’d soon be able to breathe more freely. Katy Watson visited the Cauca valley, where the benefits of peace have yet to trickle down to the grass roots.</p><p>The recent furore over Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was a sharp reminder of just how much of a regional flashpoint this island's status can be. Rupert Wingfield Hayes knows this part of the world well – and he's seen its Taiwanese democracy evolve over several decades.</p><p>Tunisia was the birthplace of the Arab Spring uprisings just over a decade ago. The country ejected its long-time leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and brought in a full parliamentary democracy, but since then it's seen prolonged political stalemate and infighting. The current President, Kais Saied, wrote a new framework which hugely extends the powers of his own office, which was approved by an apparently overwhelming majority at the polls. But the BBC's Middle East correspondent Anna Foster found that not everyone was celebrating.</p><p>In Baghdad, followers of the Shia cleric-cum-politician Muqtada al-Sadr took over the main parliament building recently. But having central government at a standstill leaves the prospect of finding solutions to Iraq's multiple social problems even further out of reach. The Sadrists insist their leader has the answers and should be enabled to govern unobstructed - Lizzie Porter talked to the demonstrators about what they really want.</p><p>The energy squeeze applied by rising fuel prices are being felt particularly sharply in Germany, which has historically depended on cheap gas from Russia. Some German regions are now proposing new limits on energy usage. Jenny Hill is in Bavaria, where frugal plans for the winter are very much on the minds of local politicians.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope
  569. Production Co-Ordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1731</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cswqkh.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cswqkh.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0cswqkh.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0cswrbw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cswrbw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cswqkh.mp3" fileSize="27696000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1731"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0cswrbw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Kenya goes to the polls</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kenyans go to the polls to elect a new president. Plus, our correspondent says farewell to the Philippines; the personal consequences of Poland’s strict abortion laws; and how a women-only shopping mall is providing new opportunities in Yemen.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kenya’s presidential election, plus stories from the Philippines, Poland and Yemen.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kenyans go to the polls to elect a new president. Plus, our correspondent says farewell to the Philippines; the personal consequences of Poland’s strict abortion laws; and how a women-only shopping mall is providing new opportunities in Yemen.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2022 11:05:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1676</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0crhh40.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0crhh40.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0crhh40.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0crhhhp</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0crhhhp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0crhh40.mp3" fileSize="26816000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1676"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0crhhhp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Farewell, Super Mario</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stories from Italy, Ukraine, Peru and Sri Lanka.
  570. We're in Italy, which last week saw the resignation of Mario Draghi as PM after only 18 months in office. Initially a popular choice as PM – Mr Draghi has guided Italy and the eurozone through numerous crises. But having failed to win support for a new economic package among his broad-based unity government, he called a vote of confidence – and lost.  Mark Lowen reflects on a very Italian situation.
  571. In Ukraine, Dan Johnson visits some of the Soviet era institutions where children and young people with disabilities are confined.  He found that many of these residential homes are ill equipped to provide proper care and cope with their complex needs. Human rights investigators say the neglect disabled people face in Ukraine reflects the failings of a system that has been deficient long before the war started.
  572. Amid the political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka, we hear from correspondent Aanya Wipulasena about the people growing their own fruit and vegetables to cope with the soaring costs of food. And about the broader impact of the instability on education and people's livelihoods.
  573. In Peru, we meet the farmer behind a David and Goliath-style lawsuit, who has taken on Germany energy company over the impact of emissions on the local environment. The case centres on determining the link between climate change and the melting of a nearby glacier, and the risk this poses to the lake it feeds. Olivia Acland followed the story.
  574. And finally - Roger Harrabin reflects on his 35 years covering the natural world, focusing, in particular, on the threat posed by human-induced climate change. He reflects on how reporting on this issue has changed over the years.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Italy faces more political instability, as its great hope, Mario Draghi, resigns as PM</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stories from Italy, Ukraine, Peru and Sri Lanka.
  575. We're in Italy, which last week saw the resignation of Mario Draghi as PM after only 18 months in office. Initially a popular choice as PM – Mr Draghi has guided Italy and the eurozone through numerous crises. But having failed to win support for a new economic package among his broad-based unity government, he called a vote of confidence – and lost.  Mark Lowen reflects on a very Italian situation.
  576. In Ukraine, Dan Johnson visits some of the Soviet era institutions where children and young people with disabilities are confined.  He found that many of these residential homes are ill equipped to provide proper care and cope with their complex needs. Human rights investigators say the neglect disabled people face in Ukraine reflects the failings of a system that has been deficient long before the war started.
  577. Amid the political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka, we hear from correspondent Aanya Wipulasena about the people growing their own fruit and vegetables to cope with the soaring costs of food. And about the broader impact of the instability on education and people's livelihoods.
  578. In Peru, we meet the farmer behind a David and Goliath-style lawsuit, who has taken on Germany energy company over the impact of emissions on the local environment. The case centres on determining the link between climate change and the melting of a nearby glacier, and the risk this poses to the lake it feeds. Olivia Acland followed the story.
  579. And finally - Roger Harrabin reflects on his 35 years covering the natural world, focusing, in particular, on the threat posed by human-induced climate change. He reflects on how reporting on this issue has changed over the years.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2022 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1721</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cq2w33.mp3" length="27536000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cq2w33.mp3" length="27536000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0cq2w33.mp3" length="27536000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0cq2ws2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cq2ws2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cq2w33.mp3" fileSize="27536000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1721"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0cq2ws2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Valentina’s Kiosk</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stories from Russia, Ukraine, Lebanon and South Africa
  580. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is now entering its six-month and there’s still no signs of any possible resolution or ceasefire. Russian citizens continue to be fed a daily diet of propaganda on State TV, with fewer and fewer sources of independent news. But the conflict is nevertheless taking its toll on Russian citizens as soldiers go out to the frontline, never to return, which has left families questioning the government line that the Ukraine invasion is necessary. To keep abreast of the Russian point of view, Steve Rosenburg has a daily ritual: buying his newspapers each day from his local newspaper kiosk, run by a woman called Valentina. He tells her story.
  581. In Ukraine, a recent missile attack in the city of Vinnytsia, in central-west Ukraine has served as a stark reminder of the indiscriminate nature of Russia's military onslaught. Everyday routines have become fraught with hazard, from a trip to the shops to a walk to school, even in those cities considered to be safe. Sarah Rainsford has been in Vinnytsia and Mykolaiv.
  582. The Lebanese economy is in a state of collapse, but the government hopes that the summer tourist season, when many Lebanese living abroad return for a holiday, will provide a much-needed boost. But any visitor must navigate a tangled web of erratic exchange rates, as Angelica Jopson has found.
  583. And finally, to South Africa’s West Coast, the site of a large saltwater lagoon situated in a National Park, around 55 miles north of Cape Town. The area, which is also a marine reserve, attracts numerous water birds and sea life, as the Atlantic waves pound its edge. Antonia Quirke went to explore the lagoon.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  584. Producer: Serena Tarling
  585. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  586. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The story of Valentina, a newspaper vendor at a kiosk in Moscow</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stories from Russia, Ukraine, Lebanon and South Africa
  587. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is now entering its six-month and there’s still no signs of any possible resolution or ceasefire. Russian citizens continue to be fed a daily diet of propaganda on State TV, with fewer and fewer sources of independent news. But the conflict is nevertheless taking its toll on Russian citizens as soldiers go out to the frontline, never to return, which has left families questioning the government line that the Ukraine invasion is necessary. To keep abreast of the Russian point of view, Steve Rosenburg has a daily ritual: buying his newspapers each day from his local newspaper kiosk, run by a woman called Valentina. He tells her story.
  588. In Ukraine, a recent missile attack in the city of Vinnytsia, in central-west Ukraine has served as a stark reminder of the indiscriminate nature of Russia's military onslaught. Everyday routines have become fraught with hazard, from a trip to the shops to a walk to school, even in those cities considered to be safe. Sarah Rainsford has been in Vinnytsia and Mykolaiv.
  589. The Lebanese economy is in a state of collapse, but the government hopes that the summer tourist season, when many Lebanese living abroad return for a holiday, will provide a much-needed boost. But any visitor must navigate a tangled web of erratic exchange rates, as Angelica Jopson has found.
  590. And finally, to South Africa’s West Coast, the site of a large saltwater lagoon situated in a National Park, around 55 miles north of Cape Town. The area, which is also a marine reserve, attracts numerous water birds and sea life, as the Atlantic waves pound its edge. Antonia Quirke went to explore the lagoon.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  591. Producer: Serena Tarling
  592. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  593. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1765</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cnmtlw.mp3" length="28240000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cnmtlw.mp3" length="28240000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0cnmtlw.mp3" length="28240000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0cnmzk3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cnmzk3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cnmtlw.mp3" fileSize="28240000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1765"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0cnmzk3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Crown Prince and the President</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The meeting between US President, Joe Biden and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, at the weekend was closely watched back in Washington. Mr Biden said his visit would focus mainly on human rights and regional security - but a request for an increase in oil output was also on the agenda. Anna Foster was in Jeddah. Beyond the official meetings, Sebastian Usher speaks to artists who are taking part in an exhibition in Qatif, in Saudi Arabia's east, reflecting on some of the lost heritage both there and in the historic quarter of Jeddah, amid the rapid pace of development in the Kingdom. Wildfires have broken out across Europe as a heatwave has brought soaring temperatures. Portugal has seen 30,000 hectares of land destroyed by wildfires already this year, and its leaders have moved quickly to try and avoid repeating the same mistakes they did in the deadly fires of 2017. Alison Roberts has been following the story. We visit the town of Pacific Grove, California which has become renowned for its butterfly visitors over the years, which migrate from the frostier climes of Canada to the Golden State. Ben Wyatt hears about efforts by locals in 'Butterfly Town USA' to help protect the various species of butterflies which are at risk of extinction. Finally, we're in Greenland, which is prioritising tourism as a means of growing its economy, rather than mineral exploration. The island remains a challenging environment in which to travel but is not lacking for luxury, as Tim Ecott finds. On his visit, he discovers a Michelin-starred restaurant on the shores of an Ice Fjord. Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Serena Tarling Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>President Biden's awkward encounter with the Saudi Crown Prince in Jeddah</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The meeting between US President, Joe Biden and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, at the weekend was closely watched back in Washington. Mr Biden said his visit would focus mainly on human rights and regional security - but a request for an increase in oil output was also on the agenda. Anna Foster was in Jeddah. Beyond the official meetings, Sebastian Usher speaks to artists who are taking part in an exhibition in Qatif, in Saudi Arabia's east, reflecting on some of the lost heritage both there and in the historic quarter of Jeddah, amid the rapid pace of development in the Kingdom. Wildfires have broken out across Europe as a heatwave has brought soaring temperatures. Portugal has seen 30,000 hectares of land destroyed by wildfires already this year, and its leaders have moved quickly to try and avoid repeating the same mistakes they did in the deadly fires of 2017. Alison Roberts has been following the story. We visit the town of Pacific Grove, California which has become renowned for its butterfly visitors over the years, which migrate from the frostier climes of Canada to the Golden State. Ben Wyatt hears about efforts by locals in 'Butterfly Town USA' to help protect the various species of butterflies which are at risk of extinction. Finally, we're in Greenland, which is prioritising tourism as a means of growing its economy, rather than mineral exploration. The island remains a challenging environment in which to travel but is not lacking for luxury, as Tim Ecott finds. On his visit, he discovers a Michelin-starred restaurant on the shores of an Ice Fjord. Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Serena Tarling Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:29:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1701</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cn7ndl.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cn7ndl.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0cn7ndl.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0cn7pfd</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cn7pfd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cn7ndl.mp3" fileSize="27216000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1701"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0cn7pfd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The legacy of Shinzo Abe</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Japan has been in mourning after the assassination of former prime minister, Shinzo Abe, at an election rally in the Western city of Nara. Mr Abe was a towering figure in Japanese politics. He was known for his efforts to bring Japan out of years of economic stagnation. Yet it was his firm belief that Japan should move away from its pacifist past that proved most divisive. Rupert Wingfield Hayes reflects his legacy.</p><p>In Ethiopia, the federal government has been in armed conflict with rebel authorities in the northern region of Tigray since November 2020. Tens of thousands of people have been killed. A state of emergency was imposed between last November and in February this year, and the country’s human rights watch dog said the period was marked by a significant number of arbitrary arrests and illegal detentions. The Ethiopian government is now saying it plans to negotiate with forces from the Tigray region, but a culture of impunity prevails, says Kalkidan Yibeltal.</p><p>We visit a mosque and a church in Norway to hear how an agreement between Christian and Muslim leaders, recognising the right to convert between faiths, has affected the respective communities. Maddy Savage is in Oslo.</p><p>Jamaica has this year set the process in motion to remove the Queen as head of state and become a Republic. Adina Campbell recently visited the country and found the issue was the subject of fervent discussion wherever she went.</p><p>The Shandur Polo Festival in north-west Pakistan is held each July. The event draws enthusiastic crowds from all the surrounding regions, willing to brave the nerve-wracking journey to the highest polo ground in the world, says Hannah McCarthy.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  594. Producer: Serena Tarling
  595. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  596. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Japan was shaken by the assassination of its longest serving post-war Prime Minister</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Japan has been in mourning after the assassination of former prime minister, Shinzo Abe, at an election rally in the Western city of Nara. Mr Abe was a towering figure in Japanese politics. He was known for his efforts to bring Japan out of years of economic stagnation. Yet it was his firm belief that Japan should move away from its pacifist past that proved most divisive. Rupert Wingfield Hayes reflects his legacy.</p><p>In Ethiopia, the federal government has been in armed conflict with rebel authorities in the northern region of Tigray since November 2020. Tens of thousands of people have been killed. A state of emergency was imposed between last November and in February this year, and the country’s human rights watch dog said the period was marked by a significant number of arbitrary arrests and illegal detentions. The Ethiopian government is now saying it plans to negotiate with forces from the Tigray region, but a culture of impunity prevails, says Kalkidan Yibeltal.</p><p>We visit a mosque and a church in Norway to hear how an agreement between Christian and Muslim leaders, recognising the right to convert between faiths, has affected the respective communities. Maddy Savage is in Oslo.</p><p>Jamaica has this year set the process in motion to remove the Queen as head of state and become a Republic. Adina Campbell recently visited the country and found the issue was the subject of fervent discussion wherever she went.</p><p>The Shandur Polo Festival in north-west Pakistan is held each July. The event draws enthusiastic crowds from all the surrounding regions, willing to brave the nerve-wracking journey to the highest polo ground in the world, says Hannah McCarthy.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  597. Producer: Serena Tarling
  598. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  599. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2022 09:39:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1716</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cm8qjn.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cm8qjn.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0cm8qjn.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0cm8qnq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cm8qnq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cm8qjn.mp3" fileSize="27456000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1716"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0cm8qnq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Suspicions in Soweto</title><description><![CDATA[<p>South Africa saw a spate of violent shootings over the last week triggering conspiracy theories and suspicions. South Africa has been simmering since last Summer, when the country saw some of the worst outbreaks of violence in decades. Andrew Harding says there is a jittery mood in the country.
  600. Next, the authorities in Uzbekistan - a former Soviet republic - have declared a state of emergency and a night-time curfew in the region of Karakalpakstan following protests about moves to restrict its autonomy. Although the planned constitutional changes have now been withdrawn, Uzbek authorities have imposed a security clampdown and an information black-out. Joanna Lillis was there.
  601. At the local abortion clinics in Arkansas, the recent Supreme Court ruling in the US had an immediate impact, effectively giving states the right to determine their own abortion laws. In the case of Arkansas, the state’s Attorney-General then implemented an almost complete ban. Sophie Long was at an abortion clinic in Little Rock when the news broke.
  602. We visit one of the most active volcanoes in Central America. An eruption at the Fuego volcano four years ago devastated the surrounding region, killing at least 200 hundred people. Several thousand were displaced, but many have since returned both to live and to farm the mineral rich land in the surrounding area. Isabelle Stanley set up camp on a nearby peak.
  603. The Dolomites Marathon in the Italian Alps is one of the major annual cycling events, approximately 86 miles in length, weaving its way through spectacular mountain passes. Dominic Casciani decided to make his return after a twelve-year reprieve.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  604. Producer: Serena Tarling
  605. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  606. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A series of shootings in South Africa raises alarm</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>South Africa saw a spate of violent shootings over the last week triggering conspiracy theories and suspicions. South Africa has been simmering since last Summer, when the country saw some of the worst outbreaks of violence in decades. Andrew Harding says there is a jittery mood in the country.
  607. Next, the authorities in Uzbekistan - a former Soviet republic - have declared a state of emergency and a night-time curfew in the region of Karakalpakstan following protests about moves to restrict its autonomy. Although the planned constitutional changes have now been withdrawn, Uzbek authorities have imposed a security clampdown and an information black-out. Joanna Lillis was there.
  608. At the local abortion clinics in Arkansas, the recent Supreme Court ruling in the US had an immediate impact, effectively giving states the right to determine their own abortion laws. In the case of Arkansas, the state’s Attorney-General then implemented an almost complete ban. Sophie Long was at an abortion clinic in Little Rock when the news broke.
  609. We visit one of the most active volcanoes in Central America. An eruption at the Fuego volcano four years ago devastated the surrounding region, killing at least 200 hundred people. Several thousand were displaced, but many have since returned both to live and to farm the mineral rich land in the surrounding area. Isabelle Stanley set up camp on a nearby peak.
  610. The Dolomites Marathon in the Italian Alps is one of the major annual cycling events, approximately 86 miles in length, weaving its way through spectacular mountain passes. Dominic Casciani decided to make his return after a twelve-year reprieve.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  611. Producer: Serena Tarling
  612. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
  613. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2022 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1742</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cltsxx.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cltsxx.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0cltsxx.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0clttxw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0clttxw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cltsxx.mp3" fileSize="27872000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1742"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0clttxw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Sri Lanka on the edge</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since independence, with inflation soaring to the highest rate in Asia. The country’s energy minister warned at the weekend that the country would soon run out fuel as long queues formed at petrol stations, with many staying for days at a time. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has even sought help from Russia to help import fuel. Rajini Vaidyanathan has been in Colombo speaking to those most affected.</p><p>Will Grant reflects on dual tragedies in Texas: the shooting in a primary school in Uvalde in Texas and 53 migrant deaths in a people smuggling operation.   In both these horrific events, the correspondent heard stories of thwarted hopes – and life ambitions cut short.</p><p>In Syria, cities like Damascus and Palmyra were once heralded for their history and architectural grandeur but much of their cultural heritage has been destroyed during the years of civil war. Nick Redmayne travelled to Palmyra on a guided tour, one of a few businesses that are trying to revive their fortunes despite an on-going economic crisis.</p><p>In Algeria, we hear how people are working to restore the land that was burned in wildfires last year, in the country's northeast. Tens of thousands of hectares were destroyed in the flames and much of the natural landscape has morphed into charred remains. Amy Liptrot visited a project which is involved in restoring some of the land that was destroyed by the fires.</p><p>And finally, we hear about one French farmer who has come up with a cunning plan to help generate a new source of revenue at his family run farm: it's a cabaret show with a difference, far away from the Folies Bergère. Chris Bockman paid it a visit.
  615. Presenter: Kate Adie
  616. Producer: Serena Tarling
  617. Editor: Emma Rippon
  618. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Sri Lanka's economic crisis deepens as people face skyrocketing prices</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since independence, with inflation soaring to the highest rate in Asia. The country’s energy minister warned at the weekend that the country would soon run out fuel as long queues formed at petrol stations, with many staying for days at a time. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has even sought help from Russia to help import fuel. Rajini Vaidyanathan has been in Colombo speaking to those most affected.</p><p>Will Grant reflects on dual tragedies in Texas: the shooting in a primary school in Uvalde in Texas and 53 migrant deaths in a people smuggling operation.   In both these horrific events, the correspondent heard stories of thwarted hopes – and life ambitions cut short.</p><p>In Syria, cities like Damascus and Palmyra were once heralded for their history and architectural grandeur but much of their cultural heritage has been destroyed during the years of civil war. Nick Redmayne travelled to Palmyra on a guided tour, one of a few businesses that are trying to revive their fortunes despite an on-going economic crisis.</p><p>In Algeria, we hear how people are working to restore the land that was burned in wildfires last year, in the country's northeast. Tens of thousands of hectares were destroyed in the flames and much of the natural landscape has morphed into charred remains. Amy Liptrot visited a project which is involved in restoring some of the land that was destroyed by the fires.</p><p>And finally, we hear about one French farmer who has come up with a cunning plan to help generate a new source of revenue at his family run farm: it's a cabaret show with a difference, far away from the Folies Bergère. Chris Bockman paid it a visit.
  620. Presenter: Kate Adie
  621. Producer: Serena Tarling
  622. Editor: Emma Rippon
  623. Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2022 04:55:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1740</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0ckw9mp.mp3" length="27840000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0ckw9mp.mp3" length="27840000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0ckw9mp.mp3" length="27840000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0ckzf3d</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ckzf3d</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0ckw9mp.mp3" fileSize="27840000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1740"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0ckzf3d</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Confronting racism on Chinese social media</title><description><![CDATA[<p>We track down a Chinese film maker in Malawi who used local children to film personalised greeting videos, some of which included racist content. These videos were  sold on Chinese media and internet platforms – with the communities in Malawi none the wiser about the purpose of the content. Runako Celina reflects on how the attitudes she encountered on this investigation were reminiscent of her own experience as a black woman living in Beijing.</p><p>Russians have been glued to talk shows presenting an alternative narrative of the invasion of Ukraine: characterising the invasion as a special operation.
  624. Frances Scarr speaks to those who believe Putin's actions are legitimate - confronting a perceived aggressor - and necessary.</p><p>In Catalonia, support for the independence movement has dwindled in recent years. But it was thrown back in the spotlight during the Pegasus scandal, in which spyware was found to have been used by Spain's authorities to monitor independence supporters.  Victor Lloret met someone who was also tracked by Pegasus. </p><p>Iraqi Airways was once a badge of pride for many people. But the analogue-era service from Iraq's ageing flag carrier is a symptom of the country's state bloat. According to critics, money is spent on hiring huge numbers of staff in government-owned companies rather than investing in much-needed infrastructure. But the flights themselves are at least reliable, says Lizzie Porter.</p><p>Our correspondent joins a kayak trip in Fajardo, in Puerto Rico’s East. The region is famous for its nature reserves and for the coqui frog. The singer Dessa encountered these frogs on a recent visit to the island.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  625. Producer: Serena Tarling
  626. Production Coordinators: Gemma Ashman and Iona Hammond
  627. Editor: Hugh Levinson</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Tracking-down a Chinese content maker in Malawi who sold racist content online</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>We track down a Chinese film maker in Malawi who used local children to film personalised greeting videos, some of which included racist content. These videos were  sold on Chinese media and internet platforms – with the communities in Malawi none the wiser about the purpose of the content. Runako Celina reflects on how the attitudes she encountered on this investigation were reminiscent of her own experience as a black woman living in Beijing.</p><p>Russians have been glued to talk shows presenting an alternative narrative of the invasion of Ukraine: characterising the invasion as a special operation.
  628. Frances Scarr speaks to those who believe Putin's actions are legitimate - confronting a perceived aggressor - and necessary.</p><p>In Catalonia, support for the independence movement has dwindled in recent years. But it was thrown back in the spotlight during the Pegasus scandal, in which spyware was found to have been used by Spain's authorities to monitor independence supporters.  Victor Lloret met someone who was also tracked by Pegasus. </p><p>Iraqi Airways was once a badge of pride for many people. But the analogue-era service from Iraq's ageing flag carrier is a symptom of the country's state bloat. According to critics, money is spent on hiring huge numbers of staff in government-owned companies rather than investing in much-needed infrastructure. But the flights themselves are at least reliable, says Lizzie Porter.</p><p>Our correspondent joins a kayak trip in Fajardo, in Puerto Rico’s East. The region is famous for its nature reserves and for the coqui frog. The singer Dessa encountered these frogs on a recent visit to the island.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  629. Producer: Serena Tarling
  630. Production Coordinators: Gemma Ashman and Iona Hammond
  631. Editor: Hugh Levinson</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cs6dqf.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cs6dqf.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0cs6dqf.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0cs6f2l</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cs6f2l</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cs6dqf.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0cs6f2l</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Suspicion and mistrust in the Donbas</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stories from Ukraine, Afghanistan, the US and Rwanda.
  632. Russia is focusing its military might on Ukraine's east where some of the locals have been heavily influenced by Vladimir Putin's propaganda machine. Allegiances have become blurred, with Ukrainian informants tipping off Russian soldiers on the whereabouts of their compatriots, says Orla Guerin.</p><p>People in Afghanistan's Paktika province are trying to rebuild lives from the rubble of the recent earthquake. It's now estimated more than 1,000 people were killed and several villages were destroyed. Secunder Kermani met with some of the survivors who showed both resilience and generosity.</p><p>Access to abortion will be a critical issue in the US mid-term elections in November: with battle lines drawn in Pennsylvania and many other states between Republican and Democratic candidates who either want to protect the right to abortion or want an outright ban. Christine Spolar is a Pennsylvania native and was back there as the Supreme Court's decision was announced.</p><p>Rwanda has been in the spotlight as the country hosted a gathering of Commonwealth leaders, and amid controversy over its immigration deal with the UK. President Paul Kagame was eager to present a polished image to the international community, whilst also rebutting any criticisms of his own poor human rights record, says Anne Soy.</p><p>Before the war, cities like Kyiv and Odessa were known for their bustling cafes and a lively arts scene. But just as they try to spring back to life, Russia fires another deadly missile, reminding the country and its people of the perils of dropping their guard. Nick Beake was in Kremenchuk and Kyiv this week.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Ukrainians in the Donbas fear those among them who support the Russians</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stories from Ukraine, Afghanistan, the US and Rwanda.
  633. Russia is focusing its military might on Ukraine's east where some of the locals have been heavily influenced by Vladimir Putin's propaganda machine. Allegiances have become blurred, with Ukrainian informants tipping off Russian soldiers on the whereabouts of their compatriots, says Orla Guerin.</p><p>People in Afghanistan's Paktika province are trying to rebuild lives from the rubble of the recent earthquake. It's now estimated more than 1,000 people were killed and several villages were destroyed. Secunder Kermani met with some of the survivors who showed both resilience and generosity.</p><p>Access to abortion will be a critical issue in the US mid-term elections in November: with battle lines drawn in Pennsylvania and many other states between Republican and Democratic candidates who either want to protect the right to abortion or want an outright ban. Christine Spolar is a Pennsylvania native and was back there as the Supreme Court's decision was announced.</p><p>Rwanda has been in the spotlight as the country hosted a gathering of Commonwealth leaders, and amid controversy over its immigration deal with the UK. President Paul Kagame was eager to present a polished image to the international community, whilst also rebutting any criticisms of his own poor human rights record, says Anne Soy.</p><p>Before the war, cities like Kyiv and Odessa were known for their bustling cafes and a lively arts scene. But just as they try to spring back to life, Russia fires another deadly missile, reminding the country and its people of the perils of dropping their guard. Nick Beake was in Kremenchuk and Kyiv this week.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1729</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cjhddg.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cjhddg.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0cjhddg.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0cjhfr0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cjhfr0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cjhddg.mp3" fileSize="27664000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1729"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0cjhfr0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Summit in the Bavarian Alps</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian Alps hosted dignitaries as they tried to present a united front against Russian aggression and tackle the global food crisis.  James Landale also found the castle had an interesting story of its own when he was reporting from the summit.
  634. Russian soldiers have employed brutal tactics throughout the Ukrainian invasion. Attempts to escape cities like Severodonetsk and Mariupol often proved perilous for Ukrainians, fleeing in bullet ridden cars, under constant threat of attack. Hugo Bachega, met with some of the people who managed to get away.
  635. The ripple effect of the war in Ukraine is far-reaching – from grain shortages to a surge in electricity prices globally. Even energy rich Australia has found itself asking citizens to ration their use of electricity.  Its new Prime Minister has pledged a greener future for the country, with less reliance on coal. But this transition may be harder than it might seem, says Shaimaa Khalil.
  636. Panama may be known for its banking secrecy and the canal, but more than half the country is covered in tropical forests and mangroves.  Grace Livingstone recently visited the indigenous community of Arimae, in the east of the country, which is finding innovative ways to defend and protect their land.
  637. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Hong Kong handover and Beijing has in the last few years been tightening its grip.  In recent weeks, one of the city’s most famous institutions, the Jumbo Floating Restaurant, closed its doors and subsequently sank. The restaurant failed to survive the impact of the pandemic. But it remains a symbol of a bygone era, says Louisa Lim.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  638. Producer: Serena Tarling
  639. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  640. Production Coordinators: Gemma Ashman and Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>G7 leaders gathered at Schloss Elmau as Russia’s onslaught of Ukraine continued.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian Alps hosted dignitaries as they tried to present a united front against Russian aggression and tackle the global food crisis.  James Landale also found the castle had an interesting story of its own when he was reporting from the summit.
  641. Russian soldiers have employed brutal tactics throughout the Ukrainian invasion. Attempts to escape cities like Severodonetsk and Mariupol often proved perilous for Ukrainians, fleeing in bullet ridden cars, under constant threat of attack. Hugo Bachega, met with some of the people who managed to get away.
  642. The ripple effect of the war in Ukraine is far-reaching – from grain shortages to a surge in electricity prices globally. Even energy rich Australia has found itself asking citizens to ration their use of electricity.  Its new Prime Minister has pledged a greener future for the country, with less reliance on coal. But this transition may be harder than it might seem, says Shaimaa Khalil.
  643. Panama may be known for its banking secrecy and the canal, but more than half the country is covered in tropical forests and mangroves.  Grace Livingstone recently visited the indigenous community of Arimae, in the east of the country, which is finding innovative ways to defend and protect their land.
  644. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Hong Kong handover and Beijing has in the last few years been tightening its grip.  In recent weeks, one of the city’s most famous institutions, the Jumbo Floating Restaurant, closed its doors and subsequently sank. The restaurant failed to survive the impact of the pandemic. But it remains a symbol of a bygone era, says Louisa Lim.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  645. Producer: Serena Tarling
  646. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  647. Production Coordinators: Gemma Ashman and Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1720</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cj1psf.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cj1psf.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0cj1psf.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0cj1rnw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cj1rnw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cj1psf.mp3" fileSize="27520000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1720"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0cj1rnw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Colombia breaks with its past</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Gustavo Petro has been voted in as Colombia’s first ever leftist president – the former rebel and long-time senator campaigned to radically overhaul Colombia’s economy and bring an end to inequality. Katy Watson reports from Colombia’s capital Bogota on the country’s decisive break from its past.
  648. Despite his presidential victory earlier this year, Emmanuel Macron saw his party lose 100 seats in French parliamentary elections . Meanwhile Marine Le Pen's far-right party saw an elevenfold increase in MPs, and the hard-left alliance, under Jean-Luc Melanchon, saw their own support double. As the battle to forge a consensus begins, Lucy Williamson went to meet some of the new arrivals.
  649. Congressional hearings in Washington DC concerning the attack on the US Capitol building last year has made for gripping viewing. The committee panel has already heard a raft of Donald Trump’s former allies recount examples of presidential pressure to overturn the 2021 election result. Gabriel Gatehouse says, despite the evidence, the nation remains divided over which narrative to accept.
  650. The effort to protect the world’s last remaining mountain gorillas in Uganda is reckoned to be a conservation triumph. But this success has come at a terrible price for the Batwa – or pygmy – people who used to share the forest with the gorillas. Justin Rowlatt met with a Batwa man who still yearns for his former home.
  651. Domestic cats have been getting an uncharacteristically bad press recently in Iceland. One town proposed a cat curfew earlier this year – sparking fierce opposition from the newly-formed Cat Party in local elections. Egill Bjarnason has been following the ‘Cat Wars’.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  652. Producer: Serena Tarling
  653. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  654. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A new leftist president is elected in Bogota, pledging radical change</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Gustavo Petro has been voted in as Colombia’s first ever leftist president – the former rebel and long-time senator campaigned to radically overhaul Colombia’s economy and bring an end to inequality. Katy Watson reports from Colombia’s capital Bogota on the country’s decisive break from its past.
  655. Despite his presidential victory earlier this year, Emmanuel Macron saw his party lose 100 seats in French parliamentary elections . Meanwhile Marine Le Pen's far-right party saw an elevenfold increase in MPs, and the hard-left alliance, under Jean-Luc Melanchon, saw their own support double. As the battle to forge a consensus begins, Lucy Williamson went to meet some of the new arrivals.
  656. Congressional hearings in Washington DC concerning the attack on the US Capitol building last year has made for gripping viewing. The committee panel has already heard a raft of Donald Trump’s former allies recount examples of presidential pressure to overturn the 2021 election result. Gabriel Gatehouse says, despite the evidence, the nation remains divided over which narrative to accept.
  657. The effort to protect the world’s last remaining mountain gorillas in Uganda is reckoned to be a conservation triumph. But this success has come at a terrible price for the Batwa – or pygmy – people who used to share the forest with the gorillas. Justin Rowlatt met with a Batwa man who still yearns for his former home.
  658. Domestic cats have been getting an uncharacteristically bad press recently in Iceland. One town proposed a cat curfew earlier this year – sparking fierce opposition from the newly-formed Cat Party in local elections. Egill Bjarnason has been following the ‘Cat Wars’.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  659. Producer: Serena Tarling
  660. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
  661. Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1715</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0ch3m2s.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0ch3m2s.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0ch3m2s.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0ch3mjx</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ch3mjx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0ch3m2s.mp3" fileSize="27440000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1715"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0ch3mjx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>More Killing in Kashmir</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The situation in Kashmir is deteriorating again, with a new wave of attacks on civilians. Militant separatist groups appear to be targeting people purely because of their religion, while the Indian army stands accused of human rights violations. Yogita Limaye has been hearing from two families affected by the violence.</p><p>Turkey appears to be in the midst of a crackdown on live music. The country's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan had already condemned what he regards as immoral influences on television and film. Now, a series of popular singers have seen their concerts cancelled. Ayla Jean Yackley has been speaking to them.</p><p>Across huge swathes of the world, it is the norm for people to earn money from day-to-day opportunities, rather than having a fixed job. There is an on-going debate about whether or not this is a good idea - for the people involved, and for the societies they live in. Samuel Derbyshire has been hearing about the ups and downs of life as an informal worker in Kenya.</p><p>The Suwalki Gap has been described as the most important place in the world that almost nobody has heard of - the spot where some fear World War Three could one day start. This small stretch of land in northern Poland sits in a crucial strategic position - and people fear that if Russia took control, it could cut off three Baltic states from their NATO allies. Sadakat Kadri visited Suwalki, to ask people there how they felt about living in this geopolitical hotspot.</p><p>Amsterdam today is a picture postcard city, famous for its museums, its coffee shops, and its canals. However, hundreds of years ago, those canals, and also the city's docks made the city notorious for its smell. Now, those odours have been recreated, and will soon be offered to visitors as part of a scent-focused guided tour. Christa Larwood had a preview.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A new wave of sectarian murders are happening in Indian Administered Kashmir</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The situation in Kashmir is deteriorating again, with a new wave of attacks on civilians. Militant separatist groups appear to be targeting people purely because of their religion, while the Indian army stands accused of human rights violations. Yogita Limaye has been hearing from two families affected by the violence.</p><p>Turkey appears to be in the midst of a crackdown on live music. The country's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan had already condemned what he regards as immoral influences on television and film. Now, a series of popular singers have seen their concerts cancelled. Ayla Jean Yackley has been speaking to them.</p><p>Across huge swathes of the world, it is the norm for people to earn money from day-to-day opportunities, rather than having a fixed job. There is an on-going debate about whether or not this is a good idea - for the people involved, and for the societies they live in. Samuel Derbyshire has been hearing about the ups and downs of life as an informal worker in Kenya.</p><p>The Suwalki Gap has been described as the most important place in the world that almost nobody has heard of - the spot where some fear World War Three could one day start. This small stretch of land in northern Poland sits in a crucial strategic position - and people fear that if Russia took control, it could cut off three Baltic states from their NATO allies. Sadakat Kadri visited Suwalki, to ask people there how they felt about living in this geopolitical hotspot.</p><p>Amsterdam today is a picture postcard city, famous for its museums, its coffee shops, and its canals. However, hundreds of years ago, those canals, and also the city's docks made the city notorious for its smell. Now, those odours have been recreated, and will soon be offered to visitors as part of a scent-focused guided tour. Christa Larwood had a preview.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2022 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1711</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cgnhjj.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cgnhjj.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0cgnhjj.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0cgnk0l</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cgnk0l</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cgnhjj.mp3" fileSize="27376000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1711"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0cgnk0l</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Ukraine's Battlefield Doctors</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The task of a surgeon is not an easy one at the best of times, but some in Ukraine are having learn how to carry out operations in the midst of a battlefield. Many have been taught how to do this by the British surgeon, David Nott, who has worked in conflict zones around the globe. Wyre Davies joined one of his classes.</p><p>Russia’s attack on Ukraine has left other countries wondering if they might be next. Fourteen countries have land borders with Russia, and eight of these were once part of the old Soviet Union, which Vladimir Putin at times seems keen to resurrect. Zeinab Badawi has been to Georgia, where she says many feel like they are now right on the front line.</p><p>We owe the planet’s peat bogs a debt of gratitude, as they effectively suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, and store it underground. Andrew Harding travelled deep into the Republic of Congo, to see a vast area of peat the size of England, which is currently under threat.</p><p>The Yazidi people of northern Iraq suffered horrific atrocities at the hands of the group which calls itself Islamic State. IS has now been driven out of the Yazidi homeland, Mount Sinjar, but the Yazidi people now find themselves caught up in their country's fractious politics, with different groups fighting for their loyalty, and with guns as well as persuasion. Shelly Kittleson learns how this has left communities - and families - bitterly divided.</p><p>Banks want your custom., or at least, you might think so, given the number of adverts suggesting they offering the most favourable interest rates, and perhaps the broadest smile on the faces of their staff. However, when Alba Arikha recently had to open a bank account in Greece, she found herself having to fight hard just to give them her money</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>How Ukrainian surgeons are learning to operate in the middle of a warzone</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The task of a surgeon is not an easy one at the best of times, but some in Ukraine are having learn how to carry out operations in the midst of a battlefield. Many have been taught how to do this by the British surgeon, David Nott, who has worked in conflict zones around the globe. Wyre Davies joined one of his classes.</p><p>Russia’s attack on Ukraine has left other countries wondering if they might be next. Fourteen countries have land borders with Russia, and eight of these were once part of the old Soviet Union, which Vladimir Putin at times seems keen to resurrect. Zeinab Badawi has been to Georgia, where she says many feel like they are now right on the front line.</p><p>We owe the planet’s peat bogs a debt of gratitude, as they effectively suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, and store it underground. Andrew Harding travelled deep into the Republic of Congo, to see a vast area of peat the size of England, which is currently under threat.</p><p>The Yazidi people of northern Iraq suffered horrific atrocities at the hands of the group which calls itself Islamic State. IS has now been driven out of the Yazidi homeland, Mount Sinjar, but the Yazidi people now find themselves caught up in their country's fractious politics, with different groups fighting for their loyalty, and with guns as well as persuasion. Shelly Kittleson learns how this has left communities - and families - bitterly divided.</p><p>Banks want your custom., or at least, you might think so, given the number of adverts suggesting they offering the most favourable interest rates, and perhaps the broadest smile on the faces of their staff. However, when Alba Arikha recently had to open a bank account in Greece, she found herself having to fight hard just to give them her money</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2022 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1696</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cfr3vb.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cfr3vb.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0cfr3vb.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0cfr4l1</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cfr4l1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cfr3vb.mp3" fileSize="27136000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1696"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0cfr4l1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Amazon Defenders</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Brazilian police say a suspect has confessed to burying the bodies of missing British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who disappeared in a remote part of the Amazon rainforest on 5 June. Mr Phillips' wife said in a statement that 'today begins our quest for justice'. Andrew Downie remembers his friend.</p><p>Britain's Civil Aviation Authority has warned that the service wheelchair users get at airports has worsened: one man was recently left on a plane for two hours after everyone else had got off, and ended up calling the police for help - stories which are horribly familiar to Tom Shakespeare. His work has required him to fly around the globe, and it has certainly not been easy.</p><p>The reasons the Kremlin has given to justify Russia’s attack on Ukraine are many, varied, and sometimes contradictory. What they all have in common is that few people outside the country believe them. Anastasia Koro says that lying has become so common in Russia, that even the most ordinary interactions now have the shadow of mendacity hanging over them.</p><p>Crowds have now returned to sports stadiums in Japan, but Covid safety measures remain in place. This means that fans are required to keep their mouths shut, for fear that cheers and yelling might spread the coronavirus. So, it was a strange atmosphere that greeted Hannah Kilcoyne, as she turned up to see her first ever Japanese baseball game.</p><p>James Joyce's epic novel, Ulysses, has not always been well received: a 'colossal muck heap' said one critic, while another described it as 'an unspeakable heap of printed filth.' It is now a hundred years since Ulysses was published, and today the novel is regarded as a masterpiece, albeit a tough read. Chris Page says that its increasing popularity in Ireland reflects the country's changing social attitudes.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Remembering the work of journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Brazilian police say a suspect has confessed to burying the bodies of missing British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who disappeared in a remote part of the Amazon rainforest on 5 June. Mr Phillips' wife said in a statement that 'today begins our quest for justice'. Andrew Downie remembers his friend.</p><p>Britain's Civil Aviation Authority has warned that the service wheelchair users get at airports has worsened: one man was recently left on a plane for two hours after everyone else had got off, and ended up calling the police for help - stories which are horribly familiar to Tom Shakespeare. His work has required him to fly around the globe, and it has certainly not been easy.</p><p>The reasons the Kremlin has given to justify Russia’s attack on Ukraine are many, varied, and sometimes contradictory. What they all have in common is that few people outside the country believe them. Anastasia Koro says that lying has become so common in Russia, that even the most ordinary interactions now have the shadow of mendacity hanging over them.</p><p>Crowds have now returned to sports stadiums in Japan, but Covid safety measures remain in place. This means that fans are required to keep their mouths shut, for fear that cheers and yelling might spread the coronavirus. So, it was a strange atmosphere that greeted Hannah Kilcoyne, as she turned up to see her first ever Japanese baseball game.</p><p>James Joyce's epic novel, Ulysses, has not always been well received: a 'colossal muck heap' said one critic, while another described it as 'an unspeakable heap of printed filth.' It is now a hundred years since Ulysses was published, and today the novel is regarded as a masterpiece, albeit a tough read. Chris Page says that its increasing popularity in Ireland reflects the country's changing social attitudes.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2022 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1720</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cf99b6.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cf99b6.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0cf99b6.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0cf9ccc</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cf9ccc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cf99b6.mp3" fileSize="27520000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1720"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0cf9ccc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Afrikaans: The Language Which Still Divides</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Passengers travelling with Ryanair to the UK on a South African passport are being asked to complete a test to prove their nationality. The airline says this necessary to combat a substantial increase in fake South African passports - an airline found to have taken a passenger to the UK on a fake passport can face a fine of £2,000. However, the required test is in Afrikaans, which has outraged many South Africans who view it as the language of apartheid. Audrey Brown is one of them, and explains why.</p><p>More than 100,000 Cubans have fled the island this year - the biggest surge since1980. Some have set off on the tested route towards Florida in small boats, but others are taking detours via other Latin American countries. So why this sudden exodus? Will Grant has been talking to Cubans about their new desperation to leave.</p><p>When BBC producer Mat Morrison was sent to Dnipro in Ukraine, it was his first experience of reporting in a country at war. Slowly, he says, he has learned how to recognise the sound of missile attacks, and what to do when they land nearby.</p><p>When he first stood for election, Emmanuel Macron promised to shake up French politics. One way he proposed to do this was by radically changing the make-up of parliament, encouraging people from all kinds of social and professional backgrounds to stand as MPs. Five years later, and the French people are returning to the polls, to vote for a new parliament. As Lucy Williamson reports, some of the political neophytes from the previous contest are now feeling rather jaded.</p><p>The nomad's way of life is under threat. Peoples who have been on the move for millennia are increasingly being told by governments to give up their wandering and settle. Anthony Sattin has spent the past few years with nomads in different parts of the globe, including a group of shepherds, based in a small corner of the Middle East.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Why South Africans are outraged at a plane passenger test in the Afrikaans language.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Passengers travelling with Ryanair to the UK on a South African passport are being asked to complete a test to prove their nationality. The airline says this necessary to combat a substantial increase in fake South African passports - an airline found to have taken a passenger to the UK on a fake passport can face a fine of £2,000. However, the required test is in Afrikaans, which has outraged many South Africans who view it as the language of apartheid. Audrey Brown is one of them, and explains why.</p><p>More than 100,000 Cubans have fled the island this year - the biggest surge since1980. Some have set off on the tested route towards Florida in small boats, but others are taking detours via other Latin American countries. So why this sudden exodus? Will Grant has been talking to Cubans about their new desperation to leave.</p><p>When BBC producer Mat Morrison was sent to Dnipro in Ukraine, it was his first experience of reporting in a country at war. Slowly, he says, he has learned how to recognise the sound of missile attacks, and what to do when they land nearby.</p><p>When he first stood for election, Emmanuel Macron promised to shake up French politics. One way he proposed to do this was by radically changing the make-up of parliament, encouraging people from all kinds of social and professional backgrounds to stand as MPs. Five years later, and the French people are returning to the polls, to vote for a new parliament. As Lucy Williamson reports, some of the political neophytes from the previous contest are now feeling rather jaded.</p><p>The nomad's way of life is under threat. Peoples who have been on the move for millennia are increasingly being told by governments to give up their wandering and settle. Anthony Sattin has spent the past few years with nomads in different parts of the globe, including a group of shepherds, based in a small corner of the Middle East.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1722</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cdbx09.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cdbx09.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0cdbx09.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0cdbydj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cdbydj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cdbx09.mp3" fileSize="27552000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1722"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0cdbydj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Life Under Russian Occupation</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Evidence suggests that war crimes have been committed in the Ukrainian towns and cities which fell under Russian occupation. Bodies of civilians have been left behind where Russian troops withdrew, and those Ukrainians who remained in their homes throughout have spoken of imprisonment, torture and murder. Sophie Williams spoke to a woman who managed to escape from Izyum, a city that Russian forces took over back in April, and she revealed what life was like there.</p><p>Ukraine is effectively fighting a war on two fronts: there is the battle on the ground, but also the battle for public opinion, fought on the world stage. If Ukraine is to continue receiving arms from countries abroad, it must make sure it has those countries' support. That is particularly crucial when it comes to the US, which is supplying more assistance than any other. Tara McKelvey was watching as President Joe Biden tried to persuade people in the rural Midwest that such support is necessary.</p><p>It is forty years since Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands, and Britain sent a task force to drive them out. Tributes have been paid to the hundreds of servicemen who were killed or injured, but what is sometimes overlooked is the role played by the Islanders themselves. Beth Timmins has been hearing how civilians there used a secret system of radio communication, to help those who had come to liberate them</p><p>Paddy O'Connell has been a regular visitor to the beaches of Normandy, where his father fought in the allied landings of 1944. On his latest visit, he met the French son of a British soldier, trying to find out what had happened to his own father.</p><p>Stephen Moss is a glote-trotting birdwatcher, whose hobby has taken him as far as Costa Rica. On a recent visit, he found that ornithology enthusiasts have been kept away by the Covid pandemic, meaning that local nature sanctuaries could close down.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A Ukrainian woman's tale of what happened when Russian troops took over her city</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Evidence suggests that war crimes have been committed in the Ukrainian towns and cities which fell under Russian occupation. Bodies of civilians have been left behind where Russian troops withdrew, and those Ukrainians who remained in their homes throughout have spoken of imprisonment, torture and murder. Sophie Williams spoke to a woman who managed to escape from Izyum, a city that Russian forces took over back in April, and she revealed what life was like there.</p><p>Ukraine is effectively fighting a war on two fronts: there is the battle on the ground, but also the battle for public opinion, fought on the world stage. If Ukraine is to continue receiving arms from countries abroad, it must make sure it has those countries' support. That is particularly crucial when it comes to the US, which is supplying more assistance than any other. Tara McKelvey was watching as President Joe Biden tried to persuade people in the rural Midwest that such support is necessary.</p><p>It is forty years since Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands, and Britain sent a task force to drive them out. Tributes have been paid to the hundreds of servicemen who were killed or injured, but what is sometimes overlooked is the role played by the Islanders themselves. Beth Timmins has been hearing how civilians there used a secret system of radio communication, to help those who had come to liberate them</p><p>Paddy O'Connell has been a regular visitor to the beaches of Normandy, where his father fought in the allied landings of 1944. On his latest visit, he met the French son of a British soldier, trying to find out what had happened to his own father.</p><p>Stephen Moss is a glote-trotting birdwatcher, whose hobby has taken him as far as Costa Rica. On a recent visit, he found that ornithology enthusiasts have been kept away by the Covid pandemic, meaning that local nature sanctuaries could close down.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2022 10:29:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1722</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0ccwp1f.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0ccwp1f.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0ccwp1f.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0ccwpwc</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ccwpwc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0ccwp1f.mp3" fileSize="27552000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1722"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0ccwpwc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Arab World's New Drug of Choice</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Captagon is a popular recreational drug used across the Middle East and Arabian Gulf. It can temporarily boost a user’s mood - though long-term it is highly addictive. Production is concentrated in Syria, and smuggled across the border into Jordan and onto the Gulf. Officials in Jordan say militant groups are profiting from the production of the drug, and Yolande Knell has been out on patrol with the people trying to stop them.</p><p>About 2500 miles due south of Jordan, there is another criminal trade at large: the illegal catching and selling of Tanzanian fish. Mark Weston has been to Lake Victoria to hear about its controversial local delicacy: Nile Perch.</p><p>Celebrations of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee are not restricted to Britain. Elizabeth II is head of state in 14 other countries, and a figurehead around the Commonwealth. Another country which feels a connection to Britain’s royal family is Greece, because Prince Philip was born there, on the island of Corfu. Julia Langdon has been to the spot where the Queen’s future husband began his life.</p><p>The recent shootings in Texas and Buffalo garnered headlines around the world, but gun-violence is a full-time tragedy in the United States. More than 40,000 people are killed each year by gun-related injuries, and this affects many others indirectly. In New York, there has been a spate of shootings and other crimes on the subway, and now Laura Trevelyan thinks twice about whether to use it.</p><p>For many Ukrainians, it has become a matter of principle to try and retain their normal way of life as far as possible, amidst the current horrors of the Russian invasion. Those horrors have touched the city of Odessa among others, with a series of missile strikes reminding residents how close they are to the invading troops. When Colin Freeman reached Odessa, however, he found himself in what, at times, felt suspiciously like a regular holiday resort.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Captagon is turning users into addicts, and funding militant groups in the Middle East.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Captagon is a popular recreational drug used across the Middle East and Arabian Gulf. It can temporarily boost a user’s mood - though long-term it is highly addictive. Production is concentrated in Syria, and smuggled across the border into Jordan and onto the Gulf. Officials in Jordan say militant groups are profiting from the production of the drug, and Yolande Knell has been out on patrol with the people trying to stop them.</p><p>About 2500 miles due south of Jordan, there is another criminal trade at large: the illegal catching and selling of Tanzanian fish. Mark Weston has been to Lake Victoria to hear about its controversial local delicacy: Nile Perch.</p><p>Celebrations of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee are not restricted to Britain. Elizabeth II is head of state in 14 other countries, and a figurehead around the Commonwealth. Another country which feels a connection to Britain’s royal family is Greece, because Prince Philip was born there, on the island of Corfu. Julia Langdon has been to the spot where the Queen’s future husband began his life.</p><p>The recent shootings in Texas and Buffalo garnered headlines around the world, but gun-violence is a full-time tragedy in the United States. More than 40,000 people are killed each year by gun-related injuries, and this affects many others indirectly. In New York, there has been a spate of shootings and other crimes on the subway, and now Laura Trevelyan thinks twice about whether to use it.</p><p>For many Ukrainians, it has become a matter of principle to try and retain their normal way of life as far as possible, amidst the current horrors of the Russian invasion. Those horrors have touched the city of Odessa among others, with a series of missile strikes reminding residents how close they are to the invading troops. When Colin Freeman reached Odessa, however, he found himself in what, at times, felt suspiciously like a regular holiday resort.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1715</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cbxdwx.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cbxdwx.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0cbxdwx.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0cbxf0b</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cbxf0b</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cbxdwx.mp3" fileSize="27440000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1715"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0cbxf0b</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Ukrainians deported to Russia</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Allegations have continued to emerge that Ukrainian civilians are being transported into Russia by occupying troops. Some have returned, with stories of being held in camps, and of being tortured. Jen Stout heard about one village near the city of Kharkiv where locals say that 90 people were 'tricked' into boarding lorries and then taken away.</p><p>The changing borders of Poland mean that families in some regions have lived in different countries over the years, without ever having to move home. Monica Whitlock visited a village where these geographical shifts mean locals speak multiple languages, and sometimes go by multiple names.</p><p>The conflict in Ukraine has drawn attention to how vulnerable supply lines can be, with grain, gas and sunflower oil among the exports now threatened. If our cupboards and fridges are kept fully stocked, that is be down to the great flotillas of lorries which criss-cross Europe’s borders. Horatio Clare joined a couple of long-distance drivers, to get a taste of their life on the road.</p><p>The Hungarian composer, Béla Bartók, drew inspiration from folk music, and particularly the blended influences coming from his own country and Romania. He was no armchair anthropologist, but travelled round rural areas to hear the music played in local villages. More than a hundred years later, Nick Thorpe retraces one of his journeys.</p><p>When Germany was split after World War Two, Bonn was the unexpected pick to become capital of the new West Germany. But four decades later, the Berlin Wall fell and Berlin resumed its place as Germany’s capital, while Bonn was relegated to being a more provincial place. When Rob Crossan recently visited Bonn, he found some locals displaying a somewhat volatile temperament - might this be connected to their city's diminished prestige?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Ukrainian citizens say they were 'tricked' into travelling to Russia without explanation</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Allegations have continued to emerge that Ukrainian civilians are being transported into Russia by occupying troops. Some have returned, with stories of being held in camps, and of being tortured. Jen Stout heard about one village near the city of Kharkiv where locals say that 90 people were 'tricked' into boarding lorries and then taken away.</p><p>The changing borders of Poland mean that families in some regions have lived in different countries over the years, without ever having to move home. Monica Whitlock visited a village where these geographical shifts mean locals speak multiple languages, and sometimes go by multiple names.</p><p>The conflict in Ukraine has drawn attention to how vulnerable supply lines can be, with grain, gas and sunflower oil among the exports now threatened. If our cupboards and fridges are kept fully stocked, that is be down to the great flotillas of lorries which criss-cross Europe’s borders. Horatio Clare joined a couple of long-distance drivers, to get a taste of their life on the road.</p><p>The Hungarian composer, Béla Bartók, drew inspiration from folk music, and particularly the blended influences coming from his own country and Romania. He was no armchair anthropologist, but travelled round rural areas to hear the music played in local villages. More than a hundred years later, Nick Thorpe retraces one of his journeys.</p><p>When Germany was split after World War Two, Bonn was the unexpected pick to become capital of the new West Germany. But four decades later, the Berlin Wall fell and Berlin resumed its place as Germany’s capital, while Bonn was relegated to being a more provincial place. When Rob Crossan recently visited Bonn, he found some locals displaying a somewhat volatile temperament - might this be connected to their city's diminished prestige?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2022 10:35:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1741</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cbmqq4.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cbmqq4.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0cbmqq4.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0cbmrj3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cbmrj3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0cbmqq4.mp3" fileSize="27856000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1741"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0cbmrj3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Violent Protest in Sri Lanka</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Sri Lanka has been rocked by violent protests. The country is out of cash, which means it is struggling to import fuel, food and basic medicines. This in turn has prompted political turmoil, with anti-government protestors coming under attack from supporters of the ousted government. Rajini Vaidyanathan was there as battles broke out.</p><p>It was Archbishop Desmond Tutu who first called South Africa the 'Rainbow Nation', reflecting hopes for a new era of equality for the country and as it emerged from decades of apartheid. Now though, migrants in South Africa are being blamed for unemployment and other social problems - some have been murdered by vigilantes. Shingai Nyoka reflects on this rising animosity with particular personal interest, as she herself moved to South Africa from Zimbabwe.</p><p>It’s eight years since King Juan Carlos of Spain abdicated, following a string of highly embarrassing scandals. But just recently, the former king returned to Spain for a brief visit - the first since he left. Plenty of Spanish people turned out to welcome their former ruler with full-on patriotic fervour, but as Guy Hedgecoe explains, such sentiments were far from universal.</p><p>The death toll in Ukraine numbers the tens of thousands, but there are fears that vastly more people could die as an indirect result of the conflict, as supply lines for wheat and fertiliser are severely disrupted. Jonathan Head reports on how the war is affecting rice farmers thousands of miles away in Thailand.</p><p>The war in Ukraine has presented a huge logistical challenge - for citizens and the military, and also for journalists. Joe Inwood has spent most of his BBC career as a producer, but as his team moved across Ukraine, he found himself having to help run a hotel after all the local staff left town.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>As Sri Lanka runs out of fuel, food and medicine, its people are taking to the streets.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Sri Lanka has been rocked by violent protests. The country is out of cash, which means it is struggling to import fuel, food and basic medicines. This in turn has prompted political turmoil, with anti-government protestors coming under attack from supporters of the ousted government. Rajini Vaidyanathan was there as battles broke out.</p><p>It was Archbishop Desmond Tutu who first called South Africa the 'Rainbow Nation', reflecting hopes for a new era of equality for the country and as it emerged from decades of apartheid. Now though, migrants in South Africa are being blamed for unemployment and other social problems - some have been murdered by vigilantes. Shingai Nyoka reflects on this rising animosity with particular personal interest, as she herself moved to South Africa from Zimbabwe.</p><p>It’s eight years since King Juan Carlos of Spain abdicated, following a string of highly embarrassing scandals. But just recently, the former king returned to Spain for a brief visit - the first since he left. Plenty of Spanish people turned out to welcome their former ruler with full-on patriotic fervour, but as Guy Hedgecoe explains, such sentiments were far from universal.</p><p>The death toll in Ukraine numbers the tens of thousands, but there are fears that vastly more people could die as an indirect result of the conflict, as supply lines for wheat and fertiliser are severely disrupted. Jonathan Head reports on how the war is affecting rice farmers thousands of miles away in Thailand.</p><p>The war in Ukraine has presented a huge logistical challenge - for citizens and the military, and also for journalists. Joe Inwood has spent most of his BBC career as a producer, but as his team moved across Ukraine, he found himself having to help run a hotel after all the local staff left town.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1724</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c9m3qd.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c9m3qd.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0c9m3qd.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0c9m3xn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c9m3xn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c9m3qd.mp3" fileSize="27584000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1724"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0c9m3xn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Escape From Russian Occupation</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reports have emerged of terrible atrocities committed against civilians in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine. Some people have tried to escape, braving bullets and artillery fire in order to reach government-controlled areas. Among those helping them are volunteers carrying out rescue missions by driving into Russian held territory to pick up those wanting to flee and then taking them back out again across enemy lines. Carrie Davies has met them.</p><p>Some of those who have escaped from Russian-held territory have fled Ukraine altogether - nearly a million people have ended up in neighbouring Romania. Once again, volunteers have stepped up to the mark, helping to provide the new arrivals with food, housing and healthcare. As Tessa Dunlop found, some say they feel a particular affinity with people who have lost so much, and suffered so greatly.</p><p>There is a good reason why companies have chosen to base themselves in the Cayman Islands. This Caribbean nation has no income tax, or corporation tax, but does have a great climate, and luxury lifestyle for the wealthy. But because so many in the corporate world have made the Cayman Islands their home, a huge number of other people are now needed to keep basic services going: cleaners, drivers, hotel workers. James Innes-Smith has been hearing how different their lives are from the people they work for.</p><p>The western US state of Montana is beset by division over what to do about wolves. They were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park in the 1990s, and some credit them with keeping down the numbers of elk and other wildlife, promoting the fortunes of other animals. Yet critics say wolves are vermin, and that they ravage local livestock. Emilie Filou went to see for herself.</p><p>The national parks of America pride themselves on being unspoiled, yet there are other places even more remote. The Mustang area of Nepal is an enclave, jutting into what is, geographically, Tibet, and with its own customs and traditions. However, when Peter Morgan reached Mustang, he found plans afoot to encourage more people to come.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Ukrainian volunteers driving into Russian-held territory to help people flee.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reports have emerged of terrible atrocities committed against civilians in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine. Some people have tried to escape, braving bullets and artillery fire in order to reach government-controlled areas. Among those helping them are volunteers carrying out rescue missions by driving into Russian held territory to pick up those wanting to flee and then taking them back out again across enemy lines. Carrie Davies has met them.</p><p>Some of those who have escaped from Russian-held territory have fled Ukraine altogether - nearly a million people have ended up in neighbouring Romania. Once again, volunteers have stepped up to the mark, helping to provide the new arrivals with food, housing and healthcare. As Tessa Dunlop found, some say they feel a particular affinity with people who have lost so much, and suffered so greatly.</p><p>There is a good reason why companies have chosen to base themselves in the Cayman Islands. This Caribbean nation has no income tax, or corporation tax, but does have a great climate, and luxury lifestyle for the wealthy. But because so many in the corporate world have made the Cayman Islands their home, a huge number of other people are now needed to keep basic services going: cleaners, drivers, hotel workers. James Innes-Smith has been hearing how different their lives are from the people they work for.</p><p>The western US state of Montana is beset by division over what to do about wolves. They were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park in the 1990s, and some credit them with keeping down the numbers of elk and other wildlife, promoting the fortunes of other animals. Yet critics say wolves are vermin, and that they ravage local livestock. Emilie Filou went to see for herself.</p><p>The national parks of America pride themselves on being unspoiled, yet there are other places even more remote. The Mustang area of Nepal is an enclave, jutting into what is, geographically, Tibet, and with its own customs and traditions. However, when Peter Morgan reached Mustang, he found plans afoot to encourage more people to come.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2022 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1743</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c96sdn.mp3" length="27888000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c96sdn.mp3" length="27888000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0c96sdn.mp3" length="27888000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0c97188</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c97188</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c96sdn.mp3" fileSize="27888000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1743"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0c97188</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Disappeared: The Women Gone Missing in Afghanistan's Prisons</title><description><![CDATA[<p>First hand reports from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Estonia, Lebanon and the German village of Oberammergau.</p><p>Taliban promises to respect women's rights seem to be fading. Reports have emerged of Afghan women being arrested for alleged “moral crimes,” and thrown in prison without charge. Ramita Navai managed to get into one of the prisons where these women are being held.</p><p>Cambodia has some of the greatest Buddhist sites in the world, but many of these have suffered at the hand of looters. As Celia Hatton discovered, some of this theft has occurred very recently.</p><p>Estonia is attempting to win over its Russian-speaking minority. One third of the country speak Russian as their first language, and in some regions, almost everyone does. Could Vladimir Putin use an alleged attack on Russian speakers’ rights as an excuse to intervene? Estonia's innovative strategy is to offer them a series of fun events in the Estonian language, which Lucy Ash went to watch.</p><p>The politics of Lebanon are complex, and often bitterly divided. Lebanon held an election last weekend, against a backdrop of economic collapse. Leila Molana-Allen found many voters hoping that this time round, change may be afoot, although predictable cynicism was also evident.</p><p>This year, there is a new donkey for the Oberammergau Passion Play. In a tradition going back to the Seventeenth Century, two thousand residents of this small village in Bavaria present the tale of Jesus Christ and the crucifixion, for one season, every decade. Obergammerau has once again welcomed spectators to what is a unique performance. Adrian Bridge went to meet the cast.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The story of women in Afghanistan, arrested and held without charge for "moral crimes."</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>First hand reports from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Estonia, Lebanon and the German village of Oberammergau.</p><p>Taliban promises to respect women's rights seem to be fading. Reports have emerged of Afghan women being arrested for alleged “moral crimes,” and thrown in prison without charge. Ramita Navai managed to get into one of the prisons where these women are being held.</p><p>Cambodia has some of the greatest Buddhist sites in the world, but many of these have suffered at the hand of looters. As Celia Hatton discovered, some of this theft has occurred very recently.</p><p>Estonia is attempting to win over its Russian-speaking minority. One third of the country speak Russian as their first language, and in some regions, almost everyone does. Could Vladimir Putin use an alleged attack on Russian speakers’ rights as an excuse to intervene? Estonia's innovative strategy is to offer them a series of fun events in the Estonian language, which Lucy Ash went to watch.</p><p>The politics of Lebanon are complex, and often bitterly divided. Lebanon held an election last weekend, against a backdrop of economic collapse. Leila Molana-Allen found many voters hoping that this time round, change may be afoot, although predictable cynicism was also evident.</p><p>This year, there is a new donkey for the Oberammergau Passion Play. In a tradition going back to the Seventeenth Century, two thousand residents of this small village in Bavaria present the tale of Jesus Christ and the crucifixion, for one season, every decade. Obergammerau has once again welcomed spectators to what is a unique performance. Adrian Bridge went to meet the cast.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1744</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c867qg.mp3" length="27904000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c867qg.mp3" length="27904000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0c867qg.mp3" length="27904000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0c868fx</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c868fx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c867qg.mp3" fileSize="27904000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1744"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0c868fx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Lockdown Life in Shanghai</title><description><![CDATA[<p>China has been warned by the World Health Organisation that its so-called 'zero covid' approach is unsustainable. Hundreds of millions of people have been kept under lockdown in cities across the country, leaving the economy severely jolted, and critics calling it an abuse of human rights. However, the Chinese authorities seem determined to carry on as before, and have announced that the city of Shanghai will be placed under its tightest restrictions yet. The news came as a disappointment to Rebecca Kanthor, who has already gone through seven weeks of lockdown.</p><p>Choosing what to wear in El Salvador can be literally a matter of life or death. The country is plagued by gang violence, with eighty people murdered over just one weekend this year. The government has promised a crackdown, passing new laws which allow police to lock up suspected gang members as young as 12. Mike Lanchin lived in El Salvador during the 1990s, and when he returned for a visit with his family, he quickly learned the value of covering up.</p><p>More than five million people have now fled Ukraine, and have been taken in by countries across Europe. Switzerland has offered homes to tens of thousands, giving them an immediate right to work, and other benefits too. Yet this hospitality has left refugees from other countries questioning what they see as double standards. As Imogen Foulkes explains, plenty have run from war and persecution elsewhere, and yet have not found the Swiss to be quite so accepting.</p><p>Germany has been commemorating the end of World War Two - a complicated anniversary, remembering both the country's dead, but with an eye to its Nazi past. This year’s anniversary comes amidst Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and furious arguments in Germany about how far to intervene. John Kampfner was invited to one remembrance ceremony in the old East Berlin, where Germany’s complex relationship with Russia was to the fore.</p><p>Women’s boxing celebrated its biggest night ever recently, as Ireland’s Katy Taylor defended her world lightweight title against Amanda Serrano from Puerto Rico, at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Women’s boxing has always struggled to win recognition, but women have fought hard to prove it is not just a men’s sport. Steve Bunce was ring-side at the recent bout.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The stress and strain of holding a family together with no end to lockdown in sight</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>China has been warned by the World Health Organisation that its so-called 'zero covid' approach is unsustainable. Hundreds of millions of people have been kept under lockdown in cities across the country, leaving the economy severely jolted, and critics calling it an abuse of human rights. However, the Chinese authorities seem determined to carry on as before, and have announced that the city of Shanghai will be placed under its tightest restrictions yet. The news came as a disappointment to Rebecca Kanthor, who has already gone through seven weeks of lockdown.</p><p>Choosing what to wear in El Salvador can be literally a matter of life or death. The country is plagued by gang violence, with eighty people murdered over just one weekend this year. The government has promised a crackdown, passing new laws which allow police to lock up suspected gang members as young as 12. Mike Lanchin lived in El Salvador during the 1990s, and when he returned for a visit with his family, he quickly learned the value of covering up.</p><p>More than five million people have now fled Ukraine, and have been taken in by countries across Europe. Switzerland has offered homes to tens of thousands, giving them an immediate right to work, and other benefits too. Yet this hospitality has left refugees from other countries questioning what they see as double standards. As Imogen Foulkes explains, plenty have run from war and persecution elsewhere, and yet have not found the Swiss to be quite so accepting.</p><p>Germany has been commemorating the end of World War Two - a complicated anniversary, remembering both the country's dead, but with an eye to its Nazi past. This year’s anniversary comes amidst Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and furious arguments in Germany about how far to intervene. John Kampfner was invited to one remembrance ceremony in the old East Berlin, where Germany’s complex relationship with Russia was to the fore.</p><p>Women’s boxing celebrated its biggest night ever recently, as Ireland’s Katy Taylor defended her world lightweight title against Amanda Serrano from Puerto Rico, at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Women’s boxing has always struggled to win recognition, but women have fought hard to prove it is not just a men’s sport. Steve Bunce was ring-side at the recent bout.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1741</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c6s4q9.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c6s4q9.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0c6s4q9.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0c6s4v5</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c6s4v5</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c6s4q9.mp3" fileSize="27856000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1741"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0c6s4v5</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Story of a Russian War Crime</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The small city of Bucha, not far from Kyiv, has experienced some of the worst atrocities of the Russian invasion so far. It's understood that hundreds of civilians have been tortured, raped and murdered by Russian forces. Yogita Limaye has been hearing the story of one woman who experienced this horror first hand. </p><p>The war in Ukraine has caused particular worry in Finland, which shares a long border - and turbulent history - with Russia. Finland only became independent from Russia in 1917, and, historically, the price of sustaining that independence was neutrality. Joining other European countries in NATO was out of the question - and by and large, most Finns were not interested anyway. But what a difference a few weeks make, as Allan Little found. </p><p>As far as Singapore’s prosecutors were concerned, he was a drug smuggler, pure and simple. His mother though insisted he was a victim, a man of limited intelligence, who’d been tricked into carrying a small amount of heroin across the border from his home in Malaysia. Whatever the truth, the execution of Nagaenthran Dharmalingam was provided a moment of reflection in Singapore when it comes to the country's tough justice system, reports Suranjana Tewari. </p><p>Journalism has long been a risky business in The Philippines - nearly a hundred journalists have been murdered there in the past decade. So when one receives a death threat there, they know it’s to be taken seriously. And that’s what happened to Howard Johnson, as the country's presidential election starts to heat up. He has found himself under fire from internet trolls who have taken exception to his attempt to pose the tough questions to election front-runner Bong Bong Marcos - son of the late dictator, Ferdinand Marcos. </p><p>Somalia is a country which has suffered its fair share of problems – and to outsiders, it is seen perhaps as a country savaged by war. And yet, there is a side to Somalia and Somalian people which we never get to see, says Mary Harper.  For a start, she says, wherever they settle, one thing you can be sure of is there’ll be a place to get a bit of personal pampering – and with it, the chance to learn more about the reality of Somalian culture.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>How one woman in Bucha saw her husband murdered, her home and her life destroyed.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The small city of Bucha, not far from Kyiv, has experienced some of the worst atrocities of the Russian invasion so far. It's understood that hundreds of civilians have been tortured, raped and murdered by Russian forces. Yogita Limaye has been hearing the story of one woman who experienced this horror first hand. </p><p>The war in Ukraine has caused particular worry in Finland, which shares a long border - and turbulent history - with Russia. Finland only became independent from Russia in 1917, and, historically, the price of sustaining that independence was neutrality. Joining other European countries in NATO was out of the question - and by and large, most Finns were not interested anyway. But what a difference a few weeks make, as Allan Little found. </p><p>As far as Singapore’s prosecutors were concerned, he was a drug smuggler, pure and simple. His mother though insisted he was a victim, a man of limited intelligence, who’d been tricked into carrying a small amount of heroin across the border from his home in Malaysia. Whatever the truth, the execution of Nagaenthran Dharmalingam was provided a moment of reflection in Singapore when it comes to the country's tough justice system, reports Suranjana Tewari. </p><p>Journalism has long been a risky business in The Philippines - nearly a hundred journalists have been murdered there in the past decade. So when one receives a death threat there, they know it’s to be taken seriously. And that’s what happened to Howard Johnson, as the country's presidential election starts to heat up. He has found himself under fire from internet trolls who have taken exception to his attempt to pose the tough questions to election front-runner Bong Bong Marcos - son of the late dictator, Ferdinand Marcos. </p><p>Somalia is a country which has suffered its fair share of problems – and to outsiders, it is seen perhaps as a country savaged by war. And yet, there is a side to Somalia and Somalian people which we never get to see, says Mary Harper.  For a start, she says, wherever they settle, one thing you can be sure of is there’ll be a place to get a bit of personal pampering – and with it, the chance to learn more about the reality of Somalian culture.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2022 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1667</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c6mtsy.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c6mtsy.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0c6mtsy.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0c6mv73</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c6mv73</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c6mtsy.mp3" fileSize="26672000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1667"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0c6mv73</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Tackling the Cocaine Trade in Honduras</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez was voted out of power in January, and within weeks was arrested, accused of being part of a major international drugs ring. This month, Mr Hernandez was extradited to the US, where he will face charges of drug trafficking and money laundering - charges he denies. Meanwhile, back in Honduras, police say they are now trying to destroy the drug industry, and invited our correspondent Will Grant along to show how.</p><p>A British man was killed this week while fighting in Ukraine, emphasising the international aspect of the crisis. Thousands of foreigners have travelled to Ukraine to take up arms, encouraged by the country’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky. But why would someone travel to a distant country, to fight in towns and cities they may have struggled to find on a map? Hugh Barnes found a wide variety of reasons - and people - who have answered the call.</p><p>Across Ukraine, there are reminders of the warm relationship the country once had with its neighbour, Russia. The southern city of Odessa had a particular closeness, many of its population being native Russian speakers. But Odessa has been hit by Russian missiles, and with significant civilian casualties. Jen Stout tried to find out what local attitudes are now.</p><p>One of the tragedies of climate change is that those who will suffer worst from its consequences are often those who played little role in causing it - he West African island nation of Sao Tome and Principe is particularly exposed, a poor place made poorer still by environmental damage. Now it may have a chance to alleviate some of that poverty, by selling the oil which some believe lies under its ocean. Yet it is burning oil which has caused the country's climate problems in the first place, presenting a dilemma which Tamasine Forde witnessed first hand.</p><p>As Emmanuel Macron savours victory in the French election, some will be putting it down in part to the studied attempt to change his image and look more casual. Often depicted as stuck up and aloof, Monsieur Macron appeared in a much-publicised, and indeed much-mocked photograph, with no jacket and an open-neck shirt. However, while the re-elected President may have swapped his tie for tufts of very-visible chest hair, the same cannot be said of his staff. Indeed, the 'Macronistas' seem keen to preserve France’s international reputation for sartorial suaveness. Our correspondent, Hugh Schofield, found himself wondering whether he should follow their lead.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>We join police fighting the drugs trade, as their ex-president faces trafficking charges</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez was voted out of power in January, and within weeks was arrested, accused of being part of a major international drugs ring. This month, Mr Hernandez was extradited to the US, where he will face charges of drug trafficking and money laundering - charges he denies. Meanwhile, back in Honduras, police say they are now trying to destroy the drug industry, and invited our correspondent Will Grant along to show how.</p><p>A British man was killed this week while fighting in Ukraine, emphasising the international aspect of the crisis. Thousands of foreigners have travelled to Ukraine to take up arms, encouraged by the country’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky. But why would someone travel to a distant country, to fight in towns and cities they may have struggled to find on a map? Hugh Barnes found a wide variety of reasons - and people - who have answered the call.</p><p>Across Ukraine, there are reminders of the warm relationship the country once had with its neighbour, Russia. The southern city of Odessa had a particular closeness, many of its population being native Russian speakers. But Odessa has been hit by Russian missiles, and with significant civilian casualties. Jen Stout tried to find out what local attitudes are now.</p><p>One of the tragedies of climate change is that those who will suffer worst from its consequences are often those who played little role in causing it - he West African island nation of Sao Tome and Principe is particularly exposed, a poor place made poorer still by environmental damage. Now it may have a chance to alleviate some of that poverty, by selling the oil which some believe lies under its ocean. Yet it is burning oil which has caused the country's climate problems in the first place, presenting a dilemma which Tamasine Forde witnessed first hand.</p><p>As Emmanuel Macron savours victory in the French election, some will be putting it down in part to the studied attempt to change his image and look more casual. Often depicted as stuck up and aloof, Monsieur Macron appeared in a much-publicised, and indeed much-mocked photograph, with no jacket and an open-neck shirt. However, while the re-elected President may have swapped his tie for tufts of very-visible chest hair, the same cannot be said of his staff. Indeed, the 'Macronistas' seem keen to preserve France’s international reputation for sartorial suaveness. Our correspondent, Hugh Schofield, found himself wondering whether he should follow their lead.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2022 11:16:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1723</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c45djj.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c45djj.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0c45djj.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0c45dr9</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c45dr9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c45djj.mp3" fileSize="27568000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1723"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0c45dr9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Threat of Rising Waters in Bangladesh</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Rivers and the sea have long-battered waterfront villages in Bangladesh, but this is a problem now made worse by climate change. Many people have had to flee several times, as land erodes and their homes crumble. Qasa Alom went to meet those forced to repeatedly restart their lives, and joins locals working on a solution to provide more permanent sanctuary.</p><p>Morocco was once home to a thriving Jewish community, who began an exodus from the country in the 1950s as relations deteriorated between the Arab world and Israel. At its peak, there were several hundred thousand Jews living in the country, many in the coastal town of Essouira. With diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel now restored, some citizens of Essouira are reaching out to Israelis. Elizabeth Gowing found herself wondering whether tensions of the recent past really can be replaced by fonder memories of a one-time shared communal history.</p><p>When the US and its allies overthrew Saddam Hussein, they promised a new era for the people of Iraq, providing democracy, freedom, and also the rule of law. Iraq does now have a functioning legal system, with police, lawyers, and courts to try cases. But when Shelly Kittleson bumped into an old acquaintance, she was reminded of how justice often works in practice, for those caught up in what is an overburdened system, fraught with delays, lack of training and sometimes corruption too.</p><p>People from Ireland have often suffered from negative stereotypes, and sometimes from outright discrimination. However, there is one group which claims to be on the receiving end of particular contempt: Irish travellers. That prejudice is not just found abroad, but also in Ireland itself, they say, with reduced access to education, to healthcare and employment. Chris Page has been hearing stories of one man from an old Irish travelling family.</p><p>Vladimir Putin has sought to justify his invasion of Ukraine by citing those in the country who speak Russian as their first language. Russian-speakers, Mr Putin claims, actually see themselves as Russian, rather than Ukrainian. It is a claim which has been rejected by Ukraine, and yet it potentially threatens the position of Russian-speakers elsewhere in Eastern Europe: is their loyalty to Moscow first, some ask? Latvia has around half a million Russian speakers, and relations are not always easy, discovers Beth Timmins.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Bangladeshis rebuilding their lives again and again to escape rising rivers and sea</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Rivers and the sea have long-battered waterfront villages in Bangladesh, but this is a problem now made worse by climate change. Many people have had to flee several times, as land erodes and their homes crumble. Qasa Alom went to meet those forced to repeatedly restart their lives, and joins locals working on a solution to provide more permanent sanctuary.</p><p>Morocco was once home to a thriving Jewish community, who began an exodus from the country in the 1950s as relations deteriorated between the Arab world and Israel. At its peak, there were several hundred thousand Jews living in the country, many in the coastal town of Essouira. With diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel now restored, some citizens of Essouira are reaching out to Israelis. Elizabeth Gowing found herself wondering whether tensions of the recent past really can be replaced by fonder memories of a one-time shared communal history.</p><p>When the US and its allies overthrew Saddam Hussein, they promised a new era for the people of Iraq, providing democracy, freedom, and also the rule of law. Iraq does now have a functioning legal system, with police, lawyers, and courts to try cases. But when Shelly Kittleson bumped into an old acquaintance, she was reminded of how justice often works in practice, for those caught up in what is an overburdened system, fraught with delays, lack of training and sometimes corruption too.</p><p>People from Ireland have often suffered from negative stereotypes, and sometimes from outright discrimination. However, there is one group which claims to be on the receiving end of particular contempt: Irish travellers. That prejudice is not just found abroad, but also in Ireland itself, they say, with reduced access to education, to healthcare and employment. Chris Page has been hearing stories of one man from an old Irish travelling family.</p><p>Vladimir Putin has sought to justify his invasion of Ukraine by citing those in the country who speak Russian as their first language. Russian-speakers, Mr Putin claims, actually see themselves as Russian, rather than Ukrainian. It is a claim which has been rejected by Ukraine, and yet it potentially threatens the position of Russian-speakers elsewhere in Eastern Europe: is their loyalty to Moscow first, some ask? Latvia has around half a million Russian speakers, and relations are not always easy, discovers Beth Timmins.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1741</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c2tw3g.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c2tw3g.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0c2tw3g.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0c2tw6m</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c2tw6m</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c2tw3g.mp3" fileSize="27856000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1741"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0c2tw6m</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>What do Russians think of the war in Ukraine?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>What do Russians make of their country’s invasion of Ukraine? It is no easy matter to conduct opinion polls in Russia at the best of times, sampling views from St Petersburg to Siberia. Right now though, Russian people are not free to express their opinions anyway, with a new law in place making it a criminal offence to say anything about the Ukraine conflict which the authorities consider untrue. Jenny Hill is in Moscow, and has been keeping her ear to the ground.</p><p>Globalisation, the extraordinary interconnectedness of modern life, means that the events in Ukraine are having profound effects in places far from any battle. Kenya, for example, has already been suffering from drought, but this has now been exacerbated by Russia’s invasion: because Ukrainian farmers have been kept from their fields, global food prices have risen. Ben Henderson recently travelled to Kenya’s far north, and found what looks like a major crisis in the making.</p><p>2018 saw South Korea hold a successful Winter Olympics, in which North Korean athletes were also allowed to take part. Later that year, the then US President, Donald Trump met with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, and attempted to tone down hostilities. Watching these events was the BBC’s newly arrived South Korea correspondent, Laura Bicker. Four years later, she is now leaving her post, at a time when relations between South and North are far worse. Yet Laura insists that she is leaving with some sense of optimism.</p><p>Sports figures famously have short careers, with even the biggest stars having to reinvent themselves in mid-life. Few though have managed it quite so successfully as Imran Khan: already one of Pakistan’s greatest ever cricketing heroes, he ended up becoming Prime Minister. However, the world of politics can be as unforgiving as any sport, and this week, Prime Minister Khan was ousted in a Parliamentary vote of no confidence. Secunder Kermani has been following his dramatic fall from favour.</p><p>Life has not been much fun for performers during the various phases of Covid lockdown, with actors, dancers and even stand-up comedians facing closed down venues. Musicians had a particularly hard time of it, certainly those accustomed to playing before sweaty crowds keen on dancing, something very much forbidden for much of the time. So when the Belgian rock band, Demisec, were offered a gig, they jumped at the chance. The bassist and BBC cameraman Maarten Lernout did not mind that they were being asked to play in a local prison.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A look at Russian opinion now that dissent has been criminalised and protestors arrested.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>What do Russians make of their country’s invasion of Ukraine? It is no easy matter to conduct opinion polls in Russia at the best of times, sampling views from St Petersburg to Siberia. Right now though, Russian people are not free to express their opinions anyway, with a new law in place making it a criminal offence to say anything about the Ukraine conflict which the authorities consider untrue. Jenny Hill is in Moscow, and has been keeping her ear to the ground.</p><p>Globalisation, the extraordinary interconnectedness of modern life, means that the events in Ukraine are having profound effects in places far from any battle. Kenya, for example, has already been suffering from drought, but this has now been exacerbated by Russia’s invasion: because Ukrainian farmers have been kept from their fields, global food prices have risen. Ben Henderson recently travelled to Kenya’s far north, and found what looks like a major crisis in the making.</p><p>2018 saw South Korea hold a successful Winter Olympics, in which North Korean athletes were also allowed to take part. Later that year, the then US President, Donald Trump met with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, and attempted to tone down hostilities. Watching these events was the BBC’s newly arrived South Korea correspondent, Laura Bicker. Four years later, she is now leaving her post, at a time when relations between South and North are far worse. Yet Laura insists that she is leaving with some sense of optimism.</p><p>Sports figures famously have short careers, with even the biggest stars having to reinvent themselves in mid-life. Few though have managed it quite so successfully as Imran Khan: already one of Pakistan’s greatest ever cricketing heroes, he ended up becoming Prime Minister. However, the world of politics can be as unforgiving as any sport, and this week, Prime Minister Khan was ousted in a Parliamentary vote of no confidence. Secunder Kermani has been following his dramatic fall from favour.</p><p>Life has not been much fun for performers during the various phases of Covid lockdown, with actors, dancers and even stand-up comedians facing closed down venues. Musicians had a particularly hard time of it, certainly those accustomed to playing before sweaty crowds keen on dancing, something very much forbidden for much of the time. So when the Belgian rock band, Demisec, were offered a gig, they jumped at the chance. The bassist and BBC cameraman Maarten Lernout did not mind that they were being asked to play in a local prison.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1756</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c1j15s.mp3" length="28096000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c1j15s.mp3" length="28096000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0c1j15s.mp3" length="28096000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0c1j1pz</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c1j1pz</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c1j15s.mp3" fileSize="28096000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1756"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0c1j1pz</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Ukraine: The War in the Countryside</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The destruction of Ukrainian cities such as Mariupol has garnered global headlines, but the fighting has also filtered out to the rural towns and villages which surround it. These lack the city’s resources for dealing with the dead, the injured, and the bereaved, and when Wyre Davis reached one of these rural spots, he found even the most day-to-day tasks present significant challenges and risks.</p><p>Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to occupy the middle ground on Ukraine; he remains on good terms with Vladimir Putin, but Turkey is also a member of NATO. This has enabled President Erdogan to take a central role in efforts to reach a peace deal, inviting negotiators to meet in Istanbul. And this is perhaps the ideal city for discussions aimed at healing division. Istanbul marks the point where Europe and Asia meet, with the Bosphorus Strait running between the two. The Bosphorus also occupies a key strategic position in this conflict, which Ellie House found herself reflecting on as she took a boat ride along one of its busier stretches.</p><p>A series of setbacks have left Sri Lanka running out of cash, meaning there is now no money to pay for food or fuel. This has resulted in power cuts for up to thirteen hours a day, and prices rising to the point where people are having to skip meals, while hospitals run out of medicine. The protestors who have been out on Sri Lanka’s streets this week knew who to blame, pointing the finger at the government and its economic mismanagement. Rajini Vaidyanathan says that for ordinary Sri Lankan people, the situation remains dire.</p><p>Once upon a time, VIktor Orban was seen as a brave campaigner for democracy, demanding Soviet troops leave Hungary during the Cold War. Nowadays, he is a reliable friend of the Kremlin - a matter of some concern to his European Union and NATO allies, but something they will have to continue to live with. This week, Mr Orban won a fourth successive term as Prime Minister. Nick Thorpe has met him many times over the years, and has a few ideas about what lies behind his success.</p><p>How can a city and its people recover from war? This is something the people of Mosul in Iraq have had time to consider. It has been fought over at various points in the past two decades, by US troops, the Iraqi national army, Al Qaeda, and then, by Islamic State. IS attempted to destroy much of Mosul's tradition and culture, yet the city is now undergoing something of a renaissance, as Leila Molana-Allen found on a recent night out.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories of what happened when Russia's invasion reached Ukraine's villages</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The destruction of Ukrainian cities such as Mariupol has garnered global headlines, but the fighting has also filtered out to the rural towns and villages which surround it. These lack the city’s resources for dealing with the dead, the injured, and the bereaved, and when Wyre Davis reached one of these rural spots, he found even the most day-to-day tasks present significant challenges and risks.</p><p>Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to occupy the middle ground on Ukraine; he remains on good terms with Vladimir Putin, but Turkey is also a member of NATO. This has enabled President Erdogan to take a central role in efforts to reach a peace deal, inviting negotiators to meet in Istanbul. And this is perhaps the ideal city for discussions aimed at healing division. Istanbul marks the point where Europe and Asia meet, with the Bosphorus Strait running between the two. The Bosphorus also occupies a key strategic position in this conflict, which Ellie House found herself reflecting on as she took a boat ride along one of its busier stretches.</p><p>A series of setbacks have left Sri Lanka running out of cash, meaning there is now no money to pay for food or fuel. This has resulted in power cuts for up to thirteen hours a day, and prices rising to the point where people are having to skip meals, while hospitals run out of medicine. The protestors who have been out on Sri Lanka’s streets this week knew who to blame, pointing the finger at the government and its economic mismanagement. Rajini Vaidyanathan says that for ordinary Sri Lankan people, the situation remains dire.</p><p>Once upon a time, VIktor Orban was seen as a brave campaigner for democracy, demanding Soviet troops leave Hungary during the Cold War. Nowadays, he is a reliable friend of the Kremlin - a matter of some concern to his European Union and NATO allies, but something they will have to continue to live with. This week, Mr Orban won a fourth successive term as Prime Minister. Nick Thorpe has met him many times over the years, and has a few ideas about what lies behind his success.</p><p>How can a city and its people recover from war? This is something the people of Mosul in Iraq have had time to consider. It has been fought over at various points in the past two decades, by US troops, the Iraqi national army, Al Qaeda, and then, by Islamic State. IS attempted to destroy much of Mosul's tradition and culture, yet the city is now undergoing something of a renaissance, as Leila Molana-Allen found on a recent night out.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1762</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c0bn3v.mp3" length="28192000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c0bn3v.mp3" length="28192000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0c0bn3v.mp3" length="28192000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0c0bp99</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c0bp99</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0c0bn3v.mp3" fileSize="28192000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1762"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0c0bp99</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Argentina’s Memories of war</title><description><![CDATA[<p>It’s 40 years since Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands – or the Malvinas – as they are known in Spanish. Nearly 1,000 soldiers were killed in the war – more than 600 of whom were Argentinian. Katy Watson spoke to people about what happened in the war and how relations between the two countries have changed
  662. An estimated quarter of a million Russians have fled their homeland since the invasion of Ukraine. An estimated 35000 have relocated across Russia's southern border to Georgia. The capital Tbilisi is a melting pot of several nationalities – all escaping the war. Rayhan Demytrie has spent the past week meeting some of them
  663. The island of Taiwan may have its own constitution and a democratically-elected government – but its legal status remains contested. China sees it as a breakaway state, which it has vowed to retake by force if necessary. As events have unfolded in Ukraine, it has left Taiwanese asking if Beijing would follow a similar course to that of Moscow, says Rupert Wingfield-Hayes.
  664. People in Serbia are going to the polls this weekend – for presidential and parliamentary elections, with relations with Russia firmly on the agenda. In the run up to the vote, executives from Russian Railways were among guests as Serbia’s president opened the first phase of a new, high speed train line. Guy De Launey was on board
  665. The first round of the French presidential elections is just one week away – but, much like the UK, the news bulletins have been focused on the war in Ukraine. The polls all predict that President Emmanuel Macron will hold on to power – so, no change is expected, which is in itself something of a change, says Hugh Schofield.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  666. Producer: Serena Tarling
  667. Editor: Hugh Levinson</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Falklands War casts a shadow over Argentina, 40 years on</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>It’s 40 years since Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands – or the Malvinas – as they are known in Spanish. Nearly 1,000 soldiers were killed in the war – more than 600 of whom were Argentinian. Katy Watson spoke to people about what happened in the war and how relations between the two countries have changed
  668. An estimated quarter of a million Russians have fled their homeland since the invasion of Ukraine. An estimated 35000 have relocated across Russia's southern border to Georgia. The capital Tbilisi is a melting pot of several nationalities – all escaping the war. Rayhan Demytrie has spent the past week meeting some of them
  669. The island of Taiwan may have its own constitution and a democratically-elected government – but its legal status remains contested. China sees it as a breakaway state, which it has vowed to retake by force if necessary. As events have unfolded in Ukraine, it has left Taiwanese asking if Beijing would follow a similar course to that of Moscow, says Rupert Wingfield-Hayes.
  670. People in Serbia are going to the polls this weekend – for presidential and parliamentary elections, with relations with Russia firmly on the agenda. In the run up to the vote, executives from Russian Railways were among guests as Serbia’s president opened the first phase of a new, high speed train line. Guy De Launey was on board
  671. The first round of the French presidential elections is just one week away – but, much like the UK, the news bulletins have been focused on the war in Ukraine. The polls all predict that President Emmanuel Macron will hold on to power – so, no change is expected, which is in itself something of a change, says Hugh Schofield.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  672. Producer: Serena Tarling
  673. Editor: Hugh Levinson</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1746</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bz0yhj.mp3" length="27936000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bz0yhj.mp3" length="27936000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bz0yhj.mp3" length="27936000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bz0zfr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bz0zfr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bz0yhj.mp3" fileSize="27936000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1746"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bz0zfr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Russia’s path of destruction</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The pounding of civilian infrastructure by Russian forces has continued this week in cities like Mykolaiv and Mariupol even as peace talks were underway. And Russia's claims it will reduce its military activity in the north and focus more on Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region are being treated with scepticism. Orla Guerin is in Kyiv.
  674. Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, described the siege of Mariupol as a ‘crime against humanity’ this week. Mariupol’s mayor has called for the evacuation of the entire city. But the journey away from the city is fraught with danger and a safe passage is far from guaranteed. Hugo Bachega spoke to those that did manage to escape.
  675. A few days after the invasion, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz unexpectedly announced a massive boost in military spending. It’s arguably one of the most dramatic shifts in German foreign policy since the Second World War. According to polls most Germans support the new policy, but enthusiasm for it is muted. Our correspondent Damien McGuinness is in Berlin.
  676. In Sudan, women have been celebrated for leading the revolution that saw former military ruler Omar al-Bashir toppled. But the Generals still have the upper hand. After two years of sharing power with civilian politicians they staged a coup in October and instituted a transitional military council. Sudan’s women and men have been protesting daily and at least 90 people have been killed in a crackdown. Catherine Byaruhanga was in Khartoum.
  677. Nearly 1.4 million people in Canada are of Ukrainian heritage. Many of them trace their roots to Ukrainian immigrants who came to Canada in the late 19th century. Greg Mercer’s heard how they are rallying to the defence of the old country.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  678. Producer: Serena Tarling
  679. Editor: Hugh Levinson</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Moscow has cast a new shadow over Europe, as the dead lay unburied in Ukraine's cities</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The pounding of civilian infrastructure by Russian forces has continued this week in cities like Mykolaiv and Mariupol even as peace talks were underway. And Russia's claims it will reduce its military activity in the north and focus more on Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region are being treated with scepticism. Orla Guerin is in Kyiv.
  680. Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, described the siege of Mariupol as a ‘crime against humanity’ this week. Mariupol’s mayor has called for the evacuation of the entire city. But the journey away from the city is fraught with danger and a safe passage is far from guaranteed. Hugo Bachega spoke to those that did manage to escape.
  681. A few days after the invasion, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz unexpectedly announced a massive boost in military spending. It’s arguably one of the most dramatic shifts in German foreign policy since the Second World War. According to polls most Germans support the new policy, but enthusiasm for it is muted. Our correspondent Damien McGuinness is in Berlin.
  682. In Sudan, women have been celebrated for leading the revolution that saw former military ruler Omar al-Bashir toppled. But the Generals still have the upper hand. After two years of sharing power with civilian politicians they staged a coup in October and instituted a transitional military council. Sudan’s women and men have been protesting daily and at least 90 people have been killed in a crackdown. Catherine Byaruhanga was in Khartoum.
  683. Nearly 1.4 million people in Canada are of Ukrainian heritage. Many of them trace their roots to Ukrainian immigrants who came to Canada in the late 19th century. Greg Mercer’s heard how they are rallying to the defence of the old country.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  684. Producer: Serena Tarling
  685. Editor: Hugh Levinson</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2022 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1730</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0byl52j.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0byl52j.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0byl52j.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0byl6bh</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0byl6bh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0byl52j.mp3" fileSize="27680000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1730"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0byl6bh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Thwarted hopes in Afghanistan</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Since the Taliban took power last year, more than half a million Afghans have lost their jobs, and the country now faces a severe economic crisis. There was a glimmer of hope for secondary school girls this week though as they prepared to go back to school - but it was short-lived, says Secunder Kermani.
  686. Allan Little reflects on the parallels between this war and a previous conflict, in the former Yugoslavia, where cities also came under siege as Serbian nationalists sought to take back control of the state of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Bosnians, like the Ukrainians, while out-powered, put up a courageous resistance, and, in that conflict, Nato ultimately decided to intervene.
  687. International observers are increasingly worried that a cash-strapped Palestinian Authority could face financial collapse. Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund described the fiscal outlook as “dire." Meanwhile vital healthcare services are being dramatically affected. Yolande Knell visited a hospital in East Jerusalem.
  688. Texas has the most restrictive abortion law in the United States. But for some Texans the law doesn’t go far enough – they want a complete ban. The campaign to outlaw abortion altogether is being played out in towns across this huge state led by evangelical Christians. Linda Pressly visits west Texas to meet some of the activists.
  689. Oaxaca city in Mexico has become a much-desired location for destination weddings for both Europeans and North Americans. But the community there is divided over whether this is a helpful source of income for the locals, or an exercise in exploitation which ends up eroding the indigenous culture and customs finds Louis Harnett O’Meara.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  690. Producer: Serena Tarling
  691. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Taliban makes a U-turn on secondary school girls' education</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Since the Taliban took power last year, more than half a million Afghans have lost their jobs, and the country now faces a severe economic crisis. There was a glimmer of hope for secondary school girls this week though as they prepared to go back to school - but it was short-lived, says Secunder Kermani.
  692. Allan Little reflects on the parallels between this war and a previous conflict, in the former Yugoslavia, where cities also came under siege as Serbian nationalists sought to take back control of the state of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Bosnians, like the Ukrainians, while out-powered, put up a courageous resistance, and, in that conflict, Nato ultimately decided to intervene.
  693. International observers are increasingly worried that a cash-strapped Palestinian Authority could face financial collapse. Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund described the fiscal outlook as “dire." Meanwhile vital healthcare services are being dramatically affected. Yolande Knell visited a hospital in East Jerusalem.
  694. Texas has the most restrictive abortion law in the United States. But for some Texans the law doesn’t go far enough – they want a complete ban. The campaign to outlaw abortion altogether is being played out in towns across this huge state led by evangelical Christians. Linda Pressly visits west Texas to meet some of the activists.
  695. Oaxaca city in Mexico has become a much-desired location for destination weddings for both Europeans and North Americans. But the community there is divided over whether this is a helpful source of income for the locals, or an exercise in exploitation which ends up eroding the indigenous culture and customs finds Louis Harnett O’Meara.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  696. Producer: Serena Tarling
  697. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2022 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1727</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bxp52n.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bxp52n.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bxp52n.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bxp5b4</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bxp5b4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bxp52n.mp3" fileSize="27632000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1727"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bxp5b4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Ukraine’s unified resistance</title><description><![CDATA[<p>It’s one month since Russia first invaded Ukraine, under the pretext of denazifying the country. But Putin’s calculation that his troops would be greeted as liberators by Russian-speaking Ukrainians has proved to be wrong. Nick Sturdee has found that the invasion appears to have unified the disparate parts of the Ukrainian population.
  698. Romania's Prime Minister pledged “unconditional political support” for Ukraine in February and so far, has welcomed more than half a million refugees. Jen Stout has been to one of the border crossings and finds the arrival of the Ukrainians has helped locals forget their own differences.
  699. In Washington, the process of holding those responsible for the storming of the US Capitol last year has reached a new phase, as the first trial - Guy Reffitt, of Texas came to court earlier this month. Tara McKelvey spent time with the defendant’s relatives at the federal courthouse and saw the impact of the political divisions on that family and across the US.
  700. Ecuador’s president this year signed a declaration to expand the boundaries of the Galapagos Marine reserve by more than 23 000 square miles. It's being seen as a victory for wildlife conservation and for local fishing communities, as the area had been vulnerable to overfishing by mainly Chinese trawlers.  But, finds Mark Stratton, these were not the only threat to the region’s eco-system.
  701. The Caribbean island of Martinique is an overseas territory of France. Today it has a semi-autonomous status, but over the last decade, relations have deteriorated with their old colonisers. Lindsay Johns remembers his father, a soldier from Martinique, who fought proudly for the French whilst enduring racial oppression.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  702. Producer: Serena Tarling
  703. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  704. Producer: Serena Tarling and Polly Hope
  705. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Putin miscalculates support among the Russian-speaking Ukrainians for his invasion</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>It’s one month since Russia first invaded Ukraine, under the pretext of denazifying the country. But Putin’s calculation that his troops would be greeted as liberators by Russian-speaking Ukrainians has proved to be wrong. Nick Sturdee has found that the invasion appears to have unified the disparate parts of the Ukrainian population.
  706. Romania's Prime Minister pledged “unconditional political support” for Ukraine in February and so far, has welcomed more than half a million refugees. Jen Stout has been to one of the border crossings and finds the arrival of the Ukrainians has helped locals forget their own differences.
  707. In Washington, the process of holding those responsible for the storming of the US Capitol last year has reached a new phase, as the first trial - Guy Reffitt, of Texas came to court earlier this month. Tara McKelvey spent time with the defendant’s relatives at the federal courthouse and saw the impact of the political divisions on that family and across the US.
  708. Ecuador’s president this year signed a declaration to expand the boundaries of the Galapagos Marine reserve by more than 23 000 square miles. It's being seen as a victory for wildlife conservation and for local fishing communities, as the area had been vulnerable to overfishing by mainly Chinese trawlers.  But, finds Mark Stratton, these were not the only threat to the region’s eco-system.
  709. The Caribbean island of Martinique is an overseas territory of France. Today it has a semi-autonomous status, but over the last decade, relations have deteriorated with their old colonisers. Lindsay Johns remembers his father, a soldier from Martinique, who fought proudly for the French whilst enduring racial oppression.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  710. Producer: Serena Tarling
  711. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  712. Producer: Serena Tarling and Polly Hope
  713. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1712</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bx71hr.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bx71hr.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bx71hr.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bx767q</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bx767q</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bx71hr.mp3" fileSize="27392000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1712"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bx767q</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>On Kharkiv’s Frontline</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ukraine saw further indiscriminate attacks across the country this week, including an attack on a theatre sheltering civilians in Mariupol. The city of Kharkiv, like Mariupol, has been under constant attack; bodies line the streets as its often too dangerous to bury them. Quentin Sommerville reflects on the horror unfolding on the ground.
  714. The tactics the Russians are using in Ukraine are familiar to countries not just in the former Soviet domain – but also Syria. Vladimir Putin’s military support for President Assad in the country’s civil war helped raise cities to the ground. Leila Molana-Allen spoke to some of the people who have lived through that war
  715. Western intelligence sources have expressed concerns about Russian activity in Moldova, which neighbours Ukraine. Moldova is also a former Soviet state, with a Russian-speaking separatist insurgency in the east. Newsnight’s Sima Kotecha spoke to Moldova’s Prime Minister about her fears for what may lie ahead and how the country is struggling to cope with the influx of refugees.
  716. In rural Kenya, most of the population live and work on the farms that are the backbone of the country’s economy. But access to electricity is sparse. So in one village, a young entrepreneur decided to give himself a crash course in engineering, so he could supply power to the residents in his village. Mercy Juma went to Kenyanjeru.
  717. Last year, Chile elected a radical left wing, ex-student leader who won a landslide victory. The new President, Gabriel Boric, keen to diverge from the style of his predecessors, has embarked on a property hunt in a working-class district in downtown Santiago. Jane Chambers went to explore his new neighbourhood.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  718. Producer: Serena Tarling and Polly Hope
  719. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Russia's bombardment of Kharkiv has laid bare the horror of the invasion</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Ukraine saw further indiscriminate attacks across the country this week, including an attack on a theatre sheltering civilians in Mariupol. The city of Kharkiv, like Mariupol, has been under constant attack; bodies line the streets as its often too dangerous to bury them. Quentin Sommerville reflects on the horror unfolding on the ground.
  720. The tactics the Russians are using in Ukraine are familiar to countries not just in the former Soviet domain – but also Syria. Vladimir Putin’s military support for President Assad in the country’s civil war helped raise cities to the ground. Leila Molana-Allen spoke to some of the people who have lived through that war
  721. Western intelligence sources have expressed concerns about Russian activity in Moldova, which neighbours Ukraine. Moldova is also a former Soviet state, with a Russian-speaking separatist insurgency in the east. Newsnight’s Sima Kotecha spoke to Moldova’s Prime Minister about her fears for what may lie ahead and how the country is struggling to cope with the influx of refugees.
  722. In rural Kenya, most of the population live and work on the farms that are the backbone of the country’s economy. But access to electricity is sparse. So in one village, a young entrepreneur decided to give himself a crash course in engineering, so he could supply power to the residents in his village. Mercy Juma went to Kenyanjeru.
  723. Last year, Chile elected a radical left wing, ex-student leader who won a landslide victory. The new President, Gabriel Boric, keen to diverge from the style of his predecessors, has embarked on a property hunt in a working-class district in downtown Santiago. Jane Chambers went to explore his new neighbourhood.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  724. Producer: Serena Tarling and Polly Hope
  725. Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1716</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bwcvxl.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bwcvxl.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bwcvxl.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bwcwmd</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bwcwmd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bwcvxl.mp3" fileSize="27456000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1716"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bwcwmd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Crossing into unknown territory</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Refugees cramming onto trains brings back memories of the Second World War, amid an invasion that heralds a grim new political reality</p><p>The war in Ukraine has brought back some uncomfortable memories. Refugees crowding on to trains in eastern European snow to escape a war. Young men volunteering to fight for their country and being sent into harm's way with almost no training. And the possibility that a new Cold War between Russia and the US and Europeans could be upon us, says Jeremy Bowen.</p><p>When Belarus opened its country to tens of thousands of mostly Middle Eastern migrants and refugees last year and started pushing them across the border into Poland, most Poles supported the government’s refusal to let them in.  Yet Poland is now facing a refugee crisis on a much bigger scale. Close to two million people, have crossed into Poland in just three weeks. Adam Easton met one of those Poles and the refugee he is supporting.  </p><p>Attempts to create humanitarian corridors over recent weeks from besieged cities like Mariupol and Kharkiv have frequently been stymied by continued Russian attacks, imperilling efforts by residents to flee. At the border between Poland and Ukraine, Kasia Madera met one woman travelling from Kharkiv to Germany with her children.</p><p>Australia’s east coast has seen some of the worst flooding in the country’s history over recent weeks with more than 20 people killed in intense downpours. Viv Nunis met some of the residents whose homes had been destroyed.</p><p>China was the place where Covid-19 first emerged, but it was also the first place to get back to something resembling normality. But that all changed this week, as new cases jumped - and authorities imposed draconian new restrictions to maintain its 'zero Covid strategy'. Normal life for tens of millions of people, says Robin Brant in Shanghai - has stopped, again.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  726. Producer: Serena Tarling
  727. Editor: Emma Close</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Russian invasion has raised the possibility of a new Cold War</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Refugees cramming onto trains brings back memories of the Second World War, amid an invasion that heralds a grim new political reality</p><p>The war in Ukraine has brought back some uncomfortable memories. Refugees crowding on to trains in eastern European snow to escape a war. Young men volunteering to fight for their country and being sent into harm's way with almost no training. And the possibility that a new Cold War between Russia and the US and Europeans could be upon us, says Jeremy Bowen.</p><p>When Belarus opened its country to tens of thousands of mostly Middle Eastern migrants and refugees last year and started pushing them across the border into Poland, most Poles supported the government’s refusal to let them in.  Yet Poland is now facing a refugee crisis on a much bigger scale. Close to two million people, have crossed into Poland in just three weeks. Adam Easton met one of those Poles and the refugee he is supporting.  </p><p>Attempts to create humanitarian corridors over recent weeks from besieged cities like Mariupol and Kharkiv have frequently been stymied by continued Russian attacks, imperilling efforts by residents to flee. At the border between Poland and Ukraine, Kasia Madera met one woman travelling from Kharkiv to Germany with her children.</p><p>Australia’s east coast has seen some of the worst flooding in the country’s history over recent weeks with more than 20 people killed in intense downpours. Viv Nunis met some of the residents whose homes had been destroyed.</p><p>China was the place where Covid-19 first emerged, but it was also the first place to get back to something resembling normality. But that all changed this week, as new cases jumped - and authorities imposed draconian new restrictions to maintain its 'zero Covid strategy'. Normal life for tens of millions of people, says Robin Brant in Shanghai - has stopped, again.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  728. Producer: Serena Tarling
  729. Editor: Emma Close</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1718</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bvy0zr.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bvy0zr.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bvy0zr.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bvy2bk</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bvy2bk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bvy0zr.mp3" fileSize="27488000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1718"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bvy2bk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Ukraine’s living nightmare</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Millions of lives are being uprooted, or destroyed as Russia's bombardment of Ukrainian cities widens. Fergal Keane has covered the conflict with Russia and its proxy forces since 2014 – and has followed the story of a beekeeper from the Donbas, and his wife.
  730. Ukrainian journalists covering the crisis at a distance have been watching the horror unfold and grappling with its implications on friends, colleagues and loved ones. Irena Taranyuk, of the BBC’s Ukraine service, tells of her experience of putting the story out on the night the invasion began.
  731. Russia is becoming increasingly isolated internationally, with western companies stopping operations there. Thousands of Russians are packing up and leaving. Many say it’s because they have political concerns about the sort of country Russia will become; others fear of the imposition of martial law or worry that the economy will crumble. Caroline Davies spoke to some of them.
  732. More than 180 million voters went to the polls in 5 of India’s states this week, including the country's largest - Uttar Pradesh. The governing BJP has a firm hold on the state, and its chief minister – a hindu-monk-turned politician, Yogi Adityanath is emerging as a favourite to succeed Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But during his leadership, he has been criticised for anti-muslim rhetoric. Rajini Vaidyanathan followed the campaign trail.
  733. It's 20 years since James Helm arrived in Dublin as BBC Correspondent there, with his wife Charlotte and their young son. The original posting was for a year, but the family stayed on in Ireland for almost a decade - a period of enormous change for the country. After several years away, James and his sons recently made a return trip.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  734. Producer: Serena Tarling
  735. Editor: Emma Close</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Ukrainian cities suffer huge losses amid Russia's sustained bombardment</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Millions of lives are being uprooted, or destroyed as Russia's bombardment of Ukrainian cities widens. Fergal Keane has covered the conflict with Russia and its proxy forces since 2014 – and has followed the story of a beekeeper from the Donbas, and his wife.
  736. Ukrainian journalists covering the crisis at a distance have been watching the horror unfold and grappling with its implications on friends, colleagues and loved ones. Irena Taranyuk, of the BBC’s Ukraine service, tells of her experience of putting the story out on the night the invasion began.
  737. Russia is becoming increasingly isolated internationally, with western companies stopping operations there. Thousands of Russians are packing up and leaving. Many say it’s because they have political concerns about the sort of country Russia will become; others fear of the imposition of martial law or worry that the economy will crumble. Caroline Davies spoke to some of them.
  738. More than 180 million voters went to the polls in 5 of India’s states this week, including the country's largest - Uttar Pradesh. The governing BJP has a firm hold on the state, and its chief minister – a hindu-monk-turned politician, Yogi Adityanath is emerging as a favourite to succeed Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But during his leadership, he has been criticised for anti-muslim rhetoric. Rajini Vaidyanathan followed the campaign trail.
  739. It's 20 years since James Helm arrived in Dublin as BBC Correspondent there, with his wife Charlotte and their young son. The original posting was for a year, but the family stayed on in Ireland for almost a decade - a period of enormous change for the country. After several years away, James and his sons recently made a return trip.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  740. Producer: Serena Tarling
  741. Editor: Emma Close</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1742</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bv0tw2.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bv0tw2.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bv0tw2.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bv0vd2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bv0vd2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bv0tw2.mp3" fileSize="27872000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1742"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bv0vd2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Peace talks in Antalya</title><description><![CDATA[<p>As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters a third week, hopes are wearing thin of a ceasefire after several rounds of unsuccessful talks.  But a potential mediator tried to enter the fray this week: Israel, as Tom Bateman reports from Jerusalem.
  742. Russia’s foreign minister is due to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba on Thursday in the southern Turkish resort of Antalya. It’s a city that’s in other times popular with both Russians and Ukrainian tourists. Mahjooba Nowrouzi  visited the coastal town and found opposing narratives about the conflict surfaced in the chatter of the bazaars
  743. Russian warships have been circling menacingly in the waters near the Black Sea port city of Odessa in southern Ukraine. The city's residents are braced for a possible assault and many are leaving their homes. For Damien McGuinness, who lived and worked in eastern Europe, their experiences are horribly reminiscent of the traumas suffered a generation ago in Georgia.
  744. In 2015, Jamaica passed a law that decriminalised the possession of small amounts of cannabis and authorised a regulated medical cannabis industry. Initially seen as a boon for cannabis farmers, some traditional growers say they can’t afford to meet the strict legal requirements for growing the plant. Rachel Wright visited a farm.
  745. The medieval village of Lagrasse in south-west France is home to an eight century Abbey which is divided in two parts – one side is occupied by a group of left-leaning intellectuals, the other by a traditional catholic religious order. This arrangement ran relatively smoothly at first until a contretemps over a festival some fifteen years ago. Since then relations have deteriorated. Chris Bockman went to find out more.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  746. Producer: Serena Tarling
  747. Editor: Emma Close</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Israel enters the fray as mediator between Ukraine and Russia</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters a third week, hopes are wearing thin of a ceasefire after several rounds of unsuccessful talks.  But a potential mediator tried to enter the fray this week: Israel, as Tom Bateman reports from Jerusalem.
  748. Russia’s foreign minister is due to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba on Thursday in the southern Turkish resort of Antalya. It’s a city that’s in other times popular with both Russians and Ukrainian tourists. Mahjooba Nowrouzi  visited the coastal town and found opposing narratives about the conflict surfaced in the chatter of the bazaars
  749. Russian warships have been circling menacingly in the waters near the Black Sea port city of Odessa in southern Ukraine. The city's residents are braced for a possible assault and many are leaving their homes. For Damien McGuinness, who lived and worked in eastern Europe, their experiences are horribly reminiscent of the traumas suffered a generation ago in Georgia.
  750. In 2015, Jamaica passed a law that decriminalised the possession of small amounts of cannabis and authorised a regulated medical cannabis industry. Initially seen as a boon for cannabis farmers, some traditional growers say they can’t afford to meet the strict legal requirements for growing the plant. Rachel Wright visited a farm.
  751. The medieval village of Lagrasse in south-west France is home to an eight century Abbey which is divided in two parts – one side is occupied by a group of left-leaning intellectuals, the other by a traditional catholic religious order. This arrangement ran relatively smoothly at first until a contretemps over a festival some fifteen years ago. Since then relations have deteriorated. Chris Bockman went to find out more.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  752. Producer: Serena Tarling
  753. Editor: Emma Close</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1740</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0btldkn.mp3" length="27840000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0btldkn.mp3" length="27840000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0btldkn.mp3" length="27840000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0btlfg2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0btlfg2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0btldkn.mp3" fileSize="27840000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1740"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0btlfg2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Kyiv’s last stand</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ukrainian civilians have taken up arms in the face of the Russian onslaught over the last nine days, while women and children were forced to flee. Attacks on residential buildings and infrastructure have killed hundreds of civilians and the French President has warned that worse is yet to come. Lyse Doucet is in Kyiv has seen the week’s events unfold.
  754. Over one million refugees have fled Ukraine in the days since the Russian invasion began. And as the long convoy of Russian military tanks closes in on Kyiv, the rush to escape to neighbouring countries has become ever more frantic. Nick Thorpe is at the Hungarian border and reflects on a different invasion.
  755. This week Switzerland, after much soul searching – some might say dithering – decided to adopt all the European Union’s sanctions against Russia. It was hailed around the world as a huge step, a virtual abandonment of the country’s strict neutrality. But was it? Imogen Foulkes gauges the reaction of Swiss locals.
  756. The Kasbah of Algiers has been recognised as a world heritage site. The ancient mosques, Ottoman palaces and souks are well-conserved. But the city’s young people are disillusioned, with unemployment levels running high and the splendour of the citadel offers little opportunity for jobs. Rob Crossan spoke to some young men in a queue for liver sandwiches.
  757. Media organisations have deployed large numbers of correspondents to Ukraine since the Russian offensive began. Several of the correspondents have experience of reporting on conflict, but Nick Robinson found himself in unfamiliar terrain. This is his experience as a witness to the days preceding Putin’s invasion and the sudden turn of events that everyone hoped would never happen.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A sea of humanity flees Kyiv as the city battles to fight off the Russian onslaught</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Ukrainian civilians have taken up arms in the face of the Russian onslaught over the last nine days, while women and children were forced to flee. Attacks on residential buildings and infrastructure have killed hundreds of civilians and the French President has warned that worse is yet to come. Lyse Doucet is in Kyiv has seen the week’s events unfold.
  758. Over one million refugees have fled Ukraine in the days since the Russian invasion began. And as the long convoy of Russian military tanks closes in on Kyiv, the rush to escape to neighbouring countries has become ever more frantic. Nick Thorpe is at the Hungarian border and reflects on a different invasion.
  759. This week Switzerland, after much soul searching – some might say dithering – decided to adopt all the European Union’s sanctions against Russia. It was hailed around the world as a huge step, a virtual abandonment of the country’s strict neutrality. But was it? Imogen Foulkes gauges the reaction of Swiss locals.
  760. The Kasbah of Algiers has been recognised as a world heritage site. The ancient mosques, Ottoman palaces and souks are well-conserved. But the city’s young people are disillusioned, with unemployment levels running high and the splendour of the citadel offers little opportunity for jobs. Rob Crossan spoke to some young men in a queue for liver sandwiches.
  761. Media organisations have deployed large numbers of correspondents to Ukraine since the Russian offensive began. Several of the correspondents have experience of reporting on conflict, but Nick Robinson found himself in unfamiliar terrain. This is his experience as a witness to the days preceding Putin’s invasion and the sudden turn of events that everyone hoped would never happen.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1725</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bspjgt.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bspjgt.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bspjgt.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bspl6y</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bspl6y</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bspjgt.mp3" fileSize="27600000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1725"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bspl6y</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Shock and anger in Eastern Siberia</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ukrainians have mounted a defiant response since President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of their country began. But scores of lives have nonetheless been lost. Moscow’s propaganda machine has been in full swing domestically, trying to conceal any Russian casualties from the outside world.
  762. Caroline Davies visited went to a village in Eastern Siberia to speak to the families and friends of one of the Russian soldiers in Ukraine – who’s believed to have been captured.
  763. Finland once signed a treaty which ensured it would not face a Soviet invasion, providing it stayed out of Nato and gave Moscow to influence its domestic and foreign policy. To date, Finland has remained outside Nato but a debate is now underway as to whether it should eventually join following threats from Vladimir Putin this week. Emilia Jansson reports that attitudes on the ground are beginning to shift.
  764. For the majority of those attending the annual Republican Conference in Florida, the crisis in Ukraine was a subject best avoided. Instead, President Joe Biden was cast as their greatest threat. Anthony Zurcher reports on the conference.
  765. Thousands of miles off the coast of Chile, sits the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island. The islanders are eagerly anticipating the return of one of their beloved Moai – figures carved out of rock. It was first brought to Chile in 1870. Jane Chambers has been following the twists and turns of the great home coming of one of them.
  766. Copenhagen is home to one of the world’s largest humanitarian aid warehouses. The warehouse can store more than 36 000 pallets of life-saving equipment. It’s sorted and packed by robots, humans and mechanised wheelbarrows. Sandra Kanthal has been to the warehouse, run by Unicef, to meet the people who work there.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A visit to an Eastern Siberian village where shock and anger prevail over Ukraine</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Ukrainians have mounted a defiant response since President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of their country began. But scores of lives have nonetheless been lost. Moscow’s propaganda machine has been in full swing domestically, trying to conceal any Russian casualties from the outside world.
  767. Caroline Davies visited went to a village in Eastern Siberia to speak to the families and friends of one of the Russian soldiers in Ukraine – who’s believed to have been captured.
  768. Finland once signed a treaty which ensured it would not face a Soviet invasion, providing it stayed out of Nato and gave Moscow to influence its domestic and foreign policy. To date, Finland has remained outside Nato but a debate is now underway as to whether it should eventually join following threats from Vladimir Putin this week. Emilia Jansson reports that attitudes on the ground are beginning to shift.
  769. For the majority of those attending the annual Republican Conference in Florida, the crisis in Ukraine was a subject best avoided. Instead, President Joe Biden was cast as their greatest threat. Anthony Zurcher reports on the conference.
  770. Thousands of miles off the coast of Chile, sits the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island. The islanders are eagerly anticipating the return of one of their beloved Moai – figures carved out of rock. It was first brought to Chile in 1870. Jane Chambers has been following the twists and turns of the great home coming of one of them.
  771. Copenhagen is home to one of the world’s largest humanitarian aid warehouses. The warehouse can store more than 36 000 pallets of life-saving equipment. It’s sorted and packed by robots, humans and mechanised wheelbarrows. Sandra Kanthal has been to the warehouse, run by Unicef, to meet the people who work there.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2022 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1718</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bs7cdv.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bs7cdv.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bs7cdv.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bs7dbp</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bs7dbp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bs7cdv.mp3" fileSize="27488000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1718"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bs7dbp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Putin's Soviet Ambitions</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union three decades ago, Russia has been grappling with how to keep its old empire close to it, using a variety of tactics. This week, Russia stunned Nato member states when it embarked on a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Andrew Harding spent the 1990s reporting on the aftermath of the Soviet collapse and reflects on current events.
  772. Russia's attack on Georgia in 2008 also came in response to the NATO alliance promising membership to both states. And ever since that war, Russia has occupied two separate regions of Georgia. Experts call it a frozen conflict, which Russia can stir up at any time -- as Andrew North found when he visited a village on the boundary between areas under Georgian and Russian control.
  773. Iceland has a strong track record for championing women’s rights and gender equality policies. Yet, despite this, the country still sees persistently high cases of domestic violence. Maddy Savage followed a police project in Reykjavik that’s trying to tackle the problem.
  774. Zimbabwe’s healthcare system was once viewed as one of the best in sub-Saharan Africa. After independence, the majority of Zimbabweans gained access to education and health care. Now, the health system is collapsing and the nurses and doctors are leaving the country in ever higher numbers. Shingai Nyoka visited two clinics in Harare.
  775. The Philippines is holding elections in May and the son of the late military dictator, Ferdinand Marcos Jr has taken a strong lead in the polls. Sarah Duterte, the daughter of the country’s incumbent authoritarian leader, is his running mate, and the two of them have embarked on a fervent campaign to rebrand their respective family’s legacies. Howard Johnson reports from a rally.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Moscow attempts to resurrect the former Soviet Union from the ashes</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union three decades ago, Russia has been grappling with how to keep its old empire close to it, using a variety of tactics. This week, Russia stunned Nato member states when it embarked on a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Andrew Harding spent the 1990s reporting on the aftermath of the Soviet collapse and reflects on current events.
  776. Russia's attack on Georgia in 2008 also came in response to the NATO alliance promising membership to both states. And ever since that war, Russia has occupied two separate regions of Georgia. Experts call it a frozen conflict, which Russia can stir up at any time -- as Andrew North found when he visited a village on the boundary between areas under Georgian and Russian control.
  777. Iceland has a strong track record for championing women’s rights and gender equality policies. Yet, despite this, the country still sees persistently high cases of domestic violence. Maddy Savage followed a police project in Reykjavik that’s trying to tackle the problem.
  778. Zimbabwe’s healthcare system was once viewed as one of the best in sub-Saharan Africa. After independence, the majority of Zimbabweans gained access to education and health care. Now, the health system is collapsing and the nurses and doctors are leaving the country in ever higher numbers. Shingai Nyoka visited two clinics in Harare.
  779. The Philippines is holding elections in May and the son of the late military dictator, Ferdinand Marcos Jr has taken a strong lead in the polls. Sarah Duterte, the daughter of the country’s incumbent authoritarian leader, is his running mate, and the two of them have embarked on a fervent campaign to rebrand their respective family’s legacies. Howard Johnson reports from a rally.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1707</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0brc6r7.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0brc6r7.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0brc6r7.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0brc8wm</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0brc8wm</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0brc6r7.mp3" fileSize="27312000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1707"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0brc8wm</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Brazil's Deadly Landslides</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Flash floods and mudslides in the Brazilian city of Petrópolis north of Rio de Janeiro have left more than 170 people dead. Authorities blamed the intensity of the rainfall yet one of the biggest factors was inequality – most of the worst-affected neighbourhoods were poorer, unofficially built areas. Katy Watson met with survivors who had lost family members and were helping with the rescue effort.
  780. In recent years, the Catholic church has been overwhelmed by the scandal of sexual abuse of minors. It’s been exposed and investigated in several countries, yet Italy, which has the highest number of priests of any country hasn’t confronted it. Mark Lowen went out to investigate  one such case, and set out to find the priest involved.  
  781. We visit the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur in Iraq. Believed by many to be the birthplace of Abraham, the site was excavated in the early 20th century by a British man, Leonard Woolley, who recovered bountiful treasures. Once popular with tourists, decades of war and political instability - and now Covid – have kept visitors away and there has been very limited recent efforts towards conserving the site. Charlie Metcalfe was given a tour by a local.  
  782. Australia has imposed one of the world’s strictest travel bans throughout the pandemic, but this week, finally, the country re-opened to foreign travellers in all states except Western Australia. Australian citizens were allowed to return from late last year, but the return of tourism to the country has been greeted with relief by many businesses who have struggled during the pandemic.  Shaimaa Khalil worked in Sydney throughout the pandemic and reflects on being reunited with her husband recently after eighteen months apart.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Deadly landslides hit the city of Petrópolis, leaving many dead and homeless</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Flash floods and mudslides in the Brazilian city of Petrópolis north of Rio de Janeiro have left more than 170 people dead. Authorities blamed the intensity of the rainfall yet one of the biggest factors was inequality – most of the worst-affected neighbourhoods were poorer, unofficially built areas. Katy Watson met with survivors who had lost family members and were helping with the rescue effort.
  783. In recent years, the Catholic church has been overwhelmed by the scandal of sexual abuse of minors. It’s been exposed and investigated in several countries, yet Italy, which has the highest number of priests of any country hasn’t confronted it. Mark Lowen went out to investigate  one such case, and set out to find the priest involved.  
  784. We visit the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur in Iraq. Believed by many to be the birthplace of Abraham, the site was excavated in the early 20th century by a British man, Leonard Woolley, who recovered bountiful treasures. Once popular with tourists, decades of war and political instability - and now Covid – have kept visitors away and there has been very limited recent efforts towards conserving the site. Charlie Metcalfe was given a tour by a local.  
  785. Australia has imposed one of the world’s strictest travel bans throughout the pandemic, but this week, finally, the country re-opened to foreign travellers in all states except Western Australia. Australian citizens were allowed to return from late last year, but the return of tourism to the country has been greeted with relief by many businesses who have struggled during the pandemic.  Shaimaa Khalil worked in Sydney throughout the pandemic and reflects on being reunited with her husband recently after eighteen months apart.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1712</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bqyc2x.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bqyc2x.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bqyc2x.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bqydx9</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bqydx9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bqyc2x.mp3" fileSize="27392000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1712"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bqydx9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Return of the Chagos Islanders</title><description><![CDATA[<p>When a boat carrying a group of Chagos Islanders landed on their homeland this week, it represented return after half a century of exile. The Islands were once part of British-run Mauritius, and in 1972, Britain removed the inhabitants, so it could hand one of the islands over to the United States, to build a military base. The move has been condemned by the International Court of Justice, and by the United Nations, but the UK has so far refused to allow the Islanders back. This week, they took matters into their own hands, and returned by boat for a visit. Andrew Harding was on board.</p><p>It was in the 1960s that gas was discovered in The Netherlands, and since then, it has provided the country with both cash and energy security. However, some people living near the gas fields claim that the exploration has damaged their homes, and even destroyed them. Anna Holligan has visited the damaged properties, and met the residents who say their lives have been ruined.</p><p>Kenya's world-wide image is often restricted to wildlife and beaches. However, the country now plays host to one of the most vibrant tech sectors in Africa, with a particular emphasis on putting tech into practice. The aim is to find a development route which does not necessarily copy the heavy industrialisation of wealthier countries. Indeed, Zeinab Badawi says Kenya is already pursuing a greener path, which could make for a more prosperous future.</p><p>The French-Algerian writer, Fatima Daas has won huge praise for her first book, a semi-autobiographical account of a life attempting to reconcile being a Muslim and Lesbian. Mike Wooldridge joined her for a walk round the Paris neighbourhood where she grew up.</p><p>Japan's current Prime Minister is the first for many years to live in his official Tokyo residence, and reports claim this is because previous holders of the post were scared the building was haunted. This should not be too surprising, according to Rupert Wingfield-Haye, as Japanese people regularly take account of ghosts when considering where to live.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Fifty years after their removal, a group go back to visit the land they once called home</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>When a boat carrying a group of Chagos Islanders landed on their homeland this week, it represented return after half a century of exile. The Islands were once part of British-run Mauritius, and in 1972, Britain removed the inhabitants, so it could hand one of the islands over to the United States, to build a military base. The move has been condemned by the International Court of Justice, and by the United Nations, but the UK has so far refused to allow the Islanders back. This week, they took matters into their own hands, and returned by boat for a visit. Andrew Harding was on board.</p><p>It was in the 1960s that gas was discovered in The Netherlands, and since then, it has provided the country with both cash and energy security. However, some people living near the gas fields claim that the exploration has damaged their homes, and even destroyed them. Anna Holligan has visited the damaged properties, and met the residents who say their lives have been ruined.</p><p>Kenya's world-wide image is often restricted to wildlife and beaches. However, the country now plays host to one of the most vibrant tech sectors in Africa, with a particular emphasis on putting tech into practice. The aim is to find a development route which does not necessarily copy the heavy industrialisation of wealthier countries. Indeed, Zeinab Badawi says Kenya is already pursuing a greener path, which could make for a more prosperous future.</p><p>The French-Algerian writer, Fatima Daas has won huge praise for her first book, a semi-autobiographical account of a life attempting to reconcile being a Muslim and Lesbian. Mike Wooldridge joined her for a walk round the Paris neighbourhood where she grew up.</p><p>Japan's current Prime Minister is the first for many years to live in his official Tokyo residence, and reports claim this is because previous holders of the post were scared the building was haunted. This should not be too surprising, according to Rupert Wingfield-Haye, as Japanese people regularly take account of ghosts when considering where to live.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1716</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bq2994.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bq2994.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bq2994.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bq29s1</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bq29s1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bq2994.mp3" fileSize="27456000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1716"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bq29s1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Still There: The Migrants Trapped in Calais Limbo</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Many migrants still set off by boat from Calais each week, in the hope of reaching Britain. The French authorities insist they are trying to deter people from coming to Calais, by making conditions there tougher. Horatio Clare says they are removing tents, mattresses, and even the blankets people sleep under.</p><p>More than 150 thousand Russians with learning disabilities live in institutions which have been criticised as inhumane or cruel. The aim, Lucy Ash says, is to keep out of sight people who are considered a social embarrassment. She has been meeting activists in Moscow, trying to provide alternative ways for them to be cared for and supported.</p><p>LSD and magic mushrooms were once supposed to be a means to tap into an alternative universe, to “Break on Through to the Other Side,” as the Doors singer, Jim Morrison put it. Nowadays, conventional medical establishments are exploring how various psychedelics can be used to treat people with mental health problems. Stephanie Theobald went to a convention in the US state of Nevada, which proclaimed a new psychedelic renaissance.</p><p>Stephen Moss has travelled the world as a producer for the BBC’s Natural History Unit, seeing plenty of unusual wildlife along the way. But he had a particular, yet unfulfilled ambition to see the bird species known as the “Resplendent Quetzal.” In the end, he had to travel to Costa Rica to catch sight of it.</p><p>It is sometimes hard to believe that border requirements such as visas and passports are a relatively modern development, passports themselves only being standardised in the 1920s. So how has all this affected those who seek to roam around the continent - for pleasure, for exploration, to experience other cultures? Nick Hunt has made many such journeys, and reflects now on how they have changed, and how they have stayed the same.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>France is making life tougher for those camped in Calais to try to deter them from coming</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Many migrants still set off by boat from Calais each week, in the hope of reaching Britain. The French authorities insist they are trying to deter people from coming to Calais, by making conditions there tougher. Horatio Clare says they are removing tents, mattresses, and even the blankets people sleep under.</p><p>More than 150 thousand Russians with learning disabilities live in institutions which have been criticised as inhumane or cruel. The aim, Lucy Ash says, is to keep out of sight people who are considered a social embarrassment. She has been meeting activists in Moscow, trying to provide alternative ways for them to be cared for and supported.</p><p>LSD and magic mushrooms were once supposed to be a means to tap into an alternative universe, to “Break on Through to the Other Side,” as the Doors singer, Jim Morrison put it. Nowadays, conventional medical establishments are exploring how various psychedelics can be used to treat people with mental health problems. Stephanie Theobald went to a convention in the US state of Nevada, which proclaimed a new psychedelic renaissance.</p><p>Stephen Moss has travelled the world as a producer for the BBC’s Natural History Unit, seeing plenty of unusual wildlife along the way. But he had a particular, yet unfulfilled ambition to see the bird species known as the “Resplendent Quetzal.” In the end, he had to travel to Costa Rica to catch sight of it.</p><p>It is sometimes hard to believe that border requirements such as visas and passports are a relatively modern development, passports themselves only being standardised in the 1920s. So how has all this affected those who seek to roam around the continent - for pleasure, for exploration, to experience other cultures? Nick Hunt has made many such journeys, and reflects now on how they have changed, and how they have stayed the same.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1738</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bpncwm.mp3" length="27808000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bpncwm.mp3" length="27808000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bpncwm.mp3" length="27808000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bpndd5</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bpndd5</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bpncwm.mp3" fileSize="27808000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1738"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bpndd5</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Paris Terrorism Attack Goes To Trial</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A hundred and thirty people died during the 2015 Islamic State attacks in Paris. Now, one alleged participant has gone on trial, along with others charged as accomplices. What is it like for families of the victims, and those who were there on the night, to come face to face with those they believe may be partly responsible? Lucy Williamson was watching in court, and sees more at work than just deciding on innocence or guilt.</p><p>According to Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, Ukrainians and Russians are one people. Yet the French President, Emmanuel Macron has referred to Ukrainians as: “our European brothers.” Observers have sometimes simplified matters, by assuming that those in Ukraine who speak Russian lean towards Moscow, while the Ukrainian speakers see Kiev as their capital, and western Europe as their allies. Whether or not such a neat division was ever valid, Sarah Rainsford has found it seriously wanting now.</p><p>Given Russia currently has such a tense relationship with the west, the country is keen to improve its links elsewhere, both political and commercial. That could well be helped by a road being built, which aims to carry more Russian freight and other traffic south into neighbouring Georgia. Yet it is being constructed right on top of another, very old road, and also passes through the “Khada Valley,” a spot famous in Georgia for its beauty and wildlife. So when Amelia Stewart visited, she found environmentalists and some locals up in arms about the project.</p><p>There are some spectators, and there have been the usual triumphs and disappointments of any sporting event. Yet nobody can claim that this year’s Beijing Winter Olympics have been anything like a normal contest. China has imposed one of the most severe lockdown of any country in the world, in response to Covid, so those attending have had their experience highly restricted. They include our correspondent, Stephen McDonell, who has been attempting to report from the scene.</p><p>Australian English is famously expressive, particularly when it comes to its inventive insults. This goes for the political realm as well; indeed, the current Prime Minister has just has a few choice words thrown at him by his own Deputy. However, as Phil Mercer explains, this is nothing new.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Victims of the 2015 Paris attacks and relatives of the dead witness the suspects on trial</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A hundred and thirty people died during the 2015 Islamic State attacks in Paris. Now, one alleged participant has gone on trial, along with others charged as accomplices. What is it like for families of the victims, and those who were there on the night, to come face to face with those they believe may be partly responsible? Lucy Williamson was watching in court, and sees more at work than just deciding on innocence or guilt.</p><p>According to Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, Ukrainians and Russians are one people. Yet the French President, Emmanuel Macron has referred to Ukrainians as: “our European brothers.” Observers have sometimes simplified matters, by assuming that those in Ukraine who speak Russian lean towards Moscow, while the Ukrainian speakers see Kiev as their capital, and western Europe as their allies. Whether or not such a neat division was ever valid, Sarah Rainsford has found it seriously wanting now.</p><p>Given Russia currently has such a tense relationship with the west, the country is keen to improve its links elsewhere, both political and commercial. That could well be helped by a road being built, which aims to carry more Russian freight and other traffic south into neighbouring Georgia. Yet it is being constructed right on top of another, very old road, and also passes through the “Khada Valley,” a spot famous in Georgia for its beauty and wildlife. So when Amelia Stewart visited, she found environmentalists and some locals up in arms about the project.</p><p>There are some spectators, and there have been the usual triumphs and disappointments of any sporting event. Yet nobody can claim that this year’s Beijing Winter Olympics have been anything like a normal contest. China has imposed one of the most severe lockdown of any country in the world, in response to Covid, so those attending have had their experience highly restricted. They include our correspondent, Stephen McDonell, who has been attempting to report from the scene.</p><p>Australian English is famously expressive, particularly when it comes to its inventive insults. This goes for the political realm as well; indeed, the current Prime Minister has just has a few choice words thrown at him by his own Deputy. However, as Phil Mercer explains, this is nothing new.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2022 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1737</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bns1jk.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bns1jk.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bns1jk.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bns3nr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bns3nr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bns1jk.mp3" fileSize="27792000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1737"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bns3nr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Snow and Sorrow: Winter in a Lebanon Refugee Camp</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Lebanon hosts more than a million Syrian refugees, mostly living in very basic accommodation. Now the country has been hit by freakishly cold weather, while in the midst of an economic crisis. That has left refugees exposed to the elements, with families unable to cook, children falling ill, and little sign of help on its way. Leila Molana-Allen found many in despair.</p><p>Just as millions suffer from freezing cold under Lebanon’s snowfall, it is the lack of snow which some fear. Those making a living from winter sports are seeing ski seasons shorten, as climate change speeds up the rate at which mountain snow is melting. Yet when Polina Bachlackova went to a ski resort in France, she found some locals sceptical about whether humans were the cause of a changing climate, and rejecting the suggestion that urgent action is needed to tackle it.</p><p>China has been generous to Sri Lanka lately, paying for roads, other transport infrastructure, and retail developments. Some of these have been outright gifts, some were funded by loans, but others were more of a swap, provided in return for access to land. One of the biggest developments is in the harbour area of Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, where a huge retail, residential, and business area is under way. Anbarasan Ehirajan was given a tour, and found himself asking whether it was what the people of Sri Lanka really needed.</p><p>Just across the water from Sri Lanka, India has been holding two days of national mourning for the singer, Lata Mangeshkar. Described as the "Nightingale of Bollywood," hers was the voice on the soundtrack in hundreds of Indian musicals. The country's President said her death was heart-breaking, while the Prime Minister said she left a void in the nation. Rajini Vaidyanathan is among those feeling the loss.</p><p>Italy is just recovering from the annual “Sanremo Festival,” its annual marathon song contest. Often compared to the Eurovision song contest, San Remo is famous for kitsch performances, which millions of Italians tune into. Dany Mitzman joined in the fun.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Freak weather conditions have made even worse the plight of Syrian refugees in Lebanon.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Lebanon hosts more than a million Syrian refugees, mostly living in very basic accommodation. Now the country has been hit by freakishly cold weather, while in the midst of an economic crisis. That has left refugees exposed to the elements, with families unable to cook, children falling ill, and little sign of help on its way. Leila Molana-Allen found many in despair.</p><p>Just as millions suffer from freezing cold under Lebanon’s snowfall, it is the lack of snow which some fear. Those making a living from winter sports are seeing ski seasons shorten, as climate change speeds up the rate at which mountain snow is melting. Yet when Polina Bachlackova went to a ski resort in France, she found some locals sceptical about whether humans were the cause of a changing climate, and rejecting the suggestion that urgent action is needed to tackle it.</p><p>China has been generous to Sri Lanka lately, paying for roads, other transport infrastructure, and retail developments. Some of these have been outright gifts, some were funded by loans, but others were more of a swap, provided in return for access to land. One of the biggest developments is in the harbour area of Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, where a huge retail, residential, and business area is under way. Anbarasan Ehirajan was given a tour, and found himself asking whether it was what the people of Sri Lanka really needed.</p><p>Just across the water from Sri Lanka, India has been holding two days of national mourning for the singer, Lata Mangeshkar. Described as the "Nightingale of Bollywood," hers was the voice on the soundtrack in hundreds of Indian musicals. The country's President said her death was heart-breaking, while the Prime Minister said she left a void in the nation. Rajini Vaidyanathan is among those feeling the loss.</p><p>Italy is just recovering from the annual “Sanremo Festival,” its annual marathon song contest. Often compared to the Eurovision song contest, San Remo is famous for kitsch performances, which millions of Italians tune into. Dany Mitzman joined in the fun.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2022 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1714</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bnbhcq.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bnbhcq.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bnbhcq.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bnblrt</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bnblrt</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bnbhcq.mp3" fileSize="27424000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1714"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bnblrt</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Myanmar: One Year Under Military Rule</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Myanmar this week marked one year since its democratically-elected government was overthrown by a coup. The generals who took over have promised to restore democracy, “once the emergency is over.” However, protestors calling for democracy have been arrested and beaten, while the army stands accused of murdering more than a thousand civilians, in its efforts to quash opposition to military rule. Jonathan Head has spoken to some of those still resisting the junta.</p><p>In the year since Myanmar’s military coup, three countries in West Africa have also suffered the same fate: Mali, Guinea, and most recently, Burkina Faso. The coup leaders there have explained that they took over because the government was failing to tackle Islamist militants. Henry Wilkins tried to report on what was going on, but found himself arrested at gunpoint.</p><p>When a volcano erupted off the Pacific Island of Tonga, it triggered a tsunami and covered the island in ash. It also cut the underwater cable which connects Tonga to the outside world, meaning no phone-calls or internet were possible. This was a particular cause of concern for Tongans abroad, anxious to know about the welfare of friends and family. They turned to a small online broadcaster, operating from the outskirts of Brisbane, Australia. Simon Atkinson paid it a visit.</p><p>US special forces this week raided the home of Islamic State's leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi. It appears he then blew himself up, along with members of his family. This was only a month since al-Qurayshi was held responsible for Islamic State's attack on a prison in Syria, where members of the group were held. The resulting battle went on for more than a week, and Shelly Kittleson has managed to hear from some of those who witnessed it.</p><p>Yalda Hakim was six months old, when her family fled Afghanistan. Going back there recently, she found dramatic changes since her last visit. Under Taliban rule, there have been widespread reports of Taliban soldiers carrying out summary executions. And when she spoke to women determined to maintain their role in the workplace and wider society, she found their efforts were proving dangerous, and potentially fatal.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A year after Myanmar's government fell to a coup, protest and armed resistance continue.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Myanmar this week marked one year since its democratically-elected government was overthrown by a coup. The generals who took over have promised to restore democracy, “once the emergency is over.” However, protestors calling for democracy have been arrested and beaten, while the army stands accused of murdering more than a thousand civilians, in its efforts to quash opposition to military rule. Jonathan Head has spoken to some of those still resisting the junta.</p><p>In the year since Myanmar’s military coup, three countries in West Africa have also suffered the same fate: Mali, Guinea, and most recently, Burkina Faso. The coup leaders there have explained that they took over because the government was failing to tackle Islamist militants. Henry Wilkins tried to report on what was going on, but found himself arrested at gunpoint.</p><p>When a volcano erupted off the Pacific Island of Tonga, it triggered a tsunami and covered the island in ash. It also cut the underwater cable which connects Tonga to the outside world, meaning no phone-calls or internet were possible. This was a particular cause of concern for Tongans abroad, anxious to know about the welfare of friends and family. They turned to a small online broadcaster, operating from the outskirts of Brisbane, Australia. Simon Atkinson paid it a visit.</p><p>US special forces this week raided the home of Islamic State's leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi. It appears he then blew himself up, along with members of his family. This was only a month since al-Qurayshi was held responsible for Islamic State's attack on a prison in Syria, where members of the group were held. The resulting battle went on for more than a week, and Shelly Kittleson has managed to hear from some of those who witnessed it.</p><p>Yalda Hakim was six months old, when her family fled Afghanistan. Going back there recently, she found dramatic changes since her last visit. Under Taliban rule, there have been widespread reports of Taliban soldiers carrying out summary executions. And when she spoke to women determined to maintain their role in the workplace and wider society, she found their efforts were proving dangerous, and potentially fatal.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2022 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1717</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bmcmwz.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bmcmwz.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bmcmwz.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bmcq8d</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bmcq8d</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bmcmwz.mp3" fileSize="27472000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1717"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bmcq8d</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mass Migration and the Families Left Behind</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Every week, every month, thousands of would-be migrants are still turning up at Mexico’s border with the United States, hoping to get across. This has a profound effect on the people left behind, the families and wider communities where they grew up. Guatemala, for example, has a population of about sixteen million, and some estimates suggest a million of these have left. Megan Janetsky went there to meet some of the many people who have had to wave their relatives goodbye.</p><p>It is not only poverty-stricken Latin Americans who go abroad in search of opportunity. This programme depends on people who are working overseas: the foreign correspondents who take up a posting, and then regale us with tales of their adopted countries. Any traveller though will tell you that returning home can also be an interesting experience, the chance to see a once familiar country through fresh eyes. Nick Bryant has just gone back to Australia after eight years, and says that it is not just him who changed during that time away.</p><p>It started with her going to the police to complain that she had been gang raped; it resulted in a court case, with her in the dock. The case dates back to 2019, when a British student said she had been raped by up to twelve Israelis at a hotel room in Cyprus. She then retracted the allegation, and found herself convicted for making it up. That sentence has now been overturned, by a panel of judges in the Cypriot capital, Nicosia. Anna Holligan watched the hearing, and says it focused attention on the way cases of rape and sexual assault are treated in Cyprus.</p><p>With more than a hundred thousand Russian troops massed on its border, the Ukrainian Army is on high alert, while ordinary citizens are being mobilised for civil defence. In the capital, Kiev, these efforts are being overseen by the city’s Mayor, the former world champion boxer, Vitali Klitschko. Colin Freeman met him while he was out campaigning, and ponders now how well he’s suited to this new role.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>With so many leaving Latin America for the US how does this affect communities back home?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Every week, every month, thousands of would-be migrants are still turning up at Mexico’s border with the United States, hoping to get across. This has a profound effect on the people left behind, the families and wider communities where they grew up. Guatemala, for example, has a population of about sixteen million, and some estimates suggest a million of these have left. Megan Janetsky went there to meet some of the many people who have had to wave their relatives goodbye.</p><p>It is not only poverty-stricken Latin Americans who go abroad in search of opportunity. This programme depends on people who are working overseas: the foreign correspondents who take up a posting, and then regale us with tales of their adopted countries. Any traveller though will tell you that returning home can also be an interesting experience, the chance to see a once familiar country through fresh eyes. Nick Bryant has just gone back to Australia after eight years, and says that it is not just him who changed during that time away.</p><p>It started with her going to the police to complain that she had been gang raped; it resulted in a court case, with her in the dock. The case dates back to 2019, when a British student said she had been raped by up to twelve Israelis at a hotel room in Cyprus. She then retracted the allegation, and found herself convicted for making it up. That sentence has now been overturned, by a panel of judges in the Cypriot capital, Nicosia. Anna Holligan watched the hearing, and says it focused attention on the way cases of rape and sexual assault are treated in Cyprus.</p><p>With more than a hundred thousand Russian troops massed on its border, the Ukrainian Army is on high alert, while ordinary citizens are being mobilised for civil defence. In the capital, Kiev, these efforts are being overseen by the city’s Mayor, the former world champion boxer, Vitali Klitschko. Colin Freeman met him while he was out campaigning, and ponders now how well he’s suited to this new role.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2022 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1727</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0blxxzj.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0blxxzj.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0blxxzj.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0blxynm</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0blxynm</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0blxxzj.mp3" fileSize="27632000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1727"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0blxynm</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Fear and Fatalism in Kiev</title><description><![CDATA[<p>More than a hundred and twenty thousand Russian troops are sitting on Ukraine’s border, with talks still underway to reduce tensions, but no sign of success so far. Yet Ukraine has already experienced Russia's invasion of Crimea, and Russian backed troops taking over an eastern region of the country. When James Waterhouse arrived to take up his new post as Kiev Correspondent, he found local people sometimes fearful, but also rather stoical in the face of this threat.</p><p>The face-off between Ukraine and Russia has in turn provoked division, over how the US and Europe should respond if Russian troops were to cross the border and invade. This debate is particularly acute in Germany, which has traditionally avoided getting involved in conflicts abroad. As Jenny Hill explains, that is in part because of the country's history, and specifically the Second World War. The death toll Germany inflicted on both Ukraine and Russia means some in the country argue that they should not intervene there now.</p><p>Children from Romania continue to be coerced into a life of prostitution - hundreds every year, it seems. Many of the adult prostitutes on the country’s streets started out when they were girls, and many of these are then trafficked abroad. Jean Mackenzie has found that even children from responsible and loving homes are not protected from those determined to make money out of them.</p><p>It was a mark of pride for Cameroon, when the country was chosen to host football’s Africa Cup of Nations. Some did have doubts, given that Cameroon still has a major insurgency going on, led by people in the English-speaking part of the country who want to secede. Yet when disaster befell the tournament, it was not of a military kind, but fans being crushed as they tried to get into a stadium in Cameroon’s capital. Nick Cavell was watching the match that day.</p><p>Politics in Senegal is a lively affair. When the country held local elections last week, one mayoral candidate in the capital had previously been jailed for corruption, and an opposition candidate had been arrested on a rape charge. Meanwhile, the country’s previous president has accused the current president of coming from a cannibal family, with parents who ate babies. However, it is not only the candidates who make for colourful characters. When Lucinda Rouse rented a room in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, she found herself living above the home of a community leader with considerable political influence.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>People both scared and blasé: first impressions from the BBC's new correspondent in Kiev</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>More than a hundred and twenty thousand Russian troops are sitting on Ukraine’s border, with talks still underway to reduce tensions, but no sign of success so far. Yet Ukraine has already experienced Russia's invasion of Crimea, and Russian backed troops taking over an eastern region of the country. When James Waterhouse arrived to take up his new post as Kiev Correspondent, he found local people sometimes fearful, but also rather stoical in the face of this threat.</p><p>The face-off between Ukraine and Russia has in turn provoked division, over how the US and Europe should respond if Russian troops were to cross the border and invade. This debate is particularly acute in Germany, which has traditionally avoided getting involved in conflicts abroad. As Jenny Hill explains, that is in part because of the country's history, and specifically the Second World War. The death toll Germany inflicted on both Ukraine and Russia means some in the country argue that they should not intervene there now.</p><p>Children from Romania continue to be coerced into a life of prostitution - hundreds every year, it seems. Many of the adult prostitutes on the country’s streets started out when they were girls, and many of these are then trafficked abroad. Jean Mackenzie has found that even children from responsible and loving homes are not protected from those determined to make money out of them.</p><p>It was a mark of pride for Cameroon, when the country was chosen to host football’s Africa Cup of Nations. Some did have doubts, given that Cameroon still has a major insurgency going on, led by people in the English-speaking part of the country who want to secede. Yet when disaster befell the tournament, it was not of a military kind, but fans being crushed as they tried to get into a stadium in Cameroon’s capital. Nick Cavell was watching the match that day.</p><p>Politics in Senegal is a lively affair. When the country held local elections last week, one mayoral candidate in the capital had previously been jailed for corruption, and an opposition candidate had been arrested on a rape charge. Meanwhile, the country’s previous president has accused the current president of coming from a cannibal family, with parents who ate babies. However, it is not only the candidates who make for colourful characters. When Lucinda Rouse rented a room in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, she found herself living above the home of a community leader with considerable political influence.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1727</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bl1m0g.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bl1m0g.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bl1m0g.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bl1mtk</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bl1mtk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bl1m0g.mp3" fileSize="27632000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1727"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bl1mtk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Russa’s Troops: Not Really a Threat to Ukraine?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Russia's tense stand-off with Ukraine might seem like a straightforward case of one country menacing another, with about a hundred and twenty thousand Russian troops mustering on their neighbour’s border. Russia has already occupied the Ukrainian territory of Crimea, and is widely believed to be helping separatists in the country’s east. But, as an old saying has it, where you stand depends on where you sit; perspectives can vary widely. Francis Scarr was recently sitting in the rather intimate surrounds of a Russian bathhouse, and found his companions holding a very different view of who was threatening whom.</p><p>The foreign troops have left, and the fighting is much diminished. Afghanistan is at relative peace, and this has given the opportunity for many refugees to return to their homes. More than two million people have fled Afghanistan over the years, but the many conflicts there have forced more than three million to leave their cities, towns and villages, while remaining within the country. Some of these have now gone back, in the hope of picking up from where they left of, but often to find all that they once owned has been taken away or is lying in ruins. Andrew North went to meet some in the southern Afghan region of Helmand.</p><p>Turkey seems determined to have influence abroad to a degree - some say - not seen since the days of the Ottoman Empire. The country has already intervened militarily in both Syria and Libya and built semi-permanent military bases in Northern Iraq. Whatever one thinks of Turkey’s ambitions though, the country is not usually seen as a seafaring power, yet it seems that some in the country want that to change. They explained why to Tim Whewell, during a recent trip to Istanbul.</p><p>A writer who visited Scandinavia once said that theirs were the only languages where it was the vowels that were the greatest challenge. While many struggle with a French “je” or the “ch” of Germany's “Bach,” it’s the a, o and u of Swedish, for example, which can be tough for foreigners to master. And then there’s the intonation: much fun is made of Swede’s almost sing-song way of talking. Yet, there is only so much mockery of their language that people will take, particularly when it comes to the pronunciation of their own names. The many different ways in which Mathilde Weilin's name has been pronouced have given her something of an existential crisis.</p><p>The Turkana region in northern Kenya is a remote and barren place, where some of the oldest pre-human fossils have been found, remains of Homo sapiens' long-distant ancestors. However, life for the present-day people of Turkana is not easy: the land they live off has been hit by environmental damage, with drought more common than ever – the result of climate change, many believe. When Samuel Derbyshire went to study their way of life, he found the legacy of many previous efforts to help Turkana’s people, and to show them more reliable means of subsistence. And yet he ended up wondering who it was that should be teaching, and who learning.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Russian people who deny that their troops represent any threat to Ukraine.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Russia's tense stand-off with Ukraine might seem like a straightforward case of one country menacing another, with about a hundred and twenty thousand Russian troops mustering on their neighbour’s border. Russia has already occupied the Ukrainian territory of Crimea, and is widely believed to be helping separatists in the country’s east. But, as an old saying has it, where you stand depends on where you sit; perspectives can vary widely. Francis Scarr was recently sitting in the rather intimate surrounds of a Russian bathhouse, and found his companions holding a very different view of who was threatening whom.</p><p>The foreign troops have left, and the fighting is much diminished. Afghanistan is at relative peace, and this has given the opportunity for many refugees to return to their homes. More than two million people have fled Afghanistan over the years, but the many conflicts there have forced more than three million to leave their cities, towns and villages, while remaining within the country. Some of these have now gone back, in the hope of picking up from where they left of, but often to find all that they once owned has been taken away or is lying in ruins. Andrew North went to meet some in the southern Afghan region of Helmand.</p><p>Turkey seems determined to have influence abroad to a degree - some say - not seen since the days of the Ottoman Empire. The country has already intervened militarily in both Syria and Libya and built semi-permanent military bases in Northern Iraq. Whatever one thinks of Turkey’s ambitions though, the country is not usually seen as a seafaring power, yet it seems that some in the country want that to change. They explained why to Tim Whewell, during a recent trip to Istanbul.</p><p>A writer who visited Scandinavia once said that theirs were the only languages where it was the vowels that were the greatest challenge. While many struggle with a French “je” or the “ch” of Germany's “Bach,” it’s the a, o and u of Swedish, for example, which can be tough for foreigners to master. And then there’s the intonation: much fun is made of Swede’s almost sing-song way of talking. Yet, there is only so much mockery of their language that people will take, particularly when it comes to the pronunciation of their own names. The many different ways in which Mathilde Weilin's name has been pronouced have given her something of an existential crisis.</p><p>The Turkana region in northern Kenya is a remote and barren place, where some of the oldest pre-human fossils have been found, remains of Homo sapiens' long-distant ancestors. However, life for the present-day people of Turkana is not easy: the land they live off has been hit by environmental damage, with drought more common than ever – the result of climate change, many believe. When Samuel Derbyshire went to study their way of life, he found the legacy of many previous efforts to help Turkana’s people, and to show them more reliable means of subsistence. And yet he ended up wondering who it was that should be teaching, and who learning.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1720</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bkmjt3.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bkmjt3.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bkmjt3.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bkmlgl</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bkmlgl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bkmjt3.mp3" fileSize="27520000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1720"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bkmlgl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Searching for Mexico's Drug War Disappeared</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The drug-related violence in Mexico is sometimes described as being “like a war.” Certainly the death toll justifies calling it that, with three hundred thousand people killed in the past fifteen years, many of them innocent civilians. About a hundred thousand have simply disappeared, presumed dead, and with their families left to search for them. Will Grant travelled to the northern state of Sonora, and joined locals digging in the ground, both hopeful - and fearful - of what they might find.</p><p>The long-running civil war in Syria has forced half the country to leave their homes: around six and a half million are internally displaced within Syria, and another six and a half million have fled abroad. Most of those who reached Europe have gone to Germany, many traumatised, having survived bombings, or lost family members in the fighting – some have been tortured. You might expect these people would form tight-knit communities, as victims of similar harsh experiences looking out for each other. However, when Michael Ertl spoke to Syrian refugees in Berlin he found a community divided by mistrust.</p><p>The streets in Kazakhstan's cities are quiet now, and the Russian soldiers have gone home; the country is returning to some semblance of normality, after anti-government protests which left at least two hundred people dead. However, the country’s Defence Minister has been sacked for failing to quell the protests when they started, and the head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence agency, the KNB, has been arrested for treason. Meanwhile, Abdujalil Abdurasulov says, thousands of protestors remain in detention, with allegations they have been tortured.</p><p>Here’ a puzzle: what cost nearly a billion pounds, has not been finished, and will not do what it was designed for any time soon? The answer is: a new road in Montenegro. It was supposed to link the country’s main port to Montenegro’s neighbour, Serbia, encouraging valuable cargo to the country. However, the project is already two year’s late, and so far, this road to the sea does not actually reach the sea, but stops way short. Chinese money is involved, along with Montenegrin politicians past and present, and some allege corruption behind what Linda Pressly says is fast becoming another Balkan scandal.</p><p>If it is true that cats have nine lives, then Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu must be running them a close second. A former BBC journalist, Mohamed has been caught up in no fewer than five suicide attacks, all in his home country, Somalia. Number five came last Sunday; he survived, but another suicide attack that same day killed at least eight people – just another weekend in a country torn apart by violence for the past three decades. So what makes someone like Mohamed continue to do work which places them directly in harm’s way? Mary Harper has known him for many years, and even she struggles to understand how he keeps going.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The relatives searching for loved ones, missing presumed dead in Mexico's drugs war.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The drug-related violence in Mexico is sometimes described as being “like a war.” Certainly the death toll justifies calling it that, with three hundred thousand people killed in the past fifteen years, many of them innocent civilians. About a hundred thousand have simply disappeared, presumed dead, and with their families left to search for them. Will Grant travelled to the northern state of Sonora, and joined locals digging in the ground, both hopeful - and fearful - of what they might find.</p><p>The long-running civil war in Syria has forced half the country to leave their homes: around six and a half million are internally displaced within Syria, and another six and a half million have fled abroad. Most of those who reached Europe have gone to Germany, many traumatised, having survived bombings, or lost family members in the fighting – some have been tortured. You might expect these people would form tight-knit communities, as victims of similar harsh experiences looking out for each other. However, when Michael Ertl spoke to Syrian refugees in Berlin he found a community divided by mistrust.</p><p>The streets in Kazakhstan's cities are quiet now, and the Russian soldiers have gone home; the country is returning to some semblance of normality, after anti-government protests which left at least two hundred people dead. However, the country’s Defence Minister has been sacked for failing to quell the protests when they started, and the head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence agency, the KNB, has been arrested for treason. Meanwhile, Abdujalil Abdurasulov says, thousands of protestors remain in detention, with allegations they have been tortured.</p><p>Here’ a puzzle: what cost nearly a billion pounds, has not been finished, and will not do what it was designed for any time soon? The answer is: a new road in Montenegro. It was supposed to link the country’s main port to Montenegro’s neighbour, Serbia, encouraging valuable cargo to the country. However, the project is already two year’s late, and so far, this road to the sea does not actually reach the sea, but stops way short. Chinese money is involved, along with Montenegrin politicians past and present, and some allege corruption behind what Linda Pressly says is fast becoming another Balkan scandal.</p><p>If it is true that cats have nine lives, then Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu must be running them a close second. A former BBC journalist, Mohamed has been caught up in no fewer than five suicide attacks, all in his home country, Somalia. Number five came last Sunday; he survived, but another suicide attack that same day killed at least eight people – just another weekend in a country torn apart by violence for the past three decades. So what makes someone like Mohamed continue to do work which places them directly in harm’s way? Mary Harper has known him for many years, and even she struggles to understand how he keeps going.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1722</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bjqchz.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bjqchz.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bjqchz.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bjqd06</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bjqd06</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bjqchz.mp3" fileSize="27552000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1722"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bjqd06</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Serbia and Djokovic: More Than a Matter of Tennis</title><description><![CDATA[<p>When Novak Djokovic landed in Melbourne, few could have imagined that his impending encounters on the tennis court would be upstaged by a legal battle, one which then prompted a row between his country and Australia. After immigration officials held the Serb player in a hotel, Djokovic’s father said his son was being “crucified”. Then Serbia’s Foreign Ministry claimed that the player had been deliberately lured to Australia in order to humiliate him, as part of a “political game.” Guy Delauney explains that the affair has touched a raw nerve in Serbia, with an importance way beyond the tennis court.</p><p>While the war of words was going on between Serbia and Australia, the government of Cameroon was trying to keep everyone’s attention focused on sport, and not on politics. The country is hosting the Africa-wide football tournament, the Africa Cup of Nations, a chance for the country to shine on the international stage. Like any contest, the Cup provides an opportunity for all countries to unite and rally behind their national team. However, there is a distinct shortage of unity among some people of this West African nation. Cameroon has suffered a long-running separatist insurgency in the English-speaking part of the country, and that was where James Copnall went to watch one of the games.</p><p>You might think Ukraine was used to conflict; it suffered some of the worst casualties of the Second World War, and previously lost millions to murder and starvation, as Stalin imposed communist rule on a population which often resisted it. Today, around a hundred thousand Russian troops are massed on the Ukrainian border, and when Zeinab Badawi visited the capital Kiev, she found a very different mood to what she experienced on previous trips.</p><p>What have sectarian murders in Northern Ireland got in common with the dawn of democracy in Czechoslovakia, and the start of negotiations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions? The answer is that all of them were reported on by Mary Hockaday, whose career of more than three decades at the BBC has just come to an end. Her departure has left her reflecting on time, and how the world changes with it.</p><p>The housing market has been rather perky this past year, so it might be a good time to sell your home, but not if you’re a princess, you don’t actually want to move out, and the property in question is a Seventeenth Century palace. Such though is the fate of one of Rome’s more unusual inhabitants, living in one of the city’s more distinctive buildings. The Villa Aurora will go under the auctioneer’s hammer next week, and is valued at more than four hundred million pounds. David Willey has been a regular visitor</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>How Australia's treatment of Serbia's Novak Djokovic became an international political row</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>When Novak Djokovic landed in Melbourne, few could have imagined that his impending encounters on the tennis court would be upstaged by a legal battle, one which then prompted a row between his country and Australia. After immigration officials held the Serb player in a hotel, Djokovic’s father said his son was being “crucified”. Then Serbia’s Foreign Ministry claimed that the player had been deliberately lured to Australia in order to humiliate him, as part of a “political game.” Guy Delauney explains that the affair has touched a raw nerve in Serbia, with an importance way beyond the tennis court.</p><p>While the war of words was going on between Serbia and Australia, the government of Cameroon was trying to keep everyone’s attention focused on sport, and not on politics. The country is hosting the Africa-wide football tournament, the Africa Cup of Nations, a chance for the country to shine on the international stage. Like any contest, the Cup provides an opportunity for all countries to unite and rally behind their national team. However, there is a distinct shortage of unity among some people of this West African nation. Cameroon has suffered a long-running separatist insurgency in the English-speaking part of the country, and that was where James Copnall went to watch one of the games.</p><p>You might think Ukraine was used to conflict; it suffered some of the worst casualties of the Second World War, and previously lost millions to murder and starvation, as Stalin imposed communist rule on a population which often resisted it. Today, around a hundred thousand Russian troops are massed on the Ukrainian border, and when Zeinab Badawi visited the capital Kiev, she found a very different mood to what she experienced on previous trips.</p><p>What have sectarian murders in Northern Ireland got in common with the dawn of democracy in Czechoslovakia, and the start of negotiations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions? The answer is that all of them were reported on by Mary Hockaday, whose career of more than three decades at the BBC has just come to an end. Her departure has left her reflecting on time, and how the world changes with it.</p><p>The housing market has been rather perky this past year, so it might be a good time to sell your home, but not if you’re a princess, you don’t actually want to move out, and the property in question is a Seventeenth Century palace. Such though is the fate of one of Rome’s more unusual inhabitants, living in one of the city’s more distinctive buildings. The Villa Aurora will go under the auctioneer’s hammer next week, and is valued at more than four hundred million pounds. David Willey has been a regular visitor</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1713</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bhdy42.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bhdy42.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bhdy42.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bhdyry</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bhdyry</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bhdy42.mp3" fileSize="27408000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1713"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bhdyry</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Uncovering China's Internet Trolls</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Plenty of journalists have had the experience of being “trolled” – attacked on social media for what they have written or said, often in terms which can be both offensive and sometimes frightening. Tessa Wong was trolled after reporting on China, but rather than simply accepting the abuse, she tried to find out why so many people had launched these attacks. What she found was that some of them were not the spontaneous outbursts of outraged citizens which they might have appeared. Rather it seems that key social media political influencers are being encouraged in their work by the Chinese authorities.</p><p>It should have been a fairly straight-forward task for our reporter in the Seychelles, Patrick Muirhead. A financial scandal has hit the island nation, and various high profile people have been accused of taking money intended for its citizens. Patrick was in court to cover the proceedings, and was also offered the chance to interview the Seychelles’ President about the affair. However, this is a small country, and he was on first name terms with both the President, and with some of those in the dock. He admits, it was quite a challenge to report on the story with detachment.</p><p>2022 has started with some speculating that this could be the year in which Covid is beaten – not that the virus will disappear completely, but that it might become endemic, and certainly not killing people on anything like the scale seen so far. Yet even if by some miracle the Coronavirus were to vanish altogether, the effects of these past two years will be with us for a long time. In Peru, for example, tens of thousands of children have lost parents to Covid, and this in a country which already suffers from widespread poverty. As Jane Chambers explains, the death of a family breadwinner can leave children facing terrible hardship, along with the grief.</p><p>Meeting a rebel leader can be difficult at the best of times, but particularly so if that leader is under arrest. Joshua Craze, was on the trail of General Simon Gatwich, from one of the factions which has been fighting in South Sudan. The country broke away from Sudan following a long battle for independence, but then itself split into different factions. Although a peace agreement has been reached, it’s considered a fragile one. General Gatwich headed north, to Sudan itself, so Joshua Craze tried to find out what exactly he was up to there.</p><p>History has seen many symbolic acts of resistance: banging saucepans, for example, was an expression of rebellion in revolutionary France, and was more recently taken up by protestors in Latin America. Pro-democracy campaigners in Thailand and Myanmar, meanwhile, have taken to given a three finger salute, taken from the film, The Hunger Games. But there is another historical act of rebellion which might have passed you by: eating cake. That is what people in Denmark did for more than a century, as Amy Guttman explains.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Who is behind the online abuse frequently heaped on those who dare to criticise China?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Plenty of journalists have had the experience of being “trolled” – attacked on social media for what they have written or said, often in terms which can be both offensive and sometimes frightening. Tessa Wong was trolled after reporting on China, but rather than simply accepting the abuse, she tried to find out why so many people had launched these attacks. What she found was that some of them were not the spontaneous outbursts of outraged citizens which they might have appeared. Rather it seems that key social media political influencers are being encouraged in their work by the Chinese authorities.</p><p>It should have been a fairly straight-forward task for our reporter in the Seychelles, Patrick Muirhead. A financial scandal has hit the island nation, and various high profile people have been accused of taking money intended for its citizens. Patrick was in court to cover the proceedings, and was also offered the chance to interview the Seychelles’ President about the affair. However, this is a small country, and he was on first name terms with both the President, and with some of those in the dock. He admits, it was quite a challenge to report on the story with detachment.</p><p>2022 has started with some speculating that this could be the year in which Covid is beaten – not that the virus will disappear completely, but that it might become endemic, and certainly not killing people on anything like the scale seen so far. Yet even if by some miracle the Coronavirus were to vanish altogether, the effects of these past two years will be with us for a long time. In Peru, for example, tens of thousands of children have lost parents to Covid, and this in a country which already suffers from widespread poverty. As Jane Chambers explains, the death of a family breadwinner can leave children facing terrible hardship, along with the grief.</p><p>Meeting a rebel leader can be difficult at the best of times, but particularly so if that leader is under arrest. Joshua Craze, was on the trail of General Simon Gatwich, from one of the factions which has been fighting in South Sudan. The country broke away from Sudan following a long battle for independence, but then itself split into different factions. Although a peace agreement has been reached, it’s considered a fragile one. General Gatwich headed north, to Sudan itself, so Joshua Craze tried to find out what exactly he was up to there.</p><p>History has seen many symbolic acts of resistance: banging saucepans, for example, was an expression of rebellion in revolutionary France, and was more recently taken up by protestors in Latin America. Pro-democracy campaigners in Thailand and Myanmar, meanwhile, have taken to given a three finger salute, taken from the film, The Hunger Games. But there is another historical act of rebellion which might have passed you by: eating cake. That is what people in Denmark did for more than a century, as Amy Guttman explains.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2022 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1731</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bhw14h.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bhw14h.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bhw14h.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bg36pq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bg36pq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bhw14h.mp3" fileSize="27696000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1731"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bg36pq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>2022: A Year of Recovery?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>What are you hoping for in the twelve months ahead? What might you be fearing? These are questions which we often ask ourselves at this time of year, and yet it is hard to imagine a year when they have felt quite so pressing. In this special, New Year’s Day edition of From Our Own Correspondent, we hear about sentiment both optimistic and pessimistic, and about the efforts people are making to rebuild after a year of loss. Plus there is a look at why many people seem to be optimistic, whatever the challenges ahead.</p><p>2021 saw terrible, weather-related destruction, which many blamed on climate change. In California, more than eight thousand major fires broke out, their number and intensity a marked increase on what is normally seen there. Justin Rowlatt witnessed the resulting devastation, but says that amidst the burned out ruins, people were still holding out hope of recovery and reconstruction.</p><p>There was plenty of destruction in 2021 that did not come from nature, war continuing to take its toll in many parts of the world. Ethiopia and Yemen were perhaps the worst examples, but there were also small-scale conflicts, like the insurgency in Myanmar. Then there were the conflicts which never really went away, like that between Israel and the Palestinians. An exchange of rocket fire with Gaza back in May, along with Israeli airstrikes, left more than two hundred dead, the overwhelming majority on the Palestinian side. When Tom Bateman went to Gaza, he met a woman trying to restart her life as a sculptor.</p><p>The Coronavirus has been described as offering a lesson in humility, a challenge to our belief in humanity’s power to control and manage the world around us. This tiny, sub-microscopic string of rogue DNA, has led to death on a scale most will not have experienced in their lifetime. At the same time though, vaccines and anti-viral drugs have been developed in response to Covid, which use new technologies that promise cures for other diseases in future. Rajini Vaidyanathan saw some of the worst of Covid, reporting from India where hundreds of thousands died, perhaps more than a million. But while off duty recently, she found herself struck by the effects of one individual death, in a place very familiar to her.</p><p>People often talk about climate change in terms of future trouble ahead: rising sea levels, and crops no longer able to thrive. In the Pacific island nation of Fiji, whole villages have already had to be evacuated, because of current weather conditions, and what that weather is expected to do in the years ahead. Many Fijians traditionally have a strong attachment to the land they live on, so moving from their homes presents a challenge that goes way beyond mere inconvenience. When Megha Mohan visited, she found local people trying hard to retain a sense of connection to their original homes.</p><p>Despite Covid, climate change, and all the other challenges which humanity faces, many remain optimistic that normal life can continue or be restored, or perhaps that something new, and better can emerge from the ashes of the old. In fact, according to Marnie Chesterton, most people are predisposed to have an optimistic outlook, and to believe there are solutions to the challenges we face.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Hopes, fears and the chances of rebuilding in the year ahead.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>What are you hoping for in the twelve months ahead? What might you be fearing? These are questions which we often ask ourselves at this time of year, and yet it is hard to imagine a year when they have felt quite so pressing. In this special, New Year’s Day edition of From Our Own Correspondent, we hear about sentiment both optimistic and pessimistic, and about the efforts people are making to rebuild after a year of loss. Plus there is a look at why many people seem to be optimistic, whatever the challenges ahead.</p><p>2021 saw terrible, weather-related destruction, which many blamed on climate change. In California, more than eight thousand major fires broke out, their number and intensity a marked increase on what is normally seen there. Justin Rowlatt witnessed the resulting devastation, but says that amidst the burned out ruins, people were still holding out hope of recovery and reconstruction.</p><p>There was plenty of destruction in 2021 that did not come from nature, war continuing to take its toll in many parts of the world. Ethiopia and Yemen were perhaps the worst examples, but there were also small-scale conflicts, like the insurgency in Myanmar. Then there were the conflicts which never really went away, like that between Israel and the Palestinians. An exchange of rocket fire with Gaza back in May, along with Israeli airstrikes, left more than two hundred dead, the overwhelming majority on the Palestinian side. When Tom Bateman went to Gaza, he met a woman trying to restart her life as a sculptor.</p><p>The Coronavirus has been described as offering a lesson in humility, a challenge to our belief in humanity’s power to control and manage the world around us. This tiny, sub-microscopic string of rogue DNA, has led to death on a scale most will not have experienced in their lifetime. At the same time though, vaccines and anti-viral drugs have been developed in response to Covid, which use new technologies that promise cures for other diseases in future. Rajini Vaidyanathan saw some of the worst of Covid, reporting from India where hundreds of thousands died, perhaps more than a million. But while off duty recently, she found herself struck by the effects of one individual death, in a place very familiar to her.</p><p>People often talk about climate change in terms of future trouble ahead: rising sea levels, and crops no longer able to thrive. In the Pacific island nation of Fiji, whole villages have already had to be evacuated, because of current weather conditions, and what that weather is expected to do in the years ahead. Many Fijians traditionally have a strong attachment to the land they live on, so moving from their homes presents a challenge that goes way beyond mere inconvenience. When Megha Mohan visited, she found local people trying hard to retain a sense of connection to their original homes.</p><p>Despite Covid, climate change, and all the other challenges which humanity faces, many remain optimistic that normal life can continue or be restored, or perhaps that something new, and better can emerge from the ashes of the old. In fact, according to Marnie Chesterton, most people are predisposed to have an optimistic outlook, and to believe there are solutions to the challenges we face.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1745</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bcynvd.mp3" length="27920000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bcynvd.mp3" length="27920000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bcynvd.mp3" length="27920000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bcyp7z</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bcyp7z</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bcynvd.mp3" fileSize="27920000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1745"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bcyp7z</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Turkey's Cost of Living CrisisTurkey's Cost of Living Crisis</title><description><![CDATA[<p>What is it like to spend years saving up your money, and then watch as its value rapidly declines? Or to have a pension which no longer pays for even your basic needs? Inflation in Turkey is soaring, with some estimates putting the annual rate at fifty percent. The Covid pandemic has meant that prices are rising around the world, but Turkey's particularly high figure has led some to blame the unorthodox economic policies of the country’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Ayla Jean Yackley visited an Istanbul market to hear more.</p><p>When our correspondent in Colombia contracted Covid, he assumed he would get the medical treatment he needed; after all, he did have health insurance. However, that was not how it turned out, and in the process, Matthew Charles got a first-hand picture of how things work in the Colombian healthcare system: who gets the help they need, and why it is they who get it.</p><p>Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen, has a problem with street prostitution, in the sense that prostitutes and clients sometimes have sex actually in the street, or else they end up going back to the client's homes, where the women may not be safe. As a way of tackling this, the city’s sex workers are now being offered a new place to see their clients: in the back of a van. Linda Pressly was invited to see how this works.</p><p>Conspiracy theorists are hard to argue with, as any fact offered to challenge their world view can be dismissed as a lie of the mainstream media. So when Stephanie Hegarty travelled to the US to meet adherents of the “QAnon” theory, she did not expect to change their minds. These are people who believe there is an international, underground sex ring, linked to senior world leaders with a secret fondness for worshipping the devil. However, she was surprised at the details of QAnon beliefs, and the tenacity with which supporters cling to them.</p><p>We are all probably aware of the lasting effect that children’s books can have. Stories discovered in our early years may stay with us for the rest of our lives, so too the pictures and plots. Our Paris Correspondent, Hugh Schofield has long held a candle for Caroline, the bold little girl who featured in a long-running series of French children's books dating back to the 1950s. So it was a great surprise when he had the chance to actually meet her.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Soaring inflation means even basic goods are now out of reach for many Turkish people</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>What is it like to spend years saving up your money, and then watch as its value rapidly declines? Or to have a pension which no longer pays for even your basic needs? Inflation in Turkey is soaring, with some estimates putting the annual rate at fifty percent. The Covid pandemic has meant that prices are rising around the world, but Turkey's particularly high figure has led some to blame the unorthodox economic policies of the country’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Ayla Jean Yackley visited an Istanbul market to hear more.</p><p>When our correspondent in Colombia contracted Covid, he assumed he would get the medical treatment he needed; after all, he did have health insurance. However, that was not how it turned out, and in the process, Matthew Charles got a first-hand picture of how things work in the Colombian healthcare system: who gets the help they need, and why it is they who get it.</p><p>Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen, has a problem with street prostitution, in the sense that prostitutes and clients sometimes have sex actually in the street, or else they end up going back to the client's homes, where the women may not be safe. As a way of tackling this, the city’s sex workers are now being offered a new place to see their clients: in the back of a van. Linda Pressly was invited to see how this works.</p><p>Conspiracy theorists are hard to argue with, as any fact offered to challenge their world view can be dismissed as a lie of the mainstream media. So when Stephanie Hegarty travelled to the US to meet adherents of the “QAnon” theory, she did not expect to change their minds. These are people who believe there is an international, underground sex ring, linked to senior world leaders with a secret fondness for worshipping the devil. However, she was surprised at the details of QAnon beliefs, and the tenacity with which supporters cling to them.</p><p>We are all probably aware of the lasting effect that children’s books can have. Stories discovered in our early years may stay with us for the rest of our lives, so too the pictures and plots. Our Paris Correspondent, Hugh Schofield has long held a candle for Caroline, the bold little girl who featured in a long-running series of French children's books dating back to the 1950s. So it was a great surprise when he had the chance to actually meet her.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2021 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1734</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bbww8g.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bbww8g.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0bbww8g.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0bbwwsb</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bbwwsb</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bbww8g.mp3" fileSize="27744000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1734"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0bbwwsb</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Madagascar: The Threat of Starvation</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Madagascar is the second largest island nation in the world, yet quietly, largely unreported, its people are falling into starvation. 1.3 million are already suffering what’s called “severe food insecurity,” with the United Nations warning of worse to come. The World Food Programme says climate change is at the root of the problem, while others blame poverty and government mismanagement. Catherine Byaruhanga visited the stricken villages.</p><p>They are still finding dead bodies on the borderland between Poland and Belarus, a few of the thousands who tried to cross over, most of them originally from the Middle East. Poland was accused of breaking international law when it refused to let them in. and at least a dozen died from hypothermia while trapped between the two countries. Lucy Ash has found that the crisis also left some of the border guards themselves suffering psychological damage, from what proved to be a traumatic experience.</p><p>It is never great to lose an election, particularly if you happen to be in power at the time. However, the President of Honduras faces a more serious reversal of fortune than most politicians. Juan Orlando Hernandez was not actually on the ballot paper, but one of his political allies was, and he lost. This means not only will Mr Hernandez leave the Presidential Palace, he may also be extradited to the United States on drugs charges, as he no longer enjoys the protection of public office. Meanwhile the woman who won the election is promising a fresh start for the country, prompting wild celebrations, which Will Grant was there to see.</p><p>Keeping children safe from Covid has been a major challenge throughout the pandemic, but that does not just mean protecting them from the disease itself; relatively few get seriously ill from the Coronavirus. The question for many has been how to keep children's lives as normal as possible - continuing their education, and bringing them up in an era where parents are at home instead of going out to work, where people wear masks, and many are dying. Laura Trevelyan has three children who she’s raising in New York, and has been looking at the pandemic's effect on them and their fellow junior New Yorkers.</p><p>Plenty of people have pointless items stuck in an attic, or at the back of a cupboard, things they know deep down they will never use, and rarely even look at, yet somehow cannot throw away. Colin Freeman has spent the past couple of decades working as a foreign correspondent, and those years of roaming the globe have left him with some highly unusual keepsakes.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>With severe hunger widespread, could this become the world's first climate change famine?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Madagascar is the second largest island nation in the world, yet quietly, largely unreported, its people are falling into starvation. 1.3 million are already suffering what’s called “severe food insecurity,” with the United Nations warning of worse to come. The World Food Programme says climate change is at the root of the problem, while others blame poverty and government mismanagement. Catherine Byaruhanga visited the stricken villages.</p><p>They are still finding dead bodies on the borderland between Poland and Belarus, a few of the thousands who tried to cross over, most of them originally from the Middle East. Poland was accused of breaking international law when it refused to let them in. and at least a dozen died from hypothermia while trapped between the two countries. Lucy Ash has found that the crisis also left some of the border guards themselves suffering psychological damage, from what proved to be a traumatic experience.</p><p>It is never great to lose an election, particularly if you happen to be in power at the time. However, the President of Honduras faces a more serious reversal of fortune than most politicians. Juan Orlando Hernandez was not actually on the ballot paper, but one of his political allies was, and he lost. This means not only will Mr Hernandez leave the Presidential Palace, he may also be extradited to the United States on drugs charges, as he no longer enjoys the protection of public office. Meanwhile the woman who won the election is promising a fresh start for the country, prompting wild celebrations, which Will Grant was there to see.</p><p>Keeping children safe from Covid has been a major challenge throughout the pandemic, but that does not just mean protecting them from the disease itself; relatively few get seriously ill from the Coronavirus. The question for many has been how to keep children's lives as normal as possible - continuing their education, and bringing them up in an era where parents are at home instead of going out to work, where people wear masks, and many are dying. Laura Trevelyan has three children who she’s raising in New York, and has been looking at the pandemic's effect on them and their fellow junior New Yorkers.</p><p>Plenty of people have pointless items stuck in an attic, or at the back of a cupboard, things they know deep down they will never use, and rarely even look at, yet somehow cannot throw away. Colin Freeman has spent the past couple of decades working as a foreign correspondent, and those years of roaming the globe have left him with some highly unusual keepsakes.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1724</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b9fqzq.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b9fqzq.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0b9fqzq.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0b9frgh</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b9frgh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b9fqzq.mp3" fileSize="27584000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1724"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0b9frgh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Sleepless in Seoul: South Korea’s Exhausted Workforce</title><description><![CDATA[<p>This year's surprise international television success is the dystopian South Korean series, Squid Game, which imagines people competing in a series of ever more violent contests, hundreds dying along the way. The show is a shameless satire on the cut-throat competitiveness of ordinary South Korean life; some characters explicitly state they are taking part in the tournament because it is no worse than how they were living anyway. When Chloe Hadjimatheou went to South Korea recently, she could see what the programme’s creators were getting at.</p><p>It is not just the death toll in Ethiopia that is so disturbing but also the manner by which many people are dying: civilians have been murdered in ethnically-based violence, while others have starved. Both sides have accused the other of committing atrocities, while denying any carried out by their own people. This war-of-words is being played out on social media with just as much fervour as the physical war on the ground. Our correspondent, Andrew Harding, found himself caught in the middle.</p><p>Negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme were never going to be easy, but the two sides cannot even agree how to start. China, Russia, the UK and US are among those with teams in Vienna, hoping to persuade Iran to stop what they believe is an attempt to develop nuclear weapons. That would mean they cease enriching uranium towards the level required to make a warhead or bomb. However, the Iranians don't want to discuss this until sanctions imposed on their country are lifted. James Landale warns this presents a serious challenge to the chances of a deal being reached.</p><p>Nobody is sure who first came up with the suggestion that one could “See Naples and die.” Nor is it even clear whether that counts as a recommendation or a warning. But if the quote caught on, that is perhaps because it sums up the dark associations many have with the biggest city in Italy’s deep south: less economically developed than its northern counterparts, and affected by all kinds of travails, from earthquakes to mafia violence. The neighbourhood of Sanita is among the city's most deprived, but locals have used a famous church there as the centre for a whole series of regeneration programmes. Mark Stratton was shown around.</p><p>There are still question marks over how Christmas will be celebrated this year – whether new restrictions might need to be imposed, because of the Omicron variant of the Coronavirus, or even a lockdown. In some countries though, it was already clear long ago that the Christmas period would provide little opportunity for celebrating. In Venezuela, three quarters of the population are now living in extreme poverty, living on less than two pounds a day. Yet as Katy Watson explains, Venezuelans do really like Christmas, and are making greats effort to mark the festive season, even with their circumstances so straitened.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>South Korea has a growing economy and expanding cultural influence, but at what cost?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>This year's surprise international television success is the dystopian South Korean series, Squid Game, which imagines people competing in a series of ever more violent contests, hundreds dying along the way. The show is a shameless satire on the cut-throat competitiveness of ordinary South Korean life; some characters explicitly state they are taking part in the tournament because it is no worse than how they were living anyway. When Chloe Hadjimatheou went to South Korea recently, she could see what the programme’s creators were getting at.</p><p>It is not just the death toll in Ethiopia that is so disturbing but also the manner by which many people are dying: civilians have been murdered in ethnically-based violence, while others have starved. Both sides have accused the other of committing atrocities, while denying any carried out by their own people. This war-of-words is being played out on social media with just as much fervour as the physical war on the ground. Our correspondent, Andrew Harding, found himself caught in the middle.</p><p>Negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme were never going to be easy, but the two sides cannot even agree how to start. China, Russia, the UK and US are among those with teams in Vienna, hoping to persuade Iran to stop what they believe is an attempt to develop nuclear weapons. That would mean they cease enriching uranium towards the level required to make a warhead or bomb. However, the Iranians don't want to discuss this until sanctions imposed on their country are lifted. James Landale warns this presents a serious challenge to the chances of a deal being reached.</p><p>Nobody is sure who first came up with the suggestion that one could “See Naples and die.” Nor is it even clear whether that counts as a recommendation or a warning. But if the quote caught on, that is perhaps because it sums up the dark associations many have with the biggest city in Italy’s deep south: less economically developed than its northern counterparts, and affected by all kinds of travails, from earthquakes to mafia violence. The neighbourhood of Sanita is among the city's most deprived, but locals have used a famous church there as the centre for a whole series of regeneration programmes. Mark Stratton was shown around.</p><p>There are still question marks over how Christmas will be celebrated this year – whether new restrictions might need to be imposed, because of the Omicron variant of the Coronavirus, or even a lockdown. In some countries though, it was already clear long ago that the Christmas period would provide little opportunity for celebrating. In Venezuela, three quarters of the population are now living in extreme poverty, living on less than two pounds a day. Yet as Katy Watson explains, Venezuelans do really like Christmas, and are making greats effort to mark the festive season, even with their circumstances so straitened.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2021 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1726</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b83n0t.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b83n0t.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0b83n0t.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0b83nkd</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b83nkd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b83n0t.mp3" fileSize="27616000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1726"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0b83nkd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Anti-Lockdown Protests Hit The Netherlands</title><description><![CDATA[<p>History has long seen people protest against government-imposed restrictions, designed to stem pandemics. Meanwhile, opposition to vaccination is as old as vaccination itself. Yet anyone who thought rioting in the face of disease was something consigned to the distant past has had a rude awakening this week. There have been violent protests in Austria and Belgium in response to new Covid-related restrictions. However. the most bitter street battles were seen in The Netherlands, where police at one point fired live rounds. Anna Holligan was there.</p><p>Ever since the coronavirus first appeared, it has caused social division: between those in favour of and against lockdown, or pro and anti-vaccination, and also between those able to carry on working and those who could not. Yet these splits came at a time when many believe the world was already increasingly polarised, and there were signs of that in Chile this week, where the first round of presidential elections were held. Centrist candidates were eliminated, and the two front runners who got through to the next round are a man who defends some aspects of the military dictatorship let by General Pinochet, and another whose critics accuse of having Communist leanings. Jane Chambers says this has happened partly because many Chilean voters seem to have their minds on the past.</p><p>While Chile may be split along political lines, the split in Cyprus is geographical. Turkey invaded the island in 1974, leaving it divided between a mainly Turkish speaking part, and one where most are ethnically Greek. However, Cyprus has a third, far smaller community: Maronite Christians, whose ancestors arrived from the Middle East many centuries ago. Adelle Kalakouti grew up in one of the Maronite Christian villages, and says their future is now at risk.</p><p>Plenty of autocratic leaders have attempted to hand over power to their children, but The Philippines seems to be taking this one step further; two politicians' offspring are attempting to win power on a joint ticket. Presidential elections will be held in The Philippines next year, and one man who has just announced his candidacy is Bongbong Marcos, son of the country’s former dictator, Ferdinand Marcos. Meanwhile, his running mate, standing for Vice President, is Sara Duterte, whose father, Rodrigo Duterte is The Philippines current President. Howard Johnson has been trying to understand why these family familiars remain popular.</p><p>When the writer, Tishani Doshi accepted a temporary academic post in Abu Dhabi, she did not expect to end up helping refugees there. But Abu Dhabi has taken in more than eight thousand Afghans, who fled when the Taliban took over their country. One day, Tishani got a call, asking if she could lend them a hand.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Anti-lockdown, anti-vaxx: violent protests hit Rotterdam and The Hague</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>History has long seen people protest against government-imposed restrictions, designed to stem pandemics. Meanwhile, opposition to vaccination is as old as vaccination itself. Yet anyone who thought rioting in the face of disease was something consigned to the distant past has had a rude awakening this week. There have been violent protests in Austria and Belgium in response to new Covid-related restrictions. However. the most bitter street battles were seen in The Netherlands, where police at one point fired live rounds. Anna Holligan was there.</p><p>Ever since the coronavirus first appeared, it has caused social division: between those in favour of and against lockdown, or pro and anti-vaccination, and also between those able to carry on working and those who could not. Yet these splits came at a time when many believe the world was already increasingly polarised, and there were signs of that in Chile this week, where the first round of presidential elections were held. Centrist candidates were eliminated, and the two front runners who got through to the next round are a man who defends some aspects of the military dictatorship let by General Pinochet, and another whose critics accuse of having Communist leanings. Jane Chambers says this has happened partly because many Chilean voters seem to have their minds on the past.</p><p>While Chile may be split along political lines, the split in Cyprus is geographical. Turkey invaded the island in 1974, leaving it divided between a mainly Turkish speaking part, and one where most are ethnically Greek. However, Cyprus has a third, far smaller community: Maronite Christians, whose ancestors arrived from the Middle East many centuries ago. Adelle Kalakouti grew up in one of the Maronite Christian villages, and says their future is now at risk.</p><p>Plenty of autocratic leaders have attempted to hand over power to their children, but The Philippines seems to be taking this one step further; two politicians' offspring are attempting to win power on a joint ticket. Presidential elections will be held in The Philippines next year, and one man who has just announced his candidacy is Bongbong Marcos, son of the country’s former dictator, Ferdinand Marcos. Meanwhile, his running mate, standing for Vice President, is Sara Duterte, whose father, Rodrigo Duterte is The Philippines current President. Howard Johnson has been trying to understand why these family familiars remain popular.</p><p>When the writer, Tishani Doshi accepted a temporary academic post in Abu Dhabi, she did not expect to end up helping refugees there. But Abu Dhabi has taken in more than eight thousand Afghans, who fled when the Taliban took over their country. One day, Tishani got a call, asking if she could lend them a hand.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2021 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1729</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b6ps8t.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b6ps8t.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0b6ps8t.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0b6psq3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b6psq3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b6ps8t.mp3" fileSize="27664000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1729"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0b6psq3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Desperation of Asylum Seekers on Poland's Border</title><description><![CDATA[<p>During the Cold War, the border between NATO countries and the Soviet bloc was heavily fortified, each side fearing the other might one day roll across it in their tanks. Since then, alliances have shifted, and Poland is now firmly within the western military ambit. But that means it is also on the front line in what some call a new Cold War, facing Belarus, a staunch ally of Russia. And these days, Poland is not worrying about tanks crossing any time soon, but people: the asylum seekers who were mustered on the Belarus side. As Nick Beak explains, most seemed desperate to cross over.</p><p>There have been several thousand attempts by asylum seekers to cross into Poland from Belarus. Compare that figure to the situation in Turkey, which now plays host to four million people who fled there, most of them escaping the civil war in neighbouring Syria. Turkey and its President won international praise for accepting these new arrivals, and devoted considerable resources to providing them with food and housing. However, it seems the mood is changing. Ayla Jean Yackley says Turks are now ever less willing to see money spent on helping refugees, when their country’s own economy is in poor shape.</p><p>The United States plays host to a wide variety of wild animals, such as grizzly bears, alligators and rattle snakes. It was once also home to millions of wild turkeys, a bird seen almost as a symbol of the US, as it is eaten each year for the Thanksgiving Festival. The wild turkey population had declined in recent decades, but a concerted conservation effort has restored some of this lost population. However, Alice Hutton says the birds are now causing havoc in some American cities.</p><p>Libya might soon be ruled over by President Gadhafi - not that the late Colonel Gadhafi has been restored to life, nor did it turn out that his death was faked. But Libya is holding presidential elections next month, and among the candidates are one Saif Al Islam Gadhafi, Muammar Gadhafi’s son. He was one of his father’s more strident supporters, and the fact that he is being taken seriously says much about Libya today, according to Orla Guerin.</p><p>The coronavirus outbreak and its lockdowns have meant isolation for many people, but few have been affected like sailors in the Royal Navy. They are accustomed to being cut off, being away at sea for long periods. However, with many countries closed to visitors, sailors have no longer been able even to enjoy shore leave the way they did previously, as Hannah King found when she visited one of Britain’s newest aircraft carriers.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Asylum seekers were lured to Belarus, but then left stranded on the Polish border.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>During the Cold War, the border between NATO countries and the Soviet bloc was heavily fortified, each side fearing the other might one day roll across it in their tanks. Since then, alliances have shifted, and Poland is now firmly within the western military ambit. But that means it is also on the front line in what some call a new Cold War, facing Belarus, a staunch ally of Russia. And these days, Poland is not worrying about tanks crossing any time soon, but people: the asylum seekers who were mustered on the Belarus side. As Nick Beak explains, most seemed desperate to cross over.</p><p>There have been several thousand attempts by asylum seekers to cross into Poland from Belarus. Compare that figure to the situation in Turkey, which now plays host to four million people who fled there, most of them escaping the civil war in neighbouring Syria. Turkey and its President won international praise for accepting these new arrivals, and devoted considerable resources to providing them with food and housing. However, it seems the mood is changing. Ayla Jean Yackley says Turks are now ever less willing to see money spent on helping refugees, when their country’s own economy is in poor shape.</p><p>The United States plays host to a wide variety of wild animals, such as grizzly bears, alligators and rattle snakes. It was once also home to millions of wild turkeys, a bird seen almost as a symbol of the US, as it is eaten each year for the Thanksgiving Festival. The wild turkey population had declined in recent decades, but a concerted conservation effort has restored some of this lost population. However, Alice Hutton says the birds are now causing havoc in some American cities.</p><p>Libya might soon be ruled over by President Gadhafi - not that the late Colonel Gadhafi has been restored to life, nor did it turn out that his death was faked. But Libya is holding presidential elections next month, and among the candidates are one Saif Al Islam Gadhafi, Muammar Gadhafi’s son. He was one of his father’s more strident supporters, and the fact that he is being taken seriously says much about Libya today, according to Orla Guerin.</p><p>The coronavirus outbreak and its lockdowns have meant isolation for many people, but few have been affected like sailors in the Royal Navy. They are accustomed to being cut off, being away at sea for long periods. However, with many countries closed to visitors, sailors have no longer been able even to enjoy shore leave the way they did previously, as Hannah King found when she visited one of Britain’s newest aircraft carriers.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2021 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1735</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b5bsyq.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b5bsyq.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0b5bsyq.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0b5bv23</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b5bv23</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b5bsyq.mp3" fileSize="27760000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1735"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0b5bv23</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Battle for Ethiopia</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents reporters' despatches from Ethiopia, the Cop26 climate summit, Switzerland, Georgia and Brazil.</p><p>The conflict in Ethiopia has left the country's northern Tigray region largely cut off, with millions facing starvation. Among the many combatants now on manoeuvres are the “Oromo Liberation Army” – the Oromo being a people who live mostly in the centre and south of the country. Catherine Byaruhanga was given a rare invitation to meet them.</p><p>Ethiopia is one of the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change - the subject of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. Among those attending were the BBC’s David Shukman, a veteran of ten previous Cops, and someone who has watched at close hand the long battle to see the dangers of climate change.</p><p>The ski industry is already preparing for warmer temperatures, with predictions that the snow at many resorts will regularly melt, or never form in the first place. So what can these resorts do to stay in business? Simon Mills reports from Switzerland.</p><p>After former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was smuggled back into the country, and then chucked in prison, he went on a hunger strike leading to protests in the street. What exactly is happening is still unclear, but then Rayhan Demytrie says that when it comes to Saakashvili, it has always been hard to separate myth from reality.</p><p>The pandemic meant that Sao Paulo's bars and restaurants were forced to shut – and yet there was one kind of food outlet which was permitted to say open, deemed an essential part of Brazilian life. They are called lanchonetes, local eateries with a tradition going back more than a hundred years. Andrew Downie explains why he is a lanchonete fan.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Fighting on all fronts as rebel groups get ever closer to Ethiopia's capital.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents reporters' despatches from Ethiopia, the Cop26 climate summit, Switzerland, Georgia and Brazil.</p><p>The conflict in Ethiopia has left the country's northern Tigray region largely cut off, with millions facing starvation. Among the many combatants now on manoeuvres are the “Oromo Liberation Army” – the Oromo being a people who live mostly in the centre and south of the country. Catherine Byaruhanga was given a rare invitation to meet them.</p><p>Ethiopia is one of the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change - the subject of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. Among those attending were the BBC’s David Shukman, a veteran of ten previous Cops, and someone who has watched at close hand the long battle to see the dangers of climate change.</p><p>The ski industry is already preparing for warmer temperatures, with predictions that the snow at many resorts will regularly melt, or never form in the first place. So what can these resorts do to stay in business? Simon Mills reports from Switzerland.</p><p>After former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was smuggled back into the country, and then chucked in prison, he went on a hunger strike leading to protests in the street. What exactly is happening is still unclear, but then Rayhan Demytrie says that when it comes to Saakashvili, it has always been hard to separate myth from reality.</p><p>The pandemic meant that Sao Paulo's bars and restaurants were forced to shut – and yet there was one kind of food outlet which was permitted to say open, deemed an essential part of Brazilian life. They are called lanchonetes, local eateries with a tradition going back more than a hundred years. Andrew Downie explains why he is a lanchonete fan.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2021 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1727</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b42d33.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b42d33.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0b42d33.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0b42dk7</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b42dk7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b42d33.mp3" fileSize="27632000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1727"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0b42dk7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Cup of Tea with the Taliban Neighbours</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The news from Afghanistan is ever more dire. Twenty three million people are at risk of starvation, according to the World Food Programme, a fate which gets ever nearer as winter approaches. For international donors and aid agencies, this presents an acute dilemma: whether or not to work with the Afghan authorities to try to solve this crisis. To do so might require handing over food and other supplies to the Taliban government, a regime which no country even recognises. That is because nobody is quite sure just what kind of rulers the Taliban will be. Since they took over in August, there have been reports of brutality, which in some cases meant the cold-blooded murder of people who were seen as Taliban opponents. Yet there have not been the kind of mass atrocities which many feared. Visiting Kabul, Andrew North has found a variety of attitudes among the Taliban members he’s come across, and they include his next door neighbours.</p><p>They held a mass funeral in Sierra Leone, after a hundred and fifteen people were killed in a fuel tanker explosion. It happened in the West African country’s capital, Freetown, some of the victims dying because they had rushed towards the site of the accident, hoping to gather up some of the petrol which had spilled out. This latest disaster comes just months after a fire destroyed thousands of homes in one of the city’s slums. And many of this week’s victims were buried in the same cemetery as those who died in a mudslide; that disaster killed around a thousand people. But then Sierra Leone is a country which in recent times has also experienced an Ebola outbreak, and before that, civil war. Walking round Freetown this week, Lucinda Rouse found people shocked and upset, but also sometimes resigned to the misfortune so frequently visited upon them.</p><p>We were hoping to bring you a report from Nicaragua, where they have been holding an election. However, our Correspondent, Will Grant was not allowed into the country, turned back at the border. But that in itself tells you plenty about the way politics works in Nicaragua these days he says. It is a country where journalists and other commentators are routinely locked up for what they write, and where people protesting against the government have been shot in the streets. Still, Will Grant did at least try to get in, knowing the chances were slim.</p><p>People often have a love-hate relationship with tourists. They may well bring plenty of money into an economy, and jobs for those who need them. And yet the disruption caused by a mass of visitors is not always welcome. Of course, many tourist spots have had a terrible time under Covid, with lockdown preventing anyone from coming to visit. Some resorts have been positively praying for a return to the days when they could play host to hordes of holiday-makers. Others though have been surprised to find a surge in new arrivals, like residents on the Greek island of Tinos, where Antonia Quirke was among those paying a visit.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Three months after taking power, what are we to make of Taliban rule in Afghanistan?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The news from Afghanistan is ever more dire. Twenty three million people are at risk of starvation, according to the World Food Programme, a fate which gets ever nearer as winter approaches. For international donors and aid agencies, this presents an acute dilemma: whether or not to work with the Afghan authorities to try to solve this crisis. To do so might require handing over food and other supplies to the Taliban government, a regime which no country even recognises. That is because nobody is quite sure just what kind of rulers the Taliban will be. Since they took over in August, there have been reports of brutality, which in some cases meant the cold-blooded murder of people who were seen as Taliban opponents. Yet there have not been the kind of mass atrocities which many feared. Visiting Kabul, Andrew North has found a variety of attitudes among the Taliban members he’s come across, and they include his next door neighbours.</p><p>They held a mass funeral in Sierra Leone, after a hundred and fifteen people were killed in a fuel tanker explosion. It happened in the West African country’s capital, Freetown, some of the victims dying because they had rushed towards the site of the accident, hoping to gather up some of the petrol which had spilled out. This latest disaster comes just months after a fire destroyed thousands of homes in one of the city’s slums. And many of this week’s victims were buried in the same cemetery as those who died in a mudslide; that disaster killed around a thousand people. But then Sierra Leone is a country which in recent times has also experienced an Ebola outbreak, and before that, civil war. Walking round Freetown this week, Lucinda Rouse found people shocked and upset, but also sometimes resigned to the misfortune so frequently visited upon them.</p><p>We were hoping to bring you a report from Nicaragua, where they have been holding an election. However, our Correspondent, Will Grant was not allowed into the country, turned back at the border. But that in itself tells you plenty about the way politics works in Nicaragua these days he says. It is a country where journalists and other commentators are routinely locked up for what they write, and where people protesting against the government have been shot in the streets. Still, Will Grant did at least try to get in, knowing the chances were slim.</p><p>People often have a love-hate relationship with tourists. They may well bring plenty of money into an economy, and jobs for those who need them. And yet the disruption caused by a mass of visitors is not always welcome. Of course, many tourist spots have had a terrible time under Covid, with lockdown preventing anyone from coming to visit. Some resorts have been positively praying for a return to the days when they could play host to hordes of holiday-makers. Others though have been surprised to find a surge in new arrivals, like residents on the Greek island of Tinos, where Antonia Quirke was among those paying a visit.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2021 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1616</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b3jkhk.mp3" length="25856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b3jkhk.mp3" length="25856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0b3jkhk.mp3" length="25856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0b3jlh6</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b3jlh6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b3jkhk.mp3" fileSize="25856000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1616"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0b3jlh6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Bosnia: New Tensions From An Old Conflict</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Bosnia was the site of Europe's worst conflict Europe since the Second World War ended. Fighting there in the 1990s ended up killing around a hundred thousand people. Bosnian Serbs were pitted against Croats, and Muslim so-called Bosniaks. This was an old-fashioned battle for territory, and it only ended when a compromise was reached – that Bosnia would remain one country, but with two regions each having a certain degree of autonomy. There would be one, predominantly Serb region, and another joint Croat and Muslim. This was always a fragile solution, a fudge, some said, to ease the country away from bloodshed. But now, bits of that peace deal are beginning to look rather frayed, and some have even spoken of a return to fighting.  While few predict war any time soon, Guy Delauney say this is still highly dangerous talk.</p><p>You can understand why Poles are just a little sensitive about being told what to do by outsiders. Their country has suffered repeated invasion and occupation, and at times, has vanished off the map altogether. There were wild celebrations when Poland was accepted for membership of the European Union back in 2003. This was seen first of all as a mark of respectability, recognition that it had become a modern, free market democracy. But many Poles believed membership of the EU also took the country another step further away from the embrace of Russia to the east, while leaving it closer knit with friendly countries to the west. Today, EU membership remains popular in Poland, but not so the EU itself. The Polish government has promised to defy instructions emanating from Brussels, and indeed is currently facing a fine of one million Euros a day imposed by the  European Court of Justice, for refusing to abide by previous rulings. Adam Easton has been looking at what is one of Europe’s most intense love-hate relationships.</p><p>The COP summit on climate change chalked up an achievement this week. Delegates in Glasgow signed an agreement to stop deforestation by 2030, promising they would make attempts to reverse it. This follows decades in which vast swathes of forest have been chopped down, to provide wood, and to open up tracts land for growing crops on, often to feed animals which are then raised to provide meat. But the axe and the chainsaw are not the only threat which trees face. Climate change is already altering the conditions in which they grow, and sometimes with terrible consequences for individual trees and indeed, for the very landscape in which they flourish, as Jenny Hill discovered in Germany.</p><p>The effects of climate change may be slow and initially barely visible, but sometimes they are all too clear. This summer just past saw record temperatures in parts of Europe, and out of control fires as a consequence. Trees in Greece were burned to a cinder, as one part of the country after another succumbed to the flames. Bethany Bell reported on those fires, and now she has been back to watch people picking up the pieces after this devastation, and also talking to those trying to figure out how to stop it happening again.</p><p>The Europe of today is very much shaped by its experience of war and political upheaval. Bosnia’s conflict was born out of the collapse of Yugoslavia, a nation which itself was created out of the ashes of World War One. The EU was formed as an attempt to ensure that such a Europe-wide conflict would never happen again, and that democracy would become the rule. Even the natural landscape was shaped in part by war, with the need for food security high in people’s minds. And yet it remains an open question whether the lessons of this turbulent past have really been learned.  A few thousand miles away from his original home in Vienna, Hilary Andersson spoke to a man who witnessed perhaps the worst of Europe’s modern history. Lying in hospital, just days from death, he shared his memories of the Nazis, and his fear that the value and fragility of democracy risks being forgotten.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Bosnian-Serb leaders stand accused of stoking nationalist sentiment</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Bosnia was the site of Europe's worst conflict Europe since the Second World War ended. Fighting there in the 1990s ended up killing around a hundred thousand people. Bosnian Serbs were pitted against Croats, and Muslim so-called Bosniaks. This was an old-fashioned battle for territory, and it only ended when a compromise was reached – that Bosnia would remain one country, but with two regions each having a certain degree of autonomy. There would be one, predominantly Serb region, and another joint Croat and Muslim. This was always a fragile solution, a fudge, some said, to ease the country away from bloodshed. But now, bits of that peace deal are beginning to look rather frayed, and some have even spoken of a return to fighting.  While few predict war any time soon, Guy Delauney say this is still highly dangerous talk.</p><p>You can understand why Poles are just a little sensitive about being told what to do by outsiders. Their country has suffered repeated invasion and occupation, and at times, has vanished off the map altogether. There were wild celebrations when Poland was accepted for membership of the European Union back in 2003. This was seen first of all as a mark of respectability, recognition that it had become a modern, free market democracy. But many Poles believed membership of the EU also took the country another step further away from the embrace of Russia to the east, while leaving it closer knit with friendly countries to the west. Today, EU membership remains popular in Poland, but not so the EU itself. The Polish government has promised to defy instructions emanating from Brussels, and indeed is currently facing a fine of one million Euros a day imposed by the  European Court of Justice, for refusing to abide by previous rulings. Adam Easton has been looking at what is one of Europe’s most intense love-hate relationships.</p><p>The COP summit on climate change chalked up an achievement this week. Delegates in Glasgow signed an agreement to stop deforestation by 2030, promising they would make attempts to reverse it. This follows decades in which vast swathes of forest have been chopped down, to provide wood, and to open up tracts land for growing crops on, often to feed animals which are then raised to provide meat. But the axe and the chainsaw are not the only threat which trees face. Climate change is already altering the conditions in which they grow, and sometimes with terrible consequences for individual trees and indeed, for the very landscape in which they flourish, as Jenny Hill discovered in Germany.</p><p>The effects of climate change may be slow and initially barely visible, but sometimes they are all too clear. This summer just past saw record temperatures in parts of Europe, and out of control fires as a consequence. Trees in Greece were burned to a cinder, as one part of the country after another succumbed to the flames. Bethany Bell reported on those fires, and now she has been back to watch people picking up the pieces after this devastation, and also talking to those trying to figure out how to stop it happening again.</p><p>The Europe of today is very much shaped by its experience of war and political upheaval. Bosnia’s conflict was born out of the collapse of Yugoslavia, a nation which itself was created out of the ashes of World War One. The EU was formed as an attempt to ensure that such a Europe-wide conflict would never happen again, and that democracy would become the rule. Even the natural landscape was shaped in part by war, with the need for food security high in people’s minds. And yet it remains an open question whether the lessons of this turbulent past have really been learned.  A few thousand miles away from his original home in Vienna, Hilary Andersson spoke to a man who witnessed perhaps the worst of Europe’s modern history. Lying in hospital, just days from death, he shared his memories of the Nazis, and his fear that the value and fragility of democracy risks being forgotten.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2021 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1734</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b2my4n.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b2my4n.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0b2my4n.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0b2mz72</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b2mz72</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b2my4n.mp3" fileSize="27744000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1734"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0b2mz72</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Can the world reach a deal?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>All eyes are on the COP summit on climate change, its delegates charged with the task of limiting CO2 emissions for decades to come. The mood music beforehand has not been positive, but then this summit represents one of the greatest challenges of all times in terms of diplomacy: persuading many countries to take a short-term economic hit, in return for the long term, greater good of the planet. This would be a tough call at any time, but the times now seem particularly challenging for reaching agreement, according to James Landale. He was at the G20 summit of wealthy nations which has just finished in Rome, a prelude to the COP event. He says even there, it was clear that multilateral cooperation is just not in vogue at the moment.</p><p>India has a reputation as a country where families of the rich and famous are particularly protected from misfortune, not having to play by the same rules as lesser mortals. However, it seems that now depends on what kind of fame and wealth you are related to. This has been brought to the fore by two recent criminal cases. On the one hand, there is the son of a Bollywood film star, caught up in allegations of drug possession. On the other hand is the story of a government minister's son. His car apparently ploughed into a group of protestors, killing eight. It is what happened next that has made these cases front page news in India. The actor’s son was locked up straight away, despite his apparently plausible protestations of innocence. Meanwhile it took almost a week for the Minister’s son even to be arrested. Geeta Pandey has been following the twists and turns of this murky story.</p><p>The rich and famous of Europe also have their privileges, not least the expensive spots they go to on holiday. Among these is Monte Carlo, popular particularly with those who not only have plenty of cash, but also a yacht that needs berthing. The capital city of tiny little Monaco has always pulled in such big-wigs, but it seems these visitors are now very much a reason that other visitors come. Because while some choose safaris for a holiday, to see wild animals, in Monaco, it’s the wealthy people and their lifestyles which other people come to see, says Felicity Hannah.</p><p>International summits may be tough going for negotiators, as we suggested above, but they do at least give world leaders a brief break from their troubles back home. Prime Ministers and Presidents get to strut their stuff on the world stage, talking about major issues like climate change. Just for a few days, they don’t have to think so much about how to run public services, for example, or whether voters will approve of new regulations they’ve introduced to control playground safety in nursery schools. Instead, it is the big stuff they can focus on. And yet, some of those who went to Glasgow will have found it hard to forget the home front. Take the US President, Joseph Biden. Less than a year after being elected, his poll ratings are not good . This week his Democratic Party lost a crucial Governor’s election in Virginia, a vote which many commentators believe expressed popular disaffection with the President and his record. Anthony Zurcher has been travelling with Joseph Biden this past week, and has also been talking to some of his heartland electorate back home.</p><p>It is not easy finding places for astronauts to train. Some of the original Apollo team who went to the moon practised under-water, to get a taste of weightlessness. They also went to the Arizona desert, to experience a barren landscape that would be similar to the moon’s. What you might not expect is to find a team of trainee space adventurers coming to a small, medieval town in southern Germany. Certainly this was not the kind of company Andrew Eames expected to be keeping.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Leaders have gathered for the COP summit, but is the world in a mood for global deals?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>All eyes are on the COP summit on climate change, its delegates charged with the task of limiting CO2 emissions for decades to come. The mood music beforehand has not been positive, but then this summit represents one of the greatest challenges of all times in terms of diplomacy: persuading many countries to take a short-term economic hit, in return for the long term, greater good of the planet. This would be a tough call at any time, but the times now seem particularly challenging for reaching agreement, according to James Landale. He was at the G20 summit of wealthy nations which has just finished in Rome, a prelude to the COP event. He says even there, it was clear that multilateral cooperation is just not in vogue at the moment.</p><p>India has a reputation as a country where families of the rich and famous are particularly protected from misfortune, not having to play by the same rules as lesser mortals. However, it seems that now depends on what kind of fame and wealth you are related to. This has been brought to the fore by two recent criminal cases. On the one hand, there is the son of a Bollywood film star, caught up in allegations of drug possession. On the other hand is the story of a government minister's son. His car apparently ploughed into a group of protestors, killing eight. It is what happened next that has made these cases front page news in India. The actor’s son was locked up straight away, despite his apparently plausible protestations of innocence. Meanwhile it took almost a week for the Minister’s son even to be arrested. Geeta Pandey has been following the twists and turns of this murky story.</p><p>The rich and famous of Europe also have their privileges, not least the expensive spots they go to on holiday. Among these is Monte Carlo, popular particularly with those who not only have plenty of cash, but also a yacht that needs berthing. The capital city of tiny little Monaco has always pulled in such big-wigs, but it seems these visitors are now very much a reason that other visitors come. Because while some choose safaris for a holiday, to see wild animals, in Monaco, it’s the wealthy people and their lifestyles which other people come to see, says Felicity Hannah.</p><p>International summits may be tough going for negotiators, as we suggested above, but they do at least give world leaders a brief break from their troubles back home. Prime Ministers and Presidents get to strut their stuff on the world stage, talking about major issues like climate change. Just for a few days, they don’t have to think so much about how to run public services, for example, or whether voters will approve of new regulations they’ve introduced to control playground safety in nursery schools. Instead, it is the big stuff they can focus on. And yet, some of those who went to Glasgow will have found it hard to forget the home front. Take the US President, Joseph Biden. Less than a year after being elected, his poll ratings are not good . This week his Democratic Party lost a crucial Governor’s election in Virginia, a vote which many commentators believe expressed popular disaffection with the President and his record. Anthony Zurcher has been travelling with Joseph Biden this past week, and has also been talking to some of his heartland electorate back home.</p><p>It is not easy finding places for astronauts to train. Some of the original Apollo team who went to the moon practised under-water, to get a taste of weightlessness. They also went to the Arizona desert, to experience a barren landscape that would be similar to the moon’s. What you might not expect is to find a team of trainee space adventurers coming to a small, medieval town in southern Germany. Certainly this was not the kind of company Andrew Eames expected to be keeping.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2021 14:56:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1702</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b2891q.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b2891q.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0b2891q.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0b28sn6</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b28sn6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b2891q.mp3" fileSize="27232000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1702"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0b28sn6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Children for sale: Afghanistan's desperate and impoverished</title><description><![CDATA[<p>There have been reports from Afghanistan of people so desperate for food they have been selling their own children to raise the money they need. Our correspondent Yogita Lemaye was initially sceptical mood as she investigated whether locals really were trading their sons and daughters for cash - and what would then happen to them.</p><p>For many years, Andrew Roy has been dispatching BBC correspondents around the world, most recently in his role as head of foreign newsgathering. He is about to leave the BBC, and warns that he is doing so at a time when there is more effort than ever being made to stop journalists doing their jobs. This might be military dictators wielding the threat of imprisonment, or democratically-elected governments using more subtle means of obstruction.</p><p>World leaders are gathering for a two week summit in Glasgow, with an aim no less ambitious than saving the planet from the harmful effects of climate change. One problem which climate change is predicted to cause is an increase in flooding; warmer air can hold more water, which will eventually fall as heavier rain. That is exactly what has just happened in the South Indian state of Kerala. Raijini Vaidyanathan has seen the destruction there.</p><p>Should we still be burning witches? There are also plenty of light-hearted celebrations where effigies of witches are burned, or simply paraded as figures of fun. Some feel this trivialises a horrific part of Europe’s history. Germany was at one point the European witch-finder capital. And it is there that Sally Howard has regularly travelled at Halloween, to watch celebrations which have become highly contentious.</p><p>On Broadway in New York, theatres have been closed for more than a year, and although they are starting to open again, they are doing so with strict, covid-related regulations in place. The writer John O’Farrell could have had no idea that all this was coming, when he was asked several years ago, to script a stage musical version of the film Mrs Doubtfire. Now the production has finally had its opening night, but it was a long road to get there.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Afghan parents in the west of the country have been selling their children to buy food.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>There have been reports from Afghanistan of people so desperate for food they have been selling their own children to raise the money they need. Our correspondent Yogita Lemaye was initially sceptical mood as she investigated whether locals really were trading their sons and daughters for cash - and what would then happen to them.</p><p>For many years, Andrew Roy has been dispatching BBC correspondents around the world, most recently in his role as head of foreign newsgathering. He is about to leave the BBC, and warns that he is doing so at a time when there is more effort than ever being made to stop journalists doing their jobs. This might be military dictators wielding the threat of imprisonment, or democratically-elected governments using more subtle means of obstruction.</p><p>World leaders are gathering for a two week summit in Glasgow, with an aim no less ambitious than saving the planet from the harmful effects of climate change. One problem which climate change is predicted to cause is an increase in flooding; warmer air can hold more water, which will eventually fall as heavier rain. That is exactly what has just happened in the South Indian state of Kerala. Raijini Vaidyanathan has seen the destruction there.</p><p>Should we still be burning witches? There are also plenty of light-hearted celebrations where effigies of witches are burned, or simply paraded as figures of fun. Some feel this trivialises a horrific part of Europe’s history. Germany was at one point the European witch-finder capital. And it is there that Sally Howard has regularly travelled at Halloween, to watch celebrations which have become highly contentious.</p><p>On Broadway in New York, theatres have been closed for more than a year, and although they are starting to open again, they are doing so with strict, covid-related regulations in place. The writer John O’Farrell could have had no idea that all this was coming, when he was asked several years ago, to script a stage musical version of the film Mrs Doubtfire. Now the production has finally had its opening night, but it was a long road to get there.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2021 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1707</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b18h55.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b18h55.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0b18h55.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0b18hzz</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b18hzz</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b18h55.mp3" fileSize="27312000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1707"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0b18hzz</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Sudan's coup: democracy delayed again</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Sudan has this week experienced yet another military coup, with generals seizing power, locking up elected officials and declaring a state of emergency. They insist this was all done in order to help the country move towards democracy; they have promised elections, though not until 2023. It is only two years since a popular uprising overthrew Sudan’s long-term autocratic leader, Omar Al-Bashir, and some hoped this would finally usher in an era of democratic rule. But as Andrew Harding explains, these hopes now seem remote.</p><p>A long way southwards from Sudan, on the continent's Atlantic tip, there is a country where in some ways, democracy is thriving. South Africa has lively political debate, a diverse media scene, and elections which are broadly seen as free and fair. The country is about to hold another round of local council elections next week, and this was precisely what many people fought, and indeed died for in South Africa. Under the previous, apartheid system, only white people could vote for the country’s councils and parliament, while the majority had no say. Among those who campaigned against apartheid was the British writer, Gregory Mthembu- Salter, who is now living in South Africa, and married to a wife from Kwazulu-Natal , who also played a role in that struggle. So it came as quite a shock to Greg and his wife, when they found that the idea of voting just wasn’t very important…for their own son.</p><p>As Britain gets stuck into autumn, there is a new chill in the air. Meanwhile, on the Spanish island of Ibiza right now, temperatures are in the twenties - a little cloudy at times, but with plenty of sunshine along the way. Good weather is one of the many things which have long attracted tourists to Ibiza, its popularity going stratospheric from the late 1980s onwards. Of course, Ibiza, like other tourist destinations, has been badly hit by Covid and the consequent curbs on travel, with hotels sat empty and restaurants deserted. People are now returning to the island for holidays, but as Kate Spicer found, lockdown has exposed what were always huge social-divisions – divisions which have left some people impoverished.</p><p>Covid has hit every aspect of people’s lives: in Paraguay, and some other Latin American countries, there is a long tradition of passing round a special communal cup of the local tea, called “mate,” which is usually drunk from through a shared straw. However, in these days of infection aversity, most tend to drink mate from their own cup. That said, it remains hugely popular, and mate also continues to be an important crop for many farmers. In Paraguay though, mate growers increasingly find themselves competing for land with large-scale agricultural companies. These see more profit to be made from growing soy, which they can then sell as animal feed. William Costa has been to meet some of the mate farmers feeling the pressure.</p><p>The newly-cold weather mentioned above will have seen many people digging out jumpers from the back of drawers, and perhaps pulling coats from hangers which have not moved for the last few months. This is a regular, annual, albeit rather banal aspect of the seasons changing. Not so in Italy, where the swapping round of one’s wardrobe has all the qualities of a ritual: out with spring and summer clothes, in with those for autumn and winter, and with plenty of traditional practices to mark the occasion. Dany Mitzman has lived in Italy for more than two decades, so you might think she’d be used to these customs. Yet once again this year, she has been left scratching her head at the sight of so much ceremony for the simple matter of switching thongs for thermals.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A general has seized power in Sudan, with people protesting against yet another coup</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Sudan has this week experienced yet another military coup, with generals seizing power, locking up elected officials and declaring a state of emergency. They insist this was all done in order to help the country move towards democracy; they have promised elections, though not until 2023. It is only two years since a popular uprising overthrew Sudan’s long-term autocratic leader, Omar Al-Bashir, and some hoped this would finally usher in an era of democratic rule. But as Andrew Harding explains, these hopes now seem remote.</p><p>A long way southwards from Sudan, on the continent's Atlantic tip, there is a country where in some ways, democracy is thriving. South Africa has lively political debate, a diverse media scene, and elections which are broadly seen as free and fair. The country is about to hold another round of local council elections next week, and this was precisely what many people fought, and indeed died for in South Africa. Under the previous, apartheid system, only white people could vote for the country’s councils and parliament, while the majority had no say. Among those who campaigned against apartheid was the British writer, Gregory Mthembu- Salter, who is now living in South Africa, and married to a wife from Kwazulu-Natal , who also played a role in that struggle. So it came as quite a shock to Greg and his wife, when they found that the idea of voting just wasn’t very important…for their own son.</p><p>As Britain gets stuck into autumn, there is a new chill in the air. Meanwhile, on the Spanish island of Ibiza right now, temperatures are in the twenties - a little cloudy at times, but with plenty of sunshine along the way. Good weather is one of the many things which have long attracted tourists to Ibiza, its popularity going stratospheric from the late 1980s onwards. Of course, Ibiza, like other tourist destinations, has been badly hit by Covid and the consequent curbs on travel, with hotels sat empty and restaurants deserted. People are now returning to the island for holidays, but as Kate Spicer found, lockdown has exposed what were always huge social-divisions – divisions which have left some people impoverished.</p><p>Covid has hit every aspect of people’s lives: in Paraguay, and some other Latin American countries, there is a long tradition of passing round a special communal cup of the local tea, called “mate,” which is usually drunk from through a shared straw. However, in these days of infection aversity, most tend to drink mate from their own cup. That said, it remains hugely popular, and mate also continues to be an important crop for many farmers. In Paraguay though, mate growers increasingly find themselves competing for land with large-scale agricultural companies. These see more profit to be made from growing soy, which they can then sell as animal feed. William Costa has been to meet some of the mate farmers feeling the pressure.</p><p>The newly-cold weather mentioned above will have seen many people digging out jumpers from the back of drawers, and perhaps pulling coats from hangers which have not moved for the last few months. This is a regular, annual, albeit rather banal aspect of the seasons changing. Not so in Italy, where the swapping round of one’s wardrobe has all the qualities of a ritual: out with spring and summer clothes, in with those for autumn and winter, and with plenty of traditional practices to mark the occasion. Dany Mitzman has lived in Italy for more than two decades, so you might think she’d be used to these customs. Yet once again this year, she has been left scratching her head at the sight of so much ceremony for the simple matter of switching thongs for thermals.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1725</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b0vy4k.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b0vy4k.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0b0vy4k.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0b0vyzt</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b0vyzt</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b0vy4k.mp3" fileSize="27600000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1725"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0b0vyzt</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Eric Zemmour: France's new right wing contender</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The French political scene has a new kid on the block, or one might say, a new veteran. Eric Zemmour is his name, not one familiar in the UK, but Zemmour has long been well known in his own country as a right-wing television presenter. His controversial pronouncements on race, religion and immigration have in the past got him into legal trouble, but now he appears to be flirting with the idea of standing to be president. Until now, the French far-right scene has been dominated by one political party – indeed you might say, by one family. The Front National was founded nearly fifty years ago by Jean-Marie Le Pen. His daughter Marine then took over its leadership, though she changed the party’s name to “National Rally.” Ms Le Pen had been seen as a serious challenger for the French presidency, in elections to be held next year. Yet some think she’s now being eclipsed by Mr Zemmour. Lucy Williamson went to see him in action:</p><p>It looks like Joseph Biden will not be allowed to forget the way US troops departed from Afghanistan, leaving the country to fall quickly into Taliban hands again. Rightly or wrongly, it’s likely to be a millstone round the president’s neck, should Mr Biden seek re-election in three years’ time. That is a very different state of affairs to the way Afghanistan is talked about in Russia these days, or rather not talked about. Military parades there tend to focus on the Soviet Union’s victory in World War Two, while some politicians like to boast about more a more recent conflict, Russia’s invasion and occupation of Crimea in 2014. Far less is said about how Soviet tanks rolled into Afghanistan in 1979, only for troops to pull out a decade later, defeated and demoralised. And this silence has proved hard for those Russians who served in Afghanistan, or who lost friends and family there. Now, a new exhibition is allowing veterans of the conflict to express through art the trauma they suffered. Francis Scarr went along to see it:</p><p>As a health correspondent for the BBC, Tulip Mazumdar has reported on medical problems around the world, and one she has seen plenty of is women suffering miscarriages. It is a loss whose seriousness is often not recognised, with many women suffering a form of grief every bit as serious as when a living person dies. And it’s a common problem too; in the UK, it has been estimated that a quarter of pregnancies are lost. However, knowing all this, and having reported on it for many years, could not have prepared Tulip for the many miscarriages she herself went on to suffer, and which she frankly admits, she is still struggling to come to terms with.</p><p>People do sometimes hold funerals for babies who are miscarried or still-born. But whether for a child or an adult, funerals serve many purposes: they allow people to express publicly their grief, in the company of friends and families who are there to support them. They may be an opportunity to look back on the life of the person who died, and to recall what they meant to those who knew them. What you do not expect is for funerals to provide the chance for a quick buck to be made, and yet that’s exactly what happens in parts of eastern Nigeria. And it’s not just funerals, weddings too may be targeted by extortionists, unwilling to allow the proceedings to go ahead, unless they are paid off. It is something Olivia Ndubuisi has seen for herself:</p><p>We all need a break now and then, and that might involve a holiday. But is that something you would grant to prisoners? That is exactly what happens in parts of Brazil, where occupants of the country’s jails are given occasional home leave. You might think this sounds absurdly indulgent, the sign of a country that has gone soft on those who break the law. In fact, Brazil’s prisons are notoriously harsh, with assault and murder common. The actual purpose of giving prisoners a break from their sentence is to encourage them not to end up back there, after they’re released, as Andrew Downie discovered.</p><p>For details of organisations which offer advice and support with pregnancy related issues, go online to bbc.co.uk/actionline.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>France has a new contender for the presidency: controversial TV presenter Eric Zemmour</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The French political scene has a new kid on the block, or one might say, a new veteran. Eric Zemmour is his name, not one familiar in the UK, but Zemmour has long been well known in his own country as a right-wing television presenter. His controversial pronouncements on race, religion and immigration have in the past got him into legal trouble, but now he appears to be flirting with the idea of standing to be president. Until now, the French far-right scene has been dominated by one political party – indeed you might say, by one family. The Front National was founded nearly fifty years ago by Jean-Marie Le Pen. His daughter Marine then took over its leadership, though she changed the party’s name to “National Rally.” Ms Le Pen had been seen as a serious challenger for the French presidency, in elections to be held next year. Yet some think she’s now being eclipsed by Mr Zemmour. Lucy Williamson went to see him in action:</p><p>It looks like Joseph Biden will not be allowed to forget the way US troops departed from Afghanistan, leaving the country to fall quickly into Taliban hands again. Rightly or wrongly, it’s likely to be a millstone round the president’s neck, should Mr Biden seek re-election in three years’ time. That is a very different state of affairs to the way Afghanistan is talked about in Russia these days, or rather not talked about. Military parades there tend to focus on the Soviet Union’s victory in World War Two, while some politicians like to boast about more a more recent conflict, Russia’s invasion and occupation of Crimea in 2014. Far less is said about how Soviet tanks rolled into Afghanistan in 1979, only for troops to pull out a decade later, defeated and demoralised. And this silence has proved hard for those Russians who served in Afghanistan, or who lost friends and family there. Now, a new exhibition is allowing veterans of the conflict to express through art the trauma they suffered. Francis Scarr went along to see it:</p><p>As a health correspondent for the BBC, Tulip Mazumdar has reported on medical problems around the world, and one she has seen plenty of is women suffering miscarriages. It is a loss whose seriousness is often not recognised, with many women suffering a form of grief every bit as serious as when a living person dies. And it’s a common problem too; in the UK, it has been estimated that a quarter of pregnancies are lost. However, knowing all this, and having reported on it for many years, could not have prepared Tulip for the many miscarriages she herself went on to suffer, and which she frankly admits, she is still struggling to come to terms with.</p><p>People do sometimes hold funerals for babies who are miscarried or still-born. But whether for a child or an adult, funerals serve many purposes: they allow people to express publicly their grief, in the company of friends and families who are there to support them. They may be an opportunity to look back on the life of the person who died, and to recall what they meant to those who knew them. What you do not expect is for funerals to provide the chance for a quick buck to be made, and yet that’s exactly what happens in parts of eastern Nigeria. And it’s not just funerals, weddings too may be targeted by extortionists, unwilling to allow the proceedings to go ahead, unless they are paid off. It is something Olivia Ndubuisi has seen for herself:</p><p>We all need a break now and then, and that might involve a holiday. But is that something you would grant to prisoners? That is exactly what happens in parts of Brazil, where occupants of the country’s jails are given occasional home leave. You might think this sounds absurdly indulgent, the sign of a country that has gone soft on those who break the law. In fact, Brazil’s prisons are notoriously harsh, with assault and murder common. The actual purpose of giving prisoners a break from their sentence is to encourage them not to end up back there, after they’re released, as Andrew Downie discovered.</p><p>For details of organisations which offer advice and support with pregnancy related issues, go online to bbc.co.uk/actionline.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2021 11:03:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1713</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09zw4t5.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09zw4t5.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09zw4t5.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09zw538</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09zw538</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09zw4t5.mp3" fileSize="27408000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1713"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09zw538</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Nostalgia For Gaddafi</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Libya has been marking an anniversary of sorts this week: ten years since the dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was killed, having been toppled from power as part of the Arab Spring. Since then, elections have been held, and a much-delayed election for a new President is due at the end of this year. But few have much faith in this process. Whole swathes of Libya are beyond the control of the national government in Tripoli. So it’s perhaps not surprising in these circumstances that some Libyans are nostalgic for the days of Gaddafi’s rule, despite the human rights abuses which took place. Among those who remain loyal is the man who was once Gaddafi’s advisor, and sometime interpreter. Tim Whewell has been talking to him.</p><p>Democracy in Libya may be very much a work in progress, but here in Europe, there are some who feel that long-standing democracies are also being threatened. The murder in Britain of the MP, David Amess was described by many as an attack on democracy itself. And that suggestion had echoes from a recent killing in the</p><p>Peter De Vries was famous as an investigative reporter in the Netherlands. He ignored repeated threats to his life, while he bravely uncovered the power of international criminals. This week, two men went on trial in Amsterdam, accused of murdering him. It was an act the Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, said was “an attack on the free journalism so essential for our democracy". But then Mr Rutte has himself had to change his habit of cycling alone through Holland’s streets, because he too has received death threats. Anna Holligan reports.</p><p>During its twenty year presence in Afghanistan, American troops brought in billions of dollars’ worth of gear, and quite a lot of it seems to have found its way into the hands of smugglers, who brought it across the border to neighbouring Pakistan. Some of it is still sold furtively in small towns, but one Lahore shopkeeper is making a good living by selling very openly this stolen US Army equipment. Ironically, he considers himself an implacable enemy of all things American, and a supporter of the Taleban. Ali Kazmi went to meet him.</p><p>With just days to go until the COP26 summit on climate change, there’s ever more pressure being applied to countries to explain how they propose to get to net zero or in other words, how to reach the point where they do not contribute any net carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. They’re being encouraged both to set targets, and to outline what measures they will introduce to reach them. But there’s an island in Denmark which has already gone one stage further and become “carbon positive.” Ritula Shah went to Samsoe to find out how they've done it.</p><p>When you think of ancient mummies, you might think of Egypt, with its famously preserved pharoes and other leading lights of that ancient civilisation. In fact, the oldest mummies in the world were discovered in Chile. They were discovered in 1917 by a German archaeologist, but it took decades for the mummies to be correctly dated, and identified as part of the Chinchorro civilisation. And they’re still not on the tourist map, the way that the pyramids and their long dead occupants are. Jane Chambers travelled into the heart of what was once Chinchorro country, to see the mummies for herself.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Ten years after his death, some in Libya mourn the loss of Muammar Gaddafi</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Libya has been marking an anniversary of sorts this week: ten years since the dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was killed, having been toppled from power as part of the Arab Spring. Since then, elections have been held, and a much-delayed election for a new President is due at the end of this year. But few have much faith in this process. Whole swathes of Libya are beyond the control of the national government in Tripoli. So it’s perhaps not surprising in these circumstances that some Libyans are nostalgic for the days of Gaddafi’s rule, despite the human rights abuses which took place. Among those who remain loyal is the man who was once Gaddafi’s advisor, and sometime interpreter. Tim Whewell has been talking to him.</p><p>Democracy in Libya may be very much a work in progress, but here in Europe, there are some who feel that long-standing democracies are also being threatened. The murder in Britain of the MP, David Amess was described by many as an attack on democracy itself. And that suggestion had echoes from a recent killing in the</p><p>Peter De Vries was famous as an investigative reporter in the Netherlands. He ignored repeated threats to his life, while he bravely uncovered the power of international criminals. This week, two men went on trial in Amsterdam, accused of murdering him. It was an act the Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, said was “an attack on the free journalism so essential for our democracy". But then Mr Rutte has himself had to change his habit of cycling alone through Holland’s streets, because he too has received death threats. Anna Holligan reports.</p><p>During its twenty year presence in Afghanistan, American troops brought in billions of dollars’ worth of gear, and quite a lot of it seems to have found its way into the hands of smugglers, who brought it across the border to neighbouring Pakistan. Some of it is still sold furtively in small towns, but one Lahore shopkeeper is making a good living by selling very openly this stolen US Army equipment. Ironically, he considers himself an implacable enemy of all things American, and a supporter of the Taleban. Ali Kazmi went to meet him.</p><p>With just days to go until the COP26 summit on climate change, there’s ever more pressure being applied to countries to explain how they propose to get to net zero or in other words, how to reach the point where they do not contribute any net carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. They’re being encouraged both to set targets, and to outline what measures they will introduce to reach them. But there’s an island in Denmark which has already gone one stage further and become “carbon positive.” Ritula Shah went to Samsoe to find out how they've done it.</p><p>When you think of ancient mummies, you might think of Egypt, with its famously preserved pharoes and other leading lights of that ancient civilisation. In fact, the oldest mummies in the world were discovered in Chile. They were discovered in 1917 by a German archaeologist, but it took decades for the mummies to be correctly dated, and identified as part of the Chinchorro civilisation. And they’re still not on the tourist map, the way that the pyramids and their long dead occupants are. Jane Chambers travelled into the heart of what was once Chinchorro country, to see the mummies for herself.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2021 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1727</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09zf3s3.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09zf3s3.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09zf3s3.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09zf7nw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09zf7nw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09zf3s3.mp3" fileSize="27632000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1727"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09zf7nw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Disillusion in Iraq</title><description><![CDATA[<p>When western troops overthrew Saddam Hussein, the argument was that this would turn Iraq from a dictatorship into a democracy. And they have indeed held elections there; the latest vote for a new Iraqi parliament took place last Sunday. Yet when it comes to actually voting, tribal and religious affiliation appear to have trumped any ideological leanings, and with a heavy dose of apathy and disillusionment thrown in, says Lizzie Porter.</p><p>As with Iraq, Japan also faces much disillusionment with democratic politics. The last election saw only a little over half the voting population turn out, and it’s not hard to see why: in almost every single contest, the same party has won. Now, the Liberal Democrat Party has chosen a new leader, and he automatically became interim prime minister, pending a general election later this month. It is an election nobody expects him to lose, but was the country’s new leader welcomed with great excitement and fanfare? Hardly, says Rupert Wingfield-Hayes:</p><p>According to mythology, Rome was founded by a pair of twins who had been raised by wolves. But Romulus and Remus might have been surprised to know that in the early Twenty First Century, the “eternal city” would have wild wolves spotted near its airport. Meanwhile wild boars and other animals have been stalking the streets, feasting on the rubbish that sits uncollected. It’s all just one sign of the extent to which Rome has not been particularly well run in recent years, maladministration and the mafia making easy bedfellows. Tomorrow, Romans will have the chance to choose a new mayor, hoping they save the city from this plight. Italian politics is, of course, often rather colourful, and the two remaining candidates in this contest are a radio star with links to the far right, and a former Economics Minister, who has attempted to seduce voters by serenading them with a bit of bosa nova guitar. Watching this spectacle is long-term Rome resident, Joanna Robertson.</p><p>Someone once said that when it came to British politics, there had only been three issues in recent elections: Brexit, Brexit and Brexit. This was not a subject that other countries necessarily wanted to focus on, most governments having enough challenges of their own to think about. Yet, for the Republic of Ireland, the UK’s rows over Europe were always going to make their mark; the country has so much trade with Britain, as well as an open border with Northern Ireland. Emma Vardy says that the latest developments in the Brexit saga, have left Irish people exasperated, and also rather sad.</p><p>It was the writer William Faulkner who famously said “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” That’s something which another writer, Colin Freeman, discovered, when he visited Ukraine this month. He was there to hear about a new memorial and museum for the “Babi Yar” massacre, an atrocity which took place in 1941. German Nazi occupiers shot dead more than thirty thousand Jews there, and later, would use the same site to kill gay people, prisoners of war, and the mentally ill - some of the worst mass shootings in human history. Plans for a new museum about the massacres have been underway for some time, but it’s a development, which Colin Freeman say,s tells us much about present day Ukraine, as well as about the moment in history being commemorated.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Iraq's election: disillusion, apathy and sectarian voting</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>When western troops overthrew Saddam Hussein, the argument was that this would turn Iraq from a dictatorship into a democracy. And they have indeed held elections there; the latest vote for a new Iraqi parliament took place last Sunday. Yet when it comes to actually voting, tribal and religious affiliation appear to have trumped any ideological leanings, and with a heavy dose of apathy and disillusionment thrown in, says Lizzie Porter.</p><p>As with Iraq, Japan also faces much disillusionment with democratic politics. The last election saw only a little over half the voting population turn out, and it’s not hard to see why: in almost every single contest, the same party has won. Now, the Liberal Democrat Party has chosen a new leader, and he automatically became interim prime minister, pending a general election later this month. It is an election nobody expects him to lose, but was the country’s new leader welcomed with great excitement and fanfare? Hardly, says Rupert Wingfield-Hayes:</p><p>According to mythology, Rome was founded by a pair of twins who had been raised by wolves. But Romulus and Remus might have been surprised to know that in the early Twenty First Century, the “eternal city” would have wild wolves spotted near its airport. Meanwhile wild boars and other animals have been stalking the streets, feasting on the rubbish that sits uncollected. It’s all just one sign of the extent to which Rome has not been particularly well run in recent years, maladministration and the mafia making easy bedfellows. Tomorrow, Romans will have the chance to choose a new mayor, hoping they save the city from this plight. Italian politics is, of course, often rather colourful, and the two remaining candidates in this contest are a radio star with links to the far right, and a former Economics Minister, who has attempted to seduce voters by serenading them with a bit of bosa nova guitar. Watching this spectacle is long-term Rome resident, Joanna Robertson.</p><p>Someone once said that when it came to British politics, there had only been three issues in recent elections: Brexit, Brexit and Brexit. This was not a subject that other countries necessarily wanted to focus on, most governments having enough challenges of their own to think about. Yet, for the Republic of Ireland, the UK’s rows over Europe were always going to make their mark; the country has so much trade with Britain, as well as an open border with Northern Ireland. Emma Vardy says that the latest developments in the Brexit saga, have left Irish people exasperated, and also rather sad.</p><p>It was the writer William Faulkner who famously said “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” That’s something which another writer, Colin Freeman, discovered, when he visited Ukraine this month. He was there to hear about a new memorial and museum for the “Babi Yar” massacre, an atrocity which took place in 1941. German Nazi occupiers shot dead more than thirty thousand Jews there, and later, would use the same site to kill gay people, prisoners of war, and the mentally ill - some of the worst mass shootings in human history. Plans for a new museum about the massacres have been underway for some time, but it’s a development, which Colin Freeman say,s tells us much about present day Ukraine, as well as about the moment in history being commemorated.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2021 11:03:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1723</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09yvv8w.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09yvv8w.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09yvv8w.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09yvvch</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09yvvch</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09yvv8w.mp3" fileSize="27568000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1723"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09yvvch</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Drug dealing, murder and gentrification: the persisting contrasts of Marseille</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stories from France, Burkina Faso, Tajikistan, Austria and Turkey.</p><p>It's fifty years since the release of “The French Connection,” a fast-moving cops and gangsters thriller, which focused attention on Marseille, and the drug dealers based there. Half a century on, much has changed in this southern French city; some areas have been gentrified, while the port has had a substantial makeover. And yet, the presence of the drug trade remains, and now the French President has stepped in. With a wave of drug related killings in Marseille this year, Emmanuel Macron is paying a high profile visit, promising to help tackle these problems. Chris Bockman explains that many there feel they’ve heard it all before: </p><p>He was known as “Africa’s Che,” and like Che Guevara, Thomas Sankara died young at the hands of gunmen who apparently took exception to his leftist policies. Yet Sankara was no jungle guerrilla – he was the President of Burkina Faso. And he was killed during a coup in the West African nation. Thirty-four years later, fourteen men have gone on trial, accused of complicity in that assassination. It’s hard to overstate what Sankara meant for Burkina Faso, and indeed for supporters across Africa and the wider world. He was credited with vast improvements in literacy, giving land to the poor, and above all, with instilling a pride among his people – he rejected continuing French influence in the region. Yet critics insist that Sankara was an autocrat, one who had his opponents tortured, and sometimes killed. Henry Wilkins has been trying to separate the man from the myth:</p><p>The fate of Afghanistan continues to be a source of concern round the world. The country is facing financial disaster, with shortages of basic goods like food, and it’s also suffered repeated attacks by the militant group which calls itself Islamic State Khorasan. Last week, forty-six people died in a bombing which Islamic State claimed as one of theirs. This week, the United Nations held a special meeting, to try to work out how to give aid to Afghanistan, without it getting into the hands of the Taliban, now in charge of the country. All this instability is of particular concern to the countries bordering Afghanistan, like Russia, Pakistan, and also – to the north, Tajikistan. Tajikistan has had its own battles with Islamic militants. More than that, about a quarter of Afghans are of Tajik ethnicity, so problems in one country have a habit of spilling across the border. It’s a border well known to Abdujalil Abdurasulov, who has spent time reporting on both sides of it. He’s been thinking about what the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan might mean for its neighbour. </p><p>There was a time when Austria was seen as a hive of political intrigue. Back when the Hapsburgs ruled an empire, the plotting and manoeuvring at their palace in Vienna could affect half of Europe. Then, after the Second World War, Austria’s neutral status between the west and the Soviet bloc made it a base for many a spy and secret agent. Things had appeared to calm down – the country became known for its skiing and strudel more than any Machiavellian goings on. But now, it seems, the intrigue is back. This week, Austria’s youthful Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz had to step down, following accusations that he had bribed a tabloid newspaper to get favourable coverage. This came only a few years after Mr Kurz’s one-time coalition partner was caught in a sting, apparently prepared to offer government contracts to a woman he thought represented Russian oligarchs. Feeling confused? Bethany Bell has been untangling this web of allegations:</p><p>Wherever there’s mass tourism, you will find the escort industry flourishing, selling very personal services, and Turkey is no different. The‘gigolos’ as they’re known there offer these services to men and women. And just like other people dependent on tourism, they’ve been badly hit by the coronavirus lockdown, which saw the number of foreign visitors to Turkey plummet – as Sally Howard explains</p><p>Producer: Paul Moss</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>France's President Macron heads to Marseille, as the city is hit by new gangland violence</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stories from France, Burkina Faso, Tajikistan, Austria and Turkey.</p><p>It's fifty years since the release of “The French Connection,” a fast-moving cops and gangsters thriller, which focused attention on Marseille, and the drug dealers based there. Half a century on, much has changed in this southern French city; some areas have been gentrified, while the port has had a substantial makeover. And yet, the presence of the drug trade remains, and now the French President has stepped in. With a wave of drug related killings in Marseille this year, Emmanuel Macron is paying a high profile visit, promising to help tackle these problems. Chris Bockman explains that many there feel they’ve heard it all before: </p><p>He was known as “Africa’s Che,” and like Che Guevara, Thomas Sankara died young at the hands of gunmen who apparently took exception to his leftist policies. Yet Sankara was no jungle guerrilla – he was the President of Burkina Faso. And he was killed during a coup in the West African nation. Thirty-four years later, fourteen men have gone on trial, accused of complicity in that assassination. It’s hard to overstate what Sankara meant for Burkina Faso, and indeed for supporters across Africa and the wider world. He was credited with vast improvements in literacy, giving land to the poor, and above all, with instilling a pride among his people – he rejected continuing French influence in the region. Yet critics insist that Sankara was an autocrat, one who had his opponents tortured, and sometimes killed. Henry Wilkins has been trying to separate the man from the myth:</p><p>The fate of Afghanistan continues to be a source of concern round the world. The country is facing financial disaster, with shortages of basic goods like food, and it’s also suffered repeated attacks by the militant group which calls itself Islamic State Khorasan. Last week, forty-six people died in a bombing which Islamic State claimed as one of theirs. This week, the United Nations held a special meeting, to try to work out how to give aid to Afghanistan, without it getting into the hands of the Taliban, now in charge of the country. All this instability is of particular concern to the countries bordering Afghanistan, like Russia, Pakistan, and also – to the north, Tajikistan. Tajikistan has had its own battles with Islamic militants. More than that, about a quarter of Afghans are of Tajik ethnicity, so problems in one country have a habit of spilling across the border. It’s a border well known to Abdujalil Abdurasulov, who has spent time reporting on both sides of it. He’s been thinking about what the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan might mean for its neighbour. </p><p>There was a time when Austria was seen as a hive of political intrigue. Back when the Hapsburgs ruled an empire, the plotting and manoeuvring at their palace in Vienna could affect half of Europe. Then, after the Second World War, Austria’s neutral status between the west and the Soviet bloc made it a base for many a spy and secret agent. Things had appeared to calm down – the country became known for its skiing and strudel more than any Machiavellian goings on. But now, it seems, the intrigue is back. This week, Austria’s youthful Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz had to step down, following accusations that he had bribed a tabloid newspaper to get favourable coverage. This came only a few years after Mr Kurz’s one-time coalition partner was caught in a sting, apparently prepared to offer government contracts to a woman he thought represented Russian oligarchs. Feeling confused? Bethany Bell has been untangling this web of allegations:</p><p>Wherever there’s mass tourism, you will find the escort industry flourishing, selling very personal services, and Turkey is no different. The‘gigolos’ as they’re known there offer these services to men and women. And just like other people dependent on tourism, they’ve been badly hit by the coronavirus lockdown, which saw the number of foreign visitors to Turkey plummet – as Sally Howard explains</p><p>Producer: Paul Moss</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1726</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b2zypj.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b2zypj.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0b2zypj.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0b300df</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b300df</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0b2zypj.mp3" fileSize="27616000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1726"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0b300df</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Haitian Odyssey Across The Americas</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In recent weeks, images of thousands of Haitian migrants living in squalid conditions in a temporary camp in Texas have caused widespread shock and anger in the United States. US Border patrol agents on horseback forced many of them back across the Rio Grande into Mexico. Thousands more were deported back to Haiti, which is in the grip of its deepest economic and political crisis for years. The US Special Envoy to Haiti, Daniel Foote, resigned last month in protest at the Biden Administration’s deportations policy, which he described as “inhumane” and “counterproductive”. Some of the migrants say it was also arbitrary, with no clarity about the process deciding who made it into the US and who was sent home. Will Grant met two families, at the US-Mexico border and in Haiti, whose journeys north came to very different ends:</p><p>Last year, Thailand was rocked by student-led protests, which for the first time broke a taboo on criticising the monarchy. But the Thai government led by General Prayuth Chan-ocha fought back, using a raft of repressive laws to prosecute the protest leaders. Together with a rapid rise in Covid infections, that appeared to put a stop to the street rallies. The protest gatherings have now resumed but on a smaller scale. As Jonathan Head has been finding out, the heady optimism of the students last year has been replaced by a harder-edged realism over just how long it might take to reform Thailand’s politics.</p><p>Last weekend, thousands of people from 150 towns and cities across Brazil joined street protests against its President, Jair Bolsonaro. Many of them were angry about his handling of the pandemic which has killed at least 600,000 Brazilians so far. Not all the criticism is centred on Covid, though. Some of his former supporters are now calling for his resignation too – and their concerns are more ideological. The President is as combative as ever – and he still has control of Congress, though his public support has slumped to its lowest level yet in opinion polls. Katy Watson reports from Sao Paulo.</p><p>Questions about the future of coal have caused some of the deepest divisions in modern Australia. The debate may soon get even sharper as COP26 and other climate-change summits try to push rich nations to set a faster pace in giving up fossil fuels. Australia still uses coal to generate about 70% of its electricity, making it the most carbon-polluting nation per person in the world. As Phil Mercer explains, the country’s vast natural resources help fuel its domestic politics, as well as its power stations.</p><p>And the BBC’s new Middle East correspondent Anna Foster offers some personal first impressions of settling in to her posting to the Lebanese capital, Beirut - and of the extraordinary resilience which keeps the city's people going.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Migrants from Haiti cross the Americas; tales from Thailand, Brazil, Australia &amp; Lebanon</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In recent weeks, images of thousands of Haitian migrants living in squalid conditions in a temporary camp in Texas have caused widespread shock and anger in the United States. US Border patrol agents on horseback forced many of them back across the Rio Grande into Mexico. Thousands more were deported back to Haiti, which is in the grip of its deepest economic and political crisis for years. The US Special Envoy to Haiti, Daniel Foote, resigned last month in protest at the Biden Administration’s deportations policy, which he described as “inhumane” and “counterproductive”. Some of the migrants say it was also arbitrary, with no clarity about the process deciding who made it into the US and who was sent home. Will Grant met two families, at the US-Mexico border and in Haiti, whose journeys north came to very different ends:</p><p>Last year, Thailand was rocked by student-led protests, which for the first time broke a taboo on criticising the monarchy. But the Thai government led by General Prayuth Chan-ocha fought back, using a raft of repressive laws to prosecute the protest leaders. Together with a rapid rise in Covid infections, that appeared to put a stop to the street rallies. The protest gatherings have now resumed but on a smaller scale. As Jonathan Head has been finding out, the heady optimism of the students last year has been replaced by a harder-edged realism over just how long it might take to reform Thailand’s politics.</p><p>Last weekend, thousands of people from 150 towns and cities across Brazil joined street protests against its President, Jair Bolsonaro. Many of them were angry about his handling of the pandemic which has killed at least 600,000 Brazilians so far. Not all the criticism is centred on Covid, though. Some of his former supporters are now calling for his resignation too – and their concerns are more ideological. The President is as combative as ever – and he still has control of Congress, though his public support has slumped to its lowest level yet in opinion polls. Katy Watson reports from Sao Paulo.</p><p>Questions about the future of coal have caused some of the deepest divisions in modern Australia. The debate may soon get even sharper as COP26 and other climate-change summits try to push rich nations to set a faster pace in giving up fossil fuels. Australia still uses coal to generate about 70% of its electricity, making it the most carbon-polluting nation per person in the world. As Phil Mercer explains, the country’s vast natural resources help fuel its domestic politics, as well as its power stations.</p><p>And the BBC’s new Middle East correspondent Anna Foster offers some personal first impressions of settling in to her posting to the Lebanese capital, Beirut - and of the extraordinary resilience which keeps the city's people going.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2021 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1722</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09y63xn.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09y63xn.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09y63xn.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09y6400</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09y6400</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09y63xn.mp3" fileSize="27552000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1722"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09y6400</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Bumps in the road for the Czech Republic</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Czech election this week will decide whether embattled billionaire businessman Andrej Babis gets another four-year term as Prime Minister. He’s under pressure from new revelations in the Pandora papers – seeming to show that he was involved in the purchase of 16 properties on the French Riviera using offshore companies. Mr Babis has denied any wrongdoing: “I don’t own any property in France,” he said. “It’s nasty, false accusations that are meant to influence the election.” He has always governed in coalition – but he now faces a tough challenge from the centre-right opposition and also has the far-right nipping at his heels. So which way are the Czechs heading? Rob Cameron reports from Prague.</p><p>Over the past two months – like many international organisations - the BBC has been busy organising a way out of Afghanistan for many of its staff in the country and trying to get them to places of safety – in the UK and elsewhere. Karim Haidari was one of them. After a nerve-wracking three days spent waiting at Kabul airport, he and his family managed to fly out. They are now safe in Britain – but there’s a lot for him to think about as they try to start their lives again.</p><p>How can we feed the world – on a planet with finite resources and a growing number of people? Moreover, more of those people are eating more meat and fish – and those animals in turn need feeding, and protein, to grow. At the moment, soy and fishmeal are the main sources of protein for animal feed – but the demand for soy has been linked to deforestation in South America, while the fishmeal trade helps drive over-fishing in the oceans. So now manufacturers are looking for alternative sources of protein. The use of insects has been permitted in fish feed for years, but the European Union recently decided to allow them in poultry and pig feed too. Emilie Filou went to visit an ultra-modern bug farm in France where the animals they raise might be tiny, but the plans and the ambition are very big indeed.</p><p>The Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea have been settled for over seven thousand years –they’re full of Neolithic remains, showing how their earliest inhabitants hunted seals and birds there. But the islands have changed hands many times since then over their history – sometimes being treated as little more than bargaining chips by their larger neighbours. These days they enjoy a quirky – and carefully negotiated – sort of independence. Mark Stratton asked some of the islanders who they feel closest to in today’s Europe.</p><p>Smell and taste are the most intimate and evocative of the senses – with a startling power to transport us to other times and places. Reha Kansara recently explored some of her family history in Kenya – and part of her quest centred on a childhood favourite - the delicious potato fritter known as the Maru Bhajia. Would it taste as good in its birthplace in Nairobi? And what else was on the menu during her journeys into Kenya's past?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>PM Babis at bay; tales from the UK to Afghanistan, France, Kenya and the Aland islands</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Czech election this week will decide whether embattled billionaire businessman Andrej Babis gets another four-year term as Prime Minister. He’s under pressure from new revelations in the Pandora papers – seeming to show that he was involved in the purchase of 16 properties on the French Riviera using offshore companies. Mr Babis has denied any wrongdoing: “I don’t own any property in France,” he said. “It’s nasty, false accusations that are meant to influence the election.” He has always governed in coalition – but he now faces a tough challenge from the centre-right opposition and also has the far-right nipping at his heels. So which way are the Czechs heading? Rob Cameron reports from Prague.</p><p>Over the past two months – like many international organisations - the BBC has been busy organising a way out of Afghanistan for many of its staff in the country and trying to get them to places of safety – in the UK and elsewhere. Karim Haidari was one of them. After a nerve-wracking three days spent waiting at Kabul airport, he and his family managed to fly out. They are now safe in Britain – but there’s a lot for him to think about as they try to start their lives again.</p><p>How can we feed the world – on a planet with finite resources and a growing number of people? Moreover, more of those people are eating more meat and fish – and those animals in turn need feeding, and protein, to grow. At the moment, soy and fishmeal are the main sources of protein for animal feed – but the demand for soy has been linked to deforestation in South America, while the fishmeal trade helps drive over-fishing in the oceans. So now manufacturers are looking for alternative sources of protein. The use of insects has been permitted in fish feed for years, but the European Union recently decided to allow them in poultry and pig feed too. Emilie Filou went to visit an ultra-modern bug farm in France where the animals they raise might be tiny, but the plans and the ambition are very big indeed.</p><p>The Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea have been settled for over seven thousand years –they’re full of Neolithic remains, showing how their earliest inhabitants hunted seals and birds there. But the islands have changed hands many times since then over their history – sometimes being treated as little more than bargaining chips by their larger neighbours. These days they enjoy a quirky – and carefully negotiated – sort of independence. Mark Stratton asked some of the islanders who they feel closest to in today’s Europe.</p><p>Smell and taste are the most intimate and evocative of the senses – with a startling power to transport us to other times and places. Reha Kansara recently explored some of her family history in Kenya – and part of her quest centred on a childhood favourite - the delicious potato fritter known as the Maru Bhajia. Would it taste as good in its birthplace in Nairobi? And what else was on the menu during her journeys into Kenya's past?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1725</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09xz7bx.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09xz7bx.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09xz7bx.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09xz7v2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09xz7v2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09xz7bx.mp3" fileSize="27600000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1725"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09xz7v2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Silence Falls in Libya</title><description><![CDATA[<p>It's not easy to talk in Tripoli; Palestinian anger over Nizar Banat's death; the MH17 trial in the Netherlands; Rwandan forces in Mozambique; a number plate dispute in the Balkans
  786. In Libya, the promise of a new dawn after the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime a decade ago now seems to ring hollow. After its revolution came civil war – as militias proliferated and fought for control. For more than six years the country was split between rival administrations in the east and west. There’s been a ceasefire since last year, and an internationally-brokered unity government is now installed. Elections are planned for December. Daily life for Libyans hasn’t got much easier though. There are still frequent electricity blackouts, high unemployment – and regular street protests. But Tim Whewell was more struck by a sense of creeping silence.</p><p>In Ramallah, a military trial has begun this for 14 members of the Palestinian security forces, charged in connection with the death of a prominent critic of the president. Nizar Banat – who was known for his outspoken Facebook posts alleging corruption among the Palestinian political elite – was badly beaten and died shortly after he was taken into custody in June. The official line was that he’d died of natural causes. But his death sparked some of the biggest protests against the Palestinian Authority in years.. Yolande Knell reports on the case - and the public anger it's triggered.</p><p>Since 2017, Mozambique has been trying to stop a shadowy insurgency in its northern province, Cabo Delgado. The rebels there claim to be affiliated to the Islamic State – but little is known about the group. It started with small-scale, isolated attacks, but the conflict escalated last year, driving hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. It is estimated that 2,500 people have died in the fighting so far. This March the militants gained the world’s attention when they launched attacks in the gas-rich area of Palma, forcing French petroleum giant Total to shut down its operations there. To fight back, Mozambique has called on help from military forces from Rwanda – who now say they’ve retaken 90% of the province in a month-long operation. The rebels have now been pushed deep into the area’s forests - but Mozambique says it is not claiming victory yet. Anne Soy has been to the region with the Rwandan forces.</p><p>A court in the Netherlands has been hearing emotional testimony from those whose relatives died aboard flight MH17, which was brought down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine in 2014. Dutch prosecutors have brought charges against three Russians and a Ukrainian citizen: they are all suspected of having key roles in transporting the missile system used to launch the rocket which hit the plane. None of the men have appeared in court; only one has appointed a team of lawyers. Two-thirds of MH17's passengers were Dutch citizens, and the Netherlands blames Moscow for the attack. Anna Holligan has seen and heard some of the evidence submitted by the bereaved.</p><p>Armed conflict can break out for all kinds of reasons. But a row over car number plates seems one of the more unlikely flashpoints. Yet in the Balkans this summer, that’s exactly what prompted Serbia to put its troops on high alert, Kosovo to deploy its special police – and NATO to step up its peacekeeping activities in the area. As Guy De Launey knows from long experience – it’s always important to consider what’s on your number plate before you set off on any journey in the region.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Libyans grow cagier; tales from the Netherlands, the West Bank, Mozambique &amp; the Balkans</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>It's not easy to talk in Tripoli; Palestinian anger over Nizar Banat's death; the MH17 trial in the Netherlands; Rwandan forces in Mozambique; a number plate dispute in the Balkans
  787. In Libya, the promise of a new dawn after the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime a decade ago now seems to ring hollow. After its revolution came civil war – as militias proliferated and fought for control. For more than six years the country was split between rival administrations in the east and west. There’s been a ceasefire since last year, and an internationally-brokered unity government is now installed. Elections are planned for December. Daily life for Libyans hasn’t got much easier though. There are still frequent electricity blackouts, high unemployment – and regular street protests. But Tim Whewell was more struck by a sense of creeping silence.</p><p>In Ramallah, a military trial has begun this for 14 members of the Palestinian security forces, charged in connection with the death of a prominent critic of the president. Nizar Banat – who was known for his outspoken Facebook posts alleging corruption among the Palestinian political elite – was badly beaten and died shortly after he was taken into custody in June. The official line was that he’d died of natural causes. But his death sparked some of the biggest protests against the Palestinian Authority in years.. Yolande Knell reports on the case - and the public anger it's triggered.</p><p>Since 2017, Mozambique has been trying to stop a shadowy insurgency in its northern province, Cabo Delgado. The rebels there claim to be affiliated to the Islamic State – but little is known about the group. It started with small-scale, isolated attacks, but the conflict escalated last year, driving hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. It is estimated that 2,500 people have died in the fighting so far. This March the militants gained the world’s attention when they launched attacks in the gas-rich area of Palma, forcing French petroleum giant Total to shut down its operations there. To fight back, Mozambique has called on help from military forces from Rwanda – who now say they’ve retaken 90% of the province in a month-long operation. The rebels have now been pushed deep into the area’s forests - but Mozambique says it is not claiming victory yet. Anne Soy has been to the region with the Rwandan forces.</p><p>A court in the Netherlands has been hearing emotional testimony from those whose relatives died aboard flight MH17, which was brought down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine in 2014. Dutch prosecutors have brought charges against three Russians and a Ukrainian citizen: they are all suspected of having key roles in transporting the missile system used to launch the rocket which hit the plane. None of the men have appeared in court; only one has appointed a team of lawyers. Two-thirds of MH17's passengers were Dutch citizens, and the Netherlands blames Moscow for the attack. Anna Holligan has seen and heard some of the evidence submitted by the bereaved.</p><p>Armed conflict can break out for all kinds of reasons. But a row over car number plates seems one of the more unlikely flashpoints. Yet in the Balkans this summer, that’s exactly what prompted Serbia to put its troops on high alert, Kosovo to deploy its special police – and NATO to step up its peacekeeping activities in the area. As Guy De Launey knows from long experience – it’s always important to consider what’s on your number plate before you set off on any journey in the region.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2021 11:05:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1727</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09xkfpd.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09xkfpd.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09xkfpd.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09xkgdm</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09xkgdm</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09xkfpd.mp3" fileSize="27632000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1727"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09xkgdm</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Anxiety over Afghanistan</title><description><![CDATA[<p>More than six weeks after the Taliban announced their full takeover of the country, Afghanistan is still up against huge challenges. The economy is contracting fast, there’s a punishing drought, and many people are finding it harder to find food, even if they can afford to buy it. The news on human rights and security has been worrying. Journalists have been arrested and beaten up; women’s and girls’ right to education appears to be eroding; and former critics and enemies of the Taliban have been targeted for threats and violence. Jeremy Bowen first went to Afghanistan more than thirty years ago and reported on many cycles of its wars since then. Back in Kabul again, he reflects on the deeper tides of history.</p><p>On La Palma in the Canary Islands, the volcanic eruption that started last week is still threatening homes and lives. It’s produced a spectacular display of dramatic images. After destroying more than 700 properties, the lava has now reached the sea - which means a risk of toxic gases and dangerous projectiles. The Spanish government has declared a disaster zone and promised ten million Euros to help reconstruction and rehousing efforts. What will the eruption mean for La Palma in the long term – and how might its altered landscape change even more? Dan Johnson saw the destructive power of the Cumbre Vieja at first hand.</p><p>While it’s now clear that Chancellor Merkel’s CDU party suffered a historic defeat in Sunday’s elections in Germany, the rest of the picture is a little paradoxical. Everything looks a little more complicated than before. The smaller, newer parties have certainly gained momentum – and the old left-right divide doesn’t define voters’ world views as much as it once did. There are still regional loyalties, but also signs that other divides – of age and outlook – are emerging among voters. Are there whole new political tribes being formed? John Kampfner followed the election campaign as the opinion polls swung wildly - and ran into a few surprises along the way.</p><p>Lausanne in Switzerland, is an ancient place – first put on the map as a Roman military encampment a in the second century AD – and the Celts had a settlement there well before that. It’s also kept a good deal of its heritage restored and on show, with one of the best-preserved medieval old cities in Europe. Respect for the past isn’t just about architecture – or even tangible relics – though. There is intangible heritage too. Heidi Fuller Love recently spent a night shift with a man whose job might be described as public service broadcasting the really old-fashioned way: the nighwatchman, who cries the hours as well as looking out for danger.</p><p>And like many a British late-summer traveller, Paddy O Connell recently got back from a charming but occasionally nerve-wracking break spent motoring through France. He has a lesson to share for anyone venturing onto the roads …</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Jeremy Bowen reflects from Kabul; stories from Germany, Spain, Switzerland and France</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>More than six weeks after the Taliban announced their full takeover of the country, Afghanistan is still up against huge challenges. The economy is contracting fast, there’s a punishing drought, and many people are finding it harder to find food, even if they can afford to buy it. The news on human rights and security has been worrying. Journalists have been arrested and beaten up; women’s and girls’ right to education appears to be eroding; and former critics and enemies of the Taliban have been targeted for threats and violence. Jeremy Bowen first went to Afghanistan more than thirty years ago and reported on many cycles of its wars since then. Back in Kabul again, he reflects on the deeper tides of history.</p><p>On La Palma in the Canary Islands, the volcanic eruption that started last week is still threatening homes and lives. It’s produced a spectacular display of dramatic images. After destroying more than 700 properties, the lava has now reached the sea - which means a risk of toxic gases and dangerous projectiles. The Spanish government has declared a disaster zone and promised ten million Euros to help reconstruction and rehousing efforts. What will the eruption mean for La Palma in the long term – and how might its altered landscape change even more? Dan Johnson saw the destructive power of the Cumbre Vieja at first hand.</p><p>While it’s now clear that Chancellor Merkel’s CDU party suffered a historic defeat in Sunday’s elections in Germany, the rest of the picture is a little paradoxical. Everything looks a little more complicated than before. The smaller, newer parties have certainly gained momentum – and the old left-right divide doesn’t define voters’ world views as much as it once did. There are still regional loyalties, but also signs that other divides – of age and outlook – are emerging among voters. Are there whole new political tribes being formed? John Kampfner followed the election campaign as the opinion polls swung wildly - and ran into a few surprises along the way.</p><p>Lausanne in Switzerland, is an ancient place – first put on the map as a Roman military encampment a in the second century AD – and the Celts had a settlement there well before that. It’s also kept a good deal of its heritage restored and on show, with one of the best-preserved medieval old cities in Europe. Respect for the past isn’t just about architecture – or even tangible relics – though. There is intangible heritage too. Heidi Fuller Love recently spent a night shift with a man whose job might be described as public service broadcasting the really old-fashioned way: the nighwatchman, who cries the hours as well as looking out for danger.</p><p>And like many a British late-summer traveller, Paddy O Connell recently got back from a charming but occasionally nerve-wracking break spent motoring through France. He has a lesson to share for anyone venturing onto the roads …</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2021 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1736</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09xbsqh.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09xbsqh.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09xbsqh.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09xbtjl</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09xbtjl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09xbsqh.mp3" fileSize="27776000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1736"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09xbtjl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A tight race in Germany's elections</title><description><![CDATA[<p>This weekend's elections will determine the makeup of Germany's parliament - and set the country’s course for a new, post-Angela Merkel era. German politics tend to be less adversarial, less personal and polarised than in many European states – although there’s still plenty to be argued over. So far the campaign has stuck to the issues – there have been no notable gaffes or dramatic confrontations. But it is a close race and opinion polls have swung wildly. After this year’s catastrophic flooding and the economic shocks of the pandemic, voting for “more of the same, please”, is not really an option. Jenny Hill seizes up how many fresh ideas are on offer for German voters.</p><p>There's an epidemic in the USA which has cost around half a million lives. Not Covid - this is a drug epidemic. And it was caused by an addiction brought into American homes by major, reputable pharmaceutical companies; They sold opioids as painkillers, despite – as it has transpired in court - being aware that they could be highly addictive. So, patients prescribed them wanted more and more. If their supply of prescribed opioids ran out, some were so hooked they used heroin to ease their withdrawal symptoms. Oxycontin was the drug implicated in many of the cases of opioid addiction. But now the company which made Oxycontin has been told it won’t be prosecuted. Indeed, the Sacklers, who own it, will remain one of the wealthiest families in America - protected from prosecution. Daniel Thomas has followed the Oxycontin story and has met some of those caught up in it.</p><p>The long years of armed struggle in Colombia are supposed to be over – with many of its rebel factions and paramilitaries officially demobilised and their recruits sent on their way. The largest guerrilla force, known as the FARC, is now signed up to a peace deal with the government it had fought for decades. But the ghosts of the country’s insurgencies are still everywhere: there are over eight million people in the country who’ve had to flee their homes in areas controlled by armed groups. Many thousands more went missing during the conflict, whose fate may never be known. But some of their relatives never give up looking for them. Mathew Charles heard the story of one woman’s life in a time of violence.</p><p>With a growing population of more than 1.3 billion, and a burgeoning middle class, India is facing an energy crunch in the near future. Its needs are set to rise more than any other nation’s during the next 20 years, according to the International Energy Agency. India is currently the world’s third-largest emitter by country and it still relies heavily on coal to keep its industries running. As other nations are urged to phase it out, how easy will it be for such a fast-growing AND fast- developing nation to ditch one of its favourite fuels? Rajini Vaidyanathan explores the dilemma in Odisha state.</p><p>Ireland has always been renowned for its conversation – the ease with which people, often complete strangers, fall into talk, relate stories or debate the issues of the day. One recent topic has been the latest population statistics: in Ireland, unlike many European Union countries, the population is increasing - with numbers topping five million for the first time since the middle of the nineteenth century, when famine caused millions to emigrate. There’s been many a boom and bust since then. But now many Irish exiles are coming home. Kieran Cooke, having a drink at his local bar, came across some interesting returnees.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from the German election campaign trail, the USA, Colombia, India and Ireland</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>This weekend's elections will determine the makeup of Germany's parliament - and set the country’s course for a new, post-Angela Merkel era. German politics tend to be less adversarial, less personal and polarised than in many European states – although there’s still plenty to be argued over. So far the campaign has stuck to the issues – there have been no notable gaffes or dramatic confrontations. But it is a close race and opinion polls have swung wildly. After this year’s catastrophic flooding and the economic shocks of the pandemic, voting for “more of the same, please”, is not really an option. Jenny Hill seizes up how many fresh ideas are on offer for German voters.</p><p>There's an epidemic in the USA which has cost around half a million lives. Not Covid - this is a drug epidemic. And it was caused by an addiction brought into American homes by major, reputable pharmaceutical companies; They sold opioids as painkillers, despite – as it has transpired in court - being aware that they could be highly addictive. So, patients prescribed them wanted more and more. If their supply of prescribed opioids ran out, some were so hooked they used heroin to ease their withdrawal symptoms. Oxycontin was the drug implicated in many of the cases of opioid addiction. But now the company which made Oxycontin has been told it won’t be prosecuted. Indeed, the Sacklers, who own it, will remain one of the wealthiest families in America - protected from prosecution. Daniel Thomas has followed the Oxycontin story and has met some of those caught up in it.</p><p>The long years of armed struggle in Colombia are supposed to be over – with many of its rebel factions and paramilitaries officially demobilised and their recruits sent on their way. The largest guerrilla force, known as the FARC, is now signed up to a peace deal with the government it had fought for decades. But the ghosts of the country’s insurgencies are still everywhere: there are over eight million people in the country who’ve had to flee their homes in areas controlled by armed groups. Many thousands more went missing during the conflict, whose fate may never be known. But some of their relatives never give up looking for them. Mathew Charles heard the story of one woman’s life in a time of violence.</p><p>With a growing population of more than 1.3 billion, and a burgeoning middle class, India is facing an energy crunch in the near future. Its needs are set to rise more than any other nation’s during the next 20 years, according to the International Energy Agency. India is currently the world’s third-largest emitter by country and it still relies heavily on coal to keep its industries running. As other nations are urged to phase it out, how easy will it be for such a fast-growing AND fast- developing nation to ditch one of its favourite fuels? Rajini Vaidyanathan explores the dilemma in Odisha state.</p><p>Ireland has always been renowned for its conversation – the ease with which people, often complete strangers, fall into talk, relate stories or debate the issues of the day. One recent topic has been the latest population statistics: in Ireland, unlike many European Union countries, the population is increasing - with numbers topping five million for the first time since the middle of the nineteenth century, when famine caused millions to emigrate. There’s been many a boom and bust since then. But now many Irish exiles are coming home. Kieran Cooke, having a drink at his local bar, came across some interesting returnees.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2021 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1739</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09wyd9r.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09wyd9r.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09wyd9r.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09wydpj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09wydpj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09wyd9r.mp3" fileSize="27824000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1739"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09wydpj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>China's New Rules for Society</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Chinese government is, as ever, staying busy by devising new regulations. It's unleashed a raft of regulatory changes on everything from the limits on how much debt property developers are allowed to build up, to changes in the tax code and the breaking up of tech giants. But the Communist Party has also launched a series of rather paternalistic moves, reaching right into family homes, with measures designed to tackle perceived problems of laziness, or even what the state calls “spiritual pollution.” As Stephen McDonell reports from Beijing, it’s as if there is nowhere that the Party doesn’t know best - and no aspect of life where it’s not prepared to take charge.</p><p>The French government has expressed its fury after the decision by Australia to scrap a contract to buy French submarines. Canberra chose instead to enter a nuclear security pact for the Indo-Pacific with the US and the UK. “We’ve been stabbed in the back!” is how the French foreign minister put it – and off the record you can imagine that the comments were even stronger. Hugh Schofield has been following the events and says there is nothing confected about French outrage.</p><p>When it was part of the Soviet Union, Lithuania played host to stocks of nuclear missiles – huge ICBMs, which could have destroyed cities around the world. Back then, Lithuania’s geography gave it great strategic importance. When it became fully independent in 1991, it found itself a rather small nation, of about three and a half million people, and with of lesser international interest. And yet, Lithuania has been rather punching above its weight lately - particularly in recent disputes with China and Belarus. On a recent visit to a small Lithuanian village, Sadakat Kadri, found relics of the country’s past, with important lessons for the present.</p><p>When the Spanish conquistadors first landed in the Americas they brought new and terrifying beasts with them – from ships’ rats to warhorses – not to mention lethal human diseases. But there was one sort of creature the indigenous Americans DID recognise on the European ships: the dogs. Dogs had already been tamed and kept by humans all over the continent for thousands of years. And they’re still there – maybe not the original breeds, but thriving wherever there are people. In fact, in Chile, Jane Chambers has found them hard to avoid…</p><p>People who’d love a career in the arts end up doing other things to earn a living – just think of all those aspiring actors waiting tables in restaurants or would-be novelists working away in offices. But some do manage to break through against the odds – and it helps to have a globe-trotting life story as well as a deep well of inspiration at home to draw from. The painter Kojo Marfo has rocketed to fame after years spent working away from his home town in Ghana. Andy Jones has been exploring his career - and how he went from butcher's assistant to art world sensation.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Party reaches into everyday life; plus stories from France, Lithuania, Chile and Ghana</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Chinese government is, as ever, staying busy by devising new regulations. It's unleashed a raft of regulatory changes on everything from the limits on how much debt property developers are allowed to build up, to changes in the tax code and the breaking up of tech giants. But the Communist Party has also launched a series of rather paternalistic moves, reaching right into family homes, with measures designed to tackle perceived problems of laziness, or even what the state calls “spiritual pollution.” As Stephen McDonell reports from Beijing, it’s as if there is nowhere that the Party doesn’t know best - and no aspect of life where it’s not prepared to take charge.</p><p>The French government has expressed its fury after the decision by Australia to scrap a contract to buy French submarines. Canberra chose instead to enter a nuclear security pact for the Indo-Pacific with the US and the UK. “We’ve been stabbed in the back!” is how the French foreign minister put it – and off the record you can imagine that the comments were even stronger. Hugh Schofield has been following the events and says there is nothing confected about French outrage.</p><p>When it was part of the Soviet Union, Lithuania played host to stocks of nuclear missiles – huge ICBMs, which could have destroyed cities around the world. Back then, Lithuania’s geography gave it great strategic importance. When it became fully independent in 1991, it found itself a rather small nation, of about three and a half million people, and with of lesser international interest. And yet, Lithuania has been rather punching above its weight lately - particularly in recent disputes with China and Belarus. On a recent visit to a small Lithuanian village, Sadakat Kadri, found relics of the country’s past, with important lessons for the present.</p><p>When the Spanish conquistadors first landed in the Americas they brought new and terrifying beasts with them – from ships’ rats to warhorses – not to mention lethal human diseases. But there was one sort of creature the indigenous Americans DID recognise on the European ships: the dogs. Dogs had already been tamed and kept by humans all over the continent for thousands of years. And they’re still there – maybe not the original breeds, but thriving wherever there are people. In fact, in Chile, Jane Chambers has found them hard to avoid…</p><p>People who’d love a career in the arts end up doing other things to earn a living – just think of all those aspiring actors waiting tables in restaurants or would-be novelists working away in offices. But some do manage to break through against the odds – and it helps to have a globe-trotting life story as well as a deep well of inspiration at home to draw from. The painter Kojo Marfo has rocketed to fame after years spent working away from his home town in Ghana. Andy Jones has been exploring his career - and how he went from butcher's assistant to art world sensation.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2021 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1713</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09wqph1.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09wqph1.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09wqph1.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09wqr8m</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09wqr8m</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09wqph1.mp3" fileSize="27408000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1713"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09wqr8m</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Own Correspondent with Kate Adie</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Refugees have been fleeing Iran, as the economic situation there worsens, with food prices going up, and shortages of clean water and power. Meanwhile, there are fears among some people that the country is about to become more oppressive, with a new, hard-line president in charge. It is these conditions which have prompted many Iranians to escape. Iranian Kurds in particular have been seeking sanctuary in the Kurdish part of Iraq. But life there is not always easy. And among this community in exile are armed groups, determined to overthrow Iran’s Ayatollahs. Some of these groups have now come under aerial attack as Lizzie Porter explains:</p><p>Have they changed or not? That remains one of the crucial questions about The Taliban, as they secure their hold on Afghanistan. Last time they ran the country in the late 1990s, women were excluded from most public roles, and forced to cover up from head to toe. Music was banned along with most other forms of entertainment. With the Taliban now back in power, some detect a new tone: they give news conferences, they have said they want to work with the international community. But this week, the Taliban said that women would not be allowed to study alongside men, nor can they take part in sport. And there’ve been reports of revenge killings, carried out against those who worked for the previous government. For Sahar Zand, this has all brought back memories of the time she met a senior Taliban representative, one who did at least admit to having watched TV:</p><p>It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Last month, Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, called a snap election. Polling suggested he was popular among voters, with many crediting him for a relatively smooth handling of the Covid crisis. This, it seemed, might be the moment to go to the country and perhaps win a majority of seats, something which eluded him last time round. But the election takes place on Monday, with some predicting the Prime Minister will lose power altogether. One particular area where he’s having to defend his record is on the environment, which is proving to be an unusually important issue in this contest, as Jatinder Sidhu now reports, from Canada’s west coast:</p><p>There was a time when Papal visits were relatively simple affairs. The Pope showed up in a country, held a mass or two for some of his flock, and glad-handed all the right people, both religious and secular – perhaps expressing his admiration for whichever country he was in, and his best wishes for those who run it. But it’s not quite so simple with the current Pontiff. Pope Francis has a reputation for speaking his mind with unprecedented frankness, and that’s what happened this week when he travelled to Hungary. The Hungarian Prime Minister, Victor Orban, does also have quite a reputation for plain speaking, with hardline views on Islam and immigration in particular. So what happened when the two met? Nick Thorpe was in Budapest finding out.</p><p>September may sound too early to be thinking about Christmas, but for some people, September is precisely the month when it’s most on their minds. These are the pine seed pickers of Georgia – every year at this time, they climb their country’s giant fir trees, to get hold of the pine cones which grow on them. Inside, are seeds which are then planted to make Christmas trees. In fact, most of the Christmas trees in Europe are grown from seeds that come from Georgia – it’s a huge business. And yet as Amelia Stewart found out, the work of those who do the actual seed-picking is often poorly paid, and can also be very dangerous.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Iranian exiles in Iraq, plus stories from Afghanistan, Canada, Hungary and Georgia</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Refugees have been fleeing Iran, as the economic situation there worsens, with food prices going up, and shortages of clean water and power. Meanwhile, there are fears among some people that the country is about to become more oppressive, with a new, hard-line president in charge. It is these conditions which have prompted many Iranians to escape. Iranian Kurds in particular have been seeking sanctuary in the Kurdish part of Iraq. But life there is not always easy. And among this community in exile are armed groups, determined to overthrow Iran’s Ayatollahs. Some of these groups have now come under aerial attack as Lizzie Porter explains:</p><p>Have they changed or not? That remains one of the crucial questions about The Taliban, as they secure their hold on Afghanistan. Last time they ran the country in the late 1990s, women were excluded from most public roles, and forced to cover up from head to toe. Music was banned along with most other forms of entertainment. With the Taliban now back in power, some detect a new tone: they give news conferences, they have said they want to work with the international community. But this week, the Taliban said that women would not be allowed to study alongside men, nor can they take part in sport. And there’ve been reports of revenge killings, carried out against those who worked for the previous government. For Sahar Zand, this has all brought back memories of the time she met a senior Taliban representative, one who did at least admit to having watched TV:</p><p>It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Last month, Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, called a snap election. Polling suggested he was popular among voters, with many crediting him for a relatively smooth handling of the Covid crisis. This, it seemed, might be the moment to go to the country and perhaps win a majority of seats, something which eluded him last time round. But the election takes place on Monday, with some predicting the Prime Minister will lose power altogether. One particular area where he’s having to defend his record is on the environment, which is proving to be an unusually important issue in this contest, as Jatinder Sidhu now reports, from Canada’s west coast:</p><p>There was a time when Papal visits were relatively simple affairs. The Pope showed up in a country, held a mass or two for some of his flock, and glad-handed all the right people, both religious and secular – perhaps expressing his admiration for whichever country he was in, and his best wishes for those who run it. But it’s not quite so simple with the current Pontiff. Pope Francis has a reputation for speaking his mind with unprecedented frankness, and that’s what happened this week when he travelled to Hungary. The Hungarian Prime Minister, Victor Orban, does also have quite a reputation for plain speaking, with hardline views on Islam and immigration in particular. So what happened when the two met? Nick Thorpe was in Budapest finding out.</p><p>September may sound too early to be thinking about Christmas, but for some people, September is precisely the month when it’s most on their minds. These are the pine seed pickers of Georgia – every year at this time, they climb their country’s giant fir trees, to get hold of the pine cones which grow on them. Inside, are seeds which are then planted to make Christmas trees. In fact, most of the Christmas trees in Europe are grown from seeds that come from Georgia – it’s a huge business. And yet as Amelia Stewart found out, the work of those who do the actual seed-picking is often poorly paid, and can also be very dangerous.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2021 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1704</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09wbkr0.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09wbkr0.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09wbkr0.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09wbkxq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09wbkxq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09wbkr0.mp3" fileSize="27264000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1704"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09wbkxq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Lebanon's Medicines Emergency</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Lebanon was once the embodiment of glamour: its capital, Beirut, was nicknamed the “Paris of the Middle East” and enjoyed as an international playground. Today those glory years seem long gone. A political crisis has left the country without a properly functioning government – and its economy has imploded. The currency has lost more than 90% of its value and poverty has skyrocketed. There are shortages of fuel, water and food - and as Leila Molana-Allen explains, even essential medicines are getting harder and harder to find:</p><p>It’s a scenario found in so many places around the world: the war is over, no more shots are being fired, no bombs dropped, and yet people are still dying. And why? Because of all the landmines which have been laid during the conflict – which don’t recognise ceasefires or treaties, and can still maim or kill anyone who treads on one. During last year’s fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the Nagorno Karabakh region, thousands of mines were buried in its hillsides. Efforts to defuse and remove them have already begun – but it’s slow, painstaking, and above all, terribly dangerous work. Colin Freeman has been hearing from some of the men trying to clear up the mess.</p><p>As the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America approaches, it’s a particularly difficult time for those who lost friends and family. Almost three thousand people were killed when Al Qaeda hijackers flew planes into the twin towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. One of the dead was David Berry, who was killed in the south tower of the World Trade Center. He was 43 years old and had young children. His widow, Paula Grant Berry, has been talking to Laura Trevelyan.</p><p>Travelling through Italy you're bound to run into Mazzini, Garibaldi and Cavour – the key historic figures in the country's unification. From the Alps to Sicily, there are endless roads, piazzas and monuments named in their honour. But new roads call for new ideas - and the choices made about who to commemorate can be surprising. In Ozzano dell'Emilia – a village of 14,000 people near the northern city of Bologna - they've decided to dedicated a new road to a rather unexpected – and flamboyant – personality. Dany Mitzman's been to walk the freshly-rolled tarmac of Via Freddy Mercury.</p><p>They say that in big cities like London or New York you’re never more than a few metres away from a rat. Hugh Schofield now has proof positive that it’s true - and has an alarming tale of a most unwelcome visitor to his home in the French capital.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Economic crisis leaves pharmacies empty; plus Nagorno Karabakh, the USA, Italy, and France</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Lebanon was once the embodiment of glamour: its capital, Beirut, was nicknamed the “Paris of the Middle East” and enjoyed as an international playground. Today those glory years seem long gone. A political crisis has left the country without a properly functioning government – and its economy has imploded. The currency has lost more than 90% of its value and poverty has skyrocketed. There are shortages of fuel, water and food - and as Leila Molana-Allen explains, even essential medicines are getting harder and harder to find:</p><p>It’s a scenario found in so many places around the world: the war is over, no more shots are being fired, no bombs dropped, and yet people are still dying. And why? Because of all the landmines which have been laid during the conflict – which don’t recognise ceasefires or treaties, and can still maim or kill anyone who treads on one. During last year’s fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the Nagorno Karabakh region, thousands of mines were buried in its hillsides. Efforts to defuse and remove them have already begun – but it’s slow, painstaking, and above all, terribly dangerous work. Colin Freeman has been hearing from some of the men trying to clear up the mess.</p><p>As the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America approaches, it’s a particularly difficult time for those who lost friends and family. Almost three thousand people were killed when Al Qaeda hijackers flew planes into the twin towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. One of the dead was David Berry, who was killed in the south tower of the World Trade Center. He was 43 years old and had young children. His widow, Paula Grant Berry, has been talking to Laura Trevelyan.</p><p>Travelling through Italy you're bound to run into Mazzini, Garibaldi and Cavour – the key historic figures in the country's unification. From the Alps to Sicily, there are endless roads, piazzas and monuments named in their honour. But new roads call for new ideas - and the choices made about who to commemorate can be surprising. In Ozzano dell'Emilia – a village of 14,000 people near the northern city of Bologna - they've decided to dedicated a new road to a rather unexpected – and flamboyant – personality. Dany Mitzman's been to walk the freshly-rolled tarmac of Via Freddy Mercury.</p><p>They say that in big cities like London or New York you’re never more than a few metres away from a rat. Hugh Schofield now has proof positive that it’s true - and has an alarming tale of a most unwelcome visitor to his home in the French capital.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2021 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1724</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09v1qwc.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09v1qwc.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09v1qwc.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09v1r7n</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09v1r7n</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09v1qwc.mp3" fileSize="27584000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1724"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09v1r7n</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Forever wars – and how they can end</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan has serious implications for global security. Western governments are concerned about the prospect of more attacks on their own turf. But there’s also particular worry that jihadist movements in Africa and Asia could gain ground. Might the news from Kabul attract new recruits to their ranks – especially in those places where international forces have been deeply involved in fighting them back? The various armed groups allied with Al Qaida and the Islamic State across the Sahel and east Africa have been wreaking havoc for more than a decade now. Andrew Harding has reported on many of those wars, and recent events have brought back vivid memories… and hard questions…</p><p>In Afghanistan itself, some among the Taliban now in charge of the country again have grievances of their own, after losing relatives and comrades killed in airstrikes and night raids over the past twenty years. So how will they rule, and treat their old enemies? Kate Clark was the BBC correspondent in Kabul in the final years of the last Taliban regime, where she witnessed the fall of the city in 2001 – and she has done so again in 2021. She’s seen rulers come and go – and how after each change of regime, cycles of revenge have been fed, prolonging the conflict. After a week of chaos, she considers a longer view of four decades of war.</p><p>Reporting from Israel often inevitably revolves around the politics of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even the basic, day-to-day issues – town planning, health care, education – are complicated by this central problem. So imagine the challenge of policing in such a divided setting. For some time, Palestinian citizens of Israel have reported rising violence within their communities – not politically motivated, but driven by organised crime. The mobsters’ trade in drugs and weapons, and their vendettas, have blighted many areas – and left many families bereaved. Yolande Knell has spoken to several families trying to cope with the aftermath.</p><p>In Spain, paying the rent is often a political issue – and there’s a long history of squatting. After the property crash of 2008, many families fought to stay on in homes that did not belong to them, because they couldn’t afford their mortgages any more. In cities like Barcelona, while prices slumped, speculators moved in and bought up buildings at knock-down prices. Thousands of flats are still standing empty. Some have been illegally occupied by people who just can’t afford a market rent and needed a roof over their heads. But not all squatters actually live in the homes they take over. Criminals have spotted an opportunity: why not just move into a property and demand a ‘ransom’ of thousands of Euros from the owner before they will leave? Linda Pressly recently met a man who claimed to be a professional extortionist in Barcelona…</p><p>And Patrick Muirhead takes a gruelling hike in the Seychelles, on the trail of its fabled Jellyfish Tree. It’s not just rare, but a botanical mystery: no-one yet understands how it manages to reproduce. In the teeth of climate change and rapid development for the islands' tourism industry, there are fears the species may not last much longer. If a proposed dam is built to supply water for the growing population of Mahé island, it could engulf one of the last remaining outcrops of the plant.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The ways out of war in Afghanistan and in Africa; tales from Israel, Spain and Seychelles</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan has serious implications for global security. Western governments are concerned about the prospect of more attacks on their own turf. But there’s also particular worry that jihadist movements in Africa and Asia could gain ground. Might the news from Kabul attract new recruits to their ranks – especially in those places where international forces have been deeply involved in fighting them back? The various armed groups allied with Al Qaida and the Islamic State across the Sahel and east Africa have been wreaking havoc for more than a decade now. Andrew Harding has reported on many of those wars, and recent events have brought back vivid memories… and hard questions…</p><p>In Afghanistan itself, some among the Taliban now in charge of the country again have grievances of their own, after losing relatives and comrades killed in airstrikes and night raids over the past twenty years. So how will they rule, and treat their old enemies? Kate Clark was the BBC correspondent in Kabul in the final years of the last Taliban regime, where she witnessed the fall of the city in 2001 – and she has done so again in 2021. She’s seen rulers come and go – and how after each change of regime, cycles of revenge have been fed, prolonging the conflict. After a week of chaos, she considers a longer view of four decades of war.</p><p>Reporting from Israel often inevitably revolves around the politics of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even the basic, day-to-day issues – town planning, health care, education – are complicated by this central problem. So imagine the challenge of policing in such a divided setting. For some time, Palestinian citizens of Israel have reported rising violence within their communities – not politically motivated, but driven by organised crime. The mobsters’ trade in drugs and weapons, and their vendettas, have blighted many areas – and left many families bereaved. Yolande Knell has spoken to several families trying to cope with the aftermath.</p><p>In Spain, paying the rent is often a political issue – and there’s a long history of squatting. After the property crash of 2008, many families fought to stay on in homes that did not belong to them, because they couldn’t afford their mortgages any more. In cities like Barcelona, while prices slumped, speculators moved in and bought up buildings at knock-down prices. Thousands of flats are still standing empty. Some have been illegally occupied by people who just can’t afford a market rent and needed a roof over their heads. But not all squatters actually live in the homes they take over. Criminals have spotted an opportunity: why not just move into a property and demand a ‘ransom’ of thousands of Euros from the owner before they will leave? Linda Pressly recently met a man who claimed to be a professional extortionist in Barcelona…</p><p>And Patrick Muirhead takes a gruelling hike in the Seychelles, on the trail of its fabled Jellyfish Tree. It’s not just rare, but a botanical mystery: no-one yet understands how it manages to reproduce. In the teeth of climate change and rapid development for the islands' tourism industry, there are fears the species may not last much longer. If a proposed dam is built to supply water for the growing population of Mahé island, it could engulf one of the last remaining outcrops of the plant.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2021 11:11:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1736</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09tgd2h.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09tgd2h.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09tgd2h.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09tgdcv</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09tgdcv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09tgd2h.mp3" fileSize="27776000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1736"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09tgdcv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Afghanistan: Questions, Doubts and Fears</title><description><![CDATA[<p>It’s been a week of searing and surreal images from Afghanistan after the Taliban’s lighting takeover of Kabul. The spectacle of an official Taliban news conference, televised live from the capital on Tuesday, was proof of how just how fast events have moved. The Taliban leadership may have promised forgiveness, reconciliation and protection of women’s rights. But the mood is fearful and there are still thousands of Afghans desperate to get out of the country by any means possible. Lyse Doucet has been hearing from many of them. </p><p>As the West’s twenty-year mission to Afghanistan comes to an end, there are questions around the  world about how the international intervention, and the new political structures set up after 2001,  went so desperately wrong, so fast. Paul Adams has also been covering events and searching his own memories of time spent with foreign forces in the country for clues.</p><p>The latest earthquake in Haiti has inflicted more losses on a nation that’s endured plenty of them. The shocks and aftershocks last Saturday caused at least 2,200 deaths, injured more than 12,000  people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes. After the far more devastating quake back in 2010, more than 200,000 Haitians ended up living in squalid encampments in the capital, Port au Prince. This time around, the plan is to encourage survivors to stay put and rebuild, rather than run to already overburdened cities. James Clayton has been to some of the worst-affected areas in the southwest of the country.</p><p>Imagine that one ordinary day you find out that - although you feel perfectly normal - you’re officially dead. That’s the experience of a surprising number of people across India. Thousands of men and women who are very much alive are being registered as dead, often by their own relatives who are angling to inherit their property. Covid restrictions prevented Chloe Hadjimatheou from going to India to investigate in person -  but she’s been on the trail of these extraordinary stories. Finding out how easily this could happen to anyone brought home to her the extraordinary power which bureaucrats can have...</p><p>The cultural history of Paris has a vivid streak of lowlife as well as high art. From Edith Piaf, the “little sparrow” belting out songs on street corners, to Gavroche, the plucky but doomed urchin of Les Miserables – there’s often a deep affection for those characters who must live by their wits on the streets. But the city’s wiles and its tricksters have caused many an unsuspecting visitor to come unstuck. Some come away with more vivid memories of time spent in police stations, embassies and travel agents, trying to untangle their misadventures, than of great meals or cultural highlights. Christine Finn’s been keeping an eye out and her wits about her ...</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>What went wrong - and what now for Afghans? With stories from Haiti, India and France</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>It’s been a week of searing and surreal images from Afghanistan after the Taliban’s lighting takeover of Kabul. The spectacle of an official Taliban news conference, televised live from the capital on Tuesday, was proof of how just how fast events have moved. The Taliban leadership may have promised forgiveness, reconciliation and protection of women’s rights. But the mood is fearful and there are still thousands of Afghans desperate to get out of the country by any means possible. Lyse Doucet has been hearing from many of them. </p><p>As the West’s twenty-year mission to Afghanistan comes to an end, there are questions around the  world about how the international intervention, and the new political structures set up after 2001,  went so desperately wrong, so fast. Paul Adams has also been covering events and searching his own memories of time spent with foreign forces in the country for clues.</p><p>The latest earthquake in Haiti has inflicted more losses on a nation that’s endured plenty of them. The shocks and aftershocks last Saturday caused at least 2,200 deaths, injured more than 12,000  people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes. After the far more devastating quake back in 2010, more than 200,000 Haitians ended up living in squalid encampments in the capital, Port au Prince. This time around, the plan is to encourage survivors to stay put and rebuild, rather than run to already overburdened cities. James Clayton has been to some of the worst-affected areas in the southwest of the country.</p><p>Imagine that one ordinary day you find out that - although you feel perfectly normal - you’re officially dead. That’s the experience of a surprising number of people across India. Thousands of men and women who are very much alive are being registered as dead, often by their own relatives who are angling to inherit their property. Covid restrictions prevented Chloe Hadjimatheou from going to India to investigate in person -  but she’s been on the trail of these extraordinary stories. Finding out how easily this could happen to anyone brought home to her the extraordinary power which bureaucrats can have...</p><p>The cultural history of Paris has a vivid streak of lowlife as well as high art. From Edith Piaf, the “little sparrow” belting out songs on street corners, to Gavroche, the plucky but doomed urchin of Les Miserables – there’s often a deep affection for those characters who must live by their wits on the streets. But the city’s wiles and its tricksters have caused many an unsuspecting visitor to come unstuck. Some come away with more vivid memories of time spent in police stations, embassies and travel agents, trying to untangle their misadventures, than of great meals or cultural highlights. Christine Finn’s been keeping an eye out and her wits about her ...</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2021 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1718</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09svb1g.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09svb1g.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09svb1g.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09svb2z</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09svb2z</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09svb1g.mp3" fileSize="27488000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1718"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09svb2z</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Summer of Fires in Greece</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Greece has been ravaged by almost six hundred wildfires in recent weeks. Thousands of firefighters have struggled to contain the raging flames which have destroyed hundreds of thousands of hectares of land; more than 60,000 people so far have had to flee their homes to safety. The Greek government has promised compensation payments for those affected and a massive drive to reforest the burnt areas “We saved lives, but we lost forests and property”, the Prime Minister admitted this week, calling it ‘an ecological catastrophe’.  Bethany Bell reports from Athens, the island of Evia and the Peloponnese. </p><p>Across Afghanistan, the country’s national army and security forces have been losing ground to the Taliban. The insurgents’ fighters have pushed forward and major provincial capitals including Herat, Kunduz and Zaranj have now been taken over. The Taliban also announced they were in control of the town of Ghazni, only 93 miles from Kabul. Before they moved into the centre of Kandahar, in the south, Shelly Kittleson had managed to get into the city. </p><p>Since a rare outbreak of street protests in Cuba a month ago, its government has been arresting and jailing many of those who dared take part. Cubans are also still suffering the triple impact of a Covid surge, a serious economic crunch and frosty relations with the Biden administration in the USA. Power cuts and shortages only add to the discontent. Will Grant recently returned to the island after a while away, and sensed a definite change in the atmosphere. </p><p>Amid Libya’s civil wars, rival governments and militia groups, there are also foreign players: backers, influencers and fighters. One particular group of Russian mercenaries, operating in the east, has been accused of war crimes against civilians.  Allegations that the group has links to the Russian government have been strongly denied by President Vladimir Putin himself. Nader Ibrahim has been investigating connections between Russia and Libya for a long time and recently heard a fascinating story one night in Tripoli.</p><p>Would you rent out a holiday hut which was built for a leading Nazi collaborator? Perhaps surprisingly, it’s something you can do in Norway. During the Second World War, the Germans installed a local sympathiser as the country’s leader: Vidkun Quisling. His surname itself has become a synonym for a lackey, traitor or bootlicker. The Scottish writer and novelist Ben McPherson has lived in Norway for many years, and he was surprised to learn Quisling’s summer cabin in the fjords was available for bookings …</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Flames consume homes, forests and farmland; tales from Afghanistan, Libya, Cuba and Norway</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Greece has been ravaged by almost six hundred wildfires in recent weeks. Thousands of firefighters have struggled to contain the raging flames which have destroyed hundreds of thousands of hectares of land; more than 60,000 people so far have had to flee their homes to safety. The Greek government has promised compensation payments for those affected and a massive drive to reforest the burnt areas “We saved lives, but we lost forests and property”, the Prime Minister admitted this week, calling it ‘an ecological catastrophe’.  Bethany Bell reports from Athens, the island of Evia and the Peloponnese. </p><p>Across Afghanistan, the country’s national army and security forces have been losing ground to the Taliban. The insurgents’ fighters have pushed forward and major provincial capitals including Herat, Kunduz and Zaranj have now been taken over. The Taliban also announced they were in control of the town of Ghazni, only 93 miles from Kabul. Before they moved into the centre of Kandahar, in the south, Shelly Kittleson had managed to get into the city. </p><p>Since a rare outbreak of street protests in Cuba a month ago, its government has been arresting and jailing many of those who dared take part. Cubans are also still suffering the triple impact of a Covid surge, a serious economic crunch and frosty relations with the Biden administration in the USA. Power cuts and shortages only add to the discontent. Will Grant recently returned to the island after a while away, and sensed a definite change in the atmosphere. </p><p>Amid Libya’s civil wars, rival governments and militia groups, there are also foreign players: backers, influencers and fighters. One particular group of Russian mercenaries, operating in the east, has been accused of war crimes against civilians.  Allegations that the group has links to the Russian government have been strongly denied by President Vladimir Putin himself. Nader Ibrahim has been investigating connections between Russia and Libya for a long time and recently heard a fascinating story one night in Tripoli.</p><p>Would you rent out a holiday hut which was built for a leading Nazi collaborator? Perhaps surprisingly, it’s something you can do in Norway. During the Second World War, the Germans installed a local sympathiser as the country’s leader: Vidkun Quisling. His surname itself has become a synonym for a lackey, traitor or bootlicker. The Scottish writer and novelist Ben McPherson has lived in Norway for many years, and he was surprised to learn Quisling’s summer cabin in the fjords was available for bookings …</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2021 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1742</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09s774s.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09s774s.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09s774s.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09s778x</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09s778x</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09s774s.mp3" fileSize="27872000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1742"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09s778x</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The price of dissent in Belarus</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The repressive tactics of the Belarusian state have been back in the news this week – and all over the map. The Olympic Games in Tokyo were shaken by sprinter Krystina Timonovskaya’s row with her coaches – she ended up seeking asylum in Poland. In Ukraine, the head of a group helping Belarusian emigres was found hanged in a park in Kyiv; his death is still being investigated. In Belarus itself, it’s nearly a year since the disputed election of August 2020 - which sparked mass protests over the result. Since then the government of Aleksandr Lukashenko has been going after people who were involved in the demonstrations with every means to hand. This week, one of the main ‘faces’ of the protests went on trial. Sarah Rainsford was in Minsk and has been speaking to family and friends of Maria Kolesnikova.</p><p>In Nigeria, the mass abduction of children has become a tragically recurring kind of news story: eighty taken in one incident, over 120 in another – just in the past few months. But it’s not just crime which is destabilising Nigeria right now. There is the continuing insurgency of the jihadist group Boko Haram in the north, and a crop of separatist movements around the country. As Mayeni Jones reports, the insecurity is now touching even people who’d previously managed to shield themselves from the worst:</p><p>It sounds like the stuff of a military dictatorship: troops will be out on the streets, enforcing a curfew, with people forbidden to leave their homes except on essential business. But this is Sydney, Australia - where yet another lockdown has been enforced, in in an effort to halt a surge in Covid cases. Different parts of this vast country have adopted their own rules – but one thing all parts of Australia share is a reverence for the traditional character of the “larrikin” – a rebellious, anti-establishment type who doesn’t take kindly to rules or regulations of any sort. So, Phil Mercer asks, how has a larrikin-loving nation reacted to such draconian measures?</p><p>Costa Rica gets a lot of good press for its efforts to preserve nature. It’s got an extraordinary array of micro-climates and species, and it's a leading voice in international efforts to tackle climate change. So it's also a hotspot for nature tourists – from bird spotters to those who want to wander into a real live rainforest. But not everything about Costa Rica’s government is green – and not all its life forms are friendly. Michelle Jana Chan went for a night walk which shed light on all sorts of wonders… and horrors.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Activists on trial in Minsk; plus tales from Nigeria, Australia and Costa Rica</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The repressive tactics of the Belarusian state have been back in the news this week – and all over the map. The Olympic Games in Tokyo were shaken by sprinter Krystina Timonovskaya’s row with her coaches – she ended up seeking asylum in Poland. In Ukraine, the head of a group helping Belarusian emigres was found hanged in a park in Kyiv; his death is still being investigated. In Belarus itself, it’s nearly a year since the disputed election of August 2020 - which sparked mass protests over the result. Since then the government of Aleksandr Lukashenko has been going after people who were involved in the demonstrations with every means to hand. This week, one of the main ‘faces’ of the protests went on trial. Sarah Rainsford was in Minsk and has been speaking to family and friends of Maria Kolesnikova.</p><p>In Nigeria, the mass abduction of children has become a tragically recurring kind of news story: eighty taken in one incident, over 120 in another – just in the past few months. But it’s not just crime which is destabilising Nigeria right now. There is the continuing insurgency of the jihadist group Boko Haram in the north, and a crop of separatist movements around the country. As Mayeni Jones reports, the insecurity is now touching even people who’d previously managed to shield themselves from the worst:</p><p>It sounds like the stuff of a military dictatorship: troops will be out on the streets, enforcing a curfew, with people forbidden to leave their homes except on essential business. But this is Sydney, Australia - where yet another lockdown has been enforced, in in an effort to halt a surge in Covid cases. Different parts of this vast country have adopted their own rules – but one thing all parts of Australia share is a reverence for the traditional character of the “larrikin” – a rebellious, anti-establishment type who doesn’t take kindly to rules or regulations of any sort. So, Phil Mercer asks, how has a larrikin-loving nation reacted to such draconian measures?</p><p>Costa Rica gets a lot of good press for its efforts to preserve nature. It’s got an extraordinary array of micro-climates and species, and it's a leading voice in international efforts to tackle climate change. So it's also a hotspot for nature tourists – from bird spotters to those who want to wander into a real live rainforest. But not everything about Costa Rica’s government is green – and not all its life forms are friendly. Michelle Jana Chan went for a night walk which shed light on all sorts of wonders… and horrors.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:04:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1403</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09rrg5r.mp3" length="22448000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09rrg5r.mp3" length="22448000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09rrg5r.mp3" length="22448000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09rrgz0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09rrgz0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09rrg5r.mp3" fileSize="22448000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1403"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09rrgz0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Tunisia's Unfinished Business</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The political crisis which broke out in Tunisia last weekend is still simmering. Of all the countries in North Africa and the Middle East which toppled their dictators a decade ago, only Tunisia emerged as a full, multi-party democracy. Its free and fair elections, featuring candidates and groups of all ideological stripes, have been an exception in the wider region since then. But discontent has still mounted over the state of the economy, pandemic response and police tactics. Plenty of Tunisians don't necessarily see their country as a model for others - and President Kais Saied’s recent moves to freeze Parliament and remove the Prime Minister were welcomed by many. Rana Jawad explores why the situation looks rather different from Tunis.</p><p>Next week it will be a year since the chemical explosion that devastated the Lebanese capital, Beirut. It was one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history – which killed more than 200 people and left more than 300,000 homeless. One of the worst-hit neighbourhoods was the close-knit district of Karantina, right next to the port. Survivors who’ve gone back to their rebuilt homes there hope that its special character can be preserved. But there are also some visionary, larger-scale proposals to redevelop the city – and as Tim Whewell found, the new plans might not leave room for everyone.</p><p>This November, Barbados is planning to celebrate its 55 years of independence and become a republic – meaning the Queen will no longer be its head of state. It’s seen as a turning point in the country’s history - and a chance for Barbados to move even further on from its colonial past. Other historic legacies may be harder to unpick, though. Barbados was Britain’s first slave-holding society abroad; and the economic impact, and the debts, of the slavery era are still much discussed across the Caribbean. Zeinab Badawi recently visited a surviving 17th century mansion in the north of this island, which is now a museum.</p><p>The UNHCR estimates that there are probably at least ten million individuals worldwide with no identity or nationality documents issued by any country. For them, the most basic challenges – registering a birth, getting childhood inoculation or exam certificates, applying for jobs or loans - can be insurmountable. But some countries are now deciding to make it easier to get legal status. In Kenya, hundreds of people from a Shona-speaking religious community with roots more than a thousand miles south, in Zimbabwe, were recently given a fresh chance. Vivienne Nunis saw several moments of pure joy at a ceremony to grant them citizenship.</p><p>There’s never been a summer Olympic Games quite like Tokyo's... and Covid restrictions also apply to the journalists who are meant to cover the event. Their task is even more important when the crowds of spectators aren’t around to witness the sporting triumphs at first hand – but this time they definitely can’t just wander around looking for athletes to speak to. Or soak up the atmosphere inside the Olympic village or on the streets of Tokyo. Alex Capstick has covered more sporting contests than he’d care to remember – but this time it’s different…</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Power moves in Tunis; stories from Lebanon, Barbados, Kenya and the Tokyo Olympics</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The political crisis which broke out in Tunisia last weekend is still simmering. Of all the countries in North Africa and the Middle East which toppled their dictators a decade ago, only Tunisia emerged as a full, multi-party democracy. Its free and fair elections, featuring candidates and groups of all ideological stripes, have been an exception in the wider region since then. But discontent has still mounted over the state of the economy, pandemic response and police tactics. Plenty of Tunisians don't necessarily see their country as a model for others - and President Kais Saied’s recent moves to freeze Parliament and remove the Prime Minister were welcomed by many. Rana Jawad explores why the situation looks rather different from Tunis.</p><p>Next week it will be a year since the chemical explosion that devastated the Lebanese capital, Beirut. It was one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history – which killed more than 200 people and left more than 300,000 homeless. One of the worst-hit neighbourhoods was the close-knit district of Karantina, right next to the port. Survivors who’ve gone back to their rebuilt homes there hope that its special character can be preserved. But there are also some visionary, larger-scale proposals to redevelop the city – and as Tim Whewell found, the new plans might not leave room for everyone.</p><p>This November, Barbados is planning to celebrate its 55 years of independence and become a republic – meaning the Queen will no longer be its head of state. It’s seen as a turning point in the country’s history - and a chance for Barbados to move even further on from its colonial past. Other historic legacies may be harder to unpick, though. Barbados was Britain’s first slave-holding society abroad; and the economic impact, and the debts, of the slavery era are still much discussed across the Caribbean. Zeinab Badawi recently visited a surviving 17th century mansion in the north of this island, which is now a museum.</p><p>The UNHCR estimates that there are probably at least ten million individuals worldwide with no identity or nationality documents issued by any country. For them, the most basic challenges – registering a birth, getting childhood inoculation or exam certificates, applying for jobs or loans - can be insurmountable. But some countries are now deciding to make it easier to get legal status. In Kenya, hundreds of people from a Shona-speaking religious community with roots more than a thousand miles south, in Zimbabwe, were recently given a fresh chance. Vivienne Nunis saw several moments of pure joy at a ceremony to grant them citizenship.</p><p>There’s never been a summer Olympic Games quite like Tokyo's... and Covid restrictions also apply to the journalists who are meant to cover the event. Their task is even more important when the crowds of spectators aren’t around to witness the sporting triumphs at first hand – but this time they definitely can’t just wander around looking for athletes to speak to. Or soak up the atmosphere inside the Olympic village or on the streets of Tokyo. Alex Capstick has covered more sporting contests than he’d care to remember – but this time it’s different…</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2021 12:34:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1715</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09rrbgz.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09rrbgz.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09rrbgz.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09rrc5q</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09rrc5q</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09rrbgz.mp3" fileSize="27440000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1715"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09rrc5q</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Aftermath</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The destructive power of water is often underestimated… until it’s too late. Large areas of Europe and China are still reeling from the damage left by some of their worst floods for decades. Across Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, there were over 200 deaths and billions of euros' worth of damage done. Now there are questions over whether this disaster will make voters more concerned about the effects of climate change. Although the Netherlands was least affected by the latest floods, water management is an existential threat for such a low-lying country. Anna Holligan has seen the worry – as well as the wreckage - on the ground there and in Germany.</p><p>Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro was recently briefly admitted to hospital after intestinal problems made him hiccup uncontrollably. He appears to have recovered and has been out and about, talking to the media and to the public. But his political worries are not over – in fact they’re only growing more acute. Many of his former allies are beginning to peel away. The country’s Senate is now investigating his government’s record of decision-making on Covid, from refusing to lock down to failure to procure medical supplies and vaccines. There are allegations swirling of corrupt vaccine-purchasing deals. Yet Mr Bolsonaro can still count on solid support from some of those who helped to elect him. Orla Guerin heard from them in Brasilia.</p><p>The war between Armenia and Azerbaijan for control of Nagorno Karabakh, is over - for now. The conflict there has flared up repeatedly over more than thirty years, with both countries insisting that the region is legally and historically theirs. In late 2020 Azerbaijan launched a lightning offensive – and came out on top this time around, capturing towns and territory with significant help from its regional ally, Turkey. Colin Freeman recently returned to one town which he’d last seen at the centre of a fierce battle.</p><p>South Africa is counting the costs of a mass outbreak of looting and destruction. In and around the cities of Johannesburg and Durban, businesses and homes were burned and ransacked. The police were fiercely criticised in some places for not doing enough to stop the violence. As well as criminal investigation, the country is now also doing plenty of soul-searching about the root causes of such widespread chaos. Gregory Mthembu-Salter and his family share the national concern, as his wife’s side of the family live where the looting was worst, in Kwa Zulu -Natal.</p><p>The Mexican state of Sinaloa is deeply enmeshed in the drug trade. Profits from organised crime are an important driver of the local economy, especially in the state’s capital. In Culiacán , luxury cars can often be seen cruising the streets. Restaurants, bars, and designer fashion outlets all depend on the cash brought in from narcotics. And there's another expensive consumer fixation fuelled by narco culture – widespread plastic surgery. Linda Pressly talked to one of the city’s busy cosmetic surgeons.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Longterm worry follows Europe's floods; plus Brazil, Nagorno Karabakh, S Africa and Mexico</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The destructive power of water is often underestimated… until it’s too late. Large areas of Europe and China are still reeling from the damage left by some of their worst floods for decades. Across Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, there were over 200 deaths and billions of euros' worth of damage done. Now there are questions over whether this disaster will make voters more concerned about the effects of climate change. Although the Netherlands was least affected by the latest floods, water management is an existential threat for such a low-lying country. Anna Holligan has seen the worry – as well as the wreckage - on the ground there and in Germany.</p><p>Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro was recently briefly admitted to hospital after intestinal problems made him hiccup uncontrollably. He appears to have recovered and has been out and about, talking to the media and to the public. But his political worries are not over – in fact they’re only growing more acute. Many of his former allies are beginning to peel away. The country’s Senate is now investigating his government’s record of decision-making on Covid, from refusing to lock down to failure to procure medical supplies and vaccines. There are allegations swirling of corrupt vaccine-purchasing deals. Yet Mr Bolsonaro can still count on solid support from some of those who helped to elect him. Orla Guerin heard from them in Brasilia.</p><p>The war between Armenia and Azerbaijan for control of Nagorno Karabakh, is over - for now. The conflict there has flared up repeatedly over more than thirty years, with both countries insisting that the region is legally and historically theirs. In late 2020 Azerbaijan launched a lightning offensive – and came out on top this time around, capturing towns and territory with significant help from its regional ally, Turkey. Colin Freeman recently returned to one town which he’d last seen at the centre of a fierce battle.</p><p>South Africa is counting the costs of a mass outbreak of looting and destruction. In and around the cities of Johannesburg and Durban, businesses and homes were burned and ransacked. The police were fiercely criticised in some places for not doing enough to stop the violence. As well as criminal investigation, the country is now also doing plenty of soul-searching about the root causes of such widespread chaos. Gregory Mthembu-Salter and his family share the national concern, as his wife’s side of the family live where the looting was worst, in Kwa Zulu -Natal.</p><p>The Mexican state of Sinaloa is deeply enmeshed in the drug trade. Profits from organised crime are an important driver of the local economy, especially in the state’s capital. In Culiacán , luxury cars can often be seen cruising the streets. Restaurants, bars, and designer fashion outlets all depend on the cash brought in from narcotics. And there's another expensive consumer fixation fuelled by narco culture – widespread plastic surgery. Linda Pressly talked to one of the city’s busy cosmetic surgeons.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2021 11:05:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1731</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09qb2sd.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09qb2sd.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09qb2sd.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09qb34g</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09qb34g</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09qb2sd.mp3" fileSize="27696000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1731"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09qb34g</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Meaning of Home</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the eastern Mediterranean there are far fewer refugees and migrants arriving by boat than in recent years - but the moral dilemmas of dealing with migration are still acute. In Greece, the government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has tightened its asylum laws, built new walled camps and pushed back boats at sea. Over his reporting career, Fergal Keane has followed many global waves of migrants and refugees, from their home countries, along their journeys and to their various end points. A recent visit to the Greek islands got him thinking about the big picture again.</p><p>Life has been good to King Mswati III of Eswatini. He has ruled over a small, peaceable country for decades as an absolute monarch. But his historic privileges are now in question. It seems some of his people have had enough; recently protests and looting broke out, and were met with a violent response. At least twenty seven people have been killed. Shingai Nyoka has met the King in person, and talked to some of his restive subjects.</p><p>The situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia is still looking grim. Apart from the armies of Ethiopia and Eritrea and the armed forces of the TPLF, armed forces from other regions of Ethiopia have also become involved. Outside observers have warned of a possible impending famine. But it’s been very hard for journalists to find out exactly what’s happening inside Tigray itself, as the Ethiopian government has tightly controlled access. Fred Harter managed to get there earlier this year, and since then he’s been trying to keep up with events from afar.</p><p>In France this week, President Macron sent signals of a distinctly tougher official approach to vaccination. From now on, if you can’t produce a pass showing you're Covid-safe, daily life could become significantly more complicated. Hugh Schofield wonders whether the French may secretly like a bit of strong-arming from their leader.</p><p>Over the long months of lockdown many people have taken to walking with new fervour – particularly when it was the only legitimate pretext for leaving the house. In Transcarpathian Ukraine, Nick Thorpe recently joined a group of local enthusiasts who are assembling their own route for a very long hike indeed - a new footpath winding 250 miles through the mountains from the Slovak to the Romanian border.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Fergal Keane on the EU's borders; tales from Eswatini, Ethiopia, France and Ukraine</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the eastern Mediterranean there are far fewer refugees and migrants arriving by boat than in recent years - but the moral dilemmas of dealing with migration are still acute. In Greece, the government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has tightened its asylum laws, built new walled camps and pushed back boats at sea. Over his reporting career, Fergal Keane has followed many global waves of migrants and refugees, from their home countries, along their journeys and to their various end points. A recent visit to the Greek islands got him thinking about the big picture again.</p><p>Life has been good to King Mswati III of Eswatini. He has ruled over a small, peaceable country for decades as an absolute monarch. But his historic privileges are now in question. It seems some of his people have had enough; recently protests and looting broke out, and were met with a violent response. At least twenty seven people have been killed. Shingai Nyoka has met the King in person, and talked to some of his restive subjects.</p><p>The situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia is still looking grim. Apart from the armies of Ethiopia and Eritrea and the armed forces of the TPLF, armed forces from other regions of Ethiopia have also become involved. Outside observers have warned of a possible impending famine. But it’s been very hard for journalists to find out exactly what’s happening inside Tigray itself, as the Ethiopian government has tightly controlled access. Fred Harter managed to get there earlier this year, and since then he’s been trying to keep up with events from afar.</p><p>In France this week, President Macron sent signals of a distinctly tougher official approach to vaccination. From now on, if you can’t produce a pass showing you're Covid-safe, daily life could become significantly more complicated. Hugh Schofield wonders whether the French may secretly like a bit of strong-arming from their leader.</p><p>Over the long months of lockdown many people have taken to walking with new fervour – particularly when it was the only legitimate pretext for leaving the house. In Transcarpathian Ukraine, Nick Thorpe recently joined a group of local enthusiasts who are assembling their own route for a very long hike indeed - a new footpath winding 250 miles through the mountains from the Slovak to the Romanian border.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1715</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09pq0cn.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09pq0cn.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09pq0cn.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09pq0kj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09pq0kj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09pq0cn.mp3" fileSize="27440000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1715"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09pq0kj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Cubans' patience wears thin</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The combined miseries of an economic crunch, a spike in Covid infections and simmering long-standing frustration drove hundreds of people to speak out in public last weekend. The Cuban government often brings out the crowds for mass demonstrations of revolutionary will – but it cracks down hard and fast on any shows of organised dissent.  Will Grant has been sensing the pressure mount for months. </p><p>The world was horrified by scenes from the pandemic in India – but there was less global attention paid to Bangladesh. Covid has utterly changed daily life and families’ fortunes there, too – especially since the country imposed its strictest lockdown yet at the start of this month.  New infections and deaths are now at record levels and still rising – and there’s fear that people fleeing the restrictions in cities will be soon spread the virus in the countryside. Akbar Hossein has been considering the balance of risks.</p><p>Clearing out a property after relatives have died can be a bittersweet experience, fusing nostalgia with grief. It’s harder still when the house is in a different country. Lesley Curwen has back been to the villa in Valencia where her mother and stepfather used to live – and noticed that many of the old certainties of their comfortable ex-pat circle in Spain are eroding. </p><p>This summer, Russia has been staging dozens of official events to mark 800 years since the birth of a national hero: the warrior prince and later saint Alexander Nevsky, renowned for his military success and tactical genius. There’s a clear message being driven home as his relics journey across the country from church to church - as Francis Scarr saw in the city of Tver.</p><p>We’ve all had to rethink what balance between isolation and social contact suits us best over the past year and a half. But perhaps not many people have reconfigured their professional and domestic set-up as Stephanie Theobald. She's been living in a cave - as part of an experimental commune in the California desert. </p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>An unusually public bout of dissent; stories from Bangladesh, Spain, Russia and the USA</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The combined miseries of an economic crunch, a spike in Covid infections and simmering long-standing frustration drove hundreds of people to speak out in public last weekend. The Cuban government often brings out the crowds for mass demonstrations of revolutionary will – but it cracks down hard and fast on any shows of organised dissent.  Will Grant has been sensing the pressure mount for months. </p><p>The world was horrified by scenes from the pandemic in India – but there was less global attention paid to Bangladesh. Covid has utterly changed daily life and families’ fortunes there, too – especially since the country imposed its strictest lockdown yet at the start of this month.  New infections and deaths are now at record levels and still rising – and there’s fear that people fleeing the restrictions in cities will be soon spread the virus in the countryside. Akbar Hossein has been considering the balance of risks.</p><p>Clearing out a property after relatives have died can be a bittersweet experience, fusing nostalgia with grief. It’s harder still when the house is in a different country. Lesley Curwen has back been to the villa in Valencia where her mother and stepfather used to live – and noticed that many of the old certainties of their comfortable ex-pat circle in Spain are eroding. </p><p>This summer, Russia has been staging dozens of official events to mark 800 years since the birth of a national hero: the warrior prince and later saint Alexander Nevsky, renowned for his military success and tactical genius. There’s a clear message being driven home as his relics journey across the country from church to church - as Francis Scarr saw in the city of Tver.</p><p>We’ve all had to rethink what balance between isolation and social contact suits us best over the past year and a half. But perhaps not many people have reconfigured their professional and domestic set-up as Stephanie Theobald. She's been living in a cave - as part of an experimental commune in the California desert. </p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1741</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09phdkl.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09phdkl.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09phdkl.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09phf7g</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09phf7g</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09phdkl.mp3" fileSize="27856000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1741"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09phf7g</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>What NATO leaves behind in Afghanistan</title><description><![CDATA[<p>This week sees the end of the NATO mission in  Afghanistan.  These are the last days of a 20-year military presence of British and other forces – and the growing Taliban insurgency is moving quickly into the territory they’re leaving behind. The BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner made numerous reporting trips to the country , four of them in a wheelchair; he reflects on some of the more poignant moments and what the future holds.</p><p>The killing of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise has convulsed a nation all too accustomed to natural and political disaster. President Moïse had been ruling by decree after elections planned for 2019 didn’t happen - sparking mass protests and accusations that he illegally stayed on past his term. Amid the political chaos, in recent months many Haitian cities have also been facing a state of near-anarchy and escalating gang violence. David Adams met and interviewed the late President and weighs up the dangers and the appeal of power in the country. </p><p>Cyprus is assessing the damage of its worst forest fires in decades.  It’s yet another place on earth challenged by the consequences of rising temperatures. Many of its farmers have already had to adapt to hotter, drier weather by changing what they grow. Some hope there might be a revival of the island’s neglected carob industry. Until the 1970’s carob exports were a major component of the economy. But as Charlotte Ashton found out, the crop and its products may not be to everybody’s taste….</p><p>One of the En’s smallest member states took over the presidency of the European Council at the start of the month. Slovenia – a nation of just over two million people, formerly part of Yugoslavia - will perform the role until the end of the year. But the outspoken personality of its prime minister, Janez Janša, has been causing some concern. The BBC's Balkans Correspondent Guy De Launey lives in Ljubljana and explains some of the awkwardness. </p><p>The landscape of Ireland is dotted with churches and shrines – but you don’t have to enter a building to connect with the spiritual. There are also around three thousand holy wells across the Republic  where natural springs and streams have attracted pilgrims for centuries - both before and after the arrival of Christianity. In County Clare, there’s a particularly rich heritage of going to take the waters and make your prayers. Trish Flanagan has been to one such spot to explore the source of its power.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Years of foreign operations draw to an end; tales from Haiti, Cyprus, Slovenia &amp; Ireland</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>This week sees the end of the NATO mission in  Afghanistan.  These are the last days of a 20-year military presence of British and other forces – and the growing Taliban insurgency is moving quickly into the territory they’re leaving behind. The BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner made numerous reporting trips to the country , four of them in a wheelchair; he reflects on some of the more poignant moments and what the future holds.</p><p>The killing of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise has convulsed a nation all too accustomed to natural and political disaster. President Moïse had been ruling by decree after elections planned for 2019 didn’t happen - sparking mass protests and accusations that he illegally stayed on past his term. Amid the political chaos, in recent months many Haitian cities have also been facing a state of near-anarchy and escalating gang violence. David Adams met and interviewed the late President and weighs up the dangers and the appeal of power in the country. </p><p>Cyprus is assessing the damage of its worst forest fires in decades.  It’s yet another place on earth challenged by the consequences of rising temperatures. Many of its farmers have already had to adapt to hotter, drier weather by changing what they grow. Some hope there might be a revival of the island’s neglected carob industry. Until the 1970’s carob exports were a major component of the economy. But as Charlotte Ashton found out, the crop and its products may not be to everybody’s taste….</p><p>One of the En’s smallest member states took over the presidency of the European Council at the start of the month. Slovenia – a nation of just over two million people, formerly part of Yugoslavia - will perform the role until the end of the year. But the outspoken personality of its prime minister, Janez Janša, has been causing some concern. The BBC's Balkans Correspondent Guy De Launey lives in Ljubljana and explains some of the awkwardness. </p><p>The landscape of Ireland is dotted with churches and shrines – but you don’t have to enter a building to connect with the spiritual. There are also around three thousand holy wells across the Republic  where natural springs and streams have attracted pilgrims for centuries - both before and after the arrival of Christianity. In County Clare, there’s a particularly rich heritage of going to take the waters and make your prayers. Trish Flanagan has been to one such spot to explore the source of its power.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2021 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1741</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09p09c5.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09p09c5.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09p09c5.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09p09h7</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09p09h7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09p09c5.mp3" fileSize="27856000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1741"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09p09h7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Face to face with Abiy Ahmed</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Two weeks ago Ethiopia held a parliamentary election billed as the first truly ‘free and fair’ vote in its history – after nearly 20 years of continuous economic growth. It should have been a success story – but the election was only held in some parts of the country, as war was still raging in the Tigray region. There have been over eight months of armed conflict there as the central government moved to re-establish control; and there have been many reports of atrocities – and of hunger. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has repeatedly claimed government forces were close to victory and described the rebels as “like flour blown away by the wind”. But after a shock reversal as Tigrayan forces retook the regional capital, Mekelle. Catherine Byaruhanga wonders how much longer Mr Ahmed's confidence can hold.</p><p>The South China Sea contains some of the world’s most hotly-disputed waters - with particular strife between the Philippines and China over the rights to some of its reefs and atolls. These are not just useful places to park military assets - but also particularly rich spots to fish. Given the diplomatic tension between Beijing and Manila over the area, Howard Johnson decided to board a fishing vessel and see more for himself.</p><p>The Dalmatian pelican is something special in the bird world – the largest pelican on earth and one of the heaviest things on wings. It’s huge: just as big as the very largest swans, with a wingspan nearly as wide as an albatross's. The global range of the species is also vast – from the Mediterranean shores of Turkey, all the way across central Eurasia, as far east as China. But there are only about 5,000 breeding pairs left in the world, with around 450 of those in the delta of the River Danube. Abdujalil Abdurasulov waded out with a pair of Ukrainian conservationists trying to make the birds feel more at home.</p><p>New York City – once the epicentre of the pandemic in the USA - is emerging from the nightmare of last spring. Hospital admissions are at a record low; restaurants and bars are serving again; the theatres on Broadway are due to reopen in September. But the city has lost a million jobs and many businesses – and it’s still losing New Yorkers. 187,000 households packed up and left in 2020. Lucy Ash has been considering the city’s longer-term future – and seeing how it hopes to lure people back.</p><p>Money might still talk – or even shout – on Wall Street, but on a global level it’s not as much of a physical presence as it used to be. Cash was king once, but these days debit cards or smartphone apps are often more welcome. Yet in many countries around the world, the number of banknotes in circulation is still rising. Kevin Peachey was recently given rare access to a site where millions of these notes are printed and - for one brief moment - thought he might be in for a windfall...</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Ethiopia stonewalls questions on Tigray; stories from the Philippines, USA, Ukraine and UK</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Two weeks ago Ethiopia held a parliamentary election billed as the first truly ‘free and fair’ vote in its history – after nearly 20 years of continuous economic growth. It should have been a success story – but the election was only held in some parts of the country, as war was still raging in the Tigray region. There have been over eight months of armed conflict there as the central government moved to re-establish control; and there have been many reports of atrocities – and of hunger. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has repeatedly claimed government forces were close to victory and described the rebels as “like flour blown away by the wind”. But after a shock reversal as Tigrayan forces retook the regional capital, Mekelle. Catherine Byaruhanga wonders how much longer Mr Ahmed's confidence can hold.</p><p>The South China Sea contains some of the world’s most hotly-disputed waters - with particular strife between the Philippines and China over the rights to some of its reefs and atolls. These are not just useful places to park military assets - but also particularly rich spots to fish. Given the diplomatic tension between Beijing and Manila over the area, Howard Johnson decided to board a fishing vessel and see more for himself.</p><p>The Dalmatian pelican is something special in the bird world – the largest pelican on earth and one of the heaviest things on wings. It’s huge: just as big as the very largest swans, with a wingspan nearly as wide as an albatross's. The global range of the species is also vast – from the Mediterranean shores of Turkey, all the way across central Eurasia, as far east as China. But there are only about 5,000 breeding pairs left in the world, with around 450 of those in the delta of the River Danube. Abdujalil Abdurasulov waded out with a pair of Ukrainian conservationists trying to make the birds feel more at home.</p><p>New York City – once the epicentre of the pandemic in the USA - is emerging from the nightmare of last spring. Hospital admissions are at a record low; restaurants and bars are serving again; the theatres on Broadway are due to reopen in September. But the city has lost a million jobs and many businesses – and it’s still losing New Yorkers. 187,000 households packed up and left in 2020. Lucy Ash has been considering the city’s longer-term future – and seeing how it hopes to lure people back.</p><p>Money might still talk – or even shout – on Wall Street, but on a global level it’s not as much of a physical presence as it used to be. Cash was king once, but these days debit cards or smartphone apps are often more welcome. Yet in many countries around the world, the number of banknotes in circulation is still rising. Kevin Peachey was recently given rare access to a site where millions of these notes are printed and - for one brief moment - thought he might be in for a windfall...</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1728</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09ns011.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09ns011.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09ns011.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09ns07z</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09ns07z</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09ns011.mp3" fileSize="27648000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1728"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09ns07z</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Russia's Vaccine Paradoxes</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Attitudes to Covid in Russia have been very different to those in western Europe. At its government played down the risks and scoffed at ‘pandemic panic’ in the West. That changed as the virus swept across the country and its healthcare system creaked under the pressure – especially in regions far from Moscow. Russia makes its own vaccine, Sputnik V, which it has shared widely with other countries and is now promoting heavily at home. But as Sarah Rainsford explains, the drive to get people jabbed must contend with public cynicism, scepticism and fear.</p><p>Everything in Hong Kong these days points to tighter control from Beijing. The draconian national security law recently introduced in the territory is being applied to stifle protests, criminalise dissent and to get its previously lively press working within stricter limits. China’s government calls this “restoring stability”. Danny Vincent has seen the process unfold. .</p><p>Western Canada is still reeling from a week of record temperatures on the Pacific coast. A freakish heatwave caused snowmelts, which in turn triggered flood warnings; tinder-dry forests burst into flame; and deaths spiked in cities simply not built for the heat. Neal Razzell lives on Vancouver Island and reports on life under the 'heat dome.'</p><p>The lockdown is working - that seems to be the message from India. Daily case numbers and death rates are now far lower than just a few months ago. As very few people have yet been vaccinated, the dip in new cases is being put down to strict lockdown measures imposed in states across the country. But isolation is far from easy to sustain – even if you’re in a rural area. Writer and poet Tishani Doshi has spent the time in a secluded spot in Tamil Nadu where even grocery shopping has become a complex process.</p><p>Governments everywhere have been warned about the global rise in obesity – and its likely costs to public health. But how far can they really change what individuals choose to eat? Chile introduced laws a few years ago to limit the advertising of junk food and to ensure healthy school meals. But three out of four adults - and more than half of all children - in the country are still overweight or obese. In Santiago, Jane Chambers has seen just how resistant some Chileans can be to well-meaning efforts to cut their calories…</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Sputnik V rollout gets more urgent; stories from Hong Kong, Canada, India and Chile</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Attitudes to Covid in Russia have been very different to those in western Europe. At its government played down the risks and scoffed at ‘pandemic panic’ in the West. That changed as the virus swept across the country and its healthcare system creaked under the pressure – especially in regions far from Moscow. Russia makes its own vaccine, Sputnik V, which it has shared widely with other countries and is now promoting heavily at home. But as Sarah Rainsford explains, the drive to get people jabbed must contend with public cynicism, scepticism and fear.</p><p>Everything in Hong Kong these days points to tighter control from Beijing. The draconian national security law recently introduced in the territory is being applied to stifle protests, criminalise dissent and to get its previously lively press working within stricter limits. China’s government calls this “restoring stability”. Danny Vincent has seen the process unfold. .</p><p>Western Canada is still reeling from a week of record temperatures on the Pacific coast. A freakish heatwave caused snowmelts, which in turn triggered flood warnings; tinder-dry forests burst into flame; and deaths spiked in cities simply not built for the heat. Neal Razzell lives on Vancouver Island and reports on life under the 'heat dome.'</p><p>The lockdown is working - that seems to be the message from India. Daily case numbers and death rates are now far lower than just a few months ago. As very few people have yet been vaccinated, the dip in new cases is being put down to strict lockdown measures imposed in states across the country. But isolation is far from easy to sustain – even if you’re in a rural area. Writer and poet Tishani Doshi has spent the time in a secluded spot in Tamil Nadu where even grocery shopping has become a complex process.</p><p>Governments everywhere have been warned about the global rise in obesity – and its likely costs to public health. But how far can they really change what individuals choose to eat? Chile introduced laws a few years ago to limit the advertising of junk food and to ensure healthy school meals. But three out of four adults - and more than half of all children - in the country are still overweight or obese. In Santiago, Jane Chambers has seen just how resistant some Chileans can be to well-meaning efforts to cut their calories…</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2021 11:03:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1726</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09n91tq.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09n91tq.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09n91tq.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09n92g1</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09n92g1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09n91tq.mp3" fileSize="27616000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1726"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09n92g1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Risk of Collapse</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Although final numbers of the dead and missing have still not been tallied, the collapse of the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside, Florida may prove to be the most lethal building failure in American history. Although 37 survivors were pulled from the wreckage in the hours soon after the twelve-storey condominium tower fell, there have been very few rescues since. Now there are questions over whether warning signs of damaged concrete in the twelve-storey structure were taken seriously enough when they were reported – and how safe residents might be in other high-rise structures in Miami and beyond. Will Grant spoke to the families of some residents still unaccounted for.</p><p>The results from France’s regional elections seemed to be pointing to many political currents at once. The sitting government was drubbed – some called it an “implosion” for Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron’s party La Republique en Marche. Traditional parties on the left and at the centre-right did unexpectedly well. The turnout was dismal – a record low of around 35% . But there was particular disappointment for the hard right Rassemblement National (formerly the Front National) which saw none of its predicted gains materialise in Provence and the south. Fleur McDonald is in one town near Avignon where the party of Marine Le Pen had expected to do well.</p><p>Eastern Australia is still struggling to contain a cyclical natural plague… of mice. Apart from the danger to human health, the surge also means serious financial losses for Australian farmers - some properties still have thousands of rodents rampaging across their grain stores every night. But the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority has just rejected an application from the government of New South Wales to allow the use of one of the most effective poisons available. Steve Evans reports from Canberra.</p><p>From day to day, citizens of Lebanon watch how their crumbling pound is doing against the dollar, and fret over the cost of basic essentials like food and petrol. Many of them also wonder whether their leaders will manage to form a new Cabinet and a functioning government. Lebanon is now one of the world’s diaspora nations, with more citizens living outside the country than within it. Many of them were driven to distrac tion – and then driven out – by the frustration of having to deal with a dysfunctional state. Mo Chreif [went home to investigate the causes of the huge blast which rocked Beirut ten months ago, and uncovered even more than he’d suspected.</p><p>And following the historic result of the England-Germany game at Wembley, might both countries start reinventing their stereotypes of each other? Damien McGuinness has been thinking it over in Berlin.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A high-rise disaster in Florida; plus stories from France, Australia, Lebanon and Germany</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Although final numbers of the dead and missing have still not been tallied, the collapse of the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside, Florida may prove to be the most lethal building failure in American history. Although 37 survivors were pulled from the wreckage in the hours soon after the twelve-storey condominium tower fell, there have been very few rescues since. Now there are questions over whether warning signs of damaged concrete in the twelve-storey structure were taken seriously enough when they were reported – and how safe residents might be in other high-rise structures in Miami and beyond. Will Grant spoke to the families of some residents still unaccounted for.</p><p>The results from France’s regional elections seemed to be pointing to many political currents at once. The sitting government was drubbed – some called it an “implosion” for Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron’s party La Republique en Marche. Traditional parties on the left and at the centre-right did unexpectedly well. The turnout was dismal – a record low of around 35% . But there was particular disappointment for the hard right Rassemblement National (formerly the Front National) which saw none of its predicted gains materialise in Provence and the south. Fleur McDonald is in one town near Avignon where the party of Marine Le Pen had expected to do well.</p><p>Eastern Australia is still struggling to contain a cyclical natural plague… of mice. Apart from the danger to human health, the surge also means serious financial losses for Australian farmers - some properties still have thousands of rodents rampaging across their grain stores every night. But the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority has just rejected an application from the government of New South Wales to allow the use of one of the most effective poisons available. Steve Evans reports from Canberra.</p><p>From day to day, citizens of Lebanon watch how their crumbling pound is doing against the dollar, and fret over the cost of basic essentials like food and petrol. Many of them also wonder whether their leaders will manage to form a new Cabinet and a functioning government. Lebanon is now one of the world’s diaspora nations, with more citizens living outside the country than within it. Many of them were driven to distrac tion – and then driven out – by the frustration of having to deal with a dysfunctional state. Mo Chreif [went home to investigate the causes of the huge blast which rocked Beirut ten months ago, and uncovered even more than he’d suspected.</p><p>And following the historic result of the England-Germany game at Wembley, might both countries start reinventing their stereotypes of each other? Damien McGuinness has been thinking it over in Berlin.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1723</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09n2q32.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09n2q32.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09n2q32.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09n2qfy</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09n2qfy</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09n2q32.mp3" fileSize="27568000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1723"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09n2qfy</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>America's Border Camps for Children</title><description><![CDATA[<p>On the United States Mexico border, the dilemmas of how to treat migrant families arriving without papers are still acute. A BBC investigation has found hundreds of undocumented children were being detained in a camp in the Texan desert that's been ridden with disease, overcrowded, and plagued by a shortage of clean clothes and medical care. Hilary Andersson has been investigating the conditions inside Fort Bliss, El Paso.</p><p>Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez took a momentous decision this week: to pardon nine Catalan pro-independence leaders who were jailed for their role in a bid to break away from Spain in 2017. The pardons are meant to soothe national tensions over the issue, but as Guy Hedgecoe reports from Madrid, the reactions to them reflected some deeply-held feelings across the country.</p><p>As Afghanistan’s leaders met Joseph Biden at the White House on Friday the mood in Kabul was edgy. The Taliban are still extending their reach and hold on Afghan territory, gaining new ground each day. For the Afghan media it’s a particularly nervous time after a spate of targeted killings of journalists. During such dangerous days, a recent invitation to the corridors of power in Kabul got Karim Haidari thinking.</p><p>In late December last year a black man was killed by police in Dublin. George Nkencho was followed home after he assaulted someone in a shop and pulled out a knife. He was shot near his front door. The Irish police are mostly unarmed, and this was the sixth fatal shooting by a member of the force in 22 years. But there are questions over whether race may have been a factor in the incident. Stephanie Hegarty met George Nkencho’s family as they were pushing for an independent inquiry into his death.</p><p>Hasankeyf in southeastern Turkey is one of humanity's oldest urban settlements - inhabited for at least twelve thousand years. Or at least old Hasankeyf was - until it was flooded by the waters built up behind the controversial Ilisu Dam. Some original monuments – its bathhouse and remnants of a 14th-century mosque, as well as over 500 graves - were rescued, but many local people wonder whether too much of its special character has been lost forever. Michelle Jana Chan went to see what remains.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Misery at US migrant camps for children; tales from Spain, Afghanistan, Ireland &amp; Turkey</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>On the United States Mexico border, the dilemmas of how to treat migrant families arriving without papers are still acute. A BBC investigation has found hundreds of undocumented children were being detained in a camp in the Texan desert that's been ridden with disease, overcrowded, and plagued by a shortage of clean clothes and medical care. Hilary Andersson has been investigating the conditions inside Fort Bliss, El Paso.</p><p>Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez took a momentous decision this week: to pardon nine Catalan pro-independence leaders who were jailed for their role in a bid to break away from Spain in 2017. The pardons are meant to soothe national tensions over the issue, but as Guy Hedgecoe reports from Madrid, the reactions to them reflected some deeply-held feelings across the country.</p><p>As Afghanistan’s leaders met Joseph Biden at the White House on Friday the mood in Kabul was edgy. The Taliban are still extending their reach and hold on Afghan territory, gaining new ground each day. For the Afghan media it’s a particularly nervous time after a spate of targeted killings of journalists. During such dangerous days, a recent invitation to the corridors of power in Kabul got Karim Haidari thinking.</p><p>In late December last year a black man was killed by police in Dublin. George Nkencho was followed home after he assaulted someone in a shop and pulled out a knife. He was shot near his front door. The Irish police are mostly unarmed, and this was the sixth fatal shooting by a member of the force in 22 years. But there are questions over whether race may have been a factor in the incident. Stephanie Hegarty met George Nkencho’s family as they were pushing for an independent inquiry into his death.</p><p>Hasankeyf in southeastern Turkey is one of humanity's oldest urban settlements - inhabited for at least twelve thousand years. Or at least old Hasankeyf was - until it was flooded by the waters built up behind the controversial Ilisu Dam. Some original monuments – its bathhouse and remnants of a 14th-century mosque, as well as over 500 graves - were rescued, but many local people wonder whether too much of its special character has been lost forever. Michelle Jana Chan went to see what remains.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2021 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1722</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09mm8z7.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09mm8z7.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09mm8z7.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09mm9nn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09mm9nn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09mm8z7.mp3" fileSize="27552000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1722"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09mm9nn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Denmark’s deportation dilemma</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The government of Mette Frederiksen in Copenhagen is getting tough on migration - and has even started to rescind the residency status of some asylum-seekers where it deems the situation in their home countries 'safe' or at least improved. Adrienne Murray  reflects on the signs of resistance she's seen on the streets, and the questions these moves raise about Danish policy.</p><p>Amira Fathalla has spent the last decade monitoring every twist and turn of Libya's apparent disintegration - and reflects on whither this week's peace conference in Germany can really strengthen its current, fragile government of national unity. Is this a final moment of truth for the post-Gaddafi order and a chance to get free and fair elections organised before the end of the year?</p><p>South America is currently the epicentre of the global Covid pandemic, with some of the world's highest death rates and infections with all variants spreading extremely quickly. Anxiety's particularly high in Argentina, where by some measures things are even worse than in Brazil at the moment. Natalio Cosoy reports from Buenos Aires on the consequences for sport, socialising and the country's self-image.</p><p>Although NGOs often express concern about illegal logging, mining and poaching in Liberia, there are parts of the country which are still thickly forested and full of animals - some of them edible. Lucinda Rouse went into the woods with a couple of hunters who catch creatures for cash - or for their own tables. Sadly, one of the most sought-after meats is the sweet flesh of several endangered and threatened species of pangolin. </p><p>And Hugh Schofield leaves us both shaken and stirred by his adventures through the pages of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels - which, as it turns out, are packed full of photographic detail about the authors' travels in France. Retracing the steps of the spy and his adversaries, he finds there is plenty which can still be recognised from the books
  788. Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Can asylum seekers be sent back? Plus tales from Libya, Argentina, Liberia and France</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The government of Mette Frederiksen in Copenhagen is getting tough on migration - and has even started to rescind the residency status of some asylum-seekers where it deems the situation in their home countries 'safe' or at least improved. Adrienne Murray  reflects on the signs of resistance she's seen on the streets, and the questions these moves raise about Danish policy.</p><p>Amira Fathalla has spent the last decade monitoring every twist and turn of Libya's apparent disintegration - and reflects on whither this week's peace conference in Germany can really strengthen its current, fragile government of national unity. Is this a final moment of truth for the post-Gaddafi order and a chance to get free and fair elections organised before the end of the year?</p><p>South America is currently the epicentre of the global Covid pandemic, with some of the world's highest death rates and infections with all variants spreading extremely quickly. Anxiety's particularly high in Argentina, where by some measures things are even worse than in Brazil at the moment. Natalio Cosoy reports from Buenos Aires on the consequences for sport, socialising and the country's self-image.</p><p>Although NGOs often express concern about illegal logging, mining and poaching in Liberia, there are parts of the country which are still thickly forested and full of animals - some of them edible. Lucinda Rouse went into the woods with a couple of hunters who catch creatures for cash - or for their own tables. Sadly, one of the most sought-after meats is the sweet flesh of several endangered and threatened species of pangolin. </p><p>And Hugh Schofield leaves us both shaken and stirred by his adventures through the pages of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels - which, as it turns out, are packed full of photographic detail about the authors' travels in France. Retracing the steps of the spy and his adversaries, he finds there is plenty which can still be recognised from the books
  789. Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2021 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1729</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09mdslp.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09mdslp.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09mdslp.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09mdszv</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09mdszv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09mdslp.mp3" fileSize="27664000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1729"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09mdszv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>News Management in Belarus</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The crackdown on dissent and reporting in Belarus goes on, and its authorities are keen to present their version of events to the world. At a recent press conference in Minsk, Jonah Fisher was presented with a dilemma when detained blogger and protester Roman Protasevich was brought out to speak to assembled journalists and diplomats.</p><p>High in the Himalayas, Nepal is one of the world's poorest countries, with a weak and under-funded health system, particularly in rural areas. Rajini Vaidyanathan travelled there to report on the impact the pandemic is having on families across the country.</p><p>Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was one of the most infamous drug cartel heads in Mexico for years - though he's ended up jailed for life in a supermax prison in the USA. Tara McKelvey covered his trial in New York in 2019, where she saw one of his former mistresses give dramatic testimony - and met his wife in the courthouse cafeteria. Two years on, the two women's fortunes have very much reversed.</p><p>Bukhara is one of the most renowned of the ancient cities along the ancient Silk Road linking China and the West - a storied place with millennia of artistic and intellectual history embedded in its mosques, madrasas and mausoleums. Sara Wheeler chose a more intimate kind of building to get a feel of its history.</p><p>And Andrew Harding recalls moments on the road across Africa - from Libya to Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire to Zimbabwe - when it took a team to get the job done. While the joke goes that reporters get the credit and camera operators get the fun, what is the producer's lot? Some of them - like his colleague Becky Lipscombe, now leaving the BBC - really can make all the difference.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Shock at a Minsk press conference; tales from Nepal, Uzbekistan the USA and across Africa</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The crackdown on dissent and reporting in Belarus goes on, and its authorities are keen to present their version of events to the world. At a recent press conference in Minsk, Jonah Fisher was presented with a dilemma when detained blogger and protester Roman Protasevich was brought out to speak to assembled journalists and diplomats.</p><p>High in the Himalayas, Nepal is one of the world's poorest countries, with a weak and under-funded health system, particularly in rural areas. Rajini Vaidyanathan travelled there to report on the impact the pandemic is having on families across the country.</p><p>Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was one of the most infamous drug cartel heads in Mexico for years - though he's ended up jailed for life in a supermax prison in the USA. Tara McKelvey covered his trial in New York in 2019, where she saw one of his former mistresses give dramatic testimony - and met his wife in the courthouse cafeteria. Two years on, the two women's fortunes have very much reversed.</p><p>Bukhara is one of the most renowned of the ancient cities along the ancient Silk Road linking China and the West - a storied place with millennia of artistic and intellectual history embedded in its mosques, madrasas and mausoleums. Sara Wheeler chose a more intimate kind of building to get a feel of its history.</p><p>And Andrew Harding recalls moments on the road across Africa - from Libya to Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire to Zimbabwe - when it took a team to get the job done. While the joke goes that reporters get the credit and camera operators get the fun, what is the producer's lot? Some of them - like his colleague Becky Lipscombe, now leaving the BBC - really can make all the difference.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2021 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1732</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09lyqj4.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09lyqj4.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09lyqj4.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09lyqzt</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09lyqzt</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09lyqj4.mp3" fileSize="27712000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1732"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09lyqzt</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Lasting tensions in Jaffa</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Israel's new coalition has been sworn in, drawing on the support of parties from across the political spectrum. It includes the first party in an Israeli government to be drawn from Israel's 21% Arab minority - Palestinian heritage, but Israeli by citizenship. One major challenge will be dealing with the tensions sharpened by the worst outbreak of intercommunal violence for a generation. Last month, Jewish and Arab mobs took to the streets of Israel’s mixed cities - attacking passers-by, looting shops and desecrating religious sites. As Yolande Knell reports from Jaffa, these incidents opened up divisions that will be hard to heal.</p><p>Iranians are due to vote in their next President - but not all of them are likely to turn out to the polls. Public apathy seems to be a growing problem; but there have also been open calls for people to boycott the election. Parham Ghobadi works for the BBC’s Persian Service from London, and has been trying to gauge voters’ opinions about their limited options.</p><p>The pandemic has hit Romania hard – the country has endured several rounds of lockdowns and re-openings and two significant spikes in deaths in December and April. They all exposed failings the struggling Romanian health system - particularly in rural areas. Stephen McGrath lives in Transylvania and recently lost a neighbour who was a friend not only to him, but to the whole village.</p><p>On both sides of the Atlantic, there can be no refuge from present controversies in burying yourself in the past - as even matters of historical fact have become incendiary. As a history graduate from Cambridge with a PhD in American politics from Oxford, who's also spent decades reporting from around the world, Nick Bryant is well used to taking the long view. He looks back on his hectic years in New York City covering everything from the rise of Donald Trump to the goings-on at the United Nations HQ - and walks through the many histories of his adopted home.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel at odds; stories from Iran, Romania and the USA</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Israel's new coalition has been sworn in, drawing on the support of parties from across the political spectrum. It includes the first party in an Israeli government to be drawn from Israel's 21% Arab minority - Palestinian heritage, but Israeli by citizenship. One major challenge will be dealing with the tensions sharpened by the worst outbreak of intercommunal violence for a generation. Last month, Jewish and Arab mobs took to the streets of Israel’s mixed cities - attacking passers-by, looting shops and desecrating religious sites. As Yolande Knell reports from Jaffa, these incidents opened up divisions that will be hard to heal.</p><p>Iranians are due to vote in their next President - but not all of them are likely to turn out to the polls. Public apathy seems to be a growing problem; but there have also been open calls for people to boycott the election. Parham Ghobadi works for the BBC’s Persian Service from London, and has been trying to gauge voters’ opinions about their limited options.</p><p>The pandemic has hit Romania hard – the country has endured several rounds of lockdowns and re-openings and two significant spikes in deaths in December and April. They all exposed failings the struggling Romanian health system - particularly in rural areas. Stephen McGrath lives in Transylvania and recently lost a neighbour who was a friend not only to him, but to the whole village.</p><p>On both sides of the Atlantic, there can be no refuge from present controversies in burying yourself in the past - as even matters of historical fact have become incendiary. As a history graduate from Cambridge with a PhD in American politics from Oxford, who's also spent decades reporting from around the world, Nick Bryant is well used to taking the long view. He looks back on his hectic years in New York City covering everything from the rise of Donald Trump to the goings-on at the United Nations HQ - and walks through the many histories of his adopted home.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2021 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1724</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09lrbfk.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09lrbfk.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09lrbfk.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09lrc1b</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09lrc1b</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09lrbfk.mp3" fileSize="27584000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1724"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09lrc1b</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>North Korea cracks down on outside influences</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Recent reports from Pyongyang have hinted at an intensified effort to root out foreign fashion, slang and media in North Korea. Its regime has repeatedly punished people who smuggle in DVDs of South Korean TV and film dramas, but the penalties are now even harsher. Laura Bicker reports from Seoul on the risks for North Koreans who try to break their isolation, whether by consuming forbidden culture or even escaping the country themselves.</p><p>As Joe Biden meets other world leaders at the G7 summit in Cornwall, there are still many Americans who aren't yet convinced he is the legitimate President of the United States. Gabriel Gatehouse was recently given unusual insight into this mindset.</p><p>Press freedom in Pakistan is a touchy issue - and more so now after a string of incidents where reporters have been physically attacked. Secunder Kermani analyses where the 'red lines' lie for broadcast media, and the allegations that the country's security services have been directly pressuring journalists.</p><p>Turkey's Sea of Marmara is enduring a mucilaginous ordeal - as a slimy, choking layer of so-called "sea snot" smothers its shores. It's a catastrophe for local fishing villages; President Erdogan has launched a clean-up this week. Neyran Elden of the BBC Turkish Service happens to be an experienced scuba diver - so she suited up to go beneath the surface and take a look at the sea bed. What she saw wasn't pretty.</p><p>Citizens of EU countries in the UK are being strongly encouraged to sort out their residency status before the end of this month. For British citizens living abroad, the experience of getting their own paperwork has varied by country. Luke Tuddenham recently had a surprising brush with bureaucracy in Lower Saxony in Germany.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Spreading or consuming foreign media is punished. Plus: USA, Pakistan, Turkey and Germany</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Recent reports from Pyongyang have hinted at an intensified effort to root out foreign fashion, slang and media in North Korea. Its regime has repeatedly punished people who smuggle in DVDs of South Korean TV and film dramas, but the penalties are now even harsher. Laura Bicker reports from Seoul on the risks for North Koreans who try to break their isolation, whether by consuming forbidden culture or even escaping the country themselves.</p><p>As Joe Biden meets other world leaders at the G7 summit in Cornwall, there are still many Americans who aren't yet convinced he is the legitimate President of the United States. Gabriel Gatehouse was recently given unusual insight into this mindset.</p><p>Press freedom in Pakistan is a touchy issue - and more so now after a string of incidents where reporters have been physically attacked. Secunder Kermani analyses where the 'red lines' lie for broadcast media, and the allegations that the country's security services have been directly pressuring journalists.</p><p>Turkey's Sea of Marmara is enduring a mucilaginous ordeal - as a slimy, choking layer of so-called "sea snot" smothers its shores. It's a catastrophe for local fishing villages; President Erdogan has launched a clean-up this week. Neyran Elden of the BBC Turkish Service happens to be an experienced scuba diver - so she suited up to go beneath the surface and take a look at the sea bed. What she saw wasn't pretty.</p><p>Citizens of EU countries in the UK are being strongly encouraged to sort out their residency status before the end of this month. For British citizens living abroad, the experience of getting their own paperwork has varied by country. Luke Tuddenham recently had a surprising brush with bureaucracy in Lower Saxony in Germany.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2021 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1725</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09l9bkd.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09l9bkd.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09l9bkd.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09l9c51</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09l9c51</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09l9bkd.mp3" fileSize="27600000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1725"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09l9c51</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Thailand's youth protest movement stalls</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Not long ago, a wave of unprecedented public protests in Thailand over royal privileges and youth concerns made some Thais feel they were on the brink of change. Now the picture is very different: many of the movement's leading figures are in jail or awaiting trial and their dreams seem to have been deferred. Jonathan Head considers what the youth protest movement has achieved, and what sort of a precedent its fate sets for others in Southeast Asia - most notably for Myanmar.</p><p>Colombia is currently living through its own wave of street protests - over everything from tax policy to austerity, job opportunities to racism. Demonstrators and police have faced off in cities across the country, sometimes with lethal results. Daniel Pardo reports from Cali, one of the focal points of the the nationwide 'resistance' - and hears worries that the country's sliding back into division.</p><p>In the Czech Republic, moves to abolish the rules dictating the correct form for women's surnames are gaining ground. From Praque, Rob Cameron explains the grammatical and gender issues at stake - and the social change reflected in the proposed reform.</p><p>Ferrara, in Italy's Emilia Romagna region, is a famously prosperous and beautiful city with a rich cultural heritage - but whatever its visual splendour, its greatest arts of all might be the culinary ones. Julia Buckley has been getting a taste of its edible history via recipes from a cookbook first put together in the 1540s, by the man who served as master of ceremonies at the palatial court of the Este family.</p><p>And in Georgia, Mark Stratton delves into the extraordinary qvevri - the giant earthenware jars traditionally used to store and age some of the the country's renowned  wines. These immense, amphora-like clay pots encapsulate Georgia's ancient identity and are key to the special flavour of many of its most treasured reds, whites - and ambers - as well as the extremely potent liquor known as chacha.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>How far can protests really change Thailand? Plus Colombia, Czech Rep, Italy, Georgia</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Not long ago, a wave of unprecedented public protests in Thailand over royal privileges and youth concerns made some Thais feel they were on the brink of change. Now the picture is very different: many of the movement's leading figures are in jail or awaiting trial and their dreams seem to have been deferred. Jonathan Head considers what the youth protest movement has achieved, and what sort of a precedent its fate sets for others in Southeast Asia - most notably for Myanmar.</p><p>Colombia is currently living through its own wave of street protests - over everything from tax policy to austerity, job opportunities to racism. Demonstrators and police have faced off in cities across the country, sometimes with lethal results. Daniel Pardo reports from Cali, one of the focal points of the the nationwide 'resistance' - and hears worries that the country's sliding back into division.</p><p>In the Czech Republic, moves to abolish the rules dictating the correct form for women's surnames are gaining ground. From Praque, Rob Cameron explains the grammatical and gender issues at stake - and the social change reflected in the proposed reform.</p><p>Ferrara, in Italy's Emilia Romagna region, is a famously prosperous and beautiful city with a rich cultural heritage - but whatever its visual splendour, its greatest arts of all might be the culinary ones. Julia Buckley has been getting a taste of its edible history via recipes from a cookbook first put together in the 1540s, by the man who served as master of ceremonies at the palatial court of the Este family.</p><p>And in Georgia, Mark Stratton delves into the extraordinary qvevri - the giant earthenware jars traditionally used to store and age some of the the country's renowned  wines. These immense, amphora-like clay pots encapsulate Georgia's ancient identity and are key to the special flavour of many of its most treasured reds, whites - and ambers - as well as the extremely potent liquor known as chacha.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2021 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1726</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09l2q72.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09l2q72.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09l2q72.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09l2qnj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09l2qnj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09l2q72.mp3" fileSize="27616000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1726"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09l2qnj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A new coalition in Israel's Knesset</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Benjamin Netanyahu has outsmarted many attempts to drive him from power - but a new alliance is manoeuvring to unseat him. Tom Bateman reports from Jerusalem on the unusual array of parties now teaming up in coalition - ranging from right-wing Jewish nationalists to a religious party for Muslim Israelis of Palestinian heritage.</p><p>Sarah Rainsford has reported on several waves of repression in Belarus for the BBC. But her most recent visit to Minsk revealed a pall of fear settling over the country's news media, dissidents and protesters.</p><p>The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently visited Costa Rica to talk migration and development aid with the foreign ministers of Central America. What changes in policy is the Biden administration considering - and what does it have to offer the region to deter people from trying to make it to the Mexico/US border? Will Grant was in San Jose to see what was on the table.</p><p>Japan is a nation famous for its team spirit, its hospitality, and its love of a big event. But as Rupert Wingfield Hayes comments from Tokyo, there's little public enthusiasm for the Olympic Games - as the opening ceremony in July draws closer, even as new doubts arise over pandemic safety and travel restrictions.</p><p>For more than twenty years the late Milan Bandic served as mayor of Croatia's capital, Zagreb - and some citizens say he treated it as a personal fiefdom. He had many colourful run-ins with the law, but there was also a far wider range of accusations that corruption and cronyism were spoiling the city's reputation and driving young Croatians abroad. Guy De Launey explains why nearly two-thirds of voters just chose a young, Green candidate to clean up their surroundings.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Parties join forces against Netanyahu; plus Belarus, Central America, Japan and Croatia</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Benjamin Netanyahu has outsmarted many attempts to drive him from power - but a new alliance is manoeuvring to unseat him. Tom Bateman reports from Jerusalem on the unusual array of parties now teaming up in coalition - ranging from right-wing Jewish nationalists to a religious party for Muslim Israelis of Palestinian heritage.</p><p>Sarah Rainsford has reported on several waves of repression in Belarus for the BBC. But her most recent visit to Minsk revealed a pall of fear settling over the country's news media, dissidents and protesters.</p><p>The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently visited Costa Rica to talk migration and development aid with the foreign ministers of Central America. What changes in policy is the Biden administration considering - and what does it have to offer the region to deter people from trying to make it to the Mexico/US border? Will Grant was in San Jose to see what was on the table.</p><p>Japan is a nation famous for its team spirit, its hospitality, and its love of a big event. But as Rupert Wingfield Hayes comments from Tokyo, there's little public enthusiasm for the Olympic Games - as the opening ceremony in July draws closer, even as new doubts arise over pandemic safety and travel restrictions.</p><p>For more than twenty years the late Milan Bandic served as mayor of Croatia's capital, Zagreb - and some citizens say he treated it as a personal fiefdom. He had many colourful run-ins with the law, but there was also a far wider range of accusations that corruption and cronyism were spoiling the city's reputation and driving young Croatians abroad. Guy De Launey explains why nearly two-thirds of voters just chose a young, Green candidate to clean up their surroundings.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2021 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1716</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09knbxq.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09knbxq.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09knbxq.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09kncjr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09kncjr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09knbxq.mp3" fileSize="27456000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1716"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09kncjr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Somaliland's can-do spirit</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Somaliland claims to be an independent republic, though it is not internationally recognised and Somalia still claims the territory. It issues passports, has its own army, flag and president - and this week it held long-delayed elections. Mary Harper, a regular visitor, explains what the polls meant to Somaliland's people - especially some of its most marginalised.
  790. This weekend, Peruvian voters have to choose between two candidates for the Presidency - after a fragmented and confusing first round, the contest is now a neck-and-neck race between Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori. In Lima, Dan Collyns senses the mood polarising - and hears how heated the rhetoric has become.
  791. Iraq's Jewish community was once hundreds of thousands strong - but it's been whittled away drastically since the 1940s by persecution, emigration and ageing. Lizzie Porter has witnessed how Jewish sites across the country have changed, and how many are crumbling into disuse and neglect. But there are also people working to preserve this unique heritage.
  792. The pandemic meant many Singaporeans haven't been able to travel far for months, so there's been a surge of interest in the city-states last remaining wild spaces - the green areas where birds and tropical plants still flourish. Sharanjit Leyl is a keen birdwatcher herself, and says her fellow twitchers are worried over the future of their forests.
  793. And in southwestern France, Chris Bockman recently met a village mayor with unusual powers. Nothing to do with local government guidelines; rather, he's believed by many to be capable of healing illnesses, lifting curses - and even exorcism.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>An unusual election in Africa and a rancorous one in Peru; plus Iraq, Singapore and France</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Somaliland claims to be an independent republic, though it is not internationally recognised and Somalia still claims the territory. It issues passports, has its own army, flag and president - and this week it held long-delayed elections. Mary Harper, a regular visitor, explains what the polls meant to Somaliland's people - especially some of its most marginalised.
  794. This weekend, Peruvian voters have to choose between two candidates for the Presidency - after a fragmented and confusing first round, the contest is now a neck-and-neck race between Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori. In Lima, Dan Collyns senses the mood polarising - and hears how heated the rhetoric has become.
  795. Iraq's Jewish community was once hundreds of thousands strong - but it's been whittled away drastically since the 1940s by persecution, emigration and ageing. Lizzie Porter has witnessed how Jewish sites across the country have changed, and how many are crumbling into disuse and neglect. But there are also people working to preserve this unique heritage.
  796. The pandemic meant many Singaporeans haven't been able to travel far for months, so there's been a surge of interest in the city-states last remaining wild spaces - the green areas where birds and tropical plants still flourish. Sharanjit Leyl is a keen birdwatcher herself, and says her fellow twitchers are worried over the future of their forests.
  797. And in southwestern France, Chris Bockman recently met a village mayor with unusual powers. Nothing to do with local government guidelines; rather, he's believed by many to be capable of healing illnesses, lifting curses - and even exorcism.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2021 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1736</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09kfftw.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09kfftw.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09kfftw.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09kfghy</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09kfghy</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09kfftw.mp3" fileSize="27776000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1736"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09kfghy</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Zuma on Trial</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Former President Jacob Zuma's long-delayed fraud trial saw a surge in interest this week as the accused arrived to plead not guilty to all charges. Andrew Harding has been following this intricate case for years and was in court in Pietermaritzburg.</p><p>The worst of the pandemic may have passed in India's megacities, but the virus is still spreading fast in rural areas - and leaving lasting grief and trauma across the country. Rajini Vaidyanathan reflects from Delhi on the sadness now permeating all levels of society.</p><p>Chinese consumers have been knocking back Australian wine with gusto in recent years, even as political relations between Beijing and Canberra have grown ever more strained. But the export boom might not last. Shaimaa Khalil reports from the Barossa Valley in South Australia, where they're bracing for the impact of new Chinese tariffs on imports.</p><p>In Canada, a Catholic archdiocese has been found liable for damages to be awarded to several survivors of physical and sexual abuse in a Church-run orphanage. Greg Mercer talked to one man who grew up in the Mount Cashel home.</p><p>The city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo is surrounded by dangers - armed rebel groups, a lake with dangerous levels of dissolved CO2 and methane - and now an erupting volcano. Olivia Acland was one of the tens of thousands who had to join a mass evacuation as Nyiragongo rumbled.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>South Africa's former leader in court; stories from India, Australia, Canada and DR Congo</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Former President Jacob Zuma's long-delayed fraud trial saw a surge in interest this week as the accused arrived to plead not guilty to all charges. Andrew Harding has been following this intricate case for years and was in court in Pietermaritzburg.</p><p>The worst of the pandemic may have passed in India's megacities, but the virus is still spreading fast in rural areas - and leaving lasting grief and trauma across the country. Rajini Vaidyanathan reflects from Delhi on the sadness now permeating all levels of society.</p><p>Chinese consumers have been knocking back Australian wine with gusto in recent years, even as political relations between Beijing and Canberra have grown ever more strained. But the export boom might not last. Shaimaa Khalil reports from the Barossa Valley in South Australia, where they're bracing for the impact of new Chinese tariffs on imports.</p><p>In Canada, a Catholic archdiocese has been found liable for damages to be awarded to several survivors of physical and sexual abuse in a Church-run orphanage. Greg Mercer talked to one man who grew up in the Mount Cashel home.</p><p>The city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo is surrounded by dangers - armed rebel groups, a lake with dangerous levels of dissolved CO2 and methane - and now an erupting volcano. Olivia Acland was one of the tens of thousands who had to join a mass evacuation as Nyiragongo rumbled.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2021 11:05:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1731</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09k0dp4.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09k0dp4.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09k0dp4.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09k0fz6</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09k0fz6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09k0dp4.mp3" fileSize="27696000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1731"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09k0fz6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Caught in the crossfire along the Thailand/Myanmar border</title><description><![CDATA[<p>:  Laura Bicker reports from a remote corner of Thailand’s border with Myanmar, where villagers’ lives are being disrupted as the Burmese military pursues insurgent groups. Since the generals' takeover in February, hundreds of people have died in Myanmar's cities after mass protests. In rural areas, several rebel militias – most formed by ethnic minorities – which have been resisting the military for decades are renewing their fight.
  798. Last weekend the diversion of a Ryanair flight to Minsk in Belarus – though it was meant to be going to Lithuania – caused generalised outrage. After an alleged bomb threat, the plane had to land straight away. But it seems the real target on board was a young critic of the Belarusian government, James Landale analyses the shock felt across Europe as other countries judge how to respond.
  799. After Idriss Deby, Chad's longtime head of state, was reportedly killed in battle in April, many hoped his death might offer a chance to hold free and fair elections. Instead Mr Déby’s son, a general, now rules the country. Activists fear that their window for change might soon slam shut. In N'Djamena, Mayeni Jones found those in power don’t always share the priorities of ordinary Chadians.
  800. In recent days, several thousand migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish city of Ceuta. It's happened before but the numbers this time were unprecedented. Guy Hedgecoe reflects on the backdrop to this incident and complex history binding Spain and Morocco.
  801. As Chileans’ household budgets have grown tighter, they’ve also grown more worried about their country’s once-emblematic pension system. Now a new breed of politician is seizing the limelight by suggesting voters should just go ahead and raid the kitty, says Jane Chambers in Santiago.
  802. Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Villagers suffer as the Burmese military crack down; Belarus, Spain, Chad and Chile</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>:  Laura Bicker reports from a remote corner of Thailand’s border with Myanmar, where villagers’ lives are being disrupted as the Burmese military pursues insurgent groups. Since the generals' takeover in February, hundreds of people have died in Myanmar's cities after mass protests. In rural areas, several rebel militias – most formed by ethnic minorities – which have been resisting the military for decades are renewing their fight.
  803. Last weekend the diversion of a Ryanair flight to Minsk in Belarus – though it was meant to be going to Lithuania – caused generalised outrage. After an alleged bomb threat, the plane had to land straight away. But it seems the real target on board was a young critic of the Belarusian government, James Landale analyses the shock felt across Europe as other countries judge how to respond.
  804. After Idriss Deby, Chad's longtime head of state, was reportedly killed in battle in April, many hoped his death might offer a chance to hold free and fair elections. Instead Mr Déby’s son, a general, now rules the country. Activists fear that their window for change might soon slam shut. In N'Djamena, Mayeni Jones found those in power don’t always share the priorities of ordinary Chadians.
  805. In recent days, several thousand migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish city of Ceuta. It's happened before but the numbers this time were unprecedented. Guy Hedgecoe reflects on the backdrop to this incident and complex history binding Spain and Morocco.
  806. As Chileans’ household budgets have grown tighter, they’ve also grown more worried about their country’s once-emblematic pension system. Now a new breed of politician is seizing the limelight by suggesting voters should just go ahead and raid the kitty, says Jane Chambers in Santiago.
  807. Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2021 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1729</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09jrbpx.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09jrbpx.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09jrbpx.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09jrc07</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09jrc07</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09jrbpx.mp3" fileSize="27664000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1729"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09jrc07</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The bravery and anger of Afghanistan's schoolgirls</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The attack on a Kabul school on May 8th heightened fears about what will happen when US and NATO troops fully withdraw from the country. More than 80 people were killed – most of them schoolgirls. It was in an area west of the city, home to many from the minority Hazara community, often targeted for attack. Lyse Doucet talked to some of the survivors and heard of their anger at the failure to protect them.
  808. In East Jerusalem, a battle over property has channelled long-held tensions and unresolved grievances. In the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, protestors have been trying to stop Israel evicting eight Palestinian families. Israel’s Supreme Court has delayed a hearing on the evictions, but the case, along with complaints of heavy-handed policing of the Al Aqsa compound during Ramadan, ignited the recent round of violence in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. Paul Adams visited the streets at the heart of the dispute.
  809. Indonesia's capital Jakarta is one of the world’s most polluted cities. Now some of its residents have launched a court case trying to push the government to clean up its atmosphere. Rebecca Henschke, who lived in the city for over a decade, reports on their fight to breathe more easily.
  810. For now, Portugal is one of the places British tourists can go without quarantining and the hospitality industry in the Algarve is eager to welcome them back. Nick Beake spoke to local businesspeople hoping to get back in gear.
  811. Emma Jane Kirby has reported for the BBC from across Europe and beyond – in settings ranging from the glitz of the Cote d’Azur to the squalor of Sangatte. She's covered big stories and described plenty of dramatic scenes, from shipwrecks to furious street protests. But she’s now working in a different world … the fictional universe of the Archers.
  812. Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Survivors' defiance after a bombing in Kabul; tales from Jerusalem, Jakarta, and Portugal</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The attack on a Kabul school on May 8th heightened fears about what will happen when US and NATO troops fully withdraw from the country. More than 80 people were killed – most of them schoolgirls. It was in an area west of the city, home to many from the minority Hazara community, often targeted for attack. Lyse Doucet talked to some of the survivors and heard of their anger at the failure to protect them.
  813. In East Jerusalem, a battle over property has channelled long-held tensions and unresolved grievances. In the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, protestors have been trying to stop Israel evicting eight Palestinian families. Israel’s Supreme Court has delayed a hearing on the evictions, but the case, along with complaints of heavy-handed policing of the Al Aqsa compound during Ramadan, ignited the recent round of violence in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. Paul Adams visited the streets at the heart of the dispute.
  814. Indonesia's capital Jakarta is one of the world’s most polluted cities. Now some of its residents have launched a court case trying to push the government to clean up its atmosphere. Rebecca Henschke, who lived in the city for over a decade, reports on their fight to breathe more easily.
  815. For now, Portugal is one of the places British tourists can go without quarantining and the hospitality industry in the Algarve is eager to welcome them back. Nick Beake spoke to local businesspeople hoping to get back in gear.
  816. Emma Jane Kirby has reported for the BBC from across Europe and beyond – in settings ranging from the glitz of the Cote d’Azur to the squalor of Sangatte. She's covered big stories and described plenty of dramatic scenes, from shipwrecks to furious street protests. But she’s now working in a different world … the fictional universe of the Archers.
  817. Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2021 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1735</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09jb5xq.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09jb5xq.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09jb5xq.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09jb63q</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09jb63q</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09jb5xq.mp3" fileSize="27760000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1735"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09jb63q</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A change of pace in the White House</title><description><![CDATA[<p>President Biden’s administration has plenty to do – and has gone about doing it at a less hectic pace than its predecessor. The Democrats say their plans are all about ‘rebuilding America’ with proposals for huge infrastructure projects as well as social care reform. Senior Republicans have called it “the most socialist agenda” Congress has ever voted on. Anthony Zurcher has been feeling a different mood in DC.</p><p>The conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno Karabakh last year cost Armenia dear, in territory and lives. A truce deal, backed by Russia, was meant to get all prisoners of war back home. But Armenia says around 200 of its citizens are still in captivity. Rayhan Demytrie reports.
  818. Nick Thorpe, the BBC’s correspondent in Budapest, is no stranger to the River Danube. He’s travelled its length twice, has written a book and made a series of documentary films on it. But this week, he met his match - a hardy couple of adventurers who've been paddling upstream for weeks, only leaving the water to sleep.</p><p>The buzz over the Eurovision Song Contest is a little quieter this year in Rotterdam – though we can still expect blaring power ballads. Singing indoors is a high-risk activity these days. Covid restrictions don't make the easiest conditions for a festival of unity. But Steve Rosenberg’s enthusiasm is undampened.
  819. The work of Claude Monet is deeply rooted in nature. For him, plants and landscapes weren’t simply pretty things to be observed, but the core of his inspiration. From 1883, at his home in Giverny in Normandy, he cultivated specific views to contemplate. His gardens are usually a major visitor attraction but languished unseen through much of 2020. As they got ready for a limited reopening, Christine Finn had an early look.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Washington reporters adapt to a new tempo; Armenian POWs; Eurovision, the Danube, France</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>President Biden’s administration has plenty to do – and has gone about doing it at a less hectic pace than its predecessor. The Democrats say their plans are all about ‘rebuilding America’ with proposals for huge infrastructure projects as well as social care reform. Senior Republicans have called it “the most socialist agenda” Congress has ever voted on. Anthony Zurcher has been feeling a different mood in DC.</p><p>The conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno Karabakh last year cost Armenia dear, in territory and lives. A truce deal, backed by Russia, was meant to get all prisoners of war back home. But Armenia says around 200 of its citizens are still in captivity. Rayhan Demytrie reports.
  820. Nick Thorpe, the BBC’s correspondent in Budapest, is no stranger to the River Danube. He’s travelled its length twice, has written a book and made a series of documentary films on it. But this week, he met his match - a hardy couple of adventurers who've been paddling upstream for weeks, only leaving the water to sleep.</p><p>The buzz over the Eurovision Song Contest is a little quieter this year in Rotterdam – though we can still expect blaring power ballads. Singing indoors is a high-risk activity these days. Covid restrictions don't make the easiest conditions for a festival of unity. But Steve Rosenberg’s enthusiasm is undampened.
  821. The work of Claude Monet is deeply rooted in nature. For him, plants and landscapes weren’t simply pretty things to be observed, but the core of his inspiration. From 1883, at his home in Giverny in Normandy, he cultivated specific views to contemplate. His gardens are usually a major visitor attraction but languished unseen through much of 2020. As they got ready for a limited reopening, Christine Finn had an early look.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1725</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09j3gfy.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09j3gfy.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09j3gfy.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09j3gy8</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09j3gy8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09j3gfy.mp3" fileSize="27600000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1725"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09j3gy8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Spiral of Violence</title><description><![CDATA[<p>As missiles have rained down on Gaza and on Israel, violence at street level has also been at its worst for years. There have been clashes between Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel within Israel’s own borders. There have been confrontations between security forces and Palestinians in the West Bank. On a far greater scale, Gaza has been under heavy rocket fire as the Israeli Defence Forces struck back against what they identify as control centres for Hamas. Jeremy Bowen weighs up the damage.</p><p>In Brazil, Congress is conducting an inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic. But the president still has keen backers, who admire his energy and instinct for confrontation. Mark Lowen is just back from Brazil and reflects on Jair Bolsonaro's playbook - and its echoes of another leader whose tactics he knows well.</p><p>The number of boats carrying migrants keen to reach the shores of Europe is on the rise again. Enforcement is stricter across the Mediterranean so other routes are getting busier. But the journey via the Atlantic and Spain’s Canary Islands can be lethal. Bruno Boelpaep reports on a tragedy at sea and a moving reunion.</p><p>Mexico’s Sea of Cortez is home to the most critically endangered sea mammal on earth: a small porpoise called the vaquita . There are fewer than a dozen left and they risk getting tangled in the nets cast out for fish. Those fish, in turn, are also under threat – even though they’re legally protected. Linda Pressly saw the pressures at work in the town of San Felipe.</p><p>And a historic collection of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture is back on public view for the first time in decades. The new display of the Torlonia marbles delighted David Willey, who has lived in Rome for nearly fifty years. He remembers them looking rather different…</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Conflict in Gaza and Israel; and stories from Brazil, Spain, Mexico and Italy.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>As missiles have rained down on Gaza and on Israel, violence at street level has also been at its worst for years. There have been clashes between Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel within Israel’s own borders. There have been confrontations between security forces and Palestinians in the West Bank. On a far greater scale, Gaza has been under heavy rocket fire as the Israeli Defence Forces struck back against what they identify as control centres for Hamas. Jeremy Bowen weighs up the damage.</p><p>In Brazil, Congress is conducting an inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic. But the president still has keen backers, who admire his energy and instinct for confrontation. Mark Lowen is just back from Brazil and reflects on Jair Bolsonaro's playbook - and its echoes of another leader whose tactics he knows well.</p><p>The number of boats carrying migrants keen to reach the shores of Europe is on the rise again. Enforcement is stricter across the Mediterranean so other routes are getting busier. But the journey via the Atlantic and Spain’s Canary Islands can be lethal. Bruno Boelpaep reports on a tragedy at sea and a moving reunion.</p><p>Mexico’s Sea of Cortez is home to the most critically endangered sea mammal on earth: a small porpoise called the vaquita . There are fewer than a dozen left and they risk getting tangled in the nets cast out for fish. Those fish, in turn, are also under threat – even though they’re legally protected. Linda Pressly saw the pressures at work in the town of San Felipe.</p><p>And a historic collection of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture is back on public view for the first time in decades. The new display of the Torlonia marbles delighted David Willey, who has lived in Rome for nearly fifty years. He remembers them looking rather different…</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2021 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1737</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09hp49h.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09hp49h.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09hp49h.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09hp4l2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09hp4l2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09hp49h.mp3" fileSize="27792000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1737"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09hp4l2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>India’s pandemic politics</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The pandemic’s impact on politics is being picked over in India after a disappointment for the BJP in West Bengal's state election. Mark Tully was born in India in 1935 and reported from across the subcontinent for the BBC for many years - working as the chief of its Delhi bureau for some of that time. He still lives in the city and has recently been shielding at home – and sent us this long view of how Narendra Modi’s government has dealt with this emergency.</p><p>After a sluggish start – and some concerns about public reluctance - Germany’s vaccination campaign is gathering pace. The government has agreed to lift some restrictions for vaccinated people. But the new social divide between the vaxxed and the un-vaxxed is sparking some awkward new emotions — and some new German words to describe them. Damien McGuinness reports from Berlin.</p><p>During the last twenty years, a new generation of Afghan girls have grown up aspiring to work outside the home – some even daring to start up their own businesses. But the past year has been tough for them, and there are fears of what increased Taliban influence may mean for their enterprises. Charlie Faulkner met one young woman wondering how long she can stay afloat.</p><p>The Galapagos Islands off Ecuador are a showcase of marine life in all its variety - but the country's fishing fleets are fuming over plans to extend the limits of environmental protection zones. Dan Collyns examines the delicate balance between saving the fishing industry and protecting the planet.</p><p>And in the week that France commemorated one of its greatest sons – Napoleon Bonaparte, who died 200 years ago - Julia Buckley gleans some personal insights into the man behind the myth in an unexpectedly intimate museum of his belongings in the Dordogne.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Veteran reporter Mark Tully traces the BJP's Covid response</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The pandemic’s impact on politics is being picked over in India after a disappointment for the BJP in West Bengal's state election. Mark Tully was born in India in 1935 and reported from across the subcontinent for the BBC for many years - working as the chief of its Delhi bureau for some of that time. He still lives in the city and has recently been shielding at home – and sent us this long view of how Narendra Modi’s government has dealt with this emergency.</p><p>After a sluggish start – and some concerns about public reluctance - Germany’s vaccination campaign is gathering pace. The government has agreed to lift some restrictions for vaccinated people. But the new social divide between the vaxxed and the un-vaxxed is sparking some awkward new emotions — and some new German words to describe them. Damien McGuinness reports from Berlin.</p><p>During the last twenty years, a new generation of Afghan girls have grown up aspiring to work outside the home – some even daring to start up their own businesses. But the past year has been tough for them, and there are fears of what increased Taliban influence may mean for their enterprises. Charlie Faulkner met one young woman wondering how long she can stay afloat.</p><p>The Galapagos Islands off Ecuador are a showcase of marine life in all its variety - but the country's fishing fleets are fuming over plans to extend the limits of environmental protection zones. Dan Collyns examines the delicate balance between saving the fishing industry and protecting the planet.</p><p>And in the week that France commemorated one of its greatest sons – Napoleon Bonaparte, who died 200 years ago - Julia Buckley gleans some personal insights into the man behind the myth in an unexpectedly intimate museum of his belongings in the Dordogne.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2021 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1745</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09h0qm1.mp3" length="27920000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09h0qm1.mp3" length="27920000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09h0qm1.mp3" length="27920000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09h0qwx</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09h0qwx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09h0qm1.mp3" fileSize="27920000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1745"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09h0qwx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Iran’s internal rivalries</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A leaked recording has startled observers of Iran’s government and military. Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was caught out when an interview meant for the archive of a state-sponsored think-tank found its way to the media. Jeremy Bowen explains what it revealed about how the country really works.
  822. President Biden has issued an official statement that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks from 1915 onwards were a “genocide” - a term that's always enraged Turkish nationalists. Biden’s statement was welcomed in Armenia and by the Armenian diaspora, but roundly rejected by Turkey’s President Erdogan. Orla Guerin reports on the impact of the White House’s verdict on history.
  823. It has been three weeks since the volcano in St Vincent, La Soufriere, erupted. Ash rained down on the northern part of the island; more than a tenth of its people had to to shelter elsewhere and most crops have been ruined. Will Grant reached the red zone and saw how much needs to be rebuilt.
  824. Chile has had one of the world’s most successful vaccine rollouts, with over 40% cent of its people having had at least one jab. But infection rates haven’t fallen as rapidly as was hoped. Some experts say the country’s experience is proof vaccination alone can’t keep whole populations free of Covid. Jane Chambers detects some disillusion in Santiago.
  825. The self-declared Islamic State attracted around 40,000 foreign fighters to its territory, and many brought wives and children with them. Josh Baker spent years following the story of one American woman who travelled to Syria with her husband, taking her young son, Matthew, too. The boy survived more than two and a half years there and is now back in the US. Tracking him down took Josh to several unexpected places along the way.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A leaked recording shakes Iran; Turkey, the US and Armenia; St Vincent; Chile and Syria</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A leaked recording has startled observers of Iran’s government and military. Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was caught out when an interview meant for the archive of a state-sponsored think-tank found its way to the media. Jeremy Bowen explains what it revealed about how the country really works.
  826. President Biden has issued an official statement that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks from 1915 onwards were a “genocide” - a term that's always enraged Turkish nationalists. Biden’s statement was welcomed in Armenia and by the Armenian diaspora, but roundly rejected by Turkey’s President Erdogan. Orla Guerin reports on the impact of the White House’s verdict on history.
  827. It has been three weeks since the volcano in St Vincent, La Soufriere, erupted. Ash rained down on the northern part of the island; more than a tenth of its people had to to shelter elsewhere and most crops have been ruined. Will Grant reached the red zone and saw how much needs to be rebuilt.
  828. Chile has had one of the world’s most successful vaccine rollouts, with over 40% cent of its people having had at least one jab. But infection rates haven’t fallen as rapidly as was hoped. Some experts say the country’s experience is proof vaccination alone can’t keep whole populations free of Covid. Jane Chambers detects some disillusion in Santiago.
  829. The self-declared Islamic State attracted around 40,000 foreign fighters to its territory, and many brought wives and children with them. Josh Baker spent years following the story of one American woman who travelled to Syria with her husband, taking her young son, Matthew, too. The boy survived more than two and a half years there and is now back in the US. Tracking him down took Josh to several unexpected places along the way.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2021 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1728</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09gcml8.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09gcml8.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09gcml8.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09gcn4p</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09gcn4p</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09gcml8.mp3" fileSize="27648000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1728"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09gcn4p</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The US and China edge closer on climate</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Relations between the US and China are going through a rough patch. On trade, diplomacy and military matters the superpowers are at odds; they still have entirely different visions of the world and its future. Yet the world’s two biggest carbon emitters have pledged to cooperate more closely on cutting their emissions. Celia Hatton explores how the promises were hammered out and what it means for the rest of the planet.; Early in 2021 many hoped India might escape the worst of the pandemic, with a vaccine roll-out under way and infection rates dropping. But Covid cases and deaths have soared. The surge in patient numbers, and severe shortages of oxygen, have overwhelmed the health system in some places. In Delhi, Rajini Vaidyanathan sensed a marked shift in mood.; Brazil is also hard hit. Its President Jair Bolsonaro has scoffed at the virus, and clashed repeatedly with regional governors who wanted to impose stricter lockdowns and other measures. In the northeastern town of Lencois, Richard Lapper gauges the political fallout. Thousands of people gathered last week calling for the release of opposition politician Alexei Navalny. But Russia’s laws on public protest have tightened recently, and attending unauthorised rallies these days can mean a beating, a sacking or a prison sentence. Sarah Rainsford talked to some who still feel it’s worth speaking out. Idriss Deby, leader of Chad for more than 30 years, embodied the African "military strongman" until his death, apparently in the thick of fighting with rebels. The son of a herdsman, he faced down many uprisings and regional crises and was often considered an indispensable ally by the West in stopping jihadist groups in the Sahel. Andrew Harding considers the dilemmas he's left behind.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Can two superpower polluters find common ground? Plus Russia, Brazil, India and Chad</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Relations between the US and China are going through a rough patch. On trade, diplomacy and military matters the superpowers are at odds; they still have entirely different visions of the world and its future. Yet the world’s two biggest carbon emitters have pledged to cooperate more closely on cutting their emissions. Celia Hatton explores how the promises were hammered out and what it means for the rest of the planet.; Early in 2021 many hoped India might escape the worst of the pandemic, with a vaccine roll-out under way and infection rates dropping. But Covid cases and deaths have soared. The surge in patient numbers, and severe shortages of oxygen, have overwhelmed the health system in some places. In Delhi, Rajini Vaidyanathan sensed a marked shift in mood.; Brazil is also hard hit. Its President Jair Bolsonaro has scoffed at the virus, and clashed repeatedly with regional governors who wanted to impose stricter lockdowns and other measures. In the northeastern town of Lencois, Richard Lapper gauges the political fallout. Thousands of people gathered last week calling for the release of opposition politician Alexei Navalny. But Russia’s laws on public protest have tightened recently, and attending unauthorised rallies these days can mean a beating, a sacking or a prison sentence. Sarah Rainsford talked to some who still feel it’s worth speaking out. Idriss Deby, leader of Chad for more than 30 years, embodied the African "military strongman" until his death, apparently in the thick of fighting with rebels. The son of a herdsman, he faced down many uprisings and regional crises and was often considered an indispensable ally by the West in stopping jihadist groups in the Sahel. Andrew Harding considers the dilemmas he's left behind.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2021 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1739</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09fnhzm.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09fnhzm.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09fnhzm.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09fnj4v</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09fnj4v</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09fnhzm.mp3" fileSize="27824000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1739"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09fnj4v</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Taliban show of force in Afghanistan</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The White House has announced a deadline for US troop withdrawals from Afghanistan and the government in Kabul looks isolated. The Taliban are in control of large parts of the country, running a parallel administration. Secunder Kermani visited a Taliban-controlled zone in Balkh province to hear how Talib commanders and fighters have reacted to the American plan.</p><p>Russia seems to be concentrating military resources along its border with Ukraine, but why? And how can or should Ukraine prepare to respond? Jonah Fisher has been to the trenches and artillery-damaged villages of eastern Ukraine and sensed a nervy game of 'wait and see'.</p><p>The city of Minneapolis has been at the centre of continuing debate over race, crime and policing in the United States. Just as the world's media moved in to cover the trial of Derek Chauvin over the death of George Floyd in 2020, news came on Sunday of the death of Daunte Wright, aged 20, shot and killed by a police officer. Larry Madowo reflects on how much anger and sadness there is to go around.</p><p>The South China Sea is dotted with reefs, atolls and islets coveted by rival neighbours, including Vietnam, Brunei, China, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines. Tensions have risen recently over an outcrop called Whitsun Reef., The Philippines claim sovereignty there - but it's currently bristling with ships from mainland China. Howard Johnson reports on the latest chapter of a long dispute.</p><p>And Joe Myerscough reveals what it's like to travel in the shadow of Greta Thunberg. While filming with one of the world's youngest and best-known climate activists, he saw her dealing with the demands of a global public image as well as fighting global climate change.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Tales from Balkh province, eastern Ukraine, the Pacific ocean, Minneapolis and the planet</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The White House has announced a deadline for US troop withdrawals from Afghanistan and the government in Kabul looks isolated. The Taliban are in control of large parts of the country, running a parallel administration. Secunder Kermani visited a Taliban-controlled zone in Balkh province to hear how Talib commanders and fighters have reacted to the American plan.</p><p>Russia seems to be concentrating military resources along its border with Ukraine, but why? And how can or should Ukraine prepare to respond? Jonah Fisher has been to the trenches and artillery-damaged villages of eastern Ukraine and sensed a nervy game of 'wait and see'.</p><p>The city of Minneapolis has been at the centre of continuing debate over race, crime and policing in the United States. Just as the world's media moved in to cover the trial of Derek Chauvin over the death of George Floyd in 2020, news came on Sunday of the death of Daunte Wright, aged 20, shot and killed by a police officer. Larry Madowo reflects on how much anger and sadness there is to go around.</p><p>The South China Sea is dotted with reefs, atolls and islets coveted by rival neighbours, including Vietnam, Brunei, China, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines. Tensions have risen recently over an outcrop called Whitsun Reef., The Philippines claim sovereignty there - but it's currently bristling with ships from mainland China. Howard Johnson reports on the latest chapter of a long dispute.</p><p>And Joe Myerscough reveals what it's like to travel in the shadow of Greta Thunberg. While filming with one of the world's youngest and best-known climate activists, he saw her dealing with the demands of a global public image as well as fighting global climate change.</p><p>Producer: Polly Hope</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2021 11:03:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1743</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09dyzv8.mp3" length="27888000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09dyzv8.mp3" length="27888000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09dyzv8.mp3" length="27888000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09dz01m</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09dz01m</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09dyzv8.mp3" fileSize="27888000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1743"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09dz01m</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Jordan’s palace intrigues</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Jordan is often portrayed as a stable, moderate country whose royal family have guided it wisely through turbulent times in a dangerous neighbourhood. But that royal family has rifts of its own and they burst into full view in recent weeks, as a public feud broke out between King Abdullah and his half-brother, the former Crown Prince Hamza. The BBC’s Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, has his own memories of the country’s intimate power struggles – past and present.</p><p>In Rwanda, a man once seen around the world as a hero is now standing trial accused of terrorism. Paul Rusesabagina, a former hotel manager, sheltered hundreds of people from the killers during the 1994 genocide. But he became a critic in exile of the government of Rwanda's President, Paul Kagame - and apparently a target for Rwandan intelligence. Michaela Wrong has spent years investigating the complex background to the story.</p><p>As the military crackdown on strikers and demonstrators goes on in Myanmar, journalists are also being targeted as they try and cover the situation. Ben Dunant has just returned to the UK after years spent reporting in Myanmar and reflects on the prospects for the colleagues he left behind.</p><p>As you might expect, the residents of Paris have been particularly pained by the closure of their restaurants and cafes. But for those in the know, there were still some illicit ways to eat out: networks of private dining rooms and functions. Recently some of those secret arrangements were revealed to the French public – and many who hadn’t been invited were outraged. Joanna Robertson reports.</p><p>*NOTE: Podcast audio has been updated to correct reference to a rebel group</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A royal rift unnerves a kingdom. Plus stories from Rwanda, Myanmar and France</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Jordan is often portrayed as a stable, moderate country whose royal family have guided it wisely through turbulent times in a dangerous neighbourhood. But that royal family has rifts of its own and they burst into full view in recent weeks, as a public feud broke out between King Abdullah and his half-brother, the former Crown Prince Hamza. The BBC’s Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, has his own memories of the country’s intimate power struggles – past and present.</p><p>In Rwanda, a man once seen around the world as a hero is now standing trial accused of terrorism. Paul Rusesabagina, a former hotel manager, sheltered hundreds of people from the killers during the 1994 genocide. But he became a critic in exile of the government of Rwanda's President, Paul Kagame - and apparently a target for Rwandan intelligence. Michaela Wrong has spent years investigating the complex background to the story.</p><p>As the military crackdown on strikers and demonstrators goes on in Myanmar, journalists are also being targeted as they try and cover the situation. Ben Dunant has just returned to the UK after years spent reporting in Myanmar and reflects on the prospects for the colleagues he left behind.</p><p>As you might expect, the residents of Paris have been particularly pained by the closure of their restaurants and cafes. But for those in the know, there were still some illicit ways to eat out: networks of private dining rooms and functions. Recently some of those secret arrangements were revealed to the French public – and many who hadn’t been invited were outraged. Joanna Robertson reports.</p><p>*NOTE: Podcast audio has been updated to correct reference to a rebel group</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2021 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1749</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09dmm3g.mp3" length="27984000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09dmm3g.mp3" length="27984000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09dmm3g.mp3" length="27984000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09d8pdv</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09d8pdv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09dmm3g.mp3" fileSize="27984000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1749"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09d8pdv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Merkel’s Balancing Act</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The German Chancellor is widely respected as good at crisis management, but public confidence in her government's pandemic policies is ebbing away. How will her party, the CDU, campaign during this autumn's general election - is it possible the next Chancellor could be a Green? Jenny Hill reports from Berlin on power struggles and shifting opinions.</p><p>While the Christian Democrats confront their future, the German state is still carrying on talks with the government of Namibia about its colonial past. Land rights, official apologies and reparations have all been discussed . So has the treatment of the Herero and Nama peoples in the early 1900s, which some historians now consider "the first genocide of the 20th century". Tim Whewell met black and white Namibians still viewing their heritage though very different lenses.</p><p>In Armenia the public mood is mutinous, in the aftermath of the most recent round of conflict over Nagorno Karabakh. A ceasefire agreement is holding, but there's grief and anger on the streets of Yerevan. Mark Stratton has friends in the disputed territory and hoped to revisit them, to see how they had survived the fighting.</p><p>Millions of people in Iranian and Kurdish communities around the world recently celebrated Nowruz - the Persian New Year, a joyful festival full of the symbolism of rebirth. But it's enjoyed particularly passionately in the ancient town of Akre in the Zagros mountains in northern Iraq. Leila Molana Allen climbed its stone ramparts and steep hillsides to witness the spectacle.</p><p>In eastern Romania, there's a village like no other: Tichilesti, home to Europe's last leprosarium - a facility where people with Hansen’s disease, better known as leprosy, were once sent for life. Nick Thorpe shares some of the stories he heard there.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Germany, Namibia, Armenia, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and eastern Romania</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The German Chancellor is widely respected as good at crisis management, but public confidence in her government's pandemic policies is ebbing away. How will her party, the CDU, campaign during this autumn's general election - is it possible the next Chancellor could be a Green? Jenny Hill reports from Berlin on power struggles and shifting opinions.</p><p>While the Christian Democrats confront their future, the German state is still carrying on talks with the government of Namibia about its colonial past. Land rights, official apologies and reparations have all been discussed . So has the treatment of the Herero and Nama peoples in the early 1900s, which some historians now consider "the first genocide of the 20th century". Tim Whewell met black and white Namibians still viewing their heritage though very different lenses.</p><p>In Armenia the public mood is mutinous, in the aftermath of the most recent round of conflict over Nagorno Karabakh. A ceasefire agreement is holding, but there's grief and anger on the streets of Yerevan. Mark Stratton has friends in the disputed territory and hoped to revisit them, to see how they had survived the fighting.</p><p>Millions of people in Iranian and Kurdish communities around the world recently celebrated Nowruz - the Persian New Year, a joyful festival full of the symbolism of rebirth. But it's enjoyed particularly passionately in the ancient town of Akre in the Zagros mountains in northern Iraq. Leila Molana Allen climbed its stone ramparts and steep hillsides to witness the spectacle.</p><p>In eastern Romania, there's a village like no other: Tichilesti, home to Europe's last leprosarium - a facility where people with Hansen’s disease, better known as leprosy, were once sent for life. Nick Thorpe shares some of the stories he heard there.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2021 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1717</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09cndjk.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09cndjk.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09cndjk.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09cndp5</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09cndp5</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09cndjk.mp3" fileSize="27472000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1717"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09cndp5</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The EU and The Vaccine</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The EU’s vaccination programme has had several setbacks with repeated delays and safety concerns. The commission has blamed pharmaceutical companies for failing to deliver promised jabs, and has tightened export controls. Kevin Connolly reflects on the twists and turns of the vaccine saga – and how history may offer some insight into what happens next.</p><p>Israel has held its fourth election in two years - yielding yet another inconclusive result. Neither Benjamin Netanyahu nor his challengers secured a governing majority. Some analysts say the stalemate is further alienating Israelis from the political system. Joel Greenberg says the outcome could turn on an unlikely kingmaker.</p><p>The recent shooting of six Asian Americans in Georgia has highlighted entrenched prejudice in the US. In the last year there has been a spike in reports of attacks and other abuse directed against people of Asian descent. Annie Phrommayon is in San Francisco and reflects on how racist attitudes have become normalised.</p><p>Germany has gone to great lengths in recent decades to acknowledge its Nazi legacy. But the subject is still highly sensitive. In Berlin, Alexa Dvorson had an improbable conversation born out of a reader's courage to reach out to a stranger--and find out more about her grandfather's past as a Nazi Youth leader.</p><p>We hear the story of Shirley - from her time as an editor on the Japan Times newspaper to her return to Canada, where, due to her insurance, she had treatment for her deteriorating health. In a cruel twist, the pandemic restrictions separated her from her life partner in the US, and prevented them from being reunited before she died. Hugh Levinson tells the story of what the experience meant for the couple.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  830. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Brussels tightens export controls due to a shortage of jabs - what lies ahead?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The EU’s vaccination programme has had several setbacks with repeated delays and safety concerns. The commission has blamed pharmaceutical companies for failing to deliver promised jabs, and has tightened export controls. Kevin Connolly reflects on the twists and turns of the vaccine saga – and how history may offer some insight into what happens next.</p><p>Israel has held its fourth election in two years - yielding yet another inconclusive result. Neither Benjamin Netanyahu nor his challengers secured a governing majority. Some analysts say the stalemate is further alienating Israelis from the political system. Joel Greenberg says the outcome could turn on an unlikely kingmaker.</p><p>The recent shooting of six Asian Americans in Georgia has highlighted entrenched prejudice in the US. In the last year there has been a spike in reports of attacks and other abuse directed against people of Asian descent. Annie Phrommayon is in San Francisco and reflects on how racist attitudes have become normalised.</p><p>Germany has gone to great lengths in recent decades to acknowledge its Nazi legacy. But the subject is still highly sensitive. In Berlin, Alexa Dvorson had an improbable conversation born out of a reader's courage to reach out to a stranger--and find out more about her grandfather's past as a Nazi Youth leader.</p><p>We hear the story of Shirley - from her time as an editor on the Japan Times newspaper to her return to Canada, where, due to her insurance, she had treatment for her deteriorating health. In a cruel twist, the pandemic restrictions separated her from her life partner in the US, and prevented them from being reunited before she died. Hugh Levinson tells the story of what the experience meant for the couple.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  831. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1712</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09c0dsr.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09c0dsr.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09c0dsr.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09c0f0b</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09c0f0b</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09c0dsr.mp3" fileSize="27392000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1712"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09c0f0b</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Poland’s LGBT Crackdown</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Rules have been tightening for same sex couples in Poland in recent years.  Civil unions are not legally recognized and same sex couples are barred from adopting children, but a loophole currently allows applicants to adopt as single parents. Now the government wants to close that loophole. Adam Easton has spoken to the people affected, some of whom are now considering leaving.</p><p>Lebanon's second city, Tripoli, gained notoriety for its flamboyant anti-government protests in 2019 over the severe economic decline seen across the country. Despite the extreme poverty, and the impact of the pandemic, some of the city's residents are keen to be part of an economic revival, finds Lemma Shehadi.</p><p>In Taiwan, we hear the stories of couples who were married under the traditional simpua system. The practice, where a family would adopt a pre-adolescent girl as a future bride for their son, eventually phased out in the sixties and seventies, largely due to the economic boom. Sally Howard spoke to some of the men and women who married according to the tradition, with mixed results.</p><p>On the Greek island of Corfu there's a small haven set on a hill above the main town - a cemetery set in a well-tended garden, where bougainvilleas, orchids and Cyprus trees line the path ... frequented by a few wild tortoises. The long-serving caretaker recently died and is now buried there.  But Julia Langdon visited the garden when he was still alive - he took her for a tour.</p><p>In Canada, the authorities have been encouraging people to look after their physical and mental health during the pandemic by getting outside. In Ottawa, this involves winter hikes and cross country skiing - and river surfing, as Sian Griffiths discovered. </p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  832. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Poland's government tightens the laws further for same sex couples and their families</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Rules have been tightening for same sex couples in Poland in recent years.  Civil unions are not legally recognized and same sex couples are barred from adopting children, but a loophole currently allows applicants to adopt as single parents. Now the government wants to close that loophole. Adam Easton has spoken to the people affected, some of whom are now considering leaving.</p><p>Lebanon's second city, Tripoli, gained notoriety for its flamboyant anti-government protests in 2019 over the severe economic decline seen across the country. Despite the extreme poverty, and the impact of the pandemic, some of the city's residents are keen to be part of an economic revival, finds Lemma Shehadi.</p><p>In Taiwan, we hear the stories of couples who were married under the traditional simpua system. The practice, where a family would adopt a pre-adolescent girl as a future bride for their son, eventually phased out in the sixties and seventies, largely due to the economic boom. Sally Howard spoke to some of the men and women who married according to the tradition, with mixed results.</p><p>On the Greek island of Corfu there's a small haven set on a hill above the main town - a cemetery set in a well-tended garden, where bougainvilleas, orchids and Cyprus trees line the path ... frequented by a few wild tortoises. The long-serving caretaker recently died and is now buried there.  But Julia Langdon visited the garden when he was still alive - he took her for a tour.</p><p>In Canada, the authorities have been encouraging people to look after their physical and mental health during the pandemic by getting outside. In Ottawa, this involves winter hikes and cross country skiing - and river surfing, as Sian Griffiths discovered. </p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  833. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2021 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1708</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09bshh0.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09bshh0.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09bshh0.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09bshw9</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09bshw9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09bshh0.mp3" fileSize="27328000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1708"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09bshw9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Hong Kong’s Exodus</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Hong Kong is seeing a wave of departures amid concerns about the erosion of democratic freedoms.  China's national security law, imposed in July last year, has been used to clamp down on dissent prompting many to considering leaving.  The UK's visa scheme will allow many Hong Kong residents to start a new life in Britain. Danny Vincent spoke to some of the people preparing to leave the territory.</p><p>One year ago, New York City was the one of the epicentres of the coronavirus outbreak. Now a massive vaccination effort is underway.  Restaurants are allowed to open at half capacity and, helped by the relief package, the city is gradually springing back to life. But some people are wary of the vaccine, says Laura Trevelyan.</p><p>In Australia allegations of sexual assault in the corridors of power in Canberra are dominating headlines. Tens of thousands of people have protested in the major cities. The Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has so far refused to hold an independent inquiry, but the allegations have triggered a public reaction that is gathering pace, says  Shaimaa Khalil.</p><p>Each year, Afghanistan hosts an annual ski challenge, in the mountains of Bamiyan province. Organisers of this event are hoping the region can attract more tourists, despite the on-going threat of violence. They hope for a more peaceful future - and this event has provided much needed respite. Charlie Faulkner went to watch.</p><p>The Netherlands has long navigated the threat posed by rising water levels.   In 1953, a catastrophic flood claimed the lives of more than 1000 people. In response, the Dutch created an advanced network of flood defences. These are now being updated thanks to a new plan to climate-proof the country. Jane Labous reports.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  834. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Hong Kongers preparing to leave the territory as Beijing's influence grows</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Hong Kong is seeing a wave of departures amid concerns about the erosion of democratic freedoms.  China's national security law, imposed in July last year, has been used to clamp down on dissent prompting many to considering leaving.  The UK's visa scheme will allow many Hong Kong residents to start a new life in Britain. Danny Vincent spoke to some of the people preparing to leave the territory.</p><p>One year ago, New York City was the one of the epicentres of the coronavirus outbreak. Now a massive vaccination effort is underway.  Restaurants are allowed to open at half capacity and, helped by the relief package, the city is gradually springing back to life. But some people are wary of the vaccine, says Laura Trevelyan.</p><p>In Australia allegations of sexual assault in the corridors of power in Canberra are dominating headlines. Tens of thousands of people have protested in the major cities. The Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has so far refused to hold an independent inquiry, but the allegations have triggered a public reaction that is gathering pace, says  Shaimaa Khalil.</p><p>Each year, Afghanistan hosts an annual ski challenge, in the mountains of Bamiyan province. Organisers of this event are hoping the region can attract more tourists, despite the on-going threat of violence. They hope for a more peaceful future - and this event has provided much needed respite. Charlie Faulkner went to watch.</p><p>The Netherlands has long navigated the threat posed by rising water levels.   In 1953, a catastrophic flood claimed the lives of more than 1000 people. In response, the Dutch created an advanced network of flood defences. These are now being updated thanks to a new plan to climate-proof the country. Jane Labous reports.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  835. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1719</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09bb9js.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09bb9js.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09bb9js.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09bb9sy</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09bb9sy</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09bb9js.mp3" fileSize="27504000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1719"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09bb9sy</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Rebuilding Raqqa</title><description><![CDATA[<p>More than 380 000 people have been killed and over half the population has been uprooted from their homes in Syria's ten-year civil conflict.  Residents of the city of Raqqa experienced terror and brutality under the control of so-called Islamic State. Meanwhile airstrikes and shelling destroyed civilian infrastructure and homes. Now the city is trying to rebuild.  Leila Molana-Allen met with one of the original protesters , along with those who are working to restore the city.</p><p>The Venezuelan diaspora stretches from Texas to Brussels to Nairobi, and those within it are now trying to help people back home battling the pandemic and a collapsing economy. Vladimir Hernandez lives in Nairobi, and describes how Venezuelan friends and relatives are issuing pleas for help via messaging apps.</p><p>The murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall in 2017 on board a Danish submarine shocked the world. It was recently in the spotlight again when a television dramatization of the case, The Investigation, was aired on the BBC and other networks.  Maddy Savage reflects on her experience of covering the trial of Kim Wall’s killer.</p><p>Farming is the backbone of the Indian economy – and the government argues that it can make life better for farmers via a series of free-market reforms. But the plans set off a furious backlash.  Minreet Kaur, who lives in the UK, has been hearing why the protests have been so widespread - and so heated.</p><p>Switzerland’s system of direct democracy is famous for putting decision making firmly in the hands of voters. Gather 100,000 signatures, and you are guaranteed a nationwide vote on an issue. This led to the recent vote to ban face coverings – including the burqa and the niqab.  Imogen Foulkes reports.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  836. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The story of a protester from Raqqa and the sheikhs involved in rebuilding the city.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>More than 380 000 people have been killed and over half the population has been uprooted from their homes in Syria's ten-year civil conflict.  Residents of the city of Raqqa experienced terror and brutality under the control of so-called Islamic State. Meanwhile airstrikes and shelling destroyed civilian infrastructure and homes. Now the city is trying to rebuild.  Leila Molana-Allen met with one of the original protesters , along with those who are working to restore the city.</p><p>The Venezuelan diaspora stretches from Texas to Brussels to Nairobi, and those within it are now trying to help people back home battling the pandemic and a collapsing economy. Vladimir Hernandez lives in Nairobi, and describes how Venezuelan friends and relatives are issuing pleas for help via messaging apps.</p><p>The murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall in 2017 on board a Danish submarine shocked the world. It was recently in the spotlight again when a television dramatization of the case, The Investigation, was aired on the BBC and other networks.  Maddy Savage reflects on her experience of covering the trial of Kim Wall’s killer.</p><p>Farming is the backbone of the Indian economy – and the government argues that it can make life better for farmers via a series of free-market reforms. But the plans set off a furious backlash.  Minreet Kaur, who lives in the UK, has been hearing why the protests have been so widespread - and so heated.</p><p>Switzerland’s system of direct democracy is famous for putting decision making firmly in the hands of voters. Gather 100,000 signatures, and you are guaranteed a nationwide vote on an issue. This led to the recent vote to ban face coverings – including the burqa and the niqab.  Imogen Foulkes reports.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  837. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2021 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1731</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09b2frj.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09b2frj.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09b2frj.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09b2g7k</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09b2g7k</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09b2frj.mp3" fileSize="27696000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1731"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09b2g7k</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Pope and the Ayatollah</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Pope Francis' recent visit to Iraq was the first by a pontiff to the country. It was aimed at boosting the moral of the persecuted Christian minority and promoting inter-religious dialogue. Mark Lowen travelled with the papal delegation and witnessed the moment the Pope met the most powerful Shia cleric in Iraq - the Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani.
  838. In Mozambique the government is struggling to deal with armed groups whose motives are often unclear. So as reports started coming in, in recent years, of an Islamist insurgency in the far north –– it wasn’t easy to know who the players were. Since 2017 there have been repeated accounts of attacks – and military reprisals – in Cabo Delgado province.  Andrew Harding visited the region.
  839. Singapore has taken pride in its track and trace technology throughout the pandemic. Now, it is in the midst of a mass vaccination drive and has chosen to prioritise workers in the aviation and maritime industries. Karishma Vaswani went to Singapore’s main airport which has dedicated a whole terminal to the vaccine roll-out.
  840. In Liberia, the business of farming sea cucumbers is proving profitable for some. The leathery marine animals are mainly sold to China where they are seen as an edible delicacy. But some species are becoming endangered. Lucinda Rouse met one man who runs a farming business - and watched a haul of sea cucumbers being brought in.
  841. The Pacific island of Kiribati is said to be only one of a dozen nations which hasn't reported any Covid cases. Authorities there want to keep it that way.  Last year many thousands of sailors from Kiribati were unable to return home before borders were sealed off. Nick Beake met a group who were stranded in Germany.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie</p><p>Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>We follow the papal visit, where he visited Christians and met Ayatollah al-Sistani</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Pope Francis' recent visit to Iraq was the first by a pontiff to the country. It was aimed at boosting the moral of the persecuted Christian minority and promoting inter-religious dialogue. Mark Lowen travelled with the papal delegation and witnessed the moment the Pope met the most powerful Shia cleric in Iraq - the Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani.
  842. In Mozambique the government is struggling to deal with armed groups whose motives are often unclear. So as reports started coming in, in recent years, of an Islamist insurgency in the far north –– it wasn’t easy to know who the players were. Since 2017 there have been repeated accounts of attacks – and military reprisals – in Cabo Delgado province.  Andrew Harding visited the region.
  843. Singapore has taken pride in its track and trace technology throughout the pandemic. Now, it is in the midst of a mass vaccination drive and has chosen to prioritise workers in the aviation and maritime industries. Karishma Vaswani went to Singapore’s main airport which has dedicated a whole terminal to the vaccine roll-out.
  844. In Liberia, the business of farming sea cucumbers is proving profitable for some. The leathery marine animals are mainly sold to China where they are seen as an edible delicacy. But some species are becoming endangered. Lucinda Rouse met one man who runs a farming business - and watched a haul of sea cucumbers being brought in.
  845. The Pacific island of Kiribati is said to be only one of a dozen nations which hasn't reported any Covid cases. Authorities there want to keep it that way.  Last year many thousands of sailors from Kiribati were unable to return home before borders were sealed off. Nick Beake met a group who were stranded in Germany.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie</p><p>Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1731</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p099lf7p.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p099lf7p.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p099lf7p.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p099lfdl</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p099lfdl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p099lf7p.mp3" fileSize="27696000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1731"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p099lfdl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Remembering Fukushima</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ten years ago a magnitude 9 earthquake struck off the north east coast of Honshu, triggering a devastating tsunami which left 20,000 dead and more than half a million without homes. It also triggered a meltdown at the nuclear plant in Fukushima. There were fears the contamination would spread just as it did with Chernobyl. Rupert Wingfield Hayes revisited the nuclear zone.
  846. The mass kidnappings of children in Nigeria have made repeated headlines recently. In the past three months alone there have been four such abductions. This dramatic escalation has led many to conclude that kidnapping children has become a business in Nigeria. Mayeni Jones looks at whether the media is part of the problem.
  847. A fresh wave of sex scandals in France is forcing the country to confront widespread sexual abuse and, in particular, incest. There is now a push to reform laws surrounding rape and child abuse and, for the first time in France, to set a legal age of consent. Joanna Robertson reflects on the culture that has tolerated a long-standing problem.
  848. We’re in Pakistan where one young man has used the time spent in lockdown there to perfect his impersonation of Charlie Chaplin. He has now taken to the streets in his coat tails and bowler hat – to the alarm and entertainment of those on the streets of Peshawar. Rani Singh watched him.
  849. Malta has a rich history spanning thousands of years and influenced by a range of cultures. One of the official languages on the island, Malti, has its roots in Arabic, and, over time fused with the Sicilian dialect of Italian. Juliet Rix reports how the language reflects the history of the island, from the early Arab occupiers to European monarchs.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  850. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Ten years on from the Great Japan Earthquake, what happened to Fukushima's nuclear zone?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Ten years ago a magnitude 9 earthquake struck off the north east coast of Honshu, triggering a devastating tsunami which left 20,000 dead and more than half a million without homes. It also triggered a meltdown at the nuclear plant in Fukushima. There were fears the contamination would spread just as it did with Chernobyl. Rupert Wingfield Hayes revisited the nuclear zone.
  851. The mass kidnappings of children in Nigeria have made repeated headlines recently. In the past three months alone there have been four such abductions. This dramatic escalation has led many to conclude that kidnapping children has become a business in Nigeria. Mayeni Jones looks at whether the media is part of the problem.
  852. A fresh wave of sex scandals in France is forcing the country to confront widespread sexual abuse and, in particular, incest. There is now a push to reform laws surrounding rape and child abuse and, for the first time in France, to set a legal age of consent. Joanna Robertson reflects on the culture that has tolerated a long-standing problem.
  853. We’re in Pakistan where one young man has used the time spent in lockdown there to perfect his impersonation of Charlie Chaplin. He has now taken to the streets in his coat tails and bowler hat – to the alarm and entertainment of those on the streets of Peshawar. Rani Singh watched him.
  854. Malta has a rich history spanning thousands of years and influenced by a range of cultures. One of the official languages on the island, Malti, has its roots in Arabic, and, over time fused with the Sicilian dialect of Italian. Juliet Rix reports how the language reflects the history of the island, from the early Arab occupiers to European monarchs.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  855. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2021 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1719</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p099ck1x.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p099ck1x.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p099ck1x.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p099cm2s</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p099cm2s</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p099ck1x.mp3" fileSize="27504000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1719"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p099cm2s</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Brazil’s Long Battle Against Covid</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Brazil is facing the deadliest point of the pandemic so far – this week posting record death tolls as scientists warn the variant found in the country appears to be more contagious. For Katy Watson, who has been reporting on Brazil's outbreak throughout, it’s a story that’s become personal too.</p><p>Meanwhile in Europe, some countries are cautiously re-opening. We're Germany, where hairdressers have opened again – and garden centres and bookshops will follow suit from next week, but plans for a wider lifting of restrictions will hinge on keeping rates low. With just six per cent of the country inoculated, scientists are warning a new wave is already underway. Jenny Hill visited a hospital in Dortmund.</p><p>The small community of Africville in Canada was established by Black settlers more than two centuries ago, many of whom had fled a life of slavery in the US.  The vibrant community lived there for generations, until their forcible relocation in the 1960s when authorities demolished the settlement for industrial use. Now, the local mayor wants to give the land back, finds Greg Mercer.</p><p>In Somalia, there is political impasse due to delayed elections in February. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed's four year term has officially come to an end but talks on the electoral rules have stalled. Nick Redmayne visited Mogadishu and found the cosmopolitan parts of the city belied a backdrop of uncertainty.</p><p>And we hear about a life lived under Soviet rule – the recent death of his father-in-law led Martin Vennard to reflect on a remarkable life. Vladimir Davidovich was a scientist and musician whose story spans much of the twentieth century.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  856. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>We reflect on the last year as the country saw its deadliest week of the pandemic</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Brazil is facing the deadliest point of the pandemic so far – this week posting record death tolls as scientists warn the variant found in the country appears to be more contagious. For Katy Watson, who has been reporting on Brazil's outbreak throughout, it’s a story that’s become personal too.</p><p>Meanwhile in Europe, some countries are cautiously re-opening. We're Germany, where hairdressers have opened again – and garden centres and bookshops will follow suit from next week, but plans for a wider lifting of restrictions will hinge on keeping rates low. With just six per cent of the country inoculated, scientists are warning a new wave is already underway. Jenny Hill visited a hospital in Dortmund.</p><p>The small community of Africville in Canada was established by Black settlers more than two centuries ago, many of whom had fled a life of slavery in the US.  The vibrant community lived there for generations, until their forcible relocation in the 1960s when authorities demolished the settlement for industrial use. Now, the local mayor wants to give the land back, finds Greg Mercer.</p><p>In Somalia, there is political impasse due to delayed elections in February. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed's four year term has officially come to an end but talks on the electoral rules have stalled. Nick Redmayne visited Mogadishu and found the cosmopolitan parts of the city belied a backdrop of uncertainty.</p><p>And we hear about a life lived under Soviet rule – the recent death of his father-in-law led Martin Vennard to reflect on a remarkable life. Vladimir Davidovich was a scientist and musician whose story spans much of the twentieth century.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  857. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1716</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p098x1d1.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p098x1d1.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p098x1d1.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p098x1m3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p098x1m3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p098x1d1.mp3" fileSize="27456000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1716"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p098x1m3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Crises in the Caucasus</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the South Caucasus, Georgia and Armenia are facing challenging times as political crises in each country have intensified in the past week. In Georgia, the arrest of the opposition leader brought thousands onto the streets in protest. And in neighbouring Armenia, the country’s embattled prime minister accused the army’s generals of an attempting a military coup. Rayhan Demytrie explains the challenges of reporting on both events at the same time.</p><p>In Peru, a scandal over vaccine distribution has shocked the nation. A local newspaper published a list of the names of hundreds of people who had secretly been inoculated well ahead of the vaccination roll-out: including the former President and several government ministers.  Dan Collyns reports on "Vacunagate."</p><p>In the United States, we follow the story of one woman who chose to forego her long-term job as a teacher in favour of a less predictable, nomadic way of life in her campervan.  She is part of a growing community of so-called “van-lifers” in North America who have been depicted in the Golden Globe winning film, Nomadland. Sally Howard follows her story.</p><p>Iceland has the least Covid restrictions in Europe on business and daily life. Prone to living alongside active volcanoes, citizens of this island in the north Atlantic are used to being kept safe with early warning systems and evacuation procedures. Tira Shubart reports on how Iceland is now getting ready to welcome summer visitors –with certain conditions.</p><p>And we’re in Romania – home to a vast array of birdlife, brown bears, wolves, wildcats, and lynx. Stephen McGrath meets an ornithologist, and reflects on the wonders of the natural world and the destruction it all faces at the hands of humans.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  858. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The arrival of Spring in Georgia and Armenia has brought more political instability.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the South Caucasus, Georgia and Armenia are facing challenging times as political crises in each country have intensified in the past week. In Georgia, the arrest of the opposition leader brought thousands onto the streets in protest. And in neighbouring Armenia, the country’s embattled prime minister accused the army’s generals of an attempting a military coup. Rayhan Demytrie explains the challenges of reporting on both events at the same time.</p><p>In Peru, a scandal over vaccine distribution has shocked the nation. A local newspaper published a list of the names of hundreds of people who had secretly been inoculated well ahead of the vaccination roll-out: including the former President and several government ministers.  Dan Collyns reports on "Vacunagate."</p><p>In the United States, we follow the story of one woman who chose to forego her long-term job as a teacher in favour of a less predictable, nomadic way of life in her campervan.  She is part of a growing community of so-called “van-lifers” in North America who have been depicted in the Golden Globe winning film, Nomadland. Sally Howard follows her story.</p><p>Iceland has the least Covid restrictions in Europe on business and daily life. Prone to living alongside active volcanoes, citizens of this island in the north Atlantic are used to being kept safe with early warning systems and evacuation procedures. Tira Shubart reports on how Iceland is now getting ready to welcome summer visitors –with certain conditions.</p><p>And we’re in Romania – home to a vast array of birdlife, brown bears, wolves, wildcats, and lynx. Stephen McGrath meets an ornithologist, and reflects on the wonders of the natural world and the destruction it all faces at the hands of humans.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  859. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:35:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1756</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p098p68g.mp3" length="28096000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p098p68g.mp3" length="28096000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p098p68g.mp3" length="28096000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p098p7qh</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p098p7qh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p098p68g.mp3" fileSize="28096000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1756"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p098p7qh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The New York Moment</title><description><![CDATA[<p>New York was hit hard in the pandemic, and more than 29 000 died since the first outbreak there. Residents and workers saw a changed landscape – gone were the tourist throngs, and bustling streets – social distancing signs thinned out the crowds and demarcated the streets. Now the city is re-opening and the soul-searching has begun. But Nick Bryant takes solace that the city will still find its way back to recovery.
  860. This week, nurses across Kenya went back to work after a three month strike.  Doctors who had also walked off the job in December returned last month. There is widespread relief because many feared industrial action in the middle of a pandemic could cost even more lives…So far Kenya is relatively unscathed by Covid-19.  But, as Lucy Ash reports, the death of one young doctor from the virus has stirred outrage and exposed some of the failings in the country’s health system.
  861. In Belarus, a journalist is on trial for investigating the death of a protester in another example of the crackdown on independent media in the country. Since mass protests started last August following a general election widely deemed unfair, more than 400 journalists have been detained.  Abdujalil Abdurasulov visited the capital Minsk last August and witnessed how brutally the authorities dealt with anyone who dared to challenge the regime.
  862. Since the 16th century, French streets have regularly been named in honour of notable people. But only a tiny proportion of them bear the names of women.  In 2011 - the authorities in Paris decided to tackle the problem by choosing extraordinary women after which to name its newest streets and transport systems. But, as Joanna Robertson reports from Paris, the process of renaming is proving too slow for feminist groups</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>New York is reopening but our correspondent reflects on how it can return to life</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>New York was hit hard in the pandemic, and more than 29 000 died since the first outbreak there. Residents and workers saw a changed landscape – gone were the tourist throngs, and bustling streets – social distancing signs thinned out the crowds and demarcated the streets. Now the city is re-opening and the soul-searching has begun. But Nick Bryant takes solace that the city will still find its way back to recovery.
  863. This week, nurses across Kenya went back to work after a three month strike.  Doctors who had also walked off the job in December returned last month. There is widespread relief because many feared industrial action in the middle of a pandemic could cost even more lives…So far Kenya is relatively unscathed by Covid-19.  But, as Lucy Ash reports, the death of one young doctor from the virus has stirred outrage and exposed some of the failings in the country’s health system.
  864. In Belarus, a journalist is on trial for investigating the death of a protester in another example of the crackdown on independent media in the country. Since mass protests started last August following a general election widely deemed unfair, more than 400 journalists have been detained.  Abdujalil Abdurasulov visited the capital Minsk last August and witnessed how brutally the authorities dealt with anyone who dared to challenge the regime.
  865. Since the 16th century, French streets have regularly been named in honour of notable people. But only a tiny proportion of them bear the names of women.  In 2011 - the authorities in Paris decided to tackle the problem by choosing extraordinary women after which to name its newest streets and transport systems. But, as Joanna Robertson reports from Paris, the process of renaming is proving too slow for feminist groups</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2021 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1751</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p098771g.mp3" length="28016000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p098771g.mp3" length="28016000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p098771g.mp3" length="28016000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p09877vl</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09877vl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p098771g.mp3" fileSize="28016000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1751"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p09877vl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Afghanistan at a crossroads</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Afghanistan has seen a surge in civilian casualties since US-brokered peace talks with the Taliban resumed last year. Ashraf Ghani, the Afghan President, however, still sees reason for optimism, thanks to the new-US administration with whom he hopes to have better relations. Lyse Doucet reflects on Kabul's battle to shake off a violent past.
  866. Businesses across Myanmar were closed on Monday as protestors in several cities held a General Strike in protest against the military coup and arrest of their civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Initial hopes for a peaceful resolution are now fading after troops fired live ammunition and tear gas into crowds in recent weeks. But a heavy-handed response is only sharpening the resolve of those on the streets, finds Ben Dunant.
  867. In 2014, a small farming village of Kocho in northern Iraq, was the scene of one of the worst massacres carried out by the Islamic State group, killing hundreds of people from the Yazidi ethno-religious minority. This month, 103 of the victims were returned to Kocho for proper burials. Lizzie Porter attended the funeral.
  868. In Greenland, a rare earth mining project is dominating the political agenda, with snap elections called for April. The proposed mine has inspired hopes that it could provide the windfall needed to gain full independence from Denmark. But, as Guy Kiddey discovered, on a recent trip,the project is also causing some distress.
  869. Every year in February, several towns in the French Riviera hold festivals to celebrate the Mimosa harvest. There are parades in the streets with floral floats, brass bands, and street orchestras And although the usual festivities have been cancelled this year, Christine Finn finds this year’s flowering still offers hope.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  870. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Afghanistan's president sounds a note of optimism despite a surge in violence recently</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Afghanistan has seen a surge in civilian casualties since US-brokered peace talks with the Taliban resumed last year. Ashraf Ghani, the Afghan President, however, still sees reason for optimism, thanks to the new-US administration with whom he hopes to have better relations. Lyse Doucet reflects on Kabul's battle to shake off a violent past.
  871. Businesses across Myanmar were closed on Monday as protestors in several cities held a General Strike in protest against the military coup and arrest of their civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Initial hopes for a peaceful resolution are now fading after troops fired live ammunition and tear gas into crowds in recent weeks. But a heavy-handed response is only sharpening the resolve of those on the streets, finds Ben Dunant.
  872. In 2014, a small farming village of Kocho in northern Iraq, was the scene of one of the worst massacres carried out by the Islamic State group, killing hundreds of people from the Yazidi ethno-religious minority. This month, 103 of the victims were returned to Kocho for proper burials. Lizzie Porter attended the funeral.
  873. In Greenland, a rare earth mining project is dominating the political agenda, with snap elections called for April. The proposed mine has inspired hopes that it could provide the windfall needed to gain full independence from Denmark. But, as Guy Kiddey discovered, on a recent trip,the project is also causing some distress.
  874. Every year in February, several towns in the French Riviera hold festivals to celebrate the Mimosa harvest. There are parades in the streets with floral floats, brass bands, and street orchestras And although the usual festivities have been cancelled this year, Christine Finn finds this year’s flowering still offers hope.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  875. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2021 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1716</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09809gp.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09809gp.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09809gp.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0980b8q</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0980b8q</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p09809gp.mp3" fileSize="27456000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1716"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0980b8q</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Zuma’s Moment of Reckoning</title><description><![CDATA[<p>South Africa’s former President, Jacob Zuma failed to appear at a corruption inquiry this week - an inquiry he himself set up when he was in power. But now he has been called to testify,  he has accused the judge of carrying out a personal vendetta against him. The case has split the country’s ruling party, the African National Congress. In the eyes of many the former President will always be seen as the legendary liberation hero. Andrew Harding looks at why it’s proving so difficult to hold certain politicians to account in South Africa.
  876. We visit Wuhan in China, where, just over a year ago, a whistleblower - Li Wenliang - first drew the world's attention to the severity of the Coronavirus outbreak. A team of international scientists from the World Health Organisation have just returned from their month long visit to the city to try to identify the origins of the virus. China correspondent, Stephen McDonnell followed the motorcade of scientists on their tour and found information about what they learned was hard to come by.
  877. Tokyo's Olympics has faced a number of hurdles: last year the Games were postponed for the first time in their 124-year history due to the pandemic; Japan's Olympic chief was recently forced to stand down for making sexist comments and now there is local resistance to pressing ahead with the Games this Summer due to concerns about continued outbreaks finds Rupert Wingfield-Hayes.
  878. We visit the Uffizi gallery in Florence for an almost private view of some of the great works of Renaissance Art. Between lockdowns and restrictions, the museum re-opened briefly in January and Julia Buckley managed to steal a visit, without the tourists.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  879. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Jacob Zuma is evading the corruption inquiry, but how long can he escape justice?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>South Africa’s former President, Jacob Zuma failed to appear at a corruption inquiry this week - an inquiry he himself set up when he was in power. But now he has been called to testify,  he has accused the judge of carrying out a personal vendetta against him. The case has split the country’s ruling party, the African National Congress. In the eyes of many the former President will always be seen as the legendary liberation hero. Andrew Harding looks at why it’s proving so difficult to hold certain politicians to account in South Africa.
  880. We visit Wuhan in China, where, just over a year ago, a whistleblower - Li Wenliang - first drew the world's attention to the severity of the Coronavirus outbreak. A team of international scientists from the World Health Organisation have just returned from their month long visit to the city to try to identify the origins of the virus. China correspondent, Stephen McDonnell followed the motorcade of scientists on their tour and found information about what they learned was hard to come by.
  881. Tokyo's Olympics has faced a number of hurdles: last year the Games were postponed for the first time in their 124-year history due to the pandemic; Japan's Olympic chief was recently forced to stand down for making sexist comments and now there is local resistance to pressing ahead with the Games this Summer due to concerns about continued outbreaks finds Rupert Wingfield-Hayes.
  882. We visit the Uffizi gallery in Florence for an almost private view of some of the great works of Renaissance Art. Between lockdowns and restrictions, the museum re-opened briefly in January and Julia Buckley managed to steal a visit, without the tourists.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  883. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2021 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1717</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p097kzws.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p097kzws.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p097kzws.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p097l0sh</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p097l0sh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p097kzws.mp3" fileSize="27472000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1717"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p097l0sh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A tribal gathering in Yemen</title><description><![CDATA[<p>We visit the tribesmen of Yemen, which has for years been wracked by civil war. The conflict morphed into a proxy war in 2015 after a coalition, led by Saudi Arabia launched attacks on Iranian-backed Houthi Muslim rebels.
  884. And as the conflict has raged on, Yemeni civilians face economic hardship and starvation. Some of the country’s tribespeople have stepped up to play the role of peacemaker to try to restore order. Leila Molana -Allen heard about some of the challenges they face when she was a guest at a tribal gathering in the south of the country.
  885. For a president to undergo an impeachment process was until recently a somewhat rareified event, but former president Donald Trump has now undergone not one, but two sets of proceedings against him. The latest one examined his role in the storming of the Capitol building on January 6th.  In the end, the Senate voted to acquit Donald Trump – and as Anthony Zurcher  found, the era of Trump’s influence is by no means a closed chapter for Republicans.
  886. Kosovo has been marking the 13th anniversary of its independence from Serbia. And voters have been ringing the changes, facing temperatures of minus 10 degrees Celsius and snow to cast their ballots – awarding a landslide victory for the opposition Self Determination party in last Sunday’s parliamentary election. Guy Delauney reports.
  887. Cuba is suffering. Economically the country is in its worst moment since the “Special Period”, a decade of severe austerity and shortages after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Breadlines are once again a common sight across the island. The hard times have prompted the government to undertake long-promised radical economic reforms. As Will Grant reports, the changes mean that even a low-key celebration of a special occasion can be tricky.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  888. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Tribesmen in Shabwa province talk about their experiences of the multi-layered conflict</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>We visit the tribesmen of Yemen, which has for years been wracked by civil war. The conflict morphed into a proxy war in 2015 after a coalition, led by Saudi Arabia launched attacks on Iranian-backed Houthi Muslim rebels.
  889. And as the conflict has raged on, Yemeni civilians face economic hardship and starvation. Some of the country’s tribespeople have stepped up to play the role of peacemaker to try to restore order. Leila Molana -Allen heard about some of the challenges they face when she was a guest at a tribal gathering in the south of the country.
  890. For a president to undergo an impeachment process was until recently a somewhat rareified event, but former president Donald Trump has now undergone not one, but two sets of proceedings against him. The latest one examined his role in the storming of the Capitol building on January 6th.  In the end, the Senate voted to acquit Donald Trump – and as Anthony Zurcher  found, the era of Trump’s influence is by no means a closed chapter for Republicans.
  891. Kosovo has been marking the 13th anniversary of its independence from Serbia. And voters have been ringing the changes, facing temperatures of minus 10 degrees Celsius and snow to cast their ballots – awarding a landslide victory for the opposition Self Determination party in last Sunday’s parliamentary election. Guy Delauney reports.
  892. Cuba is suffering. Economically the country is in its worst moment since the “Special Period”, a decade of severe austerity and shortages after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Breadlines are once again a common sight across the island. The hard times have prompted the government to undertake long-promised radical economic reforms. As Will Grant reports, the changes mean that even a low-key celebration of a special occasion can be tricky.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  893. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2021 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1707</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p097c6mh.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p097c6mh.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p097c6mh.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p097c6wk</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p097c6wk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p097c6mh.mp3" fileSize="27312000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1707"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p097c6wk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Israel’s Vaccine Rollout</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Israel’s health system has been in the spotlight as it races ahead with its coronavirus vaccination programme. More than half of eligible Israelis - about 3.5 million people - have now been fully or partially vaccinated. For our Middle East correspondent Tom Bateman, covering the pandemic meant a return to his beat after a mishap on the streets of Jerusalem, and a vivid episode of his own in hospital.</p><p>Next, Ireland, which in recent weeks has been caught in the middle of the row between the UK and the European Union over the Northern Irish protocol. The Irish Taoiseach, Michael Martin, called for both parties to “cool it”. But Ireland’s relationship with Brussels has, to date, been a largely positive one. Chris Paige looks back on Ireland’s evolution since it became a republic into a firmly European nation.</p><p>Thirty years ago an American air strike destroyed an air raid shelter in Baghdad, killing hundreds. The previous August, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had invaded and occupied Kuwait, triggering a huge international response. Jeremy Bowen reflects on US interventions in the region and their bearing on the future.</p><p>Pangolins are one of the most heavily trafficked species in the world and are now in the frame for being a possible source of the Covid-19 outbreak. In India, they are seen as a delicacy but a conservationist in Maharashtra is finding creative ways to help protect the mammals with a little help from Hindu mythology, says Geetanjali Krishna.
  895. We visit Seville, which may soon see the construction of its first new mosque since the 13th century. It’s a bold new initiative that has involved an ex-Premiership footballer, a former male model and an internet crowdfunding campaign, as Oliver Smith reports.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  896. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Netanyahu hopes for a boost in support from the vaccine programme ahead of elections.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Israel’s health system has been in the spotlight as it races ahead with its coronavirus vaccination programme. More than half of eligible Israelis - about 3.5 million people - have now been fully or partially vaccinated. For our Middle East correspondent Tom Bateman, covering the pandemic meant a return to his beat after a mishap on the streets of Jerusalem, and a vivid episode of his own in hospital.</p><p>Next, Ireland, which in recent weeks has been caught in the middle of the row between the UK and the European Union over the Northern Irish protocol. The Irish Taoiseach, Michael Martin, called for both parties to “cool it”. But Ireland’s relationship with Brussels has, to date, been a largely positive one. Chris Paige looks back on Ireland’s evolution since it became a republic into a firmly European nation.</p><p>Thirty years ago an American air strike destroyed an air raid shelter in Baghdad, killing hundreds. The previous August, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had invaded and occupied Kuwait, triggering a huge international response. Jeremy Bowen reflects on US interventions in the region and their bearing on the future.</p><p>Pangolins are one of the most heavily trafficked species in the world and are now in the frame for being a possible source of the Covid-19 outbreak. In India, they are seen as a delicacy but a conservationist in Maharashtra is finding creative ways to help protect the mammals with a little help from Hindu mythology, says Geetanjali Krishna.
  898. We visit Seville, which may soon see the construction of its first new mosque since the 13th century. It’s a bold new initiative that has involved an ex-Premiership footballer, a former male model and an internet crowdfunding campaign, as Oliver Smith reports.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  899. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2021 12:05:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1727</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p096x5sg.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p096x5sg.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p096x5sg.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p096x6fr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p096x6fr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p096x5sg.mp3" fileSize="27632000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1727"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p096x6fr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Egypt’s brief wind of change</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ten years ago, former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, was ousted after weeks of protest in Tahrir square in Cairo. Demonstrators proved an unstoppable force despite a brutal crackdown by authorities killing hundreds. But the post-Mubarak era has not heralded a period of greater freedoms.  Kevin Connolly, who covered the fall of Mubarak, looks back on the protests in 2011 which have now fallen silent.</p><p>President Emmanuel Macron has chosen not to impose a further lockdown, instead tightening borders, closing shopping malls and imposing a night-time curfew to keep the virus under control. Mr Macron now has one eye on the looming presidential campaign as two polls this week suggested his lead over the far-right’s Marine Le Pen is narrowing. Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.</p><p>It's Oscar season again – and Pakistan’s entry in the best foreign film category is making the headlines. The plot centres on the fictional story of a devout Muslim and estate agent whose life is turned upside down when he dances sensually to a song at a wedding. The film has angered a religious group, and the government has postponed its release – indefinitely, says Secunder Kermani.</p><p>At the beginning of the pandemic, Bulgaria’s authorities moved swiftly to impose stringent lockdowns on the country’s Roma communities. Many Roma settlements are cut off from essential services. In some neighbourhoods, military police barred the exits.   As Bulgaria starts to re-open, Jean Mackenzie visits one settlement.</p><p>On the ski slopes of Lake Tahoe, it’s taboo to mention the pandemic. In the Diamond Lake ski resort, slopes are full of visitors, happy to visit the restaurants – and casinos. It's a different story down the road in California, says Alice Hutton.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  900. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Ten years after the revolution, Egypt remains in thrall to the army.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Ten years ago, former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, was ousted after weeks of protest in Tahrir square in Cairo. Demonstrators proved an unstoppable force despite a brutal crackdown by authorities killing hundreds. But the post-Mubarak era has not heralded a period of greater freedoms.  Kevin Connolly, who covered the fall of Mubarak, looks back on the protests in 2011 which have now fallen silent.</p><p>President Emmanuel Macron has chosen not to impose a further lockdown, instead tightening borders, closing shopping malls and imposing a night-time curfew to keep the virus under control. Mr Macron now has one eye on the looming presidential campaign as two polls this week suggested his lead over the far-right’s Marine Le Pen is narrowing. Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.</p><p>It's Oscar season again – and Pakistan’s entry in the best foreign film category is making the headlines. The plot centres on the fictional story of a devout Muslim and estate agent whose life is turned upside down when he dances sensually to a song at a wedding. The film has angered a religious group, and the government has postponed its release – indefinitely, says Secunder Kermani.</p><p>At the beginning of the pandemic, Bulgaria’s authorities moved swiftly to impose stringent lockdowns on the country’s Roma communities. Many Roma settlements are cut off from essential services. In some neighbourhoods, military police barred the exits.   As Bulgaria starts to re-open, Jean Mackenzie visits one settlement.</p><p>On the ski slopes of Lake Tahoe, it’s taboo to mention the pandemic. In the Diamond Lake ski resort, slopes are full of visitors, happy to visit the restaurants – and casinos. It's a different story down the road in California, says Alice Hutton.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  901. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2021 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1719</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p096nrkq.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p096nrkq.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p096nrkq.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p096nskf</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p096nskf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p096nrkq.mp3" fileSize="27504000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1719"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p096nskf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Lady and the General</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Aung San Suu Kyi was once heralded by many in the west as a valiant campaigner for democratic rights. As civilian leader she looked set to put the country on a new path after years of military dictatorship. But her refusal to acknowledge the army’s ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims damaged her standing abroad. And although her party managed to secure a landslide victory in elections last year, it may prove to have been a pyrrhic one, says Jonathan Head, after the military coup this week.</p><p>Mexican’s President, Manuel Lopez Obrador, may have had a lucky escape from the worst effects of Covid-19, but the same cannot be said for a vast numbers of his compatriots who are battling to find treatment. The president has now recovered, says Will Grant, but his citizens are still struggling for breath.</p><p>In a court in Moscow this week, Russia’s opposition leader described President Vladimir Putin as “a poisoner” before he was sentenced to nearly three years in prison. Alexei Navalny’s arrest and sentencing has had an electrifying impact on the opposition movement in the country, as throngs of protestors took to the streets of Moscow, and beyond. Has the Kremlin finally over-played its hand? asks Sarah Rainsford.</p><p>Our central Europe Correspondent Nick Thorpe has been following the Danube, upriver, from Romania to Germany. On one night, he accompanied a conservation team to go jackal howling among the biggest reed-beds on the planet.</p><p>South Africa has been battling to control a new variant of Covid, detected in the country last year. More than 45 000 people have died since the beginning of the pandemic. or those who are grieving, the customary burial process has been curtailed. Many are restricted to watching live streams of the funeral, while closest family grieve alone, says Pumza Filhani.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  902. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Reflections on Aung San Suu Kyi's leadership after another military coup</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Aung San Suu Kyi was once heralded by many in the west as a valiant campaigner for democratic rights. As civilian leader she looked set to put the country on a new path after years of military dictatorship. But her refusal to acknowledge the army’s ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims damaged her standing abroad. And although her party managed to secure a landslide victory in elections last year, it may prove to have been a pyrrhic one, says Jonathan Head, after the military coup this week.</p><p>Mexican’s President, Manuel Lopez Obrador, may have had a lucky escape from the worst effects of Covid-19, but the same cannot be said for a vast numbers of his compatriots who are battling to find treatment. The president has now recovered, says Will Grant, but his citizens are still struggling for breath.</p><p>In a court in Moscow this week, Russia’s opposition leader described President Vladimir Putin as “a poisoner” before he was sentenced to nearly three years in prison. Alexei Navalny’s arrest and sentencing has had an electrifying impact on the opposition movement in the country, as throngs of protestors took to the streets of Moscow, and beyond. Has the Kremlin finally over-played its hand? asks Sarah Rainsford.</p><p>Our central Europe Correspondent Nick Thorpe has been following the Danube, upriver, from Romania to Germany. On one night, he accompanied a conservation team to go jackal howling among the biggest reed-beds on the planet.</p><p>South Africa has been battling to control a new variant of Covid, detected in the country last year. More than 45 000 people have died since the beginning of the pandemic. or those who are grieving, the customary burial process has been curtailed. Many are restricted to watching live streams of the funeral, while closest family grieve alone, says Pumza Filhani.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  903. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2021 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1717</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0967kj7.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0967kj7.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0967kj7.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0967kvg</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0967kvg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0967kj7.mp3" fileSize="27472000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1717"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0967kvg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Lebanon’s Lockdown</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Six months ago, an explosion, caused by improperly stored ammonium nitrate, ripped through the city of Beirut. As the country struggles to rebuild amid a devastating economic crisis, a stringent lockdown has been imposed. In Tripoli, people are taking to the streets in protest. Leila Molana-Allen reports.
  904. San Francisco’s District Attorney is pioneering a new approach to tackling crime, focusing on the root causes with social care and drug therapy, rather than prison. Police unions are not convinced, and it’s not clear whether this novel approach to tackling crime, adopted in other liberal cities, will prove effective, says James Clayton.
  905. Last week the head of the Swedish Public Health Agency Johan Carlson admitted catching a bus during rush hour, without wearing a face mask. Carlson’s failure to adhere to the new restrictions hasn’t gone down well with the Swedish public. This has been compounded by a series of other breaches by ministers and public officials. It’s causing the country’s traditionally high levels of trust in authorities to wobble, as Maddy Savage reports from Stockholm.
  906. When China introduced economic reforms and began opening out in the 1980s, English language learning began with fervour. It remains popular today, with a proliferation of private English language learning schools across the country, but authorities are now downplaying its importance. Journalist LiJia Zhang once worked in a missile-factory – for her, learning a second language was the key to a new life.
  907. The Seychelles has two main industries that drive its economy: tourism and fishing. The fishing industry is struggling amid the pandemic, with fewer visitors, but it's also suffered years of mismanagement says Michelle Jana Chan.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  908. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The country faces economic collapse amid tighter restrictions</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Six months ago, an explosion, caused by improperly stored ammonium nitrate, ripped through the city of Beirut. As the country struggles to rebuild amid a devastating economic crisis, a stringent lockdown has been imposed. In Tripoli, people are taking to the streets in protest. Leila Molana-Allen reports.
  909. San Francisco’s District Attorney is pioneering a new approach to tackling crime, focusing on the root causes with social care and drug therapy, rather than prison. Police unions are not convinced, and it’s not clear whether this novel approach to tackling crime, adopted in other liberal cities, will prove effective, says James Clayton.
  910. Last week the head of the Swedish Public Health Agency Johan Carlson admitted catching a bus during rush hour, without wearing a face mask. Carlson’s failure to adhere to the new restrictions hasn’t gone down well with the Swedish public. This has been compounded by a series of other breaches by ministers and public officials. It’s causing the country’s traditionally high levels of trust in authorities to wobble, as Maddy Savage reports from Stockholm.
  911. When China introduced economic reforms and began opening out in the 1980s, English language learning began with fervour. It remains popular today, with a proliferation of private English language learning schools across the country, but authorities are now downplaying its importance. Journalist LiJia Zhang once worked in a missile-factory – for her, learning a second language was the key to a new life.
  912. The Seychelles has two main industries that drive its economy: tourism and fishing. The fishing industry is struggling amid the pandemic, with fewer visitors, but it's also suffered years of mismanagement says Michelle Jana Chan.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  913. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2021 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1725</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0960zwf.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0960zwf.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0960zwf.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p096119h</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p096119h</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0960zwf.mp3" fileSize="27600000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1725"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p096119h</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Brazil’s Steady Stream of Grief</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Brazil is going through a deadly second-wave of Covid-19 – and it’s precipitated the collapse of the health system in– Manaus, the biggest city in the Amazon. The hospitals are overloaded with patients and oxygen supplies have run perilously low. Local and national leaders are now coming under scrutiny for their management of the outbreak. Katy Watson visited Manaus.
  914. We hear from Afghanistan, where there has been a recent surge of targeted killings, blamed on the Taliban. Peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban have stalled, and the rise in violence is proving a toxic backdrop. Meanwhile, locals are worried that the further US drawdown in troops could herald the Taliban’s return, says Yogita Limaye.
  915. We have an insight into the cyber world of online extremists. Meet the team who track the outlandish web of conspiracy theories spun by shadowy groups. They watched the emergence of the group now known as QAnon. In a fiercely divided America where facts are often dismissed as fake news, blurring the boundaries of reality and myth has becomes all too easy, finds Alistair Coleman.
  916. We visit the small Russian town of Nikel where, until recently, a decades-old smelter produced tonnes of nickel. Nornikel, closed the smelter in December in a move they claim is part of their shift towards a greener future. But for hundreds of employees, their future is less clear, finds Guy Kiddey.
  917. In September 2017, a ferocious Category 5 hurricane swept through Dominica, St Croix and Puerto Rico with 160-mile-per hour winds. On the eastern-Caribbean island of Dominica, Hurricane Maria left a trail of devastation and 65 people died.. Mark Stratton went to visit the island recently where efforts continue to rebuild, even as they face a new storm front: Coronavirus.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  918. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Manaus buries its dead as a brutal second wave rages through the Amazonian city</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Brazil is going through a deadly second-wave of Covid-19 – and it’s precipitated the collapse of the health system in– Manaus, the biggest city in the Amazon. The hospitals are overloaded with patients and oxygen supplies have run perilously low. Local and national leaders are now coming under scrutiny for their management of the outbreak. Katy Watson visited Manaus.
  919. We hear from Afghanistan, where there has been a recent surge of targeted killings, blamed on the Taliban. Peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban have stalled, and the rise in violence is proving a toxic backdrop. Meanwhile, locals are worried that the further US drawdown in troops could herald the Taliban’s return, says Yogita Limaye.
  920. We have an insight into the cyber world of online extremists. Meet the team who track the outlandish web of conspiracy theories spun by shadowy groups. They watched the emergence of the group now known as QAnon. In a fiercely divided America where facts are often dismissed as fake news, blurring the boundaries of reality and myth has becomes all too easy, finds Alistair Coleman.
  921. We visit the small Russian town of Nikel where, until recently, a decades-old smelter produced tonnes of nickel. Nornikel, closed the smelter in December in a move they claim is part of their shift towards a greener future. But for hundreds of employees, their future is less clear, finds Guy Kiddey.
  922. In September 2017, a ferocious Category 5 hurricane swept through Dominica, St Croix and Puerto Rico with 160-mile-per hour winds. On the eastern-Caribbean island of Dominica, Hurricane Maria left a trail of devastation and 65 people died.. Mark Stratton went to visit the island recently where efforts continue to rebuild, even as they face a new storm front: Coronavirus.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  923. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2021 11:59:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1733</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p095lljr.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p095lljr.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p095lljr.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p095lln8</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p095lln8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p095lljr.mp3" fileSize="27728000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1733"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p095lln8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>India’s farmers protest</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In Delhi, Republic Day is usually a ceremonial occasion celebrated with military parades and cultural pageantry. But this year’s event was marred by violence – as thousands of farmers drove their tractors into New Delhi in an escalation of months of peaceful protests against proposed agricultural reforms. Rajini Vaidyanathan reports from New Delhi.
  924. The Netherlands is seeing its worst violence in 40 years with scenes of looting and rioting across the country. The collapse of the government earlier this month, followed by a tightening of restrictions due to Coronavirus has had a destabilising impact. Anna Holligan says the Dutch are wrestling with the disruption to the usual sense of order.
  925. The Democratic Republic of Congo is rich in precious minerals such as gold, diamonds and cobalt - but is still one of the poorest countries in the world. For over two decades, rebel groups have fought over mines in the east of the country where thousands of children also toil in the mines. Olivia Acland went to visit one of them
  926. Portugal has become one of the European countries hardest hit by the second wave of Covid-19 and another national lockdown has been imposed. Audrey Gillan visited Armona, an island off the coast of the Algarve, which is suffering from tightened travel restrictions and low visitor numbers.
  927. Cuba’s Fidel Castro was probably one of the most widely photographed and documented men of his time.. Will Grant has been trying to verify the details of one of those pictures – of Castro as a young man in a sugarcane field – which he needed for a book. It led him to the story of the audacious young German woman who snapped it six decades earlier.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Farmers clash with police over planned agricultural reforms</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In Delhi, Republic Day is usually a ceremonial occasion celebrated with military parades and cultural pageantry. But this year’s event was marred by violence – as thousands of farmers drove their tractors into New Delhi in an escalation of months of peaceful protests against proposed agricultural reforms. Rajini Vaidyanathan reports from New Delhi.
  928. The Netherlands is seeing its worst violence in 40 years with scenes of looting and rioting across the country. The collapse of the government earlier this month, followed by a tightening of restrictions due to Coronavirus has had a destabilising impact. Anna Holligan says the Dutch are wrestling with the disruption to the usual sense of order.
  929. The Democratic Republic of Congo is rich in precious minerals such as gold, diamonds and cobalt - but is still one of the poorest countries in the world. For over two decades, rebel groups have fought over mines in the east of the country where thousands of children also toil in the mines. Olivia Acland went to visit one of them
  930. Portugal has become one of the European countries hardest hit by the second wave of Covid-19 and another national lockdown has been imposed. Audrey Gillan visited Armona, an island off the coast of the Algarve, which is suffering from tightened travel restrictions and low visitor numbers.
  931. Cuba’s Fidel Castro was probably one of the most widely photographed and documented men of his time.. Will Grant has been trying to verify the details of one of those pictures – of Castro as a young man in a sugarcane field – which he needed for a book. It led him to the story of the audacious young German woman who snapped it six decades earlier.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1722</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p095cjsy.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p095cjsy.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p095cjsy.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p095ckbg</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p095ckbg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p095cjsy.mp3" fileSize="27552000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1722"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p095ckbg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Wuhan – one year on</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A year ago Wuhan imposed a lockdown on its citizens, as reports filtered through of the first human-to-human transmission of a new strain of Coronavirus. A delegation from the World Health Organisation has now arrived in Wuhan to investigate the origins of the outbreak. Robin Brant returned to the wet food market in the city where life has returned to normal - almost.
  932. Washington was transformed into a fortress this week – both for visitors and residents alike in the lead up to the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Aleem Maqbool reflects on the contrast between the ceremony this week – and that of 2016.
  933. Russia's opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, returned to Moscow having recovered from a nerve-agent attack, which he blames on the Kremlin. He was arrested upon arrival and placed in pre-trial detention for 30 days in what could have been seen as a blow to the opposition. But – undeterred, they had something else up their sleeve, as Steve Rosenberg reports.
  934. Last weekend bouts of violence erupted on the streets in over a dozen neighbourhoods across Tunisia, with young people clashing in the streets with the police. But what’s behind the latest unrest? Ten years on from the revolution which triggered the Arab Spring uprisings, the slow pace of economic reform and high unemployment has caused widespread discontent as Rana Jawad reports.
  935. India began the world’s largest vaccination roll-out last weekend, aiming to vaccinate 1.3 billion people. The arrival of millions of doses of the two approved vaccines was greeted with jubilation and a festive atmosphere in cities across India. But there is still some reticence in taking up the vaccine, finds Rajini Vaidyanathan.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  936. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A visit to Wuhan’s wet food market</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A year ago Wuhan imposed a lockdown on its citizens, as reports filtered through of the first human-to-human transmission of a new strain of Coronavirus. A delegation from the World Health Organisation has now arrived in Wuhan to investigate the origins of the outbreak. Robin Brant returned to the wet food market in the city where life has returned to normal - almost.
  937. Washington was transformed into a fortress this week – both for visitors and residents alike in the lead up to the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Aleem Maqbool reflects on the contrast between the ceremony this week – and that of 2016.
  938. Russia's opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, returned to Moscow having recovered from a nerve-agent attack, which he blames on the Kremlin. He was arrested upon arrival and placed in pre-trial detention for 30 days in what could have been seen as a blow to the opposition. But – undeterred, they had something else up their sleeve, as Steve Rosenberg reports.
  939. Last weekend bouts of violence erupted on the streets in over a dozen neighbourhoods across Tunisia, with young people clashing in the streets with the police. But what’s behind the latest unrest? Ten years on from the revolution which triggered the Arab Spring uprisings, the slow pace of economic reform and high unemployment has caused widespread discontent as Rana Jawad reports.
  940. India began the world’s largest vaccination roll-out last weekend, aiming to vaccinate 1.3 billion people. The arrival of millions of doses of the two approved vaccines was greeted with jubilation and a festive atmosphere in cities across India. But there is still some reticence in taking up the vaccine, finds Rajini Vaidyanathan.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  941. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2021 11:14:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1718</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p094xl5x.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p094xl5x.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p094xl5x.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p094xlcb</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p094xlcb</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p094xl5x.mp3" fileSize="27488000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1718"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p094xlcb</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Ireland's shame</title><description><![CDATA[<p>This week, the Irish Taoiseach described the findings of an official report into decades of abuse of women and children at mother and baby homes as a “dark, difficult and very shameful chapter of very recent Irish history.” The report acknowledged the harsh treatment was supported and condoned by the Irish State and the country’s churches. Those who survived the homes battled with long running prejudices and emotional scars, finds Chris Paige.
  942. Indonesian airlines have one of the worst safety records in Asia. The fatal crash on January 9th has again raised questions about how safe the country’s airlines are and brought back painful memories. The BBC’s Asia editor, Rebecca Henschke, reports.
  943. There’s been a sluggish start to Covid vaccinations in many parts of the EU complicated by public resistance and disinformation. In the Czech Republic, anti-vaccination activists made international headlines this week by wearing yellow Stars of David, claiming they were being ostracised just as Jews were in Nazi Germany. Rob Cameron has more.
  944. Somalia has been in a state of conflict for three decades and this is reflected in media coverage of the region. And yet, life goes on, with even a construction boom in Mogadishu. Mary Harper, the BBC’s Africa editor found that Somalis are tiring of stereotypes about their country as a place of violence and suffering.
  945. In Nova Scotia - the lobster season usually starts late in November and finishes in May – and between those months, most fishermen are not allowed to catch the crustaceans. But thanks to a treaty, signed with the British in 1761, the Mi’kmaq people are exempt from this and can fish all year round. One businessman is doing rather well out of it much to the consternation of those who do not have these rights, finds Greg Mercer.
  946. Presenter: Kate Adie
  947. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A story of discrimination and abuse: Ireland’s mother and baby homes</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>This week, the Irish Taoiseach described the findings of an official report into decades of abuse of women and children at mother and baby homes as a “dark, difficult and very shameful chapter of very recent Irish history.” The report acknowledged the harsh treatment was supported and condoned by the Irish State and the country’s churches. Those who survived the homes battled with long running prejudices and emotional scars, finds Chris Paige.
  948. Indonesian airlines have one of the worst safety records in Asia. The fatal crash on January 9th has again raised questions about how safe the country’s airlines are and brought back painful memories. The BBC’s Asia editor, Rebecca Henschke, reports.
  949. There’s been a sluggish start to Covid vaccinations in many parts of the EU complicated by public resistance and disinformation. In the Czech Republic, anti-vaccination activists made international headlines this week by wearing yellow Stars of David, claiming they were being ostracised just as Jews were in Nazi Germany. Rob Cameron has more.
  950. Somalia has been in a state of conflict for three decades and this is reflected in media coverage of the region. And yet, life goes on, with even a construction boom in Mogadishu. Mary Harper, the BBC’s Africa editor found that Somalis are tiring of stereotypes about their country as a place of violence and suffering.
  951. In Nova Scotia - the lobster season usually starts late in November and finishes in May – and between those months, most fishermen are not allowed to catch the crustaceans. But thanks to a treaty, signed with the British in 1761, the Mi’kmaq people are exempt from this and can fish all year round. One businessman is doing rather well out of it much to the consternation of those who do not have these rights, finds Greg Mercer.
  952. Presenter: Kate Adie
  953. Producer: Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2021 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1739</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0946q05.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0946q05.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0946q05.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0946qhw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0946qhw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0946q05.mp3" fileSize="27824000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1739"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0946qhw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>President Trump’s Legacy</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In Washington, he storming of Capitol Hill this week by President Trump’s supporters has dominated headlines, but many political pundits said that this should not have taken people by surprise. Anthony Zurcher has covered the White House throughout Donald Trump’s term in office – he charts the clear path that led to this moment, from President Trump’s 2016 campaign.
  954. On Thursday, Uganda will go to the polls pitting two very different presidential candidates against each other. Yoweri Museveni has served five consecutive terms and his main challenger, the charismatic Bobi Wine has galvanised support among the youth. But can it guarantee Bobi Wine victory? Our Africa correspondent, Catherine Byaruhanga has been finding out.
  955. One day in April , 2015 an old fishing boat overloaded with refugees and migrants sank en route to Italy from Libya – drowning more than a thousand people. Then Italian Prime Minister declared the Italians would salvage the shipwreck and recover the corpses. The boat was raised from the seabed and transported to Sicily. Linda Pressly met the man in charge.
  956. Deep among the frosty pines in Baden-Württemberg, a factory is manufacturing the industrial freezers that are needed to keep the supplies of Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at extreme cold temperatures. Germany's Covid infection and death rates are rising steeply. It’s a race against time as the vaccine is rolled out. Jenny Hill visited the factory dealing with a huge influx of new orders.
  957. And we visit Venezuela which has been suffering a deep socio-economic crisis for years. But our correspondent Katy Watson found out on a recent trip to the Hotel Humboldt, which overlooks Caracas, there are those who have benefitted.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The leadership style that led to the dramatic events at Capitol Hill</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In Washington, he storming of Capitol Hill this week by President Trump’s supporters has dominated headlines, but many political pundits said that this should not have taken people by surprise. Anthony Zurcher has covered the White House throughout Donald Trump’s term in office – he charts the clear path that led to this moment, from President Trump’s 2016 campaign.
  958. On Thursday, Uganda will go to the polls pitting two very different presidential candidates against each other. Yoweri Museveni has served five consecutive terms and his main challenger, the charismatic Bobi Wine has galvanised support among the youth. But can it guarantee Bobi Wine victory? Our Africa correspondent, Catherine Byaruhanga has been finding out.
  959. One day in April , 2015 an old fishing boat overloaded with refugees and migrants sank en route to Italy from Libya – drowning more than a thousand people. Then Italian Prime Minister declared the Italians would salvage the shipwreck and recover the corpses. The boat was raised from the seabed and transported to Sicily. Linda Pressly met the man in charge.
  960. Deep among the frosty pines in Baden-Württemberg, a factory is manufacturing the industrial freezers that are needed to keep the supplies of Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at extreme cold temperatures. Germany's Covid infection and death rates are rising steeply. It’s a race against time as the vaccine is rolled out. Jenny Hill visited the factory dealing with a huge influx of new orders.
  961. And we visit Venezuela which has been suffering a deep socio-economic crisis for years. But our correspondent Katy Watson found out on a recent trip to the Hotel Humboldt, which overlooks Caracas, there are those who have benefitted.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2021 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1742</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p093kdpt.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p093kdpt.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p093kdpt.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p093kfgf</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p093kfgf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p093kdpt.mp3" fileSize="27872000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1742"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p093kfgf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Key moments of 2020 reported by our correspondents</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie reflects on key moments of 2020 with some of the most thought provoking dispatches by our correspondents. </p><p>Andrew Harding, who covers Africa and is based in Johannesburg, spends a lot of his time travelling around the continent to witness events at first hand. The Coronavirus pandemic put a stop to much of that but he still had a dramatic story to tell in the autumn. He reflected on the somewhat ironic parallels he was seeing as he compared the situation within Africa with that of another key country in the world which was facing a significant election. </p><p>Afghanistan is a country where it’s not easy to define the term outrage. Violence there has not abated despite peace talks between the government and the Tailiban. But an attack on Kabul University on November 2nd sent shock waves across the country and beyond. At least 35 people were left dead and 50 seriously wounded. Photographs of the murdered students and their blood-stained classrooms spread widely through Afghan social media. Lyse Doucet spoke to one university lecturer about the students he lost and the damage done to Afghanistan’s hopes for the future. </p><p>The death of George Floyd, an African American living in Minneapolis in the state of Minnesota last summer triggered mass demonstrations across America and the world. He died whilst under arrest as a white police office knelt on his neck. Derek Chauvin has since been charged with murder. There was fury about police brutality and racist treatment of black Americans. In a country which has a massive gap between the richest and poorest, Emma Sapong, an African American journalist based in Minnesota reports that there is more than money that separates white and black lives there. </p><p>The enormous blast in Beirut's port in August killed 200 people in the city and injured thousands. Buildings were destroyed and lives up-ended after stock piles of ammonium nitrate caught alight and exploded. People took to the streets to protest at a political elite who they accuse of mismanagement and negligence. One of those who was badly hurt was Leila Molana Allen, a journalist in the city. But as she reports, in the immediate aftermath she realised that her dog was missing. </p><p>2020 will be remembered by many as a year of lock downs and restrictions as countries around the world battled to control the coronavirus pandemic. It was a way of living that most of us had never experienced before and we all longed for a return to normality. Our correspondent in Brussels, Kevin Connolly had been confined at home for weeks when the rules were relaxed briefly in the summer. He was surprised by his urge to indulge in some rather unusual shopping. </p><p>Producer: Caroline Bayley</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Key moments of 2020 and thought provoking dispatches by our correspondents.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie reflects on key moments of 2020 with some of the most thought provoking dispatches by our correspondents. </p><p>Andrew Harding, who covers Africa and is based in Johannesburg, spends a lot of his time travelling around the continent to witness events at first hand. The Coronavirus pandemic put a stop to much of that but he still had a dramatic story to tell in the autumn. He reflected on the somewhat ironic parallels he was seeing as he compared the situation within Africa with that of another key country in the world which was facing a significant election. </p><p>Afghanistan is a country where it’s not easy to define the term outrage. Violence there has not abated despite peace talks between the government and the Tailiban. But an attack on Kabul University on November 2nd sent shock waves across the country and beyond. At least 35 people were left dead and 50 seriously wounded. Photographs of the murdered students and their blood-stained classrooms spread widely through Afghan social media. Lyse Doucet spoke to one university lecturer about the students he lost and the damage done to Afghanistan’s hopes for the future. </p><p>The death of George Floyd, an African American living in Minneapolis in the state of Minnesota last summer triggered mass demonstrations across America and the world. He died whilst under arrest as a white police office knelt on his neck. Derek Chauvin has since been charged with murder. There was fury about police brutality and racist treatment of black Americans. In a country which has a massive gap between the richest and poorest, Emma Sapong, an African American journalist based in Minnesota reports that there is more than money that separates white and black lives there. </p><p>The enormous blast in Beirut's port in August killed 200 people in the city and injured thousands. Buildings were destroyed and lives up-ended after stock piles of ammonium nitrate caught alight and exploded. People took to the streets to protest at a political elite who they accuse of mismanagement and negligence. One of those who was badly hurt was Leila Molana Allen, a journalist in the city. But as she reports, in the immediate aftermath she realised that her dog was missing. </p><p>2020 will be remembered by many as a year of lock downs and restrictions as countries around the world battled to control the coronavirus pandemic. It was a way of living that most of us had never experienced before and we all longed for a return to normality. Our correspondent in Brussels, Kevin Connolly had been confined at home for weeks when the rules were relaxed briefly in the summer. He was surprised by his urge to indulge in some rather unusual shopping. </p><p>Producer: Caroline Bayley</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2021 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1745</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p091rhm3.mp3" length="27920000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p091rhm3.mp3" length="27920000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p091rhm3.mp3" length="27920000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p091w19r</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p091w19r</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p091rhm3.mp3" fileSize="27920000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1745"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p091w19r</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The true state of the pandemic in Turkey</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Turkey has had record numbers of new coronavirus infections recently with around 30,000 positive cases a day. That number has now dropped slightly, and the Health Ministry says restrictions have begun to bear fruit. But how did it get to this, in a country which was initially regarded as doing well in the pandemic? Now the government has been accused of covering up the spread of the virus, and putting lives at risk, as Orla Guerin reports from Istanbul.
  962. In Sudan’s western region of Darfur, the long-running armed conflict has cost 300,000 lives, and forced two and a half million people to flee their homes. After a peace deal in August, the international peacekeeping force is preparing to pull out this month. Hopes now rest on the new part-civilian, part-military government, which came to power after 30 years of dictatorial rule. But as Mike Thomson found, the dual structure of the new administration can pose challenges on the ground.
  963. People in Bethlehem are preparing for an austere Christmas without the income from foreign pilgrims and tourists – but you can still find stories of hope there. Especially at the Milk Grotto – near the Nativity Church – where the Virgin Mary is said to have nursed baby Jesus. It’s long been claimed that women who have difficulties conceiving are blessed with children after praying at the grotto, or using bits of soft chalk, or “milk powder”, from its walls, as Yolande Knell reports.
  964. New York City was hit worse than many places during the first wave of the pandemic, and Nick Bryant and his wife both caught the virus. So his adopted home is the perfect perch from which to observe, and now reflect on, the extraordinary year that was 2020.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  965. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories on Covid-19 in Turkey; from Sudan's Darfur, Bethlehem, and 2020 seen from the US.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Turkey has had record numbers of new coronavirus infections recently with around 30,000 positive cases a day. That number has now dropped slightly, and the Health Ministry says restrictions have begun to bear fruit. But how did it get to this, in a country which was initially regarded as doing well in the pandemic? Now the government has been accused of covering up the spread of the virus, and putting lives at risk, as Orla Guerin reports from Istanbul.
  966. In Sudan’s western region of Darfur, the long-running armed conflict has cost 300,000 lives, and forced two and a half million people to flee their homes. After a peace deal in August, the international peacekeeping force is preparing to pull out this month. Hopes now rest on the new part-civilian, part-military government, which came to power after 30 years of dictatorial rule. But as Mike Thomson found, the dual structure of the new administration can pose challenges on the ground.
  967. People in Bethlehem are preparing for an austere Christmas without the income from foreign pilgrims and tourists – but you can still find stories of hope there. Especially at the Milk Grotto – near the Nativity Church – where the Virgin Mary is said to have nursed baby Jesus. It’s long been claimed that women who have difficulties conceiving are blessed with children after praying at the grotto, or using bits of soft chalk, or “milk powder”, from its walls, as Yolande Knell reports.
  968. New York City was hit worse than many places during the first wave of the pandemic, and Nick Bryant and his wife both caught the virus. So his adopted home is the perfect perch from which to observe, and now reflect on, the extraordinary year that was 2020.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  969. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1737</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p091ymb4.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p091ymb4.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p091ymb4.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p091ymf4</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p091ymf4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p091ymb4.mp3" fileSize="27792000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1737"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p091ymf4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>American presidents and the Middle East</title><description><![CDATA[<p>When there's change in the Middle East, there is a good chance the United States had something to do with it, as with the recent accords between Israel and four Arab states. And now a new American president is preparing to move into the White House. What could this mean for the region, asks Jeremy Bowen.
  970. Thailand has been convulsed by large demonstrations this year, in which young people have been calling for reform and for changes to the once untouchable monarchy, even though criticising the king carries long prison sentences. Royalists are shocked by these campaigns and want things to stay as they are, says Jonathan Head.
  971. Italy's coronavirus crisis started in the north and eventually reached the far south, including the region of Calabria. An area blighted not just by the pandemic, but also by the powerful and ruthless 'Ndrangheta mafia whose crimes have made it much harder to cope with the virus for restaurants and even for hospitals, as Mark Lowen found out.
  972. Relations between China and the west have come under strain in recent years – but we buy vast amounts of Chinese products, and so China has developed its “Belt and Road” initiative. Part of its purpose is to enable the transport of goods from China to Europe by train. This has brought investment as far as Germany's former industrial region of the Ruhr, says Caroline Bayley.
  973. The Galapagos islands off the coast of Ecuador are known for their wildlife, from slow giant tortoises to fast baby iguanas. Charles Darwin spent five weeks there, and then developed the theory of evolution. Apart from the survival of the fittest, it's also about adaptation. Something that's been happening on these islands during the pandemic, as Jamie Lafferty reports.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  974. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from the Middle East, Thailand, Calabria, Germany and the Galapagos islands.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>When there's change in the Middle East, there is a good chance the United States had something to do with it, as with the recent accords between Israel and four Arab states. And now a new American president is preparing to move into the White House. What could this mean for the region, asks Jeremy Bowen.
  975. Thailand has been convulsed by large demonstrations this year, in which young people have been calling for reform and for changes to the once untouchable monarchy, even though criticising the king carries long prison sentences. Royalists are shocked by these campaigns and want things to stay as they are, says Jonathan Head.
  976. Italy's coronavirus crisis started in the north and eventually reached the far south, including the region of Calabria. An area blighted not just by the pandemic, but also by the powerful and ruthless 'Ndrangheta mafia whose crimes have made it much harder to cope with the virus for restaurants and even for hospitals, as Mark Lowen found out.
  977. Relations between China and the west have come under strain in recent years – but we buy vast amounts of Chinese products, and so China has developed its “Belt and Road” initiative. Part of its purpose is to enable the transport of goods from China to Europe by train. This has brought investment as far as Germany's former industrial region of the Ruhr, says Caroline Bayley.
  978. The Galapagos islands off the coast of Ecuador are known for their wildlife, from slow giant tortoises to fast baby iguanas. Charles Darwin spent five weeks there, and then developed the theory of evolution. Apart from the survival of the fittest, it's also about adaptation. Something that's been happening on these islands during the pandemic, as Jamie Lafferty reports.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  979. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1727</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0917t7k.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0917t7k.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0917t7k.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0917tw3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0917tw3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0917t7k.mp3" fileSize="27632000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1727"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0917tw3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Stamping out dissent in Hong Kong</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In Hong Kong,the authorities are showing that they mean business with the new security law to stamp out demonstrations and dissent. The pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been detained, and young campaigners including protest leader Joshua Wong were sentenced to prison this week. Before that, the pro-democracy opposition resigned en masse, as Danny Vincent reports.
  980. Seventeen weeks after the presidential election that is widely thought to have been rigged and that led to Belarus's largest-ever anti-government protests, President Alexander Lukashenko still refuses to step down. But he has lost the support of some of his police officers, a few of whom have fled to Poland. Lucy Ash meets one of them.
  981. Araucania in southern Chile is a land of ancient volcanoes, virgin forests and agriculture. But recently it has been making headlines for arson attacks on timber lorries and prisoners on hunger strike. This is the homeland of one of Chile’s main indigenous peoples – the Mapuche. They want their land back that was taken from them not by early colonisers but by General Pinochet, as Jane Chambers found out.
  982. In Australia there has been a new impetus to look at past injustices this year, as elsewhere. And these include a little-known practice akin to the slave trade. In what is known as “black-birding”, islanders from the South Pacific were brought to work in Australia against their will, as Will Higginbotham reports.
  983. Across Europe, coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions have shut opera houses, theatres and concert halls. Despite receiving large government grants and loans, the performing arts are now facing a critical period in countries like Italy, France, Germany and Austria, says Joanna Robertson.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  984. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Hong Kong, Belarus, Chile, Australia and on Covid-19's impact on concerts.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In Hong Kong,the authorities are showing that they mean business with the new security law to stamp out demonstrations and dissent. The pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been detained, and young campaigners including protest leader Joshua Wong were sentenced to prison this week. Before that, the pro-democracy opposition resigned en masse, as Danny Vincent reports.
  985. Seventeen weeks after the presidential election that is widely thought to have been rigged and that led to Belarus's largest-ever anti-government protests, President Alexander Lukashenko still refuses to step down. But he has lost the support of some of his police officers, a few of whom have fled to Poland. Lucy Ash meets one of them.
  986. Araucania in southern Chile is a land of ancient volcanoes, virgin forests and agriculture. But recently it has been making headlines for arson attacks on timber lorries and prisoners on hunger strike. This is the homeland of one of Chile’s main indigenous peoples – the Mapuche. They want their land back that was taken from them not by early colonisers but by General Pinochet, as Jane Chambers found out.
  987. In Australia there has been a new impetus to look at past injustices this year, as elsewhere. And these include a little-known practice akin to the slave trade. In what is known as “black-birding”, islanders from the South Pacific were brought to work in Australia against their will, as Will Higginbotham reports.
  988. Across Europe, coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions have shut opera houses, theatres and concert halls. Despite receiving large government grants and loans, the performing arts are now facing a critical period in countries like Italy, France, Germany and Austria, says Joanna Robertson.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  989. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1730</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p090l03d.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p090l03d.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p090l03d.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p090l0bs</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p090l0bs</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p090l03d.mp3" fileSize="27680000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1730"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p090l0bs</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Facing defeat in Nagorno-Karabakh</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Nagorno-Karabakh, the ethnic Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan, became the frontline of a war again this autumn. This resulted in Azerbaijan regaining some of the territory lost in previous conflicts – and with it, homes and landmarks that are precious to Armenians. Peter Oborne was there just as the current Russian-backed peacekeeping deal was announced.
  990. Political dramas in Peru reached new heights this month, when the country saw no fewer than three presidents in power in a single week. Tensions also spilled out onto the streets – with large demonstrations and battles between protesters and police in the capital Lima. Now the dust has settled, a new youth movement has come to the fore, as Dan Collyns reports.
  991. In the Pakistani city of Lahore, hundreds of thousands of people turned out for the funeral of a highly controversial cleric, Khadim Rizvi, who had campaigned for even stricter punishment of “blasphemers” – people accused of insulting Islam or the Prophet Mohammed. Rizvi and his supporters have been linked to violent attacks in Paris, Britain and in Pakistan. Secunder Kermani reflects on his life and his legacy.
  992. The city of Gatineau in Quebec in Canada has been designated a “red zone”, Canada’s highest level of pandemic restrictions. Schools have stayed open though, and one headteacher had an idea for how to keep everyone safe: he moved classes outdoors, in all weathers, as Sian Griffiths reports.
  993. France has been under a strict lockdown in recent weeks. Non-essential shops have been closed until today. Horatio Clare spent time in the city of Marseille on France’s Mediterranean coast during the lockdown. How has the normally bustling city fared, where "to arrive is to belong"?</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  994. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories on Armenian losses in Nagorno-Karabakh, and from Peru, Pakistan, Canada, France.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Nagorno-Karabakh, the ethnic Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan, became the frontline of a war again this autumn. This resulted in Azerbaijan regaining some of the territory lost in previous conflicts – and with it, homes and landmarks that are precious to Armenians. Peter Oborne was there just as the current Russian-backed peacekeeping deal was announced.
  995. Political dramas in Peru reached new heights this month, when the country saw no fewer than three presidents in power in a single week. Tensions also spilled out onto the streets – with large demonstrations and battles between protesters and police in the capital Lima. Now the dust has settled, a new youth movement has come to the fore, as Dan Collyns reports.
  996. In the Pakistani city of Lahore, hundreds of thousands of people turned out for the funeral of a highly controversial cleric, Khadim Rizvi, who had campaigned for even stricter punishment of “blasphemers” – people accused of insulting Islam or the Prophet Mohammed. Rizvi and his supporters have been linked to violent attacks in Paris, Britain and in Pakistan. Secunder Kermani reflects on his life and his legacy.
  997. The city of Gatineau in Quebec in Canada has been designated a “red zone”, Canada’s highest level of pandemic restrictions. Schools have stayed open though, and one headteacher had an idea for how to keep everyone safe: he moved classes outdoors, in all weathers, as Sian Griffiths reports.
  998. France has been under a strict lockdown in recent weeks. Non-essential shops have been closed until today. Horatio Clare spent time in the city of Marseille on France’s Mediterranean coast during the lockdown. How has the normally bustling city fared, where "to arrive is to belong"?</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  999. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1741</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08zw897.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08zw897.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08zw897.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08zw8jb</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08zw8jb</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08zw897.mp3" fileSize="27856000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1741"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08zw8jb</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>United States: Presidential transitions</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the United States, President Trump still hasn’t conceded that he has lost the election. His campaign is doubling down making claims of voter fraud. But without evidence. Meanwhile, the election winner, Joe Biden, is preparing to become president while being denied access to the briefings he is entitled to as President-elect, as Anthony Zurcher reports from Washington.
  1000. Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been dubbed the Trump of the Tropics. Despite widespread criticism of his handling of the pandemic, he has been gaining support from an unexpected place recently – in the country's northeast, known as a left-wing stronghold. But a new welfare benefit is changing the political landscape there, as Katy Watson found.
  1001. Russia passed the two-million mark of Covid-19 cases this week. One of the worst affected areas is the Archangelsk region in the north, on the White Sea of the Arctic Ocean. It's been hit so hard, that overstretched healthcare workers are defying their bosses and speaking out, as Sarah Rainsford reports.
  1002. It's Black Friday next week, when retailers try to entice their customers with big discounts. In France however there’s talk of postponing the event because of the current lockdown, to give the smaller bricks-and-mortar shops a chance against the internet-based competition. Lucy Williamson has been to visit a legendary bookshop in Paris: Shakespeare and Company.
  1003. The island of Madagascar has a wealth of different habitats, that are home to thousands of endemic species of plants and animals that exist nowhere else, like the round-eyed lemurs. But the remaining forests are under threat, as Michelle Jana Chan found out when trekking in a remote canyon.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1004. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories on the US presidential transition and from Brazil, Russia, France and Madagascar.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the United States, President Trump still hasn’t conceded that he has lost the election. His campaign is doubling down making claims of voter fraud. But without evidence. Meanwhile, the election winner, Joe Biden, is preparing to become president while being denied access to the briefings he is entitled to as President-elect, as Anthony Zurcher reports from Washington.
  1005. Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been dubbed the Trump of the Tropics. Despite widespread criticism of his handling of the pandemic, he has been gaining support from an unexpected place recently – in the country's northeast, known as a left-wing stronghold. But a new welfare benefit is changing the political landscape there, as Katy Watson found.
  1006. Russia passed the two-million mark of Covid-19 cases this week. One of the worst affected areas is the Archangelsk region in the north, on the White Sea of the Arctic Ocean. It's been hit so hard, that overstretched healthcare workers are defying their bosses and speaking out, as Sarah Rainsford reports.
  1007. It's Black Friday next week, when retailers try to entice their customers with big discounts. In France however there’s talk of postponing the event because of the current lockdown, to give the smaller bricks-and-mortar shops a chance against the internet-based competition. Lucy Williamson has been to visit a legendary bookshop in Paris: Shakespeare and Company.
  1008. The island of Madagascar has a wealth of different habitats, that are home to thousands of endemic species of plants and animals that exist nowhere else, like the round-eyed lemurs. But the remaining forests are under threat, as Michelle Jana Chan found out when trekking in a remote canyon.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1009. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1753</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08z59wz.mp3" length="28048000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08z59wz.mp3" length="28048000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08z59wz.mp3" length="28048000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08z5b3t</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08z5b3t</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08z59wz.mp3" fileSize="28048000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1753"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08z5b3t</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Diwali in India during the pandemic</title><description><![CDATA[<p>For Hindus, Sikhs and Jains it's Diwali - the festival of lights. But this year there's the pandemic. What impact is that having in India, asks Rajini Vaidyanathan in Delhi.
  1010. In Azerbaijan, the decades-long intermittent war with Armenia over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh flared up again in September. Earlier this week, Russia brokered a deal to end the conflict. Olga Ivshina has just returned from the Azeri side of the frontline, where reporters' safety was not just threatened by shelling.
  1011. The French Caribbean island of Martinique has a difficult relationship with its past. For about two hundred years the colony relied on enslaved Africans to work in its sugar cane plantations. Some think that period might have been shorter if it hadn't been for Josephine, the wife of Napoleon. And as Tim Whewell found, that's not the only sensitive subject of conversation on the island.
  1012. Bicycles have been recommended as a safe form of transport in the pandemic, and cities around Europe have been improving their cycling infrastructure as a result. Anna Holligan lives in the Netherlands, where cycling is second nature to many, and says that even there, more people are now switching to two wheels.
  1013. On Mosher Island off the coast of Canada’s Nova Scotia province, self-isolation takes on a different meaning. No need to worry about social distancing, there is no one to keep a distance from. The island only has two residents, a former lighthouse keeper and his wife. Greg Mercer paid them a visit.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1014. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories about Diwali in India, from Azerbaijan, Martinique, the Netherlands and Canada.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>For Hindus, Sikhs and Jains it's Diwali - the festival of lights. But this year there's the pandemic. What impact is that having in India, asks Rajini Vaidyanathan in Delhi.
  1015. In Azerbaijan, the decades-long intermittent war with Armenia over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh flared up again in September. Earlier this week, Russia brokered a deal to end the conflict. Olga Ivshina has just returned from the Azeri side of the frontline, where reporters' safety was not just threatened by shelling.
  1016. The French Caribbean island of Martinique has a difficult relationship with its past. For about two hundred years the colony relied on enslaved Africans to work in its sugar cane plantations. Some think that period might have been shorter if it hadn't been for Josephine, the wife of Napoleon. And as Tim Whewell found, that's not the only sensitive subject of conversation on the island.
  1017. Bicycles have been recommended as a safe form of transport in the pandemic, and cities around Europe have been improving their cycling infrastructure as a result. Anna Holligan lives in the Netherlands, where cycling is second nature to many, and says that even there, more people are now switching to two wheels.
  1018. On Mosher Island off the coast of Canada’s Nova Scotia province, self-isolation takes on a different meaning. No need to worry about social distancing, there is no one to keep a distance from. The island only has two residents, a former lighthouse keeper and his wife. Greg Mercer paid them a visit.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1019. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2020 11:59:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1732</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08ygd0s.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08ygd0s.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08ygd0s.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08ygdtr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08ygdtr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08ygd0s.mp3" fileSize="27712000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1732"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08ygdtr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>US election: Georgia, the new swing state?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the US, lots of eyes are still on the outcome of the election in Georgia. Joe Biden appears to have to have narrowly won the state, but the margin is so narrow that local law requires a recount. Suzanne Kianpour hails from Atlanta, Georgia, and found herself back there as the votes were being counted.
  1020. Parts of South East Asia’s largest remaining rainforests, in Indonesia’s Papua province, are being cleared to make way for oil palm plantations. Rebecca Henschke has been investigating allegations a Korean palm oil company was involved in unfair land deals with local tribes, and she hears from clan elders about what’s been lost.
  1021. Venice is built on a lagoon, with canals for streets, and floods a common occurrence. There was a particularly devastating surge a year ago today. A flood barrier, delayed for decades, finally had its first full test last month. Called Mose, like Italian for Moses, will it be able to stop rising Venetian seas? Julia Buckley has been testing the waters.
  1022. Iran has often been accused of repression at home – and assassination abroad. The regime targets its critics and enemies anywhere in the world and has been implicated in attacks from Argentina to the Netherlands. Jiyar Gol has been investigating the killings of two Dutch-Iranians .
  1023. Have you come across the Greek dish kleftiko? It's slow-cooked lamb. The name is related to the words kleptocracy and kleptomania, the “klept” part of it being from the Greek for thief. In the case of the lamb recipe, the theft refers to sheep rustling. A tradition that goes back a long way in Crete, says Heidi Fuller-Love, but has recently become more serious.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1024. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from the US state of Georgia, Indonesian Papua, Venice and Crete.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the US, lots of eyes are still on the outcome of the election in Georgia. Joe Biden appears to have to have narrowly won the state, but the margin is so narrow that local law requires a recount. Suzanne Kianpour hails from Atlanta, Georgia, and found herself back there as the votes were being counted.
  1025. Parts of South East Asia’s largest remaining rainforests, in Indonesia’s Papua province, are being cleared to make way for oil palm plantations. Rebecca Henschke has been investigating allegations a Korean palm oil company was involved in unfair land deals with local tribes, and she hears from clan elders about what’s been lost.
  1026. Venice is built on a lagoon, with canals for streets, and floods a common occurrence. There was a particularly devastating surge a year ago today. A flood barrier, delayed for decades, finally had its first full test last month. Called Mose, like Italian for Moses, will it be able to stop rising Venetian seas? Julia Buckley has been testing the waters.
  1027. Iran has often been accused of repression at home – and assassination abroad. The regime targets its critics and enemies anywhere in the world and has been implicated in attacks from Argentina to the Netherlands. Jiyar Gol has been investigating the killings of two Dutch-Iranians .
  1028. Have you come across the Greek dish kleftiko? It's slow-cooked lamb. The name is related to the words kleptocracy and kleptomania, the “klept” part of it being from the Greek for thief. In the case of the lamb recipe, the theft refers to sheep rustling. A tradition that goes back a long way in Crete, says Heidi Fuller-Love, but has recently become more serious.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1029. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2020 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1734</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08y6c4f.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08y6c4f.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08y6c4f.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08y6cm0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08y6cm0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08y6c4f.mp3" fileSize="27744000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1734"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08y6cm0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Murder of Afghanistan's Dreams</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A brutal assault on Kabul University, the biggest and oldest in the country, left at least 35 dead and 50 wounded. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State group, but the Afghan government and the Taliban are blaming each other for it, when the two sides are meant to be focusing on peace talks. Lyse Doucet speaks to one University lecturer about the students he lost.
  1030. There was an attack in Austria too, in Vienna, which killed four people and injured more than 20 others, in a neighbourhood that houses Vienna's main synagogue, but is known as the Bermuda Triangle, a key nightlife area full of bars and restaurants. The shooting was the deadliest attack in Vienna for decades. Bethany Bell reports on an evening that shook a city.
  1031. Eighteen Sicilian fishermen are being detained in prison in the Libyan city of Benghazi, accused of fishing in Libyan waters. This part of the Mediterranean is rich in the lucrative red prawn, and so these arrests are not uncommon. Usually the men are released after negotiations. But this time that's proving difficult, says Linda Pressly.
  1032. In Kyrgyzstan, traditional turbans for women called elecheks are made with many metres of the finest white cotton. Nowadays women mostly wear headscarves, and the elecheks are kept as heirlooms. But during these pandemic times one textile collector has cut an elechek up to make masks for local hospitals, as Caroline Eden reports.
  1033. Swallows that spend the summer in Britain have left for their winter destination of South Africa. The flight takes them several weeks, through France, Spain and Morocco, then across the Sahara, and the tropical rainforests. They eat flying insects. Stephen Moss went to look for them in a reed-bed on a lake near Durban.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1034. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories on the attack in Afghanistan and from Vienna, Sicily, Kyrgyzstan and South Africa</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A brutal assault on Kabul University, the biggest and oldest in the country, left at least 35 dead and 50 wounded. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State group, but the Afghan government and the Taliban are blaming each other for it, when the two sides are meant to be focusing on peace talks. Lyse Doucet speaks to one University lecturer about the students he lost.
  1035. There was an attack in Austria too, in Vienna, which killed four people and injured more than 20 others, in a neighbourhood that houses Vienna's main synagogue, but is known as the Bermuda Triangle, a key nightlife area full of bars and restaurants. The shooting was the deadliest attack in Vienna for decades. Bethany Bell reports on an evening that shook a city.
  1036. Eighteen Sicilian fishermen are being detained in prison in the Libyan city of Benghazi, accused of fishing in Libyan waters. This part of the Mediterranean is rich in the lucrative red prawn, and so these arrests are not uncommon. Usually the men are released after negotiations. But this time that's proving difficult, says Linda Pressly.
  1037. In Kyrgyzstan, traditional turbans for women called elecheks are made with many metres of the finest white cotton. Nowadays women mostly wear headscarves, and the elecheks are kept as heirlooms. But during these pandemic times one textile collector has cut an elechek up to make masks for local hospitals, as Caroline Eden reports.
  1038. Swallows that spend the summer in Britain have left for their winter destination of South Africa. The flight takes them several weeks, through France, Spain and Morocco, then across the Sahara, and the tropical rainforests. They eat flying insects. Stephen Moss went to look for them in a reed-bed on a lake near Durban.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1039. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2020 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1741</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08xpthf.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08xpthf.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08xpthf.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08xpv0w</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08xpv0w</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08xpthf.mp3" fileSize="27856000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1741"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08xpv0w</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Investigating Nigeria's protest shootings</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Nigeria's EndSARS demonstrations have ground to a halt following the fatal shooting of at least 12 people, although that number is disputed. Investigations into the incident are underway and a panel has been hearing evidence in Lagos. But as Mayeni Jones has found out, the search for the truth in Nigeria, involves a great deal of theatre.
  1040. In China, ethnic Mongolians appear to have become the latest target for an ever-more repressive Communist Party under Xi Jinping. The central government – which is dominated by China’s majority Han Chinese – decided to reduce Mongolian language teaching, which prompted rare protests in China’s Inner Mongolia. Stephen McDonell went there to find out more.
  1041. America's deep divisions about its attitudes to past and present injustices towards ethnic minorities manifested themselves in reactions to the tearing down of statues or Confederate flags this year. And as Jo Erickson found out when she walked up Mount Evans in Colorado, even the name of a mountain can be controversial - but because of Native American rather than African American history.
  1042. Sami Kent is of mixed British and Turkish descent, and when he recently returned to live in the Turkish city of Istanbul after spending the first months of the pandemic in Britain, he found his aunt or "hala" much changed. Fear of the virus meant that now, her daily walk, for which she puts her trainers on, is no more than pacing up and down on the balcony.
  1043. Malta is battling Covid-19 along with the rest of Europe. Quarantine, though, is nothing new to Malta, and its healthcare, good today, was once the envy of Europe. Juliet Rix takes us back to the days of the Knights of Malta, the Order of St John Hospitaller.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1044. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories on Nigeria's fatal protest shootings and from China, America, Turkey and Malta.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Nigeria's EndSARS demonstrations have ground to a halt following the fatal shooting of at least 12 people, although that number is disputed. Investigations into the incident are underway and a panel has been hearing evidence in Lagos. But as Mayeni Jones has found out, the search for the truth in Nigeria, involves a great deal of theatre.
  1045. In China, ethnic Mongolians appear to have become the latest target for an ever-more repressive Communist Party under Xi Jinping. The central government – which is dominated by China’s majority Han Chinese – decided to reduce Mongolian language teaching, which prompted rare protests in China’s Inner Mongolia. Stephen McDonell went there to find out more.
  1046. America's deep divisions about its attitudes to past and present injustices towards ethnic minorities manifested themselves in reactions to the tearing down of statues or Confederate flags this year. And as Jo Erickson found out when she walked up Mount Evans in Colorado, even the name of a mountain can be controversial - but because of Native American rather than African American history.
  1047. Sami Kent is of mixed British and Turkish descent, and when he recently returned to live in the Turkish city of Istanbul after spending the first months of the pandemic in Britain, he found his aunt or "hala" much changed. Fear of the virus meant that now, her daily walk, for which she puts her trainers on, is no more than pacing up and down on the balcony.
  1048. Malta is battling Covid-19 along with the rest of Europe. Quarantine, though, is nothing new to Malta, and its healthcare, good today, was once the envy of Europe. Juliet Rix takes us back to the days of the Knights of Malta, the Order of St John Hospitaller.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1049. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1726</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08xg76r.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08xg76r.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08xg76r.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08xgbrv</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08xgbrv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08xg76r.mp3" fileSize="27616000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1726"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08xgbrv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>An unprecedented US election</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Record numbers of Americans have already voted early in the US elections. The country has become more polarised under President Trump, but it remains to be seen whether the high early turnout is due to heightened political feelings, or concerns about catching the virus on polling day. Nick Bryant reflects on the political state of the nation, and on an election campaign that turned out very differently from how it looked before the pandemic struck.
  1050. Thousands of young Nigerians have protested in recent weeks against a notorious police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, which became infamous for unlawful killings, torture and extortion. The demonstrations spread from Nigeria’s largest city Lagos, to other parts of the country and even internationally. What had started as taking a stance against police brutality, turned into much more, as Yemisi Adegoke reports from Lagos.
  1051. In Poland, a ruling from the constitutional court last week outlawed terminations in cases of severe foetal defects - 98% of those carried out last year. Poland already had one of Europe's most restrictive abortion laws, and the new edict has sparked large protests over the past week. Lucy Ash caught up with some demonstrators in the capital Warsaw.
  1052. Even though far fewer people are flying than usual, Berlin is opening a new airport today, Berlin-Brandenburg. Not that it was planned that way. The modern airport was meant to open a decade ago, but there were repeated delays and it went almost three times over budget. So are the locals glad the big day has finally come? Not really, says Jenny Hill, who’s not the only one in Berlin who will be mourning the old airport, Tegel.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1053. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories on a US election in a pandemic year, and from Nigeria, Poland and Germany.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Record numbers of Americans have already voted early in the US elections. The country has become more polarised under President Trump, but it remains to be seen whether the high early turnout is due to heightened political feelings, or concerns about catching the virus on polling day. Nick Bryant reflects on the political state of the nation, and on an election campaign that turned out very differently from how it looked before the pandemic struck.
  1054. Thousands of young Nigerians have protested in recent weeks against a notorious police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, which became infamous for unlawful killings, torture and extortion. The demonstrations spread from Nigeria’s largest city Lagos, to other parts of the country and even internationally. What had started as taking a stance against police brutality, turned into much more, as Yemisi Adegoke reports from Lagos.
  1055. In Poland, a ruling from the constitutional court last week outlawed terminations in cases of severe foetal defects - 98% of those carried out last year. Poland already had one of Europe's most restrictive abortion laws, and the new edict has sparked large protests over the past week. Lucy Ash caught up with some demonstrators in the capital Warsaw.
  1056. Even though far fewer people are flying than usual, Berlin is opening a new airport today, Berlin-Brandenburg. Not that it was planned that way. The modern airport was meant to open a decade ago, but there were repeated delays and it went almost three times over budget. So are the locals glad the big day has finally come? Not really, says Jenny Hill, who’s not the only one in Berlin who will be mourning the old airport, Tegel.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1057. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1733</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08wzr12.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08wzr12.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08wzr12.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08wzrc8</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08wzrc8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08wzr12.mp3" fileSize="27728000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1733"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08wzrc8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Voting Early in the US Elections</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Five days before the American election, record numbers have cast their ballots already, making use of the expansion in early voting due to the pandemic. Naturalised US citizens make up one in ten eligible voters this year. Among them Laura Trevelyan, who voted in the presidential race as a US citizen for the first time, joining the queues in New York City.
  1058. For Lebanon, 2020 has been a veritable annus horribilis: the pandemic, an unprecedented economic crisis, and the huge blast that destroyed parts of Beirut, and led to the resignation of the cabinet. Now a former Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, has been asked to form a government. If he succeeds, it’ll be his third time in the job. Plus ca change, or last chance for Lebanon, asks Martin Patience.
  1059. Chile held a referendum on Sunday about replacing the current constitution, which dates from General Pinochet’s military dictatorship. The Yes vote won overwhelmingly. But the poll had been a heated topic of conversation for months, reflecting the deep divisions in society, as Jane Chambers has found.
  1060. Seychelles in the Indian Ocean looks like a tropical paradise. But there’s a tougher reality in the island state ruled by the same party for over 40 years. And now there’s been a political earthquake: an opposition candidate, a priest, won the presidency for the first time. He'll have more than tourists and tuna to deal with, says Patrick Muirhead.
  1061. For those still travelling, much has changed with the pandemic - quarantines, wearing masks, producing negative Covid-19 tests before departure. And then there are the other passengers. It all makes for novel experiences, says travel writer Mark Stratton - including good ones, like seeing the Mona Lisa without the crowds.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1062. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories on the US elections, Lebanon, Chile, and from Seychelles and on travelling.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Five days before the American election, record numbers have cast their ballots already, making use of the expansion in early voting due to the pandemic. Naturalised US citizens make up one in ten eligible voters this year. Among them Laura Trevelyan, who voted in the presidential race as a US citizen for the first time, joining the queues in New York City.
  1063. For Lebanon, 2020 has been a veritable annus horribilis: the pandemic, an unprecedented economic crisis, and the huge blast that destroyed parts of Beirut, and led to the resignation of the cabinet. Now a former Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, has been asked to form a government. If he succeeds, it’ll be his third time in the job. Plus ca change, or last chance for Lebanon, asks Martin Patience.
  1064. Chile held a referendum on Sunday about replacing the current constitution, which dates from General Pinochet’s military dictatorship. The Yes vote won overwhelmingly. But the poll had been a heated topic of conversation for months, reflecting the deep divisions in society, as Jane Chambers has found.
  1065. Seychelles in the Indian Ocean looks like a tropical paradise. But there’s a tougher reality in the island state ruled by the same party for over 40 years. And now there’s been a political earthquake: an opposition candidate, a priest, won the presidency for the first time. He'll have more than tourists and tuna to deal with, says Patrick Muirhead.
  1066. For those still travelling, much has changed with the pandemic - quarantines, wearing masks, producing negative Covid-19 tests before departure. And then there are the other passengers. It all makes for novel experiences, says travel writer Mark Stratton - including good ones, like seeing the Mona Lisa without the crowds.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1067. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1723</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08ws39p.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08ws39p.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08ws39p.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08ws5j7</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08ws5j7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08ws39p.mp3" fileSize="27568000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1723"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08ws5j7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Tensions in rural South Africa</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In South Africa, racial tensions have been heightened in some rural areas, particularly after the murder of Brendin Horner, a young white farm manager. Cases like his have led to claims of ethnic cleansing. But as President Ramaphosa pointed out, the killings are cases of criminality, not genocide. Andrew Harding went to the small town of Senekal to investigate what's underlying these racial tensions.
  1068. In Paraguay in South America, the river of the same name last week dipped to its lowest level ever recorded after months of drought. That’s a problem in this landlocked country which uses the waterway to transport the vast majority of its traded goods. And where does it leave the local fishermen? William Costa has been finding out, and asks what's causing the lack of rainfall.
  1069. The Covid-19 pandemic has severely restricted international travel. That's meant Kamin Mohammadi can no longer divide her time between Italy, Britain and Iran as she used to, for family and work reasons. Now Tuscany has become a true home, not because of remote working, nor even finally having the time to appreciate things like bees on a lemon tree. But it was due to sharing the depths of Italy's sorrow at the height of the pandemic.
  1070. After the First World War, tourists went to France to visit the battlefields. Among them was the future novelist Rumer Godden. Then a girl of 15, she was taken with her three sisters to see the theatres of war of the Marne. They stayed in the town of Château-Thierry, east of Paris. That holiday formed the basis of Rumer Godden’s celebrated later novel The Greengage Summer. It’s a favourite of Hugh Schofield, so it was on something of a personal mission that he set off in search of … the greengage summer.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1071. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories on racial tensions in rural South Africa, and from Paraguay, Tuscany and France.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In South Africa, racial tensions have been heightened in some rural areas, particularly after the murder of Brendin Horner, a young white farm manager. Cases like his have led to claims of ethnic cleansing. But as President Ramaphosa pointed out, the killings are cases of criminality, not genocide. Andrew Harding went to the small town of Senekal to investigate what's underlying these racial tensions.
  1072. In Paraguay in South America, the river of the same name last week dipped to its lowest level ever recorded after months of drought. That’s a problem in this landlocked country which uses the waterway to transport the vast majority of its traded goods. And where does it leave the local fishermen? William Costa has been finding out, and asks what's causing the lack of rainfall.
  1073. The Covid-19 pandemic has severely restricted international travel. That's meant Kamin Mohammadi can no longer divide her time between Italy, Britain and Iran as she used to, for family and work reasons. Now Tuscany has become a true home, not because of remote working, nor even finally having the time to appreciate things like bees on a lemon tree. But it was due to sharing the depths of Italy's sorrow at the height of the pandemic.
  1074. After the First World War, tourists went to France to visit the battlefields. Among them was the future novelist Rumer Godden. Then a girl of 15, she was taken with her three sisters to see the theatres of war of the Marne. They stayed in the town of Château-Thierry, east of Paris. That holiday formed the basis of Rumer Godden’s celebrated later novel The Greengage Summer. It’s a favourite of Hugh Schofield, so it was on something of a personal mission that he set off in search of … the greengage summer.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1075. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1691</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08w7hmt.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08w7hmt.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08w7hmt.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08w7jcy</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08w7jcy</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08w7hmt.mp3" fileSize="27056000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1691"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08w7jcy</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The King and Thais</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Thailand has been rocked by months of student street protests that have intensified in recent days. They're unprecedented in that they don't just criticise the government, but also the monarchy - a taboo in Thailand. Jonathan Head in Bangkok reports on what may be a critical turning point in a political upheaval.
  1076. This week it’s exactly a year since the Spanish government exhumed the remains of dictator General Francisco Franco from his mausoleum. But the question of how to handle the divisive legacy of the country’s 1930's civil war and the ensuing decades-long dictatorship under Franco remains a contentious issue in Spanish politics and society. And now there are new efforts to tackle it, as Guy Hedgecoe reports from Madrid.
  1077. In Jordan, the already high unemployment has risen further during the pandemic, but the country remains attractive to migrant workers from nearby Egypt where wages are lower. But, as Charlie Faulkner hears from an Egyptian cobbler, the choice to stay in Jordan to keep his job, comes at a high price.
  1078. In the US, attitudes to China have hardened in recent years, with trade tariffs, and blame for the coronavirus. In China, attitudes to the United States have changed too, but also in more positive terms, at least when looked at over a longer period of time, such as the lifespan of the grandfather of Vincent Ni.
  1079. The 15th Rome Film Festival is running this week - taking place in a city that is, itself, an iconic cinematic location that still holds an irresistible allure for filmmakers across the world. This brings welcome jobs and much-needed money to the cash-strapped capital, and, as Joanna Robertson reports, headaches – and questions - to many residents.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1080. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories on political upheaval in Thailand, and from Spain, Jordan, China and Italy.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Thailand has been rocked by months of student street protests that have intensified in recent days. They're unprecedented in that they don't just criticise the government, but also the monarchy - a taboo in Thailand. Jonathan Head in Bangkok reports on what may be a critical turning point in a political upheaval.
  1081. This week it’s exactly a year since the Spanish government exhumed the remains of dictator General Francisco Franco from his mausoleum. But the question of how to handle the divisive legacy of the country’s 1930's civil war and the ensuing decades-long dictatorship under Franco remains a contentious issue in Spanish politics and society. And now there are new efforts to tackle it, as Guy Hedgecoe reports from Madrid.
  1082. In Jordan, the already high unemployment has risen further during the pandemic, but the country remains attractive to migrant workers from nearby Egypt where wages are lower. But, as Charlie Faulkner hears from an Egyptian cobbler, the choice to stay in Jordan to keep his job, comes at a high price.
  1083. In the US, attitudes to China have hardened in recent years, with trade tariffs, and blame for the coronavirus. In China, attitudes to the United States have changed too, but also in more positive terms, at least when looked at over a longer period of time, such as the lifespan of the grandfather of Vincent Ni.
  1084. The 15th Rome Film Festival is running this week - taking place in a city that is, itself, an iconic cinematic location that still holds an irresistible allure for filmmakers across the world. This brings welcome jobs and much-needed money to the cash-strapped capital, and, as Joanna Robertson reports, headaches – and questions - to many residents.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1085. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1706</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08w0gss.mp3" length="27296000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08w0gss.mp3" length="27296000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08w0gss.mp3" length="27296000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08w0h49</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08w0h49</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08w0gss.mp3" fileSize="27296000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1706"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08w0h49</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Looking at America</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Journalists in Africa like to play a game where they take language often used in Western reports on African stories ("armed militias", "strongmen", "rigged elections") and apply it to the US. This has become more tempting, and yielding more ironies, recently. There is a further similarity in South Africa: could ex-president Jacob Zuma be a "proto-Trump"? Andrew Harding teases out the parallels.</p><p>China, too, is watching the US elections closely. And opinions are quite divided. Not, however, between those who are pro-Trump and pro-Biden, but between those who are pro- or anti-Trump. And, as Stephen McDonell reports, the pro-Trump camp unites some unlikely bedfellows, from Hong Kong activists and Falun Gong believers to Communist party leaders.</p><p>In Brazil, fires are burning again in the Amazon, to turn land that's been deforested into pasture. Jair Bolsonaro's government supports turning the rainforest into ranches. But with the Pantanal wetlands badly affected this year too, what does this mean for the future of Brazil's environment asks Katy Watson.
  1086. In Russia, investigative journalist Irina Slavina was a thorn in the side of the local authorities in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, and was often punished with huge fines. And then after a dawn raid on her flat, she killed herself by setting herself alight, leaving a note to blame the Russian Federation. Sarah Rainsford went to Nizhny to find out more.</p><p>When coronavirus rules restrict our movements, going for walks closer to home can become more appealing. And previously unheeded details, such as who the streets are actually named after, can suddenly become interesting. Kevin Connolly finds his own neighbourhood's street names reveal a lot about the local history.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1087. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories on how Africa and China see the US elections, and from Brazil, Russia and Belgium</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Journalists in Africa like to play a game where they take language often used in Western reports on African stories ("armed militias", "strongmen", "rigged elections") and apply it to the US. This has become more tempting, and yielding more ironies, recently. There is a further similarity in South Africa: could ex-president Jacob Zuma be a "proto-Trump"? Andrew Harding teases out the parallels.</p><p>China, too, is watching the US elections closely. And opinions are quite divided. Not, however, between those who are pro-Trump and pro-Biden, but between those who are pro- or anti-Trump. And, as Stephen McDonell reports, the pro-Trump camp unites some unlikely bedfellows, from Hong Kong activists and Falun Gong believers to Communist party leaders.</p><p>In Brazil, fires are burning again in the Amazon, to turn land that's been deforested into pasture. Jair Bolsonaro's government supports turning the rainforest into ranches. But with the Pantanal wetlands badly affected this year too, what does this mean for the future of Brazil's environment asks Katy Watson.
  1088. In Russia, investigative journalist Irina Slavina was a thorn in the side of the local authorities in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, and was often punished with huge fines. And then after a dawn raid on her flat, she killed herself by setting herself alight, leaving a note to blame the Russian Federation. Sarah Rainsford went to Nizhny to find out more.</p><p>When coronavirus rules restrict our movements, going for walks closer to home can become more appealing. And previously unheeded details, such as who the streets are actually named after, can suddenly become interesting. Kevin Connolly finds his own neighbourhood's street names reveal a lot about the local history.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1089. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1727</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08vkd3l.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08vkd3l.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08vkd3l.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08vkdg8</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08vkdg8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08vkd3l.mp3" fileSize="27632000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1727"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08vkdg8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Stuck on Lesbos</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Last month a fire burned down the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, which had been hugely overcrowded. The cause was arson, but what was the real reason, and who stoked the fire once it was lit? Gabriel Gatehouse has been investigating the blaze, and Europe's dysfunctional migration policy.</p><p>In Kenya, schools have reopened this week for the first time since March, at least for some year groups. The seven-month closure was to help stop the spread of Covid-19. But how have schools, teachers and students been faring in the meantime? And what's it like being at school now? Anne Soy has been finding out in Nairobi.</p><p>Hong Kong has been a gateway to China, while enjoying freedoms such as a free press that do not exist on the mainland. But following months of often violent pro-democracy protests, and a new security law imposed by Beijing, the territory's identity is changing. Can it keep its status as a global powerhouse, asks Karishma Vaswani.</p><p>Arunachal Pradesh, in India’s tribal Northeast, is home to more than 20 tribes – among them the Tibeto-Burman Idu Mishmi, one of the few to have retained their animist beliefs. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent attends a rare Mishmi festival – and learns about the decline of the number of shamans, and a novel solution to the problem.</p><p>There have been weekly demonstrations, some met with police violence, in Belarus ever since the disputed election in August. Protesters have been calling for the resignation of long-term ruler President Lukashenko. All a long cry from when Ash Bhardwaj went cycling in an ancient forest in the country, on the look-out for a Soviet-era relic - or so he thought. And then he too had a run-in with the KGB....</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1090. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories about refugees on Lesbos in Greece, and from Kenya, Hong Kong, India and Belarus.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Last month a fire burned down the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, which had been hugely overcrowded. The cause was arson, but what was the real reason, and who stoked the fire once it was lit? Gabriel Gatehouse has been investigating the blaze, and Europe's dysfunctional migration policy.</p><p>In Kenya, schools have reopened this week for the first time since March, at least for some year groups. The seven-month closure was to help stop the spread of Covid-19. But how have schools, teachers and students been faring in the meantime? And what's it like being at school now? Anne Soy has been finding out in Nairobi.</p><p>Hong Kong has been a gateway to China, while enjoying freedoms such as a free press that do not exist on the mainland. But following months of often violent pro-democracy protests, and a new security law imposed by Beijing, the territory's identity is changing. Can it keep its status as a global powerhouse, asks Karishma Vaswani.</p><p>Arunachal Pradesh, in India’s tribal Northeast, is home to more than 20 tribes – among them the Tibeto-Burman Idu Mishmi, one of the few to have retained their animist beliefs. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent attends a rare Mishmi festival – and learns about the decline of the number of shamans, and a novel solution to the problem.</p><p>There have been weekly demonstrations, some met with police violence, in Belarus ever since the disputed election in August. Protesters have been calling for the resignation of long-term ruler President Lukashenko. All a long cry from when Ash Bhardwaj went cycling in an ancient forest in the country, on the look-out for a Soviet-era relic - or so he thought. And then he too had a run-in with the KGB....</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1091. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1730</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08vc92x.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08vc92x.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08vc92x.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08vc9rk</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08vc9rk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08vc92x.mp3" fileSize="27680000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1730"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08vc9rk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>US: the Covid Campaign</title><description><![CDATA[<p>For President Trump to have had Covid-19 so close to the election presents political dilemmas. Play it down, and you offend the relatives of the dead. Play it up, you highlight the seriousness of the disease that killed so many on your watch. And then there are the pitfalls for the Democrats. Anthony Zurcher navigates the minefield in Washington.
  1092. A state of emergency has been declared in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, and troops have been ordered onto the streets of the capital Bishkek to quell the unrest that erupted after a disputed parliamentary election last weekend. Protesters are angry at alleged vote buying and intimidation. They clashed violently with police and seized government buildings. A new revolution, asks Caroline Eden?
  1093. Despite certain advances, Nigeria still has a way to go to true gender equality. Take renting a home for example. It’s much harder to convince a landlord of your merits as a tenant, if you’re a woman, especially if you’re single, as Olivia Ndubuisi has been finding out.
  1094. Despite the hot climate, cycling has become popular in the United Arab Emirates, and Team UAE's Tadej Pogacar, a Slovenian, won this year's Tour de France. Young women, too, have taken up the sport enthusiastically, all while wearing modest clothing. Georgia Tolley reports from Dubai.
  1095. Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield has had to take a driving test - his old Irish licence had run out, and couldn't be renewed in France. But unlike the first time, this time he had to get his head round a counterintuitive but crucial rule: to give priority to any car coming from the right. How did he get on?
  1096. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1097. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories on President Trump's Covid-19 and from Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Dubai and France</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>For President Trump to have had Covid-19 so close to the election presents political dilemmas. Play it down, and you offend the relatives of the dead. Play it up, you highlight the seriousness of the disease that killed so many on your watch. And then there are the pitfalls for the Democrats. Anthony Zurcher navigates the minefield in Washington.
  1098. A state of emergency has been declared in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, and troops have been ordered onto the streets of the capital Bishkek to quell the unrest that erupted after a disputed parliamentary election last weekend. Protesters are angry at alleged vote buying and intimidation. They clashed violently with police and seized government buildings. A new revolution, asks Caroline Eden?
  1099. Despite certain advances, Nigeria still has a way to go to true gender equality. Take renting a home for example. It’s much harder to convince a landlord of your merits as a tenant, if you’re a woman, especially if you’re single, as Olivia Ndubuisi has been finding out.
  1100. Despite the hot climate, cycling has become popular in the United Arab Emirates, and Team UAE's Tadej Pogacar, a Slovenian, won this year's Tour de France. Young women, too, have taken up the sport enthusiastically, all while wearing modest clothing. Georgia Tolley reports from Dubai.
  1101. Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield has had to take a driving test - his old Irish licence had run out, and couldn't be renewed in France. But unlike the first time, this time he had to get his head round a counterintuitive but crucial rule: to give priority to any car coming from the right. How did he get on?
  1102. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1103. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08txw7v.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08txw7v.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08txw7v.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08txwkl</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08txwkl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08txw7v.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08txwkl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>War in Nagorno-Karabakh - or Artsakh</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Fighting has continued in Nagorno-Karabakh, the territory inhabited and run by ethnic Armenians, but officially still part of Azerbaijan. The armed clashes have included Azerbaijani shelling of residential areas in the main town Stepanakert, from where Jonah Fisher reports that residents have had to take shelter or flee to neighbouring Armenia.
  1104. US President Donald Trump tested positive for Covid-19 and was taken to a top military hospital on Friday. It was a fast-moving and seismic day not only for the staff at the White House - where suddenly everyone was wearing a mask, as Tara McKelvey observed - but also for the nation at large.
  1105. The Vatican, the headquarters of the Catholic Church, has been the subject of rumours about financial secrets for a long time, something Pope Francis has hoped to change with greater transparency. And so a senior cardinal has suddenly been forced to resign over alleged financial wrongdoings. And the Church also published a "consolidated balance sheet"; a first says veteran Vatican observer David Willey.
  1106. Polio has been all but eradicated from the world - except in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This despite regular vaccination campaigns. So what's been standing in the way of their success? Conspiracy theories are only part of it, as Secunder Kermani has been finding out in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
  1107. The Greek island of Corfu is home to a small Serbian community, who still honour the lives of the Serbs lost in the First World War. The survivors of a gruelling winter trek across the Balkan mountains to the Adriatic coast, were taken to safety in Corfu by Allied ships. But thousands died there of disease, buried at sea, in the "Blue Graveyard", as Mary Novakovich reports.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1108. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from the war in Nagorno-Karabakh and from the US, the Vatican, Pakistan and Corfu</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Fighting has continued in Nagorno-Karabakh, the territory inhabited and run by ethnic Armenians, but officially still part of Azerbaijan. The armed clashes have included Azerbaijani shelling of residential areas in the main town Stepanakert, from where Jonah Fisher reports that residents have had to take shelter or flee to neighbouring Armenia.
  1109. US President Donald Trump tested positive for Covid-19 and was taken to a top military hospital on Friday. It was a fast-moving and seismic day not only for the staff at the White House - where suddenly everyone was wearing a mask, as Tara McKelvey observed - but also for the nation at large.
  1110. The Vatican, the headquarters of the Catholic Church, has been the subject of rumours about financial secrets for a long time, something Pope Francis has hoped to change with greater transparency. And so a senior cardinal has suddenly been forced to resign over alleged financial wrongdoings. And the Church also published a "consolidated balance sheet"; a first says veteran Vatican observer David Willey.
  1111. Polio has been all but eradicated from the world - except in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This despite regular vaccination campaigns. So what's been standing in the way of their success? Conspiracy theories are only part of it, as Secunder Kermani has been finding out in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
  1112. The Greek island of Corfu is home to a small Serbian community, who still honour the lives of the Serbs lost in the First World War. The survivors of a gruelling winter trek across the Balkan mountains to the Adriatic coast, were taken to safety in Corfu by Allied ships. But thousands died there of disease, buried at sea, in the "Blue Graveyard", as Mary Novakovich reports.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1113. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2020 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1732</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08tq5xn.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08tq5xn.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08tq5xn.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08tq648</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08tq648</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08tq5xn.mp3" fileSize="27712000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1732"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08tq648</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mozambique: the birth of a new conflict</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In Mozambique, the northernmost province of Cabo Delgado may have become the latest outpost of the so-called Islamic State insurgency, with reports of massacres and beheadings. The area is rich in precious gemstones and has huge natural gas reserves, but the local people are poor and increasingly have to flee. Andrew Harding reports on a region where everything is at stake.
  1114. War has erupted again in Nagorno-Karabakh, the territory disputed by Armenia and Azerbaijan. Most of the residents are ethnic Armenians, who have been governing the territory since a first, vicious war three decades ago. But even the intervening years have hardly been peaceful, as Rayhan Demytrie found out.
  1115. Hong Kong is living under a new National Security Law which authorities hope might put an end to a year of violent youth-led pro-democracy protests. This law has given Beijing unprecedented powers within Hong Kong to police public speech and demonstrations. There seems to be a new, mainland Chinese secret police too. Activists and journalists find they're now being followed, including Danny Vincent.
  1116. It's Germany's National Unity Day, marking the reunification of West and East Germany 30 years ago today, after 45 years of being separated by the Iron Curtain. Since then, the westerners and easterners haven't always seen eye to eye. And five years ago, they took in a million refugees. John Kampfner takes the pulse of modern-day Germany.
  1117. In France, a reckoning of sex, power and gender has begun, with new campaigns against domestic violence. An issue that the government has started to tackle, too. And, as Joanna Robertson says in Paris, the underlying fires of the battle are being stoked with pieces of paper and pots of glue.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1118. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Reports from northern Mozambique, Nagorno-Karabakh, Hong Kong, Germany and France.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In Mozambique, the northernmost province of Cabo Delgado may have become the latest outpost of the so-called Islamic State insurgency, with reports of massacres and beheadings. The area is rich in precious gemstones and has huge natural gas reserves, but the local people are poor and increasingly have to flee. Andrew Harding reports on a region where everything is at stake.
  1119. War has erupted again in Nagorno-Karabakh, the territory disputed by Armenia and Azerbaijan. Most of the residents are ethnic Armenians, who have been governing the territory since a first, vicious war three decades ago. But even the intervening years have hardly been peaceful, as Rayhan Demytrie found out.
  1120. Hong Kong is living under a new National Security Law which authorities hope might put an end to a year of violent youth-led pro-democracy protests. This law has given Beijing unprecedented powers within Hong Kong to police public speech and demonstrations. There seems to be a new, mainland Chinese secret police too. Activists and journalists find they're now being followed, including Danny Vincent.
  1121. It's Germany's National Unity Day, marking the reunification of West and East Germany 30 years ago today, after 45 years of being separated by the Iron Curtain. Since then, the westerners and easterners haven't always seen eye to eye. And five years ago, they took in a million refugees. John Kampfner takes the pulse of modern-day Germany.
  1122. In France, a reckoning of sex, power and gender has begun, with new campaigns against domestic violence. An issue that the government has started to tackle, too. And, as Joanna Robertson says in Paris, the underlying fires of the battle are being stoked with pieces of paper and pots of glue.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1123. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2020 10:03:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1731</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08t8cv0.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08t8cv0.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08t8cv0.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08t8db4</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08t8db4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08t8cv0.mp3" fileSize="27696000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1731"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08t8db4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Leaving Lebanon</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Lebanon has suffered not just a catastrophic blast that cost around two hundred lives, but also a devastating economic crisis. The value of the currency has plunged and the pandemic lockdown forced nearly a third of businesses to close, leaving thousands jobless. Is Lebanon now a sinking ship? People are leaving in droves, as Leila Molana-Allen reports from Beirut.
  1124. Chile's central region has been so dry over the past ten years, that scientists speak of a “mega-drought”. But how do you farm without water? Jane Chambers visited the Til Til region to find out how the residents are coping with the agricultural crisis.
  1125. In the Philippines Facebook took down more than 200 accounts accused of promoting pro-Duterte propaganda last week. Opposition politicians, human rights activists and journalists have reported receiving threatening posts. But a group was formed, to stand up to the abuse: The Troll Patrol. Howard Johnson went to meet one of them.
  1126. In the Australian city of Melbourne, they’ve been having a second, full lockdown since July. Constraints have now started to be eased, beginning with the lifting of the curfew. But this second lockdown has been happening during the winter in the southern hemisphere, and, as Will Higginbotham reports, it took a heavier toll on residents’ mental health than the first.
  1127. The spread of coronavirus has triggered a tangle of travel restrictions around the world. The UK demands that people arriving back from most foreign countries - though not Germany - self-isolate at home for 14 days. Reason enough for Simon Calder to watch his step very carefully at the German-Belgian-Dutch border.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1128. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories of leaving Lebanon, and ones from Chile, the Philippines, Australia and Germany.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Lebanon has suffered not just a catastrophic blast that cost around two hundred lives, but also a devastating economic crisis. The value of the currency has plunged and the pandemic lockdown forced nearly a third of businesses to close, leaving thousands jobless. Is Lebanon now a sinking ship? People are leaving in droves, as Leila Molana-Allen reports from Beirut.
  1129. Chile's central region has been so dry over the past ten years, that scientists speak of a “mega-drought”. But how do you farm without water? Jane Chambers visited the Til Til region to find out how the residents are coping with the agricultural crisis.
  1130. In the Philippines Facebook took down more than 200 accounts accused of promoting pro-Duterte propaganda last week. Opposition politicians, human rights activists and journalists have reported receiving threatening posts. But a group was formed, to stand up to the abuse: The Troll Patrol. Howard Johnson went to meet one of them.
  1131. In the Australian city of Melbourne, they’ve been having a second, full lockdown since July. Constraints have now started to be eased, beginning with the lifting of the curfew. But this second lockdown has been happening during the winter in the southern hemisphere, and, as Will Higginbotham reports, it took a heavier toll on residents’ mental health than the first.
  1132. The spread of coronavirus has triggered a tangle of travel restrictions around the world. The UK demands that people arriving back from most foreign countries - though not Germany - self-isolate at home for 14 days. Reason enough for Simon Calder to watch his step very carefully at the German-Belgian-Dutch border.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1133. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1717</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08t1v7t.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08t1v7t.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08t1v7t.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08t1vpz</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08t1vpz</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08t1v7t.mp3" fileSize="27472000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1717"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08t1vpz</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Have the Taliban changed?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The first formal face-to-face Afghanistan peace talks are underway in Doha, the capital of the Gulf State of Qatar. These historic negotiations between the Afghan Taliban and a delegation of the Afghan government are focused on finding a negotiated end to a destructive war that’s now lasted more than four decades. How much have the Taliban changed since their harsh rule of the 1990’s, asks Lyse Doucet.
  1134. In Yemen, the United Nations have this week announced that the critical aid they supply across the country has had to be substantially cut, as they have only received a third of the donations they need to operate. This despite the fact that Yemen has been enduring the world’s worst humanitarian crisis as a result of five years of war. And that was already before the coronavirus hit. Mai Noman reflects on how her fellow Yemenis cope with it all.
  1135. Cuba has long had a complicated monetary system, and currently three currencies: the peso, the convertible peso or CUC, and the US dollar. The dollar was illegal until he mid-90s, when the CUC was also introduced to help cope with the worst years of post-Soviet austerity. Originally used to pay for luxury goods, the CUC was only exchangeable within the country. But are its days numbered now, asks Will Grant in Havana?
  1136. And on a Sicilian hilltop glowing in early autumn colours, Horatio Clare surveys two and a half thousand years of history, from the ancient city where Phoenicians worshipped their love goddess, to the site of the annual corporate retreat of Google. Western Sicily doesn't offer the tourist escapism so much as a deep reminder of our common human history and faiths, up to our current trust in a certain search engine.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1137. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories about the Afghan-Taliban peace talks in Qatar, and from Yemen, Cuba and Sicily.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The first formal face-to-face Afghanistan peace talks are underway in Doha, the capital of the Gulf State of Qatar. These historic negotiations between the Afghan Taliban and a delegation of the Afghan government are focused on finding a negotiated end to a destructive war that’s now lasted more than four decades. How much have the Taliban changed since their harsh rule of the 1990’s, asks Lyse Doucet.
  1138. In Yemen, the United Nations have this week announced that the critical aid they supply across the country has had to be substantially cut, as they have only received a third of the donations they need to operate. This despite the fact that Yemen has been enduring the world’s worst humanitarian crisis as a result of five years of war. And that was already before the coronavirus hit. Mai Noman reflects on how her fellow Yemenis cope with it all.
  1139. Cuba has long had a complicated monetary system, and currently three currencies: the peso, the convertible peso or CUC, and the US dollar. The dollar was illegal until he mid-90s, when the CUC was also introduced to help cope with the worst years of post-Soviet austerity. Originally used to pay for luxury goods, the CUC was only exchangeable within the country. But are its days numbered now, asks Will Grant in Havana?
  1140. And on a Sicilian hilltop glowing in early autumn colours, Horatio Clare surveys two and a half thousand years of history, from the ancient city where Phoenicians worshipped their love goddess, to the site of the annual corporate retreat of Google. Western Sicily doesn't offer the tourist escapism so much as a deep reminder of our common human history and faiths, up to our current trust in a certain search engine.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1141. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1720</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08sm9dq.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08sm9dq.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08sm9dq.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08sm9g8</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08sm9g8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08sm9dq.mp3" fileSize="27520000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1720"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08sm9g8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Will Greece and Turkey go to war?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Greece and Turkey have agreed to hold talks to help defuse their stand-off over disputed gas reserves near their shores. Ankara had deployed a research vessel accompanied by warships near a Greek island, and military exercises on both sides followed, giving rise to fears of war between the two long-term rivals, as Heidi Fuller Love reports from Crete.</p><p>Pakistan was shocked by the gang-rape of a woman on a motorway leading out of the city of Lahore late at night. Sexual violence towards women in Pakistan is commonplace, but this case led to a backlash, as police appeared to blame the victim. As women come together to campaign for change, could it be a turning point to make everyday life safer for women, asks Secunder Kermani.</p><p>Peru now has the highest per capita death rate from coronavirus in the world. More than half of the nation’s territory is Amazon rainforest and the indigenous people who live there have been badly affected by the pandemic, but have received little help, with little medical treatment available, as Dan Collyns reports.</p><p>In the republic of Georgia, there are still people trapped inside ageing Soviet-era institutions, isolated from society simply for having a learning disability or a mental illness. But one woman has made it her life's work to help patients leave these clinical establishments, and to provide family-style homes for everyone she can prove is capable of independent living. Robin Forestier-Walker was invited along to one such rescue mission.
  1142. Concerts and music festivals around the world have been cancelled but there is one festival that did go ahead, high up in the Alps in Switzerland. It featured live rock music and raclette cheese. Ben Russell went along.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1143. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from the eastern Mediterranean, Pakistan, Peru, Georgia and Switzerland.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Greece and Turkey have agreed to hold talks to help defuse their stand-off over disputed gas reserves near their shores. Ankara had deployed a research vessel accompanied by warships near a Greek island, and military exercises on both sides followed, giving rise to fears of war between the two long-term rivals, as Heidi Fuller Love reports from Crete.</p><p>Pakistan was shocked by the gang-rape of a woman on a motorway leading out of the city of Lahore late at night. Sexual violence towards women in Pakistan is commonplace, but this case led to a backlash, as police appeared to blame the victim. As women come together to campaign for change, could it be a turning point to make everyday life safer for women, asks Secunder Kermani.</p><p>Peru now has the highest per capita death rate from coronavirus in the world. More than half of the nation’s territory is Amazon rainforest and the indigenous people who live there have been badly affected by the pandemic, but have received little help, with little medical treatment available, as Dan Collyns reports.</p><p>In the republic of Georgia, there are still people trapped inside ageing Soviet-era institutions, isolated from society simply for having a learning disability or a mental illness. But one woman has made it her life's work to help patients leave these clinical establishments, and to provide family-style homes for everyone she can prove is capable of independent living. Robin Forestier-Walker was invited along to one such rescue mission.
  1144. Concerts and music festivals around the world have been cancelled but there is one festival that did go ahead, high up in the Alps in Switzerland. It featured live rock music and raclette cheese. Ben Russell went along.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1145. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:34:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1727</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08sdj4p.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08sdj4p.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08sdj4p.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08sdk5p</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08sdk5p</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08sdj4p.mp3" fileSize="27632000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1727"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08sdk5p</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Making peace with Israel</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements to normalise relations with Israel, this week, motivated by a desire to build a united front against Iran. Palestinians have condemned the move as a betrayal. Yolande Knell reports on out how the deal has gone down with young Emiratis and Israelis.
  1146. Wildfires continue to rage across the West Coast region of the United States. Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes as over four and a half million acres of land have now been scorched. President Trump visited this week and blamed “poor forest management” for the conflagrations. California’s governor insisted they’re due to climate change. Peter Bowes knows the devastation and destruction of these fires all too well....
  1147. On the Greek island of Lesbos, efforts have begun to move thousands of migrants and refugees from the fire-gutted Moria camp to a new tent city nearby. The camp had become overcrowded and squalid, and now many would prefer to leave Lesbos altogether. But where can they go, asks Bethany Bell.
  1148. In Romania, the small Transylvanian village of Viscri has become a magnet for tourists, including the Prince of Wales. Stephen McGrath has been finding out why, and what impact it's been having.
  1149. It would normally be peak safari season in the Serengeti region in northern Tanzania at this time of year, with carloads of tourists hoping to catch a glimpse of a giraffe, an elephant or even a pride of lions. But this year the visitors have stayed away because of the coronavirus. Well, not all of them. Michelle Jana Chan did go, and got a front row seat seeing some of nature’s grandest spectacles.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1150. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from the Middle East, the US West Coast, Greece, Romania and Tanzania's Serengeti</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements to normalise relations with Israel, this week, motivated by a desire to build a united front against Iran. Palestinians have condemned the move as a betrayal. Yolande Knell reports on out how the deal has gone down with young Emiratis and Israelis.
  1151. Wildfires continue to rage across the West Coast region of the United States. Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes as over four and a half million acres of land have now been scorched. President Trump visited this week and blamed “poor forest management” for the conflagrations. California’s governor insisted they’re due to climate change. Peter Bowes knows the devastation and destruction of these fires all too well....
  1152. On the Greek island of Lesbos, efforts have begun to move thousands of migrants and refugees from the fire-gutted Moria camp to a new tent city nearby. The camp had become overcrowded and squalid, and now many would prefer to leave Lesbos altogether. But where can they go, asks Bethany Bell.
  1153. In Romania, the small Transylvanian village of Viscri has become a magnet for tourists, including the Prince of Wales. Stephen McGrath has been finding out why, and what impact it's been having.
  1154. It would normally be peak safari season in the Serengeti region in northern Tanzania at this time of year, with carloads of tourists hoping to catch a glimpse of a giraffe, an elephant or even a pride of lions. But this year the visitors have stayed away because of the coronavirus. Well, not all of them. Michelle Jana Chan did go, and got a front row seat seeing some of nature’s grandest spectacles.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1155. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2020 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08rys33.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08rys33.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08rys33.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08rys5t</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08rys5t</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08rys33.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08rys5t</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Can India cope with Covid-19?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>India now has the second highest number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the world, having overtaken Brazil. This is placing huge demands on hospitals and ambulances. The medical services, particularly in smaller cities and rural areas, can find it hard to cope, sometimes leading to what relatives think were preventable deaths, as Yogita Limaye reports.
  1156. Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is retiring. His politically conservative party will elect his successor on Monday. Mr Abe has taken his observers by surprise more than once. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo looks at the effect of those surprises, and at his legacy.
  1157. In Poland, some politicians’ hostility to gay rights has become a flash-point in a culture war pitting the religious right against the more liberal-minded. Last month the EU denied funding to six Polish towns which had declared themselves “LGBT ideology-free zones”. Lucy Ash has been to one of them, Tuchow.
  1158. Wildfires have raged through central and northern Argentina for most of the year. Apart from forests and grasslands, about half a million acres of wetlands next to the mighty Parana river have been lost in the worst fires in over a decade. This has endangered livelihoods and sparked concern among environmentalists, as Natalio Cosoy reports.
  1159. Cap d'Agde on the French Mediterranean coast is home to the biggest nudist resort in Europe. But with France’s recent surge in coronavirus cases, how have the naturists and also the considerable number of swingers there fared with the restrictions? Chris Bockman went to find out.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1160. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories on Covid-19 in India, and from Japan, Poland, Argentina and France.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>India now has the second highest number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the world, having overtaken Brazil. This is placing huge demands on hospitals and ambulances. The medical services, particularly in smaller cities and rural areas, can find it hard to cope, sometimes leading to what relatives think were preventable deaths, as Yogita Limaye reports.
  1161. Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is retiring. His politically conservative party will elect his successor on Monday. Mr Abe has taken his observers by surprise more than once. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo looks at the effect of those surprises, and at his legacy.
  1162. In Poland, some politicians’ hostility to gay rights has become a flash-point in a culture war pitting the religious right against the more liberal-minded. Last month the EU denied funding to six Polish towns which had declared themselves “LGBT ideology-free zones”. Lucy Ash has been to one of them, Tuchow.
  1163. Wildfires have raged through central and northern Argentina for most of the year. Apart from forests and grasslands, about half a million acres of wetlands next to the mighty Parana river have been lost in the worst fires in over a decade. This has endangered livelihoods and sparked concern among environmentalists, as Natalio Cosoy reports.
  1164. Cap d'Agde on the French Mediterranean coast is home to the biggest nudist resort in Europe. But with France’s recent surge in coronavirus cases, how have the naturists and also the considerable number of swingers there fared with the restrictions? Chris Bockman went to find out.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1165. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1726</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08r8n9f.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08r8n9f.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08r8n9f.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08r8nl2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08r8nl2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08r8n9f.mp3" fileSize="27616000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1726"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08r8nl2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>“You must come with us!”</title><description><![CDATA[<p>This week’s dispatches, introduced by Kate Adie, are:</p><p>Steve Rosenberg in Belarus reflects on the history he shares with President Lukashenko, recently re-elected in a poll widely regarded as fradulent. It’s based on their separate links with a small town in the countryside. Yet even these didn’t prevent him from being detained by the regime’s police force.</p><p>Phil Mercer in Sydney considers the strains being placed on Australia’s cohesion as many of its principal states and territories close their borders to each other. From the maintenance of urgent medical care to opportunistic flits across the country, the restrictions are causing hardship and leading to disaffection.</p><p>A deal has been initialled in Sudan between its transitional government and the main rebel alliance designed to bring peace to the long-troubled North African state. Hailed by outside governments, the agreement has, however, yet to be endorsed by all parties to the Sudanese conflict. Anne Soy reported on widespread protests in the country last year and considers whether this third peace deal will prove more durable than the preceding ones.</p><p>Five years after a million migrants and putative refugees arrived in Europe, Nick Thorpe in Budapest assesses how the Hungarian government has handled the flow of people since then – and discovers how some of those he met in 2015 seeking to start new lives in Europe have fared.</p><p>And finally carol singers and Father Christmases appear each summer on a peculiar day in Boston’s calendar – notably not disrupted by Covid-19 this year – when nearly three-quarters of those who rent their homes in the US city move house. Recent arrival there, Alice Hutton, went to meet her new neighbours to find out what it was all about.</p><p>Producer Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stopped in Belarus, Australian splits, Sudan’s peace, asylum in Europe, Boston’s big move.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>This week’s dispatches, introduced by Kate Adie, are:</p><p>Steve Rosenberg in Belarus reflects on the history he shares with President Lukashenko, recently re-elected in a poll widely regarded as fradulent. It’s based on their separate links with a small town in the countryside. Yet even these didn’t prevent him from being detained by the regime’s police force.</p><p>Phil Mercer in Sydney considers the strains being placed on Australia’s cohesion as many of its principal states and territories close their borders to each other. From the maintenance of urgent medical care to opportunistic flits across the country, the restrictions are causing hardship and leading to disaffection.</p><p>A deal has been initialled in Sudan between its transitional government and the main rebel alliance designed to bring peace to the long-troubled North African state. Hailed by outside governments, the agreement has, however, yet to be endorsed by all parties to the Sudanese conflict. Anne Soy reported on widespread protests in the country last year and considers whether this third peace deal will prove more durable than the preceding ones.</p><p>Five years after a million migrants and putative refugees arrived in Europe, Nick Thorpe in Budapest assesses how the Hungarian government has handled the flow of people since then – and discovers how some of those he met in 2015 seeking to start new lives in Europe have fared.</p><p>And finally carol singers and Father Christmases appear each summer on a peculiar day in Boston’s calendar – notably not disrupted by Covid-19 this year – when nearly three-quarters of those who rent their homes in the US city move house. Recent arrival there, Alice Hutton, went to meet her new neighbours to find out what it was all about.</p><p>Producer Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1668</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08qm3pb.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08qm3pb.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08qm3pb.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08qm4p9</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08qm4p9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08qm3pb.mp3" fileSize="26688000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1668"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08qm4p9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Kremlin and its opponents</title><description><![CDATA[<p>This week, as the leading opposition figure in Russia, Alexei Navalny, lies comatose in Berlin’s Charité hospital, Sarah Rainsford in Moscow considers the Kremlin’s peculiar hate and fear of its critics and the methods it is widely thought to have employed in dealing with them.</p><p>Gabriel Gatehouse in Beirut observes the sharp generational divide that characterises post-civil war Lebanon – and wonders what it might portend for the country's future.</p><p>North America Correspondent, Jane O’Brien, checks in to the “virtual” Republican party convention centred on the White House and detects a new confidence and a different style in the Trump – and Republican – campaigns for November’s US elections.  What explains the shift?</p><p>Sebastien Ash in the Swabian town of Heidenheim, southern Germany, reveals the significance of a face-off of statues linked to the so-called “Desert Fox” – Erwin Rommel, the well-known general of the Nazi era, noted for his role in World War Two’s North Africa campaign.</p><p>And Christine Finn takes the plunge on the Paris-plages – and discovers that the fellow-bathers at the pools at and near the river Seine whom she encounters give a contemporary twist to the national motto of liberty, equality and fraternity – although not perhaps in quite the way we might expect.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Vexing the Kremlin, Lebanon's splits, buoyant Trumps, statues face-off and Paris beaches.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>This week, as the leading opposition figure in Russia, Alexei Navalny, lies comatose in Berlin’s Charité hospital, Sarah Rainsford in Moscow considers the Kremlin’s peculiar hate and fear of its critics and the methods it is widely thought to have employed in dealing with them.</p><p>Gabriel Gatehouse in Beirut observes the sharp generational divide that characterises post-civil war Lebanon – and wonders what it might portend for the country's future.</p><p>North America Correspondent, Jane O’Brien, checks in to the “virtual” Republican party convention centred on the White House and detects a new confidence and a different style in the Trump – and Republican – campaigns for November’s US elections.  What explains the shift?</p><p>Sebastien Ash in the Swabian town of Heidenheim, southern Germany, reveals the significance of a face-off of statues linked to the so-called “Desert Fox” – Erwin Rommel, the well-known general of the Nazi era, noted for his role in World War Two’s North Africa campaign.</p><p>And Christine Finn takes the plunge on the Paris-plages – and discovers that the fellow-bathers at the pools at and near the river Seine whom she encounters give a contemporary twist to the national motto of liberty, equality and fraternity – although not perhaps in quite the way we might expect.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1699</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08pzx46.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08pzx46.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08pzx46.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08pzxcj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08pzxcj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08pzx46.mp3" fileSize="27184000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1699"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08pzxcj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 25/08/2020</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents a range of perspectives on Britain today.</p><p>Edinburgh is usually thronged with crowds and alive with performers from around the world at Festival time. But the Scottish capital is in decidedly unfamiliar guise this August. Long-time resident, James Naughtie, experiences a city that is not itself.</p><p>Sparked by the shift in living patterns during lockdown, councils in England have implemented low traffic neigbourhoods aimed at cutting the number of vehicles on busy streets. But, as Tom Edwards, BBC London's Transport Correspondent, discovers, while residents like the respite, for motorists the new measures add to already time-consuming journeys.</p><p>Deep in the Cotswolds lies an opera house popular with aficionados for miles around. This summer, though, silence - not music - has reigned there. Gillian Powell, part of Longborough Festival Opera's team, reflects on what she has been missing, what's still been possible to do and what she might be able to look forward to next year.</p><p>During the Hindu festival of Janmastimi - a time of family reunion and celebration - Harshad Mistry received particularly sad and unwelcome news - the passing of his Motabhai or big brother. It has prompted not only poignant memories but also thoughts about ambition, kinship and community.</p><p>And Ian McMillan reveals his youthful attempts with a friend at breaking the time barrier in Barnsley - with the help of a hill of sand and a baked bean tin - and explains why it's something that still preoccupies him.</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Unusual Edinburgh, low traffic, Cotswold opera, a close big brother and the time barrier.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents a range of perspectives on Britain today.</p><p>Edinburgh is usually thronged with crowds and alive with performers from around the world at Festival time. But the Scottish capital is in decidedly unfamiliar guise this August. Long-time resident, James Naughtie, experiences a city that is not itself.</p><p>Sparked by the shift in living patterns during lockdown, councils in England have implemented low traffic neigbourhoods aimed at cutting the number of vehicles on busy streets. But, as Tom Edwards, BBC London's Transport Correspondent, discovers, while residents like the respite, for motorists the new measures add to already time-consuming journeys.</p><p>Deep in the Cotswolds lies an opera house popular with aficionados for miles around. This summer, though, silence - not music - has reigned there. Gillian Powell, part of Longborough Festival Opera's team, reflects on what she has been missing, what's still been possible to do and what she might be able to look forward to next year.</p><p>During the Hindu festival of Janmastimi - a time of family reunion and celebration - Harshad Mistry received particularly sad and unwelcome news - the passing of his Motabhai or big brother. It has prompted not only poignant memories but also thoughts about ambition, kinship and community.</p><p>And Ian McMillan reveals his youthful attempts with a friend at breaking the time barrier in Barnsley - with the help of a hill of sand and a baked bean tin - and explains why it's something that still preoccupies him.</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2020 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1670</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08pk9sd.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08pk9sd.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08pk9sd.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08pkcrd</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08pkcrd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08pk9sd.mp3" fileSize="26720000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1670"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08pkcrd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Democrats unconventional convention</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Former US Vice-president Joe Biden accepted the Democratic party’s nomination for the presidency via video-link from his home in Wilmington, Delaware. The party convention was going to be a big celebratory event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with balloons and standing ovations. But not during the pandemic. Laura Trevelyan reports from this unconventional convention.
  1166. South Africa banned alcohol to help keep hospital beds free for Covid-19 patients. So many have a drinking problem in the country that over 62,000 deaths a year are attributed to alcohol. But banning it damages the drinks industry. Vumani Mkhize reports on that dilemma and looks back at his own experiences with alcohol.
  1167. There have been protests and strikes in Belarus since the contested elections of 9 August. And now the long-term ruler Alexander Lukashenko has given orders to end the unrest. The official result gave him 80% of the vote while the opposition denounced the poll as fraudulent. But where do they go from here, asks Jonah Fisher in the capital Minsk.
  1168. The blast in Beirut cost many lives and caused thousands of injuries. One of those whose wounds still haven't healed is Leila Morana-Allen. But during the first days after the explosion, it wasn't just her injuries she was worried about, but her pet dog. Was he lost? Did he die? Would Lebanon's networks of dog-lovers be able to help?
  1169. Being a foreign correspondent may sound glamorous to some, but the reality is working long hours with lots of short-notice travel. Correspondents accept that as part of the deal. But what's harder to deal with is the separation from loved ones. And now, as Shaimaa Khalil is finding in Sydney, due to pandemic travel restrictions she may not see her husband for a year.
  1170. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1171. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from South Africa, Belarus, Lebanon, Australia and on the Democrats in Delaware.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Former US Vice-president Joe Biden accepted the Democratic party’s nomination for the presidency via video-link from his home in Wilmington, Delaware. The party convention was going to be a big celebratory event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with balloons and standing ovations. But not during the pandemic. Laura Trevelyan reports from this unconventional convention.
  1172. South Africa banned alcohol to help keep hospital beds free for Covid-19 patients. So many have a drinking problem in the country that over 62,000 deaths a year are attributed to alcohol. But banning it damages the drinks industry. Vumani Mkhize reports on that dilemma and looks back at his own experiences with alcohol.
  1173. There have been protests and strikes in Belarus since the contested elections of 9 August. And now the long-term ruler Alexander Lukashenko has given orders to end the unrest. The official result gave him 80% of the vote while the opposition denounced the poll as fraudulent. But where do they go from here, asks Jonah Fisher in the capital Minsk.
  1174. The blast in Beirut cost many lives and caused thousands of injuries. One of those whose wounds still haven't healed is Leila Morana-Allen. But during the first days after the explosion, it wasn't just her injuries she was worried about, but her pet dog. Was he lost? Did he die? Would Lebanon's networks of dog-lovers be able to help?
  1175. Being a foreign correspondent may sound glamorous to some, but the reality is working long hours with lots of short-notice travel. Correspondents accept that as part of the deal. But what's harder to deal with is the separation from loved ones. And now, as Shaimaa Khalil is finding in Sydney, due to pandemic travel restrictions she may not see her husband for a year.
  1176. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1177. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1736</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08pc3j4.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08pc3j4.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08pc3j4.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08pc3rd</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08pc3rd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08pc3j4.mp3" fileSize="27776000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1736"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08pc3rd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Japan's Second World War Legacy</title><description><![CDATA[<p>It's the 75th anniversary of VJ Day today, Victory over Japan, when Japan surrendered to the US, Britain and China. That ended the Second World War. Japan was given a new, pacifist constitution by the Americans, and seems to have left its former, more aggressive and militaristic, path behind. But, as Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has been finding in Tokyo, there's more that connects the current political leadership to wartime Japan than one might think.
  1178. Colombia's decades-long civil war came to an end in 2016, it had pitted leftist guerrilla groups like the FARC against government forces and right-wing paramilitaries. Now the Supreme Court has ordered the house arrest of ex-president Alvaro Uribe, amid an investigation into allegations of bribing witnesses to deny his alleged involvement with these militias, charges he denies. Uribe remains divisive, and as Mat Charles reports, his arrest has split public opinion along the same fault lines that stoked the violence previously.
  1179. Tourism accounts for around a quarter of all jobs in Greece, and was a lifeline during the austerity years of the Greek Debt crisis. But this year the pandemic has kept a lot of visitors away, even though lockdown restrictions started to be lifted early. That has hit seasonal workers particularly hard. On the island of Crete, Heidi Fuller-Love went to meet a family, for whom Covid-19 has been the last straw.
  1180. On the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca, the German tourists are back. For them, a sunny holiday on Mallorca is an annual ritual not to be missed, be they celebrities on their private estates, or revellers in Palma, on the capital’s party mile. What is it about the Germans and their favourite Mediterranean island, asks John Kampfner.
  1181. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1182. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Colombia, Greece, Germany and on the unfinished business of WW2 in Japan.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>It's the 75th anniversary of VJ Day today, Victory over Japan, when Japan surrendered to the US, Britain and China. That ended the Second World War. Japan was given a new, pacifist constitution by the Americans, and seems to have left its former, more aggressive and militaristic, path behind. But, as Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has been finding in Tokyo, there's more that connects the current political leadership to wartime Japan than one might think.
  1183. Colombia's decades-long civil war came to an end in 2016, it had pitted leftist guerrilla groups like the FARC against government forces and right-wing paramilitaries. Now the Supreme Court has ordered the house arrest of ex-president Alvaro Uribe, amid an investigation into allegations of bribing witnesses to deny his alleged involvement with these militias, charges he denies. Uribe remains divisive, and as Mat Charles reports, his arrest has split public opinion along the same fault lines that stoked the violence previously.
  1184. Tourism accounts for around a quarter of all jobs in Greece, and was a lifeline during the austerity years of the Greek Debt crisis. But this year the pandemic has kept a lot of visitors away, even though lockdown restrictions started to be lifted early. That has hit seasonal workers particularly hard. On the island of Crete, Heidi Fuller-Love went to meet a family, for whom Covid-19 has been the last straw.
  1185. On the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca, the German tourists are back. For them, a sunny holiday on Mallorca is an annual ritual not to be missed, be they celebrities on their private estates, or revellers in Palma, on the capital’s party mile. What is it about the Germans and their favourite Mediterranean island, asks John Kampfner.
  1186. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1187. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2020 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1588</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08nqhln.mp3" length="25408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08nqhln.mp3" length="25408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08nqhln.mp3" length="25408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08nqhr6</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08nqhr6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08nqhln.mp3" fileSize="25408000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1588"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08nqhr6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The death knell for Beirut?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In Lebanon, shock is turning to anger at the authorities and political class at large, after the catastrophic blast in the capital Beirut. It was caused by explosive chemicals stored improperly at the city’s port, and caused much loss of life, thousands of injuries, and damaged large swathes of the city. Lizzie Porter asks what impact this will have on the residents.</p><p>In South Africa coronavirus infections have surpassed half a million cases. That makes it the fifth worst affected country in the world. The nation had been doing well initially - measures to contain the virus were working. But, then, other problems reared their ugly heads, says Andrew Harding in Johannesburg.
  1188. Around 20,000 people took to the streets of Berlin last weekend to protest against the anti-coronavirus restrictions, even though few of them remain in force. Most of the demonstrators had been bussed in from elsewhere, and as it turns out, their real agenda had relatively little to do with measures to combat the pandemic, as Damien McGuinness reports.</p><p>In Iran, Covid-19 carries great social stigma, as Jiyar Gol has learned. Some people claim their relatives died of other illnesses, and others fear that no one will marry their daughters if anyone finds out they ever had Covid-19. The state, too, is less than fully transparent. The real number of cases could be three times that of government reports.</p><p>According to a recent, yet ineffective campaign, France is the European champion for the abandoning of pets. Never more so than at this time of year, when so many people drive to their holiday destinations that the motorways are congested. Why won't they take their cats or dogs along, asks Chris Bockman in the southwest of the country.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1189. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from South Africa, Germany, Iran, France and on the aftermath of the Beirut blast.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In Lebanon, shock is turning to anger at the authorities and political class at large, after the catastrophic blast in the capital Beirut. It was caused by explosive chemicals stored improperly at the city’s port, and caused much loss of life, thousands of injuries, and damaged large swathes of the city. Lizzie Porter asks what impact this will have on the residents.</p><p>In South Africa coronavirus infections have surpassed half a million cases. That makes it the fifth worst affected country in the world. The nation had been doing well initially - measures to contain the virus were working. But, then, other problems reared their ugly heads, says Andrew Harding in Johannesburg.
  1190. Around 20,000 people took to the streets of Berlin last weekend to protest against the anti-coronavirus restrictions, even though few of them remain in force. Most of the demonstrators had been bussed in from elsewhere, and as it turns out, their real agenda had relatively little to do with measures to combat the pandemic, as Damien McGuinness reports.</p><p>In Iran, Covid-19 carries great social stigma, as Jiyar Gol has learned. Some people claim their relatives died of other illnesses, and others fear that no one will marry their daughters if anyone finds out they ever had Covid-19. The state, too, is less than fully transparent. The real number of cases could be three times that of government reports.</p><p>According to a recent, yet ineffective campaign, France is the European champion for the abandoning of pets. Never more so than at this time of year, when so many people drive to their holiday destinations that the motorways are congested. Why won't they take their cats or dogs along, asks Chris Bockman in the southwest of the country.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1191. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1692</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08n38ym.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08n38ym.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08n38ym.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08n396s</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08n396s</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08n38ym.mp3" fileSize="27072000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1692"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08n396s</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 04/08/2020</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom reflecting contemporary life.</p><p>When lockdown dramatically curtailed orders, those businesses providing perishable products suffered particularly badly. Artisan cheese-makers had been growing in rural Wales creating much needed jobs there in recent years. But what does the future hold? BBC Radio Cymru's Garry Owen visited one cheese-maker in Carmarthenshire to find out.</p><p>As well as foodstuffs, farmers responsible for other products - such as wool - have been affected by the consequences of Covid-19. In places like the Scottish borders, where sheep are currently being shorn, fleeces are worth nothing - even less than that after allowing for their transport. John Forsyth has been to the Ettrick Valley in the Scottish borders and spoke to producers and wool graders.</p><p>What is it like to like with the after-effects of brain surgery? Each year at this time, the children's writer, Caroline Golding, reflects on the removal over twenty years ago of a tumour she had and how her thinking about the experience and what it meant has evolved.</p><p>Finally being able to bury his brother whose funeral took place just before lockdown has prompted Martin Vennard to consider how the place where they both lived still tells the story of the times they shared.</p><p>And Tim Hartley, profoundly missing his regular visit to the Cardiff City Stadium to watch his favourite team play in the EFL Championship, understandably jumped at the chance to see them recently in a vital match. But the experience for this football veteran turned out to be a salutary one.</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Saving artisan cheese, sheep fleeces, brain surgery, a fraternal burial and eery football</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom reflecting contemporary life.</p><p>When lockdown dramatically curtailed orders, those businesses providing perishable products suffered particularly badly. Artisan cheese-makers had been growing in rural Wales creating much needed jobs there in recent years. But what does the future hold? BBC Radio Cymru's Garry Owen visited one cheese-maker in Carmarthenshire to find out.</p><p>As well as foodstuffs, farmers responsible for other products - such as wool - have been affected by the consequences of Covid-19. In places like the Scottish borders, where sheep are currently being shorn, fleeces are worth nothing - even less than that after allowing for their transport. John Forsyth has been to the Ettrick Valley in the Scottish borders and spoke to producers and wool graders.</p><p>What is it like to like with the after-effects of brain surgery? Each year at this time, the children's writer, Caroline Golding, reflects on the removal over twenty years ago of a tumour she had and how her thinking about the experience and what it meant has evolved.</p><p>Finally being able to bury his brother whose funeral took place just before lockdown has prompted Martin Vennard to consider how the place where they both lived still tells the story of the times they shared.</p><p>And Tim Hartley, profoundly missing his regular visit to the Cardiff City Stadium to watch his favourite team play in the EFL Championship, understandably jumped at the chance to see them recently in a vital match. But the experience for this football veteran turned out to be a salutary one.</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2020 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1676</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08mngvz.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08mngvz.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08mngvz.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08mnmdg</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08mnmdg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08mngvz.mp3" fileSize="26816000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1676"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08mnmdg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Taking on the ruler of Belarus</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Svetlana Tikhanovskaya had nothing to do with politics until recently, and has now become the main opposition candidate for the presidential election in Belarus on the 9th of August. She became a candidate when her husband, a leading opposition leader, was suddenly jailed. Jean Mackenzie was able to meet her, and the other women taking on President Lukashenko who has ruled for 26 years.
  1192. In Australia, relations with its main trading partner China are the worst they've been for decades, over issues ranging from the coronavirus to tariffs on beef and barley. And Australians of Chinese descent are increasingly becoming the victims of racist abuse. Frances Mao, Chinese-Australian herself, reports from Sydney.
  1193. Florida has reported a record high daily death toll from Covid-19, and governor Ron DeSantis has been under pressure to toughen up restrictions. There is no state-wide requirement to wear masks, but individual cities like Miami have imposed them. Attitudes to the virus remain quite divided, as Tamara Gil has been discovering in Miami.
  1194. Laos was neutral in the Vietnam war, but was heavily bombed by the Americans anyway, as their North Vietnamese enemies ran supply routes to American-backed South Vietnam via the country. Unexploded ordinance from that time are blighting lives in Laos decades later, as Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent found out.
  1195. If a common language divides Britain and America, as they say, then how much more does a separate language divide Britain and France? The single word postilion or postillon in French sheds quite a lot of light on what makes these countries so different, says Hugh Schofield in Paris, who is fluent in both languages.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1196. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Australia, Florida, Laos, France and the presidential election in Belarus.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Svetlana Tikhanovskaya had nothing to do with politics until recently, and has now become the main opposition candidate for the presidential election in Belarus on the 9th of August. She became a candidate when her husband, a leading opposition leader, was suddenly jailed. Jean Mackenzie was able to meet her, and the other women taking on President Lukashenko who has ruled for 26 years.
  1197. In Australia, relations with its main trading partner China are the worst they've been for decades, over issues ranging from the coronavirus to tariffs on beef and barley. And Australians of Chinese descent are increasingly becoming the victims of racist abuse. Frances Mao, Chinese-Australian herself, reports from Sydney.
  1198. Florida has reported a record high daily death toll from Covid-19, and governor Ron DeSantis has been under pressure to toughen up restrictions. There is no state-wide requirement to wear masks, but individual cities like Miami have imposed them. Attitudes to the virus remain quite divided, as Tamara Gil has been discovering in Miami.
  1199. Laos was neutral in the Vietnam war, but was heavily bombed by the Americans anyway, as their North Vietnamese enemies ran supply routes to American-backed South Vietnam via the country. Unexploded ordinance from that time are blighting lives in Laos decades later, as Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent found out.
  1200. If a common language divides Britain and America, as they say, then how much more does a separate language divide Britain and France? The single word postilion or postillon in French sheds quite a lot of light on what makes these countries so different, says Hugh Schofield in Paris, who is fluent in both languages.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1201. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1723</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08mgk42.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08mgk42.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08mgk42.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08mgkkb</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08mgkkb</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08mgk42.mp3" fileSize="27568000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1723"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08mgkkb</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Unrest in Russia's eastern outpost</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Tens of thousands of people in Russia's Far-Eastern city of Khabarovsk have been demonstrating against the removal of the popular local governor Sergei Furgal. He was arrested on old murder charges dating back 15 years, and taken to Moscow. He had beaten the Kremlin-appointed candidate in the elections. Steve Rosenberg reports on the mood in a city closer to Tokyo than Moscow.
  1202. A five-year old black boy has died in Brazil, while briefly under the care of a white woman. This has renewed questions about racism in Brazil, which likes to think of itself as being free of racial discrimination. But it was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery, and the police kill thousands of young black men a year. Katy Watson reports.
  1203. Laszlo Bogdan was mayor of Cserdi in Hungary, which became known for the "Cserdi miracle" as he was reported to reduce the local crime rate to zero, and young women now go on to university rather than become teenage mothers. Bogdan was a Roma, or Gypsy, as are many villagers. But last week he died - in an apparent suicide. Nick Thorpe had met him many times.
  1204. Cuba's most popular sport is baseball, unlike in other Latin American countries where football reigns supreme. But that has been changing, and more and more Cubans now play football. Many follow foreign teams, particularly Spain's Barcelona and Real Madrid. And then there are the die-hard fans of the newly-crowned Premier League champion Liverpool. Among them, Will Grant.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1205. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Brazil, Hungary, Venice, Cuba and from one of Russia's eastern outposts.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Tens of thousands of people in Russia's Far-Eastern city of Khabarovsk have been demonstrating against the removal of the popular local governor Sergei Furgal. He was arrested on old murder charges dating back 15 years, and taken to Moscow. He had beaten the Kremlin-appointed candidate in the elections. Steve Rosenberg reports on the mood in a city closer to Tokyo than Moscow.
  1206. A five-year old black boy has died in Brazil, while briefly under the care of a white woman. This has renewed questions about racism in Brazil, which likes to think of itself as being free of racial discrimination. But it was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery, and the police kill thousands of young black men a year. Katy Watson reports.
  1207. Laszlo Bogdan was mayor of Cserdi in Hungary, which became known for the "Cserdi miracle" as he was reported to reduce the local crime rate to zero, and young women now go on to university rather than become teenage mothers. Bogdan was a Roma, or Gypsy, as are many villagers. But last week he died - in an apparent suicide. Nick Thorpe had met him many times.
  1208. Cuba's most popular sport is baseball, unlike in other Latin American countries where football reigns supreme. But that has been changing, and more and more Cubans now play football. Many follow foreign teams, particularly Spain's Barcelona and Real Madrid. And then there are the die-hard fans of the newly-crowned Premier League champion Liverpool. Among them, Will Grant.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1209. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1716</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08ltfbh.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08ltfbh.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08ltfbh.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08ltbfh</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08ltbfh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08ltfbh.mp3" fileSize="27456000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1716"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08ltbfh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Can Bosnia move on from genocide?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>This week, Bosnia is marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Srebrenica Massacre – Europe’s worst atrocity since the Second World War. Those who ordered the executions were convicted of genocide. Today Bosnia is deeply divided, impoverished, and governed by politicians who stir up the remaining ethnic enmity. Now young Bosnians are leaving in droves, says Guy De Launey.
  1210. Turkmenistan is a secretive and authoritarian state, and has not registered a single case of Covid-19. But independent media organisations, based outside the country, say their sources are reporting numerous cases of people falling ill with Covid-like symptoms. Now experts from the World Health Organisation have visited. What did they find, asks Rayhan Demytrie?
  1211. Tanzania announced that it had defeated the coronavirus last month, but it has not released full data on infections or deaths for many weeks. There was no lockdown, as the president declared that God would protect the country. But the US embassy warned that hospitals were overwhelmed. Where does that leave Tanzanians, like Sammy Awami?
  1212. Singapore pressed ahead with a general election despite the pandemic last week. The People’s Action Party has ruled for decades and won again, but with a reduced majority. The opposition Worker’s party had its best result to date. Could there be change in the air? Sharanjit Leyl visited a woman in a poorer district.
  1213. Germany already made the wearing of face-coverings in shops compulsory in April and has been seen to handle the pandemic well. Germans have adapted to having to wear masks quite creatively, with designs ranging from leopard skin to bridal lace and denim. So what style did Damien McGuinness go for in Berlin?</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1214. Producers: Arlene Gregorius and Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Turkmenistan, Tanzania, Singapore, Berlin and on Bosnia's ethnic divisions.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>This week, Bosnia is marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Srebrenica Massacre – Europe’s worst atrocity since the Second World War. Those who ordered the executions were convicted of genocide. Today Bosnia is deeply divided, impoverished, and governed by politicians who stir up the remaining ethnic enmity. Now young Bosnians are leaving in droves, says Guy De Launey.
  1215. Turkmenistan is a secretive and authoritarian state, and has not registered a single case of Covid-19. But independent media organisations, based outside the country, say their sources are reporting numerous cases of people falling ill with Covid-like symptoms. Now experts from the World Health Organisation have visited. What did they find, asks Rayhan Demytrie?
  1216. Tanzania announced that it had defeated the coronavirus last month, but it has not released full data on infections or deaths for many weeks. There was no lockdown, as the president declared that God would protect the country. But the US embassy warned that hospitals were overwhelmed. Where does that leave Tanzanians, like Sammy Awami?
  1217. Singapore pressed ahead with a general election despite the pandemic last week. The People’s Action Party has ruled for decades and won again, but with a reduced majority. The opposition Worker’s party had its best result to date. Could there be change in the air? Sharanjit Leyl visited a woman in a poorer district.
  1218. Germany already made the wearing of face-coverings in shops compulsory in April and has been seen to handle the pandemic well. Germans have adapted to having to wear masks quite creatively, with designs ranging from leopard skin to bridal lace and denim. So what style did Damien McGuinness go for in Berlin?</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1219. Producers: Arlene Gregorius and Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2020 11:13:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1724</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08l5nx5.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08l5nx5.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08l5nx5.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08l5pc5</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08l5pc5</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08l5nx5.mp3" fileSize="27584000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1724"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08l5pc5</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Poland's political divide</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In Poland, the socially conservative President Andrzej Duda was very narrowly re-elected, defeating the more progressive mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski. Mr Duda is a close ally of the nationalist and Catholic Law and Justice government. Mr Trzaskowski favours a more proactive role in the EU and supports minorities’ rights. Adam Easton speaks with young activists.</p><p>Los Angeles has become a coronavirus hotspot, LA County has more cases than any other county in the US. Hospitals are running short of beds and a second lockdown may be imposed. Hollywood films aren't being screened, and the homeless have nowhere to sleep or wash. David Willis reports on the dark side of the City of Angels.</p><p>Ghana declared 2019 the Year of Return, appealing to African Americans to visit the homeland their ancestors had been taken from, 400 years after the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia. Following the George Floyd killing in the US, the appeal was renewed. Thomas Naadi meets some of the 5000 African Americans who now live in Ghana.</p><p>Italy's city of Rimini on the Adriatic coast is celebrating its local son, famous film director Federico Fellini, who would have been 100 years old this year. The coronavirus has been affecting some of the plans, but not all is lost. Juliet Rix visits Fellini's favourite hotel in Rimini, and has lunch with his niece.
  1220. Cuba has dealt with the pandemic better than most in Latin America, with monthly death rates now in single digits. During the worst of the outbreak , our correspondent there, Will Grant, was in the UK and has only now managed to make it back to his patch – where he found a nation well on top of Covid-19 but facing serious economic challenges.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1221. Producers: Arlene Gregorius and Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Los Angeles, Ghana, Italy, Cuba and from Poland's presidential election.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In Poland, the socially conservative President Andrzej Duda was very narrowly re-elected, defeating the more progressive mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski. Mr Duda is a close ally of the nationalist and Catholic Law and Justice government. Mr Trzaskowski favours a more proactive role in the EU and supports minorities’ rights. Adam Easton speaks with young activists.</p><p>Los Angeles has become a coronavirus hotspot, LA County has more cases than any other county in the US. Hospitals are running short of beds and a second lockdown may be imposed. Hollywood films aren't being screened, and the homeless have nowhere to sleep or wash. David Willis reports on the dark side of the City of Angels.</p><p>Ghana declared 2019 the Year of Return, appealing to African Americans to visit the homeland their ancestors had been taken from, 400 years after the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia. Following the George Floyd killing in the US, the appeal was renewed. Thomas Naadi meets some of the 5000 African Americans who now live in Ghana.</p><p>Italy's city of Rimini on the Adriatic coast is celebrating its local son, famous film director Federico Fellini, who would have been 100 years old this year. The coronavirus has been affecting some of the plans, but not all is lost. Juliet Rix visits Fellini's favourite hotel in Rimini, and has lunch with his niece.
  1222. Cuba has dealt with the pandemic better than most in Latin America, with monthly death rates now in single digits. During the worst of the outbreak , our correspondent there, Will Grant, was in the UK and has only now managed to make it back to his patch – where he found a nation well on top of Covid-19 but facing serious economic challenges.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1223. Producers: Arlene Gregorius and Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2020 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1728</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08ky6qh.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08ky6qh.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08ky6qh.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08ky73p</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08ky73p</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08ky6qh.mp3" fileSize="27648000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1728"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08ky73p</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Lockdown again in Melbourne</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Australia had widely been seen as having successfully contained the coronavirus – an example to countries like the UK and the US where numbers of cases and deaths have been so much worse. In Australia they locked down early, closed the country’s borders and have had fewer than ten thousand cases. But this week has seen a resurgence in Melbourne and the city’s five million residents are now barred from leaving home for six weeks, except for essential reasons. The whole of the state of Victoria, of which Melbourne is the capital, has been closed, making it particularly hard for communities straddling the state's boundaries, from where Shaimaa Khalil reports.</p><p>In France this week, where they’re still reeling from the economic and human cost of the coronavirus epidemic, the country has been getting to know its new government. There’s a new prime minister, Jean Castex, and a new direction promised by the President – all part of Mr Macron’s plan to reboot his mandate after the crises of recent years. But what are the challenges facing this government in a post-lockdown France? Lucy Williamson reports from Paris.</p><p>Passenger ferries are essential to life along the Norwegian Coast – acting as a link between island and coastal communities and the wider world. But recent times have seen these ferries in troubled waters. Locals are angry about fare increases. The ferry companies say it’s so they can invest in environmentally friendly electric and hydrogen-powered boats. But some people in Norway’s island archipelago are feeling trapped by the cost of leaving home, as Oliver Smith reports.</p><p>A holiday in the resort of Magaluf on the island of Mallorca won’t ever be quite the same again – and not just because of coronavirus. This year has seen a new law in some Balearic resorts aimed at clamping down on alcohol-fuelled tourism. Out goes the promotion of boozy boat parties and pub crawls and in comes a more sedate, family friendly experience - the authorities hope. Lottie Gross has been to find out how it’s looking in Mallorca’s party resort.</p><p>When our correspondent in Moscow, Steve Rosenberg, was granted an interview with Russia’s spy chief – Sergei Naryshkin – he couldn’t help feeling rather excited as this was both rare and unexpected. The visit to the fortified headquarters of the Foreign Intelligence Service contained all the ingredients of a classic spy novel . And after the spy chief blamed America for trying to rule the world the interview ended with a party – complete with toasts and Russian jokes.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie</p><p>Producers: Caroline Bayley and Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from France, Norway, Mallorca and Russia, plus Australia's new coronavirus spike</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Australia had widely been seen as having successfully contained the coronavirus – an example to countries like the UK and the US where numbers of cases and deaths have been so much worse. In Australia they locked down early, closed the country’s borders and have had fewer than ten thousand cases. But this week has seen a resurgence in Melbourne and the city’s five million residents are now barred from leaving home for six weeks, except for essential reasons. The whole of the state of Victoria, of which Melbourne is the capital, has been closed, making it particularly hard for communities straddling the state's boundaries, from where Shaimaa Khalil reports.</p><p>In France this week, where they’re still reeling from the economic and human cost of the coronavirus epidemic, the country has been getting to know its new government. There’s a new prime minister, Jean Castex, and a new direction promised by the President – all part of Mr Macron’s plan to reboot his mandate after the crises of recent years. But what are the challenges facing this government in a post-lockdown France? Lucy Williamson reports from Paris.</p><p>Passenger ferries are essential to life along the Norwegian Coast – acting as a link between island and coastal communities and the wider world. But recent times have seen these ferries in troubled waters. Locals are angry about fare increases. The ferry companies say it’s so they can invest in environmentally friendly electric and hydrogen-powered boats. But some people in Norway’s island archipelago are feeling trapped by the cost of leaving home, as Oliver Smith reports.</p><p>A holiday in the resort of Magaluf on the island of Mallorca won’t ever be quite the same again – and not just because of coronavirus. This year has seen a new law in some Balearic resorts aimed at clamping down on alcohol-fuelled tourism. Out goes the promotion of boozy boat parties and pub crawls and in comes a more sedate, family friendly experience - the authorities hope. Lottie Gross has been to find out how it’s looking in Mallorca’s party resort.</p><p>When our correspondent in Moscow, Steve Rosenberg, was granted an interview with Russia’s spy chief – Sergei Naryshkin – he couldn’t help feeling rather excited as this was both rare and unexpected. The visit to the fortified headquarters of the Foreign Intelligence Service contained all the ingredients of a classic spy novel . And after the spy chief blamed America for trying to rule the world the interview ended with a party – complete with toasts and Russian jokes.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie</p><p>Producers: Caroline Bayley and Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1720</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08kh1jf.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08kh1jf.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08kh1jf.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08kh28z</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08kh28z</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08kh1jf.mp3" fileSize="27520000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1720"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08kh28z</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Difficult choices in Hong Kong</title><description><![CDATA[<p>It was a seminal moment when the UK foreign secretary, Dominic Raab first raised the prospect just over a month ago that 2.9 million Hong Kongers could be eligible for UK citizenship. The move was in response to proposed legislation which made it a criminal act in the territory to undermine Beijing’s authority; legislation which has now been passed. China reacted swiftly to undermine the UK’s offer and to challenge its credibility, even threatening countermeasures. But for many who were Hong Kong residents before the handover in 1997, it has offered them a way out in the face of an encroachment on their democratic freedoms. Grace Tsoi reports from Hong Kong where, she amongst others, may face a difficult choice.</p><p>Borders have been reopening across Europe in recent weeks, and from tomorrow, Britain is offering quarantine free travel to 59 different countries – a move not reciprocated by all. But visitors to European cities will find it a somewhat changed experience. In Germany, tourist attractions may have re-opened but there are still restrictions. But as Grace Banks in Berlin found, those who rely on tourists for their living are desperate for them to return.</p><p>Across the Middle East all eyes turned to the sky last month for the partial solar eclipse. But next week the citizens of the United Arab Emirates will turn their attention to another celestial body; the Red Planet, as the country launches its most challenging space project to date. It’ll be the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission and is due to reach the orbit of Mars in February next year. And as Georgia Tolley reports from Dubai, space has caught the imagination of the country.</p><p>Tipping is an important American custom – but foreigners often find it awkward and confusing. Is it simply something you have to do or is it a case of rewarding good service when you think it was worth it? Helier Cheung tells us about her difficulties navigating tipping culture as a Briton in America – and how the pandemic helped her change her opinion of the practice.</p><p>While Jordan appears to have weathered the coronavirus pandemic so far with a tiny number of reported deaths, it had a very strict lockdown which hit the economy and livelihoods hard. That was eased five weeks ago but Jordan had already suffered years of sluggish growth and high unemployment, even before the pandemic. And life is now harder than ever. But as Charlie Faulkner reports from Amman, the past few months have given more time to those who indulge in one of the country’s popular hobbies, owning and flying pigeons.</p><p>Presenter Kate Adie</p><p>Producer Caroline Bayley and Serena Tarling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Germany, the UAE, the US, Jordan and the difficult choices in Hong Kong</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>It was a seminal moment when the UK foreign secretary, Dominic Raab first raised the prospect just over a month ago that 2.9 million Hong Kongers could be eligible for UK citizenship. The move was in response to proposed legislation which made it a criminal act in the territory to undermine Beijing’s authority; legislation which has now been passed. China reacted swiftly to undermine the UK’s offer and to challenge its credibility, even threatening countermeasures. But for many who were Hong Kong residents before the handover in 1997, it has offered them a way out in the face of an encroachment on their democratic freedoms. Grace Tsoi reports from Hong Kong where, she amongst others, may face a difficult choice.</p><p>Borders have been reopening across Europe in recent weeks, and from tomorrow, Britain is offering quarantine free travel to 59 different countries – a move not reciprocated by all. But visitors to European cities will find it a somewhat changed experience. In Germany, tourist attractions may have re-opened but there are still restrictions. But as Grace Banks in Berlin found, those who rely on tourists for their living are desperate for them to return.</p><p>Across the Middle East all eyes turned to the sky last month for the partial solar eclipse. But next week the citizens of the United Arab Emirates will turn their attention to another celestial body; the Red Planet, as the country launches its most challenging space project to date. It’ll be the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission and is due to reach the orbit of Mars in February next year. And as Georgia Tolley reports from Dubai, space has caught the imagination of the country.</p><p>Tipping is an important American custom – but foreigners often find it awkward and confusing. Is it simply something you have to do or is it a case of rewarding good service when you think it was worth it? Helier Cheung tells us about her difficulties navigating tipping culture as a Briton in America – and how the pandemic helped her change her opinion of the practice.</p><p>While Jordan appears to have weathered the coronavirus pandemic so far with a tiny number of reported deaths, it had a very strict lockdown which hit the economy and livelihoods hard. That was eased five weeks ago but Jordan had already suffered years of sluggish growth and high unemployment, even before the pandemic. And life is now harder than ever. But as Charlie Faulkner reports from Amman, the past few months have given more time to those who indulge in one of the country’s popular hobbies, owning and flying pigeons.</p><p>Presenter Kate Adie</p><p>Producer Caroline Bayley and Serena Tarling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2020 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1660</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08k8877.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08k8877.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08k8877.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08k88t0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08k88t0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08k8877.mp3" fileSize="26560000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1660"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08k88t0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 07/07/2020</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme, Mishal Husain introduces pieces from writers around the United Kingdom which reflect life as it is being led during Covid-19. Paul Moss, who reports for Radio 4's "The World Tonight" and the BBC World Service, spills the beans on how daily reporting has changed during lockdown. His story includes weirdly unprofessional backdrops, some decidedly awkward manoeuvring of equipment, bedding - and the neighbours. BBC News presenter, Tanya Beckett, has found that lockdown has meant that time has stood still in her Oxfordshire village, leaving her to reflect on a dreadful crime. It took place not far from where she now lives and, as she has learnt more about the case, it has turned out to be even closer to home than she had at first realised. Businesses across the UK are deciding how to operate as lockdown restrictions are eased. They include tarot card readers who perhaps saw what was coming. Writer and broadcaster Travis Elborough has been speaking to two Brighton tarot readers who are getting ready to meet clients again. So how is the future looking? And how's your bubble? In June, it was announced that single person and single parent households could form a "support bubble" with another household. After months alone, Jane Labous, in lockdown with her young daughter, has taken the plunge. She's been speaking to others weighing up the pros and cons of "bubbling up". Lockdown has curtailed plans to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth later this month of the household naturalist, the Reverend Gilbert White. Yet his writings, based on observations in the Hampshire village of Selborne, remain astonishingly accessible and informative today - as Andrew Green, with a special Selborne connection himself, has found.
  1224. Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The "bubble", tarot readers, coy gorillas, murder in an idyll and a natural history hero.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme, Mishal Husain introduces pieces from writers around the United Kingdom which reflect life as it is being led during Covid-19. Paul Moss, who reports for Radio 4's "The World Tonight" and the BBC World Service, spills the beans on how daily reporting has changed during lockdown. His story includes weirdly unprofessional backdrops, some decidedly awkward manoeuvring of equipment, bedding - and the neighbours. BBC News presenter, Tanya Beckett, has found that lockdown has meant that time has stood still in her Oxfordshire village, leaving her to reflect on a dreadful crime. It took place not far from where she now lives and, as she has learnt more about the case, it has turned out to be even closer to home than she had at first realised. Businesses across the UK are deciding how to operate as lockdown restrictions are eased. They include tarot card readers who perhaps saw what was coming. Writer and broadcaster Travis Elborough has been speaking to two Brighton tarot readers who are getting ready to meet clients again. So how is the future looking? And how's your bubble? In June, it was announced that single person and single parent households could form a "support bubble" with another household. After months alone, Jane Labous, in lockdown with her young daughter, has taken the plunge. She's been speaking to others weighing up the pros and cons of "bubbling up". Lockdown has curtailed plans to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth later this month of the household naturalist, the Reverend Gilbert White. Yet his writings, based on observations in the Hampshire village of Selborne, remain astonishingly accessible and informative today - as Andrew Green, with a special Selborne connection himself, has found.
  1225. Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2020 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1692</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08k12dd.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08k12dd.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08k12dd.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08k28z8</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08k28z8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08k12dd.mp3" fileSize="27072000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1692"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08k28z8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Afghanistan: peace or more pain?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In Afghanistan, there’s growing concern over a wave of attacks against human rights activists, moderate clerics, aid workers and others. For a young educated generation of Afghans, one death in particular has sparked anguish and anxiety over where their country is heading, despite imminent peace talks, as Lyse Doucet reports.
  1226. In Russia, a controversial national vote on constitutional reform this week has given President Putin the right to run for two more terms when the current one runs out. He's been in power for twenty years already, and could now rule till 2036. What do voters make of this? Sarah Rainsford has been following the election.
  1227. In Spain, much of life is returning to normal after the coronavirus lockdown, but not yet in the world of bullfighting. Matadors languish at home, bulls chew the cud, and the future of bullfighting hangs in the balance, not just because of social distancing, but politics too. as Guy Hedgecoe reports from Madrid.
  1228. In the US July 4th is Independence Day, marking the moment when the country broke free from Britain in 1776. But for African Americans, final liberation from slavery only came on the 19th June 1865, in Texas, two and a half years after slavery was abolished in the rest of the country. And now Juneteenth is a celebration rivalling that of the Fourth of July, for African Americans like Emma Sapong.
  1229. The Democratic Republic of Congo marked the 60th anniversary of its independence from Belgium this week. And the Belgian king Philippe took the opportunity to offer his “deepest regrets” for his country’s colonial abuses, when millions of Africans died. The most brutal period was under King Leopold the Second, Kevin Connolly has been taking a closer look at this history.
  1230. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1231. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Russia, Spain, the US, Belgium, and on a new wave of violence in Afghanistan</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In Afghanistan, there’s growing concern over a wave of attacks against human rights activists, moderate clerics, aid workers and others. For a young educated generation of Afghans, one death in particular has sparked anguish and anxiety over where their country is heading, despite imminent peace talks, as Lyse Doucet reports.
  1232. In Russia, a controversial national vote on constitutional reform this week has given President Putin the right to run for two more terms when the current one runs out. He's been in power for twenty years already, and could now rule till 2036. What do voters make of this? Sarah Rainsford has been following the election.
  1233. In Spain, much of life is returning to normal after the coronavirus lockdown, but not yet in the world of bullfighting. Matadors languish at home, bulls chew the cud, and the future of bullfighting hangs in the balance, not just because of social distancing, but politics too. as Guy Hedgecoe reports from Madrid.
  1234. In the US July 4th is Independence Day, marking the moment when the country broke free from Britain in 1776. But for African Americans, final liberation from slavery only came on the 19th June 1865, in Texas, two and a half years after slavery was abolished in the rest of the country. And now Juneteenth is a celebration rivalling that of the Fourth of July, for African Americans like Emma Sapong.
  1235. The Democratic Republic of Congo marked the 60th anniversary of its independence from Belgium this week. And the Belgian king Philippe took the opportunity to offer his “deepest regrets” for his country’s colonial abuses, when millions of Africans died. The most brutal period was under King Leopold the Second, Kevin Connolly has been taking a closer look at this history.
  1236. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1237. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1734</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08jvf3z.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08jvf3z.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08jvf3z.mp3" length="27744000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08jvfks</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08jvfks</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08jvf3z.mp3" fileSize="27744000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1734"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08jvfks</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Did Japan get lucky?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Japan has some very densely populated cities and the world’s highest proportion of elderly citizens. A disaster waiting to happen in the coronavirus pandemic? But the country has had a low death rate, despite only imposing a mild lockdown. What's the secret, or was it just luck, asks Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo.
  1238. The George Floyd anti-racism protests have been supported in Asia too, but the conversation around race and colour is very loaded for South Asians themselves – where the criticism has been that the deep divides within South Asian society itself aren't scrutinised enough. There can even be discrimination in the same family, if siblings have different skin tones, as Karishma Vaswani has found.
  1239. In Italy, lockdown was imposed in February, and Italian children haven’t been to school since, nor are there plans for them to return before September. And the lockdown was so strict, that most children couldn't see their friends even in a socially-distanced way. But then a mayor had an idea, as Dany Mitzman reports.
  1240. Fancy a walk in the fresh mountain air? How about Northern Iraq? Iraqi Kurdistan may be better known for armed conflict, but has now become a location for outdoor pursuits with a long-distance hiking trail. There's still the risk of mines or drone strikes, but the reward of beautiful scenery and greater social freedoms than in the cities, as Leon McCarran found.
  1241. A plant that grows across much of Africa - Artemisia Afra, a species of wormwood – was recently touted as a cure for Covid-19 by the President of Madagascar. But in the family of Nomsa Maseko in South Africa, the herb has always been used as a remedy for colds and chest complaints. Until the shrubs were stolen from the front garden...
  1242. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1243. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from South Asia, Italy, Iraqi Kurdistan and on Japan's approach to Covid-19l</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Japan has some very densely populated cities and the world’s highest proportion of elderly citizens. A disaster waiting to happen in the coronavirus pandemic? But the country has had a low death rate, despite only imposing a mild lockdown. What's the secret, or was it just luck, asks Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo.
  1244. The George Floyd anti-racism protests have been supported in Asia too, but the conversation around race and colour is very loaded for South Asians themselves – where the criticism has been that the deep divides within South Asian society itself aren't scrutinised enough. There can even be discrimination in the same family, if siblings have different skin tones, as Karishma Vaswani has found.
  1245. In Italy, lockdown was imposed in February, and Italian children haven’t been to school since, nor are there plans for them to return before September. And the lockdown was so strict, that most children couldn't see their friends even in a socially-distanced way. But then a mayor had an idea, as Dany Mitzman reports.
  1246. Fancy a walk in the fresh mountain air? How about Northern Iraq? Iraqi Kurdistan may be better known for armed conflict, but has now become a location for outdoor pursuits with a long-distance hiking trail. There's still the risk of mines or drone strikes, but the reward of beautiful scenery and greater social freedoms than in the cities, as Leon McCarran found.
  1247. A plant that grows across much of Africa - Artemisia Afra, a species of wormwood – was recently touted as a cure for Covid-19 by the President of Madagascar. But in the family of Nomsa Maseko in South Africa, the herb has always been used as a remedy for colds and chest complaints. Until the shrubs were stolen from the front garden...
  1248. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1249. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2020 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1726</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08jmq9s.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08jmq9s.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08jmq9s.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08jmqlm</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08jmqlm</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08jmq9s.mp3" fileSize="27616000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1726"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08jmqlm</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Return to Lombardy</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Italy's northern region of Lombardy became the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in February. Death rates soared. In Bergamo, six thousand people died in March. Mark Lowen returns to Lombardy to meet some of the bereaved and finds that politicians are passing the buck as to why cities locked down too late.
  1250. Colombia had a thriving economy before the pandemic, and has been host to almost two million Venezuelans who fled their country due to its economic and political crisis. Now, their dreams of a better life have turned to despair. Lockdown stops them earning a living, landlords evict them, and they're reduced to begging for food to survive, as Mat Charles has been finding.
  1251. Travel restrictions are gradually being lifted across the world, allowing more people to take airplanes again. But what is it actually like to fly now? Jean Mackenzie reports for the BBC from Brussels, and has been on numerous flights to cover the pandemic. She found the usual bustle of check-in queues, airport cafes, and departure lounges has given way to something more dystopian.
  1252. The United States has been going through tempestuous times, and New York City in particular. The city suffered around 22,000 Covid-19 deaths. And the fall-out of the killing of George Floyd led to street protests against police racism. Amidst the deaths, there was also new life. Nick Bryant’s daughter Honor was born. Becoming a father again at such a turbulent time prompted him to him to re-evaluate his relationship with this adopted homeland, and to write a letter to Honor.
  1253. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1254. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Italy's Lombardy region, Colombia and the United States.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Italy's northern region of Lombardy became the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in February. Death rates soared. In Bergamo, six thousand people died in March. Mark Lowen returns to Lombardy to meet some of the bereaved and finds that politicians are passing the buck as to why cities locked down too late.
  1255. Colombia had a thriving economy before the pandemic, and has been host to almost two million Venezuelans who fled their country due to its economic and political crisis. Now, their dreams of a better life have turned to despair. Lockdown stops them earning a living, landlords evict them, and they're reduced to begging for food to survive, as Mat Charles has been finding.
  1256. Travel restrictions are gradually being lifted across the world, allowing more people to take airplanes again. But what is it actually like to fly now? Jean Mackenzie reports for the BBC from Brussels, and has been on numerous flights to cover the pandemic. She found the usual bustle of check-in queues, airport cafes, and departure lounges has given way to something more dystopian.
  1257. The United States has been going through tempestuous times, and New York City in particular. The city suffered around 22,000 Covid-19 deaths. And the fall-out of the killing of George Floyd led to street protests against police racism. Amidst the deaths, there was also new life. Nick Bryant’s daughter Honor was born. Becoming a father again at such a turbulent time prompted him to him to re-evaluate his relationship with this adopted homeland, and to write a letter to Honor.
  1258. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1259. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08j5ygx.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08j5ygx.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08j5ygx.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08j5z7j</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08j5z7j</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08j5ygx.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08j5z7j</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>New lockdowns in Germany</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Germany had eased its lockdown, but after a spike in cases at a meat-packing factory the authorities have re-imposed lockdown restrictions in two districts, affecting over half a million people. Is this the start of a second wave or just something to be expected asks Damien McGuinness?
  1260. The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has operated in north-east Nigeria for years, despite the Nigerian army's efforts to defeat them. Recently there has been a new spate of attacks, in the garrison town of Monguno, and two more nearby. And now, they are targeting aid workers, as Colin Freeman reports.
  1261. There was a deadly clash in Ladakh’s Galway valley last week, where India borders China. Both sides accused each other of crossing into their respective territory. Against this turbulent backdrop, the region is also known for its snow leopards. Michelle Jana Chan went in search of them.
  1262. A Chechen blogger living in exile in a secret location in Sweden. says he was the victim of an assassination attempt, carried out with a hammer. The blogger had been a vocal critic of the pro-Russian government in Chechnya. So who sent the would-be assassin, and why did the hitman, who had not killed previously, take on the job? Nick Sturdee investigates.
  1263. In Greece concerts are allowed again, and those who like folk music, but not the ubiquitous bouzouki sound, may want to head to Crete. Here the traditional performances don’t include bouzoukis, but instead, as Heidi Fuller Love has been finding, the instruments and voices are enhanced by live gun shots.
  1264. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1265. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Nigeria, Ladakh, Chechnya, Crete and on new lockdowns in Germany.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Germany had eased its lockdown, but after a spike in cases at a meat-packing factory the authorities have re-imposed lockdown restrictions in two districts, affecting over half a million people. Is this the start of a second wave or just something to be expected asks Damien McGuinness?
  1266. The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has operated in north-east Nigeria for years, despite the Nigerian army's efforts to defeat them. Recently there has been a new spate of attacks, in the garrison town of Monguno, and two more nearby. And now, they are targeting aid workers, as Colin Freeman reports.
  1267. There was a deadly clash in Ladakh’s Galway valley last week, where India borders China. Both sides accused each other of crossing into their respective territory. Against this turbulent backdrop, the region is also known for its snow leopards. Michelle Jana Chan went in search of them.
  1268. A Chechen blogger living in exile in a secret location in Sweden. says he was the victim of an assassination attempt, carried out with a hammer. The blogger had been a vocal critic of the pro-Russian government in Chechnya. So who sent the would-be assassin, and why did the hitman, who had not killed previously, take on the job? Nick Sturdee investigates.
  1269. In Greece concerts are allowed again, and those who like folk music, but not the ubiquitous bouzouki sound, may want to head to Crete. Here the traditional performances don’t include bouzoukis, but instead, as Heidi Fuller Love has been finding, the instruments and voices are enhanced by live gun shots.
  1270. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1271. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2020 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1709</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08hz2g7.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08hz2g7.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08hz2g7.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08hz3gw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08hz3gw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08hz2g7.mp3" fileSize="27344000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1709"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08hz3gw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Indigenous Australians and the police</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In Australia, the killing of George Floyd in the US has resonated strongly with indigenous Australians, who often face prejudicial policing, and make up a disproportionate number of Australia's prison population. Shaimaa Khalil met members of the Aboriginal community in Sydney.
  1272. Turkey has so far had relatively few deaths from coronavirus, for the size of its population. That's according to the official data. But in the past week numbers of new infections have surged, following the easing of restrictions in early June. Could there be a second wave? Orla Guerin has been following events in Istanbul.
  1273. The vast container ships that travel the oceans to supply us with food and other goods have not been left untouched by the pandemic. Fear of the virus means the crews are no longer welcome in many ports, and they have seen their employment rights eroded, Horatio Clare reports.
  1274. Around a quarter of the world's population already eat insects as part of their diet, but many still recoil from the idea. And yet insects may be an answer for future sustainable food production. So how to make them more palatable? A laboratory in Kenya is working on it. Grasshopper biscuit anyone? Emilie Filou had a taste.
  1275. In much of Europe, residents had been enjoying free movement for many years, when coronavirus lockdowns closed the borders. Suddenly friends, relatives even lovers on two sides of a border could no longer see each other. But a hotel which sits right on the Franco-Swiss border, with entries on both sides, offered a solution, as Imogen Foulkes has found.
  1276. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1277. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories on indigenous Australians, Turkey, Kenya, and the Franco-Swiss border.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In Australia, the killing of George Floyd in the US has resonated strongly with indigenous Australians, who often face prejudicial policing, and make up a disproportionate number of Australia's prison population. Shaimaa Khalil met members of the Aboriginal community in Sydney.
  1278. Turkey has so far had relatively few deaths from coronavirus, for the size of its population. That's according to the official data. But in the past week numbers of new infections have surged, following the easing of restrictions in early June. Could there be a second wave? Orla Guerin has been following events in Istanbul.
  1279. The vast container ships that travel the oceans to supply us with food and other goods have not been left untouched by the pandemic. Fear of the virus means the crews are no longer welcome in many ports, and they have seen their employment rights eroded, Horatio Clare reports.
  1280. Around a quarter of the world's population already eat insects as part of their diet, but many still recoil from the idea. And yet insects may be an answer for future sustainable food production. So how to make them more palatable? A laboratory in Kenya is working on it. Grasshopper biscuit anyone? Emilie Filou had a taste.
  1281. In much of Europe, residents had been enjoying free movement for many years, when coronavirus lockdowns closed the borders. Suddenly friends, relatives even lovers on two sides of a border could no longer see each other. But a hotel which sits right on the Franco-Swiss border, with entries on both sides, offered a solution, as Imogen Foulkes has found.
  1282. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1283. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1710</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08hjy56.mp3" length="27360000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08hjy56.mp3" length="27360000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08hjy56.mp3" length="27360000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08hjztn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08hjztn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08hjy56.mp3" fileSize="27360000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1710"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08hjztn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Press Freedom in the Philippines</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the Philippines two journalists, Maria Ressa, the head of an investigative news website called Rappler, and one of their former writers, Reynaldo Santos Jr, have been sentenced to prison for libel, in a case that many see as an attack on freedom of the press, and on critics of the government, as Howard Johnson reports.
  1284. In Spain, healthcare workers, from doctors and nurses to hospital porters, were badly affected by the coronavirus, making up twenty percent of confirmed cases. Ed Habershon was there during the peak of the crisis.
  1285. Ten years ago ethnic clashes broke out in the city of Osh in Kyrgyzstan, when Kyrgyz residents turned on ethnic Uzbeks. Hundreds were killed, many more injured, around two thousand homes burnt down. The violence took place at a time of deep political instability in the country. For Rayhan Demytrie, an Uzbek herself, these were among the most horrific events of her journalistic career.
  1286. The island of Bougainville is in Papua New Guinea, but residents have voted overwhelmingly to secede and become independent. Key to its future economy is a former copper and gold mine. Its closure had contributed to civil war, so how do local people see its possible re-opening now, asks Mark Stratton.
  1287. The murder of the popular prime minister Olof Palme in 1986 shocked Sweden deeply, and left an open wound as the killer was never found despite decades of investigations. Conspiracy theories abounded. And then last week the Swedish authorities announced that they had identified the perpetrator, that he was dead, and that they were therefore closing the case. But how convinced is the Swedish public that the true culprit has been found, asks Maddy Savage.
  1288. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1289. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Spain, Kyrgyzstan, Papua New Guinea, Sweden, and the press in the Philippines</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the Philippines two journalists, Maria Ressa, the head of an investigative news website called Rappler, and one of their former writers, Reynaldo Santos Jr, have been sentenced to prison for libel, in a case that many see as an attack on freedom of the press, and on critics of the government, as Howard Johnson reports.
  1290. In Spain, healthcare workers, from doctors and nurses to hospital porters, were badly affected by the coronavirus, making up twenty percent of confirmed cases. Ed Habershon was there during the peak of the crisis.
  1291. Ten years ago ethnic clashes broke out in the city of Osh in Kyrgyzstan, when Kyrgyz residents turned on ethnic Uzbeks. Hundreds were killed, many more injured, around two thousand homes burnt down. The violence took place at a time of deep political instability in the country. For Rayhan Demytrie, an Uzbek herself, these were among the most horrific events of her journalistic career.
  1292. The island of Bougainville is in Papua New Guinea, but residents have voted overwhelmingly to secede and become independent. Key to its future economy is a former copper and gold mine. Its closure had contributed to civil war, so how do local people see its possible re-opening now, asks Mark Stratton.
  1293. The murder of the popular prime minister Olof Palme in 1986 shocked Sweden deeply, and left an open wound as the killer was never found despite decades of investigations. Conspiracy theories abounded. And then last week the Swedish authorities announced that they had identified the perpetrator, that he was dead, and that they were therefore closing the case. But how convinced is the Swedish public that the true culprit has been found, asks Maddy Savage.
  1294. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1295. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2020 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1765</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08h9v8q.mp3" length="28240000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08h9v8q.mp3" length="28240000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08h9v8q.mp3" length="28240000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08h9w2c</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08h9w2c</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08h9v8q.mp3" fileSize="28240000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1765"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08h9w2c</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 16/06/2020</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers which reflect the range of contemporary life in the UK.</p><p>Emir Nader of BBC Arabic tells the story of the family of Dr Adil El Tayar, who was originally from Sudan and himself an early casualty of Covid-19. With two doctors among his children, how do they all come to terms with the enormity of the tragedy that has befallen them and the professional dilemmas they face?</p><p>With most people in the UK now required to wear face coverings on public transport, many are learning to reach for them alongside keys and bags before leaving home. But it's not much of an adjustment for Vincent Ni, who's long seen how masks are commonplace in East Asia and has consequently been ahead of the game.</p><p>Has your lockdown involved a clear-out? It's been part of Gillian Powell's experience as she finally decided to tackle a vast photo collection accumulated in boxes over decades. Some tough choices over what to keep have needed to be made, but there's also been laughter along the way.</p><p>While steps are being taken to ease the lockdown on the UK mainland, in the Channel Islands Guernsey is moving quickly ahead with its pandemic exit strategy. Local people - no outside visitors yet - can start to take big steps back towards life as it was. But, as BBC reporter Frank Hersey explains, the process comes with a few headaches.</p><p>And lockdown has brought many more people than usual onto one of England's most ancient pathways - the Icknield Way. BBC London's Environment Correspondent, Tom Edwards, knows it well as a cyclist but there's now a new etiquette to using this amenity... or at least it's a work in progress.</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Masks, photos in lockdown, Guernsey's old normal, pathway cyclists, medical dilemmas.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers which reflect the range of contemporary life in the UK.</p><p>Emir Nader of BBC Arabic tells the story of the family of Dr Adil El Tayar, who was originally from Sudan and himself an early casualty of Covid-19. With two doctors among his children, how do they all come to terms with the enormity of the tragedy that has befallen them and the professional dilemmas they face?</p><p>With most people in the UK now required to wear face coverings on public transport, many are learning to reach for them alongside keys and bags before leaving home. But it's not much of an adjustment for Vincent Ni, who's long seen how masks are commonplace in East Asia and has consequently been ahead of the game.</p><p>Has your lockdown involved a clear-out? It's been part of Gillian Powell's experience as she finally decided to tackle a vast photo collection accumulated in boxes over decades. Some tough choices over what to keep have needed to be made, but there's also been laughter along the way.</p><p>While steps are being taken to ease the lockdown on the UK mainland, in the Channel Islands Guernsey is moving quickly ahead with its pandemic exit strategy. Local people - no outside visitors yet - can start to take big steps back towards life as it was. But, as BBC reporter Frank Hersey explains, the process comes with a few headaches.</p><p>And lockdown has brought many more people than usual onto one of England's most ancient pathways - the Icknield Way. BBC London's Environment Correspondent, Tom Edwards, knows it well as a cyclist but there's now a new etiquette to using this amenity... or at least it's a work in progress.</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2020 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1623</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08k1gjg.mp3" length="25968000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08k1gjg.mp3" length="25968000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08k1gjg.mp3" length="25968000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08h1yp0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08h1yp0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08k1gjg.mp3" fileSize="25968000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1623"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08h1yp0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mumbai struggles with Covid-19</title><description><![CDATA[<p>India's commercial capital, Mumbai, is now the city worst-hit by the coronavirus. Hospitals are struggling to cope with the number of patients in need. Even money can't buy you treatment. As a result, many are dying before they can receive medical care, as Yogita Limaye has found.
  1296. It's a time of re-examining slavery and colonial history. Andrew Harding's grandfather was a young entomologist who moved from England to what was then Tanganyika to study termites to prevent them destroying crops. Have stories like his helped Britain to maintain a nostalgic, unquestioning attitude towards its former Empire?
  1297. In the former coastal resort of Kep in Cambodia, local people are wary of a tourism development project with a marina and the hope of renovating old villas. The authorities claim the project will bring business and jobs, but many fear their way of life is under threat, as Michelle Jana Chan reports.
  1298. In southwestern France, rugby is more popular than football, and fans have been feeling bereft since matches were stopped due to Covid-19. Rugby means so much, there's even a chapel called Notre Dame du Rugby, with stained-glass windows featuring Jesus holding a rugby ball. So how have locals been coping without their favourite sport? Chris Bockman has been finding out.
  1299. The Whanganui River in New Zealand gained the rights, duties and liabilities of a legal person three years ago. This was for environmental protection, but to the Maori people it meant much more. They consider the river sacred, an embodiment of their ancestors, and young Maori travel it from source-to-sea to reconnect with their culture. Ash Bhardwaj paddled along.
  1300. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1301. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Tanzania, Cambodia, France, New Zealand and Mumbai’s struggle with Covid-19</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>India's commercial capital, Mumbai, is now the city worst-hit by the coronavirus. Hospitals are struggling to cope with the number of patients in need. Even money can't buy you treatment. As a result, many are dying before they can receive medical care, as Yogita Limaye has found.
  1302. It's a time of re-examining slavery and colonial history. Andrew Harding's grandfather was a young entomologist who moved from England to what was then Tanganyika to study termites to prevent them destroying crops. Have stories like his helped Britain to maintain a nostalgic, unquestioning attitude towards its former Empire?
  1303. In the former coastal resort of Kep in Cambodia, local people are wary of a tourism development project with a marina and the hope of renovating old villas. The authorities claim the project will bring business and jobs, but many fear their way of life is under threat, as Michelle Jana Chan reports.
  1304. In southwestern France, rugby is more popular than football, and fans have been feeling bereft since matches were stopped due to Covid-19. Rugby means so much, there's even a chapel called Notre Dame du Rugby, with stained-glass windows featuring Jesus holding a rugby ball. So how have locals been coping without their favourite sport? Chris Bockman has been finding out.
  1305. The Whanganui River in New Zealand gained the rights, duties and liabilities of a legal person three years ago. This was for environmental protection, but to the Maori people it meant much more. They consider the river sacred, an embodiment of their ancestors, and young Maori travel it from source-to-sea to reconnect with their culture. Ash Bhardwaj paddled along.
  1306. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1307. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1743</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08gwpn8.mp3" length="27888000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08gwpn8.mp3" length="27888000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08gwpn8.mp3" length="27888000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08gwpys</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08gwpys</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08gwpn8.mp3" fileSize="27888000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1743"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08gwpys</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Police encounters in Minneapolis</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the US, authorities all over the country are working on police reform. Jo Erickson is a black journalist working in Minneapolis, and has been stopped by armed police herself. She recounts her experience.</p><p>Yemen has the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, following years of civil war. And now, on top of malnourishment and a decimated healthcare system, comes Covid-19. Iona Craig was in the worst-hit city, Aden, when the virus started to spread.</p><p>South-East Asian countries have been easing their lockdowns, with manufacturing and construction starting up again in Singapore this week. But not all companies made it through lockdown. Karishma Vaswani has been hearing the stories of a pizza restaurant in Singapore, and a garment factory in Indonesia.</p><p>Mali used to be a destination for travellers drawn by the music, the allure of Timbuktu, or backpacking in the Dogon valley. This gave many local youngsters jobs as tourist guides. But all that came to a halt with a jihadi insurrection and extremist violence. Mali is now a no-go zone for foreigners, much to the regret of Colin Freeman.</p><p>In Uzbekistan, on the old Silk Road in Central Asia, life in the countryside still goes on in much the way it used to, everyone knows everyone, food is shared. At family gatherings, greetings involve repeated kisses on each cheek. Not anymore though, with new social distancing rules, much to the relief of our correspondent.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1308. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Yemen, Singapore, Mali, Uzbekistan and about the police in Minneapolis</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the US, authorities all over the country are working on police reform. Jo Erickson is a black journalist working in Minneapolis, and has been stopped by armed police herself. She recounts her experience.</p><p>Yemen has the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, following years of civil war. And now, on top of malnourishment and a decimated healthcare system, comes Covid-19. Iona Craig was in the worst-hit city, Aden, when the virus started to spread.</p><p>South-East Asian countries have been easing their lockdowns, with manufacturing and construction starting up again in Singapore this week. But not all companies made it through lockdown. Karishma Vaswani has been hearing the stories of a pizza restaurant in Singapore, and a garment factory in Indonesia.</p><p>Mali used to be a destination for travellers drawn by the music, the allure of Timbuktu, or backpacking in the Dogon valley. This gave many local youngsters jobs as tourist guides. But all that came to a halt with a jihadi insurrection and extremist violence. Mali is now a no-go zone for foreigners, much to the regret of Colin Freeman.</p><p>In Uzbekistan, on the old Silk Road in Central Asia, life in the countryside still goes on in much the way it used to, everyone knows everyone, food is shared. At family gatherings, greetings involve repeated kisses on each cheek. Not anymore though, with new social distancing rules, much to the relief of our correspondent.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1309. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2020 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1744</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08gn5qw.mp3" length="27904000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08gn5qw.mp3" length="27904000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08gn5qw.mp3" length="27904000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08gn61c</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08gn61c</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08gn5qw.mp3" fileSize="27904000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1744"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08gn61c</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Has Zimbabwe lost its way?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>When President Emmerson Mnangagwa came to power in Zimbabwe after the end of Robert Mugabe’s decades-long rule, there was hope that the country could turn a corner. It was supposed to be a fresh start, with better economic management, and fairer politics. But that is not at all how it is turning out, says Andrew Harding who is in neighbouring South Africa.
  1310. New York City has been particularly hard-hit by the coronavirus, with 20,000 deaths in the city alone. As Laura Trevelyan reports from Brooklyn, they even needed mobile morgues to cope. Barely had these morgues moved away, when the streets erupted with demonstrations against racism and police brutality in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. It all makes for anxious times, particularly for people of colour.
  1311. China was the country where the coronavirus first emerged, and the authorities reacted with strict lockdowns, restricting residents to their homes. But now, as Stephen McDonell reports from Beijing, the worst is behind them, and he was able to return to the Great Wall of China, to enjoy the sunset amid small crowds.
  1312. Being under lockdown is not comparable to being a blindfolded hostage, and yet they have something in common. When the mundane world is taken from you, you travel the landscape of the mind and think more. During the lockdown in Ireland, no guests have been allowed to the home. But former hostage Brian Keenan has had unexpected visitors to his garden. They were a fox, an owl and a squirrel, and inspired a philosophical tale about our times.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from New York, China, Ireland and a sobering report on politics in Zimbabwe.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>When President Emmerson Mnangagwa came to power in Zimbabwe after the end of Robert Mugabe’s decades-long rule, there was hope that the country could turn a corner. It was supposed to be a fresh start, with better economic management, and fairer politics. But that is not at all how it is turning out, says Andrew Harding who is in neighbouring South Africa.
  1313. New York City has been particularly hard-hit by the coronavirus, with 20,000 deaths in the city alone. As Laura Trevelyan reports from Brooklyn, they even needed mobile morgues to cope. Barely had these morgues moved away, when the streets erupted with demonstrations against racism and police brutality in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. It all makes for anxious times, particularly for people of colour.
  1314. China was the country where the coronavirus first emerged, and the authorities reacted with strict lockdowns, restricting residents to their homes. But now, as Stephen McDonell reports from Beijing, the worst is behind them, and he was able to return to the Great Wall of China, to enjoy the sunset amid small crowds.
  1315. Being under lockdown is not comparable to being a blindfolded hostage, and yet they have something in common. When the mundane world is taken from you, you travel the landscape of the mind and think more. During the lockdown in Ireland, no guests have been allowed to the home. But former hostage Brian Keenan has had unexpected visitors to his garden. They were a fox, an owl and a squirrel, and inspired a philosophical tale about our times.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08g7vp0.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08g7vp0.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08g7vp0.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08g7w2s</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08g7w2s</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08g7vp0.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08g7w2s</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Black lives in Minnesota</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The killing of African American George Floyd by a white policeman in Minnesota led to both peaceful demonstrations and violence across the United States. Emma Sapong is an African American journalist from Minnesota and reports on the yawning gap between the lives of white Minnesotans and their black counterparts.
  1316. It's exactly one hundred years since Greater Hungary lost two-thirds of its territory in the Trianon Treaty after the First World War. This loss has left a gaping wound in Hungary, and, together with its violent aftermath, it has been influencing the country to this day, as Nick Thorpe reveals.
  1317. The coronavirus epidemic has not hit the Democratic Republic of Congo as hard as it has some other countries, due to measures like the closure of borders. But, as Olivia Acland reports, these have disrupted food imports, and have led to more cases of hunger instead.
  1318. The far-eastern Russian island of Sakhalin was part-Japanese during the Second World War, when the Japanese brought in Korean labourers. After the war, the borders shut, and the Koreans were stuck. For some it's still hard to know where home really is, as Will Atkins has found.
  1319. In Spain one hotel is preparing for the new tourist season by looking to its past, when it hosted royalty and Hollywood stars. Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol was a quiet, niche destination with a glamour to rival that of St Tropez in the 1960s. Can it ever be like that again, asks Oliver Smith?
  1320. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1321. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Hungary, DR Congo, Russia, Spain &amp; about black people's lives in Minnesota.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The killing of African American George Floyd by a white policeman in Minnesota led to both peaceful demonstrations and violence across the United States. Emma Sapong is an African American journalist from Minnesota and reports on the yawning gap between the lives of white Minnesotans and their black counterparts.
  1322. It's exactly one hundred years since Greater Hungary lost two-thirds of its territory in the Trianon Treaty after the First World War. This loss has left a gaping wound in Hungary, and, together with its violent aftermath, it has been influencing the country to this day, as Nick Thorpe reveals.
  1323. The coronavirus epidemic has not hit the Democratic Republic of Congo as hard as it has some other countries, due to measures like the closure of borders. But, as Olivia Acland reports, these have disrupted food imports, and have led to more cases of hunger instead.
  1324. The far-eastern Russian island of Sakhalin was part-Japanese during the Second World War, when the Japanese brought in Korean labourers. After the war, the borders shut, and the Koreans were stuck. For some it's still hard to know where home really is, as Will Atkins has found.
  1325. In Spain one hotel is preparing for the new tourist season by looking to its past, when it hosted royalty and Hollywood stars. Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol was a quiet, niche destination with a glamour to rival that of St Tropez in the 1960s. Can it ever be like that again, asks Oliver Smith?
  1326. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1327. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2020 10:35:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1717</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08g13gr.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08g13gr.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08g13gr.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08g13x2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08g13x2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08g13gr.mp3" fileSize="27472000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1717"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08g13x2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>New protests in Hong Kong</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The streets of Hong Kong have erupted into protests after mainland China proposed new security legislation, to outlaw the undermining of Beijing's authority in the territory. This comes after last year's demonstrations and pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. Danny Vincent reports.
  1328. The Lake Turkana area in Kenya's Rift valley is considered the cradle of mankind. On the surface, life in this semi-arid remote land appears to have changed little in centuries. But now with locusts swarms and fears about Covid-19, suddenly everything has changed, as Horatio Clare has been finding.
  1329. In Papua New Guinea's central highlands region, two tribal communities have been fighting each other over ownership of a large coffee plantation. Violence has flared up, and some have committed atrocities. There is only one policeman for the whole region. And now he has handed in his notice, as Charlie Walker reports.
  1330. We have all been told to wash our hands to avoid infection with the coronavirus. But as Bethany Bell reports, when hand-washing was first introduced in a hospital setting by Dr Semmelweis, an obstetrician in Vienna, in the nineteenth century, it was controversial and seen as downright subversive.
  1331. Moscow has been living under lockdown like many other places. One of the shops Steve Rosenberg has been missing the most, is his old newspaper kiosk. Imagine his delight when he suddenly found it had reopened. And after weeks of isolation, it wasn't the newspapers that he was most pleased to see again.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1332. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Austria, Russia and about the protests in Hong Kong.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The streets of Hong Kong have erupted into protests after mainland China proposed new security legislation, to outlaw the undermining of Beijing's authority in the territory. This comes after last year's demonstrations and pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. Danny Vincent reports.
  1333. The Lake Turkana area in Kenya's Rift valley is considered the cradle of mankind. On the surface, life in this semi-arid remote land appears to have changed little in centuries. But now with locusts swarms and fears about Covid-19, suddenly everything has changed, as Horatio Clare has been finding.
  1334. In Papua New Guinea's central highlands region, two tribal communities have been fighting each other over ownership of a large coffee plantation. Violence has flared up, and some have committed atrocities. There is only one policeman for the whole region. And now he has handed in his notice, as Charlie Walker reports.
  1335. We have all been told to wash our hands to avoid infection with the coronavirus. But as Bethany Bell reports, when hand-washing was first introduced in a hospital setting by Dr Semmelweis, an obstetrician in Vienna, in the nineteenth century, it was controversial and seen as downright subversive.
  1336. Moscow has been living under lockdown like many other places. One of the shops Steve Rosenberg has been missing the most, is his old newspaper kiosk. Imagine his delight when he suddenly found it had reopened. And after weeks of isolation, it wasn't the newspapers that he was most pleased to see again.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1337. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1707</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08fmj7p.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08fmj7p.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08fmj7p.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08fmjp8</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08fmjp8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08fmj7p.mp3" fileSize="27312000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1707"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08fmjp8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Israel's Prime Minister in the dock</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had his day in court at the start of his corruption trial this week. He denies charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. The trial could last months or even years. Israelis are wondering what it means for their future, as Tom Bateman reports from Jerusalem.</p><p>In Zimbabwe, and in many other African countries, the numbers of confirmed Covid-19 cases are still low, not least due to swift lockdowns. But the coronavirus is not the worst threat the population faces, says Charlotte Ashton in Harare. Apart from TB, malaria and HIV, there's now hunger because the lockdown makes it hard to earn a living.</p><p>Sweden did not opt for a lockdown, deciding instead to trust residents to make their own judgements about social distancing. Shops, pubs and restaurants have been allowed to remain open, but as Maddy Savage is finding, it's quite a minefield to negotiate all the dilemmas that throws up.</p><p>Capoeira, a martial art with elements of dance and acrobatics, originated among enslaved Africans in Brazil. Now it has travelled eleven time zones east to Siberia's lake Baikal region in Russia. It means a lot more than exercise to the young locals there, as Olga Smirnova has been finding out. But how have they done under lockdown?</p><p>Malta is home to the second oldest stone buildings in the world, 5000-year old temples. The people who built them are something of a mystery but new research on elongated skulls from that time may be about to lay to rest some of the wilder theories about their origins – or are they, asks Juliet Rix.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1338. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Zimbabwe, Sweden, Siberia, Malta, and Benjamin Netanyahu's trial in Israel.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had his day in court at the start of his corruption trial this week. He denies charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. The trial could last months or even years. Israelis are wondering what it means for their future, as Tom Bateman reports from Jerusalem.</p><p>In Zimbabwe, and in many other African countries, the numbers of confirmed Covid-19 cases are still low, not least due to swift lockdowns. But the coronavirus is not the worst threat the population faces, says Charlotte Ashton in Harare. Apart from TB, malaria and HIV, there's now hunger because the lockdown makes it hard to earn a living.</p><p>Sweden did not opt for a lockdown, deciding instead to trust residents to make their own judgements about social distancing. Shops, pubs and restaurants have been allowed to remain open, but as Maddy Savage is finding, it's quite a minefield to negotiate all the dilemmas that throws up.</p><p>Capoeira, a martial art with elements of dance and acrobatics, originated among enslaved Africans in Brazil. Now it has travelled eleven time zones east to Siberia's lake Baikal region in Russia. It means a lot more than exercise to the young locals there, as Olga Smirnova has been finding out. But how have they done under lockdown?</p><p>Malta is home to the second oldest stone buildings in the world, 5000-year old temples. The people who built them are something of a mystery but new research on elongated skulls from that time may be about to lay to rest some of the wilder theories about their origins – or are they, asks Juliet Rix.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1339. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2020 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1711</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08fdsj7.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08fdsj7.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08fdsj7.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08fdt9c</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08fdt9c</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08fdsj7.mp3" fileSize="27376000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1711"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08fdt9c</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 26/05/2020</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers reflecting the range of life across the UK.</p><p>She begins and ends in Edinburgh. First, the BBC's Social Affairs Correspondent, Michael Buchanan, reveals how a renowned city centre doctor is using one public health emergency - Covid-19 - to tackle another - drug-related deaths among the homeless. Could a notoriously difficult medical and social problem prove amenable to new approaches?</p><p>Cabin fever is a literal risk for those living aboard narrow boats at the moment. And while self-sufficiency is a characteristic of those who live afloat, as Lois Pryce has been discovering among users on the Grand Union Canal, their ingenuity is being tested by the relatively prosaic requirements for water and fuel.</p><p>It's once again possible for those in England who are looking to move house to visit potential new homes in person. What, though, of those who are already part of a chain with buyers and sellers ready to go ahead? Lesley Curwen, a business reporter for more than three decades, finds herself in just that situation. Will she make her dream move to the West Country or will there be a last-minute hitch?</p><p>Foster carers become accustomed to all types of placements. Emily Unia's parents have decades of experience but even so it's been special for them to share the last several weeks with a young boy and his baby sister who arrived just days before lockdown. She reveals how they've all been coping.</p><p>And, back in the Scottish capital, Christopher Harding provides an amusing insight into the world of home schooling as his three children adjust to their new teachers and lessons. How do the ambitions of the new staff fare amid the realities of the schoolroom?</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Drug-misusing homeless, cabin fever, foster parents, lockdown removals and home schooling.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers reflecting the range of life across the UK.</p><p>She begins and ends in Edinburgh. First, the BBC's Social Affairs Correspondent, Michael Buchanan, reveals how a renowned city centre doctor is using one public health emergency - Covid-19 - to tackle another - drug-related deaths among the homeless. Could a notoriously difficult medical and social problem prove amenable to new approaches?</p><p>Cabin fever is a literal risk for those living aboard narrow boats at the moment. And while self-sufficiency is a characteristic of those who live afloat, as Lois Pryce has been discovering among users on the Grand Union Canal, their ingenuity is being tested by the relatively prosaic requirements for water and fuel.</p><p>It's once again possible for those in England who are looking to move house to visit potential new homes in person. What, though, of those who are already part of a chain with buyers and sellers ready to go ahead? Lesley Curwen, a business reporter for more than three decades, finds herself in just that situation. Will she make her dream move to the West Country or will there be a last-minute hitch?</p><p>Foster carers become accustomed to all types of placements. Emily Unia's parents have decades of experience but even so it's been special for them to share the last several weeks with a young boy and his baby sister who arrived just days before lockdown. She reveals how they've all been coping.</p><p>And, back in the Scottish capital, Christopher Harding provides an amusing insight into the world of home schooling as his three children adjust to their new teachers and lessons. How do the ambitions of the new staff fare amid the realities of the schoolroom?</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2020 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08dzglm.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08dzglm.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08dzglm.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08f0773</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08f0773</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08dzglm.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08f0773</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Covid-19 surges in Brazil</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 has surged in Brazil. And yet there are many Brazilians who fail to observe social distancing or to wear masks. Some people blame President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the crisis. He has criticised state governors for imposing quarantines. And as Katy Watson reports from Sao Paulo, the pandemic is turning into a political issue as much as a health one.
  1340. It's been Ramadan in the Muslim world, and this year mosques around the world have been shut under lockdown. Not so in Pakistan, where, as Secunder Kermani has found, the politicians chose not to oppose the clerics who wanted to keep them open for prayer. Policemen stood by powerlessly as the faithful flocked in.
  1341. Fancy returning to the theatre or ballet? You're not alone. Performers too, have been longing to get back to the stage. That's not possible yet, but in Germany they can now rehearse in studios again rather than their kitchens. Jenny Hill went to watch the Dortmund ballet dust off their tutus and stretch their muscly limbs again.
  1342. In Lebanon and Syria, it's the season when the jasmine blossoms. The sweet smell is even more powerful this year, as it doesn't need to compete with traffic pollution as much, thanks to lockdown. The jasmine's scent also evokes memories of the past, for some, says Lizzie Porter in Beirut.
  1343. In Belgium, lockdown has been eased. Many shops have reopened, as have schools, at least in part. Even hairdressers are welcoming customers again. Our correspondent Kevin Connolly has made a tentative return to consumerism - you won't believe what his first purchase was.
  1344. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1345. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Pakistan, Germany, Lebanon, Belgium, and the Covid-19 surge in Brazil.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 has surged in Brazil. And yet there are many Brazilians who fail to observe social distancing or to wear masks. Some people blame President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the crisis. He has criticised state governors for imposing quarantines. And as Katy Watson reports from Sao Paulo, the pandemic is turning into a political issue as much as a health one.
  1346. It's been Ramadan in the Muslim world, and this year mosques around the world have been shut under lockdown. Not so in Pakistan, where, as Secunder Kermani has found, the politicians chose not to oppose the clerics who wanted to keep them open for prayer. Policemen stood by powerlessly as the faithful flocked in.
  1347. Fancy returning to the theatre or ballet? You're not alone. Performers too, have been longing to get back to the stage. That's not possible yet, but in Germany they can now rehearse in studios again rather than their kitchens. Jenny Hill went to watch the Dortmund ballet dust off their tutus and stretch their muscly limbs again.
  1348. In Lebanon and Syria, it's the season when the jasmine blossoms. The sweet smell is even more powerful this year, as it doesn't need to compete with traffic pollution as much, thanks to lockdown. The jasmine's scent also evokes memories of the past, for some, says Lizzie Porter in Beirut.
  1349. In Belgium, lockdown has been eased. Many shops have reopened, as have schools, at least in part. Even hairdressers are welcoming customers again. Our correspondent Kevin Connolly has made a tentative return to consumerism - you won't believe what his first purchase was.
  1350. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1351. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1657</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08f0hgs.mp3" length="26512000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08f0hgs.mp3" length="26512000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08f0hgs.mp3" length="26512000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08f0hr1</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08f0hr1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08f0hgs.mp3" fileSize="26512000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1657"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08f0hr1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Covid-19 reaches the White House</title><description><![CDATA[<p>For weeks President Donald Trump downplayed the threat of the coronavirus. The White House carried on with business as usual. But then a few members of staff tested positive for the virus. Anthony Zurcher reports on the impact this has had on both the White House, and on the Trump administration more widely.
  1352. In Ukraine, it's a year since the new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, came to office. Before he was elected Mr Zelensky had been a comedian and actor, playing a popular fictional president fighting corruption in a TV series. And then he got the job for real. Jonah Fisher reports on how the actor-turned-politician has been getting on.
  1353. The Dutch have been having “an intelligent lockdown” - to minimise the impact on society and the economy. Only shops such as hairdressers or beauticians had to close. As the lockdown eases Anna Holligan reports on innovative solutions to enable restaurants to open and care home residents to see their families again.
  1354. In Chile's capital Santiago a very strict lockdown was only imposed a few days ago. This new stress comes after months of social unrest over inequalities in the country. Protestors were promised they could vote for a new constitution, but that’s now been put on hold, as Jane Chambers reports.
  1355. In Greece, they're celebrating Easter - on the 26th of May. It will be a scaled down version, after the actual Easter in April had to be cancelled, with churches closed for lockdown. Heidi Fuller-Love finds that religion is so important, it's sewn into the seam of life in Crete, and not just a coat to throw on when it's cold.
  1356. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1357. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Ukraine, the Netherlands, Chile and Greece, and Covid-19 in the White House.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>For weeks President Donald Trump downplayed the threat of the coronavirus. The White House carried on with business as usual. But then a few members of staff tested positive for the virus. Anthony Zurcher reports on the impact this has had on both the White House, and on the Trump administration more widely.
  1358. In Ukraine, it's a year since the new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, came to office. Before he was elected Mr Zelensky had been a comedian and actor, playing a popular fictional president fighting corruption in a TV series. And then he got the job for real. Jonah Fisher reports on how the actor-turned-politician has been getting on.
  1359. The Dutch have been having “an intelligent lockdown” - to minimise the impact on society and the economy. Only shops such as hairdressers or beauticians had to close. As the lockdown eases Anna Holligan reports on innovative solutions to enable restaurants to open and care home residents to see their families again.
  1360. In Chile's capital Santiago a very strict lockdown was only imposed a few days ago. This new stress comes after months of social unrest over inequalities in the country. Protestors were promised they could vote for a new constitution, but that’s now been put on hold, as Jane Chambers reports.
  1361. In Greece, they're celebrating Easter - on the 26th of May. It will be a scaled down version, after the actual Easter in April had to be cancelled, with churches closed for lockdown. Heidi Fuller-Love finds that religion is so important, it's sewn into the seam of life in Crete, and not just a coat to throw on when it's cold.
  1362. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1363. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2020 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1713</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08dsl6h.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08dsl6h.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08dsl6h.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08dsldf</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08dsldf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08dsl6h.mp3" fileSize="27408000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1713"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08dsldf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>France emerges from lockdown</title><description><![CDATA[<p>France had one of the toughest lockdowns but now people can go shopping again in outlets that had been shut for the last two months. Lucy Williamson joins customers in Paris as they queue outside, to ask them how they have been faring.
  1364. Sudan can't spend much money on healthcare. But as Mark Weston reports, the young activists from the revolutionary committees that helped to oust President Omar al-Bashir last year, are battling against the coronavirus, armed with hand sanitiser and food for the vulnerable.
  1365. The Roma are a minority that has often been blamed for social ills wherever they live, and now they're being scapegoated for the arrival of Covid-19 in some parts of Spain, as Guy Hedgecoe has found.
  1366. In Bangladesh, garment workers had been enjoying better conditions since the Rana Plaza factory collapsed seven years ago. But now there's a new worry about the coronavirus, and how to get good healthcare. Christine Stewart meets doctors and patients at a charitable hospital where even the poorest patients get top class care, and not just for Covid-19.
  1367. And if you thought that having a cup of tea could provide respite from the news about the pandemic, spare a thought for Steve Evans in Australia, who finds that the knock-on effects of the virus on supply chains means he can no longer get the right tea bags.
  1368. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1369. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Sudan, Spain, Bangladesh, Australia and France where shops are open again</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>France had one of the toughest lockdowns but now people can go shopping again in outlets that had been shut for the last two months. Lucy Williamson joins customers in Paris as they queue outside, to ask them how they have been faring.
  1370. Sudan can't spend much money on healthcare. But as Mark Weston reports, the young activists from the revolutionary committees that helped to oust President Omar al-Bashir last year, are battling against the coronavirus, armed with hand sanitiser and food for the vulnerable.
  1371. The Roma are a minority that has often been blamed for social ills wherever they live, and now they're being scapegoated for the arrival of Covid-19 in some parts of Spain, as Guy Hedgecoe has found.
  1372. In Bangladesh, garment workers had been enjoying better conditions since the Rana Plaza factory collapsed seven years ago. But now there's a new worry about the coronavirus, and how to get good healthcare. Christine Stewart meets doctors and patients at a charitable hospital where even the poorest patients get top class care, and not just for Covid-19.
  1373. And if you thought that having a cup of tea could provide respite from the news about the pandemic, spare a thought for Steve Evans in Australia, who finds that the knock-on effects of the virus on supply chains means he can no longer get the right tea bags.
  1374. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1375. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2020 08:43:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1667</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08dh18n.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08dh18n.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08dh18n.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08dh1dh</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08dh1dh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08dh18n.mp3" fileSize="26672000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1667"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08dh1dh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>China and Africans : A Pandemic of Prejudice</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Videos and images of Africans being evicted from their apartments, forced into quarantine, blocked from hotels and even being barred from a local McDonald’s in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou recently went viral on social media. Danny Vincent looks at the way the coronavirus has amplified existing tensions and says the injustices faced by Africans in China are a by-product of authoritarian rule.</p><p>Millions of Italians are enjoying their first taste of freedom, meeting loved ones after a two month long separation now that the lockdown rules have eased. But the shutdown inflicted deep wounds in a country which already had serious economic problems and the south is the hardest hit says Mark Lowen in Naples. </p><p>In Lebanon anger over a failing economy and unaffordable food has pushed protesters into the streets despite fears of infection says Abbie Cheeseman. They are calling it The Hunger Revolution. </p><p>Katie Arnold detects a rebellious mood in South Africa where a film star turned squatter is highlighting shocking disparities between rich and poor when it comes to housing and land ownership.</p><p>And Trish Flanagan gets away from it all on a deserted coastal path in the West of Ireland past the soaring Cliffs of Moher where you can sometimes spot puffins, razerbills and peregrine falcons.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Italy, Lebanon, South Africa, Ireland and a tale of discrimination in China.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Videos and images of Africans being evicted from their apartments, forced into quarantine, blocked from hotels and even being barred from a local McDonald’s in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou recently went viral on social media. Danny Vincent looks at the way the coronavirus has amplified existing tensions and says the injustices faced by Africans in China are a by-product of authoritarian rule.</p><p>Millions of Italians are enjoying their first taste of freedom, meeting loved ones after a two month long separation now that the lockdown rules have eased. But the shutdown inflicted deep wounds in a country which already had serious economic problems and the south is the hardest hit says Mark Lowen in Naples. </p><p>In Lebanon anger over a failing economy and unaffordable food has pushed protesters into the streets despite fears of infection says Abbie Cheeseman. They are calling it The Hunger Revolution. </p><p>Katie Arnold detects a rebellious mood in South Africa where a film star turned squatter is highlighting shocking disparities between rich and poor when it comes to housing and land ownership.</p><p>And Trish Flanagan gets away from it all on a deserted coastal path in the West of Ireland past the soaring Cliffs of Moher where you can sometimes spot puffins, razerbills and peregrine falcons.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1706</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08cqppp.mp3" length="27296000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08cqppp.mp3" length="27296000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08cqppp.mp3" length="27296000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08cqqgk</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08cqqgk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08cqppp.mp3" fileSize="27296000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1706"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08cqqgk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>New York - The City Which Couldn't Sleep</title><description><![CDATA[<p>At the height of the Covid-19 outbreak in April, a New Yorker was dying almost every two minutes — more than 800 a day - four times the city’s normal death rate. The pandemic appears to have passed its peak and a gradual reopening is planned after more than 40 days of lockdown. Nick Bryant describes the impact of the virus on the city he loves and on his own family. </p><p>Ever since Kim Jong-un failed to show up in mid-April for the festivities marking his grandfather's birth the rumour mill has gone into overdrive. The sheer number of theories about the North Korean leader's whereabouts and state of health reflects the dearth of information about how things work inside the Hermit Kingdom says Laura Bicker.</p><p>As the coronavirus pandemic forces countries everywhere to keep people indoors, those who live with abusive partners are even more vulnerable. In Jordan, social media is providing one outlet for those unable to step outside says Charlie Faulkner. </p><p>So far Ukraine seems to be weathering the Covid-19 outbreak better than many other parts of Europe. But with an antiquated health system and an economy battered by a six year old conflict with Russian backed separatists in the east, the outlook is far from bright. Ukraine’s best known contemporary novelist , Andrei Kurkov, focuses on people living near the frontline in the war ravaged Donbas region in his latest book, which is called The Grey Bees.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Korea, Jordan, Ukraine and New York, the epicentre of the pandemic in the US</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>At the height of the Covid-19 outbreak in April, a New Yorker was dying almost every two minutes — more than 800 a day - four times the city’s normal death rate. The pandemic appears to have passed its peak and a gradual reopening is planned after more than 40 days of lockdown. Nick Bryant describes the impact of the virus on the city he loves and on his own family. </p><p>Ever since Kim Jong-un failed to show up in mid-April for the festivities marking his grandfather's birth the rumour mill has gone into overdrive. The sheer number of theories about the North Korean leader's whereabouts and state of health reflects the dearth of information about how things work inside the Hermit Kingdom says Laura Bicker.</p><p>As the coronavirus pandemic forces countries everywhere to keep people indoors, those who live with abusive partners are even more vulnerable. In Jordan, social media is providing one outlet for those unable to step outside says Charlie Faulkner. </p><p>So far Ukraine seems to be weathering the Covid-19 outbreak better than many other parts of Europe. But with an antiquated health system and an economy battered by a six year old conflict with Russian backed separatists in the east, the outlook is far from bright. Ukraine’s best known contemporary novelist , Andrei Kurkov, focuses on people living near the frontline in the war ravaged Donbas region in his latest book, which is called The Grey Bees.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1700</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08c2l15.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08c2l15.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08c2l15.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08c2l7j</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08c2l7j</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08c2l15.mp3" fileSize="27200000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1700"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08c2l7j</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 27/04/2020</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. From Dorset, Jane Labous reflects on how she coped with early isolation with her young daughter in response to Covid-19 and the lessons she is drawing as a single parent as the experience continues and develops. Culloden remains a significant moment in Scottish - and British - history which today, BBC News Special Correspondent James Naughtie has been discovering, has a life all of its own. For although, 274 years on, even the commemorations marking this epic historical event have to take account of current realities, for some there are eternal verities. Parks have become the exercise refuge for many urban dwellers in recent weeks. But this has not been without contention and controversy, with some councils temporarily closing their spaces and others setting strict conditions for their use. This hasn't surprised the leading historian of parks, Travis Elborough, who reflects on how rows and disputes have been a central part of their history. Charlotte Bailey, recently in New Malden, reveals how North Korean exiles there reflect on the irony of being in lockdown in the UK. But she also discovers how those she speaks to are getting on with the much more numerous population there originating from South Korea - and hears what the future may hold. And Adam Shaw tells the story of the leaky dam, newspaper manor, chicken of the woods and the sword of Egbedene - all of which sound like they belong to a lost chapter from Harry Potter, but in fact tell us about Bolton's environs. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Single parent isolated, Culloden, parks, North Koreans in lockdown and a walk interrupted</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. From Dorset, Jane Labous reflects on how she coped with early isolation with her young daughter in response to Covid-19 and the lessons she is drawing as a single parent as the experience continues and develops. Culloden remains a significant moment in Scottish - and British - history which today, BBC News Special Correspondent James Naughtie has been discovering, has a life all of its own. For although, 274 years on, even the commemorations marking this epic historical event have to take account of current realities, for some there are eternal verities. Parks have become the exercise refuge for many urban dwellers in recent weeks. But this has not been without contention and controversy, with some councils temporarily closing their spaces and others setting strict conditions for their use. This hasn't surprised the leading historian of parks, Travis Elborough, who reflects on how rows and disputes have been a central part of their history. Charlotte Bailey, recently in New Malden, reveals how North Korean exiles there reflect on the irony of being in lockdown in the UK. But she also discovers how those she speaks to are getting on with the much more numerous population there originating from South Korea - and hears what the future may hold. And Adam Shaw tells the story of the leaky dam, newspaper manor, chicken of the woods and the sword of Egbedene - all of which sound like they belong to a lost chapter from Harry Potter, but in fact tell us about Bolton's environs. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1666</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08bl6j9.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08bl6j9.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08bl6j9.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08bl7jf</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08bl7jf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08bl6j9.mp3" fileSize="26656000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1666"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08bl7jf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Angela Merkel’s reversal of fortune</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel and her CDU party have been in the political doldrums in recent years. But as Jenny Hill reports, polls suggest Angela Merkel has risen in popularity thanks to her calm, scientific approach to the coronavirus. The same is true of Bavaria's regional Prime Minister, who has a good chance of succeeding Mrs Merkel.</p><p>Singapore had been hailed for how it dealt with the coronavirus, but now there is a significant new surge in cases. Karishma Vaswani reveals that the virus has been rapidly spreading in the crowded, government-run dormitories for the thousands of migrant workers the country relies on.</p><p>Ireland is still trying to form a government after the surprising general election result in February in which Sinn Fein got most first-preference votes. In part this was due to its stance on the country's housing crisis. Chris Bowlby ponders whether reunification with Northern Ireland is now more likely.</p><p>The most radioactive area near the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant has become a forest wilderness. Monica Whitlock visits two scientists at a research station there, and hears that while there are no other humans, there are nosy wolves and helpful elks.</p><p>The Naga people of remote northwestern Myanmar live as if forgotten by the outside world. But they have been sent a young teacher by the government. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent is taken in by his happy and optimistic nature. He even rigged up a karaoke set with a monk.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1376. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Singapore, Ireland, Belarus, Myanmar and Germany's newly popular politicians</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel and her CDU party have been in the political doldrums in recent years. But as Jenny Hill reports, polls suggest Angela Merkel has risen in popularity thanks to her calm, scientific approach to the coronavirus. The same is true of Bavaria's regional Prime Minister, who has a good chance of succeeding Mrs Merkel.</p><p>Singapore had been hailed for how it dealt with the coronavirus, but now there is a significant new surge in cases. Karishma Vaswani reveals that the virus has been rapidly spreading in the crowded, government-run dormitories for the thousands of migrant workers the country relies on.</p><p>Ireland is still trying to form a government after the surprising general election result in February in which Sinn Fein got most first-preference votes. In part this was due to its stance on the country's housing crisis. Chris Bowlby ponders whether reunification with Northern Ireland is now more likely.</p><p>The most radioactive area near the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant has become a forest wilderness. Monica Whitlock visits two scientists at a research station there, and hears that while there are no other humans, there are nosy wolves and helpful elks.</p><p>The Naga people of remote northwestern Myanmar live as if forgotten by the outside world. But they have been sent a young teacher by the government. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent is taken in by his happy and optimistic nature. He even rigged up a karaoke set with a monk.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1377. Producer: Arlene Gregorius</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1716</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08bgrvj.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08bgrvj.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08bgrvj.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08bgs4s</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08bgs4s</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08bgrvj.mp3" fileSize="27456000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1716"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08bgs4s</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Sri Lanka After the Bombings</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Sri Lanka's economy was improving and tourism flourishing after three decades of civil war but last Easter, a group of Muslims youths, inspired by Islamic State group, murdered more than 250 people in a series of bomb attacks. Jane Corbin has been gauging the lasting effect on the island, one year on. </p><p>In Georgia, the country's powerful Orthodox Church is at loggerheads with the government over Easter celebrations. Despite restrictions on gatherings of more than three people to tackle the Coronavirus pandemic, churches across the country remain defiantly open and offer holy communion with a shared spoon. It is a case of church versus state, faith versus science says Rayhan Demetriye. </p><p>Richard Dimbleby's report from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp, liberated by British troops seventy-five years ago, remains one of the most remarkable broadcasts ever. It was a revelation as he carefully detailed the horrific reality of the Nazi’s ‘final solution’. His son Jonathan recently returned to the camp with film maker Simon Broughton and one of the survivors. </p><p>In Paris another survivor from the Nazi era tells David Chazan what he thinks about President Emmanuel Macron’s approach to the pandemic - will he succeed in uniting the French behind him as the country fights what he calls "a kinetic war"?</p><p>“Patient zero” may be the present day term for the original carrier of a disease but it is not a new concept. Cholera, HIV/AIDS, the bubonic plague and now Covid 19 all had major stories of detection around them and the one which looms largest in folk memory says Kevin Connolly is that of the Irish cook, Typhoid Mary, once dubbed "the most dangerous woman in America".</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Tales from Germany, Georgia, France, America and Sri Lanka one year after the bombings.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Sri Lanka's economy was improving and tourism flourishing after three decades of civil war but last Easter, a group of Muslims youths, inspired by Islamic State group, murdered more than 250 people in a series of bomb attacks. Jane Corbin has been gauging the lasting effect on the island, one year on. </p><p>In Georgia, the country's powerful Orthodox Church is at loggerheads with the government over Easter celebrations. Despite restrictions on gatherings of more than three people to tackle the Coronavirus pandemic, churches across the country remain defiantly open and offer holy communion with a shared spoon. It is a case of church versus state, faith versus science says Rayhan Demetriye. </p><p>Richard Dimbleby's report from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp, liberated by British troops seventy-five years ago, remains one of the most remarkable broadcasts ever. It was a revelation as he carefully detailed the horrific reality of the Nazi’s ‘final solution’. His son Jonathan recently returned to the camp with film maker Simon Broughton and one of the survivors. </p><p>In Paris another survivor from the Nazi era tells David Chazan what he thinks about President Emmanuel Macron’s approach to the pandemic - will he succeed in uniting the French behind him as the country fights what he calls "a kinetic war"?</p><p>“Patient zero” may be the present day term for the original carrier of a disease but it is not a new concept. Cholera, HIV/AIDS, the bubonic plague and now Covid 19 all had major stories of detection around them and the one which looms largest in folk memory says Kevin Connolly is that of the Irish cook, Typhoid Mary, once dubbed "the most dangerous woman in America".</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1775</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08bdt90.mp3" length="28400000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08bdt90.mp3" length="28400000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08bdt90.mp3" length="28400000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p089vyfd</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p089vyfd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08bdt90.mp3" fileSize="28400000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1775"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p089vyfd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>New Orleans - From Katrina to Corona</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is facing another lethal storm. The city on Louisiana’s coast has become one of the worst-hit areas in the US. Some have blamed the high death toll on the decision to allow the annual Mardi Gras parade to go ahead. But musician and actor Harry Shearer, famous, among other things for voicing characters in The Simpsons, says don’t victim blame and don't reproach the revellers.</p><p>South Africa's president has extended the lockdown until the end of the month as the country braces for a surge in infections. But enforcing social distancing in the poorest, most crowded South African townships remains a struggle says Andrew Harding.</p><p>This weekend the World Health Organization is set to officially declare the end of the Ebola epidemic that has killed thousands in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Peter Yeung was one of the few journalists to visit health workers in the epidemic’s former epicentre of Beni amidst the global lockdown. But with the coronavirus on the way, there is no cause for celebration. </p><p>In Jerusalem, Yolande Knell has been talking to local religious leaders about how to mark Easter, Passover and Ramadan when prayers at holy sites are forbidden. </p><p>Every ten years the small Bavarian village of Oberammergau puts on a passion play – a huge pageant about the life and death of Christ. The tradition dates back to the seventeenth century when people believed that the plays would protect them from the plague. But this year’s performance has been postponed and it’s a huge blow to tourists and locals alike says Jenny Hill.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Tales from South Africa, the Middle East, Germany and New Orleans.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is facing another lethal storm. The city on Louisiana’s coast has become one of the worst-hit areas in the US. Some have blamed the high death toll on the decision to allow the annual Mardi Gras parade to go ahead. But musician and actor Harry Shearer, famous, among other things for voicing characters in The Simpsons, says don’t victim blame and don't reproach the revellers.</p><p>South Africa's president has extended the lockdown until the end of the month as the country braces for a surge in infections. But enforcing social distancing in the poorest, most crowded South African townships remains a struggle says Andrew Harding.</p><p>This weekend the World Health Organization is set to officially declare the end of the Ebola epidemic that has killed thousands in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Peter Yeung was one of the few journalists to visit health workers in the epidemic’s former epicentre of Beni amidst the global lockdown. But with the coronavirus on the way, there is no cause for celebration. </p><p>In Jerusalem, Yolande Knell has been talking to local religious leaders about how to mark Easter, Passover and Ramadan when prayers at holy sites are forbidden. </p><p>Every ten years the small Bavarian village of Oberammergau puts on a passion play – a huge pageant about the life and death of Christ. The tradition dates back to the seventeenth century when people believed that the plays would protect them from the plague. But this year’s performance has been postponed and it’s a huge blow to tourists and locals alike says Jenny Hill.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1754</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p089jwkv.mp3" length="28064000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p089jwkv.mp3" length="28064000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p089jwkv.mp3" length="28064000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0898v1y</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0898v1y</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p089jwkv.mp3" fileSize="28064000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1754"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0898v1y</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>India's Forgotten Migrant Workers</title><description><![CDATA[<p>India’s prime minister imposed a three week lockdown with four hours notice. It was an attempt to prevent the coronavirus spreading. But the nationwide order has caused confusion and anger, especially for millions of migrant workers trying to return home says Rahul Tandon.</p><p>The United Nations is concerned about Africa's chronically underfunded health services and their ability to cope with Covid-19. Millions are made more vulnerable because of HIV or malnutrition. But so far the continent has been less badly hit than Europe and many Africans are worrying about people in Britain says Mary Harper. </p><p>Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, has been granted extraordinary powers by a Parliament dominated by his Fidesz party. The opposition faced a difficult choice: : extend the current state of emergency and grant an already authoritarian government almost unlimited power. Or oppose it, and be portrayed as enemies of the nation says Nick Thorpe.</p><p>Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has so far refused to declare a state of emergency. But, amidst the springtime cherry blossoms, there are fears that Tokyo, the world’s largest metropolis, is on the brink of a massive coronavirus outbreak. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes feels anxious about what lies ahead.  </p><p>Guinea’s leader, Alpha Condé, held a referendum last month to change the constitution and bring in social reforms. But his opponents fear the real motive is to allow the 82-year-old president to rule until he is 94. Many Guineans recall the one party rule of a previous strongman, Ahmed Sékou Touré, who broke ties with the former colonial power, France. Fleur Macdonald met his daughter Aminata.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>India's drastic pandemic lockdown has trapped migrant workers desperate to return home</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>India’s prime minister imposed a three week lockdown with four hours notice. It was an attempt to prevent the coronavirus spreading. But the nationwide order has caused confusion and anger, especially for millions of migrant workers trying to return home says Rahul Tandon.</p><p>The United Nations is concerned about Africa's chronically underfunded health services and their ability to cope with Covid-19. Millions are made more vulnerable because of HIV or malnutrition. But so far the continent has been less badly hit than Europe and many Africans are worrying about people in Britain says Mary Harper. </p><p>Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, has been granted extraordinary powers by a Parliament dominated by his Fidesz party. The opposition faced a difficult choice: : extend the current state of emergency and grant an already authoritarian government almost unlimited power. Or oppose it, and be portrayed as enemies of the nation says Nick Thorpe.</p><p>Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has so far refused to declare a state of emergency. But, amidst the springtime cherry blossoms, there are fears that Tokyo, the world’s largest metropolis, is on the brink of a massive coronavirus outbreak. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes feels anxious about what lies ahead.  </p><p>Guinea’s leader, Alpha Condé, held a referendum last month to change the constitution and bring in social reforms. But his opponents fear the real motive is to allow the 82-year-old president to rule until he is 94. Many Guineans recall the one party rule of a previous strongman, Ahmed Sékou Touré, who broke ties with the former colonial power, France. Fleur Macdonald met his daughter Aminata.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1720</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p088nntf.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p088nntf.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p088nntf.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p088nmr0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p088nmr0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p088nntf.mp3" fileSize="27520000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1720"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p088nmr0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Singapore's Virus Detectives</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stories from Singapore, the US, Britain, Germany and Antarctica on battling COVID-19.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Singapore, the US, Britain, Germany and Antarctica on battling COVID-19.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stories from Singapore, the US, Britain, Germany and Antarctica on battling COVID-19.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p087xtss.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p087xtss.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p087xtss.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p087y4t7</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p087y4t7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p087xtss.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p087y4t7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 22/03/2020</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents pieces by writers and journalists across the UK presenting portraits of life today. Garry Owen of BBC Radio Cymru visits Llanelli and Hospital Notes - an amateur choir there comprising hospital and care workers and members of the emergency services. He discovers how its members de-compress at times of stress - when social distancing restrictions permit it - and what benefits they derive from singing together. The writer, Damian Barr, author of the Radio 4 Books of the Week, "Maggie &amp; Me" and "You Will Be Safe Here", takes us to north Lanarkshire and the South Downs in his quest for glow worms. His search is part journey of discovery and part self-revelation. Along the way, he explains the enduring appeal of these elusive insects at this - or, indeed - any time. Andrew Green has journeyed around England in search of the special memorials which are stained glass windows in parish churches commemorating the Fallen of the Great War. From Cornwall to Suffolk, Leicestershire to Devon, he has been speaking with those entrusted with the care of both old and new windows and has heard why they matter so much to local communities. The Edwardian bandstand in the West Yorkshire town of Todmorden is sadly neglected. But, as Andy Kershaw has been discovering, there are plans afoot from local campaigners to restore it. Might they, though, be defeated by local bureaucracy or will this rare structure come to enjoy a new lease of life over a hundred years after it first came into use? And the poet and broadcaster, Ian McMillan, considers how we mark out our lives. For him, it's the regular visit to the same place for a ritual that’s barely altered over the decades. But if the location hasn’t changed the people certainly have… </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Carers decompress; glow worms; stained glass; dilapidated bandstands and life in haircuts</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents pieces by writers and journalists across the UK presenting portraits of life today. Garry Owen of BBC Radio Cymru visits Llanelli and Hospital Notes - an amateur choir there comprising hospital and care workers and members of the emergency services. He discovers how its members de-compress at times of stress - when social distancing restrictions permit it - and what benefits they derive from singing together. The writer, Damian Barr, author of the Radio 4 Books of the Week, "Maggie &amp; Me" and "You Will Be Safe Here", takes us to north Lanarkshire and the South Downs in his quest for glow worms. His search is part journey of discovery and part self-revelation. Along the way, he explains the enduring appeal of these elusive insects at this - or, indeed - any time. Andrew Green has journeyed around England in search of the special memorials which are stained glass windows in parish churches commemorating the Fallen of the Great War. From Cornwall to Suffolk, Leicestershire to Devon, he has been speaking with those entrusted with the care of both old and new windows and has heard why they matter so much to local communities. The Edwardian bandstand in the West Yorkshire town of Todmorden is sadly neglected. But, as Andy Kershaw has been discovering, there are plans afoot from local campaigners to restore it. Might they, though, be defeated by local bureaucracy or will this rare structure come to enjoy a new lease of life over a hundred years after it first came into use? And the poet and broadcaster, Ian McMillan, considers how we mark out our lives. For him, it's the regular visit to the same place for a ritual that’s barely altered over the decades. But if the location hasn’t changed the people certainly have… </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0876qjz.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0876qjz.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0876qjz.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0876rbf</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0876rbf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0876qjz.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0876rbf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Italy's Invisible Enemy</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Italy marked a grim milestone at the end of this week as its number of deaths from the coronavirus exceeded those in China. Yet most Italians are supportive of the country's struggling authorities says Mark Lowen who has covered the crisis from its outset. </p><p>Across the world ten of millions of people are having to adapt their way of life to avoid infection. Fergal Keane has spent decades reporting on conflicts and natural disasters across the globe. He reflects on what it means to be caught up in the universal war against a potentially fatal disease. </p><p>In New York all non-essential businesses have been ordered to close. For the army of low paid workers and small business owners in particular, this is an exceptionally difficult time says Laura Trevelyan. </p><p>Young men and women looking for love often turn to their phone and swipe through a gallery of faces. But the leaders of the Indonesia's anti-dating movement say casual relationships are expensive, get in the way of study, and go against religious teaching. Josephine Casserly met a pair of newly weds who have made not dating cool. </p><p>In these days of self-isolation and working from home, many turn to the comforting familiarity of favourite books – and memories of where we first encountered them. Forty years ago Kevin Connolly fell for a largely forgotten thriller. His love was rekindled by a recent trip to the Bulgarian capital, Sofia.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from New York, Indonesia, Bulgaria and Italy stricken by the coronavirus pandemic.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Italy marked a grim milestone at the end of this week as its number of deaths from the coronavirus exceeded those in China. Yet most Italians are supportive of the country's struggling authorities says Mark Lowen who has covered the crisis from its outset. </p><p>Across the world ten of millions of people are having to adapt their way of life to avoid infection. Fergal Keane has spent decades reporting on conflicts and natural disasters across the globe. He reflects on what it means to be caught up in the universal war against a potentially fatal disease. </p><p>In New York all non-essential businesses have been ordered to close. For the army of low paid workers and small business owners in particular, this is an exceptionally difficult time says Laura Trevelyan. </p><p>Young men and women looking for love often turn to their phone and swipe through a gallery of faces. But the leaders of the Indonesia's anti-dating movement say casual relationships are expensive, get in the way of study, and go against religious teaching. Josephine Casserly met a pair of newly weds who have made not dating cool. </p><p>In these days of self-isolation and working from home, many turn to the comforting familiarity of favourite books – and memories of where we first encountered them. Forty years ago Kevin Connolly fell for a largely forgotten thriller. His love was rekindled by a recent trip to the Bulgarian capital, Sofia.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1739</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0878krd.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0878krd.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0878krd.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0878l7h</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0878l7h</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0878krd.mp3" fileSize="27824000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1739"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0878l7h</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mixed Messages in Bolsonaro's Brazil.</title><description><![CDATA[<p>While Europe seals its borders, Latin America, which has far fewer confirmed Coronavirus cases, has started to do the same to stop the disease spreading. But not all leaders are taking the threats seriously says Katy Watson.</p><p>All over the world Coronavirus is spreading, unseen. Paul Adams found himself in Beirut as it approached. He watched as the city shut down and found himself reflecting on this hidden enemy. </p><p>Aung San Suu Kyi was once a much admired recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. But her repeated denials over the persecution of the Rohingya, the country’s Muslim minority, have earned her global opprobrium. As Nick Beake bids farewell to his life in Yangon and to Myanmar, he reflects on its elusive first lady. </p><p>The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah which is backed by Iran has lost at least one thousand two hundred men in Syria. But by no means all Syrians are grateful for these sacrifices says Lizzie Porter.</p><p>Living in an online world makes tracking down something or someone infinitely easier. Rob Cameron spotted a face in a film from the Prague Spring, and was so besotted with the man that he set out to find him – 50 years later.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Lebanon, Myanmar, Czech Republic and Brazil in denial over the coronavirus.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>While Europe seals its borders, Latin America, which has far fewer confirmed Coronavirus cases, has started to do the same to stop the disease spreading. But not all leaders are taking the threats seriously says Katy Watson.</p><p>All over the world Coronavirus is spreading, unseen. Paul Adams found himself in Beirut as it approached. He watched as the city shut down and found himself reflecting on this hidden enemy. </p><p>Aung San Suu Kyi was once a much admired recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. But her repeated denials over the persecution of the Rohingya, the country’s Muslim minority, have earned her global opprobrium. As Nick Beake bids farewell to his life in Yangon and to Myanmar, he reflects on its elusive first lady. </p><p>The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah which is backed by Iran has lost at least one thousand two hundred men in Syria. But by no means all Syrians are grateful for these sacrifices says Lizzie Porter.</p><p>Living in an online world makes tracking down something or someone infinitely easier. Rob Cameron spotted a face in a film from the Prague Spring, and was so besotted with the man that he set out to find him – 50 years later.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:29:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1755</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08721hw.mp3" length="28080000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08721hw.mp3" length="28080000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08721hw.mp3" length="28080000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p087220r</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p087220r</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08721hw.mp3" fileSize="28080000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1755"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p087220r</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Al-Shabab's Defectors</title><description><![CDATA[<p>For well over a decade, the Al Qaeda linked group Al Shabab has struck terror in Somalia, Kenya and beyond blowing up shopping malls and hotels. Its senior leaders want to establish a caliphate, where their draconian form of Islam is imposed. But most Al Shabaab foot-soldiers come from deprived backgrounds and now hundreds have defected and are rebuilding their lives. Mary Harper visited a rehabilitation centre in the capital Mogadishu.</p><p>In Afghanistan too, there are hopes of militants disarming, Taliban prisoners being released and of an end to a long drawn out conflict. But the peace process is overshadowed by a crisis in government. The defeated candidate in the presidential election, Abdullah Abdullah, proclaimed himself as president at the same time as the official inauguration of President Ghani earlier this week. David Loyn was there.</p><p>There was much praise for the three journalists whose dogged investigations ultimately led to Harvey Weinsteins's conviction. But an important question remains says Kirsty Lang: why was the movie mogul's systematic abuse of women, kept out of the media for so many years?</p><p>In France schools are closing until further notice as the government battles to stem the spread of the coronavirus. But President Macron said local elections would go ahead as planned. Elderly people, most at risk, may stay away from the polls. But in Pamiers, Chris Bockman met a candidate for mayor, a hardy nonagenarian. </p><p>Despite its beautiful lakes, forests and hilltop castles Estonia had a hard time attracting tourists in the 1970s. Few Westerners fancied spending their holidays on that side of the Iron Curtain. But then the Soviet authorities built a luxury hotel fitted out with state of the art listening devices says Rob Crossan.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Afghanistan, US, France, Estonia and from a Somalian rehabilitation centre.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>For well over a decade, the Al Qaeda linked group Al Shabab has struck terror in Somalia, Kenya and beyond blowing up shopping malls and hotels. Its senior leaders want to establish a caliphate, where their draconian form of Islam is imposed. But most Al Shabaab foot-soldiers come from deprived backgrounds and now hundreds have defected and are rebuilding their lives. Mary Harper visited a rehabilitation centre in the capital Mogadishu.</p><p>In Afghanistan too, there are hopes of militants disarming, Taliban prisoners being released and of an end to a long drawn out conflict. But the peace process is overshadowed by a crisis in government. The defeated candidate in the presidential election, Abdullah Abdullah, proclaimed himself as president at the same time as the official inauguration of President Ghani earlier this week. David Loyn was there.</p><p>There was much praise for the three journalists whose dogged investigations ultimately led to Harvey Weinsteins's conviction. But an important question remains says Kirsty Lang: why was the movie mogul's systematic abuse of women, kept out of the media for so many years?</p><p>In France schools are closing until further notice as the government battles to stem the spread of the coronavirus. But President Macron said local elections would go ahead as planned. Elderly people, most at risk, may stay away from the polls. But in Pamiers, Chris Bockman met a candidate for mayor, a hardy nonagenarian. </p><p>Despite its beautiful lakes, forests and hilltop castles Estonia had a hard time attracting tourists in the 1970s. Few Westerners fancied spending their holidays on that side of the Iron Curtain. But then the Soviet authorities built a luxury hotel fitted out with state of the art listening devices says Rob Crossan.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1747</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p086n8yj.mp3" length="27952000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p086n8yj.mp3" length="27952000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p086n8yj.mp3" length="27952000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p086n97n</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p086n97n</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p086n8yj.mp3" fileSize="27952000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1747"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p086n97n</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Road Through Yemen</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stories from Russia, France, the Philippines, Italy and Yemen's most dangerous road. Yemen has been devastated by a war which began in 2015 between Saudi-backed pro-government forces and the rebel Houthi movement, aligned to Iran. Lyse Doucet was there dodging snipers and meeting overworked doctors. But that's not the whole picture. </p><p>This week, the trial opened of three Russians and a Ukrainian for the murder of 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, shot down over eastern Ukraine. The Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team says it has proof that the missile used to shoot down the aircraft came from a military base inside Russia. But Moscow rejects the evidence and when questioned accuses Steve Rosenberg of disseminating propaganda. </p><p>Protecting human rights and freedom of movement in a changing world is at the heart of President Emmanuel Macron’s commitment to a stronger European Union. But the far-right nationalist party of Marine Le Pen is promising the French a different kind of freedom: protection from the European Union with its open borders and open markets. Lucy Williamson has been on the frontier between France and Italy where, despite appearances, tensions run high. </p><p>In the Philippines a recent hostage-taking situation in a shopping centre gripped the nation. Alchie Paray, a former security guard, took around 50 people prisoner with a grenade and a gun. His grievance? Unfair treatment by his former employers. The situation has triggered a national debate about labour rights. Howard Johnson, was outside the shopping mall to watch the nine hour drama unfold.</p><p>The Italian government placed the entire country on lockdown on Tuesday in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus. Cinemas and theatres and even churches have shut, travel is severely restricted and all schools are closed until April. Dany Mitzman describes life in quarantine.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Russia, France, the Philippines, Italy and Yemen's most dangerous road.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stories from Russia, France, the Philippines, Italy and Yemen's most dangerous road. Yemen has been devastated by a war which began in 2015 between Saudi-backed pro-government forces and the rebel Houthi movement, aligned to Iran. Lyse Doucet was there dodging snipers and meeting overworked doctors. But that's not the whole picture. </p><p>This week, the trial opened of three Russians and a Ukrainian for the murder of 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, shot down over eastern Ukraine. The Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team says it has proof that the missile used to shoot down the aircraft came from a military base inside Russia. But Moscow rejects the evidence and when questioned accuses Steve Rosenberg of disseminating propaganda. </p><p>Protecting human rights and freedom of movement in a changing world is at the heart of President Emmanuel Macron’s commitment to a stronger European Union. But the far-right nationalist party of Marine Le Pen is promising the French a different kind of freedom: protection from the European Union with its open borders and open markets. Lucy Williamson has been on the frontier between France and Italy where, despite appearances, tensions run high. </p><p>In the Philippines a recent hostage-taking situation in a shopping centre gripped the nation. Alchie Paray, a former security guard, took around 50 people prisoner with a grenade and a gun. His grievance? Unfair treatment by his former employers. The situation has triggered a national debate about labour rights. Howard Johnson, was outside the shopping mall to watch the nine hour drama unfold.</p><p>The Italian government placed the entire country on lockdown on Tuesday in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus. Cinemas and theatres and even churches have shut, travel is severely restricted and all schools are closed until April. Dany Mitzman describes life in quarantine.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1733</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p086f69z.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p086f69z.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p086f69z.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p086f70h</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p086f70h</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p086f69z.mp3" fileSize="27728000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1733"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p086f70h</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Turkey Opens Border with Europe</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has accused the European Union of failing to help him manage the growing crisis in northern Syria. Turkey already has 3.7 million refugees from the conflict there and the recent killing of at least 50 Turkish soldiers last month may have been the last straw. Although the EU promised billions more euros in aid, Turkey decided to open its borders with Greece and has gone out of its way, says Jonah Fisher, to help people cross into Europe. </p><p>This week Italy shut all of its schools in an attempt to contain the coronavirus outbreak. In China, even beyond the quarantined cities, all schools across the country have remained closed since Chinese New Year. As a result, school children and college students have had to stay indoors and study online. Yvonne Murray, says millions of families have found e-learning something of a nightmare. </p><p>The Great Mosque in the city of Cordoba is one of Spain's biggest tourist attractions. It is also a reminder of the country's complex history, which included a period of Islamic rule in the middle ages. But an on-going disagreement over the monument’s origins has fed into present-day tensions in Spanish politics says Guy Hedgecoe.</p><p>The Solomon Islands, once a South Pacific paradise of blue lagoons, and emerald forests are severely affected by climate change. On a recent visit, funded by the Pulitzer Centre, John Beck discovered a nation vanishing beneath the waves. </p><p>The Svalbard archipelago, one of the most inhospitable places in Europe, is now home to a fast-growing community from Thailand. Norwegians are still in the majority yet Thais already make up about a third of the foreign population on the main island. They go to make money but at quite some cost says Clodagh Kinsella.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from China, Spain, the South Pacific, Arctic Norway &amp; the Greek-Turkish border.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has accused the European Union of failing to help him manage the growing crisis in northern Syria. Turkey already has 3.7 million refugees from the conflict there and the recent killing of at least 50 Turkish soldiers last month may have been the last straw. Although the EU promised billions more euros in aid, Turkey decided to open its borders with Greece and has gone out of its way, says Jonah Fisher, to help people cross into Europe. </p><p>This week Italy shut all of its schools in an attempt to contain the coronavirus outbreak. In China, even beyond the quarantined cities, all schools across the country have remained closed since Chinese New Year. As a result, school children and college students have had to stay indoors and study online. Yvonne Murray, says millions of families have found e-learning something of a nightmare. </p><p>The Great Mosque in the city of Cordoba is one of Spain's biggest tourist attractions. It is also a reminder of the country's complex history, which included a period of Islamic rule in the middle ages. But an on-going disagreement over the monument’s origins has fed into present-day tensions in Spanish politics says Guy Hedgecoe.</p><p>The Solomon Islands, once a South Pacific paradise of blue lagoons, and emerald forests are severely affected by climate change. On a recent visit, funded by the Pulitzer Centre, John Beck discovered a nation vanishing beneath the waves. </p><p>The Svalbard archipelago, one of the most inhospitable places in Europe, is now home to a fast-growing community from Thailand. Norwegians are still in the majority yet Thais already make up about a third of the foreign population on the main island. They go to make money but at quite some cost says Clodagh Kinsella.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p085yyh6.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p085yyh6.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p085yyh6.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p085yylk</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p085yylk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p085yyh6.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p085yylk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>America's Comeback Kid</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Trump may deride him as ‘sleepy Joe’ but this week the former vice president Joe Biden was the rejuvenated, 70 something, comeback kid. He won nine of the 14 states that voted to pick a Democratic White House candidate on Super Tuesday. An astonishing turnaround says Anthony Zurcher. </p><p>Israelis went to the polls this week for their third election in just a year. The country’s political system has been in deadlock since last April, with no party able to find enough parliamentary seats to build a coalition. If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is handed the mandate to try and form a government, he’ll be juggling that task with preparing for his own corruption trial. Is he the magician of Israeli politics asks Anna Foster. </p><p>It’s been nearly three years since the Iraqi city of Mosul was liberated from Islamic State. As locals try to rebuild their city and their lives, their efforts are crippled by high-level corruption. Jobs and money are scarce. But Mosul is not lacking in entrepreneurial spirit says Lorraine Mallinder. </p><p>South Africa’s highly developed economy makes it a magnet for people from elsewhere in Africa. There are more than three and a half million migrants in South Africa, out of an overall population of 50 million. But with politicians accused of stoking anti-immigrant sentiment and attacks on foreigners on the rise Zeinab Badawi wonders if South Africa suffers from 'Afrophobia'. </p><p>A team in Moscow has created the putrid scent, in a protest against plans for a perfume store in a historic building with a terrible past. Sarah Rainsford met the activists who have come up with an innovative way of reminding people about Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Israel, Iraq, South Africa, Russia &amp; the US as Democrats choose a candidate</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Trump may deride him as ‘sleepy Joe’ but this week the former vice president Joe Biden was the rejuvenated, 70 something, comeback kid. He won nine of the 14 states that voted to pick a Democratic White House candidate on Super Tuesday. An astonishing turnaround says Anthony Zurcher. </p><p>Israelis went to the polls this week for their third election in just a year. The country’s political system has been in deadlock since last April, with no party able to find enough parliamentary seats to build a coalition. If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is handed the mandate to try and form a government, he’ll be juggling that task with preparing for his own corruption trial. Is he the magician of Israeli politics asks Anna Foster. </p><p>It’s been nearly three years since the Iraqi city of Mosul was liberated from Islamic State. As locals try to rebuild their city and their lives, their efforts are crippled by high-level corruption. Jobs and money are scarce. But Mosul is not lacking in entrepreneurial spirit says Lorraine Mallinder. </p><p>South Africa’s highly developed economy makes it a magnet for people from elsewhere in Africa. There are more than three and a half million migrants in South Africa, out of an overall population of 50 million. But with politicians accused of stoking anti-immigrant sentiment and attacks on foreigners on the rise Zeinab Badawi wonders if South Africa suffers from 'Afrophobia'. </p><p>A team in Moscow has created the putrid scent, in a protest against plans for a perfume store in a historic building with a terrible past. Sarah Rainsford met the activists who have come up with an innovative way of reminding people about Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 11:35:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1719</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p085qvgx.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p085qvgx.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p085qvgx.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p085qw0b</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p085qw0b</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p085qvgx.mp3" fileSize="27504000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1719"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p085qw0b</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mob Rule In Delhi</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Deadly violence erupted this week in north-east Delhi between supporters and opponents of India’s new and controversial citizenship law. The legislation grants amnesty to illegal immigrants but only non-Muslim ones. The worst of the violence has abated but Yogita Limaye says many are stunned by the ferocity of the attacks. </p><p>The former President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak has been buried in Cairo with full military honours. The 91-year-old, who ruled the Arab world’s most populous state for three decades, was forced from office by the Arab Spring in 2011. Jeremy Bowen looks at the legacy of the man street protestors branded a modern day Pharaoh. </p><p>Last year, Sudan’s former president Omar al-Bashir was also ousted by popular protests. He may face trial for war crime and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Hague after the killing and torture of hundreds of thousands of people in Darfur. But civilians in Sudan’s province of Blue Nile also suffered misery and terror. The conflict has largely cooled since Bashir was toppled, but now famine threatens says Peter Oborne. </p><p>Gender dysphoria, the anguish caused by a mismatch between the sex people were assigned at birth and the one they feel themselves to be. Transition to the desired gender can ease distress, but it may be a long and painful process – socially, medically, surgically… And sometimes it doesn’t go to plan. In the Netherlands, Linda Pressly met someone who’s ridden the gender roller-coaster. </p><p>Choosing trains over planes is not just about guilt over our carbon footprint. It’s also just possible that we’re sick of being treated like cattle by low cost airlines. Bethany Bell detects a revival of the venerable tradition of the railway dining car.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Egypt. Sudan, the Netherlands, Austria and the riot ravaged Indian capital.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Deadly violence erupted this week in north-east Delhi between supporters and opponents of India’s new and controversial citizenship law. The legislation grants amnesty to illegal immigrants but only non-Muslim ones. The worst of the violence has abated but Yogita Limaye says many are stunned by the ferocity of the attacks. </p><p>The former President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak has been buried in Cairo with full military honours. The 91-year-old, who ruled the Arab world’s most populous state for three decades, was forced from office by the Arab Spring in 2011. Jeremy Bowen looks at the legacy of the man street protestors branded a modern day Pharaoh. </p><p>Last year, Sudan’s former president Omar al-Bashir was also ousted by popular protests. He may face trial for war crime and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Hague after the killing and torture of hundreds of thousands of people in Darfur. But civilians in Sudan’s province of Blue Nile also suffered misery and terror. The conflict has largely cooled since Bashir was toppled, but now famine threatens says Peter Oborne. </p><p>Gender dysphoria, the anguish caused by a mismatch between the sex people were assigned at birth and the one they feel themselves to be. Transition to the desired gender can ease distress, but it may be a long and painful process – socially, medically, surgically… And sometimes it doesn’t go to plan. In the Netherlands, Linda Pressly met someone who’s ridden the gender roller-coaster. </p><p>Choosing trains over planes is not just about guilt over our carbon footprint. It’s also just possible that we’re sick of being treated like cattle by low cost airlines. Bethany Bell detects a revival of the venerable tradition of the railway dining car.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1720</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0856lhc.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0856lhc.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0856lhc.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0856m4h</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0856m4h</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0856lhc.mp3" fileSize="27520000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1720"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0856m4h</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>America's Health Insurance Hell</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stories from China, Iraq, Pakistan and Russia and the cost of breaking bones in America. Healthcare is a very hot issue in the US race for the Democratic presidential nominee. Bernie Sanders is promising to roll out government-run health insurance for everyone. When Laura Trevelyan broke her wrist, she found navigating the US insurance system both pricey and confusing.</p><p>Health concerns of a different kind are making headlines this week as the Coronavirus spreads to more countries and claims more lives. Determined to cut the number of new infections, China has confined hundreds of millions of people to their homes. Kerry Allen from BBC Monitoring has immersed herself in Chinese cyberspace to gauge the national mood and the authorities response to the crisis.</p><p>In Iraq, despite pleas from the Ministry of Health to remain at home, earlier this week demonstrators were still in the streets. Protests have rocked the country since October in response to widespread corruption, poor infrastructure and perceived Iranian intervention in Iraq's internal affairs. Colin Freeman who first visited Iraq 17 years ago has been back to meet an old friend.</p><p>In the Pakistani city of Lahore, a building where nationalists once staged meetings against British rule, is slowly crumbling away. Andrew Whitehead recently managed to make his way in to the decaying Bradlaugh Hall and caught an echo of Lahore’s tempestuous past and at times troubled present.</p><p>Wrangel Island was one of the last refuges for woolly mammoths. Today the Russian island is home to Arctic foxes, polar bears, and is visited by more than a hundred species of migratory birds. Scientists flock there too but why honeymooners asks Juliet Rix?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from China, Iraq, Pakistan and Russia and the cost of getting sick in America.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stories from China, Iraq, Pakistan and Russia and the cost of breaking bones in America. Healthcare is a very hot issue in the US race for the Democratic presidential nominee. Bernie Sanders is promising to roll out government-run health insurance for everyone. When Laura Trevelyan broke her wrist, she found navigating the US insurance system both pricey and confusing.</p><p>Health concerns of a different kind are making headlines this week as the Coronavirus spreads to more countries and claims more lives. Determined to cut the number of new infections, China has confined hundreds of millions of people to their homes. Kerry Allen from BBC Monitoring has immersed herself in Chinese cyberspace to gauge the national mood and the authorities response to the crisis.</p><p>In Iraq, despite pleas from the Ministry of Health to remain at home, earlier this week demonstrators were still in the streets. Protests have rocked the country since October in response to widespread corruption, poor infrastructure and perceived Iranian intervention in Iraq's internal affairs. Colin Freeman who first visited Iraq 17 years ago has been back to meet an old friend.</p><p>In the Pakistani city of Lahore, a building where nationalists once staged meetings against British rule, is slowly crumbling away. Andrew Whitehead recently managed to make his way in to the decaying Bradlaugh Hall and caught an echo of Lahore’s tempestuous past and at times troubled present.</p><p>Wrangel Island was one of the last refuges for woolly mammoths. Today the Russian island is home to Arctic foxes, polar bears, and is visited by more than a hundred species of migratory birds. Scientists flock there too but why honeymooners asks Juliet Rix?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1717</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p084y5mq.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p084y5mq.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p084y5mq.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p084y5w6</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p084y5w6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p084y5mq.mp3" fileSize="27472000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1717"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p084y5w6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Family Fenced In</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stories from the West Bank, Germany, Brazil, the US and the heart of the European Union. President Trump’s plan for peace in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories would allow Israel to apply its sovereignty to all the Jewish settlements as well as swathes of strategic land in the West Bank. The Palestinian leadership has rejected the plan outright saying it would create a "Swiss cheese state". Our Middle East Correspondent Tom Bateman spent time on two sides of a fence that separates an Israeli settlement from a Palestinian family with its own checkpoint. </p><p>Regional elections take place tomorrow in Hamburg at one of the most worrying times in recent Germany history. After this week’s right-wing terror attack in Hanau, near Frankfurt, John Kampfner says many are wondering whether the security forces and indeed the constitution are strong enough to cope.</p><p>Carnival in Brazil is one of the world's biggest, brashest parties. Millions will flock to the streets this week to dance, strut their stuff and watch the parades. But under Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, there has been increase in police raids in poor neighbourhoods adding a tinge of bitterness to the party spirit.</p><p>The average American made ten trips to a library in 2019, about twice as many times as they went to the movies. The Front Row presenter Kirsty Lang recently moved to the home of American cinema and was surprised to find that Los Angeles has a much loved and well-funded library system. </p><p>Shortly after Britain voted to leave the EU, the Polish chair of the European parliament’s constitutional affairs committee, was categorical. “If we don’t have the UK, we don’t have English”, she told a news conference. But perhaps it’s not that clear cut says Kevin Connolly.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from the West Bank, Germany, Brazil, the US and the heart of the European Union.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stories from the West Bank, Germany, Brazil, the US and the heart of the European Union. President Trump’s plan for peace in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories would allow Israel to apply its sovereignty to all the Jewish settlements as well as swathes of strategic land in the West Bank. The Palestinian leadership has rejected the plan outright saying it would create a "Swiss cheese state". Our Middle East Correspondent Tom Bateman spent time on two sides of a fence that separates an Israeli settlement from a Palestinian family with its own checkpoint. </p><p>Regional elections take place tomorrow in Hamburg at one of the most worrying times in recent Germany history. After this week’s right-wing terror attack in Hanau, near Frankfurt, John Kampfner says many are wondering whether the security forces and indeed the constitution are strong enough to cope.</p><p>Carnival in Brazil is one of the world's biggest, brashest parties. Millions will flock to the streets this week to dance, strut their stuff and watch the parades. But under Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, there has been increase in police raids in poor neighbourhoods adding a tinge of bitterness to the party spirit.</p><p>The average American made ten trips to a library in 2019, about twice as many times as they went to the movies. The Front Row presenter Kirsty Lang recently moved to the home of American cinema and was surprised to find that Los Angeles has a much loved and well-funded library system. </p><p>Shortly after Britain voted to leave the EU, the Polish chair of the European parliament’s constitutional affairs committee, was categorical. “If we don’t have the UK, we don’t have English”, she told a news conference. But perhaps it’s not that clear cut says Kevin Connolly.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1727</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p084bjl9.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p084bjl9.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p084bjl9.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p084bkky</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p084bkky</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p084bjl9.mp3" fileSize="27632000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1727"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p084bkky</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Locust Swarm Chasers</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stories from Kenya, Italy, Russia, Syria and Portugal. For the past few months, swarms of desert locusts have been eating their way across the Middle East and Africa. As Joe Inwood finds, stopping the swarms has so far proved nigh on impossible for people in the region - with many resorting to yelling, blowing whistles or even firing guns at them. </p><p>Italy’s anti-mafia police do their best to catch the big shots in clans like the Camorra. Dominic Casciani spent an evening with battle-hardened officers in unmarked patrol cars tackling organised crime in Naples. </p><p>In the southern Russian city of Rostov on Don, Anastasia Shevchenko is facing six years in prison for political activism. Several human rights groups have declared the activist a prisoner of conscience and now the Russian authorities have eased the conditions of her detention in her small flat. Sarah Rainsford witnessed Anastasia’s first taste of freedom. </p><p>Last October President Trump abruptly withdrew US forces from North East Syria, abandoning the Kurds, who had been a key American ally in the defeat of so-called Islamic State. Turkey took advantage of the power vacuum by launching an air and ground offensive to occupy Kurdish territory. An estimated 300,000 people were forced to flee their homes. Since then, some have tried to go back but as Nick Sturdee discovered with dire consequences. </p><p>In the early 16th century, Jews made up a fifth of the population of Portugal - most of whom were forcibly converted. Margaret Bradley finds a remote Jewish community which, against all the odds, remained secretly faithful to their religion.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1378. Producer: Lucy Ash</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Kenya, Italy, Russia, Syria and Portugal</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stories from Kenya, Italy, Russia, Syria and Portugal. For the past few months, swarms of desert locusts have been eating their way across the Middle East and Africa. As Joe Inwood finds, stopping the swarms has so far proved nigh on impossible for people in the region - with many resorting to yelling, blowing whistles or even firing guns at them. </p><p>Italy’s anti-mafia police do their best to catch the big shots in clans like the Camorra. Dominic Casciani spent an evening with battle-hardened officers in unmarked patrol cars tackling organised crime in Naples. </p><p>In the southern Russian city of Rostov on Don, Anastasia Shevchenko is facing six years in prison for political activism. Several human rights groups have declared the activist a prisoner of conscience and now the Russian authorities have eased the conditions of her detention in her small flat. Sarah Rainsford witnessed Anastasia’s first taste of freedom. </p><p>Last October President Trump abruptly withdrew US forces from North East Syria, abandoning the Kurds, who had been a key American ally in the defeat of so-called Islamic State. Turkey took advantage of the power vacuum by launching an air and ground offensive to occupy Kurdish territory. An estimated 300,000 people were forced to flee their homes. Since then, some have tried to go back but as Nick Sturdee discovered with dire consequences. </p><p>In the early 16th century, Jews made up a fifth of the population of Portugal - most of whom were forcibly converted. Margaret Bradley finds a remote Jewish community which, against all the odds, remained secretly faithful to their religion.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1379. Producer: Lucy Ash</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:35:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1717</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08414j9.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08414j9.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08414j9.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0841541</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0841541</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08414j9.mp3" fileSize="27472000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1717"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0841541</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 16/02/2020</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom reflecting the range of contemporary life in the country.</p><p>Emma Jane Kirby, in Birmingham, reports on the seeds of magic sown by teachers there in schools serving deprived neighbourhoods - but also on the sometimes shocking realities of daily life at home for a number of the pupils.</p><p>In Carmarthenshire, David Baker explores the wide range of renewable energy projects being pioneered locally amidst a rich range of Welsh natural resources - and also witnesses a minor drama on his visit to a wind turbine. But who caused it?</p><p>Nearly thirty years after her aunt took her own life after living with depression for decades, Sima Kotecha reflects on daily life for those living with mental illness and those relatives and friends who witness it. She also considers how hard it remains for those in some South Asian communities to open up about their conditions and what the prospects are for that to change.</p><p>With buses seemingly now back in political favour across Britain, Christine Finn returns to the Channel Islands to discover how well-connected bus services are on her native Jersey - and embarks on an ambitious journey round the island to find out if she can circumnavigate it entirely on public transport in one day.</p><p>And Shaun Ley describes what it was like to be greeted by an unwelcome rodent in his home and the steps taken to deal with the visitor. But why are there seemingly more rats in our midst and why have they become bigger and bolder? The local rat catcher has some thought-provoking ideas...</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Pupils fighting deprivation, renewable richness, mental illness, Jersey's buses and rats.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom reflecting the range of contemporary life in the country.</p><p>Emma Jane Kirby, in Birmingham, reports on the seeds of magic sown by teachers there in schools serving deprived neighbourhoods - but also on the sometimes shocking realities of daily life at home for a number of the pupils.</p><p>In Carmarthenshire, David Baker explores the wide range of renewable energy projects being pioneered locally amidst a rich range of Welsh natural resources - and also witnesses a minor drama on his visit to a wind turbine. But who caused it?</p><p>Nearly thirty years after her aunt took her own life after living with depression for decades, Sima Kotecha reflects on daily life for those living with mental illness and those relatives and friends who witness it. She also considers how hard it remains for those in some South Asian communities to open up about their conditions and what the prospects are for that to change.</p><p>With buses seemingly now back in political favour across Britain, Christine Finn returns to the Channel Islands to discover how well-connected bus services are on her native Jersey - and embarks on an ambitious journey round the island to find out if she can circumnavigate it entirely on public transport in one day.</p><p>And Shaun Ley describes what it was like to be greeted by an unwelcome rodent in his home and the steps taken to deal with the visitor. But why are there seemingly more rats in our midst and why have they become bigger and bolder? The local rat catcher has some thought-provoking ideas...</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1663</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p083xt62.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p083xt62.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p083xt62.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p083hcxc</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p083hcxc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p083xt62.mp3" fileSize="26608000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1663"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p083hcxc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Malta and the Mafia</title><description><![CDATA[<p>French prosecutors announced this week that say they have started an investigation into the business activities of the Maltese magnate charged with complicity to murder the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. It’s just the latest development in a scandal that shocked Europe and led to the resignation of Malta’s prime minister last month. The inquiry in Paris is a response to allegations by the reporter’s family that, Jorgen Fenech, one of the island richest businessmen, used cash from property deals and racehorses in France to bribe Maltese officials. Juliet Rix is a frequent visitor to Malta. She reflects on how the European Union’s smallest country has changed …and not for the better. </p><p>The coronavirus epidemic is adding to tensions in Hong Kong, a city already riven by seven months of anti government protests. As the number of infections rise, many are clamouring for the territory to seal itself off from the Chinese mainland. Last week, public hospital employees went on strike to try and force the authorities to close all border crossings. Some Mandarin speaking mainlanders feel unwelcome and relations with Hong Kongers are increasingly strained as Vincent Ni discovered at a delicious but difficult dinner party. </p><p>India’s once tigerish economy is flagging. And there’ve been suggestions that growth figures were over-estimated for years, hiding what’s been called by one leading economist ‘the great slowdown.’ But the government of Narendra Modi’s BJP party remains relentlessly optimistic. Lesley Curwen who’s just back from Delhi and Hyderabad has been testing the water.</p><p>Pope Francis dampened hopes among reformist Catholics that he was on the point of relaxing the centuries-old celibacy rule for the clergy – despite a shortage of priests in many parts of the world including the Amazon. There was even speculation that he might allow women to celebrate Mass. But there was no mention of such changes in the papal document. It seems, says David Willey, that Pope Francis has opted to focus not on the internal issue of celibacy but the external challenge of climate change. </p><p>There has been much soul searching about how smartphones have killed the art of conversation. The texting culture, the argument goes, is making us lazier, shallower and less literate. But sooner or later slang ends up in the Oxford English Dictionary. Andrew Harding grudgingly admits that language evolves and that common usage eventually becomes correct usage unless you’re a dyed-in-the-wool pedant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Unlike Sicily, Malta was once an island free of Mafia-style corruption, but not any more.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>French prosecutors announced this week that say they have started an investigation into the business activities of the Maltese magnate charged with complicity to murder the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. It’s just the latest development in a scandal that shocked Europe and led to the resignation of Malta’s prime minister last month. The inquiry in Paris is a response to allegations by the reporter’s family that, Jorgen Fenech, one of the island richest businessmen, used cash from property deals and racehorses in France to bribe Maltese officials. Juliet Rix is a frequent visitor to Malta. She reflects on how the European Union’s smallest country has changed …and not for the better. </p><p>The coronavirus epidemic is adding to tensions in Hong Kong, a city already riven by seven months of anti government protests. As the number of infections rise, many are clamouring for the territory to seal itself off from the Chinese mainland. Last week, public hospital employees went on strike to try and force the authorities to close all border crossings. Some Mandarin speaking mainlanders feel unwelcome and relations with Hong Kongers are increasingly strained as Vincent Ni discovered at a delicious but difficult dinner party. </p><p>India’s once tigerish economy is flagging. And there’ve been suggestions that growth figures were over-estimated for years, hiding what’s been called by one leading economist ‘the great slowdown.’ But the government of Narendra Modi’s BJP party remains relentlessly optimistic. Lesley Curwen who’s just back from Delhi and Hyderabad has been testing the water.</p><p>Pope Francis dampened hopes among reformist Catholics that he was on the point of relaxing the centuries-old celibacy rule for the clergy – despite a shortage of priests in many parts of the world including the Amazon. There was even speculation that he might allow women to celebrate Mass. But there was no mention of such changes in the papal document. It seems, says David Willey, that Pope Francis has opted to focus not on the internal issue of celibacy but the external challenge of climate change. </p><p>There has been much soul searching about how smartphones have killed the art of conversation. The texting culture, the argument goes, is making us lazier, shallower and less literate. But sooner or later slang ends up in the Oxford English Dictionary. Andrew Harding grudgingly admits that language evolves and that common usage eventually becomes correct usage unless you’re a dyed-in-the-wool pedant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2020 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1757</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p083gp9c.mp3" length="28112000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p083gp9c.mp3" length="28112000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p083gp9c.mp3" length="28112000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p083gpjt</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p083gpjt</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p083gp9c.mp3" fileSize="28112000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1757"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p083gpjt</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Putin Forever</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The residents of an ordinary Moscow apartment block were recently tricked into showing what they really think of their president by a prankster who installed a massive portrait of Vladimir Putin in their lift. Some of the reactions were incredulous, some angry and a few unprintable ..and they had the whole country in stitches. Yet many Russians are confused rather than amused about proposed changes to their constitution. When President Putin dropped his bombshell announcement last month about rearranging Russia's power structure, some wondered if he was looking for a smooth exit or rather that he wanted to stay in charge of his country for life. Steve Rosenberg has been to Russia’s industrial heartland to canvass opinions.</p><p>Yesterday the left wing senator Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire Democratic primary contest. He declared the night “the beginning of the end” of Donald Trump but it is just one stage in the race to unseat the President and win the White House in November. Away from the campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire voters in New Jersey tend towards the centre ground of American politics. And they’re a savvy bunch in the Garden State. Sandra Kanthal says the best place to hear about the twists and turns of the 2020 US elections is over the countertop of the venerable diner in her home town. </p><p>This week China’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak has drawn comparisons with the way in which the Soviet authorities handled the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. Had the USSR sounded the alarm sooner, the global ramifications of the accident would perhaps not have been so severe. When Li Wenliang, a doctor in Wuhan first tried to warn of the outbreak of the coronavirus in December, he was investigated by police and accused of scaremongering. Now he has been killed by the virus which has been declared a global health emergency. Many foreigners have left China on specially chartered flights but Andy Bostock has stayed behind in Suzhou, a city near Shanghai. </p><p>Mali may have a reputation for armed Islamic extremists, bombs, kidnapping and violence between Fulani herdsmen and sedentary farmers. But the country is also known for its photographers and one of Africa's largest photography festivals, Bamako Encounters, which is held in the capital every two years. Now celebrating its 25th birthday, the festival is at a turning point says Fleur Macdonald with work shown not only in museums and galleries but also in people's homes.</p><p>Life in Ladakh, a region administered by India in the Western Himalayas is often harsh. Remote villages lack transport links communication and many other basic facilities. Getting an education has long been a challenge, especially if your parents are nomadic goat herders. But Andrew Eames has been to visit a boarding school determined to boost the life chances of its young Ladakhi pupils.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Changes to Russia's constitution might mean Vladimir Putin aims to stay in power forever.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The residents of an ordinary Moscow apartment block were recently tricked into showing what they really think of their president by a prankster who installed a massive portrait of Vladimir Putin in their lift. Some of the reactions were incredulous, some angry and a few unprintable ..and they had the whole country in stitches. Yet many Russians are confused rather than amused about proposed changes to their constitution. When President Putin dropped his bombshell announcement last month about rearranging Russia's power structure, some wondered if he was looking for a smooth exit or rather that he wanted to stay in charge of his country for life. Steve Rosenberg has been to Russia’s industrial heartland to canvass opinions.</p><p>Yesterday the left wing senator Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire Democratic primary contest. He declared the night “the beginning of the end” of Donald Trump but it is just one stage in the race to unseat the President and win the White House in November. Away from the campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire voters in New Jersey tend towards the centre ground of American politics. And they’re a savvy bunch in the Garden State. Sandra Kanthal says the best place to hear about the twists and turns of the 2020 US elections is over the countertop of the venerable diner in her home town. </p><p>This week China’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak has drawn comparisons with the way in which the Soviet authorities handled the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. Had the USSR sounded the alarm sooner, the global ramifications of the accident would perhaps not have been so severe. When Li Wenliang, a doctor in Wuhan first tried to warn of the outbreak of the coronavirus in December, he was investigated by police and accused of scaremongering. Now he has been killed by the virus which has been declared a global health emergency. Many foreigners have left China on specially chartered flights but Andy Bostock has stayed behind in Suzhou, a city near Shanghai. </p><p>Mali may have a reputation for armed Islamic extremists, bombs, kidnapping and violence between Fulani herdsmen and sedentary farmers. But the country is also known for its photographers and one of Africa's largest photography festivals, Bamako Encounters, which is held in the capital every two years. Now celebrating its 25th birthday, the festival is at a turning point says Fleur Macdonald with work shown not only in museums and galleries but also in people's homes.</p><p>Life in Ladakh, a region administered by India in the Western Himalayas is often harsh. Remote villages lack transport links communication and many other basic facilities. Getting an education has long been a challenge, especially if your parents are nomadic goat herders. But Andrew Eames has been to visit a boarding school determined to boost the life chances of its young Ladakhi pupils.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1718</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0836g1y.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0836g1y.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0836g1y.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0836hbr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0836hbr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0836g1y.mp3" fileSize="27488000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1718"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0836hbr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Jacob Zuma's Sick Note</title><description><![CDATA[<p>South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma has been charged with a string of crimes including corruption, racketeering and money-laundering. He denies all allegations of wrongdoing and earlier this week didn’t attend his trial saying he was too sick. But photos posted on social media suggest otherwise and Andrew Harding says its South Africans who are really sick - sick of Zuma’s excuses. </p><p>A self-described ''Asian man who's good at math”, Andrew Yang is a very long-shot for the White House. But self deprecating humour aside, the Chinese American entrepreneur and candidate for the Democratic party has lasted longer in the contest than many expected. He broke down in tears last week in Iowa, saying that campaigning for the last two years had been “the journey of my life.” Among the audience were some curious students from mainland China. Some 360,000 Chinese students now study in the US but what are they learning about the American way of voting, asked Zhaoyin Feng, the BBC’s Mandarin correspondent in Washington. </p><p>In celebration of the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution next Tuesday, there will be mass rallies across the country and fiery speeches about the Great Satan – the demonising epithet for the United States. This year long simmering tensions with America reached boiling point after the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad. But this hostility isn’t just between countries. The government in Tehran has plenty of Iranian critics as well, both inside and outside the country. And some of them didn’t just live through the revolution – they once longed for it to happen. - Supported its aims. - Even took part in it themselves. Sadeq Sabah who was head of the BBC Persian service for some years, has his own memories of dangerous days in 1979 and afterwards.</p><p>The flow of grisly headlines coming from Mexico has been almost constant in recent weeks. A group of Mormon mothers and children were murdered at the end of last year, this week four boys were shot dead in an amusement arcade and the bodies of two conservationists were found in a Monarch butterfly sanctuary in the west of the country. But many simply vanish in Mexico’s violent drug war. With no body or any clear sign as to what happened to them, families are left desperate for information. Will Grant was reminded of meeting one such family following a different breed of criminal abduction. </p><p>Will Grant. In the early 1990s there were newspaper headlines comparing Sicily’s capital Palermo to Beirut. Following the killings of two high profile anti mafia judges in 1992, the government dispatched the army to contain what by that point had become an all-out war against the Italian state. The buildings in Palermo fared little better than residents. Palaces and villas were neglected while the mafia built concrete tower blocks in the suburbs. But recently the historic centre was declared a world heritage site and one man has helped to bring Palermo back from the brink says Dany Mitzman.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>South Africa's former president attempts to sidestep a corruption trial with a sick note.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma has been charged with a string of crimes including corruption, racketeering and money-laundering. He denies all allegations of wrongdoing and earlier this week didn’t attend his trial saying he was too sick. But photos posted on social media suggest otherwise and Andrew Harding says its South Africans who are really sick - sick of Zuma’s excuses. </p><p>A self-described ''Asian man who's good at math”, Andrew Yang is a very long-shot for the White House. But self deprecating humour aside, the Chinese American entrepreneur and candidate for the Democratic party has lasted longer in the contest than many expected. He broke down in tears last week in Iowa, saying that campaigning for the last two years had been “the journey of my life.” Among the audience were some curious students from mainland China. Some 360,000 Chinese students now study in the US but what are they learning about the American way of voting, asked Zhaoyin Feng, the BBC’s Mandarin correspondent in Washington. </p><p>In celebration of the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution next Tuesday, there will be mass rallies across the country and fiery speeches about the Great Satan – the demonising epithet for the United States. This year long simmering tensions with America reached boiling point after the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad. But this hostility isn’t just between countries. The government in Tehran has plenty of Iranian critics as well, both inside and outside the country. And some of them didn’t just live through the revolution – they once longed for it to happen. - Supported its aims. - Even took part in it themselves. Sadeq Sabah who was head of the BBC Persian service for some years, has his own memories of dangerous days in 1979 and afterwards.</p><p>The flow of grisly headlines coming from Mexico has been almost constant in recent weeks. A group of Mormon mothers and children were murdered at the end of last year, this week four boys were shot dead in an amusement arcade and the bodies of two conservationists were found in a Monarch butterfly sanctuary in the west of the country. But many simply vanish in Mexico’s violent drug war. With no body or any clear sign as to what happened to them, families are left desperate for information. Will Grant was reminded of meeting one such family following a different breed of criminal abduction. </p><p>Will Grant. In the early 1990s there were newspaper headlines comparing Sicily’s capital Palermo to Beirut. Following the killings of two high profile anti mafia judges in 1992, the government dispatched the army to contain what by that point had become an all-out war against the Italian state. The buildings in Palermo fared little better than residents. Palaces and villas were neglected while the mafia built concrete tower blocks in the suburbs. But recently the historic centre was declared a world heritage site and one man has helped to bring Palermo back from the brink says Dany Mitzman.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1925</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p082q53n.mp3" length="30800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p082q53n.mp3" length="30800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p082q53n.mp3" length="30800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p082q5fx</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p082q5fx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p082q53n.mp3" fileSize="30800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1925"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p082q5fx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Baffled in Brittany</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In Brittany there’s been some concern about how the UK’s long goodbye to the European Union will affect it’s fishing fleets. Last weekend France reminded Britain that the UK exports most of its fish production to EU countries. Post-Brexit negotiations about fishing rights, security arrangements and a host of other issues promise to be far from straight forward. But Julia Langdon finds many people in the historic port of St Malo are not that bothered about what’s just happened on the other side of the channel. They have – as it were - other fish to fry. </p><p>Two guards who worked at a prison in Yaroslavl, north east of Moscow, were jailed last month for abusing an inmate. Despite official claims that Russian penitentiaries are cleaning up their act, prisoners, their relatives and human rights activists tell a very different story. Oleg Boldyrev investigated another recent case.</p><p>The Naga, a Tibeto-Burman people made up of dozens of different tribes, inhabit the mountainous borderlands of India and Myanmar. Administered by the British from the middle of the 19th century until after WW2, at least 200,000 Naga have since died fighting for an independent homeland. Although an official ceasefire was signed in 1997, there’s still sporadic fighting between the Indian Army and Naga rebel groups. Antonia Bolingbroke Kent sensed the tension in a remote village straddling the Indo-Myanmar border.</p><p>In a small village in western Cameroon a martial arts academy has become a Mecca for local youth. With a judo area, boxing ring and top quality instructors it is a hive of activity in an otherwise sleepy rural community. Zak Brophy was made to sweat for the story when he visited but as a reward his boxing coach took him to meet his dad. </p><p>A spate of deadly bear attacks in Romania has raised fears that the number of Europe's largest protected carnivore is getting out of hand. Fatal encounters between bears and humans have become disturbingly common. Many believe the steep increase in the bear population is down to a 2016 ban on trophy hunting by environmentalists. But Jeremy Bristow discovered that the bears are far from the only danger in Romania’s forests.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A visit to north west France just days before Britain's goodbye to the European Union.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In Brittany there’s been some concern about how the UK’s long goodbye to the European Union will affect it’s fishing fleets. Last weekend France reminded Britain that the UK exports most of its fish production to EU countries. Post-Brexit negotiations about fishing rights, security arrangements and a host of other issues promise to be far from straight forward. But Julia Langdon finds many people in the historic port of St Malo are not that bothered about what’s just happened on the other side of the channel. They have – as it were - other fish to fry. </p><p>Two guards who worked at a prison in Yaroslavl, north east of Moscow, were jailed last month for abusing an inmate. Despite official claims that Russian penitentiaries are cleaning up their act, prisoners, their relatives and human rights activists tell a very different story. Oleg Boldyrev investigated another recent case.</p><p>The Naga, a Tibeto-Burman people made up of dozens of different tribes, inhabit the mountainous borderlands of India and Myanmar. Administered by the British from the middle of the 19th century until after WW2, at least 200,000 Naga have since died fighting for an independent homeland. Although an official ceasefire was signed in 1997, there’s still sporadic fighting between the Indian Army and Naga rebel groups. Antonia Bolingbroke Kent sensed the tension in a remote village straddling the Indo-Myanmar border.</p><p>In a small village in western Cameroon a martial arts academy has become a Mecca for local youth. With a judo area, boxing ring and top quality instructors it is a hive of activity in an otherwise sleepy rural community. Zak Brophy was made to sweat for the story when he visited but as a reward his boxing coach took him to meet his dad. </p><p>A spate of deadly bear attacks in Romania has raised fears that the number of Europe's largest protected carnivore is getting out of hand. Fatal encounters between bears and humans have become disturbingly common. Many believe the steep increase in the bear population is down to a 2016 ban on trophy hunting by environmentalists. But Jeremy Bristow discovered that the bears are far from the only danger in Romania’s forests.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1727</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p082g94k.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p082g94k.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p082g94k.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p082g9jc</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p082g9jc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p082g94k.mp3" fileSize="27632000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1727"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p082g9jc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Distorting the Past</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Much thought this week on borders, on nationality and how we get on with our neighbours even at the commemorations to mark the liberation of Auschwitz. The  Nazis murdered 1.1 million people at the death camp - ninety per cent of them Jews, but also Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and people from the Roma and Sinti minorities. Two hundred survivors and world leaders from 60 countries. United in remembering but, 75 years on says Adam Easton,  the anniversary was overshadowed by disagreements between Russia and Poland about their respective roles in World War II. </p><p>The bushfires , fuelled in a large part by the relentless drought, have brought the climate change debate to the fore in Australia. But the prime minister – a big supporter of the fossil fuel industry – has refused to make any changes to the government’s climate policy. This week the state of New South Wales said it would open an independent inquiry into the on-going fires to examine both the causes and how the state responded to them. Shaimaa Khalil met people from a once thriving tourist town on the coast which went up in flames on New Year’s Eve. </p><p>Politicians in Ireland are making their final pitches before voters head to the polls next Thursday. For generations two centrist parties - Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil - have dominated the country’s politics and, in recent years, the two have been in an uneasy alliance. Fine Gael’s leader Leo Varadkar, of Indian heritage and openly gay, has been something of a poster boy for the new Ireland. While his government has won plaudits from some corners overseas, particularly for its handling of Brexit, it is facing growing criticism at home. Ireland’s political scene is fast fragmenting, says Kieran Cooke.</p><p>Many think of Antarctica as a vast empty expanse of snow and ice, punctuated by the odd penguin or polar explorer. But actually the world’s southernmost continent is home to 75 research stations run by 30 countries. Justin Rowlatt was there for tow months with a team of British and American scientists reporting on the most complex scientific field project in Antarctic history. But thanks to a storm, he spent a bit longer than planned at the US research station, McMurdo and discovered the delights and the drawbacks of life in the world’s coldest town.</p><p>Jordan has one of the highest levels of water scarcity in the world. A warming planet and population growth are making the problem worse. But increasing numbers of women there are picking up pliers, spanners and drain rods and taking matters into their own hands. In the capital Amman, Charlie Faulkner met the country’s first female plumber.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz overshadowed by rows over history.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Much thought this week on borders, on nationality and how we get on with our neighbours even at the commemorations to mark the liberation of Auschwitz. The  Nazis murdered 1.1 million people at the death camp - ninety per cent of them Jews, but also Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and people from the Roma and Sinti minorities. Two hundred survivors and world leaders from 60 countries. United in remembering but, 75 years on says Adam Easton,  the anniversary was overshadowed by disagreements between Russia and Poland about their respective roles in World War II. </p><p>The bushfires , fuelled in a large part by the relentless drought, have brought the climate change debate to the fore in Australia. But the prime minister – a big supporter of the fossil fuel industry – has refused to make any changes to the government’s climate policy. This week the state of New South Wales said it would open an independent inquiry into the on-going fires to examine both the causes and how the state responded to them. Shaimaa Khalil met people from a once thriving tourist town on the coast which went up in flames on New Year’s Eve. </p><p>Politicians in Ireland are making their final pitches before voters head to the polls next Thursday. For generations two centrist parties - Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil - have dominated the country’s politics and, in recent years, the two have been in an uneasy alliance. Fine Gael’s leader Leo Varadkar, of Indian heritage and openly gay, has been something of a poster boy for the new Ireland. While his government has won plaudits from some corners overseas, particularly for its handling of Brexit, it is facing growing criticism at home. Ireland’s political scene is fast fragmenting, says Kieran Cooke.</p><p>Many think of Antarctica as a vast empty expanse of snow and ice, punctuated by the odd penguin or polar explorer. But actually the world’s southernmost continent is home to 75 research stations run by 30 countries. Justin Rowlatt was there for tow months with a team of British and American scientists reporting on the most complex scientific field project in Antarctic history. But thanks to a storm, he spent a bit longer than planned at the US research station, McMurdo and discovered the delights and the drawbacks of life in the world’s coldest town.</p><p>Jordan has one of the highest levels of water scarcity in the world. A warming planet and population growth are making the problem worse. But increasing numbers of women there are picking up pliers, spanners and drain rods and taking matters into their own hands. In the capital Amman, Charlie Faulkner met the country’s first female plumber.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1739</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0820sd6.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0820sd6.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0820sd6.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0820sm3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0820sm3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0820sd6.mp3" fileSize="27824000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1739"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0820sm3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Own Correspondent</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stephen McDonnell describes the atmosphere in China while he is quarantined at home</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stephen McDonnell describes the atmosphere in China while he is quarantined at home</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stephen McDonnell describes the atmosphere in China while he is quarantined at home</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p02h1mw7.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1727</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p081ssmb.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p081ssmb.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p081ssmb.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p081stm4</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p081stm4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p081ssmb.mp3" fileSize="27632000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1727"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p081stm4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Lockdown in China</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Hundreds of foreign nationals are being evacuated from Wuhan, the centre of China's coronavirus outbreak, as more deaths and cases are confirmed. British citizens being flown back to the UK from the city will be put in quarantine for two weeks. Stephen McDonnell was recently in Hubei province where the disease was first identified and is now back in Beijing. He too has been told to stay at home for a fortnight and he reflects on how even the Chinese capital feels eerily deserted. </p><p>This month, Colombia’s war crimes tribunal, the court which was created as part of the 2016 peace deal between the government and the left wing guerrillas known as the FARC or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, began hearing testimony about the illegal recruitment of children and teenagers. The FARC denies that it ever forced underage soldiers to fight. But the Prosecutor General’s office says the guerrillas recruited more than 5,000 minors during the decades long conflict. Matthew Charles visited one of the worst affected communities in the eastern province of Vaupes . </p><p>It’s been a year since a dam at a mine in Brazil collapsed, killing 270 people. The dam, near Brumadinho in the province of Minas Gerais was owned by the mining company Vale - and just last week 11 of its employees, including its former President, were charged with murder over the incident. While investigations into how it collapsed and who’s to blame continue, the community next to the iron ore mine is struggling to pick up the pieces. Katy Watson returned to speak to survivors. </p><p>The Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has just moved from Germany to the UK. In 2015 he was released from house arrest and to much fanfare arrived in Berlin. Berliners were thrilled to give refuge to such a global star. And Ai Weiwei said he loved Germany. But since then the mutual admiration has faded: Ai Weiwei has given a series of interviews in which he’s said he’s leaving Berlin in part because Germans are rude, racist and authoritarian. In Germany that has sparked outrage and some soul searching. Damien McGuinness wonders whether Germans really are impolite or simply misunderstood. </p><p>New York's health care system is often accused of being expensive and labyrinthine. Yet a visit to two hospitals in Brooklyn and Manhattan left Laura Trevelyan feeling curiously uplifted, despite the physical pain, and the bureaucracy of US healthcare. On her odyssey through the emergency rooms, she made some new friends while guided by an old one.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stephen McDonnell describes the atmosphere in China while he is quarantined at home</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Hundreds of foreign nationals are being evacuated from Wuhan, the centre of China's coronavirus outbreak, as more deaths and cases are confirmed. British citizens being flown back to the UK from the city will be put in quarantine for two weeks. Stephen McDonnell was recently in Hubei province where the disease was first identified and is now back in Beijing. He too has been told to stay at home for a fortnight and he reflects on how even the Chinese capital feels eerily deserted. </p><p>This month, Colombia’s war crimes tribunal, the court which was created as part of the 2016 peace deal between the government and the left wing guerrillas known as the FARC or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, began hearing testimony about the illegal recruitment of children and teenagers. The FARC denies that it ever forced underage soldiers to fight. But the Prosecutor General’s office says the guerrillas recruited more than 5,000 minors during the decades long conflict. Matthew Charles visited one of the worst affected communities in the eastern province of Vaupes . </p><p>It’s been a year since a dam at a mine in Brazil collapsed, killing 270 people. The dam, near Brumadinho in the province of Minas Gerais was owned by the mining company Vale - and just last week 11 of its employees, including its former President, were charged with murder over the incident. While investigations into how it collapsed and who’s to blame continue, the community next to the iron ore mine is struggling to pick up the pieces. Katy Watson returned to speak to survivors. </p><p>The Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has just moved from Germany to the UK. In 2015 he was released from house arrest and to much fanfare arrived in Berlin. Berliners were thrilled to give refuge to such a global star. And Ai Weiwei said he loved Germany. But since then the mutual admiration has faded: Ai Weiwei has given a series of interviews in which he’s said he’s leaving Berlin in part because Germans are rude, racist and authoritarian. In Germany that has sparked outrage and some soul searching. Damien McGuinness wonders whether Germans really are impolite or simply misunderstood. </p><p>New York's health care system is often accused of being expensive and labyrinthine. Yet a visit to two hospitals in Brooklyn and Manhattan left Laura Trevelyan feeling curiously uplifted, despite the physical pain, and the bureaucracy of US healthcare. On her odyssey through the emergency rooms, she made some new friends while guided by an old one.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1726</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0827xv9.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0827xv9.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0827xv9.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0827yc2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0827yc2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0827xv9.mp3" fileSize="27616000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1726"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0827yc2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Salvini and The Sardines</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The anti-nationalist protesters in Italy and the man they are trying to stop - Mark Lowen meets members of the Sardines as well the hard-line politician Matteo Salvini who is hoping to become Prime Minister.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories:</p><p>In Cape Verde, Colin Freeman finds out why Europe’s drug problem is also a problem for the Atlantic islands.</p><p>In Greece, Tulip Mazumdar visits the Lesbos migrant camp built for 2,000 people and now home to more than 18,000.</p><p>In China, Yvonne Murray gets to know her new neighbours - rats. According to the Chinese zodiac, they are thought to be ambitious and clever, hard-working and imaginative but she finds them a little less appealing.</p><p>And Fergal Keane reflects on heroism, compassion and the remarkable story of a woman who sheltered a man who plotted to kill Adolf Hitler.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The anti-nationalist protesters in Italy and the man they are trying to stop.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The anti-nationalist protesters in Italy and the man they are trying to stop - Mark Lowen meets members of the Sardines as well the hard-line politician Matteo Salvini who is hoping to become Prime Minister.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories:</p><p>In Cape Verde, Colin Freeman finds out why Europe’s drug problem is also a problem for the Atlantic islands.</p><p>In Greece, Tulip Mazumdar visits the Lesbos migrant camp built for 2,000 people and now home to more than 18,000.</p><p>In China, Yvonne Murray gets to know her new neighbours - rats. According to the Chinese zodiac, they are thought to be ambitious and clever, hard-working and imaginative but she finds them a little less appealing.</p><p>And Fergal Keane reflects on heroism, compassion and the remarkable story of a woman who sheltered a man who plotted to kill Adolf Hitler.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p081cxkz.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p081cxkz.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p081cxkz.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p081cxsh</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p081cxsh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p081cxkz.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p081cxsh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Angola's Asymmetrical Billionaire</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Isabel dos Santos is the billionaire daughter of the former president of Angola and Africa’s richest woman. She claims to be a self-made businesswoman. But more than 700,000 documents, recently leaked from her business empire, suggest otherwise. The emails, charts, contracts, audits, and accounts in the so-called Luanda Leaks have put her under intense scrutiny by her bank and the Angolan government. But in an interview with Andrew Harding she batted aside allegations of corruption and nepotism. </p><p>Escalating violence in Libya has encouraged a growing number of its citizens to flee and risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Sally Hayden has been on board a rescue boat off the Libyan coast. </p><p>The 18 year Afghan conflict has killed tens of thousands of Afghans, more than 2,400 American troops and cost the US around $900 billion. President Donald Trump has often said he wants to remove the estimated 13,000 U.S. troops remaining in Afghanistan. That would leave more of the fight against the Taliban to the Afghan security forces. But in Helmand Province Nanna Muus Steffesen found that Afghan soldiers and police are already suffering devastating casualties.</p><p>Famed for its traditional shoulder-shaking iskista dancing, mesinko-playing minstrels and live bands playing Ethio-Jazz, the Addis Ababa music scene has always drawn on a vibrant past. Now a new generation of producers and DJs are mixing Ethiopia's tribal, religious and jazz sounds with thumping garage beats to create a new form known locally as Ethiopian Electronic. James Jeffrey hit the dance floor. </p><p>World leaders gathered in Jerusalem this week to mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp - where more than a million people, most of them Jews, were murdered by the Nazis.  The French President Emmanuel Macron warned that seventy-five years on, the shadow of anti-Semitism was expanding.  Just fifteen years ago, the French Riviera city of Nice was home to over  20,000 Jews. That’s now dwindled to three thousand. During the Second World War, Nice witnessed one of the most vicious round-ups of Jews in Western Europe. Next week, it will unveil a memorial wall of Holocaust victims. One of the names engraved on it is that of Edith (Ay-deet) Mueller. But her teenage daughter Huguette had a narrow escape - as Rosie Whitehouse discovered.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Africa's richest woman says she won't be pigeon holed and the stories about her are lies.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Isabel dos Santos is the billionaire daughter of the former president of Angola and Africa’s richest woman. She claims to be a self-made businesswoman. But more than 700,000 documents, recently leaked from her business empire, suggest otherwise. The emails, charts, contracts, audits, and accounts in the so-called Luanda Leaks have put her under intense scrutiny by her bank and the Angolan government. But in an interview with Andrew Harding she batted aside allegations of corruption and nepotism. </p><p>Escalating violence in Libya has encouraged a growing number of its citizens to flee and risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Sally Hayden has been on board a rescue boat off the Libyan coast. </p><p>The 18 year Afghan conflict has killed tens of thousands of Afghans, more than 2,400 American troops and cost the US around $900 billion. President Donald Trump has often said he wants to remove the estimated 13,000 U.S. troops remaining in Afghanistan. That would leave more of the fight against the Taliban to the Afghan security forces. But in Helmand Province Nanna Muus Steffesen found that Afghan soldiers and police are already suffering devastating casualties.</p><p>Famed for its traditional shoulder-shaking iskista dancing, mesinko-playing minstrels and live bands playing Ethio-Jazz, the Addis Ababa music scene has always drawn on a vibrant past. Now a new generation of producers and DJs are mixing Ethiopia's tribal, religious and jazz sounds with thumping garage beats to create a new form known locally as Ethiopian Electronic. James Jeffrey hit the dance floor. </p><p>World leaders gathered in Jerusalem this week to mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp - where more than a million people, most of them Jews, were murdered by the Nazis.  The French President Emmanuel Macron warned that seventy-five years on, the shadow of anti-Semitism was expanding.  Just fifteen years ago, the French Riviera city of Nice was home to over  20,000 Jews. That’s now dwindled to three thousand. During the Second World War, Nice witnessed one of the most vicious round-ups of Jews in Western Europe. Next week, it will unveil a memorial wall of Holocaust victims. One of the names engraved on it is that of Edith (Ay-deet) Mueller. But her teenage daughter Huguette had a narrow escape - as Rosie Whitehouse discovered.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:31:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1741</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08155lf.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08155lf.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p08155lf.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p081562z</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p081562z</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p08155lf.mp3" fileSize="27856000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1741"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p081562z</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 19/01/2020</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from:</p><p>Vincent Ni on a Chinese man who, like him, has come to Britain and is in his mid-thirties - but there the similarities abruptly end. What does living here undocumented mean in practical terms and why does he do it?</p><p>With the approach of Holocaust Memorial Day, which this year marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Adam Shaw reflects on the striking contemporary relevance of his own father's refugee status and escape from Nazi persecution in places as varied as a country estate in Northumberland and a "Lord of the Flies"-like "school" in Scotland. In a letter addressed to his father's grandchildren, he reveals how this child refugee managed to survive largely alone and ponders whether this story is as remote from our experience as we might first imagine.</p><p>Emilie Filou visits Pembrokeshire to meet the bug champions of St Davids and how an entomologist's start-up, created with her chef husband, is trying to influence how children think about what they eat. Can their bold ideas wreak a revolution in the city of the country's patron saint?</p><p>In Kent petrol-head Martin Gurdon ponders the reasons for - and implications of - today's teenagers not driving as much as previous generations. </p><p>And in Middlesbrough, Martin Vennard finds that while the town is proud of its explorer son 250 years on from James Cook's exploration of the Antipodes, it doesn't necessarily know a great deal about him. And that matters, he says, because Cook's life has significant contemporary relevance for today's Tees-siders. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Being undocumented, a refugee when ten, bug pasta, young drivers, a Captain Cook legacy.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from:</p><p>Vincent Ni on a Chinese man who, like him, has come to Britain and is in his mid-thirties - but there the similarities abruptly end. What does living here undocumented mean in practical terms and why does he do it?</p><p>With the approach of Holocaust Memorial Day, which this year marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Adam Shaw reflects on the striking contemporary relevance of his own father's refugee status and escape from Nazi persecution in places as varied as a country estate in Northumberland and a "Lord of the Flies"-like "school" in Scotland. In a letter addressed to his father's grandchildren, he reveals how this child refugee managed to survive largely alone and ponders whether this story is as remote from our experience as we might first imagine.</p><p>Emilie Filou visits Pembrokeshire to meet the bug champions of St Davids and how an entomologist's start-up, created with her chef husband, is trying to influence how children think about what they eat. Can their bold ideas wreak a revolution in the city of the country's patron saint?</p><p>In Kent petrol-head Martin Gurdon ponders the reasons for - and implications of - today's teenagers not driving as much as previous generations. </p><p>And in Middlesbrough, Martin Vennard finds that while the town is proud of its explorer son 250 years on from James Cook's exploration of the Antipodes, it doesn't necessarily know a great deal about him. And that matters, he says, because Cook's life has significant contemporary relevance for today's Tees-siders. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2020 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1662</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p080rnj9.mp3" length="26592000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p080rnj9.mp3" length="26592000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p080rnj9.mp3" length="26592000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p080rnnd</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p080rnnd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p080rnj9.mp3" fileSize="26592000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1662"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p080rnnd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Japanese Justice and the Fugitive CEO</title><description><![CDATA[<p>When Carlos Ghosn skipped bail in Tokyo last month the world was flabbergasted. Despite being under intense surveillance while out on bail, with undercover agents tailing him whenever he left his house, the ex-Nissan boss somehow hot-footed it onto a private jet and made it to Lebanon. Now that the dust has settled, the spotlight has been turned onto what some call, Japan’s "hostage justice" system. The country has an enviably low crime rate which is often attributed to a small income gap and full employment, but Rupert Wingfield Hayes says many people are just terrified of being arrested.</p><p>Lebanon, Carlos Ghosn’s temporary bolt hole, is a country often caught up in all manner of international rows and intrigues. It is also one of the many countries in the Middle East where Iran determinedly exerts its influence. The Iranian general Qassem Soleimani helped to spread that influence through the Shia Islamist political party and militant group , Hezbollah. So in the wake of Soleimani’s killing in a US drone strike, Hezbollah has been determined to mourn him. Lizzie Porter attends one such memorial event in the south of the country. </p><p>In India there have been violent demonstrations against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act, or CAA. The new law gives amnesty to illegal immigrants from three neighbouring countries, but excludes followers of Islam. So Indian Muslims whose family might have lived in the same spot for generations, but don’t have the paperwork to prove it, could suddenly find themselves stateless. Protesters, including students and Bollywood stars, say the law serves the ruling BJP party’s goal of remaking India as a Hindu homeland and Yogita Limaye says many citizens are troubled – including non Muslims. </p><p>China has also been under the spotlight for its treatment of a mostly-Muslim sector of its society; the Turkic-speaking ethnic minorities in its far west. The Chinese state has detained an estimated one million people in high-security prison camps across Xinjiang since 2017 – most of them ethnic Uighurs. Beijing says that these are vocational or re-education camps. But has China’s state control reached new levels of persecution and is it being extended beyond its borders? Claire Press met with several Kazakhs north of Almaty who’d been imprisoned in China. </p><p>It may be a global leader in solar and wind power, and last year sold more electric cars than the rest of the world combined. But China is also the planet’s biggest consumer and producer of coal. It has to cut back drastically to bring carbon emissions to a peak by 2030 and fulfil a pledge made as part of the 2015 Paris agreement. However Beijing is still approving new coal-fired plants as the economy slows. On a trip to Inner Mongolia Robin Brant discover that people are not always keen to make the transition to cleaner alternatives.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Our correspondent on a troubling authoritarianism inside Japan's "hostage justice" system</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>When Carlos Ghosn skipped bail in Tokyo last month the world was flabbergasted. Despite being under intense surveillance while out on bail, with undercover agents tailing him whenever he left his house, the ex-Nissan boss somehow hot-footed it onto a private jet and made it to Lebanon. Now that the dust has settled, the spotlight has been turned onto what some call, Japan’s "hostage justice" system. The country has an enviably low crime rate which is often attributed to a small income gap and full employment, but Rupert Wingfield Hayes says many people are just terrified of being arrested.</p><p>Lebanon, Carlos Ghosn’s temporary bolt hole, is a country often caught up in all manner of international rows and intrigues. It is also one of the many countries in the Middle East where Iran determinedly exerts its influence. The Iranian general Qassem Soleimani helped to spread that influence through the Shia Islamist political party and militant group , Hezbollah. So in the wake of Soleimani’s killing in a US drone strike, Hezbollah has been determined to mourn him. Lizzie Porter attends one such memorial event in the south of the country. </p><p>In India there have been violent demonstrations against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act, or CAA. The new law gives amnesty to illegal immigrants from three neighbouring countries, but excludes followers of Islam. So Indian Muslims whose family might have lived in the same spot for generations, but don’t have the paperwork to prove it, could suddenly find themselves stateless. Protesters, including students and Bollywood stars, say the law serves the ruling BJP party’s goal of remaking India as a Hindu homeland and Yogita Limaye says many citizens are troubled – including non Muslims. </p><p>China has also been under the spotlight for its treatment of a mostly-Muslim sector of its society; the Turkic-speaking ethnic minorities in its far west. The Chinese state has detained an estimated one million people in high-security prison camps across Xinjiang since 2017 – most of them ethnic Uighurs. Beijing says that these are vocational or re-education camps. But has China’s state control reached new levels of persecution and is it being extended beyond its borders? Claire Press met with several Kazakhs north of Almaty who’d been imprisoned in China. </p><p>It may be a global leader in solar and wind power, and last year sold more electric cars than the rest of the world combined. But China is also the planet’s biggest consumer and producer of coal. It has to cut back drastically to bring carbon emissions to a peak by 2030 and fulfil a pledge made as part of the 2015 Paris agreement. However Beijing is still approving new coal-fired plants as the economy slows. On a trip to Inner Mongolia Robin Brant discover that people are not always keen to make the transition to cleaner alternatives.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1746</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p080r9t7.mp3" length="27936000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p080r9t7.mp3" length="27936000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p080r9t7.mp3" length="27936000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p080r9wm</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p080r9wm</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p080r9t7.mp3" fileSize="27936000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1746"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p080r9wm</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Iran's Divided Loyalties</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Iranian government held an official funeral on Tuesday for General Qassem Soleimani killed by a US airstrike in Baghdad. There were emotional speeches in the general’s home town of Kerman in southeast Iran and so many mourners turned out that at least 50 were killed in the crush. On Twitter the Iranian Foreign Minister had a message for President Donald Trump: "Have you seen such a sea of humanity in your life?... Do you still think you can break the will of a great nation and its people?" But were the huge crowds really a sign of national unity? Lois Pryce who wrote a book about crossing Iran on a motorbike and who has friends both inside the country and across the 2 million strong Iranian diaspora finds public opinion far from unanimous. </p><p>Ever since independence from the USSR almost three decades ago, there’s never been an Uzbek election which outsiders were willing to call free or fair. But this time was meant to be different. On the 22nd of December, Uzbekistan ran its first elections to the parliament and local councils since the country’s long-running authoritarian president Islam Karimov died three years ago. Uzbekistan has long been one of the world’s most repressive countries and under Karimov voting was more of a ritual than an exercise of choice. But some hoped that the man who took over, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, (Meer-zee Yoi -yev) might allow some real reform. A record 25 million dollars were earmarked to run the elections, and Ibrat Safo found a real buzz in the air but wondered what lay beneath.</p><p>Germany has long been considered a leader in renewable energy – a model even for others to follow with its subsidies for wind and solar. But its so-called “Energiewende” (Ener - GEE -vender ) or energy transition” from fossil fuels to renewables has stalled and it still relies on coal for 40 per cent of electricity generation. That will be phased out within the next eighteen years and nuclear energy will end too by 2022 and some worry whether there will be enough energy to heat homes and keep the lights on. Caroline Bayley has been to one former coal town in the industrial Ruhr region which is under-going its own energy transition.</p><p>The gargantuan Palace of the Parliament built by Romania’s communist-era dictator, Nicolae Ceaușescu, still looms over the centre of Bucharest. About one-fifth of the capital was bulldozed to make way for the so-called House of the People, its satellite buildings, and the grand avenue leading up to it which was supposed to be a longer, wider version of Champs-Élysee in Paris. Forty thousand residents were forcibly rehoused. The building was long reviled as an evil fortress, a symbol of oppression but it now houses the country’s parliament and Romanians are learning to love it and put it in their Instagram feeds says Tessa Dunlop. </p><p>More and more tourists are travelling to the Amazon rainforest to drink – and later vomit - a foul tasting liquid containing a natural hallucinogen called Ayahuasca [a-ya-wass-ka]. Indigenous people have been brewing the concoction for thousands of years, mostly for religious or spiritual purposes. It’s considered a medicine, a way to heal internal wounds and reconnect with nature. But, as Simon Maybin’s been finding out in a remote part of Peru, not all the plant’s traditional users are happy about the wave of Westerners in search of a slice of the psychedelic action.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Reactions to General Suleimani's targeted killing at home and in the Iranian diaspora.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Iranian government held an official funeral on Tuesday for General Qassem Soleimani killed by a US airstrike in Baghdad. There were emotional speeches in the general’s home town of Kerman in southeast Iran and so many mourners turned out that at least 50 were killed in the crush. On Twitter the Iranian Foreign Minister had a message for President Donald Trump: "Have you seen such a sea of humanity in your life?... Do you still think you can break the will of a great nation and its people?" But were the huge crowds really a sign of national unity? Lois Pryce who wrote a book about crossing Iran on a motorbike and who has friends both inside the country and across the 2 million strong Iranian diaspora finds public opinion far from unanimous. </p><p>Ever since independence from the USSR almost three decades ago, there’s never been an Uzbek election which outsiders were willing to call free or fair. But this time was meant to be different. On the 22nd of December, Uzbekistan ran its first elections to the parliament and local councils since the country’s long-running authoritarian president Islam Karimov died three years ago. Uzbekistan has long been one of the world’s most repressive countries and under Karimov voting was more of a ritual than an exercise of choice. But some hoped that the man who took over, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, (Meer-zee Yoi -yev) might allow some real reform. A record 25 million dollars were earmarked to run the elections, and Ibrat Safo found a real buzz in the air but wondered what lay beneath.</p><p>Germany has long been considered a leader in renewable energy – a model even for others to follow with its subsidies for wind and solar. But its so-called “Energiewende” (Ener - GEE -vender ) or energy transition” from fossil fuels to renewables has stalled and it still relies on coal for 40 per cent of electricity generation. That will be phased out within the next eighteen years and nuclear energy will end too by 2022 and some worry whether there will be enough energy to heat homes and keep the lights on. Caroline Bayley has been to one former coal town in the industrial Ruhr region which is under-going its own energy transition.</p><p>The gargantuan Palace of the Parliament built by Romania’s communist-era dictator, Nicolae Ceaușescu, still looms over the centre of Bucharest. About one-fifth of the capital was bulldozed to make way for the so-called House of the People, its satellite buildings, and the grand avenue leading up to it which was supposed to be a longer, wider version of Champs-Élysee in Paris. Forty thousand residents were forcibly rehoused. The building was long reviled as an evil fortress, a symbol of oppression but it now houses the country’s parliament and Romanians are learning to love it and put it in their Instagram feeds says Tessa Dunlop. </p><p>More and more tourists are travelling to the Amazon rainforest to drink – and later vomit - a foul tasting liquid containing a natural hallucinogen called Ayahuasca [a-ya-wass-ka]. Indigenous people have been brewing the concoction for thousands of years, mostly for religious or spiritual purposes. It’s considered a medicine, a way to heal internal wounds and reconnect with nature. But, as Simon Maybin’s been finding out in a remote part of Peru, not all the plant’s traditional users are happy about the wave of Westerners in search of a slice of the psychedelic action.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2020 12:36:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1699</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0803xmy.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0803xmy.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0803xmy.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p08040ff</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08040ff</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0803xmy.mp3" fileSize="27184000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1699"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p08040ff</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Death In Baghdad</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The assassination in a US air strike of the senior Iranian general Qasem Soleimani raises the prospect of a response from Teheran that few can predict. Jim Muir reports on the significance of the US target and what might happen next.</p><p>Thirty years ago the United States acted to remove another foreign threat, this time closer to home. Following the US invasion of Panama shortly before Christmas, the country's military leader General Manuel Noriega surrendered to US troops on January the 3rd, 1990. David Adams was there.</p><p>In Ireland it used to be common for unmarried mothers to be confined in state-funded institutions. Often their babies, once born, were taken without their consent and given up for adoption. Deirdre Finnerty has met one of the thousands of women who were sent to these mother and baby homes.</p><p>Air travel in the Democratic Republic of Congo matters because there are few reliable roads. But there are serious concerns about the safety of flying and many people can't afford it anyway. Most Congolese who need to cover long distances do so - precariously - by boat. Olivia Acland has been aboard.</p><p>Maximum Irritability is a little known but nonetheless debilitating condition sometimes encountered high in the mountains on Pakistan’s border with India, as David Baillie discovered when he took a trip in a helicopter courtesy of the Pakistani army.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The killing of an Iranian general and the potential consequences for a nervous world</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The assassination in a US air strike of the senior Iranian general Qasem Soleimani raises the prospect of a response from Teheran that few can predict. Jim Muir reports on the significance of the US target and what might happen next.</p><p>Thirty years ago the United States acted to remove another foreign threat, this time closer to home. Following the US invasion of Panama shortly before Christmas, the country's military leader General Manuel Noriega surrendered to US troops on January the 3rd, 1990. David Adams was there.</p><p>In Ireland it used to be common for unmarried mothers to be confined in state-funded institutions. Often their babies, once born, were taken without their consent and given up for adoption. Deirdre Finnerty has met one of the thousands of women who were sent to these mother and baby homes.</p><p>Air travel in the Democratic Republic of Congo matters because there are few reliable roads. But there are serious concerns about the safety of flying and many people can't afford it anyway. Most Congolese who need to cover long distances do so - precariously - by boat. Olivia Acland has been aboard.</p><p>Maximum Irritability is a little known but nonetheless debilitating condition sometimes encountered high in the mountains on Pakistan’s border with India, as David Baillie discovered when he took a trip in a helicopter courtesy of the Pakistani army.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1730</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07zhzmg.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07zhzmg.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07zhzmg.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07zhzvx</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07zhzvx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07zhzmg.mp3" fileSize="27680000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1730"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07zhzvx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Meaning of Home</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Until recently, a small, independent and politically neutral Syrian radio station was broadcasting in exile from Istanbul. But Radio Alwan was forced to close when the Trump administration made the decision last year to pull $200m of funding for Syria’s stabilisation projects, knocking the station off air. Some of the station’s staff are scattered across Europe and those who have remained in Turkey say they now feel vulnerable following the Turkish offensive in NE Syria and what they see as a hardening of the country’s position on refugees. So where do you belong if your adopted country no longer welcomes you and the door to your own country is closed? Emma Jane Kirby met ex Radio Alwan broadcasters in Istanbul to try understand why the word “home” no longer has any meaning for them. </p><p>Across Latin America millions have left their homes to better their families' lives. These have been years of huge outward migration from Venezuela, Central America and Cuba. Will Grant has now spent more than a decade living in countries which many of their own citizens feel forced to leave. </p><p>In the municipality of Has, in the rural mountainous north of Albania, it’s estimated that one in five people has left over the past ten years. It used to mainly be men, but now even primary age children are making perilous journeys into richer parts of Europe including the UK. Jessica Bateman asked one teacher how it feels to watch your school slowly disappear. </p><p>If you are forced to leave home, the word evokes a sense of loss. In the early 1970s, the dictator who ruled Uganda, Idi Amin, suddenly decided that the country’s long-standing community of Asians – mostly small business people of Indian origin – should be kicked out. He argued they put ethnic Ugandans at a disadvantage. Reha Kansara grew up with her mother's memories of life in her "East African paradise" and has just made her first visit to Uganda to see the country for herself. </p><p>The story of the nativity often inspires people to show compassion to the homeless around Christmas. Pregnant women and new mothers are particularly vulnerable. But the challenges of new life don’t end with finding a safe place to stay. On the occupied West Bank, Jeremy Bristow recently travelled with a group of female medics to visit the minority Arab Bedouin population.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents reflect on what 'home' means to refugees, migrants, nomads and others</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Until recently, a small, independent and politically neutral Syrian radio station was broadcasting in exile from Istanbul. But Radio Alwan was forced to close when the Trump administration made the decision last year to pull $200m of funding for Syria’s stabilisation projects, knocking the station off air. Some of the station’s staff are scattered across Europe and those who have remained in Turkey say they now feel vulnerable following the Turkish offensive in NE Syria and what they see as a hardening of the country’s position on refugees. So where do you belong if your adopted country no longer welcomes you and the door to your own country is closed? Emma Jane Kirby met ex Radio Alwan broadcasters in Istanbul to try understand why the word “home” no longer has any meaning for them. </p><p>Across Latin America millions have left their homes to better their families' lives. These have been years of huge outward migration from Venezuela, Central America and Cuba. Will Grant has now spent more than a decade living in countries which many of their own citizens feel forced to leave. </p><p>In the municipality of Has, in the rural mountainous north of Albania, it’s estimated that one in five people has left over the past ten years. It used to mainly be men, but now even primary age children are making perilous journeys into richer parts of Europe including the UK. Jessica Bateman asked one teacher how it feels to watch your school slowly disappear. </p><p>If you are forced to leave home, the word evokes a sense of loss. In the early 1970s, the dictator who ruled Uganda, Idi Amin, suddenly decided that the country’s long-standing community of Asians – mostly small business people of Indian origin – should be kicked out. He argued they put ethnic Ugandans at a disadvantage. Reha Kansara grew up with her mother's memories of life in her "East African paradise" and has just made her first visit to Uganda to see the country for herself. </p><p>The story of the nativity often inspires people to show compassion to the homeless around Christmas. Pregnant women and new mothers are particularly vulnerable. But the challenges of new life don’t end with finding a safe place to stay. On the occupied West Bank, Jeremy Bristow recently travelled with a group of female medics to visit the minority Arab Bedouin population.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2019 12:41:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1681</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0827z9h.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0827z9h.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0827z9h.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0827xmh</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0827xmh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0827z9h.mp3" fileSize="26896000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1681"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0827xmh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Taiwan's Bright Ideas</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Recent events in Hong Kong have made many people in Taiwan jumpy. Duncan Hewitt talks to a Taiwanese hacker and activist turned government minister who is full of ideas about how to improve life on the island. He finds an increasingly pluralistic and confident society, now more inclined to stand up to China.</p><p>Our main focus this week is on the natural world and we begin at the South Pole where Justin Rowlatt is holed up in a research station eating chips and patiently waiting for a change in the weather. </p><p>At the opposite pole,  we trek around Greenland. Some are calling this Artic country the Saudi Arabia of the Green future because it is so rich in rare earth metals. Horatio Clare reflects on exploitation in the wilderness.  </p><p>There are fears of plunder too in the Cayman Islands where the tourism industry is threatening to rip up great swathes of coral for the convenience of cruise ship passengers.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Taiwan, increasingly innovative, pluralistic and assertive, is standing up to China.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Recent events in Hong Kong have made many people in Taiwan jumpy. Duncan Hewitt talks to a Taiwanese hacker and activist turned government minister who is full of ideas about how to improve life on the island. He finds an increasingly pluralistic and confident society, now more inclined to stand up to China.</p><p>Our main focus this week is on the natural world and we begin at the South Pole where Justin Rowlatt is holed up in a research station eating chips and patiently waiting for a change in the weather. </p><p>At the opposite pole,  we trek around Greenland. Some are calling this Artic country the Saudi Arabia of the Green future because it is so rich in rare earth metals. Horatio Clare reflects on exploitation in the wilderness.  </p><p>There are fears of plunder too in the Cayman Islands where the tourism industry is threatening to rip up great swathes of coral for the convenience of cruise ship passengers.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1727</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07ylw2z.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07ylw2z.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07ylw2z.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07ylwk7</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07ylwk7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07ylw2z.mp3" fileSize="27632000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1727"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07ylwk7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The despair over India's failure to confront sexual violence. Why are the victims blamed?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced a zero tolerance policy towards violence against women when he took office. But Rajini Vaidyanathan says that for many victims his promises ring hollow. According to the latest figures from India's National Crime Records Bureau there were 33,658 female rape victims in 2017 which means one woman was raped every 15 minutes - and those are just the official figures. </p><p>Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been defending her government from accusations of genocide at the United Nation's top court in the Hague this week but Anna Holligan finds the former Nobel Peace Prize winner tight lipped when it comes to two words - rape and Rohingya. </p><p>Viktor Orban's government has stopped funding for gender studies, calling them 'an ideology not a science'. The move has sent a chill down the spines of Hungarian academics says Angela Saini. </p><p>In Haiti Thomas Rees tunes into the intimate and intense relationship between music, politics and protest </p><p>And from the archive a memorable dispatch from the late Alex Duval Smith .... if you are worried whether your Christmas cards will arrive in time, spare a thought for Mali's most dedicated mailman who has to make deliveries in a city without postcodes.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The despair over India's failure to confront sexual violence. Why are the victims blamed?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced a zero tolerance policy towards violence against women when he took office. But Rajini Vaidyanathan says that for many victims his promises ring hollow. According to the latest figures from India's National Crime Records Bureau there were 33,658 female rape victims in 2017 which means one woman was raped every 15 minutes - and those are just the official figures. </p><p>Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been defending her government from accusations of genocide at the United Nation's top court in the Hague this week but Anna Holligan finds the former Nobel Peace Prize winner tight lipped when it comes to two words - rape and Rohingya. </p><p>Viktor Orban's government has stopped funding for gender studies, calling them 'an ideology not a science'. The move has sent a chill down the spines of Hungarian academics says Angela Saini. </p><p>In Haiti Thomas Rees tunes into the intimate and intense relationship between music, politics and protest </p><p>And from the archive a memorable dispatch from the late Alex Duval Smith .... if you are worried whether your Christmas cards will arrive in time, spare a thought for Mali's most dedicated mailman who has to make deliveries in a city without postcodes.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1745</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07xwq8b.mp3" length="27920000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07xwq8b.mp3" length="27920000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07xwq8b.mp3" length="27920000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07xwqmd</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07xwqmd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07xwq8b.mp3" fileSize="27920000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1745"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07xwqmd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The fragile peace on the frontline in Eastern Ukraine</title><description><![CDATA[<p>When Russian forces took over parts of Ukraine in spring 2014, much of the world held its breath. Would Western countries side with Ukraine, and could the fighting spread further into Eastern Europe? While that kind of escalation did not happen, life in Eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed rebel forces and Ukraine’s army are still facing off, still looks something like wartime. As Jonah Fisher recently found, in this terrain, politicians, as well as soldiers, have to tread carefully.</p><p>This week Democratic members of Congress accelerated their push to impeach Donald Trump. Anthony Zurcher has been watching the hearings. He has had a front-row seat as history is written, but sometimes he wonders what history might make of it. </p><p>Since the early Nineties, the United Nations has held an annual conference to bring the world together to tackle the threat of climate change. This year's event in Madrid is meant to persuade the biggest polluters to rein in their emissions. But, as David Shukman reports, progress is as slow as ever.</p><p>A Norwegian pensioner convicted of spying in Moscow recently returned home in a spy swap. Frode Berg’s arrest caused controversy in Norway, with criticism of the use of civilians in espionage. Sarah Rainsford met Mr Berg in Oslo, soon after his release.</p><p>Prince William has just made his first visit to Kuwait. He will have found it to be a different place to what it was nearly three decades ago, when thousands died during Iraq's invasion and occupation of the country. Sumaya Bakhsh has recently visited Kuwait and discovered that, for some, a sense of loss still lingers. </p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1380. Producer: Neil Koenig</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Can peace gain a foothold in the deadlocked conflict in Eastern Ukraine?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>When Russian forces took over parts of Ukraine in spring 2014, much of the world held its breath. Would Western countries side with Ukraine, and could the fighting spread further into Eastern Europe? While that kind of escalation did not happen, life in Eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed rebel forces and Ukraine’s army are still facing off, still looks something like wartime. As Jonah Fisher recently found, in this terrain, politicians, as well as soldiers, have to tread carefully.</p><p>This week Democratic members of Congress accelerated their push to impeach Donald Trump. Anthony Zurcher has been watching the hearings. He has had a front-row seat as history is written, but sometimes he wonders what history might make of it. </p><p>Since the early Nineties, the United Nations has held an annual conference to bring the world together to tackle the threat of climate change. This year's event in Madrid is meant to persuade the biggest polluters to rein in their emissions. But, as David Shukman reports, progress is as slow as ever.</p><p>A Norwegian pensioner convicted of spying in Moscow recently returned home in a spy swap. Frode Berg’s arrest caused controversy in Norway, with criticism of the use of civilians in espionage. Sarah Rainsford met Mr Berg in Oslo, soon after his release.</p><p>Prince William has just made his first visit to Kuwait. He will have found it to be a different place to what it was nearly three decades ago, when thousands died during Iraq's invasion and occupation of the country. Sumaya Bakhsh has recently visited Kuwait and discovered that, for some, a sense of loss still lingers. </p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1381. Producer: Neil Koenig</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1739</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07x6mvf.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07x6mvf.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07x6mvf.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07x6mz2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07x6mz2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07x6mvf.mp3" fileSize="27824000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1739"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07x6mz2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Shunned in Sri Lanka</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Throughout Sri Lanka's decades long conflict, attention has focused on the confrontation between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils. The country’s Muslims, who are just 10 per cent of the population and see themselves as a separate ethnic group, have often been ignored. But that changed after this year's Easter Sunday attacks, carried out by a small cell of Sri Lankan Islamists, which claimed 250 lives. Since then many Muslims feel they have been demonised and ostracised. Our South Asia editor Jill McGivering has been in the main city, Colombo, to investigate. </p><p>Over the past few weeks there has been a fierce crackdown by the Iranian authorities on protests across the country. The number of fatalities keeps being revised upwards, but getting precise details is tricky when the Iranian government seems determined to keep outsiders and its own citizens in the dark. As Jiyar Gol explains, even under normal conditions, BBC Persian’s journalists, who broadcast to 20 million around the world and 10 million inside the country, must resort to ingenious tactics to gather and broadcast the news. In the middle of popular unrest and a media blackout, their job is even harder. </p><p>Celebrations have been taking place in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, after the transitional authorities officially dissolved the former ruling party of the deposed president, Omar al Bashir. Our former Sudan correspondent James Copnall went back to explore the changes and began in a girls' school in Khartoum. He found a new openness in almost every conversation and that newly gained freedoms have also led to a series of unprecedented street protests. </p><p>Protests are back again in the Georgian capital Tbilisi as thousands demand electoral reform. Recently police used water cannons to disperse protesters picketing the parliament building. Campaigners want a switch to proportional representation which they say would ensure a more democratic multi- party parliament. Since 2012 the country’s legislature has been dominated by the governing Georgian Dream party. Rayhan Demytrie talks to those who fear that Georgia’s fragile democracy may be at risk, thanks to one man -a billionaire with a James Bond style hilltop lair. </p><p>And how do you cover protests as a journalist when you are also pumping breast milk? Our South America correspondent Katy Watson needs to keep up the supply of milk for her new baby but she doesn't have an office job where she can plug a in pump and sit at a desk.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>After the Easter bomb attacks by Islamist militants, Sri Lanka's Muslims are shunned.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Throughout Sri Lanka's decades long conflict, attention has focused on the confrontation between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils. The country’s Muslims, who are just 10 per cent of the population and see themselves as a separate ethnic group, have often been ignored. But that changed after this year's Easter Sunday attacks, carried out by a small cell of Sri Lankan Islamists, which claimed 250 lives. Since then many Muslims feel they have been demonised and ostracised. Our South Asia editor Jill McGivering has been in the main city, Colombo, to investigate. </p><p>Over the past few weeks there has been a fierce crackdown by the Iranian authorities on protests across the country. The number of fatalities keeps being revised upwards, but getting precise details is tricky when the Iranian government seems determined to keep outsiders and its own citizens in the dark. As Jiyar Gol explains, even under normal conditions, BBC Persian’s journalists, who broadcast to 20 million around the world and 10 million inside the country, must resort to ingenious tactics to gather and broadcast the news. In the middle of popular unrest and a media blackout, their job is even harder. </p><p>Celebrations have been taking place in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, after the transitional authorities officially dissolved the former ruling party of the deposed president, Omar al Bashir. Our former Sudan correspondent James Copnall went back to explore the changes and began in a girls' school in Khartoum. He found a new openness in almost every conversation and that newly gained freedoms have also led to a series of unprecedented street protests. </p><p>Protests are back again in the Georgian capital Tbilisi as thousands demand electoral reform. Recently police used water cannons to disperse protesters picketing the parliament building. Campaigners want a switch to proportional representation which they say would ensure a more democratic multi- party parliament. Since 2012 the country’s legislature has been dominated by the governing Georgian Dream party. Rayhan Demytrie talks to those who fear that Georgia’s fragile democracy may be at risk, thanks to one man -a billionaire with a James Bond style hilltop lair. </p><p>And how do you cover protests as a journalist when you are also pumping breast milk? Our South America correspondent Katy Watson needs to keep up the supply of milk for her new baby but she doesn't have an office job where she can plug a in pump and sit at a desk.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1698</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07wjl0f.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07wjl0f.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07wjl0f.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07wjl5z</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07wjl5z</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07wjl0f.mp3" fileSize="27168000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1698"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07wjl5z</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Zimbabwe's excuses run dry</title><description><![CDATA[<p>It’s now two years since Robert Mugabe was pushed out of office by the military and replaced by Emerson Mnangagwa. For many Zimbabweans economic conditions- already dire - have actually got worse. Now to add to their  misery, there are water shortages and alarming evidence of the negative effect of climate change. But corruption and mismanagement have contributed to the power crisis and evening blackouts - it is no good just blaming the drought says Stephen Sackur. </p><p>When the Buddha stipulated the rules for monks, he said each should only have a few possessions; an alms bowl, a water bottle, robes, a needle and thread and a razor. But now in Cambodia,  within the folds of these saffron robes, there’s often a smartphone too says Sophia Smith Galer. </p><p>Saudi Arabia is experiencing genuine social change - with woman ripping off their scarves at football matches,  but there are still big questions over the man leading the process, Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman says Sebastian Usher. </p><p>Nearly half a century after a university uprising which led to the fall of the military junta, Katy Fallon is in Athens and finds policies by Greece’s new centre right government have led to fresh clashes between students and police.  </p><p>And Hugh Schofield takes us to a bizarre French micro state in a castle in southern Germany - a bolt hole for Nazi collaborators at the end of World War 2.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Water shortages and blackouts turn Zimbabwe into a ghostly place of shadows after sunset.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>It’s now two years since Robert Mugabe was pushed out of office by the military and replaced by Emerson Mnangagwa. For many Zimbabweans economic conditions- already dire - have actually got worse. Now to add to their  misery, there are water shortages and alarming evidence of the negative effect of climate change. But corruption and mismanagement have contributed to the power crisis and evening blackouts - it is no good just blaming the drought says Stephen Sackur. </p><p>When the Buddha stipulated the rules for monks, he said each should only have a few possessions; an alms bowl, a water bottle, robes, a needle and thread and a razor. But now in Cambodia,  within the folds of these saffron robes, there’s often a smartphone too says Sophia Smith Galer. </p><p>Saudi Arabia is experiencing genuine social change - with woman ripping off their scarves at football matches,  but there are still big questions over the man leading the process, Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman says Sebastian Usher. </p><p>Nearly half a century after a university uprising which led to the fall of the military junta, Katy Fallon is in Athens and finds policies by Greece’s new centre right government have led to fresh clashes between students and police.  </p><p>And Hugh Schofield takes us to a bizarre French micro state in a castle in southern Germany - a bolt hole for Nazi collaborators at the end of World War 2.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1719</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07vvr9m.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07vvr9m.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07vvr9m.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07vvrjf</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07vvrjf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07vvr9m.mp3" fileSize="27504000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1719"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07vvrjf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 17/11/2019</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers reflecting the range of contemporary life in the United Kingdom.
  1382. Dan Johnson reports direct from the flooded River Don in South Yorkshire where feelings are running high among locals about the response to the latest inundation. As the rain returns after an all-too-brief respite, he reflects on the area's carbon-generating past and the effects of climate change.
  1383. In Hartlepool, the BBC's Social Affairs Correspondent, Michael Buchanan, hears from a mother and father about their twenty year-long struggle with the corrosive effects on their domestic life and their position in the local community of their sons' misuse of drugs.
  1384. We visit Walthamstow in north-east London in the company of Emma Levine. She talks to customers and staff of a long-standing local daytime eatery which at night converts into a cocktail bar that attracts an entirely different clientele. Will the two businesses thrive together?
  1385. BBC Cymru Wales's Garry Owen visits Parc prison in Bridgend to learn about a pioneering project designed to foster the all-important bonds between prisoners and their children. He hears what inmates - and their relatives - think of the programme and how successful it is proving to be.
  1386. And Stephanie Power, who has a love-hate relationship with the UK's capital city, explains how a recent visit to London brought out the conflicted nature of her view of the metropolis. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Don valley floods, Hartlepool drug misuse, jellied eels, prisoners' children and London.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers reflecting the range of contemporary life in the United Kingdom.
  1387. Dan Johnson reports direct from the flooded River Don in South Yorkshire where feelings are running high among locals about the response to the latest inundation. As the rain returns after an all-too-brief respite, he reflects on the area's carbon-generating past and the effects of climate change.
  1388. In Hartlepool, the BBC's Social Affairs Correspondent, Michael Buchanan, hears from a mother and father about their twenty year-long struggle with the corrosive effects on their domestic life and their position in the local community of their sons' misuse of drugs.
  1389. We visit Walthamstow in north-east London in the company of Emma Levine. She talks to customers and staff of a long-standing local daytime eatery which at night converts into a cocktail bar that attracts an entirely different clientele. Will the two businesses thrive together?
  1390. BBC Cymru Wales's Garry Owen visits Parc prison in Bridgend to learn about a pioneering project designed to foster the all-important bonds between prisoners and their children. He hears what inmates - and their relatives - think of the programme and how successful it is proving to be.
  1391. And Stephanie Power, who has a love-hate relationship with the UK's capital city, explains how a recent visit to London brought out the conflicted nature of her view of the metropolis. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2019 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07v43cb.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07v43cb.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07v43cb.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07v44gf</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07v44gf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07v43cb.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07v44gf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>If we burn you burn with us</title><description><![CDATA[<p>They believe they are fighting for their way of life, for Hong Kong’s very existence, but the protesters know they can’t really win says Paul Adams. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world:</p><p>There is a saying in Russia “If he beats you - he loves you” hears Lucy Ash as she visits a refuge for the survivors of domestic violence in Moscow. “Twisted logic, yes, but it is still part of our mentality.” </p><p>In Ethiopia, Justin Rowlatt gets stung by killer bees as he examines successful attempts to re-green the region and restore long lost woodlands. </p><p>In Australia, bushfires burn. While scientists and firefighters agree that climate change is making things worse many leading politicians refuse to listen. Phil Mercer has seen the damage for himself. </p><p>And Joanne Robertson struggles to get a decent haircut in Paris and asks who is to blame?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The protesters who believe they are fighting for Hong Kong’s very existence</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>They believe they are fighting for their way of life, for Hong Kong’s very existence, but the protesters know they can’t really win says Paul Adams. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world:</p><p>There is a saying in Russia “If he beats you - he loves you” hears Lucy Ash as she visits a refuge for the survivors of domestic violence in Moscow. “Twisted logic, yes, but it is still part of our mentality.” </p><p>In Ethiopia, Justin Rowlatt gets stung by killer bees as he examines successful attempts to re-green the region and restore long lost woodlands. </p><p>In Australia, bushfires burn. While scientists and firefighters agree that climate change is making things worse many leading politicians refuse to listen. Phil Mercer has seen the damage for himself. </p><p>And Joanne Robertson struggles to get a decent haircut in Paris and asks who is to blame?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1721</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07v5htn.mp3" length="27536000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07v5htn.mp3" length="27536000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07v5htn.mp3" length="27536000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07v5hzl</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07v5hzl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07v5htn.mp3" fileSize="27536000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1721"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07v5hzl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A 'wow' moment in Latin America</title><description><![CDATA[<p>From coca farmer to president, to political exile - Katy Watson shares the story of Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first elected indigenous leader. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world:</p><p>In Austria, Bethany Bell reveals why the hare with amber eyes has returned to Vienna.</p><p>Finbarr Anderson is in Lebanon’s second city Tripoli, which is being called the ‘bride of the revolution’ because of its role in protests that have swept the country. </p><p>Chris Bockman visits a former factory in Southwest France now home to Yazidi families who fled violence in Iraq. </p><p>And Julia Buckley confesses to a crime in Tinsel Town and has an unsettling experience with the LAPD. </p><p>Producers: Joe Kent and Lucy Ash</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>From coca farmer to president, to political exile; the story of Bolivia’s Evo Morales</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>From coca farmer to president, to political exile - Katy Watson shares the story of Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first elected indigenous leader. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world:</p><p>In Austria, Bethany Bell reveals why the hare with amber eyes has returned to Vienna.</p><p>Finbarr Anderson is in Lebanon’s second city Tripoli, which is being called the ‘bride of the revolution’ because of its role in protests that have swept the country. </p><p>Chris Bockman visits a former factory in Southwest France now home to Yazidi families who fled violence in Iraq. </p><p>And Julia Buckley confesses to a crime in Tinsel Town and has an unsettling experience with the LAPD. </p><p>Producers: Joe Kent and Lucy Ash</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:14:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1715</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07tytlx.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07tytlx.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07tytlx.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07tyw9b</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07tyw9b</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07tytlx.mp3" fileSize="27440000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1715"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07tyw9b</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Stories Matter</title><description><![CDATA[<p>What the murder of a Mormon family in Mexico reveals about the country; Will Grant has long chronicled the violence of the ongoing drug war. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories:</p><p>Rajini Vaidyanathan reflects on the perils of living in Delhi having developed 'pollution anxiety' and become a smoker by proxy. </p><p>John Kampfner was in Berlin when the Wall fell. Thirty years on he's been back to see how the city has changed.</p><p>And how does a glass of radioactive water sound? It was once sold in Portugal with the promise of bringing health, strength and vigour. Margaret Bradley visits the, now abandoned, hotel that used it for baths, cooking and even colonic irrigation.</p><p>And a troubled nation writes itself another rousing chapter as South Africa wins the Rugby World Cup and the squad returns as heroes. It may only be a game, but stories matter, says Andrew Harding.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>What the murder of a Mormon family in Mexico reveals about the country</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>What the murder of a Mormon family in Mexico reveals about the country; Will Grant has long chronicled the violence of the ongoing drug war. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories:</p><p>Rajini Vaidyanathan reflects on the perils of living in Delhi having developed 'pollution anxiety' and become a smoker by proxy. </p><p>John Kampfner was in Berlin when the Wall fell. Thirty years on he's been back to see how the city has changed.</p><p>And how does a glass of radioactive water sound? It was once sold in Portugal with the promise of bringing health, strength and vigour. Margaret Bradley visits the, now abandoned, hotel that used it for baths, cooking and even colonic irrigation.</p><p>And a troubled nation writes itself another rousing chapter as South Africa wins the Rugby World Cup and the squad returns as heroes. It may only be a game, but stories matter, says Andrew Harding.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1714</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07th3c0.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07th3c0.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07th3c0.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07th3s3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07th3s3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07th3c0.mp3" fileSize="27424000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1714"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07th3s3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Albania's Iranian Guests</title><description><![CDATA[<p>From their base in Albania, some 3,000 Iranian exiles are committed to overthrowing the government of Iran. Linda Pressly finds out how some members of the M.E.K - the Mujahedin-e Khalq – are adapting to life in Europe. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories: </p><p>It's thirty years since the fall of Czechoslovakia's communist regime, but Chris Bowlby finds the ghostly remains of its past still looming large in one former steel town.</p><p>Long-sleeved shirt, trousers tucked into her socks and copious amounts of insect repellent – Sian Griffiths reports from Canada where tiny black legged ticks are migrating north and spreading disease. </p><p>“We Kenyan journalists joke that reporting on famine is easy: you just find your old script from a previous one - and repeat it” says Anna Mawathe as she considers one possible solution to hunger in her homeland. </p><p>And what happens when you get locked out of a motorhome in rural Andalucía, in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, with no wallet and no shoes. Tim Smith reports from Spain.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Iranian exiles fighting for change at home but struggling to adapt to life in Europe</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>From their base in Albania, some 3,000 Iranian exiles are committed to overthrowing the government of Iran. Linda Pressly finds out how some members of the M.E.K - the Mujahedin-e Khalq – are adapting to life in Europe. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories: </p><p>It's thirty years since the fall of Czechoslovakia's communist regime, but Chris Bowlby finds the ghostly remains of its past still looming large in one former steel town.</p><p>Long-sleeved shirt, trousers tucked into her socks and copious amounts of insect repellent – Sian Griffiths reports from Canada where tiny black legged ticks are migrating north and spreading disease. </p><p>“We Kenyan journalists joke that reporting on famine is easy: you just find your old script from a previous one - and repeat it” says Anna Mawathe as she considers one possible solution to hunger in her homeland. </p><p>And what happens when you get locked out of a motorhome in rural Andalucía, in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, with no wallet and no shoes. Tim Smith reports from Spain.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2019 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1719</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07t7x2f.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07t7x2f.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07t7x2f.mp3" length="27504000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07t7xjc</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07t7xjc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07t7x2f.mp3" fileSize="27504000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1719"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07t7xjc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Rugby and Typhoons</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Rugby World Cup has drawn the attention of the world to Japan for the last six weeks. But the tournament has not been without its difficulties, mostly ones beyond the power of the authorities to control. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has been sheltering from the storm.</p><p>Veganism is on the rise in many countries in the world. Switching to a plant-base diet is said to be one of the biggest contributions an individual can make to reducing their impact on the environment. But veganism has its own dangers, as Ashitha Nagesh finds out in St. Petersburg.</p><p>South Korea is today a beacon of democracy and economic stability in East Asia. Street rallies have recently forced the resignation of the justice minister. But it wasn't always thus. The country was run by the army within living memory. And John Kampfner says protest then was a different matter. </p><p>Somaliland, a small breakaway territory in East Africa, has a long coastline along the Gulf of Aden. But strangely it doesn't have much of a fishing industry. That's changing now and Amy Guttman finds people getting to know an entirely new cuisine.</p><p>Guinea - in West Africa - is one of the poorest countries in the world. Many look overseas for ways to earn money. There is much demand for domestic workers in the Gulf and in the age of the smart phone, these workers are often recruited via a mobile app. As Owen Pinnell discovered, the recruits are often under age.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1392. Producer: Tim Mansel</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A festival of rugby in Japan, but no thanks to the weather</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Rugby World Cup has drawn the attention of the world to Japan for the last six weeks. But the tournament has not been without its difficulties, mostly ones beyond the power of the authorities to control. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has been sheltering from the storm.</p><p>Veganism is on the rise in many countries in the world. Switching to a plant-base diet is said to be one of the biggest contributions an individual can make to reducing their impact on the environment. But veganism has its own dangers, as Ashitha Nagesh finds out in St. Petersburg.</p><p>South Korea is today a beacon of democracy and economic stability in East Asia. Street rallies have recently forced the resignation of the justice minister. But it wasn't always thus. The country was run by the army within living memory. And John Kampfner says protest then was a different matter. </p><p>Somaliland, a small breakaway territory in East Africa, has a long coastline along the Gulf of Aden. But strangely it doesn't have much of a fishing industry. That's changing now and Amy Guttman finds people getting to know an entirely new cuisine.</p><p>Guinea - in West Africa - is one of the poorest countries in the world. Many look overseas for ways to earn money. There is much demand for domestic workers in the Gulf and in the age of the smart phone, these workers are often recruited via a mobile app. As Owen Pinnell discovered, the recruits are often under age.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1393. Producer: Tim Mansel</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1701</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07sstqn.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07sstqn.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07sstqn.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07sstrj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07sstrj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07sstqn.mp3" fileSize="27216000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1701"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07sstrj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Modern Day Evita</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Argentina has elected a new president at a moment of deep economic crisis. Out goes the centre-left, back come the Peronists. Katy Watson reports on a sense of deja vu, with the role of Eva Peron filled this time by Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, a former president, now returning to power as vice president. </p><p>The winds of change are blowing through the Vatican, after bishops meeting in Rome voted in favour of relaxing the rules on celibacy among the clergy. David Willey reflects on how Pope Francis is conducting a papacy that reflects a changing world.</p><p>Liberia in West Africa is one of the poorest countries in the world. It has still to recover from a civil war that ended more than 15 years ago. More recently it suffered a devastating Ebola epidemic. Lucy Ash goes to meet the Zogos, a group of people who've suffered more than most.</p><p>Imran Khan used to be best known as a flamboyant international cricketer. Today he's the prime minister of Pakistan and thousands of people are on the streets of Islamabad today in protest against his economic policies. Secunder Kermani says they are also suspicious of his links to the army.</p><p>Buddhism in China, a country that has often had an uneasy relationship with religion, is enjoying official approval. President Xi sees it as a way of promoting his country's status. Richard Dove has been to meet some monks high in the mountains and to eat peanut biscuits.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>An election in Argentina that has revived memories of Eva Peron</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Argentina has elected a new president at a moment of deep economic crisis. Out goes the centre-left, back come the Peronists. Katy Watson reports on a sense of deja vu, with the role of Eva Peron filled this time by Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, a former president, now returning to power as vice president. </p><p>The winds of change are blowing through the Vatican, after bishops meeting in Rome voted in favour of relaxing the rules on celibacy among the clergy. David Willey reflects on how Pope Francis is conducting a papacy that reflects a changing world.</p><p>Liberia in West Africa is one of the poorest countries in the world. It has still to recover from a civil war that ended more than 15 years ago. More recently it suffered a devastating Ebola epidemic. Lucy Ash goes to meet the Zogos, a group of people who've suffered more than most.</p><p>Imran Khan used to be best known as a flamboyant international cricketer. Today he's the prime minister of Pakistan and thousands of people are on the streets of Islamabad today in protest against his economic policies. Secunder Kermani says they are also suspicious of his links to the army.</p><p>Buddhism in China, a country that has often had an uneasy relationship with religion, is enjoying official approval. President Xi sees it as a way of promoting his country's status. Richard Dove has been to meet some monks high in the mountains and to eat peanut biscuits.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1731</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07slsgz.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07slsgz.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07slsgz.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07slvfv</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07slvfv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07slsgz.mp3" fileSize="27696000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1731"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07slvfv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>South Africa's political earthquake</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The resignation this week of Mmusi Maimana, the leader of the Democratic Alliance, the main opposition party in South Africa, has exposed deep wounds from the apartheid era. Andrew Harding examines the implications for democracy in the country.</p><p>Demonstrators have been out in force on the streets of Santiago and other cities across Chile after the government announced it was raising the price of metro tickets. Jane Chambers has been speaking to the pot-banging protesters and says there are real fears of a return to the dark days of dictatorship.</p><p>A large shopping centre and an old Jewish cemetery: James Rodgers is in the Czech Republic, in a small town east of Prague, on the trail of scrolls saved from a synagogue there, which he'd first seen in Manchester. </p><p>Iceland is famously small, cold and welcoming to visitors. It's also a place where even the prime minister will take your call, as Lesley Curwen discovers.</p><p>It's 40 years since the release of Apocalypse Now, the Vietnam War epic directed by Francis Ford Coppola, which starred Marlon Brando. It was actually filmed in the Philippines. Howard Johnson has been to see if any traces of the set still exist.</p><p>Producer: Tim Mansel</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>South Africa's political resignation that has reopened apartheid era wounds</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The resignation this week of Mmusi Maimana, the leader of the Democratic Alliance, the main opposition party in South Africa, has exposed deep wounds from the apartheid era. Andrew Harding examines the implications for democracy in the country.</p><p>Demonstrators have been out in force on the streets of Santiago and other cities across Chile after the government announced it was raising the price of metro tickets. Jane Chambers has been speaking to the pot-banging protesters and says there are real fears of a return to the dark days of dictatorship.</p><p>A large shopping centre and an old Jewish cemetery: James Rodgers is in the Czech Republic, in a small town east of Prague, on the trail of scrolls saved from a synagogue there, which he'd first seen in Manchester. </p><p>Iceland is famously small, cold and welcoming to visitors. It's also a place where even the prime minister will take your call, as Lesley Curwen discovers.</p><p>It's 40 years since the release of Apocalypse Now, the Vietnam War epic directed by Francis Ford Coppola, which starred Marlon Brando. It was actually filmed in the Philippines. Howard Johnson has been to see if any traces of the set still exist.</p><p>Producer: Tim Mansel</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1664</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07s4k5y.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07s4k5y.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07s4k5y.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07s4k95</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07s4k95</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07s4k5y.mp3" fileSize="26624000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1664"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07s4k95</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Basketball Row</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The latest row between China and the US revolves not around trade, but around basketball. It all began with a tweet in support of the Hong Kong protesters by the general manager of the Houston Rockets which, as Robin Brant reports, has made the Chinese authorities deeply unhappy.</p><p>The people of Lebanon have been out on the streets in anti-government demonstrations for several days. It all started with a proposal, now withdrawn, to impose a tax on internet-based voice calls. But Lizzie Porter wonders if some of the protesters aren't simply enjoying the party.</p><p>Transylvania, now part of Romania, is a region of Europe that has belonged to many different states and empires. The legacy of this history is a variety of ethnic groups and languages. Andrew Eames has been to visit the small number of people there who still speak German.</p><p>There has been a series of police raids in northern Nigeria on institutions known variously as Islamic schools or rehabilitation centres. In reality they are places where children have been dumped and forced to live in terrible conditions. Mayeni Jones found the authorities there very reluctant to talk. </p><p>Kyrgyzstan, one of the 15 states formed as the Soviet Union collapsed, shares a long border with China. But the nomads in the interior lead a life apparently unchanged for decades, as Sara Wheeler discovers.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Basketball - the latest front in the fallout between China and the United States</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The latest row between China and the US revolves not around trade, but around basketball. It all began with a tweet in support of the Hong Kong protesters by the general manager of the Houston Rockets which, as Robin Brant reports, has made the Chinese authorities deeply unhappy.</p><p>The people of Lebanon have been out on the streets in anti-government demonstrations for several days. It all started with a proposal, now withdrawn, to impose a tax on internet-based voice calls. But Lizzie Porter wonders if some of the protesters aren't simply enjoying the party.</p><p>Transylvania, now part of Romania, is a region of Europe that has belonged to many different states and empires. The legacy of this history is a variety of ethnic groups and languages. Andrew Eames has been to visit the small number of people there who still speak German.</p><p>There has been a series of police raids in northern Nigeria on institutions known variously as Islamic schools or rehabilitation centres. In reality they are places where children have been dumped and forced to live in terrible conditions. Mayeni Jones found the authorities there very reluctant to talk. </p><p>Kyrgyzstan, one of the 15 states formed as the Soviet Union collapsed, shares a long border with China. But the nomads in the interior lead a life apparently unchanged for decades, as Sara Wheeler discovers.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2019 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1679</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07rx8hf.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07rx8hf.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07rx8hf.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07rxcnr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07rxcnr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07rx8hf.mp3" fileSize="26864000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1679"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07rxcnr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 22/10/2019</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom reflecting the range of contemporary life in the country.
  1394. Traditional cider-making is a slow business. But, as the poet Julian May has been discovering this autumn while he collects the variety of apples which ensure its special quality, it is a richly satisfying process which links to Somerset's past, present and future.
  1395. Anisa Subedar has seen sons leave the family home for university before, so why is she feeling the departure of a third so keenly this autumn?
  1396. Growing numbers of young people are declaring themselves non-binary. But, as Sima Kotecha explains, while this can be liberating for them it can pose challenges for parents and other other adults which they can find difficult to meet.
  1397. Amid the financial and other pressures on local newspapers from online sources of news in particular communities, village newsletters have assumed new importance. Andrew Green considers how his Oxfordshire village newsletter is put together each month and the special skills required to ensure the medium's survival.
  1398. And Alice Hutton draws back the veil on the highly-organised postal services that operate at music festivals and the poignant, heart-warming and bizarre messages that they specialise in delivering - nearly all of them with only the most rudimentary addresses. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Making cider, shrinking families, being non-binary, village newsletters, festival letters</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom reflecting the range of contemporary life in the country.
  1399. Traditional cider-making is a slow business. But, as the poet Julian May has been discovering this autumn while he collects the variety of apples which ensure its special quality, it is a richly satisfying process which links to Somerset's past, present and future.
  1400. Anisa Subedar has seen sons leave the family home for university before, so why is she feeling the departure of a third so keenly this autumn?
  1401. Growing numbers of young people are declaring themselves non-binary. But, as Sima Kotecha explains, while this can be liberating for them it can pose challenges for parents and other other adults which they can find difficult to meet.
  1402. Amid the financial and other pressures on local newspapers from online sources of news in particular communities, village newsletters have assumed new importance. Andrew Green considers how his Oxfordshire village newsletter is put together each month and the special skills required to ensure the medium's survival.
  1403. And Alice Hutton draws back the veil on the highly-organised postal services that operate at music festivals and the poignant, heart-warming and bizarre messages that they specialise in delivering - nearly all of them with only the most rudimentary addresses. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2019 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07rhryq.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07rhryq.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07rhryq.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07rhssc</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07rhssc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07rhryq.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07rhssc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Turkey, Syria and the Kurds</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Turkish military offensive seems to have achieved its major aim - to force the Syrian forces away from the border area they had once controlled. But what does this mean for the future of the Kurds? Jeremy Bowen takes a long view. </p><p>In Vienna last Saturday the Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge made history by becoming the first man ever to run a marathon in under two hours. In doing so, he brought Kenyans together, says Anne Soy in Nairobi, and made the whole country proud.</p><p>It's now 30 years since the momentous events of 1989 that changed the politics and geography of Europe and led to the demise of the Soviet Union two years later. Steve Rosenberg visits a bookshop in the Latvian capital, Riga, for a lesson in Baltic history.</p><p>They make beautiful cowboy boots in the Texan city of Fort Worth. But you'd better be well-heeled if you fancy a pair. Elizabeth Hotson eyes up the merchandise but is too shy to try any on.</p><p>And in France they’ve recently launched a lottery to raise money to save the country’s vast architectural heritage. Hugh Schofield visits an old coaching inn where they have had a skeleton in the back yard, if not in the cupboard.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Turkey moves into Syria. But where does this leave the Kurds?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Turkish military offensive seems to have achieved its major aim - to force the Syrian forces away from the border area they had once controlled. But what does this mean for the future of the Kurds? Jeremy Bowen takes a long view. </p><p>In Vienna last Saturday the Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge made history by becoming the first man ever to run a marathon in under two hours. In doing so, he brought Kenyans together, says Anne Soy in Nairobi, and made the whole country proud.</p><p>It's now 30 years since the momentous events of 1989 that changed the politics and geography of Europe and led to the demise of the Soviet Union two years later. Steve Rosenberg visits a bookshop in the Latvian capital, Riga, for a lesson in Baltic history.</p><p>They make beautiful cowboy boots in the Texan city of Fort Worth. But you'd better be well-heeled if you fancy a pair. Elizabeth Hotson eyes up the merchandise but is too shy to try any on.</p><p>And in France they’ve recently launched a lottery to raise money to save the country’s vast architectural heritage. Hugh Schofield visits an old coaching inn where they have had a skeleton in the back yard, if not in the cupboard.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1723</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07rhl7t.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07rhl7t.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07rhl7t.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07rhlp7</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07rhlp7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07rhl7t.mp3" fileSize="27568000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1723"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07rhlp7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Barcelona Boils</title><description><![CDATA[<p>There's been violence for several days in Barcelona in reaction to the jail sentences handed out on Monday to Catalan separatist leaders. Guy Hedgecoe has been on the streets as demonstrators and riot police clashed. He says there's no end in sight to this deepening conflict.</p><p>There's a general election in Canada on Monday, and Justin Trudeau is hoping for a second term as prime minister. But the man who was once an emblem of hope and progressiveness has seen his reputation tarnished. Jennifer Chevalier in Ottawa says he's now got a fight on his hands.</p><p>There was much excitement last week in Ethiopia when it was announced that the prime minister Abiy Ahmed had been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize. But at home, despite considerable achievements, his popularity has diminished, as Tom Gardner reports from Addis Ababa.</p><p>Recycling rubbish can be a lucrative industry. But in Romania that’s been made harder by government regulations on private companies. Nick Thorpe has been to find out more. </p><p>The Svaneti region of north-west Georgia is spectacularly beautiful and home to a particular ethnic group. the Svan. They number only a few thousand and their cultural traditions are under threat. But they are generous hosts. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent drops in for lunch.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Violence in Barcelona after jail terms are handed down to Catalan separatist leaders</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>There's been violence for several days in Barcelona in reaction to the jail sentences handed out on Monday to Catalan separatist leaders. Guy Hedgecoe has been on the streets as demonstrators and riot police clashed. He says there's no end in sight to this deepening conflict.</p><p>There's a general election in Canada on Monday, and Justin Trudeau is hoping for a second term as prime minister. But the man who was once an emblem of hope and progressiveness has seen his reputation tarnished. Jennifer Chevalier in Ottawa says he's now got a fight on his hands.</p><p>There was much excitement last week in Ethiopia when it was announced that the prime minister Abiy Ahmed had been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize. But at home, despite considerable achievements, his popularity has diminished, as Tom Gardner reports from Addis Ababa.</p><p>Recycling rubbish can be a lucrative industry. But in Romania that’s been made harder by government regulations on private companies. Nick Thorpe has been to find out more. </p><p>The Svaneti region of north-west Georgia is spectacularly beautiful and home to a particular ethnic group. the Svan. They number only a few thousand and their cultural traditions are under threat. But they are generous hosts. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent drops in for lunch.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:35:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1623</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07r8ghk.mp3" length="25968000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07r8ghk.mp3" length="25968000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07r8ghk.mp3" length="25968000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07r8j5x</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07r8j5x</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07r8ghk.mp3" fileSize="25968000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1623"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07r8j5x</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Trump in Trouble?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>President Trump and his supporters remain defiant in the face of the impeachment inquiry against him. But many of Mr Trump's political allies are troubled by another issue: the withdrawal of American troops from Syria, which has allowed Turkey to attack Kurdish targets in Syria. Jon Sopel says Syria may turn into Mr Trump's bigger problem.</p><p>The Kalash are a mountain people who live in a series of valleys in the Hindu Kush in northern Pakistan. They number only a few thousand today and there are concerns that there's increasing pressure upon them to convert to Islam. Emma Thomson has been to visit.</p><p>There's a fuel crisis in Cuba at the moment and if you want to fill up you'd better be prepared to wait for several hours. As Will Grant reports, the government is taking other measures to save money, such as asking civil servants to work from home.</p><p>China's economic influence spreads far and wide. It has reached the city of Sihanoukville in southern Cambodia where billions have been invested in industrial infrastructure. But Vincent Ni encounters ambivalent attitudes there to people of Chinese origin.</p><p>Earlier this year the British government imposed a temporary export ban on one of JMW Turner's masterpieces, The Dark Rigi, the Lake of Lucerne. Lucy Daltroff has been to the source of his inspiration.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Double trouble for President Trump - Ukraine and Syria.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>President Trump and his supporters remain defiant in the face of the impeachment inquiry against him. But many of Mr Trump's political allies are troubled by another issue: the withdrawal of American troops from Syria, which has allowed Turkey to attack Kurdish targets in Syria. Jon Sopel says Syria may turn into Mr Trump's bigger problem.</p><p>The Kalash are a mountain people who live in a series of valleys in the Hindu Kush in northern Pakistan. They number only a few thousand today and there are concerns that there's increasing pressure upon them to convert to Islam. Emma Thomson has been to visit.</p><p>There's a fuel crisis in Cuba at the moment and if you want to fill up you'd better be prepared to wait for several hours. As Will Grant reports, the government is taking other measures to save money, such as asking civil servants to work from home.</p><p>China's economic influence spreads far and wide. It has reached the city of Sihanoukville in southern Cambodia where billions have been invested in industrial infrastructure. But Vincent Ni encounters ambivalent attitudes there to people of Chinese origin.</p><p>Earlier this year the British government imposed a temporary export ban on one of JMW Turner's masterpieces, The Dark Rigi, the Lake of Lucerne. Lucy Daltroff has been to the source of his inspiration.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Oct 2019 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1696</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07qwrtq.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07qwrtq.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07qwrtq.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07qwryd</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07qwryd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07qwrtq.mp3" fileSize="27136000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1696"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07qwryd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Hong Kong Wedding</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The wedding banquet put on hold by protests and emergency legislation in Hong Kong. Helier Cheung describes how she had to tell 300 guests the party was off.</p><p>It's 250 years since Captain Cook first set foot in New Zealand and the first time the Maori encountered Europeans. That anniversary is being marked this month and this week a replica of Cook's ship, the Endeavour, docked in the small city of Gisborne. But the anniversary has not been universally welcomed, as Colin Peacock reports. </p><p>Uganda has had the same man in charge, Yoweri Museveni, since 1986. Challengers for the office of president have come and gone and Mr Museveni has twice changed the rules - on the number of presidential terms and on the maximum presidential age - to ensure his longevity. But now a new challenger has appeared, in the form of a former pop star. Sally Hayden has been on the road with Bobi Wine. </p><p>Bear Island - some 250 miles off the northern coast of Norway - is home to a few hardy souls who staff the weather station there. Legend says it got its name from a polar bear spotted swimming nearby in the Barents Sea. But David Baillie says these majestic creatures are few and far between now.</p><p>More than 14,000 people in Britain have reached the grand age of 100. One of the perks of this achievement is the traditional message of congratulation from the Queen. In France there are even more centenarians but no similar tradition, no message from the president. Well, not until Nicola Carslaw stepped in.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The wedding banquet put on hold by protests and emergency legislation in Hong Kong.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The wedding banquet put on hold by protests and emergency legislation in Hong Kong. Helier Cheung describes how she had to tell 300 guests the party was off.</p><p>It's 250 years since Captain Cook first set foot in New Zealand and the first time the Maori encountered Europeans. That anniversary is being marked this month and this week a replica of Cook's ship, the Endeavour, docked in the small city of Gisborne. But the anniversary has not been universally welcomed, as Colin Peacock reports. </p><p>Uganda has had the same man in charge, Yoweri Museveni, since 1986. Challengers for the office of president have come and gone and Mr Museveni has twice changed the rules - on the number of presidential terms and on the maximum presidential age - to ensure his longevity. But now a new challenger has appeared, in the form of a former pop star. Sally Hayden has been on the road with Bobi Wine. </p><p>Bear Island - some 250 miles off the northern coast of Norway - is home to a few hardy souls who staff the weather station there. Legend says it got its name from a polar bear spotted swimming nearby in the Barents Sea. But David Baillie says these majestic creatures are few and far between now.</p><p>More than 14,000 people in Britain have reached the grand age of 100. One of the perks of this achievement is the traditional message of congratulation from the Queen. In France there are even more centenarians but no similar tradition, no message from the president. Well, not until Nicola Carslaw stepped in.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07qnn6p.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07qnn6p.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07qnn6p.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07qnp1l</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07qnp1l</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07qnn6p.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07qnp1l</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Prosecutor General</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Viktor Shokin was forced out as Prosecutor General of Ukraine in 2016. Since then he's been variously portrayed as a hapless bumbler or a fearless investigator of corruption. Jonah Fisher in Kiev has been trying to track him down.</p><p>In Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Pacific, they've come up with a new way of raising government revenue - selling passports for a princely sum. But Sarah Treanor says very few of those who take up the offer are likely to set foot there.</p><p>Italy is well known for its love of cycling. The Giro d'Italia, more than 100 years old, is one of the three great European races, demanding strength and stamina. But there's another race taking place this weekend. As Dany Mitzman finds out, appetite as much as stamina is what's needed. </p><p>The former BBC correspondent Robert Elphick died recently. He reported on many historic stories none more perhaps than the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968. We hear one of his despatches from the time.</p><p>There was bad news this week in the State of Nature report about wildlife species in Britain that are threatened with extinction. It's not purely a British problem. Phoebe Smith has been following one particular conservation project on the Arabian peninsula.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Impeachment, Ukraine and the elusive former prosecutor general.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Viktor Shokin was forced out as Prosecutor General of Ukraine in 2016. Since then he's been variously portrayed as a hapless bumbler or a fearless investigator of corruption. Jonah Fisher in Kiev has been trying to track him down.</p><p>In Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Pacific, they've come up with a new way of raising government revenue - selling passports for a princely sum. But Sarah Treanor says very few of those who take up the offer are likely to set foot there.</p><p>Italy is well known for its love of cycling. The Giro d'Italia, more than 100 years old, is one of the three great European races, demanding strength and stamina. But there's another race taking place this weekend. As Dany Mitzman finds out, appetite as much as stamina is what's needed. </p><p>The former BBC correspondent Robert Elphick died recently. He reported on many historic stories none more perhaps than the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968. We hear one of his despatches from the time.</p><p>There was bad news this week in the State of Nature report about wildlife species in Britain that are threatened with extinction. It's not purely a British problem. Phoebe Smith has been following one particular conservation project on the Arabian peninsula.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2019 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1732</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07q6mkx.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07q6mkx.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07q6mkx.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07q6my2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07q6my2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07q6mkx.mp3" fileSize="27712000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1732"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07q6my2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>No Love Lost</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Relations between Japan and South Korea have often been delicate. But they may now have reached their lowest ebb since they established diplomatic relations in 1965. Peter Hadfield reports from Tokyo on the background to the dispute and how it's playing out in Japan.</p><p>The European migrant crisis has receded from its peak of 2015, but large numbers of people are still seeking refuge in Europe, their first stop often being the Greek islands. But the camps are overcrowded and the people living there close to despair, as Charlie Faulkner finds out on Lesbos.</p><p>It's now 30 years since the first partly-free elections in Poland as it began to emerge from the Soviet shadow. Kevin Connolly, who reported on those elections in the city of Gdansk, has just returned. He notices distinct similarities in the restaurant menus then and now but a significant difference in what is actually served up.</p><p>In southern Chad, as the rainy season begins to recede, the grass is lush, the grazing is good and the nomadic Wodaabe people are gathering for the annual Gerewol festival - a week of what you might call speed-dating under the stars. Mark Stratton has been to watch.</p><p>There are a few basic rules if you're planning to drive your car into the Australian Outback: take lots of water, tell someone where you're going and make sure the car has enough fuel. Christine Finn says it's easy to forget.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The trade dispute in Asia dividing two of the world's richest countries.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Relations between Japan and South Korea have often been delicate. But they may now have reached their lowest ebb since they established diplomatic relations in 1965. Peter Hadfield reports from Tokyo on the background to the dispute and how it's playing out in Japan.</p><p>The European migrant crisis has receded from its peak of 2015, but large numbers of people are still seeking refuge in Europe, their first stop often being the Greek islands. But the camps are overcrowded and the people living there close to despair, as Charlie Faulkner finds out on Lesbos.</p><p>It's now 30 years since the first partly-free elections in Poland as it began to emerge from the Soviet shadow. Kevin Connolly, who reported on those elections in the city of Gdansk, has just returned. He notices distinct similarities in the restaurant menus then and now but a significant difference in what is actually served up.</p><p>In southern Chad, as the rainy season begins to recede, the grass is lush, the grazing is good and the nomadic Wodaabe people are gathering for the annual Gerewol festival - a week of what you might call speed-dating under the stars. Mark Stratton has been to watch.</p><p>There are a few basic rules if you're planning to drive your car into the Australian Outback: take lots of water, tell someone where you're going and make sure the car has enough fuel. Christine Finn says it's easy to forget.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2019 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1702</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07pzp8h.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07pzp8h.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07pzp8h.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07pzqdy</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07pzqdy</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07pzp8h.mp3" fileSize="27232000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1702"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07pzqdy</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Can Afghanistan find peace?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>As Afghanistan goes to the polls this weekend, Lyse Doucet reflects on the country's paused peace talks.</p><p>Frank Gardner finds service with a smile in Saudi Arabia, but wonders if conflict could interrupt the kingdom’s economic reforms.</p><p>There's a birthday parade in Beijing next week, as the People's Republic of China celebrates its 70th anniversary. In that time China has been transformed beyond recognition, and next week's events are more than just a commemoration says John Sudworth.</p><p>Could you be convinced to swap a steak for a plate of tasty crickets? Emilie Filou visits a noisy farm in Madagascar, to find out how one company wants to put 'cricket powder' in everyone's kitchen cabinet.</p><p>And in the North Atlantic ocean, on the Faroe Island of Stóra Dímun, Tim Ecott lends a hand on what's been described as the 'loneliest farmhouse in the world'.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>As Afghanistan goes to the polls Lyse Doucet reflects on the country's paused peace talks</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>As Afghanistan goes to the polls this weekend, Lyse Doucet reflects on the country's paused peace talks.</p><p>Frank Gardner finds service with a smile in Saudi Arabia, but wonders if conflict could interrupt the kingdom’s economic reforms.</p><p>There's a birthday parade in Beijing next week, as the People's Republic of China celebrates its 70th anniversary. In that time China has been transformed beyond recognition, and next week's events are more than just a commemoration says John Sudworth.</p><p>Could you be convinced to swap a steak for a plate of tasty crickets? Emilie Filou visits a noisy farm in Madagascar, to find out how one company wants to put 'cricket powder' in everyone's kitchen cabinet.</p><p>And in the North Atlantic ocean, on the Faroe Island of Stóra Dímun, Tim Ecott lends a hand on what's been described as the 'loneliest farmhouse in the world'.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1670</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07pl4rx.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07pl4rx.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07pl4rx.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07pl4vw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07pl4vw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07pl4rx.mp3" fileSize="26720000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1670"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07pl4vw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Who Will Lead Israel?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>After the second indecisive general election in Israel this year, Benjamin Netanyahu has been asked to form a new government - but can he make it work?</p><p>Some observers said last week's election would mark the end of the Netanyahu era, but Jeremy Bowen warns that premature political obituaries for Mr Netanyahu have proved wrong before.</p><p>Plus: Hugo Bachega reports on a controversial crackdown on street gangs in the favelas of the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, which has led to the death of a number of innocent casualties this year. </p><p>President Trump has frequently castigated Iran, calling it a 'repressive regime' - but what do US voters think about this constant sabre-rattling? The USA is home to a sizeable Iranian diaspora, and Lois Pryce travelled to California to test the political temperature in LA's Iranian quarter, 'Tehrangeles'.</p><p>Pre-packaged adventures into the wilds to spy on the wonders of nature are big business, but on a trip to Uganda, Lottie Gross experienced a creeping sense of unease, as the intrusive nature of her luxury adventure began to unfold.</p><p>The Rugby World Cup is currently underway in Japan and for one of the host cities - the coastal city of Kamaishi - the competition marks a remarkable recovery. Ash Bhardwaj has been exploring what rugby means for the city, as it recovers from the devastation caused by a Tsunami in 2011.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Benjamin Netanyahu has been asked to form a new government - can he make it work?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>After the second indecisive general election in Israel this year, Benjamin Netanyahu has been asked to form a new government - but can he make it work?</p><p>Some observers said last week's election would mark the end of the Netanyahu era, but Jeremy Bowen warns that premature political obituaries for Mr Netanyahu have proved wrong before.</p><p>Plus: Hugo Bachega reports on a controversial crackdown on street gangs in the favelas of the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, which has led to the death of a number of innocent casualties this year. </p><p>President Trump has frequently castigated Iran, calling it a 'repressive regime' - but what do US voters think about this constant sabre-rattling? The USA is home to a sizeable Iranian diaspora, and Lois Pryce travelled to California to test the political temperature in LA's Iranian quarter, 'Tehrangeles'.</p><p>Pre-packaged adventures into the wilds to spy on the wonders of nature are big business, but on a trip to Uganda, Lottie Gross experienced a creeping sense of unease, as the intrusive nature of her luxury adventure began to unfold.</p><p>The Rugby World Cup is currently underway in Japan and for one of the host cities - the coastal city of Kamaishi - the competition marks a remarkable recovery. Ash Bhardwaj has been exploring what rugby means for the city, as it recovers from the devastation caused by a Tsunami in 2011.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2019 10:42:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1669</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07pc7f5.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07pc7f5.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07pc7f5.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07pc8ym</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07pc8ym</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07pc7f5.mp3" fileSize="26704000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1669"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07pc8ym</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 22/09/2019</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. </p><p>Tom Edwards meets two people counting the cost – literally – of a delayed major infrastructure project and discovers whether they will be able to survive until it is finally finished. Hannah Moore ruminates on her twelfth move before she has even reached her thirtieth birthday and the contrast between her parents’ long settled East Midlands’ life and her own constantly changing one. After a heart-stopping moment on the cricket field of her son's school - and an emergency operation - Geeta Guru-Murthy considers the domestic costs of intense competitiveness. Richard Vadon takes his teenage son and his friends to a covers band gig - only to find that most of the others there are his age rather than his son’s. But the reason why says much, he says, about the contemporary music scene. And while nothing quite prepared Francesca Segal for her experience of a neonatal intensive care unit, she reflects what it has taught her about motherhood and family life. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Crossrail delays, a 12th move at 30, middle-aged gigs, boys’ cricket and premature twins.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. </p><p>Tom Edwards meets two people counting the cost – literally – of a delayed major infrastructure project and discovers whether they will be able to survive until it is finally finished. Hannah Moore ruminates on her twelfth move before she has even reached her thirtieth birthday and the contrast between her parents’ long settled East Midlands’ life and her own constantly changing one. After a heart-stopping moment on the cricket field of her son's school - and an emergency operation - Geeta Guru-Murthy considers the domestic costs of intense competitiveness. Richard Vadon takes his teenage son and his friends to a covers band gig - only to find that most of the others there are his age rather than his son’s. But the reason why says much, he says, about the contemporary music scene. And while nothing quite prepared Francesca Segal for her experience of a neonatal intensive care unit, she reflects what it has taught her about motherhood and family life. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2019 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1669</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07nxzx0.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07nxzx0.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07nxzx0.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07ny1xw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07ny1xw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07nxzx0.mp3" fileSize="26704000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1669"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07ny1xw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Will Myanmar's Rohingya Return?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Myanmar’s government wants Rohingya refugees to return, but can it guarantee their safety and way of life? Jonathan Head takes a rare trip to Rakhine state to see the government’s resettlement plans. </p><p>In Assam state in India, another migrant crisis is on the rise, following a drive to identify and deport illegal immigrants. This has left nearly 2 million people without Indian citizenship. Rajini Vaidyanathan meets some of the people now left stateless. </p><p>Spain’s northern Basque region has been largely at peace thanks to the end of a four-decade campaign of violence by the separatist group Eta. Guy Hedgecoe reports from a small town where a rowdy bar fight aroused suspicion that Eta’s influence has not entirely disappeared. </p><p>Yemen is one of the Arab world’s poorest countries, and has been devastated by civil war. Nawal Al-Maghafi, who was born in Yemen, has witnessed the deterioration of her homeland first hand. </p><p>Since starting in a Seattle garage 25 year ago, Amazon has changed the way many of us shop – but the company has its critics too, especially when it comes to the working conditions in its warehouses. This has led to a PR counter-offensive, and Amazon decided to open its doors to the public. Dave Lee accepted the invitation to take a tour of one of the company’s warehouses in California.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Rohingya refugees are being invited to return home, but is their safety guaranteed?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Myanmar’s government wants Rohingya refugees to return, but can it guarantee their safety and way of life? Jonathan Head takes a rare trip to Rakhine state to see the government’s resettlement plans. </p><p>In Assam state in India, another migrant crisis is on the rise, following a drive to identify and deport illegal immigrants. This has left nearly 2 million people without Indian citizenship. Rajini Vaidyanathan meets some of the people now left stateless. </p><p>Spain’s northern Basque region has been largely at peace thanks to the end of a four-decade campaign of violence by the separatist group Eta. Guy Hedgecoe reports from a small town where a rowdy bar fight aroused suspicion that Eta’s influence has not entirely disappeared. </p><p>Yemen is one of the Arab world’s poorest countries, and has been devastated by civil war. Nawal Al-Maghafi, who was born in Yemen, has witnessed the deterioration of her homeland first hand. </p><p>Since starting in a Seattle garage 25 year ago, Amazon has changed the way many of us shop – but the company has its critics too, especially when it comes to the working conditions in its warehouses. This has led to a PR counter-offensive, and Amazon decided to open its doors to the public. Dave Lee accepted the invitation to take a tour of one of the company’s warehouses in California.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1738</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07nzbkk.mp3" length="27808000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07nzbkk.mp3" length="27808000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07nzbkk.mp3" length="27808000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07nzbv5</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nzbv5</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07nzbkk.mp3" fileSize="27808000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1738"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07nzbv5</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Cash, Credit and Control in China</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Paper money is going out of fashion in China, but is the rise of mobile payments about convenience or control, asks Celia Hatton?</p><p>Mark Lowen reflects on the 5 years he has spent reporting from Istanbul and beyond.</p><p>Juliet Rix travels to the far east of Russia, where she finds a community trying to reconcile tradition with modern-life.</p><p>'Gravity biking' involves hurtling down precipitous mountain roads on specially-modified  bikes. Simon Maybin meets a group of 'gravitosos' in Colombia and finds they have a complicated relationship with death.</p><p>Presented by Caroline Wyatt.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Is the rise of mobile payments in China about convenience or control?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Paper money is going out of fashion in China, but is the rise of mobile payments about convenience or control, asks Celia Hatton?</p><p>Mark Lowen reflects on the 5 years he has spent reporting from Istanbul and beyond.</p><p>Juliet Rix travels to the far east of Russia, where she finds a community trying to reconcile tradition with modern-life.</p><p>'Gravity biking' involves hurtling down precipitous mountain roads on specially-modified  bikes. Simon Maybin meets a group of 'gravitosos' in Colombia and finds they have a complicated relationship with death.</p><p>Presented by Caroline Wyatt.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1712</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07nbwvf.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07nbwvf.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07nbwvf.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07nbyhh</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nbyhh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07nbwvf.mp3" fileSize="27392000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1712"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07nbyhh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mugabe Remembered</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Robert Mugabe has died. How do you sum up such a complex and contradictory figure? Andrew Harding recalls his final encounter with Mr Mugabe and reflects on the perils of living too long.</p><p>In Germany the far-right populist Alternative für Deutschland is celebrating after doing well in two regional elections. Damien McGuinness has been meeting some of their supporters and says that their electoral success has led to a wider debate about why east Germans have not felt the benefits of unification.</p><p>Malaria is a constant threat to life in Burkina Faso. A newer threat comes from an Islamist-led insurgency that has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. But the cutting-edge research into tackling mosquitoes continues undisturbed, for now, as Jennifer O'Mahony reports.</p><p>The Romanian national football team is no great shakes at the moment and is unlikely to qualify for the European Championship finals in 2020. But another game, the origins of which are lost in the mists of time, is gaining popularity. Emma Levine has been to watch it being played in the town of Frasin.</p><p>In Papua New Guinea it’s estimated that 40 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line, despite the country’s enormous mineral wealth. Charlie Walker says there’s one particular mineral that people are interested in.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Robert Mugabe has died. How do you assess a figure of such complexity and contradiction?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Robert Mugabe has died. How do you sum up such a complex and contradictory figure? Andrew Harding recalls his final encounter with Mr Mugabe and reflects on the perils of living too long.</p><p>In Germany the far-right populist Alternative für Deutschland is celebrating after doing well in two regional elections. Damien McGuinness has been meeting some of their supporters and says that their electoral success has led to a wider debate about why east Germans have not felt the benefits of unification.</p><p>Malaria is a constant threat to life in Burkina Faso. A newer threat comes from an Islamist-led insurgency that has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. But the cutting-edge research into tackling mosquitoes continues undisturbed, for now, as Jennifer O'Mahony reports.</p><p>The Romanian national football team is no great shakes at the moment and is unlikely to qualify for the European Championship finals in 2020. But another game, the origins of which are lost in the mists of time, is gaining popularity. Emma Levine has been to watch it being played in the town of Frasin.</p><p>In Papua New Guinea it’s estimated that 40 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line, despite the country’s enormous mineral wealth. Charlie Walker says there’s one particular mineral that people are interested in.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1731</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07mr1kc.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07mr1kc.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07mr1kc.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07mr1r3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07mr1r3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07mr1kc.mp3" fileSize="27696000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1731"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07mr1r3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Forlorn, Dilapidated and Dangerous</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Gang violence in the townships of Cape Town is now so serious that the South African army has been sent in to try to curb it. But the causes of violence are complex. Will the state really be able to stamp its authority? Lindsay Johns reports.</p><p>Lizzie Porter finds sunflowers in bloom on the outskirts of Sinjar, the town in northern Iraq, where, five years ago so-called Islamic State kidnapped thousands of Yazidis. But the town itself is still largely empty, the streets deserted, the buildings smashed and most of the original population absent, too scared to return home. </p><p>There's a growing number of people from Africa and Asia in Central America, whose hope one day is to make it to the United States. Katy Long dusts down her rusty French to speak to a man from Congo in the middle of a rainstorm in Costa Rica.</p><p>While the Taliban talks peace with the US in Qatar, there's scepticism and concern on the streets of Kabul. Secunder Kermani talks to a group of young cricketers near the Ghazi Stadium, the place where the Taliban once carried out public executions. </p><p>And, while cricket fans in England had plenty of means at their disposal to watch Ben Stokes' demolition of the Australian bowling attack in last Sunday's Ashes victory, Jonah Fisher, in Kiev, was finding it less easy to follow proceedings. Being a cricket-loving foreign correspondent, he says, hasn't always been easy.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Gang violence in South Africa - but will sending the army into the townships do any good?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Gang violence in the townships of Cape Town is now so serious that the South African army has been sent in to try to curb it. But the causes of violence are complex. Will the state really be able to stamp its authority? Lindsay Johns reports.</p><p>Lizzie Porter finds sunflowers in bloom on the outskirts of Sinjar, the town in northern Iraq, where, five years ago so-called Islamic State kidnapped thousands of Yazidis. But the town itself is still largely empty, the streets deserted, the buildings smashed and most of the original population absent, too scared to return home. </p><p>There's a growing number of people from Africa and Asia in Central America, whose hope one day is to make it to the United States. Katy Long dusts down her rusty French to speak to a man from Congo in the middle of a rainstorm in Costa Rica.</p><p>While the Taliban talks peace with the US in Qatar, there's scepticism and concern on the streets of Kabul. Secunder Kermani talks to a group of young cricketers near the Ghazi Stadium, the place where the Taliban once carried out public executions. </p><p>And, while cricket fans in England had plenty of means at their disposal to watch Ben Stokes' demolition of the Australian bowling attack in last Sunday's Ashes victory, Jonah Fisher, in Kiev, was finding it less easy to follow proceedings. Being a cricket-loving foreign correspondent, he says, hasn't always been easy.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1714</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07m411p.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07m411p.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07m411p.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07m4155</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07m4155</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07m411p.mp3" fileSize="27424000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1714"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07m4155</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Fighting white supremacy</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The United States is experiencing a resurgence of far-right extremism. We meet a man trying to challenge the ideology and convert those who have been radicalised. But Aleem Maqbool says he's ploughing a lonely furrow.</p><p>In Serbia the government has been investing in traditional crafts - carpentry and pottery - in an attempt to sustain rural communities. Nicola Kelly goes to meet the craftsmen and women - and finds offers of the local tipple difficult to refuse.</p><p>It's not long ago that Zimbabweans were celebrating the political demise of Robert Mugabe, who was president for nearly three decades - during which the country's economy collapsed. But, as Kim Chakanetsa reports after a recent trip to Harare, many there now have an unexpectedly rose-tinted view of the past. </p><p>Argentina too has had its fair share of economic misery. Results of recent presidential primaries spooked the markets and raised fears of renewed difficulties. Natalio Cosoy hears echoes of the past in Buenos Aires.</p><p>Petanque, that traditional summer pastime of the French, is undergoing something of a face lift. But the changes - especially the one that outlaws an accompanying glass of pastis - have occasioned more than a few grumbles, as Chris Bockman finds out.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A resurgence of far-right extremism in the US - are there enough people challenging it?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The United States is experiencing a resurgence of far-right extremism. We meet a man trying to challenge the ideology and convert those who have been radicalised. But Aleem Maqbool says he's ploughing a lonely furrow.</p><p>In Serbia the government has been investing in traditional crafts - carpentry and pottery - in an attempt to sustain rural communities. Nicola Kelly goes to meet the craftsmen and women - and finds offers of the local tipple difficult to refuse.</p><p>It's not long ago that Zimbabweans were celebrating the political demise of Robert Mugabe, who was president for nearly three decades - during which the country's economy collapsed. But, as Kim Chakanetsa reports after a recent trip to Harare, many there now have an unexpectedly rose-tinted view of the past. </p><p>Argentina too has had its fair share of economic misery. Results of recent presidential primaries spooked the markets and raised fears of renewed difficulties. Natalio Cosoy hears echoes of the past in Buenos Aires.</p><p>Petanque, that traditional summer pastime of the French, is undergoing something of a face lift. But the changes - especially the one that outlaws an accompanying glass of pastis - have occasioned more than a few grumbles, as Chris Bockman finds out.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1717</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07ljq78.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07ljq78.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07ljq78.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07ljqgs</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07ljqgs</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07ljq78.mp3" fileSize="27472000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1717"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07ljqgs</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 18/08/2019</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain introduces pieces reflecting contemporary life across the United Kingdom. Alison Williams would regularly see a young middle-aged woman sitting outside the railway station she used. They returned smiles; Alison wondered about her back story. Then suddenly the woman was gone. What happened next is a parable of our times. Each summer in recent years, Dorset has welcomed children from areas of northern Ukraine and Belarus blighted by the radioactivity released by the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear site in April 1986. During their stay, the children receive health checks and enjoy the hospitality of local families. So how are they faring? Jane Labous has been to meet this year's visitors - and their hosts. Even the idea of Welsh wine to accompany haute cuisine used to bring a smile to many a face, not least in the country itself. But in fact wine-making there dates back to Roman times and is currently undergoing a revival. But can what was once a cottage industry - literally - become a money-spinner? Tim Hartley has been visiting vineyards in both North and South Wales to gauge the prospects. When, fifteen years ago, 23 Chinese cockle pickers tragically lost their lives on north-west England's "wet Sahara" - the vast area of sand and mudflats which is Morecambe Bay - it confirmed its reputation for treacherous tides that can readily catch out the unwary. A new guide to assist crossings to and from the Cumbrian and Lancastrian sides of the Bay has recently been appointed and Tom Edwards decided to take his daughters there to initiate them into its tidal flows. And John Forsyth has been unearthing the mystery of toppling headstones in Scottish cemeteries. He discovers the identity of the perpetrator - and why it is happening. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Underpass woman, Dorset and Chernobyl, the wet Sahara, Welsh wine and Scottish headstones</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain introduces pieces reflecting contemporary life across the United Kingdom. Alison Williams would regularly see a young middle-aged woman sitting outside the railway station she used. They returned smiles; Alison wondered about her back story. Then suddenly the woman was gone. What happened next is a parable of our times. Each summer in recent years, Dorset has welcomed children from areas of northern Ukraine and Belarus blighted by the radioactivity released by the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear site in April 1986. During their stay, the children receive health checks and enjoy the hospitality of local families. So how are they faring? Jane Labous has been to meet this year's visitors - and their hosts. Even the idea of Welsh wine to accompany haute cuisine used to bring a smile to many a face, not least in the country itself. But in fact wine-making there dates back to Roman times and is currently undergoing a revival. But can what was once a cottage industry - literally - become a money-spinner? Tim Hartley has been visiting vineyards in both North and South Wales to gauge the prospects. When, fifteen years ago, 23 Chinese cockle pickers tragically lost their lives on north-west England's "wet Sahara" - the vast area of sand and mudflats which is Morecambe Bay - it confirmed its reputation for treacherous tides that can readily catch out the unwary. A new guide to assist crossings to and from the Cumbrian and Lancastrian sides of the Bay has recently been appointed and Tom Edwards decided to take his daughters there to initiate them into its tidal flows. And John Forsyth has been unearthing the mystery of toppling headstones in Scottish cemeteries. He discovers the identity of the perpetrator - and why it is happening. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2019 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07kw53f.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07kw53f.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07kw53f.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07kw5bl</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07kw5bl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07kw53f.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07kw5bl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Lost Innocence</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The protests at Hong Kong's international airport this week and the violence that resulted have been widely reported. Jonathan Head says not only was this the week that the protest movement lost its innocence, but also that the violence has handed the Chinese authorities a propaganda coup.</p><p>Reporting from Indian-administered Kashmir has been especially challenging since the Indian government stripped it of its special status: no internet and no telephones. But Yogita Limaye finds one friendly Kashmiri who supplies both hot tea and functional broadband.</p><p>If you're nervous about snakes then Gombe District in northern Nigeria is best avoided, warns Colin Freeman. He visits a hospital that specialises in treating bites, especially those of the carpet viper, an ever-present danger to the local farmers. </p><p>Waterproof clothing made from the wool of the Bordaleira sheep has kept Portuguese farmers dry for centuries. Today, it's also the height of fashion, as Margaret Bradley reports; flying off the shelves of smart shops of Lisbon and Porto and in much demand overseas.</p><p>President Trump surprised Sweden recently when he suggested that the prime minister intervene in the case of a US rapper who'd been arrested in Stockholm on suspicion of assault. Maddy Savage was in court to see the case play out.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Violence at Hong Kong's international airport: has it given China a propaganda coup?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The protests at Hong Kong's international airport this week and the violence that resulted have been widely reported. Jonathan Head says not only was this the week that the protest movement lost its innocence, but also that the violence has handed the Chinese authorities a propaganda coup.</p><p>Reporting from Indian-administered Kashmir has been especially challenging since the Indian government stripped it of its special status: no internet and no telephones. But Yogita Limaye finds one friendly Kashmiri who supplies both hot tea and functional broadband.</p><p>If you're nervous about snakes then Gombe District in northern Nigeria is best avoided, warns Colin Freeman. He visits a hospital that specialises in treating bites, especially those of the carpet viper, an ever-present danger to the local farmers. </p><p>Waterproof clothing made from the wool of the Bordaleira sheep has kept Portuguese farmers dry for centuries. Today, it's also the height of fashion, as Margaret Bradley reports; flying off the shelves of smart shops of Lisbon and Porto and in much demand overseas.</p><p>President Trump surprised Sweden recently when he suggested that the prime minister intervene in the case of a US rapper who'd been arrested in Stockholm on suspicion of assault. Maddy Savage was in court to see the case play out.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1733</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07kxtpd.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07kxtpd.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07kxtpd.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07kxv7j</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07kxv7j</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07kxtpd.mp3" fileSize="27728000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1733"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07kxv7j</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Russia Burning</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Fires are blazing in the far reaches of Siberia - an area the size of Belgium is on fire. Steve Rosenberg goes to have a look, a seventeen hour drive through forests of birch and cedar. But is Russia also burning socially and politically?</p><p>The Italian island of Lampedusa - halfway between Tunisia and Malta - has long been at the centre of the "migrant crisis"; a welcome haven for the occupants of leaky boats. Dr Pietro Bartolo has been working with migrants for many years but now, as Emma Jane Kirby reports, he's adopted a different approach.</p><p>The announcement from Delhi this week that Kashmir was losing its autonomous status took the world by surprise. The region has since been on lockdown, the residents left with few means of communication with the outside world. Rahul Tandon talks to young Kashmiris in Delhi, who oppose the new policy, and to Indians who support the government's move. </p><p>Sex is often a delicate subject. Norms are often very different from place to place – and the penalties for living outside the norm can be serious. Shereen El Feki has been working with a team from BBC Arabic to survey and interview people across the Middle East about their attitudes and their desires. </p><p>A group of Jewish orphans who survived the Nazi concentration camps and were resettled in Britain became known as The Boys, even though there were girls among them. Hannah Gelbart, the grand daughter of one of them, reports on a special reunion in Prague.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Forest fires in far flung Siberia, but is Russia also burning socially and politically?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Fires are blazing in the far reaches of Siberia - an area the size of Belgium is on fire. Steve Rosenberg goes to have a look, a seventeen hour drive through forests of birch and cedar. But is Russia also burning socially and politically?</p><p>The Italian island of Lampedusa - halfway between Tunisia and Malta - has long been at the centre of the "migrant crisis"; a welcome haven for the occupants of leaky boats. Dr Pietro Bartolo has been working with migrants for many years but now, as Emma Jane Kirby reports, he's adopted a different approach.</p><p>The announcement from Delhi this week that Kashmir was losing its autonomous status took the world by surprise. The region has since been on lockdown, the residents left with few means of communication with the outside world. Rahul Tandon talks to young Kashmiris in Delhi, who oppose the new policy, and to Indians who support the government's move. </p><p>Sex is often a delicate subject. Norms are often very different from place to place – and the penalties for living outside the norm can be serious. Shereen El Feki has been working with a team from BBC Arabic to survey and interview people across the Middle East about their attitudes and their desires. </p><p>A group of Jewish orphans who survived the Nazi concentration camps and were resettled in Britain became known as The Boys, even though there were girls among them. Hannah Gelbart, the grand daughter of one of them, reports on a special reunion in Prague.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1742</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07k98vk.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07k98vk.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07k98vk.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07k990f</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07k990f</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07k98vk.mp3" fileSize="27872000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1742"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07k990f</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Sorry Century</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Television footage from Idlib in northern Syria continues to provide distressing evidence of civilian suffering. But the world's leading nations are unwilling or unable to intercede. Jeremy Bowen recalls his visits to the region in former, peaceful times but sees no end to the current violence.</p><p>The protesters have been on the streets of Hong Kong for several months, their fury with their government undiminished. But what are they saying in Beijing, the real centre of power? Celia Hatton says they're preparing death by a thousand cuts.</p><p>Hundreds of thousands of people have fled Somalia since the outbreak of civil war in the early 1990s. But a few brave souls have been going back to try and start the rebuilding process. Andrew Harding made friends with one of them several years ago, a man who became the mayor of Mogadishu.</p><p>In Nicaragua it's now 40 years since the Sandinista movement overthrew a hated dictatorship. The man in charge then, Daniel Ortega, is still in charge now. But the movement is now accused of adopting the same autocratic methods of the government it replaced. Will Grant has been talking to opposition figures recently released from prison.</p><p>In St Petersburg there's a row over the literary legacy of one of the city's best-known writers, Vladimir Nabokov. Chloe Arnold has been meeting those on each side of the argument</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Disaster in Syria but the world shrugs its shoulders.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Television footage from Idlib in northern Syria continues to provide distressing evidence of civilian suffering. But the world's leading nations are unwilling or unable to intercede. Jeremy Bowen recalls his visits to the region in former, peaceful times but sees no end to the current violence.</p><p>The protesters have been on the streets of Hong Kong for several months, their fury with their government undiminished. But what are they saying in Beijing, the real centre of power? Celia Hatton says they're preparing death by a thousand cuts.</p><p>Hundreds of thousands of people have fled Somalia since the outbreak of civil war in the early 1990s. But a few brave souls have been going back to try and start the rebuilding process. Andrew Harding made friends with one of them several years ago, a man who became the mayor of Mogadishu.</p><p>In Nicaragua it's now 40 years since the Sandinista movement overthrew a hated dictatorship. The man in charge then, Daniel Ortega, is still in charge now. But the movement is now accused of adopting the same autocratic methods of the government it replaced. Will Grant has been talking to opposition figures recently released from prison.</p><p>In St Petersburg there's a row over the literary legacy of one of the city's best-known writers, Vladimir Nabokov. Chloe Arnold has been meeting those on each side of the argument</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1713</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07jphcb.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07jphcb.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07jphcb.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07jphs1</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07jphs1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07jphcb.mp3" fileSize="27408000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1713"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07jphs1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Aung San and a Disputed Legacy</title><description><![CDATA[<p>It’s Martyrs’ Day in Myanmar and the country’s founding father, Aung San, is being honoured. His daughter Aung San Suu Kyi now leads the government, but with her reputation in tatters for her failure to condemn the excesses of the armed forces. Nick Beake reflects on the contradictions.</p><p>50 years after the first man walked on the moon, India has been celebrating the successful launch of its own lunar mission. Rajini Vaidyanathan joins a group of schoolchildren basking in the glow of national pride.</p><p>Thousands have been killed in the Philippines in President Duterte's “war on drugs.” He’s also got a reputation for a sense of humour that’s not to everyone’s taste. Howard Johnson wonders whether his jokes have conditioned people in the Philippines to accept atrocities. </p><p>Greece has a new prime minister after elections earlier this month. He’s promised to end the country’s brain drain, to persuade the hundreds of thousands of people who’ve left in recent years to come home. Jessica Bateman asks if that’s what they’ll want to do.</p><p>And, Vincent Dowd hears how technology is making shipping safer as he takes a boat trip out to the Fastnet Rock off the coast of Ireland, with its lighthouse, “a great cathedral tethered to the ocean.”</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Aung San Suu Kyi honours her father on Martyrs' Day. Would he be proud of Myanmar today?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>It’s Martyrs’ Day in Myanmar and the country’s founding father, Aung San, is being honoured. His daughter Aung San Suu Kyi now leads the government, but with her reputation in tatters for her failure to condemn the excesses of the armed forces. Nick Beake reflects on the contradictions.</p><p>50 years after the first man walked on the moon, India has been celebrating the successful launch of its own lunar mission. Rajini Vaidyanathan joins a group of schoolchildren basking in the glow of national pride.</p><p>Thousands have been killed in the Philippines in President Duterte's “war on drugs.” He’s also got a reputation for a sense of humour that’s not to everyone’s taste. Howard Johnson wonders whether his jokes have conditioned people in the Philippines to accept atrocities. </p><p>Greece has a new prime minister after elections earlier this month. He’s promised to end the country’s brain drain, to persuade the hundreds of thousands of people who’ve left in recent years to come home. Jessica Bateman asks if that’s what they’ll want to do.</p><p>And, Vincent Dowd hears how technology is making shipping safer as he takes a boat trip out to the Fastnet Rock off the coast of Ireland, with its lighthouse, “a great cathedral tethered to the ocean.”</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1717</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07j0lb8.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07j0lb8.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07j0lb8.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07j0lfs</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07j0lfs</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07j0lb8.mp3" fileSize="27472000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1717"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07j0lfs</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 21/07/2019</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from writers and journalists which reflect the range of contemporary life in the United Kingdom.</p><p>Writer and broadcaster, Ian McMillan, embarks on a high summer stroll along the bridle path that links his home with the post-industrial landscape of South Yorkshire, taking in a flattened colliery, a screaming mandrake, Peter Falk, the X19 bus to Barnsley and a magpie - or is it two?
  1404. Journalist and part-time canoeist, Bob Walker, embarks on a "Three Men in a Boat"-style progress on the river Wye - which for much of its course marks the border between Wales and England. He quickly finds out that, just as in Jerome K. Jerome's time, there is often ferocious competition among the different users of the water space for access. And money often lies at the heart of the wrangling...
  1405. With mental health issues finally commanding more attention at home, work and in society generally, Christine Finn returns to her home town of Deal to discover how those managing conditions are being helped by the use of allotments. Along the way, she realises that old-style denial of mental health problems had gone on much closer to home than she had previously thought.
  1406. As the nation's gargantuan appetite for soft fruit reaches its apogee, John Murphy journeys to the poly-tunnels of the garden of England to learn how this demand is satisfied and how berry farmers' costs may yet force radical changes to the way strawberries, raspberries, loganberries - and all the rest - reach our tables. He also hears how the poly-tunnels can be unexpectedly romantic locations.
  1407. And Ayo Akinwolere ponders how and when the relationship between fathers and sons alters, their roles invert and how well-prepared both are for the change.</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A bridle saunter, water battles, losing the plot, industrialising berries, son and father</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from writers and journalists which reflect the range of contemporary life in the United Kingdom.</p><p>Writer and broadcaster, Ian McMillan, embarks on a high summer stroll along the bridle path that links his home with the post-industrial landscape of South Yorkshire, taking in a flattened colliery, a screaming mandrake, Peter Falk, the X19 bus to Barnsley and a magpie - or is it two?
  1408. Journalist and part-time canoeist, Bob Walker, embarks on a "Three Men in a Boat"-style progress on the river Wye - which for much of its course marks the border between Wales and England. He quickly finds out that, just as in Jerome K. Jerome's time, there is often ferocious competition among the different users of the water space for access. And money often lies at the heart of the wrangling...
  1409. With mental health issues finally commanding more attention at home, work and in society generally, Christine Finn returns to her home town of Deal to discover how those managing conditions are being helped by the use of allotments. Along the way, she realises that old-style denial of mental health problems had gone on much closer to home than she had previously thought.
  1410. As the nation's gargantuan appetite for soft fruit reaches its apogee, John Murphy journeys to the poly-tunnels of the garden of England to learn how this demand is satisfied and how berry farmers' costs may yet force radical changes to the way strawberries, raspberries, loganberries - and all the rest - reach our tables. He also hears how the poly-tunnels can be unexpectedly romantic locations.
  1411. And Ayo Akinwolere ponders how and when the relationship between fathers and sons alters, their roles invert and how well-prepared both are for the change.</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2019 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1668</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07hcgt5.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07hcgt5.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07hcgt5.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07hchgz</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07hchgz</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07hcgt5.mp3" fileSize="26688000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1668"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07hchgz</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A World of Brandished Kippers</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Jacob Zuma, the former South African president, has been in the spotlight all week – live on television responding to questions at a judicial inquiry investigating corruption at the highest level. Andrew Harding reflects on truth in the age of brandished kippers.
  1412. The town of Kirkenes in northern Norway is a stone’s throw from the border with Russia. It’s now become the focus for a major spy scandal, as Sarah Rainsford has been finding out.
  1413. Martin Patience was recently part of a BBC team that received a rare invitation to visit Iran, at a time when relations with Britain are strained. He says he was warmly received, although filming at a pop concert provided a moment of uncertainty.
  1414. There’s been a long-running conflict in California over access to the beaches. On one side, the surfers, who need to be able to get to the ocean; on the other the tech millionaires, who’ve been putting up fences to keep people out. Sally Howard says the very soul of the Golden State is at stake.
  1415. And Petroc Trelawny has been aboard the QE2 for a trip down memory lane. No longer plying the high seas, she’s moored in Dubai as a floating hotel; bri-nylon and formica among the glass and steel.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Jacob Zuma denies it all and issues veiled threats as South Africa reckons with its past</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Jacob Zuma, the former South African president, has been in the spotlight all week – live on television responding to questions at a judicial inquiry investigating corruption at the highest level. Andrew Harding reflects on truth in the age of brandished kippers.
  1416. The town of Kirkenes in northern Norway is a stone’s throw from the border with Russia. It’s now become the focus for a major spy scandal, as Sarah Rainsford has been finding out.
  1417. Martin Patience was recently part of a BBC team that received a rare invitation to visit Iran, at a time when relations with Britain are strained. He says he was warmly received, although filming at a pop concert provided a moment of uncertainty.
  1418. There’s been a long-running conflict in California over access to the beaches. On one side, the surfers, who need to be able to get to the ocean; on the other the tech millionaires, who’ve been putting up fences to keep people out. Sally Howard says the very soul of the Golden State is at stake.
  1419. And Petroc Trelawny has been aboard the QE2 for a trip down memory lane. No longer plying the high seas, she’s moored in Dubai as a floating hotel; bri-nylon and formica among the glass and steel.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1727</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07hdwbl.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07hdwbl.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07hdwbl.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07hdwkw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07hdwkw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07hdwbl.mp3" fileSize="27632000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1727"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07hdwkw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Freedom of speech in Algeria</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Algerians have been celebrating the fact that their football team has made it to the final of the African Cup of Nations. But in Algeria, football is more than a sport. It was in the country’s stadiums that the desire for political change emerged. The nation’s autocratic leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika was ousted earlier this year and since then people have been getting to grips with new levels of freedom of expresssion, as Neil Kisserli has found.
  1420. In the United States President Trump’s tweets about four non-white members of congress have caused uproar among his opponents. Mike Wendling has been to a pro-Trump gathering in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he encountered some unusual supporters of the president: “monarchists”.
  1421. Chile is home to one of South America’s fastest growing economies. The agricultural sector plays a significant role, and exports include fruit, wine and fish. Salmon farming has become a big industry, but it can also sometimes be a dangerous one for those who work in it, as Grace Livingstone has learned.
  1422. Over the next three decades, New Zealand hopes to rid itself of invasive species. Its Predator 2050 plan aims to eradicate stoats, rats, possums and other pests, in the hope of protecting the country’s indigenous wildlife. As Christine Finn has discovered, the project has garnered wide support.
  1423. In China for centuries, the dominance of tea drinking may now be facing a challenge. Many young people are acquiring a taste for coffee, which may partly explain why foreign coffee shop chains have recently opened thousands of branches across the country. Andy Jones has been to Shanghai to hear why coffee may be poised to mount a challenge to tea.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>How people in Algeria are getting to grips with new levels of freedom of expression.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Algerians have been celebrating the fact that their football team has made it to the final of the African Cup of Nations. But in Algeria, football is more than a sport. It was in the country’s stadiums that the desire for political change emerged. The nation’s autocratic leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika was ousted earlier this year and since then people have been getting to grips with new levels of freedom of expresssion, as Neil Kisserli has found.
  1424. In the United States President Trump’s tweets about four non-white members of congress have caused uproar among his opponents. Mike Wendling has been to a pro-Trump gathering in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he encountered some unusual supporters of the president: “monarchists”.
  1425. Chile is home to one of South America’s fastest growing economies. The agricultural sector plays a significant role, and exports include fruit, wine and fish. Salmon farming has become a big industry, but it can also sometimes be a dangerous one for those who work in it, as Grace Livingstone has learned.
  1426. Over the next three decades, New Zealand hopes to rid itself of invasive species. Its Predator 2050 plan aims to eradicate stoats, rats, possums and other pests, in the hope of protecting the country’s indigenous wildlife. As Christine Finn has discovered, the project has garnered wide support.
  1427. In China for centuries, the dominance of tea drinking may now be facing a challenge. Many young people are acquiring a taste for coffee, which may partly explain why foreign coffee shop chains have recently opened thousands of branches across the country. Andy Jones has been to Shanghai to hear why coffee may be poised to mount a challenge to tea.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1732</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07h6c7q.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07h6c7q.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07h6c7q.mp3" length="27712000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07h6cht</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07h6cht</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07h6c7q.mp3" fileSize="27712000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1732"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07h6cht</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The battle against the gangs of El Salvador</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The President of El Salvador is calling on young men to leave the country’s criminal gangs, or perish with them. He said the gangs have terrorised the country for decades, and would be dismantled. Orla Guerin has been to the capital, San Salvador, to see how the gangs menace the city.
  1428. Greece has a new Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis of the centre-right party New Democracy, defeating the socialist Alexis Tsipras. Mark Lowen was based in Athens at the height of the financial crisis, which led to Greece experiencing one of the worst peace-time depressions of the last hundred years. He returned to watch the old conservative party being brought back to power.
  1429. Five years ago, Russian-backed forces seized control of the Crimean peninsula. Ash Bhardwaj gained permission to enter Crimea, to find out what’s changed in five year’s of Russian rule.
  1430. A hundred years ago, the passing of the Addison Act spurred a huge expansion in council housing across the UK. Austria too has been remembering when it began building social housing around 100 years ago. In Vienna today more than half of its population live in subsidised apartment blocks. Some of these are of vast scale, such as Karl Marx Hof, more than half a mile long. Caroline Davies has been finding out what lessons policy makers can learn from the Viennese approach to housing.
  1431. The end of the Cricket World Cup is drawing near, and the final match, between England and New Zealand, will be watched by fans from all over the world. But what would they make of how the game is played in the Trobiand Islands, located off the coast of Papua New Guinea? The people there have a passion for cricket that borders on the extreme, as Mark Stratton has discovered.
  1432. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1433. Producer: Neil Koenig</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Combating violence in El Salvador, which has one of the world's highest murder rates</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The President of El Salvador is calling on young men to leave the country’s criminal gangs, or perish with them. He said the gangs have terrorised the country for decades, and would be dismantled. Orla Guerin has been to the capital, San Salvador, to see how the gangs menace the city.
  1434. Greece has a new Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis of the centre-right party New Democracy, defeating the socialist Alexis Tsipras. Mark Lowen was based in Athens at the height of the financial crisis, which led to Greece experiencing one of the worst peace-time depressions of the last hundred years. He returned to watch the old conservative party being brought back to power.
  1435. Five years ago, Russian-backed forces seized control of the Crimean peninsula. Ash Bhardwaj gained permission to enter Crimea, to find out what’s changed in five year’s of Russian rule.
  1436. A hundred years ago, the passing of the Addison Act spurred a huge expansion in council housing across the UK. Austria too has been remembering when it began building social housing around 100 years ago. In Vienna today more than half of its population live in subsidised apartment blocks. Some of these are of vast scale, such as Karl Marx Hof, more than half a mile long. Caroline Davies has been finding out what lessons policy makers can learn from the Viennese approach to housing.
  1437. The end of the Cricket World Cup is drawing near, and the final match, between England and New Zealand, will be watched by fans from all over the world. But what would they make of how the game is played in the Trobiand Islands, located off the coast of Papua New Guinea? The people there have a passion for cricket that borders on the extreme, as Mark Stratton has discovered.
  1438. Presenter: Kate Adie
  1439. Producer: Neil Koenig</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1741</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07gtlpg.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07gtlpg.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07gtlpg.mp3" length="27856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07gtlqv</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07gtlqv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07gtlpg.mp3" fileSize="27856000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1741"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07gtlqv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Jamal Khashoggi - unanswered questions</title><description><![CDATA[<p>There was an international outcry following the murder of journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year. Saudi officials blamed rogue agents sent to persuade him to return to the kingdom. Frank Gardner reflects on his encounters with Jamal Khashoggi and the questions that still need answering.
  1440. Germany has pledged to more than halve its greenhouse emissions by 2030, compared with 1990 levels. But the country still relies on coal to provide 40 percent of its electricity. Tim Mansel visits a village in Rhineland that is being eaten up by a coal mine and encounters some activists at the forefront of the climate change debate.
  1441. More than 25 years on from the Oslo Peace accords, close friendships between Palestinians and Israelis are still rare. Charlie Faulkner attends a Shabbat meal in Jerusalem where an Israeli woman invites a former Palestinian prisoner to her home.
  1442. Maternal mortality rates in Ethiopia have been hugely reduced thanks to an innovative programme of medical training. Ruth Evans finds out how it works at a project in the north of the country.
  1443. This year the Chinese government announced that it was closing Everest Base Camp to trekkers and tourists on the Tibetan side of the mountain because of the rubbish that’s accumulated in the area. Jeremy Grange has travelled to Everest Base Camp on the Nepalese side to find out about the challenge of dealing with a mountain of rubbish.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Jamal Khashoggi's death still throws up unanswered questions</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>There was an international outcry following the murder of journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year. Saudi officials blamed rogue agents sent to persuade him to return to the kingdom. Frank Gardner reflects on his encounters with Jamal Khashoggi and the questions that still need answering.
  1444. Germany has pledged to more than halve its greenhouse emissions by 2030, compared with 1990 levels. But the country still relies on coal to provide 40 percent of its electricity. Tim Mansel visits a village in Rhineland that is being eaten up by a coal mine and encounters some activists at the forefront of the climate change debate.
  1445. More than 25 years on from the Oslo Peace accords, close friendships between Palestinians and Israelis are still rare. Charlie Faulkner attends a Shabbat meal in Jerusalem where an Israeli woman invites a former Palestinian prisoner to her home.
  1446. Maternal mortality rates in Ethiopia have been hugely reduced thanks to an innovative programme of medical training. Ruth Evans finds out how it works at a project in the north of the country.
  1447. This year the Chinese government announced that it was closing Everest Base Camp to trekkers and tourists on the Tibetan side of the mountain because of the rubbish that’s accumulated in the area. Jeremy Grange has travelled to Everest Base Camp on the Nepalese side to find out about the challenge of dealing with a mountain of rubbish.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2019 10:33:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1728</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07gm0sj.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07gm0sj.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07gm0sj.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07gm150</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07gm150</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07gm0sj.mp3" fileSize="27648000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1728"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07gm150</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Women and Children of Islamic State</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A visit to an IS women and children's camp in northern Syria where the residents face an uncertain future. Anna Foster visits the Al Hawl camp to talk to those who are trying to salvage some form of life beyond the caliphate
  1448. The rape and murder of an eight-year old girl last year in Indian-administered Kashmir had reverberations across India. As they awaited the verdict of the trial of the eight accused, Divya Arya went to speak to the nomadic Muslim community trying to come to terms with their loss.
  1449. The rate of destruction in the Amazon rainforest has increased by 60 percent in the last two months, and the impact of deforestation is being heavily felt by Brazil's indigenous people. David Shukman, the BBC's Science editor, went to visit the Uru-eu-wau-wau people and learned how they were trying to balance their traditional way of life with the pace of change and development in the region.
  1450. A local village mayor in south-West France has launched a campaign for rural noises, such as the sound of cicadas and roosters, to be awarded national heritage status. Chris Bockman visits the village of Gajac and discovers that the battle lines have been drawn between two very different groups of residents over the issue.
  1451. The Catalan independence movement has attracted international media to the region, and one journalist, Tim Smith, found himself on assignment in Barcelona for a prolonged stay. He discovered the internet can be a useful resource for forging new and eclectic friendship groups, and finds himself immersed in everything from heated political debates to advanced cycling.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A visit to an IS women and children's camp in northern Syria</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A visit to an IS women and children's camp in northern Syria where the residents face an uncertain future. Anna Foster visits the Al Hawl camp to talk to those who are trying to salvage some form of life beyond the caliphate
  1452. The rape and murder of an eight-year old girl last year in Indian-administered Kashmir had reverberations across India. As they awaited the verdict of the trial of the eight accused, Divya Arya went to speak to the nomadic Muslim community trying to come to terms with their loss.
  1453. The rate of destruction in the Amazon rainforest has increased by 60 percent in the last two months, and the impact of deforestation is being heavily felt by Brazil's indigenous people. David Shukman, the BBC's Science editor, went to visit the Uru-eu-wau-wau people and learned how they were trying to balance their traditional way of life with the pace of change and development in the region.
  1454. A local village mayor in south-West France has launched a campaign for rural noises, such as the sound of cicadas and roosters, to be awarded national heritage status. Chris Bockman visits the village of Gajac and discovers that the battle lines have been drawn between two very different groups of residents over the issue.
  1455. The Catalan independence movement has attracted international media to the region, and one journalist, Tim Smith, found himself on assignment in Barcelona for a prolonged stay. He discovered the internet can be a useful resource for forging new and eclectic friendship groups, and finds himself immersed in everything from heated political debates to advanced cycling.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2019 09:47:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1667</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07g6hhd.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07g6hhd.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07g6hhd.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07g6hq0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07g6hq0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07g6hhd.mp3" fileSize="26672000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1667"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07g6hq0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>All change at the top in Brussels</title><description><![CDATA[<p>European leaders have finally decided who should fill the top jobs in EU organisations. They have nominated German defence minister, Ursula von der Leyen, as the new President of the European Commission. She must now be approved by MEPs in Strasbourg, which has meant some serious train travel for Adam Fleming. The shocking picture of a father and his daughter lying dead in the Rio Grande recently highlighted the risks for migrants trying to cross illegally into the United States. As Chris Buckler found, others stranded on the border have a long wait. In Sub-Saharan Africa, women often have to queue for hours for water. But a new high-tech scheme in one village in Tanzania is transforming access to clean water. Chloe Farand went to see the project. Tarkhan Batirashvili grew up in Georgia’s Caucasus mountains. He became one of the most notorious terrorists in the world, ruling northern Syria for Islamic State until his death in 2016. Tarkhan’s cousin Temuri wants to combat the radicalisation that set Tarkhan on his course to Syria. But this is no easy task, as William Dunbar discovers. As the Women’s World Cup nears its final stage, the organisers hope the contest will help to raise the profile of female football players across the globe. But that may be easier to achieve in some places than in others. In Argentina, for instance, the game is everything. But for decades women have had little part to play, and almost no chance of becoming professionals. This is something that Macarena Sánchez wants to change, as she fights to be accepted as a professional football player. Aude Villiers-Moriamé met her.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The tortuous process of choosing new faces to run the EU's institutions</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>European leaders have finally decided who should fill the top jobs in EU organisations. They have nominated German defence minister, Ursula von der Leyen, as the new President of the European Commission. She must now be approved by MEPs in Strasbourg, which has meant some serious train travel for Adam Fleming. The shocking picture of a father and his daughter lying dead in the Rio Grande recently highlighted the risks for migrants trying to cross illegally into the United States. As Chris Buckler found, others stranded on the border have a long wait. In Sub-Saharan Africa, women often have to queue for hours for water. But a new high-tech scheme in one village in Tanzania is transforming access to clean water. Chloe Farand went to see the project. Tarkhan Batirashvili grew up in Georgia’s Caucasus mountains. He became one of the most notorious terrorists in the world, ruling northern Syria for Islamic State until his death in 2016. Tarkhan’s cousin Temuri wants to combat the radicalisation that set Tarkhan on his course to Syria. But this is no easy task, as William Dunbar discovers. As the Women’s World Cup nears its final stage, the organisers hope the contest will help to raise the profile of female football players across the globe. But that may be easier to achieve in some places than in others. In Argentina, for instance, the game is everything. But for decades women have had little part to play, and almost no chance of becoming professionals. This is something that Macarena Sánchez wants to change, as she fights to be accepted as a professional football player. Aude Villiers-Moriamé met her.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2019 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1679</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07fz3sb.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07fz3sb.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07fz3sb.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07fz4dd</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07fz4dd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07fz3sb.mp3" fileSize="26864000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1679"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07fz4dd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Istanbul's mayoral election upset</title><description><![CDATA[<p>After his party lost the Istanbul mayoral election where does Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, go from here? Mark Lowen considers whether this could be the start of his political decline. Katie Arnold reports from Kyrgyzstan where hot dry summers in the former Soviet republic are leading to drought and cross- border tension over water supplies. Alastair Leithead, the BBC's Africa correspondent, is leaving the continent 17 years after he filed his first piece for From Our Own Correspondent. How much has his role changed since then? In the United States where fourteen parents have pleaded guilty to fraudulently getting their children into top universities, Laura Trevelyan considers the lengths some parents will go to help their offspring get into their preferred college. And as much of Europe swelters under a heat wave James Reynolds takes the temperature in Rome and finds out what hot weather means to its citizens.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>What does losing control of Istanbul mean for Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>After his party lost the Istanbul mayoral election where does Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, go from here? Mark Lowen considers whether this could be the start of his political decline. Katie Arnold reports from Kyrgyzstan where hot dry summers in the former Soviet republic are leading to drought and cross- border tension over water supplies. Alastair Leithead, the BBC's Africa correspondent, is leaving the continent 17 years after he filed his first piece for From Our Own Correspondent. How much has his role changed since then? In the United States where fourteen parents have pleaded guilty to fraudulently getting their children into top universities, Laura Trevelyan considers the lengths some parents will go to help their offspring get into their preferred college. And as much of Europe swelters under a heat wave James Reynolds takes the temperature in Rome and finds out what hot weather means to its citizens.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Jun 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1709</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07fjxy6.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07fjxy6.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07fjxy6.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07fjy05</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07fjy05</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07fjxy6.mp3" fileSize="27344000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1709"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07fjy05</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>An Executive Order from the White House</title><description><![CDATA[<p>After an aborted missile strike, Washington insiders are scratching their heads over the President's modus operandi on Iran. Barbara Plett Usher looks at the new normal of the Trump administration.
  1456. Vladimir Putin has cancelled Russian flights to Georgia after anti-Russian protests in Tbilisi, a move which will heavily impact the country's tourism industry. Rayhan Demytrie assesses the impact of President Putin's warnings on Russians holidaying there.
  1457. The Armenian community was once a thriving hub in India's Chennai, running trading companies, shipping lines, coal mines and real estate developments, but their numbers have dwindled since then. Andrew Whitehead attends a service in the eighteenth-century Armenian church in the city attended by those that remain.
  1458. Rocket attacks on foreign oil companies' compounds in southern Iraq may have grabbed headlines, but the citizen's of Basra are more concerned about power cuts, rubbish strewn streets and job shortages. Years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Lizzie Porter finds not much has improved for the local population in the region.
  1459. The Netherlands has long touted its green credentials, but, thanks to its coal-fired power stations, it is in fact one of Europe's biggest carbon emitters. The capital, Amsterdam, is positioning itself as a new hub for green businesses, and David Baker went to find out.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>President Trump's modus operandi on Iran</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>After an aborted missile strike, Washington insiders are scratching their heads over the President's modus operandi on Iran. Barbara Plett Usher looks at the new normal of the Trump administration.
  1460. Vladimir Putin has cancelled Russian flights to Georgia after anti-Russian protests in Tbilisi, a move which will heavily impact the country's tourism industry. Rayhan Demytrie assesses the impact of President Putin's warnings on Russians holidaying there.
  1461. The Armenian community was once a thriving hub in India's Chennai, running trading companies, shipping lines, coal mines and real estate developments, but their numbers have dwindled since then. Andrew Whitehead attends a service in the eighteenth-century Armenian church in the city attended by those that remain.
  1462. Rocket attacks on foreign oil companies' compounds in southern Iraq may have grabbed headlines, but the citizen's of Basra are more concerned about power cuts, rubbish strewn streets and job shortages. Years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Lizzie Porter finds not much has improved for the local population in the region.
  1463. The Netherlands has long touted its green credentials, but, thanks to its coal-fired power stations, it is in fact one of Europe's biggest carbon emitters. The capital, Amsterdam, is positioning itself as a new hub for green businesses, and David Baker went to find out.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2019 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1708</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07f9ywk.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07f9ywk.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07f9ywk.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07f9z25</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07f9z25</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07f9ywk.mp3" fileSize="27328000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1708"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07f9z25</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 23/06/2019</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. </p><p>Alison Holt considers with a Somerset family why adult social care is the policy reform no UK government does anything about. In the week of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, Martin Smith asks how far the Welsh heritage in singing is endangered and whether it might yet be part of Wales' economic future. With the time-worn quips over an Essex town ringing in her ears, Jo Glanville discovers that established notions of Southend as a seaside resort with its best days behind it are out-of-date. Andrew Green looks at the idea of the bird celebrated in the most popular piece of classical music in Britain and the reality of its existence today on the Chilterns. And Dan Johnson contemplates the personal and social links between a stately pile near Barnsley and those who live in the communities close to it.</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The policy no politician will tackle, the Welsh and singing and Southend's image makeover</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. </p><p>Alison Holt considers with a Somerset family why adult social care is the policy reform no UK government does anything about. In the week of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, Martin Smith asks how far the Welsh heritage in singing is endangered and whether it might yet be part of Wales' economic future. With the time-worn quips over an Essex town ringing in her ears, Jo Glanville discovers that established notions of Southend as a seaside resort with its best days behind it are out-of-date. Andrew Green looks at the idea of the bird celebrated in the most popular piece of classical music in Britain and the reality of its existence today on the Chilterns. And Dan Johnson contemplates the personal and social links between a stately pile near Barnsley and those who live in the communities close to it.</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2019 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1656</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07dtv2l.mp3" length="26496000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07dtv2l.mp3" length="26496000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07dtv2l.mp3" length="26496000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07dtvzh</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07dtvzh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07dtv2l.mp3" fileSize="26496000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1656"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07dtvzh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mohammed Morsi dies</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The death of Mohammed Morsi throws into sharp relief the challenges facing modern day Egypt, and the bigger struggle to embrace democracy. Kevin Connolly reflects back on the defining moments of his presidency.</p><p>Colin Freeman visits a town in the heart of Boko Haram territory in Nigeria's north-east, and learns about a new faction which has formally declared allegiance to so-called Islamic State - and adopted a new strategy.</p><p>20 years after Nato peacekeepers entered Kosovo, James Coomarasamy meets the war widows who are challenging local norms by working for a successful pickling company.</p><p>Germany is grappling with the possibility a man with far-right extremist links was responsible for the shooting of one of Angela's Merkel's pro-refugee allies. Reha Kansara meets a woman who spends hours each day tackling online hate speech in the country.</p><p>The warm-blooded manatee makes its way each winter to the USA's Sunshine State, but its steadily rising population was recently blighted by one of the worst cases of Red Tide - a form of toxic algae. Phoebe Smith took to the waters to encounter Florida's most loved wildlife attraction.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The death of Mohammed Morsi highlights what has and hasn't changed in modern Egypt</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The death of Mohammed Morsi throws into sharp relief the challenges facing modern day Egypt, and the bigger struggle to embrace democracy. Kevin Connolly reflects back on the defining moments of his presidency.</p><p>Colin Freeman visits a town in the heart of Boko Haram territory in Nigeria's north-east, and learns about a new faction which has formally declared allegiance to so-called Islamic State - and adopted a new strategy.</p><p>20 years after Nato peacekeepers entered Kosovo, James Coomarasamy meets the war widows who are challenging local norms by working for a successful pickling company.</p><p>Germany is grappling with the possibility a man with far-right extremist links was responsible for the shooting of one of Angela's Merkel's pro-refugee allies. Reha Kansara meets a woman who spends hours each day tackling online hate speech in the country.</p><p>The warm-blooded manatee makes its way each winter to the USA's Sunshine State, but its steadily rising population was recently blighted by one of the worst cases of Red Tide - a form of toxic algae. Phoebe Smith took to the waters to encounter Florida's most loved wildlife attraction.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1708</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07dwdzz.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07dwdzz.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07dwdzz.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07dwf79</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07dwf79</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07dwdzz.mp3" fileSize="27328000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1708"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07dwf79</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Slum landlords in Marseille</title><description><![CDATA[<p>An accident in the historic centre of Marseille in the south of France has sent shock waves through the city. Two apartment blocks collapsed late last year with the loss of eight lives. Lucy Ash asks who is to blame - slum landlords, corrupt politicians or a combination of the two? There's growing evidence of China's attempts to control its Muslim minorities and suppress their beliefs. John Sudworth was given rare access to some of the secure facilities where hundreds of thousands of Muslims are being held in the western region of Xinjiang, even though they've committed no crime nor faced trial. In Addis Ababa, Theo Leggett hears from the boss of Ethiopian Airlines who's fighting to defend the company's reputation - he says the fatal crash of one of its Boeing 737 Max aircraft in March was not the fault of his pilots. What's it like to return to a South African township school where you taught twenty seven years earlier? James Helm makes a very personal journey. And Sonia Faleiro observes the life-changing nature of a restaurant job in Goa on India's west coast.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1464. Producer: Caroline Bayley</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Why is the centre of France's second city, Marseille, falling apart?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>An accident in the historic centre of Marseille in the south of France has sent shock waves through the city. Two apartment blocks collapsed late last year with the loss of eight lives. Lucy Ash asks who is to blame - slum landlords, corrupt politicians or a combination of the two? There's growing evidence of China's attempts to control its Muslim minorities and suppress their beliefs. John Sudworth was given rare access to some of the secure facilities where hundreds of thousands of Muslims are being held in the western region of Xinjiang, even though they've committed no crime nor faced trial. In Addis Ababa, Theo Leggett hears from the boss of Ethiopian Airlines who's fighting to defend the company's reputation - he says the fatal crash of one of its Boeing 737 Max aircraft in March was not the fault of his pilots. What's it like to return to a South African township school where you taught twenty seven years earlier? James Helm makes a very personal journey. And Sonia Faleiro observes the life-changing nature of a restaurant job in Goa on India's west coast.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1465. Producer: Caroline Bayley</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2019 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1714</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07dnmxc.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07dnmxc.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07dnmxc.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07dnnb2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07dnnb2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07dnmxc.mp3" fileSize="27424000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1714"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07dnnb2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Ebola spreads to Uganda</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ebola has spread from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Uganda as the authorities struggle to control it. Olivia Acland visits an Ebola zone in the DRC.
  1466. Russian journalist, Ivan Golunov, this week was let off drug dealing charges after a public outcry. Steve Rosenberg looks at why the case has been so embarrassing for the Russian authorities.
  1467. The protests in Hong Kong this week have seen some unlikely allies - and foes. Gabriel Gatehouse witnesses a rare stand off between a Hong Kong legislator and the police.
  1468. Italy's Prime Minister is arguably less well known than his deputies. James Reynolds unpicks a complicated web of Italian politics.
  1469. Whether you are visiting New Zealand's volcanoes or its spectacular fjords, getting around without a car in the country can be difficult. Christine Finn finds out why hitchhiking is popular for tourists.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Ebola has spread from the DRC to Uganda as the authorities struggle to control it</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Ebola has spread from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Uganda as the authorities struggle to control it. Olivia Acland visits an Ebola zone in the DRC.
  1470. Russian journalist, Ivan Golunov, this week was let off drug dealing charges after a public outcry. Steve Rosenberg looks at why the case has been so embarrassing for the Russian authorities.
  1471. The protests in Hong Kong this week have seen some unlikely allies - and foes. Gabriel Gatehouse witnesses a rare stand off between a Hong Kong legislator and the police.
  1472. Italy's Prime Minister is arguably less well known than his deputies. James Reynolds unpicks a complicated web of Italian politics.
  1473. Whether you are visiting New Zealand's volcanoes or its spectacular fjords, getting around without a car in the country can be difficult. Christine Finn finds out why hitchhiking is popular for tourists.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1664</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07d7dsv.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07d7dsv.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07d7dsv.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07d7f1w</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07d7f1w</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07d7dsv.mp3" fileSize="26624000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1664"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07d7f1w</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Protests on the streets of Hong Kong</title><description><![CDATA[<p>This week has seen the biggest protests on the streets of Hong Kong since Britain handed the former colony back to China in 1997. Demonstrators are angry at a proposed new law which would allow extradition to mainland China for trial. As Danny Vincent reports it's considered by many in Hong Kong to be the latest example of the erosion of freedoms that Hong Kong was guaranteed during the handover. As Pride events take place all over the world this month to recognise the impact of LGBT communities and to highlight on going campaigns for equal rights, Yolande Knell reports on Pride in Israel. There are demonstrations in the heart of Europe too. Rob Cameron reports from the streets of the Czech capital, Prague where there have been protests against the prime minister. What should happen to the Chagos Islands and its former citizens now Britain has been told by the UN to hand the territory back to Mauritius? Rosie Blunt has been talking to members of the Chagossian community living in the UK. And Monica Whitlock meets a family in eastern Kazakhstan preparing for a funeral feast.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1474. Producer: Caroline Bayley</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>This week has seen the biggest protests in Hong Kong since its handover to China</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>This week has seen the biggest protests on the streets of Hong Kong since Britain handed the former colony back to China in 1997. Demonstrators are angry at a proposed new law which would allow extradition to mainland China for trial. As Danny Vincent reports it's considered by many in Hong Kong to be the latest example of the erosion of freedoms that Hong Kong was guaranteed during the handover. As Pride events take place all over the world this month to recognise the impact of LGBT communities and to highlight on going campaigns for equal rights, Yolande Knell reports on Pride in Israel. There are demonstrations in the heart of Europe too. Rob Cameron reports from the streets of the Czech capital, Prague where there have been protests against the prime minister. What should happen to the Chagos Islands and its former citizens now Britain has been told by the UN to hand the territory back to Mauritius? Rosie Blunt has been talking to members of the Chagossian community living in the UK. And Monica Whitlock meets a family in eastern Kazakhstan preparing for a funeral feast.</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1475. Producer: Caroline Bayley</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1726</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07d0cr6.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07d0cr6.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07d0cr6.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07d0d2s</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07d0d2s</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07d0cr6.mp3" fileSize="27616000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1726"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07d0d2s</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>US Mexico relations</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Mexico takes a tougher approach to migrants as it comes under pressure from the US. Will Grant returns to Chiapas in Southern Mexico, where he travelled with the migrant caravan last year, and finds it a very different place.</p><p>Sudan has been heavily criticised for the crackdown by its military on protestors in Khartoum this week, killing dozens of people. Fergal Keane, the BBC’s Africa editor looks at how far the country has changed over the years.</p><p>Kevin Connolly, the BBC’s Europe editor looks back at Poland’s first big step towards democracy in the late 1980s and why it went largely unnoticed.</p><p>Amy Guttman meets the female chefs in Japan who are blazing a trail for Prime Minister Abe’s plans to get more women in the workplace.</p><p>Monkey puzzle trees are an endangered species in Chile, but Sarah Wheeler finds they still have special significance for the Mapuche people.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Mexico takes a tougher approach to migrants as it comes under pressure from the US</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Mexico takes a tougher approach to migrants as it comes under pressure from the US. Will Grant returns to Chiapas in Southern Mexico, where he travelled with the migrant caravan last year, and finds it a very different place.</p><p>Sudan has been heavily criticised for the crackdown by its military on protestors in Khartoum this week, killing dozens of people. Fergal Keane, the BBC’s Africa editor looks at how far the country has changed over the years.</p><p>Kevin Connolly, the BBC’s Europe editor looks back at Poland’s first big step towards democracy in the late 1980s and why it went largely unnoticed.</p><p>Amy Guttman meets the female chefs in Japan who are blazing a trail for Prime Minister Abe’s plans to get more women in the workplace.</p><p>Monkey puzzle trees are an endangered species in Chile, but Sarah Wheeler finds they still have special significance for the Mapuche people.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2019 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1704</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07cm2n7.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07cm2n7.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07cm2n7.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07cm2qq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07cm2qq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07cm2n7.mp3" fileSize="27264000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1704"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07cm2qq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Political turmoil in Austria</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Austria has sworn in its first female chancellor but Brigitte Bierlein is unlikely to be there for long. She heads a caretaker government appointed because the previous Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz lost a confidence vote after his far- right coalition partner was caught in a video sting scandal. Bethany Bell reports from Vienna on the current political turmoil. As fighting continues in Syria's Idlib province, author Diana Darke who knows Syria well, has been to the Korean Peninsular and discovers how close the ties are between President Bashar al_Assad and North Korea's Kim Jong-un . Chris Haslam meets the Nicaraguan university rector with a price on his head - but it's not enough for his would-be assassin. Sarah Raynsford sees both sides of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan when the football fans were in town. And in Ireland thousands of visitors flock to towns and villages every summer as the music festival season gets underway. Kieran Cooke goes along too and reflects on how the country has held onto its traditions of music and dance.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Austria has sworn in its first female chancellor amidst political turmoil</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Austria has sworn in its first female chancellor but Brigitte Bierlein is unlikely to be there for long. She heads a caretaker government appointed because the previous Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz lost a confidence vote after his far- right coalition partner was caught in a video sting scandal. Bethany Bell reports from Vienna on the current political turmoil. As fighting continues in Syria's Idlib province, author Diana Darke who knows Syria well, has been to the Korean Peninsular and discovers how close the ties are between President Bashar al_Assad and North Korea's Kim Jong-un . Chris Haslam meets the Nicaraguan university rector with a price on his head - but it's not enough for his would-be assassin. Sarah Raynsford sees both sides of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan when the football fans were in town. And in Ireland thousands of visitors flock to towns and villages every summer as the music festival season gets underway. Kieran Cooke goes along too and reflects on how the country has held onto its traditions of music and dance.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1724</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07ccx2f.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07ccx2f.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07ccx2f.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07ccxl3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07ccxl3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07ccx2f.mp3" fileSize="27584000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1724"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07ccxl3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A very Brussels welcome</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A new cohort of MEPS are given the lowdown on local apartments and Belgian tax returns. Adam Fleming visits the Brussels Welcome Village.</p><p>Yvonne Murray visits Hebei province in China where Maoist era loudspeaker systems are being reconnected. 30 years on from the pro-democracy student protests, is the Chinese government resorting to its old propaganda tactics?</p><p>Mathew Charles visits a rehabilitation programme in one of El Salvador's prisons that hopes to reform ex-gangsters by teaching them skills and converting them to Christianity.</p><p>Wolf howling is used in Romania as a way to track their numbers in the Carpathian mountains. Nick Thorpe looks at how animal conservationists are trying to protect Europe’s population of wolves and bears.</p><p>In United Arab Emirates, what’s thought to be the world’s first all women car club is taking the region by storm.  Vivienne Nunis went to a racetrack to watch them in action.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A new cohort of MEPS are given the lowdown on local apartments and Belgian tax returns</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A new cohort of MEPS are given the lowdown on local apartments and Belgian tax returns. Adam Fleming visits the Brussels Welcome Village.</p><p>Yvonne Murray visits Hebei province in China where Maoist era loudspeaker systems are being reconnected. 30 years on from the pro-democracy student protests, is the Chinese government resorting to its old propaganda tactics?</p><p>Mathew Charles visits a rehabilitation programme in one of El Salvador's prisons that hopes to reform ex-gangsters by teaching them skills and converting them to Christianity.</p><p>Wolf howling is used in Romania as a way to track their numbers in the Carpathian mountains. Nick Thorpe looks at how animal conservationists are trying to protect Europe’s population of wolves and bears.</p><p>In United Arab Emirates, what’s thought to be the world’s first all women car club is taking the region by storm.  Vivienne Nunis went to a racetrack to watch them in action.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1711</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07byt4h.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07byt4h.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07byt4h.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07bytj0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07bytj0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07byt4h.mp3" fileSize="27376000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1711"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07bytj0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Ear cleaners and road sweepers</title><description><![CDATA[<p>India has a huge unemployment problem. Anu Anand takes a look at some of the jobs - such as ear-cleaning, pushing buttons in lifts and road sweeping with brooms - people do to make a living. Following the EU elections which saw an increase in the number of nationalist MEP across the continent,  John Kampfner visits Aachen, a town at the historical centre of a unified Europe... under Charlemagne.  In South Africa, the Bo-Kaap neighbourhood of Cape Town, with its cobbled streets and colourful houses, has become one of the country's must-see tourist destinations - and property there has become pricey. Ione Wells looks at the downside of gentrification. Only about 75,000 people in Estonia still speak the Voro language. Simon Broughton meets some of those trying to ensure it has a universal and lasting appeal. And Christine Finn finds herself, unexpectedly, on a mini-break: but not where she intended. What is it like to spend almost a week in Singapore's Changi Airport?</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1476. Producer: Caroline Bayley</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>India has a huge unemployment problem. What sort of jobs are on offer?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>India has a huge unemployment problem. Anu Anand takes a look at some of the jobs - such as ear-cleaning, pushing buttons in lifts and road sweeping with brooms - people do to make a living. Following the EU elections which saw an increase in the number of nationalist MEP across the continent,  John Kampfner visits Aachen, a town at the historical centre of a unified Europe... under Charlemagne.  In South Africa, the Bo-Kaap neighbourhood of Cape Town, with its cobbled streets and colourful houses, has become one of the country's must-see tourist destinations - and property there has become pricey. Ione Wells looks at the downside of gentrification. Only about 75,000 people in Estonia still speak the Voro language. Simon Broughton meets some of those trying to ensure it has a universal and lasting appeal. And Christine Finn finds herself, unexpectedly, on a mini-break: but not where she intended. What is it like to spend almost a week in Singapore's Changi Airport?</p><p>Presenter: Kate Adie
  1477. Producer: Caroline Bayley</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2019 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1697</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07brdsc.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07brdsc.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07brdsc.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07brfwt</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07brfwt</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07brdsc.mp3" fileSize="27152000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1697"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07brfwt</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Subterfuge</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Anonymous contacts. Secret meetings. Men in raincoats. Gabriel Gatehouse reveals what it can take to bring a story on collusion to light. In Bulgaria, Colin Freeman assesses the economic importance of the Kalashnikov AK47 assault rifle. More than 150 years after slavery officially ended in the US, Juliet Rix has a chance encounter in South Carolina that suggests the past is remarkably present. In the wetlands of southern Iraq Leon McCarron meets some of the people known as the Marsh Arabs. In the 1980s their homeland was a frontline in the Iran-Iraq war;  in the 1990s Saddam Hussein unleashed fighter jets to destroy their settlements. Now they face  another threat - there's still not enough clean water. And in Italy, Dany Mitzman tries to make the best of a dreaded family day out...at a football match.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Anonymous contacts. Secret meetings. Gabriel Gatehouse tells the story behind the story.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Anonymous contacts. Secret meetings. Men in raincoats. Gabriel Gatehouse reveals what it can take to bring a story on collusion to light. In Bulgaria, Colin Freeman assesses the economic importance of the Kalashnikov AK47 assault rifle. More than 150 years after slavery officially ended in the US, Juliet Rix has a chance encounter in South Carolina that suggests the past is remarkably present. In the wetlands of southern Iraq Leon McCarron meets some of the people known as the Marsh Arabs. In the 1980s their homeland was a frontline in the Iran-Iraq war;  in the 1990s Saddam Hussein unleashed fighter jets to destroy their settlements. Now they face  another threat - there's still not enough clean water. And in Italy, Dany Mitzman tries to make the best of a dreaded family day out...at a football match.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2019 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1730</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07bb7y1.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07bb7y1.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07bb7y1.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07bb836</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07bb836</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07bb7y1.mp3" fileSize="27680000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1730"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07bb836</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>US Culture Wars</title><description><![CDATA[<p>As states restrict abortion rights and hundreds of pro-choice protests take place across the US, Laura Trevelyan assesses the country's widening cultural divisions and asks what might happen next. In the Lebanese city of Tripoli, where there have been community divisions for a generation, Bob Howard visits a neighbourhood café with reconciliation on the menu. In Peru illegal gold mining has become big business. Laurence Blair reports on the lawless camps that have emerged and asks what can be done to stop the environmental damage being done to the Amazonian jungle. Amelia Martyn-Hemphill meets Mechai Viravaidya also known as "the Condom King" in Bangkok's red light district. He's using coloured balloons and jokey humour to limit the spread of sexually transmitted diseases in Thailand. And in Ghana Emma Thomson enjoys a royal spectacle as the King and the history of Asante people are celebrated.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Are abortion rights on the frontline of the culture wars in the US?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>As states restrict abortion rights and hundreds of pro-choice protests take place across the US, Laura Trevelyan assesses the country's widening cultural divisions and asks what might happen next. In the Lebanese city of Tripoli, where there have been community divisions for a generation, Bob Howard visits a neighbourhood café with reconciliation on the menu. In Peru illegal gold mining has become big business. Laurence Blair reports on the lawless camps that have emerged and asks what can be done to stop the environmental damage being done to the Amazonian jungle. Amelia Martyn-Hemphill meets Mechai Viravaidya also known as "the Condom King" in Bangkok's red light district. He's using coloured balloons and jokey humour to limit the spread of sexually transmitted diseases in Thailand. And in Ghana Emma Thomson enjoys a royal spectacle as the King and the history of Asante people are celebrated.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2019 09:28:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1712</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07b2sw4.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07b2sw4.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07b2sw4.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07b2vj2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07b2vj2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07b2sw4.mp3" fileSize="27392000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1712"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07b2vj2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 19/05/2019</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. Martin Vennard in Saltburn reveals how surfing has improbably helped revive the fortunes of the once-proud Victorian resort on Tees-side; while Travis Elborough taps a surf music beat in Worthing where a 50 year-old musical phenomenon is garnering new fans. Baby boomer Martin Gurdon, recently bereaved in late middle-age, explains how saying his final goodbye to an elderly parent was both something greater longevity had prepared him for and yet - at least initially - still left him disoriented. Emma Levine in Barnsley reports on how a strange football match saw differing contemporary Yorkshire identities on display off the pitch. And Athar Ahmad prepares to go on a solitary spiritual quest in the final days of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Riding Saltburn's waves, surf music in Worthing, a parent's death, Yorkshire identities.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. Martin Vennard in Saltburn reveals how surfing has improbably helped revive the fortunes of the once-proud Victorian resort on Tees-side; while Travis Elborough taps a surf music beat in Worthing where a 50 year-old musical phenomenon is garnering new fans. Baby boomer Martin Gurdon, recently bereaved in late middle-age, explains how saying his final goodbye to an elderly parent was both something greater longevity had prepared him for and yet - at least initially - still left him disoriented. Emma Levine in Barnsley reports on how a strange football match saw differing contemporary Yorkshire identities on display off the pitch. And Athar Ahmad prepares to go on a solitary spiritual quest in the final days of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2019 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p079kp7s.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p079kp7s.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p079kp7s.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p079kpvr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p079kpvr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p079kp7s.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p079kpvr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Democracy Sausage</title><description><![CDATA[<p>As Australia's general election campaign comes to an end Hywel Griffith asks if, whatever the result, the entire political class has now lost the respect of voters. And in India, the world's biggest democracy, Ritula Shah considers what the onion might tell us about the outcome of the election there. Emir Nader visits the Rif region in Northern Morocco to meet farmers who grow much of the cannabis that gets consumed in Europe. In Bosnia Katy Fallon watches migrants - desperate to enter the EU - "play the game"; doing what they can to cross the border into Croatia without papers. And Margaret Bradley takes a long look at how the property market has developed in Portugal. As prices have climbed, resentment has soared. Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Rosamund Jones</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Has politics been the main loser in Australia's general election campaign?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>As Australia's general election campaign comes to an end Hywel Griffith asks if, whatever the result, the entire political class has now lost the respect of voters. And in India, the world's biggest democracy, Ritula Shah considers what the onion might tell us about the outcome of the election there. Emir Nader visits the Rif region in Northern Morocco to meet farmers who grow much of the cannabis that gets consumed in Europe. In Bosnia Katy Fallon watches migrants - desperate to enter the EU - "play the game"; doing what they can to cross the border into Croatia without papers. And Margaret Bradley takes a long look at how the property market has developed in Portugal. As prices have climbed, resentment has soared. Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Rosamund Jones</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1708</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p079m3bf.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p079m3bf.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p079m3bf.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p079m3mb</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p079m3mb</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p079m3bf.mp3" fileSize="27328000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1708"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p079m3mb</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Airstrikes and Sirens</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In Israel and Gaza, Tom Bateman hears how rocket and air strikes are ruining lives. With no end to the conflict in sight, what has the impact of the latest violence been?  In France, Joanna Robertson considers how Parisian weekends are being thrown into disarray as the Gilet Jaune - or yellow vest - movement, now six months old, continues.  Jonathan Dimbleby first visited Ethiopia 45 years ago. He tracks the country's history of political repression, military coups, and people protests. Might genuine change now, finally, be on the cards? Giant oil fields have been discovered in Guyana. Simon Maybin unpicks the country's political response and asks who will benefit from the new wealth. And in Dresden, Jenny Hill watches the unveiling of a newly restored Vermeer masterpiece and talks to the art lovers who have a long and complicated relationship with the painting.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>In Israel and Gaza, Tom Bateman hears how rocket and air strikes are ruining lives.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In Israel and Gaza, Tom Bateman hears how rocket and air strikes are ruining lives. With no end to the conflict in sight, what has the impact of the latest violence been?  In France, Joanna Robertson considers how Parisian weekends are being thrown into disarray as the Gilet Jaune - or yellow vest - movement, now six months old, continues.  Jonathan Dimbleby first visited Ethiopia 45 years ago. He tracks the country's history of political repression, military coups, and people protests. Might genuine change now, finally, be on the cards? Giant oil fields have been discovered in Guyana. Simon Maybin unpicks the country's political response and asks who will benefit from the new wealth. And in Dresden, Jenny Hill watches the unveiling of a newly restored Vermeer masterpiece and talks to the art lovers who have a long and complicated relationship with the painting.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1699</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p078xtyd.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p078xtyd.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p078xtyd.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p078xv0z</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p078xv0z</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p078xtyd.mp3" fileSize="27184000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1699"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p078xv0z</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The beginning of a new era in Japan</title><description><![CDATA[<p>As Emperor Naruhito takes the throne in Japan, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes watches the crowds waving flags and wiping away tears. What will this new era hold for the country and its imperial family? </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories:</p><p>Katy Watson has the latest instalment in the drama that is gripping Brazil as rival factions vie for control under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro.</p><p>Neil Kisserli reveals why protesters in Algeria are picking up the litter and taking pot plants with them as they demand change.</p><p>Zeinab Badawi returns to Sudan to meet the young architecture student leading the revolution.</p><p>And Dave Lee hears from tech workers in Silicon Valley who fear they’ve become the new bankers – seen as public figures to be reviled and blamed for the ills they have brought into society.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Flag waving and tears as a new emperor takes the throne and the Reiwa era begins</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>As Emperor Naruhito takes the throne in Japan, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes watches the crowds waving flags and wiping away tears. What will this new era hold for the country and its imperial family? </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories:</p><p>Katy Watson has the latest instalment in the drama that is gripping Brazil as rival factions vie for control under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro.</p><p>Neil Kisserli reveals why protesters in Algeria are picking up the litter and taking pot plants with them as they demand change.</p><p>Zeinab Badawi returns to Sudan to meet the young architecture student leading the revolution.</p><p>And Dave Lee hears from tech workers in Silicon Valley who fear they’ve become the new bankers – seen as public figures to be reviled and blamed for the ills they have brought into society.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1712</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p078b0w1.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p078b0w1.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p078b0w1.mp3" length="27392000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p078b0zr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p078b0zr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p078b0w1.mp3" fileSize="27392000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1712"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p078b0zr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Sudanese street protests</title><description><![CDATA[<p>: As street protests gain momentum in Sudan, Alastair Leithead asks if revolutionary change will be sustainable. Vicky Spratt visits a safe house in Nepal to find out how people traffickers are exploiting women online. In the Philippines, Howard Johnson discovers how some of the country's Christian faithful prove their devotion at Easter by nailing themselves to wooden crosses. Rahul Tandon finds out how Brexit's twists and turns are interpreted in India. And Lizzie Porter tours Saddam Hussein's once extravagant, now abandoned, palace in Iraq.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Street protests gain strength in Sudan. But will revolutionary change be the result?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>: As street protests gain momentum in Sudan, Alastair Leithead asks if revolutionary change will be sustainable. Vicky Spratt visits a safe house in Nepal to find out how people traffickers are exploiting women online. In the Philippines, Howard Johnson discovers how some of the country's Christian faithful prove their devotion at Easter by nailing themselves to wooden crosses. Rahul Tandon finds out how Brexit's twists and turns are interpreted in India. And Lizzie Porter tours Saddam Hussein's once extravagant, now abandoned, palace in Iraq.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2019 09:57:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1726</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p077mtln.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p077mtln.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p077mtln.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p077mttj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p077mttj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p077mtln.mp3" fileSize="27616000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1726"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p077mttj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 21/04/2019</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers reflecting the range of contemporary life across the United Kingdom. </p><p>Shabnam Grewal grew up near Southall where, forty years ago, the New Zealand-born teacher, Blair Peach, was hit on the head by a police officer and later died. He was taking part in a protest against racism. The west London suburb had already witnessed the racially motivated murder of an Asian teenager. She remembers the tension and fears of the time and reflects on them in the company of her young son. </p><p>BBC News presenter, Tanya Beckett, has found herself part of a "Lady in the Van"-style drama - only in her case it's been a man in his fifties and a caravan. She muses on the unexpected connections she's forged with her unconventional neighbour amid the demands of contemporary living for them both. </p><p>Martin Bashir, the BBC's Religion Editor, asked about the meaning of Easter, has discovered that pondering a long-held guilty secret has helped him explain the most important festival in the Christian calendar. </p><p>Jane Labous in Dorset takes the plunge and goes mermaiding in Blandford Forum and finds out how the swimming craze that involves donning a fin and a tail is found empowering by women swimmers of different ages. </p><p>And Dan Whitworth, reporter for Radio 4's Money Box programme, prepares to return home to Sheriff Hutton in North Yorkshire and enjoy the spectacle of the flowers which are synonymous with spring and indicate the thriving nature of the village. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Racism, the man in the caravan, Easter and forgiveness, mermaids and why daffodils matter</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers reflecting the range of contemporary life across the United Kingdom. </p><p>Shabnam Grewal grew up near Southall where, forty years ago, the New Zealand-born teacher, Blair Peach, was hit on the head by a police officer and later died. He was taking part in a protest against racism. The west London suburb had already witnessed the racially motivated murder of an Asian teenager. She remembers the tension and fears of the time and reflects on them in the company of her young son. </p><p>BBC News presenter, Tanya Beckett, has found herself part of a "Lady in the Van"-style drama - only in her case it's been a man in his fifties and a caravan. She muses on the unexpected connections she's forged with her unconventional neighbour amid the demands of contemporary living for them both. </p><p>Martin Bashir, the BBC's Religion Editor, asked about the meaning of Easter, has discovered that pondering a long-held guilty secret has helped him explain the most important festival in the Christian calendar. </p><p>Jane Labous in Dorset takes the plunge and goes mermaiding in Blandford Forum and finds out how the swimming craze that involves donning a fin and a tail is found empowering by women swimmers of different ages. </p><p>And Dan Whitworth, reporter for Radio 4's Money Box programme, prepares to return home to Sheriff Hutton in North Yorkshire and enjoy the spectacle of the flowers which are synonymous with spring and indicate the thriving nature of the village. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2019 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p076xkn9.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p076xkn9.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p076xkn9.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p076xl3s</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p076xl3s</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p076xkn9.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p076xl3s</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Fictions and Factions</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Volodymyr Zelensky played a President in more than 50 episodes of TV comedy - but does that mean he can do the job in real life? Jonah Fisher reflects from Kiev on a surreal election campaign - and catches up with a box set. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents and reporters around the world. </p><p>India's election, the largest in the world - and thus the largest ever held - is also under way. While covering this extraordinary exercise of democracy, Rajini Vaidyanathan met one man in the Himalayas who has an enduring faith in the electoral process. He's 102 years old and has voted in every Indian election since independence.</p><p>Jonathan Griffin loves the soul-shaking sound of South African choral music - and recently heard songs of freedom, defiance and rivalry during a political debate near Johannesburg, where the contingents competed with vocals as well as rhetoric. </p><p>There's not much arable soil in the United Arab Emirates - but plenty of sand and sunshine - so the government's keen to bolster food security by growing more and importing less. Georgia Tolley tastes the fruits of high-tech agriculture, coaxed from a desert greenhouse.</p><p>And Stephen McDonell reveals an unsuspected side of Beijing - beyond its vast official spaces and political power plays. The city is also home to a raucous, ramshackle, rebellious underground music scene. But in the face of rising rents and increasing red tape, how long can its live bands play on?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Satire and reality blur together in Ukraine's Presidential election</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Volodymyr Zelensky played a President in more than 50 episodes of TV comedy - but does that mean he can do the job in real life? Jonah Fisher reflects from Kiev on a surreal election campaign - and catches up with a box set. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents and reporters around the world. </p><p>India's election, the largest in the world - and thus the largest ever held - is also under way. While covering this extraordinary exercise of democracy, Rajini Vaidyanathan met one man in the Himalayas who has an enduring faith in the electoral process. He's 102 years old and has voted in every Indian election since independence.</p><p>Jonathan Griffin loves the soul-shaking sound of South African choral music - and recently heard songs of freedom, defiance and rivalry during a political debate near Johannesburg, where the contingents competed with vocals as well as rhetoric. </p><p>There's not much arable soil in the United Arab Emirates - but plenty of sand and sunshine - so the government's keen to bolster food security by growing more and importing less. Georgia Tolley tastes the fruits of high-tech agriculture, coaxed from a desert greenhouse.</p><p>And Stephen McDonell reveals an unsuspected side of Beijing - beyond its vast official spaces and political power plays. The city is also home to a raucous, ramshackle, rebellious underground music scene. But in the face of rising rents and increasing red tape, how long can its live bands play on?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2019 11:10:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1724</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p076x8d1.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p076x8d1.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p076x8d1.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p076xcg0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p076xcg0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p076x8d1.mp3" fileSize="27584000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1724"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p076xcg0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Netanyahu's Likely Victory</title><description><![CDATA[<p>An election campaign in Israel but little mention of the peace process. Yolande Knell says voters there just want to live normal lives. They're picking up the pieces in Rio de Janeiro after the fire which destroyed the 200-year-old National Museum. Tim Whewell says they've lost artefacts that simply cannot be replaced. The Romanian government is not happy that the former head of its anti-corruption directorate is now in the running for the new post of Chief Prosecutor for the European Union. Tessa Dunlop says it's worried the former basketball player knows all their dirty secrets. Sarah Sands takes a trip up the Suez Canal, scene of Britain's humiliation in 1956, in a British destroyer. She ponders the importance of trade then and now. And in India law students are being taught Harry Potter. Rahul Tandon has taken a class.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>An election campaign in Israel but little mention of the peace process.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>An election campaign in Israel but little mention of the peace process. Yolande Knell says voters there just want to live normal lives. They're picking up the pieces in Rio de Janeiro after the fire which destroyed the 200-year-old National Museum. Tim Whewell says they've lost artefacts that simply cannot be replaced. The Romanian government is not happy that the former head of its anti-corruption directorate is now in the running for the new post of Chief Prosecutor for the European Union. Tessa Dunlop says it's worried the former basketball player knows all their dirty secrets. Sarah Sands takes a trip up the Suez Canal, scene of Britain's humiliation in 1956, in a British destroyer. She ponders the importance of trade then and now. And in India law students are being taught Harry Potter. Rahul Tandon has taken a class.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1727</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p076djsn.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p076djsn.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p076djsn.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p076dk3n</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p076dk3n</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p076djsn.mp3" fileSize="27632000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1727"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p076dk3n</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mosul in colour</title><description><![CDATA[<p>What life after IS looks like for the residents of Iraq's second city - bright hijabs, bold makeup and striking works of art. "Colour has become their way of saying ‘we’ve taken our lives and our city back’" says Shaimaa Khalil.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Orla Guerin finds out what happened to the two sick children she met in Yemen last year. Six months on, were they able to leave the war-torn country to get the medical care they so desperately needed? </p><p>Amelia Martyn-Hemphill meets the mums in Madagascar trying to save others from a taboo condition and encourage them to seek treatment for obstetric fistula rather than suffer in silence. </p><p>John Murphy is in Germany where he meets a woman with clawed feet, horns and yellow eyes - he's at computer gaming exhibition in Leipzig. </p><p>And Stephanie Hegarty hears how the harsh climate of the Mongolian steppe is forcing more and more people to move to the overcrowded capital Ulaanbaatar – already one of the world’s most populated cities.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Bright hijabs, bold makeup and colourful art - life after IS in Iraq's second city.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>What life after IS looks like for the residents of Iraq's second city - bright hijabs, bold makeup and striking works of art. "Colour has become their way of saying ‘we’ve taken our lives and our city back’" says Shaimaa Khalil.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Orla Guerin finds out what happened to the two sick children she met in Yemen last year. Six months on, were they able to leave the war-torn country to get the medical care they so desperately needed? </p><p>Amelia Martyn-Hemphill meets the mums in Madagascar trying to save others from a taboo condition and encourage them to seek treatment for obstetric fistula rather than suffer in silence. </p><p>John Murphy is in Germany where he meets a woman with clawed feet, horns and yellow eyes - he's at computer gaming exhibition in Leipzig. </p><p>And Stephanie Hegarty hears how the harsh climate of the Mongolian steppe is forcing more and more people to move to the overcrowded capital Ulaanbaatar – already one of the world’s most populated cities.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1740</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p075q4lr.mp3" length="27840000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p075q4lr.mp3" length="27840000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p075q4lr.mp3" length="27840000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p075q4zr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p075q4zr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p075q4lr.mp3" fileSize="27840000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1740"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p075q4zr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Marching bands in Myanmar</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Marching bands in Myanmar as the army celebrates, but it's an army accused of genocide. Nick Beake arrives at the dead of night to witness the festivities. Jill McGivering reports from Kathmandu on a dark and disturbing side to western tourism in Nepal. In Kazakhstan the country's founding president has just stepped down. They've renamed the capital in his honour, but Rayhan Demytrie asks what his real legacy is. Rebecca Henschke has just left Jakarta after years as a correspondent there. She pays tribute to the women who enable her to juggle her dual roles of journalist and mother. And in Los Angeles, it doesn't rain but it pours. Dan Johnson reports from LA Torrential</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Marching bands in Myanmar as the army celebrates, but it's an army accused of genocide</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Marching bands in Myanmar as the army celebrates, but it's an army accused of genocide. Nick Beake arrives at the dead of night to witness the festivities. Jill McGivering reports from Kathmandu on a dark and disturbing side to western tourism in Nepal. In Kazakhstan the country's founding president has just stepped down. They've renamed the capital in his honour, but Rayhan Demytrie asks what his real legacy is. Rebecca Henschke has just left Jakarta after years as a correspondent there. She pays tribute to the women who enable her to juggle her dual roles of journalist and mother. And in Los Angeles, it doesn't rain but it pours. Dan Johnson reports from LA Torrential</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1705</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p075151k.mp3" length="27280000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p075151k.mp3" length="27280000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p075151k.mp3" length="27280000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p075155b</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p075155b</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p075151k.mp3" fileSize="27280000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1705"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p075155b</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 24/03/2019</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents the monthly collection of journalistic pieces reflecting life across the UK today. John Forsyth in Glasgow learns about the realities of rehabilitating convicted knife criminals on a visit to the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit which many experts regard as a model for other UK cities - notably London - to emulate in the fight against the explosion in incidents of violent street crime. Gabriel Gatehouse, recently on shared parental leave, attempts to understand the world through the eyes of his seven month-old daughter and ponders how this may affect his daily work as a correspondent. The BBC's Ireland Correspondent, Chris Page, considers Irish unity on the sporting field plus the contests with Britain - and especially England - and their likely implications politically and culturally on both sides of the border. Jordan Dunbar takes us to Co. Antrim's dark hedges as the final season of "Game of Thrones" is set to hit television screens worldwide and he reflects on the impact of the HBO series, many scenes of which have been shot in Northern Ireland, economically and socially. And Stephanie Power on Merseyside, a self-described "Catholic atheist", confronts her preconceptions and prejudices about evangelical builders as the major refurbishment of her south Liverpool home proceeds - and has a moment of revelation as she wonders why the firm doing the work is called JCIL. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Glasgow knife crime, parental leave, Irish sport, Antrim's dark hedges, unusual builders.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents the monthly collection of journalistic pieces reflecting life across the UK today. John Forsyth in Glasgow learns about the realities of rehabilitating convicted knife criminals on a visit to the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit which many experts regard as a model for other UK cities - notably London - to emulate in the fight against the explosion in incidents of violent street crime. Gabriel Gatehouse, recently on shared parental leave, attempts to understand the world through the eyes of his seven month-old daughter and ponders how this may affect his daily work as a correspondent. The BBC's Ireland Correspondent, Chris Page, considers Irish unity on the sporting field plus the contests with Britain - and especially England - and their likely implications politically and culturally on both sides of the border. Jordan Dunbar takes us to Co. Antrim's dark hedges as the final season of "Game of Thrones" is set to hit television screens worldwide and he reflects on the impact of the HBO series, many scenes of which have been shot in Northern Ireland, economically and socially. And Stephanie Power on Merseyside, a self-described "Catholic atheist", confronts her preconceptions and prejudices about evangelical builders as the major refurbishment of her south Liverpool home proceeds - and has a moment of revelation as she wonders why the firm doing the work is called JCIL. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2019 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1677</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p074glhl.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p074glhl.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p074glhl.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p074glkj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p074glkj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p074glhl.mp3" fileSize="26832000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1677"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p074glkj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Hospitality in the Caucasus</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Hospitality in the Caucasus with the families of Russians returning from IS duty in Syria. But do they regret joining up in the first place? Baalbek in Lebanon, the next best thing for those who miss travelling in Syria, and the hotel that's trying to recreate past glories; threshing hemp in Hungary for less than half the minimum wage to make socks for the Swiss; living with leprosy in a quiet corner of Romania; and the vicious flora of a former French penal colony in the South Pacific.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Hospitality in the Caucasus with the families of Russians returning from IS duty in Syria</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Hospitality in the Caucasus with the families of Russians returning from IS duty in Syria. But do they regret joining up in the first place? Baalbek in Lebanon, the next best thing for those who miss travelling in Syria, and the hotel that's trying to recreate past glories; threshing hemp in Hungary for less than half the minimum wage to make socks for the Swiss; living with leprosy in a quiet corner of Romania; and the vicious flora of a former French penal colony in the South Pacific.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2019 11:55:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1711</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p074dcyq.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p074dcyq.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p074dcyq.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p074dd8k</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p074dd8k</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p074dcyq.mp3" fileSize="27376000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1711"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p074dd8k</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>No Longer A Place Apart</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The bullets that shattered the image that New Zealand is a place apart. Our correspondent returns to his childhood home in Christchurch to find a city bewildered and in mourning. We hear also from Tanzania, where the imminent construction of a hydroelectric dam is threatening one of Africa's largest game reserves, but almost no-one dares to speak out; from Bosnia, where a number of young men have died in mysterious circumstances and the authorities stand accused of sweeping the problem under the carpet; from Dieppe, just across the English Channel, where, as March the 29th creeps ever closer, they're preparing for the possibility of a No Deal Brexit; and from the far west of Canada, where carving totem poles is one way of marking the historic suffering of the indigenous population at the hands of white settlers.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The bullets that shattered the image that New Zealand is a place apart.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The bullets that shattered the image that New Zealand is a place apart. Our correspondent returns to his childhood home in Christchurch to find a city bewildered and in mourning. We hear also from Tanzania, where the imminent construction of a hydroelectric dam is threatening one of Africa's largest game reserves, but almost no-one dares to speak out; from Bosnia, where a number of young men have died in mysterious circumstances and the authorities stand accused of sweeping the problem under the carpet; from Dieppe, just across the English Channel, where, as March the 29th creeps ever closer, they're preparing for the possibility of a No Deal Brexit; and from the far west of Canada, where carving totem poles is one way of marking the historic suffering of the indigenous population at the hands of white settlers.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1707</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0745ycz.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0745ycz.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0745ycz.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p07461mq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07461mq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0745ycz.mp3" fileSize="27312000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1707"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p07461mq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Different Yemen</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The BBC's Paul Adams returns to the country he roamed 35 years ago - and it's much changed. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world. </p><p>In the Democratic Republic of Congo, there's plenty of grief to go around, and it's important to show your emotions at funerals - so much so that one entrepreneur is setting up an agency for paid mourners to cry on demand, and give the deceased a proper send-off. Olivia Acland met him and one of the hopeful applicants for the job. </p><p>The ash cloud following the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 showed that Iceland's volcanoes have the power to disrupt the entire world's air traffic - as well as to put Icelanders' lives and communities at risk. Andy Jones saw how the village of Vik is making contingency plans in case its own volcano, Katla - already well overdue to blow - causes even more disturbance. </p><p>In South Africa, Lindsay Johns explores the fault lines between Cape Town's long-established Coloured (mixed-race) community and the increasing number of immigrants from other African countries. </p><p>And Jane Wakefield reveals what the 'death' of a robot hitch-hiker, whose journeys through Canada and the USA came to an abrupt end at human hands, reveals about the complicated relationship between man and machine.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The BBC's Paul Adams returns to a land he knows well - and it's much changed</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The BBC's Paul Adams returns to the country he roamed 35 years ago - and it's much changed. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world. </p><p>In the Democratic Republic of Congo, there's plenty of grief to go around, and it's important to show your emotions at funerals - so much so that one entrepreneur is setting up an agency for paid mourners to cry on demand, and give the deceased a proper send-off. Olivia Acland met him and one of the hopeful applicants for the job. </p><p>The ash cloud following the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 showed that Iceland's volcanoes have the power to disrupt the entire world's air traffic - as well as to put Icelanders' lives and communities at risk. Andy Jones saw how the village of Vik is making contingency plans in case its own volcano, Katla - already well overdue to blow - causes even more disturbance. </p><p>In South Africa, Lindsay Johns explores the fault lines between Cape Town's long-established Coloured (mixed-race) community and the increasing number of immigrants from other African countries. </p><p>And Jane Wakefield reveals what the 'death' of a robot hitch-hiker, whose journeys through Canada and the USA came to an abrupt end at human hands, reveals about the complicated relationship between man and machine.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1679</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p073r4gv.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p073r4gv.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p073r4gv.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p073r4np</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p073r4np</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p073r4gv.mp3" fileSize="26864000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1679"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p073r4np</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Powerless in Venezuela</title><description><![CDATA[<p>How did it feel to survive the days of near-total blackout in Caracas? The BBC's Will Grant reports on what drove people to loot beloved local shops, or scoop water from filthy canals. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this story and others from around the world. </p><p>Across Europe, relations between Romany Gypsy or Traveller families and their neighbours are often strained. Successive governments in France have cracked down on informal settlements of Roma people from Romania, and left French 'gens de voyage' feeling unwanted and marginalised. But near Carcassonne, Chris Bockman met one man with a plan to improve community relations. </p><p>Mark Stratton explores a wealth gap in the Indian Ocean: the yawning difference in living standards between the Comoros and the French island of Mayotte, which has driven thousands of Comorans to risk their lives on a dangerous sea crossing in the hope of earning more and maybe gaining entry to the EU.</p><p>The ancient kingdom of Dahomey, in modern-day Benin, was renowned for its martial prowess - from its fearsome battle banners to its brigades of all-female royal bodyguards, this was a culture well versed in war. Clodagh Kinsella plumbed the mysteries of its modern dynastic politics recently, watching three kings vie to inherit a supreme title. </p><p>And Claire Bates explores the eerily deserted and well-preserved buffer zone separating Greek and Turkish communities in Cyprus - to try and tap into some of her father's childhood memories of growing up on an undivided island.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Surviving the blackout in Caracas: Kate Adie introduces this and other global stories</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>How did it feel to survive the days of near-total blackout in Caracas? The BBC's Will Grant reports on what drove people to loot beloved local shops, or scoop water from filthy canals. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this story and others from around the world. </p><p>Across Europe, relations between Romany Gypsy or Traveller families and their neighbours are often strained. Successive governments in France have cracked down on informal settlements of Roma people from Romania, and left French 'gens de voyage' feeling unwanted and marginalised. But near Carcassonne, Chris Bockman met one man with a plan to improve community relations. </p><p>Mark Stratton explores a wealth gap in the Indian Ocean: the yawning difference in living standards between the Comoros and the French island of Mayotte, which has driven thousands of Comorans to risk their lives on a dangerous sea crossing in the hope of earning more and maybe gaining entry to the EU.</p><p>The ancient kingdom of Dahomey, in modern-day Benin, was renowned for its martial prowess - from its fearsome battle banners to its brigades of all-female royal bodyguards, this was a culture well versed in war. Clodagh Kinsella plumbed the mysteries of its modern dynastic politics recently, watching three kings vie to inherit a supreme title. </p><p>And Claire Bates explores the eerily deserted and well-preserved buffer zone separating Greek and Turkish communities in Cyprus - to try and tap into some of her father's childhood memories of growing up on an undivided island.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1701</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p073j014.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p073j014.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p073j014.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p073j0hf</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p073j0hf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p073j014.mp3" fileSize="27216000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1701"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p073j0hf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Orban's EU offensive</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The appeal of Viktor Orban, the man who wants to remake the European Union in his own image. Stephen Sackur visits the Hungarian Prime Minister’s hometown and tries to figure out what makes him one of Europe's most successful and influential populists.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The appeal of Viktor Orban, the Hungarian PM who wants to remake the EU in his own image.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The appeal of Viktor Orban, the man who wants to remake the European Union in his own image. Stephen Sackur visits the Hungarian Prime Minister’s hometown and tries to figure out what makes him one of Europe's most successful and influential populists.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1730</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0731tfj.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0731tfj.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0731tfj.mp3" length="27680000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0731tlz</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0731tlz</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0731tfj.mp3" fileSize="27680000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1730"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0731tlz</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>An American contradiction</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Proud Boys say they are nothing more than a fraternal drinking club, but they regularly show up armed to far-right rallies across the US. On a marijuana farm in Oregon, Mike Wendling meets one of their local leaders – a man who, in between stints farming weed, survives on government disability benefits while also agitating for an end to all forms of welfare. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world: </p><p>Sahar Zand has an unsettling visit to the Museum of Jihad in Afghanistan. </p><p>Sian Griffiths skates across the world’s largest naturally-frozen ice rink and hears what impact rising temperatures are having on the outdoor skating season in Canada.</p><p>Martin Vennard joins an old boys' club in Bangladesh.</p><p>And Rob Crossan delves beneath the usual tourist traps in Tenerife and explores the volcanic subterranean tunnels which are home to the world’s ugliest invertebrate: a mutant with no wings or eyes.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Looking around a marijuana farm with a local leader of the far-right Proud Boys.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Proud Boys say they are nothing more than a fraternal drinking club, but they regularly show up armed to far-right rallies across the US. On a marijuana farm in Oregon, Mike Wendling meets one of their local leaders – a man who, in between stints farming weed, survives on government disability benefits while also agitating for an end to all forms of welfare. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world: </p><p>Sahar Zand has an unsettling visit to the Museum of Jihad in Afghanistan. </p><p>Sian Griffiths skates across the world’s largest naturally-frozen ice rink and hears what impact rising temperatures are having on the outdoor skating season in Canada.</p><p>Martin Vennard joins an old boys' club in Bangladesh.</p><p>And Rob Crossan delves beneath the usual tourist traps in Tenerife and explores the volcanic subterranean tunnels which are home to the world’s ugliest invertebrate: a mutant with no wings or eyes.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1715</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p072v58c.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p072v58c.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p072v58c.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p072v6gm</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p072v6gm</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p072v58c.mp3" fileSize="27440000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1715"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p072v6gm</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Losing hope in Venezuela</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Venezuelans are divided on what caused the crisis in their country and on whether the foreign governments offering help are potential saviours or invaders. In Caracas, Katy Watson hears how people on all sides are losing hope. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world:</p><p>Colin Freeman meets Yasin Abu Bakr the man behind what was probably the only Islamist coup ever to have been attempted in the Western hemisphere. In 1990 Jamaat al Muslimeen took the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago hostage. </p><p>Alastair Leithead discovers why the protection of elephants in Botswana is becoming an increasingly politicised issue. Should the meat of culled animals be turned into pet food? </p><p>Michelle Jana Chan meets the Bhutanese athlete Dorji Dema, and discovers that archery there can often involve raucous singing, lots of alcohol and hurling insults at opponents. </p><p>And Jenny Hill explains how Germany’s love of sausages is expressed in its language as well as its diet.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Salvation or invasion - how do Venezuelans feel about humanitarian aid from abroad?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Venezuelans are divided on what caused the crisis in their country and on whether the foreign governments offering help are potential saviours or invaders. In Caracas, Katy Watson hears how people on all sides are losing hope. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world:</p><p>Colin Freeman meets Yasin Abu Bakr the man behind what was probably the only Islamist coup ever to have been attempted in the Western hemisphere. In 1990 Jamaat al Muslimeen took the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago hostage. </p><p>Alastair Leithead discovers why the protection of elephants in Botswana is becoming an increasingly politicised issue. Should the meat of culled animals be turned into pet food? </p><p>Michelle Jana Chan meets the Bhutanese athlete Dorji Dema, and discovers that archery there can often involve raucous singing, lots of alcohol and hurling insults at opponents. </p><p>And Jenny Hill explains how Germany’s love of sausages is expressed in its language as well as its diet.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1672</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p072dqgg.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p072dqgg.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p072dqgg.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p072dqnp</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p072dqnp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p072dqgg.mp3" fileSize="26752000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1672"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p072dqnp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>It just didn’t happen!</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The UN says the treatment of the Rohingya in Myanmar was genocidal; women were raped and killed, men were shot and whole villages were razed, but as Nick Beake has discovered many Burmese people dismiss it all as 'fake news' and some even claim there's no such thing as Rohingya.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Tom Bateman was in Egypt as EU and Arab League leaders talked tackling terrorism and boosting trade. There were lots of questions about Brexit, but little mention of the host nation’s human rights record.</p><p>Julia Buckley visits a failed fascist utopia in Italy.</p><p>Neil Trevithick marvels at 5,000-year-old cave paintings in Somaliland.</p><p>And Emma Levine is in Toronto which is increasingly the place to go if you want to film a zombie apocalypse, a Viking invasion or a romcom set in New York.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>How the persecution of the Rohingya is seen within Myanmar.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The UN says the treatment of the Rohingya in Myanmar was genocidal; women were raped and killed, men were shot and whole villages were razed, but as Nick Beake has discovered many Burmese people dismiss it all as 'fake news' and some even claim there's no such thing as Rohingya.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Tom Bateman was in Egypt as EU and Arab League leaders talked tackling terrorism and boosting trade. There were lots of questions about Brexit, but little mention of the host nation’s human rights record.</p><p>Julia Buckley visits a failed fascist utopia in Italy.</p><p>Neil Trevithick marvels at 5,000-year-old cave paintings in Somaliland.</p><p>And Emma Levine is in Toronto which is increasingly the place to go if you want to film a zombie apocalypse, a Viking invasion or a romcom set in New York.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1724</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0725r52.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0725r52.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0725r52.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0725r89</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0725r89</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0725r52.mp3" fileSize="27584000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1724"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0725r89</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Where To Next?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Quentin Sommerville considers the last days of the Islamic State in Baghouz, Syria - and examines the question of what to do with its fighters and sympathisers once the battle is over. The case of Shamima Begum has dominated the headlines, but there are many more like her. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces his report and other stories from around the world.</p><p>The Dadaab camp in northeastern Kenya is one of the largest refugee settlements anywhere - with nearly a quarter of a million people living there, nearly all Somalis fleeing violence and insecurity. But Kenya's government, and the UNHCR, which runs Dadaab, don't want them there forever, and have offered them incentives to return home to Somalia. Sally Hayden heard how that can be easier said than done.</p><p>The campaigning for Ukraine's Presidency is heating up: voters will choose a leader for the country at the end of March, and they have a plethora of choices with over 44 names on the ballot paper. Jonah Fisher got to meet some of the candidates, and was left both intrigued and perplexed.</p><p>"Rural depopulation" may sound rather abstract, but in one of Spain's fast-emptying villages, Linda Pressly saw what it means in practice to be part of a community of only three people, surrounded by reminders of a more bustling past.</p><p>And Tim Ecott revels in the rugged tastes of the Faroes - from lightly mildewed air-dried lamb to roast gannet - as a restaurant near Torshavn gathers its second Michelin star.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Interviewing an IS bride - and considering her chances of return to the UK</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Quentin Sommerville considers the last days of the Islamic State in Baghouz, Syria - and examines the question of what to do with its fighters and sympathisers once the battle is over. The case of Shamima Begum has dominated the headlines, but there are many more like her. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces his report and other stories from around the world.</p><p>The Dadaab camp in northeastern Kenya is one of the largest refugee settlements anywhere - with nearly a quarter of a million people living there, nearly all Somalis fleeing violence and insecurity. But Kenya's government, and the UNHCR, which runs Dadaab, don't want them there forever, and have offered them incentives to return home to Somalia. Sally Hayden heard how that can be easier said than done.</p><p>The campaigning for Ukraine's Presidency is heating up: voters will choose a leader for the country at the end of March, and they have a plethora of choices with over 44 names on the ballot paper. Jonah Fisher got to meet some of the candidates, and was left both intrigued and perplexed.</p><p>"Rural depopulation" may sound rather abstract, but in one of Spain's fast-emptying villages, Linda Pressly saw what it means in practice to be part of a community of only three people, surrounded by reminders of a more bustling past.</p><p>And Tim Ecott revels in the rugged tastes of the Faroes - from lightly mildewed air-dried lamb to roast gannet - as a restaurant near Torshavn gathers its second Michelin star.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1728</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p071rt5x.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p071rt5x.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p071rt5x.mp3" length="27648000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p071rtg2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p071rtg2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p071rt5x.mp3" fileSize="27648000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1728"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p071rtg2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Take It Gently</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Uruguay's anti-drug laws were never as strict as expected - and its path to decriminalisation of cannabis has also been full of paradox. Simon Maybin explores why the country's taken a slow and steady path to regulate marijuana growers and sellers - and visits a greenhouse full of legal weed.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world. </p><p>In Nepal, joining the ranks of the British Army's Gurkhas has long been one of the few options for a stable income. Regimental wages have kept some whole villages, not just families, solvent - so there's a lot riding on the selection process. Hannah King of BFBS witnessed the most recent intake and saw how these young men are prepared for a drastic change in their lives. </p><p>Over recent weeks the streets of Haiti have simmered with discontent, with protesters confronting police and the army in the capital, Port au Prince, over systemic corruption, rising food prices and enduring inequality. Thomas Rees describes how the rising tensions made themselves felt on the streets. </p><p>On the Karakorum Highway, Chris Haslam sat down to talk business with the driver of one of Pakistan's famous painted trucks - the elaborately-decorated palaces on wheels which haul goods and passengers along one of the highest-altitude roads in the world. But times are changing for them, with competition from "vast Chinese behemoths" now plying the same route as part of the Belt and Road expansion. </p><p>And as the world worries over reports of deforestation and dwindling insect numbers around the world, Emilie Filou has a rare tale of revival from Madagascar - with the story of how one NGO has brought back the art of weaving a special kind of silk, made not by worms but by a unique local moth.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Uruguay's cautious route to legal cannabis sales</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Uruguay's anti-drug laws were never as strict as expected - and its path to decriminalisation of cannabis has also been full of paradox. Simon Maybin explores why the country's taken a slow and steady path to regulate marijuana growers and sellers - and visits a greenhouse full of legal weed.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world. </p><p>In Nepal, joining the ranks of the British Army's Gurkhas has long been one of the few options for a stable income. Regimental wages have kept some whole villages, not just families, solvent - so there's a lot riding on the selection process. Hannah King of BFBS witnessed the most recent intake and saw how these young men are prepared for a drastic change in their lives. </p><p>Over recent weeks the streets of Haiti have simmered with discontent, with protesters confronting police and the army in the capital, Port au Prince, over systemic corruption, rising food prices and enduring inequality. Thomas Rees describes how the rising tensions made themselves felt on the streets. </p><p>On the Karakorum Highway, Chris Haslam sat down to talk business with the driver of one of Pakistan's famous painted trucks - the elaborately-decorated palaces on wheels which haul goods and passengers along one of the highest-altitude roads in the world. But times are changing for them, with competition from "vast Chinese behemoths" now plying the same route as part of the Belt and Road expansion. </p><p>And as the world worries over reports of deforestation and dwindling insect numbers around the world, Emilie Filou has a rare tale of revival from Madagascar - with the story of how one NGO has brought back the art of weaving a special kind of silk, made not by worms but by a unique local moth.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1731</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p071k367.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p071k367.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p071k367.mp3" length="27696000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p071k3m6</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p071k3m6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p071k367.mp3" fileSize="27696000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1731"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p071k3m6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 17/02/2019</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom which reflect the range of British life today. </p><p>Writer and broadcaster Horatio Clare reveals the deeply personal story of how he was sectioned under the Mental Health Act and his experiences on an in-patient ward in Yorkshire.</p><p>In the month of the National Parks Dark Skies Festival and a star-counting survey run by the British Astronomical Association and the Campaign to Protect Rural England, Andrew Green discovers why an unblemished night sky is so hard to find even in the Chilterns - and why that matters.</p><p>We often take our senses for granted. Charmaine Cozier recounts how she suddenly came to lose her sense of smell - and also to be left with a much diminished sense of taste - and explains the various strategies she's employed to try and recover them. </p><p>With little sign of an early end to Britain's housing problems, the ups and downs of squatting in a former industrial building are described by Lizzy McNeill.</p><p>And Adrian Goldberg climbs aboard "the cutest train in England" which, in its canary-yellow livery journeys modestly between stops in the West Midlands town of Stourbridge, yet offers a possible solution to transport problems elsewhere in the UK.</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Being sectioned, light pollution, losing your sense of smell, squatting and a cute train.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom which reflect the range of British life today. </p><p>Writer and broadcaster Horatio Clare reveals the deeply personal story of how he was sectioned under the Mental Health Act and his experiences on an in-patient ward in Yorkshire.</p><p>In the month of the National Parks Dark Skies Festival and a star-counting survey run by the British Astronomical Association and the Campaign to Protect Rural England, Andrew Green discovers why an unblemished night sky is so hard to find even in the Chilterns - and why that matters.</p><p>We often take our senses for granted. Charmaine Cozier recounts how she suddenly came to lose her sense of smell - and also to be left with a much diminished sense of taste - and explains the various strategies she's employed to try and recover them. </p><p>With little sign of an early end to Britain's housing problems, the ups and downs of squatting in a former industrial building are described by Lizzy McNeill.</p><p>And Adrian Goldberg climbs aboard "the cutest train in England" which, in its canary-yellow livery journeys modestly between stops in the West Midlands town of Stourbridge, yet offers a possible solution to transport problems elsewhere in the UK.</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2019 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1676</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0711366.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0711366.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0711366.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p071188l</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p071188l</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0711366.mp3" fileSize="26816000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1676"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p071188l</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Power of God</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The remote religious retreat which has become the intellectual spearhead of Steve Bannon’s plans for a populist revolution in Europe. Edward Stourton visits the Trisulti monastery in Italy from where the vision of the former chief strategist to Donald Trump is being spread. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.</p><p>Lois Pryce is in Jamaica. As the battle against gang violence continues, and soldiers patrol some of its streets, she visits a village which claims to have almost no crime at all. </p><p>Nick Thorpe examines plans to boost the fertility rate in Hungary with cash and cars on offer for people willing to do their patriotic duty and make babies. </p><p>Sarah Treanor meets a young Muslim woman in Zanzibar who is flying drones to map the island and help save lives. </p><p>And Mike Thomson discovers that there are limits to the President's power in Liberia. He watches George Weah play football, have lunch and fail to get a flight delayed.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The remote religious retreat at the heart of plans for a populist revolution in Europe.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The remote religious retreat which has become the intellectual spearhead of Steve Bannon’s plans for a populist revolution in Europe. Edward Stourton visits the Trisulti monastery in Italy from where the vision of the former chief strategist to Donald Trump is being spread. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.</p><p>Lois Pryce is in Jamaica. As the battle against gang violence continues, and soldiers patrol some of its streets, she visits a village which claims to have almost no crime at all. </p><p>Nick Thorpe examines plans to boost the fertility rate in Hungary with cash and cars on offer for people willing to do their patriotic duty and make babies. </p><p>Sarah Treanor meets a young Muslim woman in Zanzibar who is flying drones to map the island and help save lives. </p><p>And Mike Thomson discovers that there are limits to the President's power in Liberia. He watches George Weah play football, have lunch and fail to get a flight delayed.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1726</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07128z2.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07128z2.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p07128z2.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p071296g</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p071296g</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07128z2.mp3" fileSize="27616000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1726"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p071296g</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Celebrating the Iranian revolution in Lebanon</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In much of the world Hezbollah is considered a terrorist organisation, but in Lebanon it is one of the country’s most powerful political and military forces. Lizzie Porter was in Beirut as the Iranian backed group began a three-day festival to mark the 40th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Iran. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Mark Lobel tries to make sense of Dubai where migrant workers are welcomed with open arms – until they become a burden that is or fail to follow the rules.</p><p>Katy Fallon is on the Greek island of Lesvos where she visits a community centre offering rare respite to the thousands of migrants crammed into a dangerous and dilapidated camp.</p><p>Matt Pickles asks what the rest of the world can learn from Finland’s education system as he tours a school that comes with a class lizard and a couple of dogs.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>How supporters of the political and militant group Hezbollah mark the events of 1979.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In much of the world Hezbollah is considered a terrorist organisation, but in Lebanon it is one of the country’s most powerful political and military forces. Lizzie Porter was in Beirut as the Iranian backed group began a three-day festival to mark the 40th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Iran. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Mark Lobel tries to make sense of Dubai where migrant workers are welcomed with open arms – until they become a burden that is or fail to follow the rules.</p><p>Katy Fallon is on the Greek island of Lesvos where she visits a community centre offering rare respite to the thousands of migrants crammed into a dangerous and dilapidated camp.</p><p>Matt Pickles asks what the rest of the world can learn from Finland’s education system as he tours a school that comes with a class lizard and a couple of dogs.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1715</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p070v41l.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p070v41l.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p070v41l.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p070v45d</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p070v45d</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p070v41l.mp3" fileSize="27440000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1715"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p070v45d</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Peace Is More Difficult Than War</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Moscow isn’t the obvious place for talks on how to bring an end to the violence in Afghanistan, the country has been at war ever since the Soviet invasion 40 years ago, but it was where senior Afghan politicians met the Taliban. 'A military solution is not the answer' was the message Secunder Kermani picked up from negotiators there. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world:</p><p>Juliet Rix is in Dominica, an island known for its natural beauty, national parks, and volcanoes. How is it faring almost eighteen months on from Hurricane Maria?</p><p>Kevin Connolly returns to Belgrade and is confronted by some ghosts from his first visit to what was then Yugoslavia, back when he was "untouched by experience and unburdened by judgment."</p><p>Elizabeth Hotson experiences a sugar-rush like no other as she attends the world's largest sweet and snack fair in Germany.</p><p>And Viv Nuis finds out why the skies above Lahore won't be filled with thousands of kites for the Basant festival this weekend, and why flying a kite can even get you arrested in the Pakistani city.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Taliban talk peace in Moscow, 40 years after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Moscow isn’t the obvious place for talks on how to bring an end to the violence in Afghanistan, the country has been at war ever since the Soviet invasion 40 years ago, but it was where senior Afghan politicians met the Taliban. 'A military solution is not the answer' was the message Secunder Kermani picked up from negotiators there. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world:</p><p>Juliet Rix is in Dominica, an island known for its natural beauty, national parks, and volcanoes. How is it faring almost eighteen months on from Hurricane Maria?</p><p>Kevin Connolly returns to Belgrade and is confronted by some ghosts from his first visit to what was then Yugoslavia, back when he was "untouched by experience and unburdened by judgment."</p><p>Elizabeth Hotson experiences a sugar-rush like no other as she attends the world's largest sweet and snack fair in Germany.</p><p>And Viv Nuis finds out why the skies above Lahore won't be filled with thousands of kites for the Basant festival this weekend, and why flying a kite can even get you arrested in the Pakistani city.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1724</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p070f9b8.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p070f9b8.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p070f9b8.mp3" length="27584000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p070f9gl</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p070f9gl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p070f9b8.mp3" fileSize="27584000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1724"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p070f9gl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Watch Your Back!</title><description><![CDATA[<p>"Watch your back Howard!" was one of the politer messages the BBC Philippines Correspondent received after making a documentary about Rodrigo Duterte. As Howard Johnson has found, journalists who question the President can become the target of organised attacks by online trolls. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world: </p><p>The CFO of Huawei once saw Vancouver as a refuge, a base outside of China should she ever need it, now she’s not allowed to leave the city. Micky Bristow gets a glimpse of life in Canada for members of the Chinese elite.</p><p>Bee Rowlatt interviews Germaine Greer at the Jaipur Literature Festival – and wonders what its usually outspoken crowd will make of their outspoken guest.</p><p>Jasmine Taylor Coleman joins a puffin patrol in Iceland, as locals try to protect the endangered birds. </p><p>And disorganised chaos or a carefully choreographed dance? Alastair Leithead tries to figure out what’s going on in an airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and what it says about the country.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Attacked by online trolls for reporting on the Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>"Watch your back Howard!" was one of the politer messages the BBC Philippines Correspondent received after making a documentary about Rodrigo Duterte. As Howard Johnson has found, journalists who question the President can become the target of organised attacks by online trolls. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world: </p><p>The CFO of Huawei once saw Vancouver as a refuge, a base outside of China should she ever need it, now she’s not allowed to leave the city. Micky Bristow gets a glimpse of life in Canada for members of the Chinese elite.</p><p>Bee Rowlatt interviews Germaine Greer at the Jaipur Literature Festival – and wonders what its usually outspoken crowd will make of their outspoken guest.</p><p>Jasmine Taylor Coleman joins a puffin patrol in Iceland, as locals try to protect the endangered birds. </p><p>And disorganised chaos or a carefully choreographed dance? Alastair Leithead tries to figure out what’s going on in an airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and what it says about the country.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2019 11:05:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1729</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0706myq.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0706myq.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0706myq.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0706nc7</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0706nc7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0706myq.mp3" fileSize="27664000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1729"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0706nc7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Sound of Danger in Yemen</title><description><![CDATA[<p>At the site of a US drone strike in Yemen, Safa Al Ahmad hears the sound of danger – the jihadi songs of ISIS fighters who want to know why she’s there. She reports from the no man’s land between Houthi rebels, the Yemeni army, armed tribes, Al Qaeda and ISIS - and she reflects on just how complicated the conflict has become. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world:</p><p>In Nigeria, Mayeni Jones enters the wired world of political “Godfathers”. Their faces stare out of election posters, their rallies attract hundreds of adoring fans and yet they aren’t standing for election themselves. </p><p>In Russia, Chloe Arnold remembers her first visit to the avant-garde Mayakovsky Museum in Moscow and asks will it ever be allowed to re-open?</p><p>In Turkey, a yapping dog and a sleepless night lead Mark Lowen to question whether it’s ever acceptable for foreigners to tell locals how to behave.</p><p>And in South Africa, Gavin Fischer finds out that while Fafi may be an illegal, Mafia-controlled lottery many players believe there is a mystical path to winning big.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Face to face with Islamic State group fighters at the site of a US drone strike in Yemen.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>At the site of a US drone strike in Yemen, Safa Al Ahmad hears the sound of danger – the jihadi songs of ISIS fighters who want to know why she’s there. She reports from the no man’s land between Houthi rebels, the Yemeni army, armed tribes, Al Qaeda and ISIS - and she reflects on just how complicated the conflict has become. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world:</p><p>In Nigeria, Mayeni Jones enters the wired world of political “Godfathers”. Their faces stare out of election posters, their rallies attract hundreds of adoring fans and yet they aren’t standing for election themselves. </p><p>In Russia, Chloe Arnold remembers her first visit to the avant-garde Mayakovsky Museum in Moscow and asks will it ever be allowed to re-open?</p><p>In Turkey, a yapping dog and a sleepless night lead Mark Lowen to question whether it’s ever acceptable for foreigners to tell locals how to behave.</p><p>And in South Africa, Gavin Fischer finds out that while Fafi may be an illegal, Mafia-controlled lottery many players believe there is a mystical path to winning big.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2019 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1737</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06zsln7.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06zsln7.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06zsln7.mp3" length="27792000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06zslpv</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06zslpv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06zsln7.mp3" fileSize="27792000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1737"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06zslpv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Roses to Rifles</title><description><![CDATA[<p>To mark their transition from a heavily armed rebel group to a political party FARC has adapted the meaning of their name and replaced the rifles on their logo with roses. Mathew Charles finds out how some former guerrilla commanders are adapting to life as members of the Colombian congress. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world:</p><p>As Greek MPs voted to accept a deal to end a dispute over the name of its northern neighbour ‘Macedonia’ a familiar cry echoed around the streets of Athens – Όχι. Paul Moss explores the long and proud history of the word ‘No’ in Greece. </p><p>In India, Masuma Ahuja visits a prison which some inmates refuse to leave even after the end of their sentences. Sanganer Open Prison has no guards at the gate, no walls or bars and is home to about 450 people. </p><p>In Romania, Chris Haslam meets farmers and craftsmen who blame the EU for the decline of traditional skills. The lure of better-paid jobs elsewhere can be difficult to resist for some young people. </p><p>And in Sweden, Dougal Shaw visits, what its manager likes to describe as, a “high-fashion, trash shopping-mall.” At Retuna in Eskilstuna, everything on sale has either been recycled or upcycled but can it compete with mainstream shops?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>How FARC's former rebel commanders are adapting to life in the Colombian congress</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>To mark their transition from a heavily armed rebel group to a political party FARC has adapted the meaning of their name and replaced the rifles on their logo with roses. Mathew Charles finds out how some former guerrilla commanders are adapting to life as members of the Colombian congress. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world:</p><p>As Greek MPs voted to accept a deal to end a dispute over the name of its northern neighbour ‘Macedonia’ a familiar cry echoed around the streets of Athens – Όχι. Paul Moss explores the long and proud history of the word ‘No’ in Greece. </p><p>In India, Masuma Ahuja visits a prison which some inmates refuse to leave even after the end of their sentences. Sanganer Open Prison has no guards at the gate, no walls or bars and is home to about 450 people. </p><p>In Romania, Chris Haslam meets farmers and craftsmen who blame the EU for the decline of traditional skills. The lure of better-paid jobs elsewhere can be difficult to resist for some young people. </p><p>And in Sweden, Dougal Shaw visits, what its manager likes to describe as, a “high-fashion, trash shopping-mall.” At Retuna in Eskilstuna, everything on sale has either been recycled or upcycled but can it compete with mainstream shops?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 11:35:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1751</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06zkrtt.mp3" length="28016000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06zkrtt.mp3" length="28016000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06zkrtt.mp3" length="28016000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06zkvy0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06zkvy0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06zkrtt.mp3" fileSize="28016000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1751"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06zkvy0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Smiling through the fear</title><description><![CDATA[<p>'My smile should tell you everything' one victim of an army rampage explains in Zimbabwe. In a society where you never know who’s listening, and who can be trusted, people smile to protect themselves, says Andrew Harding. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world:</p><p>Lyse Doucet is in Timbuktu where the threat of terrorism and a changing climate are making life harder for the people who live there and are deterring others from visiting the ancient, storied city. </p><p>Krupa Padhy explores shifting family structures in Denmark where around 5% of babies are now born thanks to IVF. She meets solomurs - single women who’ve had IVF treatment, and diblings – children produced from the same sperm donor. </p><p>Alexa Dvorson is in Iceland where an influx of tourists is making some locals angry - but not in the way you might expect.</p><p>And Tom Colls spends an evening watching 'Integrity Idol' - a talent show for local government officials in Nepal.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Queues for food and fuel return to Zimbabwe and so do violent crackdowns on protesters</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>'My smile should tell you everything' one victim of an army rampage explains in Zimbabwe. In a society where you never know who’s listening, and who can be trusted, people smile to protect themselves, says Andrew Harding. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world:</p><p>Lyse Doucet is in Timbuktu where the threat of terrorism and a changing climate are making life harder for the people who live there and are deterring others from visiting the ancient, storied city. </p><p>Krupa Padhy explores shifting family structures in Denmark where around 5% of babies are now born thanks to IVF. She meets solomurs - single women who’ve had IVF treatment, and diblings – children produced from the same sperm donor. </p><p>Alexa Dvorson is in Iceland where an influx of tourists is making some locals angry - but not in the way you might expect.</p><p>And Tom Colls spends an evening watching 'Integrity Idol' - a talent show for local government officials in Nepal.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1736</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06z5rz6.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06z5rz6.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06z5rz6.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06z5s0p</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06z5s0p</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06z5rz6.mp3" fileSize="27776000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1736"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06z5s0p</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The New Pirates of the Caribbean</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The impact of Venezuela's economic crisis is being felt far beyond its shores; Colin Freeman hears how some former Venezuelan fisherman have turned to kidnap and smuggling guns and drugs into Trinidad to make money.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world: </p><p>How will the Trump administration judge its allies in the Middle East, wonders Barbara Plett Usher. She joined the US Secretary of   State on part of his rapid round of diplomacy in the region where one word kept cropping up – Iran.</p><p>63,000 jobs and 19 million applicants – Rahul Tandon joins some of the people hoping to work on India’s railways.</p><p>Juliet Rix joins the celebrations to mark 100 years since the Bauhaus school of art and design was founded.</p><p>And Bethany Bell struggles through the snow in Austria to report on record falls in the Alps.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Venezuelans who've turned to smuggling drugs and kidnaping fishermen from Trinidad.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The impact of Venezuela's economic crisis is being felt far beyond its shores; Colin Freeman hears how some former Venezuelan fisherman have turned to kidnap and smuggling guns and drugs into Trinidad to make money.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world: </p><p>How will the Trump administration judge its allies in the Middle East, wonders Barbara Plett Usher. She joined the US Secretary of   State on part of his rapid round of diplomacy in the region where one word kept cropping up – Iran.</p><p>63,000 jobs and 19 million applicants – Rahul Tandon joins some of the people hoping to work on India’s railways.</p><p>Juliet Rix joins the celebrations to mark 100 years since the Bauhaus school of art and design was founded.</p><p>And Bethany Bell struggles through the snow in Austria to report on record falls in the Alps.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06yytlw.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06yytlw.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06yytlw.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06yywxc</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06yywxc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06yytlw.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06yywxc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 20/01/2019</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. James Naughtie considers the contemporary legacy of Scotland's national bard as preparations for Burns Suppers reach their climax. Sima Kotecha wears a saree for the first time and looks at the place of the garment in her family's life. Chris Haslam sets sail off the Norfolk coast with firkins of beer: could this be a sustainable - and viable - way of transporting cargoes in our emissions-conscious age? Carly Appleby reveals the highs and lows of the treatment she is receiving after her breast cancer diagnosis. And Tom Edwards in the English Lakeland discovers if the boom in cold water swimming can transform the fortunes of a derelict lido overlooking Morecambe Bay. </p><p>Producer Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Beer under sail in Norfolk, Burns Suppers, cancer treatment and a derelict Lakeland lido</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. James Naughtie considers the contemporary legacy of Scotland's national bard as preparations for Burns Suppers reach their climax. Sima Kotecha wears a saree for the first time and looks at the place of the garment in her family's life. Chris Haslam sets sail off the Norfolk coast with firkins of beer: could this be a sustainable - and viable - way of transporting cargoes in our emissions-conscious age? Carly Appleby reveals the highs and lows of the treatment she is receiving after her breast cancer diagnosis. And Tom Edwards in the English Lakeland discovers if the boom in cold water swimming can transform the fortunes of a derelict lido overlooking Morecambe Bay. </p><p>Producer Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2019 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1664</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06yhkvj.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06yhkvj.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06yhkvj.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06yhlt3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06yhlt3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06yhkvj.mp3" fileSize="26624000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1664"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06yhlt3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Terror in the Secret Garden</title><description><![CDATA[<p>“As I approached the Dusit there was a strange smell in the air; a combination of smoke, petrol, and explosives. I’d smelt it before - the last time was in Northern Syria.” Joe Inwood reflects on the Al Shabaab terror attack on a luxury hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world. </p><p>Stephanie Hegarty meets an 11-year-old social media star in Mexico who is using her online videos to come to terms with the death of her mother.</p><p>Charlotte McDonald is in Toulouse with a French veteran of the Algerian War of Independence who’s still making peace with the atrocities committed by his own side. </p><p>Karen Allen mingles with South Africa's growing Korean community, some of whom are making good money selling synthetic hair. </p><p>And Justin Rowlatt explains why he took his wife on a romantic getaway to Chernobyl.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>How the people of Nairobi are finding hope after the terror attack on a luxury hotel</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>“As I approached the Dusit there was a strange smell in the air; a combination of smoke, petrol, and explosives. I’d smelt it before - the last time was in Northern Syria.” Joe Inwood reflects on the Al Shabaab terror attack on a luxury hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world. </p><p>Stephanie Hegarty meets an 11-year-old social media star in Mexico who is using her online videos to come to terms with the death of her mother.</p><p>Charlotte McDonald is in Toulouse with a French veteran of the Algerian War of Independence who’s still making peace with the atrocities committed by his own side. </p><p>Karen Allen mingles with South Africa's growing Korean community, some of whom are making good money selling synthetic hair. </p><p>And Justin Rowlatt explains why he took his wife on a romantic getaway to Chernobyl.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1932</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06yk8h2.mp3" length="30912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06yk8h2.mp3" length="30912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06yk8h2.mp3" length="30912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06yk8p7</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06yk8p7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06yk8h2.mp3" fileSize="30912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1932"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06yk8p7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>#SaveRahaf: Last night a retweet saved my life</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Saudi teenager Rahaf al-Qunun was spared deportation after details of her plight were spread on social media while she barricaded herself in a hotel room in Thailand. She feared being killed by her family if she was forced to return to Kuwait. She was saved not by her passport but by her phone, observes Jonathan Head.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Olivia Acland reflects on why the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo may have to wait a little longer than expected to celebrate their country’s first ever democratic transfer of power. </p><p>Nick Sturdee examines the split between the Ukrainian and Russian branches of the Orthodox church and has a strange encounter involving a black-robed priest, alleged KGB stooges and a mysterious man in a white car. </p><p>Jane Wakefield has a glimpse of what may turn out to be the future – drones delivering much-needed medicines and other supplies to remote African villages. </p><p>And Rob Cameron uncovers a disturbing secret about Prague’s cobblestoned streets.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Rahaf al-Qunun may be safe in Bangkok but her experience is part of something much bigger</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Saudi teenager Rahaf al-Qunun was spared deportation after details of her plight were spread on social media while she barricaded herself in a hotel room in Thailand. She feared being killed by her family if she was forced to return to Kuwait. She was saved not by her passport but by her phone, observes Jonathan Head.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Olivia Acland reflects on why the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo may have to wait a little longer than expected to celebrate their country’s first ever democratic transfer of power. </p><p>Nick Sturdee examines the split between the Ukrainian and Russian branches of the Orthodox church and has a strange encounter involving a black-robed priest, alleged KGB stooges and a mysterious man in a white car. </p><p>Jane Wakefield has a glimpse of what may turn out to be the future – drones delivering much-needed medicines and other supplies to remote African villages. </p><p>And Rob Cameron uncovers a disturbing secret about Prague’s cobblestoned streets.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2019 12:06:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1676</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06xxmhv.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06xxmhv.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06xxmhv.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06xxmpx</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06xxmpx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06xxmhv.mp3" fileSize="26816000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1676"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06xxmpx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Life In Lockdown</title><description><![CDATA[<p>“Something once whole, broken into so many pieces,” Anna Foster reflects on the toll conflict in the Central African Republic is having on its people. In the capital Bangui, she visits PK5 a Muslim enclave in the mainly Christian city and scene of regular violence.
  1479. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.
  1481. As a proudly homophobic, far-right president assumes office in Brazil, Simon Maybin meets some of the country’s gay footballers.
  1483. Chris Bowlby visits a bastion of loyal Protestantism in the Republic of Ireland. The Orange Order hall may have been refurbished with money from Dublin but it is proudly British.
  1485. Peter Robertson heads to the hills in Uzbekistan to try and get a clear view of what’s changed there under Shavkat Mirziyoyev who became President following Islam Karimov's death.
  1487. And Vivienne Nunis encounters a scarlet snouted, goblin-like spirit as she examines the damage caused by a recent typhoon in Japan.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The impact of escalating violence on the people of Central African Republic.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>“Something once whole, broken into so many pieces,” Anna Foster reflects on the toll conflict in the Central African Republic is having on its people. In the capital Bangui, she visits PK5 a Muslim enclave in the mainly Christian city and scene of regular violence.
  1489. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.
  1491. As a proudly homophobic, far-right president assumes office in Brazil, Simon Maybin meets some of the country’s gay footballers.
  1493. Chris Bowlby visits a bastion of loyal Protestantism in the Republic of Ireland. The Orange Order hall may have been refurbished with money from Dublin but it is proudly British.
  1495. Peter Robertson heads to the hills in Uzbekistan to try and get a clear view of what’s changed there under Shavkat Mirziyoyev who became President following Islam Karimov's death.
  1497. And Vivienne Nunis encounters a scarlet snouted, goblin-like spirit as she examines the damage caused by a recent typhoon in Japan.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1733</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06x92fk.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06x92fk.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06x92fk.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06x92lh</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06x92lh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06x92fk.mp3" fileSize="27728000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1733"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06x92lh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Fairytales and Memorable Meetings</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Winter’s majestic carpet may transform Karabash into a fairytale land that seems sprinkled with icing sugar, says Steve Rosenberg, but the reality is far from magical. There he meets a man who might just be a Russian spy. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces some of the many memorable meetings our correspondents have shared in 2018.</p><p>Mathew Charles spends a twitchy night out in the company of a drug cartel killer and dealer who explains how Colombia’s narco trade is changing. </p><p>Helen Nianias has coffee with a man who left Kosovo to fight jihad in Syria, but who was back less than two weeks later - before his mum even realised he'd gone.</p><p>Aisha Gani stumbles across a rave in a refugee camp in Bangladesh – home to some of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who’ve fled violence in neighbouring Myanmar.</p><p>And Gabriel Gatehouse has a strange and mysterious encounter with a troll in Sweden.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A Colombian drug dealer, a Swedish troll and a man who might just have been a Russian spy</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Winter’s majestic carpet may transform Karabash into a fairytale land that seems sprinkled with icing sugar, says Steve Rosenberg, but the reality is far from magical. There he meets a man who might just be a Russian spy. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces some of the many memorable meetings our correspondents have shared in 2018.</p><p>Mathew Charles spends a twitchy night out in the company of a drug cartel killer and dealer who explains how Colombia’s narco trade is changing. </p><p>Helen Nianias has coffee with a man who left Kosovo to fight jihad in Syria, but who was back less than two weeks later - before his mum even realised he'd gone.</p><p>Aisha Gani stumbles across a rave in a refugee camp in Bangladesh – home to some of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who’ve fled violence in neighbouring Myanmar.</p><p>And Gabriel Gatehouse has a strange and mysterious encounter with a troll in Sweden.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2018 11:45:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1739</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06w91g2.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06w91g2.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06w91g2.mp3" length="27824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06w92k3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06w92k3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06w91g2.mp3" fileSize="27824000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1739"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06w92k3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 23/12/2018</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the Christmas edition, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom which reflect the range of contemporary life in the country.
  1498. Ian McMillan tells a story known with subtle variations across the country - the Christmas card that's received each year but which can't be acknowledged because you've lost the address of the people who send it. They aren't relatives, they're not friends and they're not really acquaintances. But their card says something profound beyond the sentiments it contains.
  1499. Meanwhile, Jane Labous joins the Special Constables on Christmas patrol. They're part of the police force in England, Scotland and Wales and yet not for they are volunteers who have the power to detain and fine those who break the law. At a time of tight police budgets in Dorset, the regular police tell Jane, without the Specials there would be many fewer arrests. But who are the Specials and what is the essential job they perform for no salary?
  1500. Those who are single at Christmas may be thinking the best present they could have is a partner to shower them with affection and maybe the odd gift. Increasingly, they are turning to technology to find that special one and Melanie Abbott discovers if online dating is delivering for them.
  1501. With the seasonal party season in full flood, Datshiane Navanayagam reveals that while she loves make-up, she'd rather wear it indoors, unseen by the rest of us, and then wipe it off and go to bed than show it in public. Can a celebrity make-up artist she approaches change her mind?
  1502. And Garry Owen explains why a rude horse is coming to call more frequently in Wales at this time of year and how she should be greeted if there's a knock at your door.</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Festive policing and dating, wassailing with a mare's skull, and missed Christmas cards.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the Christmas edition, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom which reflect the range of contemporary life in the country.
  1503. Ian McMillan tells a story known with subtle variations across the country - the Christmas card that's received each year but which can't be acknowledged because you've lost the address of the people who send it. They aren't relatives, they're not friends and they're not really acquaintances. But their card says something profound beyond the sentiments it contains.
  1504. Meanwhile, Jane Labous joins the Special Constables on Christmas patrol. They're part of the police force in England, Scotland and Wales and yet not for they are volunteers who have the power to detain and fine those who break the law. At a time of tight police budgets in Dorset, the regular police tell Jane, without the Specials there would be many fewer arrests. But who are the Specials and what is the essential job they perform for no salary?
  1505. Those who are single at Christmas may be thinking the best present they could have is a partner to shower them with affection and maybe the odd gift. Increasingly, they are turning to technology to find that special one and Melanie Abbott discovers if online dating is delivering for them.
  1506. With the seasonal party season in full flood, Datshiane Navanayagam reveals that while she loves make-up, she'd rather wear it indoors, unseen by the rest of us, and then wipe it off and go to bed than show it in public. Can a celebrity make-up artist she approaches change her mind?
  1507. And Garry Owen explains why a rude horse is coming to call more frequently in Wales at this time of year and how she should be greeted if there's a knock at your door.</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2018 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06wb2g2.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06wb2g2.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06wb2g2.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06wb399</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06wb399</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06wb2g2.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06wb399</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Fighting Hungary's 'Slave Law'</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A controversial law in Hungary will allow employers to demand 400 hours of overtime from their workers and defer payment for three years. Nick Thorpe examines the rationale behind it, and watches as more than ten thousand people take to the streets in protest.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world:</p><p>Lorraine Mallinder shares a story of survival and escape from Cameroon’s English-speaking regions, where hundreds of thousands of people have tried to flee violence between local separatists and the military. </p><p>Jonah Fisher has the tale of a Ukrainian woman who thought her son had finally been found in Afghanistan. He went missing more than 30 years ago when serving in the Soviet military there. </p><p>Jeremy Bristow meets a man trying to preserve the language spoken by Jesus and his followers as he visits some of the shrinking communities of Syriac Christians who still live in Turkey. </p><p>And it’s the same procedure as every year for Joanna Robertson in Germany where New Year’s Eve is celebrated with a bang.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The protest against a law which means employers can demand 400 hours of overtime a year.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A controversial law in Hungary will allow employers to demand 400 hours of overtime from their workers and defer payment for three years. Nick Thorpe examines the rationale behind it, and watches as more than ten thousand people take to the streets in protest.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world:</p><p>Lorraine Mallinder shares a story of survival and escape from Cameroon’s English-speaking regions, where hundreds of thousands of people have tried to flee violence between local separatists and the military. </p><p>Jonah Fisher has the tale of a Ukrainian woman who thought her son had finally been found in Afghanistan. He went missing more than 30 years ago when serving in the Soviet military there. </p><p>Jeremy Bristow meets a man trying to preserve the language spoken by Jesus and his followers as he visits some of the shrinking communities of Syriac Christians who still live in Turkey. </p><p>And it’s the same procedure as every year for Joanna Robertson in Germany where New Year’s Eve is celebrated with a bang.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2018 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1742</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06wchkl.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06wchkl.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06wchkl.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06wchmk</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06wchmk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06wchkl.mp3" fileSize="27872000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1742"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06wchmk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Presidents, Prisoners and Potholes</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Before the contested referendum on independence, Carme Forcadell was the speaker of the Catalan parliament but since March she has been awaiting trial in a Spanish jail accused of rebellion. Niall O'Gallagher meets the ever defiant separatist politician.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world.</p><p>Sarah Rainsford is surprised at the warm welcome she receives in the frozen Siberian city of Irkutsk - where, unlike in Moscow, people seem willing to criticise their President and are happy to speak to a Western journalist.</p><p>Alastair Leithead discovers the vast size of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - as well as its dense forests, potholes, bureaucracy and corruption – make it a difficult place to get around as well as to govern.</p><p>Rayhan Demytrie finds that the inauguration of Georgia’s first female President may not mean much for gender equality in the country.</p><p>And Lucy Ash discovers that DIY DNA testing kits that help your trace your ancestors are revealing far more than some Americans bargain for.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>We meet one of the pro-Catalan independence leaders in jail in Spain accused of rebellion.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Before the contested referendum on independence, Carme Forcadell was the speaker of the Catalan parliament but since March she has been awaiting trial in a Spanish jail accused of rebellion. Niall O'Gallagher meets the ever defiant separatist politician.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world.</p><p>Sarah Rainsford is surprised at the warm welcome she receives in the frozen Siberian city of Irkutsk - where, unlike in Moscow, people seem willing to criticise their President and are happy to speak to a Western journalist.</p><p>Alastair Leithead discovers the vast size of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - as well as its dense forests, potholes, bureaucracy and corruption – make it a difficult place to get around as well as to govern.</p><p>Rayhan Demytrie finds that the inauguration of Georgia’s first female President may not mean much for gender equality in the country.</p><p>And Lucy Ash discovers that DIY DNA testing kits that help your trace your ancestors are revealing far more than some Americans bargain for.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1722</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06vp7zk.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06vp7zk.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06vp7zk.mp3" length="27552000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06vp88l</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06vp88l</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06vp7zk.mp3" fileSize="27552000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1722"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06vp88l</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Off Target</title><description><![CDATA[<p>At 13 Basma was forced to marry an older man and then repeatedly abused by him and his family. At 16 she was kidnapped and sent to work in a brothel. Then her own family decided to kill her. Now she lives and works in one of Iraq’s secret shelters for survivors of domestic abuse and shares her story with Shaimaa Kahlil.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world. </p><p>As South Africa marks the fifth anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s death, Andrew Harding reflects on the role that racial power and politics still plays there. </p><p>Bethany Bell is in South Tyrol where Italian nationalism is proving surprisingly popular among German speakers in the north of the country. </p><p>Fleur MacDonald attends a cinema screening in a Tunisian prison to see how films are being used to challenge the way inmates see the world.</p><p>And in Canada, John Kampfner spends an evening in a cold, cavernous warehouse throwing axes at a dart-board like target – for fun.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Inside one of Iraq’s secret shelters for the survivors of domestic abuse.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>At 13 Basma was forced to marry an older man and then repeatedly abused by him and his family. At 16 she was kidnapped and sent to work in a brothel. Then her own family decided to kill her. Now she lives and works in one of Iraq’s secret shelters for survivors of domestic abuse and shares her story with Shaimaa Kahlil.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world. </p><p>As South Africa marks the fifth anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s death, Andrew Harding reflects on the role that racial power and politics still plays there. </p><p>Bethany Bell is in South Tyrol where Italian nationalism is proving surprisingly popular among German speakers in the north of the country. </p><p>Fleur MacDonald attends a cinema screening in a Tunisian prison to see how films are being used to challenge the way inmates see the world.</p><p>And in Canada, John Kampfner spends an evening in a cold, cavernous warehouse throwing axes at a dart-board like target – for fun.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1748</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06v0v15.mp3" length="27968000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06v0v15.mp3" length="27968000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06v0v15.mp3" length="27968000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06v0v5g</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06v0v5g</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06v0v15.mp3" fileSize="27968000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1748"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06v0v5g</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Thoughtcrime in Xinjiang</title><description><![CDATA[<p>'Orwellian' may have become an overused political term, but in Xinjiang, it has never been more appropriate says John Sudworth. The region’s ten million Uighur people are under constant surveillance by the Chinese state.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world. </p><p>David Willis explains how a pimp turned politician won a seat on the Nevada state legislature despite being dead. </p><p>Peter Oborne visits a Syrian school which has only recently re-opened after jihadi militants were driven out of town.</p><p>Charles Haviland discovers that the conflict in the east of Ukraine is also leaving its mark on the west of the country.</p><p>And Joanna Robertson explores the competing plans to deal Paris’s rat infestation – from total extermination to blanket non-intervention.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>China’s western region is the target of an all-seeing surveillance state.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>'Orwellian' may have become an overused political term, but in Xinjiang, it has never been more appropriate says John Sudworth. The region’s ten million Uighur people are under constant surveillance by the Chinese state.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world. </p><p>David Willis explains how a pimp turned politician won a seat on the Nevada state legislature despite being dead. </p><p>Peter Oborne visits a Syrian school which has only recently re-opened after jihadi militants were driven out of town.</p><p>Charles Haviland discovers that the conflict in the east of Ukraine is also leaving its mark on the west of the country.</p><p>And Joanna Robertson explores the competing plans to deal Paris’s rat infestation – from total extermination to blanket non-intervention.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1885</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06tmnw2.mp3" length="30160000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06tmnw2.mp3" length="30160000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06tmnw2.mp3" length="30160000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06td57k</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06td57k</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06tmnw2.mp3" fileSize="30160000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1885"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06td57k</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>France's Forgotten French</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The “gilets jaunes” (yellow vest) protestors trying to bring France to a standstill. Hugh Schofield, says they're angry at having to pay the price for Parisians to live more comfortably and feel they are treated with contempt and condescension by the French elite. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world. </p><p>Nick Higham is on the Rock to find out what Gibraltarians think of the possibility of a no-deal Brexit.</p><p>Devina Gupta explains what it is like to report from Delhi, where the polluted air makes her eyes water and her throat burn.</p><p>Will Grant examines some of the many challenges Mexico’s new President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, will face; from economic stagnation to the violent drug cartels. </p><p>And Melissa Van Der Klugt visits a pioneering “wildlife corridor” in East Africa and discovers that simply moving fences has made a big impact on Kenya’s wildlife.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The marginalised and often ignored 'yellow vests' trying to bring France to a standstill.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The “gilets jaunes” (yellow vest) protestors trying to bring France to a standstill. Hugh Schofield, says they're angry at having to pay the price for Parisians to live more comfortably and feel they are treated with contempt and condescension by the French elite. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world. </p><p>Nick Higham is on the Rock to find out what Gibraltarians think of the possibility of a no-deal Brexit.</p><p>Devina Gupta explains what it is like to report from Delhi, where the polluted air makes her eyes water and her throat burn.</p><p>Will Grant examines some of the many challenges Mexico’s new President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, will face; from economic stagnation to the violent drug cartels. </p><p>And Melissa Van Der Klugt visits a pioneering “wildlife corridor” in East Africa and discovers that simply moving fences has made a big impact on Kenya’s wildlife.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1726</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06sr05p.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06sr05p.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06sr05p.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06sr0kw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06sr0kw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06sr05p.mp3" fileSize="27616000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1726"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06sr0kw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 18/11/2018</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. From politics to pastimes, from hallowed traditions to emerging trends, from the curious to the ridiculous, the programme presents a tableau of Britain today.</p><p>Pieces this month include reflections on the very young and the very old playing together, how people on Lewis in the Western Isles are remembering a century-old tragedy that affected all families there, the special attraction of North Yorkshire for Goths and why a carol service takes us down to Strawberry Field.*</p><p>* as "From Our Home Correspondent" is a topical programme, pieces are subject to change at short notice.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A Yorkshire Goth weekend, a Western Isles tragedy remembered and Strawberry Field forever</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. From politics to pastimes, from hallowed traditions to emerging trends, from the curious to the ridiculous, the programme presents a tableau of Britain today.</p><p>Pieces this month include reflections on the very young and the very old playing together, how people on Lewis in the Western Isles are remembering a century-old tragedy that affected all families there, the special attraction of North Yorkshire for Goths and why a carol service takes us down to Strawberry Field.*</p><p>* as "From Our Home Correspondent" is a topical programme, pieces are subject to change at short notice.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2018 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1679</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06s0wv5.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06s0wv5.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06s0wv5.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06s0xl3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06s0xl3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06s0wv5.mp3" fileSize="26864000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1679"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06s0xl3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Enough to make your cry</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Brexit Withdrawal Agreement has prompted some very different and very passionate reactions. Adam Fleming reveals how, after an agonising wait which included taking the draft agreement on holiday with him - twice, its publication this week almost brought him to tears.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Tears over Brexit, a lost passport and a party for a bunch of Russian spies.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Brexit Withdrawal Agreement has prompted some very different and very passionate reactions. Adam Fleming reveals how, after an agonising wait which included taking the draft agreement on holiday with him - twice, its publication this week almost brought him to tears.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06s2q5g.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06s2q5g.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06s2q5g.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06s2qp9</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06s2qp9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06s2q5g.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06s2qp9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Nationalists and Patriots</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In 1918 Poland regained its sovereignty after 123 years of occupation by Austria, Prussia and Russia. This year Poles celebrated its centenary with a state organised march through the capital, Warsaw, which an estimated quarter of a million people attended. The parade, and the headlines, were overshadowed by the government’s last-minute decision to march together with far-right groups. Adam Easton was in Warsaw marching among the nationalists and the patriots. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.</p><p>David Baillie is with NATO in Norway where some of the companies singing really takes the cake. </p><p>Humera Iqbal talks to a young Pakistani DJ who uses Electronic Dance Music to save traditional instruments from extinction. </p><p>Adam Jones finds out how the idea of moderation works in the land of excess </p><p>And Dany Mitzman is in Italy where the graffiti is surprisingly educational.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents around the world tell stories and examine news developments.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In 1918 Poland regained its sovereignty after 123 years of occupation by Austria, Prussia and Russia. This year Poles celebrated its centenary with a state organised march through the capital, Warsaw, which an estimated quarter of a million people attended. The parade, and the headlines, were overshadowed by the government’s last-minute decision to march together with far-right groups. Adam Easton was in Warsaw marching among the nationalists and the patriots. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.</p><p>David Baillie is with NATO in Norway where some of the companies singing really takes the cake. </p><p>Humera Iqbal talks to a young Pakistani DJ who uses Electronic Dance Music to save traditional instruments from extinction. </p><p>Adam Jones finds out how the idea of moderation works in the land of excess </p><p>And Dany Mitzman is in Italy where the graffiti is surprisingly educational.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1713</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06s0h86.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06s0h86.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06s0h86.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06rvc98</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06rvc98</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06s0h86.mp3" fileSize="27408000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1713"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06rvc98</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Lasting Legacy</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The risks some Indian women are prepared to take to try and have baby boys and how the battle to make them think again seems to be working. Sophie Cousins is in the state of Haryana where there are signs the gender imbalance is slowing improving. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world. </p><p>Guy Hedgecoe explores why Spain still can’t decide what to do with the body of its former dictator General Franco, even as it prepares to celebrate 40 years since its transition to democracy.</p><p>Rebecca Ford tells the story of the last French soldier to die during World War One – but when exactly did he die?</p><p>Richard Dove takes a coach along the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge but fails to find much enthusiasm from his fellow passengers between the Chinese mainland, Hong King and Macau. </p><p>And Ash Bhardwaj has pizza with a rapper in a town called New York not far from the frontline in Eastern Ukraine.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>India’s gender imbalance and the risks some women take to try and have baby boys.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The risks some Indian women are prepared to take to try and have baby boys and how the battle to make them think again seems to be working. Sophie Cousins is in the state of Haryana where there are signs the gender imbalance is slowing improving. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world. </p><p>Guy Hedgecoe explores why Spain still can’t decide what to do with the body of its former dictator General Franco, even as it prepares to celebrate 40 years since its transition to democracy.</p><p>Rebecca Ford tells the story of the last French soldier to die during World War One – but when exactly did he die?</p><p>Richard Dove takes a coach along the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge but fails to find much enthusiasm from his fellow passengers between the Chinese mainland, Hong King and Macau. </p><p>And Ash Bhardwaj has pizza with a rapper in a town called New York not far from the frontline in Eastern Ukraine.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1708</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06rcknm.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06rcknm.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06rcknm.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06rckqf</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06rckqf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06rcknm.mp3" fileSize="27328000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1708"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06rckqf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Next Move</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Change is coming to South Africa, says Cyril Ramphosa, but we must be patient. As the President plots his next move, and investigations into allegations of corruption under his predecessor Jacob Zuma continue, Andrew Harding reflects on the very different fortunes of the two very different leaders. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.</p><p>Allis Moss is in Norway – one of the greenest countries in the world but also one of the richest in oil and gas. </p><p>Jai Jethwa investigates why so many Indian men, including his own father, have moustaches. From Bollywood stars to upper-caste martial warriors, this particular type of facial hair has long been associated with masculinity and power.</p><p>Jessica Bateman explores attempts to breathe new life into some of Greece’s increasingly empty villages.</p><p>And Tim Mansel meets a woman who once slapped the German Chancellor; it was 1968 and Beate Klarsfeld wanted to draw attention to Kurt-Georg Kiesinger’s Nazi past.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Can Cyril Ramaphosa clean up South Africa? And why do so many Indian men have moustaches?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Change is coming to South Africa, says Cyril Ramphosa, but we must be patient. As the President plots his next move, and investigations into allegations of corruption under his predecessor Jacob Zuma continue, Andrew Harding reflects on the very different fortunes of the two very different leaders. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.</p><p>Allis Moss is in Norway – one of the greenest countries in the world but also one of the richest in oil and gas. </p><p>Jai Jethwa investigates why so many Indian men, including his own father, have moustaches. From Bollywood stars to upper-caste martial warriors, this particular type of facial hair has long been associated with masculinity and power.</p><p>Jessica Bateman explores attempts to breathe new life into some of Greece’s increasingly empty villages.</p><p>And Tim Mansel meets a woman who once slapped the German Chancellor; it was 1968 and Beate Klarsfeld wanted to draw attention to Kurt-Georg Kiesinger’s Nazi past.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2018 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1714</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06r4ljv.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06r4ljv.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06r4ljv.mp3" length="27424000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06r4mhj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06r4mhj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06r4ljv.mp3" fileSize="27424000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1714"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06r4mhj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Keep America Great</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Keep America Great’ has replaced ‘Make America Great’ as the favoured slogan among some Donald Trump supporters. Ahead of the US mid-term elections, James Cook meets those who think the President is winning and can’t wait to vote for him again.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world.</p><p>In Mexico, Will Grant has been traveling with the caravan made up of the thousands of Central American migrants hoping to reach the US.</p><p>From Damascus, Diana Darke reflects on what her own family’s experience after World War One reveals about what life might be like in Syria when the conflict there finally ends. </p><p>John Murphy is in Tunisia, once held up as one of the Arab Springs greatest successes but where people now have little to celebrate.</p><p>And Pip Stewart reveals why a flesh-eating parasite from Guyana has made a quiet mark on her.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Donald Trump supporters who can’t wait to vote for him again.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Keep America Great’ has replaced ‘Make America Great’ as the favoured slogan among some Donald Trump supporters. Ahead of the US mid-term elections, James Cook meets those who think the President is winning and can’t wait to vote for him again.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world.</p><p>In Mexico, Will Grant has been traveling with the caravan made up of the thousands of Central American migrants hoping to reach the US.</p><p>From Damascus, Diana Darke reflects on what her own family’s experience after World War One reveals about what life might be like in Syria when the conflict there finally ends. </p><p>John Murphy is in Tunisia, once held up as one of the Arab Springs greatest successes but where people now have little to celebrate.</p><p>And Pip Stewart reveals why a flesh-eating parasite from Guyana has made a quiet mark on her.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1736</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06qpqbw.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06qpqbw.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06qpqbw.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06qpqvk</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06qpqvk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06qpqbw.mp3" fileSize="27776000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1736"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06qpqvk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Operation Female Outreach</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Recruiting more female peacekeepers is seen as essential to defeating jihadists groups in the Sahel, but the UN's Mali mission is the deadliest active peacekeeping deployment in the world. Jennifer O’Mahony met some of the women trying to bring stability to the region - as well as fighting for equality within their own ranks.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.</p><p>Nichols Walton is in Genoa to find out how the Italian city is coping after a motorway bridge collapse killed more than forty people in August; “Genoa is wounded not stupid” one poster declares.</p><p>Olivia Acland travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo to meet Dr Denis Mukwege – a winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize and a man known to many simply as Dr. Miracle. </p><p>Mary Novakovich visits the recently reopened National Museum of Serbia, which was shut for 15 years, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, which remained closed for 10 years. Was it worth the wait?</p><p>And from a cemetery in Chennai, Southern India, Andrew Whitehead has an unexpected tale of life in the Indian empire.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Why recruiting more female peacekeepers is key to defeating jihadists groups in Mali.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Recruiting more female peacekeepers is seen as essential to defeating jihadists groups in the Sahel, but the UN's Mali mission is the deadliest active peacekeeping deployment in the world. Jennifer O’Mahony met some of the women trying to bring stability to the region - as well as fighting for equality within their own ranks.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.</p><p>Nichols Walton is in Genoa to find out how the Italian city is coping after a motorway bridge collapse killed more than forty people in August; “Genoa is wounded not stupid” one poster declares.</p><p>Olivia Acland travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo to meet Dr Denis Mukwege – a winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize and a man known to many simply as Dr. Miracle. </p><p>Mary Novakovich visits the recently reopened National Museum of Serbia, which was shut for 15 years, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, which remained closed for 10 years. Was it worth the wait?</p><p>And from a cemetery in Chennai, Southern India, Andrew Whitehead has an unexpected tale of life in the Indian empire.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2018 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1723</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06qh1bv.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06qh1bv.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06qh1bv.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06qh211</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06qh211</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06qh1bv.mp3" fileSize="27568000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1723"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06qh211</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Bluster, Brazenness and Charm</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from around the world. </p><p>Saudi Arabia's investment conference put on quite a show - and unlike many foreign investors scared off by the aftershocks of Jamal Khashoggi's death, Sebastian Usher was there to see it for himself. </p><p>Lyse Doucet was in Afghanistan to cover its parliamentary elections, and found many changes to the streetscape in Kabul - as the city survives a rising tide of attacks. Airport security measures provided clues of their own to the way life is changing. </p><p>Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, was sometimes hyped as the "next Dubai" in the 2000s - but Samira Shackle found that many of its building sites, supposed to give rise to four-star opulence, are now abandoned shells occupied by internally displaced people who fled the advance of the so-called Islamic State. </p><p>Tequila? No, mezcal - a smoother, smokier, and arguably more authentically Mexican product. Graeme Green takes a tipple or two in the state of Oaxaca, to hear how its aficionados and producers are torn between excitement and apprehension as their drink grows more famous abroad. </p><p>And BANG goes the auctioneer's whalebone hammer at the Hotel Druot, a storied Paris auction house which sells everything from randomly-baled belongings from house clearances to great works of art. Hugh Schofield went along ... and picked up a thing or two.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Saudi Arabia's unrepentant show. Plus Afghan security, Mexican mezcal and a Paris auction</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from around the world. </p><p>Saudi Arabia's investment conference put on quite a show - and unlike many foreign investors scared off by the aftershocks of Jamal Khashoggi's death, Sebastian Usher was there to see it for himself. </p><p>Lyse Doucet was in Afghanistan to cover its parliamentary elections, and found many changes to the streetscape in Kabul - as the city survives a rising tide of attacks. Airport security measures provided clues of their own to the way life is changing. </p><p>Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, was sometimes hyped as the "next Dubai" in the 2000s - but Samira Shackle found that many of its building sites, supposed to give rise to four-star opulence, are now abandoned shells occupied by internally displaced people who fled the advance of the so-called Islamic State. </p><p>Tequila? No, mezcal - a smoother, smokier, and arguably more authentically Mexican product. Graeme Green takes a tipple or two in the state of Oaxaca, to hear how its aficionados and producers are torn between excitement and apprehension as their drink grows more famous abroad. </p><p>And BANG goes the auctioneer's whalebone hammer at the Hotel Druot, a storied Paris auction house which sells everything from randomly-baled belongings from house clearances to great works of art. Hugh Schofield went along ... and picked up a thing or two.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1721</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06q1h7v.mp3" length="27536000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06q1h7v.mp3" length="27536000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06q1h7v.mp3" length="27536000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06q1hqh</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06q1hqh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06q1h7v.mp3" fileSize="27536000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1721"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06q1hqh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Warlords and Sons of Warlords</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces analysis, wit and experiences from correspondents around the world. </p><p>The past weekend's elections in Afghanistan were held under threat, and only patchily - but they were held, despite fears to the contrary. Secunder Kermani talked to plenty of young voters in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and heard both impatience and hope for the country's future in their answers. </p><p>Serbia has a domestic violence problem - as well as uncounted stockpiles of firearms in private hands. As the government brings in measures to try and discourage abuse in relationships, Nicola Kelly hears about the lethal risks of abusers with their own guns. </p><p>Tim Smith tags along with a group of dissenters on a night-time raid: they're Catalans who are strongly against the idea of Catalonian independence, and claim they're "cleaning up" the streetscape in some small towns by tearing down or removing symbols of the Catalan nationalist cause. </p><p>In the ritzier parts of Jakarta, you can almost smell the money these days, says Rebecca Henschke. As a rising class rides the commodities boom, children's parties in particular have become ever more ostentatious. </p><p>And Joe Bond gets into the swim of things in the Czech town of Kolin. Once it was home to a thriving Jewish population, which was largely uprooted and dispersed after the Nazi occupation deported most of its members to labour and extermination camps during the Holocaust. One doughty survivor of that era, Hana Greenfield, made it her later life's mission to tell others about it - and she's now commemorated in the town with a race down the river where she would swim as a child.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Young Afghan voters' choices; Serbian guns, Indonesia's rich, a Catalan raid&amp;a Czech swim</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces analysis, wit and experiences from correspondents around the world. </p><p>The past weekend's elections in Afghanistan were held under threat, and only patchily - but they were held, despite fears to the contrary. Secunder Kermani talked to plenty of young voters in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and heard both impatience and hope for the country's future in their answers. </p><p>Serbia has a domestic violence problem - as well as uncounted stockpiles of firearms in private hands. As the government brings in measures to try and discourage abuse in relationships, Nicola Kelly hears about the lethal risks of abusers with their own guns. </p><p>Tim Smith tags along with a group of dissenters on a night-time raid: they're Catalans who are strongly against the idea of Catalonian independence, and claim they're "cleaning up" the streetscape in some small towns by tearing down or removing symbols of the Catalan nationalist cause. </p><p>In the ritzier parts of Jakarta, you can almost smell the money these days, says Rebecca Henschke. As a rising class rides the commodities boom, children's parties in particular have become ever more ostentatious. </p><p>And Joe Bond gets into the swim of things in the Czech town of Kolin. Once it was home to a thriving Jewish population, which was largely uprooted and dispersed after the Nazi occupation deported most of its members to labour and extermination camps during the Holocaust. One doughty survivor of that era, Hana Greenfield, made it her later life's mission to tell others about it - and she's now commemorated in the town with a race down the river where she would swim as a child.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2018 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06pt5bp.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06pt5bp.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06pt5bp.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06pt6bw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06pt6bw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06pt5bp.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06pt6bw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 21/10/2018</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom.
  1508. This month we hear Sima Kotecha's triumphant tale of finally managing to pay off her student loans - except debt can prove a stubborn companion.
  1509. Lesley Curwen visits a part of Lancashire she has long known which finds itself once more at the centre of media attention. The Fylde coastal plain is where the energy company Cuadrilla has just resumed fracking activities amidst much controversy. But away from the site itself what, she wonders, do local people make of all that's happening?
  1510. From what claims to be the site of the solution to the UK's future energy needs to one that used to argue the same: Sellafield. On his visit, Theo Leggett sees plenty of rust and weeds at the Cumbrian nuclear plant but also discovers that in this part of northern England which has long struggled for economic take-off there are burgeoning hopes for the future... maybe.
  1511. With BBC Children in Need's annual fundraising extravaganza just around the corner, Alison Holt tells the story of one teenager in Wales who is coping with an especially demanding medical diagnosis - growing up as HIV-positive - and how one organisation supported by listeners' and viewers' donations seeks to help him and his family.
  1512. And we travel to Kent with Christine Finn as she unearths a coals-to-Newcastle story about how a lavender farming boom there has - quelle horreur! - managed to succeed in cornering the lucrative French perfume market. But for how long?</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A student loan paid off, nuclear entrepreneurs, growing up with HIV and lavender farming.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom.
  1513. This month we hear Sima Kotecha's triumphant tale of finally managing to pay off her student loans - except debt can prove a stubborn companion.
  1514. Lesley Curwen visits a part of Lancashire she has long known which finds itself once more at the centre of media attention. The Fylde coastal plain is where the energy company Cuadrilla has just resumed fracking activities amidst much controversy. But away from the site itself what, she wonders, do local people make of all that's happening?
  1515. From what claims to be the site of the solution to the UK's future energy needs to one that used to argue the same: Sellafield. On his visit, Theo Leggett sees plenty of rust and weeds at the Cumbrian nuclear plant but also discovers that in this part of northern England which has long struggled for economic take-off there are burgeoning hopes for the future... maybe.
  1516. With BBC Children in Need's annual fundraising extravaganza just around the corner, Alison Holt tells the story of one teenager in Wales who is coping with an especially demanding medical diagnosis - growing up as HIV-positive - and how one organisation supported by listeners' and viewers' donations seeks to help him and his family.
  1517. And we travel to Kent with Christine Finn as she unearths a coals-to-Newcastle story about how a lavender farming boom there has - quelle horreur! - managed to succeed in cornering the lucrative French perfume market. But for how long?</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2018 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06pbwxp.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06pbwxp.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06pbwxp.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06pbx92</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06pbx92</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06pbwxp.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06pbx92</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Don't Panic!</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Fuel shortages are nothing to worry about, says the government in Zimbabwe - just bumps in the road on the way to a better future. Andrew Harding reflects on whether President Mnangagwa and Zanu PF will be able to deliver on their promise of a new dawn for the country. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world. </p><p>John Sweeney is in Malta a year on from the assassination of the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia; “if you’re a trouble-making reporter, it’s time to be afraid,” he concludes. </p><p>Jemima Kelly is in Kaliningrad to learn more about Bitcoin mining – a place she finds very much open for business, whatever that business is. </p><p>Andrew Whitehead stumbles across the rapidly expanding Korean community of Chennai, which claims to be the biggest concentration of expats in the port city. </p><p>And Jenny Hill enjoys an evening at the opera, but what can Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde tell us about the fate of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.</p><p>Producer: Joe Kent</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Fuel shortages are nothing to worry about, says the government in Zimbabwe</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Fuel shortages are nothing to worry about, says the government in Zimbabwe - just bumps in the road on the way to a better future. Andrew Harding reflects on whether President Mnangagwa and Zanu PF will be able to deliver on their promise of a new dawn for the country. </p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world. </p><p>John Sweeney is in Malta a year on from the assassination of the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia; “if you’re a trouble-making reporter, it’s time to be afraid,” he concludes. </p><p>Jemima Kelly is in Kaliningrad to learn more about Bitcoin mining – a place she finds very much open for business, whatever that business is. </p><p>Andrew Whitehead stumbles across the rapidly expanding Korean community of Chennai, which claims to be the biggest concentration of expats in the port city. </p><p>And Jenny Hill enjoys an evening at the opera, but what can Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde tell us about the fate of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.</p><p>Producer: Joe Kent</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1723</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06pdjvs.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06pdjvs.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06pdjvs.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06pdk4z</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06pdk4z</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06pdjvs.mp3" fileSize="27568000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1723"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06pdk4z</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Why people join Boko Haram</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The women who regard their days with the jihadist group as the first time they'd had any kind of female empowerment and the men who saw it as a chance to escape poverty and gain access to money and guns. Colin Freeman reports from Maiduguri in Nigeria.
  1518. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.
  1519. Harriet Noble meets the ‘rental sisters’ trying to coax reclusive young Japanese men back into society. There are up to a million ‘hikikomori’ who go for years without speaking to those around them or even leaving their bedrooms.
  1520. Jane Labous hears of the stigma of childlessness in Senegal – for both men and women.
  1521. Bob Dickinson explains why plans to make South America’s biggest ski resort even bigger have provoked a backlash amongst some residents of Barciloche in Argentina.
  1522. And in supposedly liberal Lebanon, Lizzie Porter meets a cleric who was forced from his job for posting videos of himself online playing the piano in his traditional robes.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The jihadist group offering men and women a taste of power and an escape from poverty</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The women who regard their days with the jihadist group as the first time they'd had any kind of female empowerment and the men who saw it as a chance to escape poverty and gain access to money and guns. Colin Freeman reports from Maiduguri in Nigeria.
  1523. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.
  1524. Harriet Noble meets the ‘rental sisters’ trying to coax reclusive young Japanese men back into society. There are up to a million ‘hikikomori’ who go for years without speaking to those around them or even leaving their bedrooms.
  1525. Jane Labous hears of the stigma of childlessness in Senegal – for both men and women.
  1526. Bob Dickinson explains why plans to make South America’s biggest ski resort even bigger have provoked a backlash amongst some residents of Barciloche in Argentina.
  1527. And in supposedly liberal Lebanon, Lizzie Porter meets a cleric who was forced from his job for posting videos of himself online playing the piano in his traditional robes.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06p57dx.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06p57dx.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06p57dx.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06p59tj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06p59tj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06p57dx.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06p59tj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Troubled Waters</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Azov Sea off Crimea has become increasingly militarised and seen tense exchanges between Russian and Ukrainian coastguards. Jonah Fisher joins the Ukrainian Navy in these troubled waters.
  1528. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world.
  1529. In Colombia, Simon Maybin meets a group of Venezuelan migrants who’ve turned to busking on the streets of Cucuta in the hope of raising enough money to feed their starving families back home.
  1530. In Hungary, Nick Thorpe visits Mohacs where invading Ottoman forces defeated those of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 16th century. What can it tell us about relations between Turkey and Hungary today?
  1531. In Spain, Lottie Gross finds herself mesmerised by competing towers of people at the 27th Concurs de Castells in Tarragona.
  1532. And in Brussels, Adam Fleming takes a break from reporting the negotiations on Britain’s withdrawal from the EU to play ‘Brexit the board game.’</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>On the Azov with the Ukrainian Navy, the increasingly militarised sea off Crimea.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Azov Sea off Crimea has become increasingly militarised and seen tense exchanges between Russian and Ukrainian coastguards. Jonah Fisher joins the Ukrainian Navy in these troubled waters.
  1533. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world.
  1534. In Colombia, Simon Maybin meets a group of Venezuelan migrants who’ve turned to busking on the streets of Cucuta in the hope of raising enough money to feed their starving families back home.
  1535. In Hungary, Nick Thorpe visits Mohacs where invading Ottoman forces defeated those of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 16th century. What can it tell us about relations between Turkey and Hungary today?
  1536. In Spain, Lottie Gross finds herself mesmerised by competing towers of people at the 27th Concurs de Castells in Tarragona.
  1537. And in Brussels, Adam Fleming takes a break from reporting the negotiations on Britain’s withdrawal from the EU to play ‘Brexit the board game.’</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1720</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06ns751.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06ns751.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06ns751.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06ns78r</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06ns78r</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06ns751.mp3" fileSize="27520000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1720"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06ns78r</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Life Inside Libya’s Migrant Detention Centres</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Thousands of people have been intercepted by the Libyan coastguard as they try to reach Europe and sent to detention centres in the capital Tripoli. Gaining access to them is difficult, but that doesn’t mean those inside them have given up on trying to get their stories out. Sally Hayden hears tales of abandonment, abuse, and slavery.
  1538. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from journalists and correspondents around the world.
  1539. Jatinder Sidhu hears from the pro-pot campaigners who won’t be celebrating the legalisation of the drug in Canada but are instead mourning the loss of a counter-culture which they’ve nurtured over decades.
  1540. James Clayton tries to make sense of why manual scavenging persists in India – the use of human waste removers to clear blocked drains and sewers with their bare hands.
  1541. Joey D’urso visits some of the beautiful central Italian towns that were partly destroyed by earthquakes in 2016. Have they and their inhabitants recovered?
  1542. And Phoebe Smith finds herself lost for words as she struggles to describe the stirring in her soul prompted by a howling pack of wolves in Sweden.</p><p>Producer: Joe Kent</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Why a ceasefire in Tripoli may not mean an easier life for the migrants detained in Libya</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Thousands of people have been intercepted by the Libyan coastguard as they try to reach Europe and sent to detention centres in the capital Tripoli. Gaining access to them is difficult, but that doesn’t mean those inside them have given up on trying to get their stories out. Sally Hayden hears tales of abandonment, abuse, and slavery.
  1543. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from journalists and correspondents around the world.
  1544. Jatinder Sidhu hears from the pro-pot campaigners who won’t be celebrating the legalisation of the drug in Canada but are instead mourning the loss of a counter-culture which they’ve nurtured over decades.
  1545. James Clayton tries to make sense of why manual scavenging persists in India – the use of human waste removers to clear blocked drains and sewers with their bare hands.
  1546. Joey D’urso visits some of the beautiful central Italian towns that were partly destroyed by earthquakes in 2016. Have they and their inhabitants recovered?
  1547. And Phoebe Smith finds herself lost for words as she struggles to describe the stirring in her soul prompted by a howling pack of wolves in Sweden.</p><p>Producer: Joe Kent</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:04:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1713</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06nk3z4.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06nk3z4.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06nk3z4.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06nk4p3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06nk4p3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06nk3z4.mp3" fileSize="27408000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1713"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06nk4p3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>"This is war. This is what we have to do"</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Home-made muskets that often fail to fire and little but lucky charms for protection – what it’s like going into battle for the rebels fighting for independence for English-speaking parts of Cameroon. Colin Freeman meets a former member of the Red Dragons.
  1548. Caroline Wyatt introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.
  1549. Joanna Roberson hears why the people of Rome fear the historical heart of their city is being carved up by criminals as mafia seek out cafes and restaurants to launder their money.
  1550. In China, Robin Brant meets Ian Simpson whose son Michael was murdered last year. Michael was killed by his ex-wife Weiwei Fu but now Ian wants her help to win custody of his grandchildren who are living with Weiwei’s relatives in rural China.
  1551. Heidi Fuller-Love discovers what life is like on the Namibian island of Impalila. It may be close to the borders of Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana, but it can feel a long way from anywhere.
  1552. And Emma Jane Kirby meets her hero – the French musician Francis Cabrel who is revered in his home country but little known in Britain as he prefers to sing only in his native tongue.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Life inside the rebel groups fighting for independence for Cameroon's Anglophone regions.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Home-made muskets that often fail to fire and little but lucky charms for protection – what it’s like going into battle for the rebels fighting for independence for English-speaking parts of Cameroon. Colin Freeman meets a former member of the Red Dragons.
  1553. Caroline Wyatt introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.
  1554. Joanna Roberson hears why the people of Rome fear the historical heart of their city is being carved up by criminals as mafia seek out cafes and restaurants to launder their money.
  1555. In China, Robin Brant meets Ian Simpson whose son Michael was murdered last year. Michael was killed by his ex-wife Weiwei Fu but now Ian wants her help to win custody of his grandchildren who are living with Weiwei’s relatives in rural China.
  1556. Heidi Fuller-Love discovers what life is like on the Namibian island of Impalila. It may be close to the borders of Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana, but it can feel a long way from anywhere.
  1557. And Emma Jane Kirby meets her hero – the French musician Francis Cabrel who is revered in his home country but little known in Britain as he prefers to sing only in his native tongue.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p06n4k2d.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1735</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06n4h86.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06n4h86.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06n4h86.mp3" length="27760000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06n4k1f</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06n4k1f</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06n4h86.mp3" fileSize="27760000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1735"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06n4k1f</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Secrets of the Peace Prize</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Inside the room where the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is picked. A committee spends six months discussing hundreds of nominees before the latest Nobel Laureate is announced. In Norway, Matt Pickles meets one of the five people tasked with making that weighty decision.
  1558. Caroline Wyatt introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world. </p><p>Samira Shackle travels to the Pakistani city of Kasur which generated headlines around the world after a spate of child abuse cases. There she meets a young man trying to break free of what he calls the “stigma” and “dishonour” that can come from being sexually abused.
  1559. Martin Vennard spots signs of change in Moscow, where airport arrival and departure boards now alternate between Russian, English, and Mandarin.
  1560. Mark Stratton finds out why traditional or ‘country’ foods are getting harder to find in Arctic Canada – from blubber to boiled seal.
  1561. And Louise Cooper takes an economic road trip around post-financial crash Greece.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Inside the room where the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is picked.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Inside the room where the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is picked. A committee spends six months discussing hundreds of nominees before the latest Nobel Laureate is announced. In Norway, Matt Pickles meets one of the five people tasked with making that weighty decision.
  1562. Caroline Wyatt introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world. </p><p>Samira Shackle travels to the Pakistani city of Kasur which generated headlines around the world after a spate of child abuse cases. There she meets a young man trying to break free of what he calls the “stigma” and “dishonour” that can come from being sexually abused.
  1563. Martin Vennard spots signs of change in Moscow, where airport arrival and departure boards now alternate between Russian, English, and Mandarin.
  1564. Mark Stratton finds out why traditional or ‘country’ foods are getting harder to find in Arctic Canada – from blubber to boiled seal.
  1565. And Louise Cooper takes an economic road trip around post-financial crash Greece.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1715</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06mxhvw.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06mxhvw.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06mxhvw.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06mxjs3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06mxjs3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06mxhvw.mp3" fileSize="27440000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1715"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06mxjs3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The “Tropical Trump" topping the polls in Brazil</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Jair Bolsonaro, the front-runner in Brazil’s presidential election, is famously tough on crime and infamous for his unashamedly controversial comments. Katy Watson meets supporters of the man drawing comparisons to Donald Trump.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world.</p><p>On the shores of Lake Prespa, Maria Margaronis visits Greece’s little-known Macedonian speaking population.</p><p>In Tehran, Lois Pryce meets Issa Omidvar whose globetrotting adventures were documented in a weekly TV show in the 1960s and is now advising young Iranians on how to satisfy their wanderlust</p><p>In India, Laura Dawson meets young women who’ve been abandoned by their families but are finding new hope in a government-backed refuge.</p><p>And while international courts and tribunals have given hope to victims of atrocities in many parts of the world, Fergal Keane reflect that there has been no justice for the majority of those killed in Uganda’s past conflicts.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Jair Bolsonaro: the controversial front-runner in Brazil's presidential election</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Jair Bolsonaro, the front-runner in Brazil’s presidential election, is famously tough on crime and infamous for his unashamedly controversial comments. Katy Watson meets supporters of the man drawing comparisons to Donald Trump.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world.</p><p>On the shores of Lake Prespa, Maria Margaronis visits Greece’s little-known Macedonian speaking population.</p><p>In Tehran, Lois Pryce meets Issa Omidvar whose globetrotting adventures were documented in a weekly TV show in the 1960s and is now advising young Iranians on how to satisfy their wanderlust</p><p>In India, Laura Dawson meets young women who’ve been abandoned by their families but are finding new hope in a government-backed refuge.</p><p>And while international courts and tribunals have given hope to victims of atrocities in many parts of the world, Fergal Keane reflect that there has been no justice for the majority of those killed in Uganda’s past conflicts.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1715</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06mhn0t.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06mhn0t.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06mhn0t.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06mhnc2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06mhnc2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06mhn0t.mp3" fileSize="27440000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1715"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06mhnc2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Fighting Ebola in DR Congo</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In parts of the country health workers rely on armoured vehicles and a military escort in order to deliver much-needed vaccines. Olivia Acland reports from Beni where this kind of fieldwork was briefly suspended following a rebel attack in the city.
  1566. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world.
  1567. “Russia is a superpower” was the message Moscow wanted to convey when it deployed around a third of the country’s entire armed forces to a training exercise in Siberia. But “Russia is a country of contrasts” was that message that Steve Rosenberg returned with.
  1568. Chris Bockman shares the story of the ‘Swiss Maternity’ in South West France – a once abandoned chateau where hundreds of Jewish and Roma women gave birth in secret in the 1940s.
  1569. Shahzeb Jilani asks how far Pakistan is prepared to go to defeat the monsters it once helped create, after a coordinated attack on schools in the north of the country.
  1570. And, fifty years after it was first unveiled to the public, Mark Jordan reveals how the jumbo jet very nearly didn’t get off the ground.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>How rebel violence is making it harder to tackle the latest outbreak of the virus.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In parts of the country health workers rely on armoured vehicles and a military escort in order to deliver much-needed vaccines. Olivia Acland reports from Beni where this kind of fieldwork was briefly suspended following a rebel attack in the city.
  1571. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world.
  1572. “Russia is a superpower” was the message Moscow wanted to convey when it deployed around a third of the country’s entire armed forces to a training exercise in Siberia. But “Russia is a country of contrasts” was that message that Steve Rosenberg returned with.
  1573. Chris Bockman shares the story of the ‘Swiss Maternity’ in South West France – a once abandoned chateau where hundreds of Jewish and Roma women gave birth in secret in the 1940s.
  1574. Shahzeb Jilani asks how far Pakistan is prepared to go to defeat the monsters it once helped create, after a coordinated attack on schools in the north of the country.
  1575. And, fifty years after it was first unveiled to the public, Mark Jordan reveals how the jumbo jet very nearly didn’t get off the ground.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1770</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06m8j6d.mp3" length="28320000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06m8j6d.mp3" length="28320000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06m8j6d.mp3" length="28320000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06m8k0y</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06m8k0y</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06m8j6d.mp3" fileSize="28320000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1770"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06m8k0y</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 23/09/2018</title><description><![CDATA[<p>.
  1576. In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. Gabriel Gatehouse offers a personal reflection on the strong feelings of antipathy recently directed at the BBC - and him - by supporters of Tommy Robinson - for many years associated with the far-right organisation, the English Defence League - and what this says about the changing media landscape. Martin Gurdon introduces us to Slasher, the star of his flock of chickens, and explains how her quirks and distinctive character reveal much about the dramas witnessed by Britain's army of amateur hen keepers. Rebecca Ford in the Potteries celebrates the founder of modern circus and reveals how locals there are planning to use his legacy to promote the area as a centre of excellence for this ever-evolving form of entertainment. In the wake of the tense summer Test series between England and India, Mihir Bose regrets the way both teams - and their supporters - behaved and wonders if cricket can retain its status as a 'special' team sport. And Travis Elborough, long puzzled by a road notice in his native Worthing, finally unravels the mystery and finds it's a sign of the times. </p><p>Producer Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Hating the BBC, Slasher the hen, a circus hero, style in cricket and a road sign mystery</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>.
  1577. In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. Gabriel Gatehouse offers a personal reflection on the strong feelings of antipathy recently directed at the BBC - and him - by supporters of Tommy Robinson - for many years associated with the far-right organisation, the English Defence League - and what this says about the changing media landscape. Martin Gurdon introduces us to Slasher, the star of his flock of chickens, and explains how her quirks and distinctive character reveal much about the dramas witnessed by Britain's army of amateur hen keepers. Rebecca Ford in the Potteries celebrates the founder of modern circus and reveals how locals there are planning to use his legacy to promote the area as a centre of excellence for this ever-evolving form of entertainment. In the wake of the tense summer Test series between England and India, Mihir Bose regrets the way both teams - and their supporters - behaved and wonders if cricket can retain its status as a 'special' team sport. And Travis Elborough, long puzzled by a road notice in his native Worthing, finally unravels the mystery and finds it's a sign of the times. </p><p>Producer Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2018 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06lw9sz.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06lw9sz.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06lw9sz.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06lwb06</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06lwb06</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06lw9sz.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06lwb06</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Return of Jacob Zuma?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>As investigators continue their trawl for evidence of corruption and state capture during Jacob Zuma’s time in office, others are said to be plotting his return to power. Politics in South Africa is never dull, says Andrew Harding.
  1578. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.
  1579. In Israel, Tom Bateman is on the hunt for the finest falafel as he hears what Arab and Jewish Israelis think of the controversial new Nation State law.
  1580. In Spain, Rachel McCormack suspects that something fishy is going on during her gastronomical visit to Galicia.
  1581. Chloe Arnolds recounts some of her many tales of mistaken identity; she has received offers of employment for jobs she hadn’t applied for and rejections from companies she had never even heard of.
  1582. And brutal it may be, but Steve Evans reveals why he has come to admire the directness of Australian politics.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Alleged coups, corruption, and clandestine meetings: South Africa politics is never dull.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>As investigators continue their trawl for evidence of corruption and state capture during Jacob Zuma’s time in office, others are said to be plotting his return to power. Politics in South Africa is never dull, says Andrew Harding.
  1583. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.
  1584. In Israel, Tom Bateman is on the hunt for the finest falafel as he hears what Arab and Jewish Israelis think of the controversial new Nation State law.
  1585. In Spain, Rachel McCormack suspects that something fishy is going on during her gastronomical visit to Galicia.
  1586. Chloe Arnolds recounts some of her many tales of mistaken identity; she has received offers of employment for jobs she hadn’t applied for and rejections from companies she had never even heard of.
  1587. And brutal it may be, but Steve Evans reveals why he has come to admire the directness of Australian politics.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1777</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06lwdvf.mp3" length="28432000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06lwdvf.mp3" length="28432000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06lwdvf.mp3" length="28432000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06lwf4z</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06lwf4z</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06lwdvf.mp3" fileSize="28432000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1777"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06lwf4z</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Syrian Radio Drama</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Radio Alwan is an independent radio station that has been entertaining the people of Syria with dramas, phone-ins and their very own version of Woman's Hour since 2014 - as well as providing an independent source of news. Now, as Emma Jane Kirby reveals, its future is in doubt.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.</p><p>In Uganda, Sally Hayden meets a man who says he was forced to work as a babysitter by the child-soldier turned senior commander in the Lord's Resistance Army - Dominic Ongwen. </p><p>Chris Bowlby finds out what the Harley Davidson riding bikers of Wisconsin think of President Trump.</p><p>Sian Griffin dances with a ten-metre long puppet shaped like an eel and finds out why the American Eel population is shrinking in Canada.</p><p>And John Kampfner visits a Cornish town in Mexico where the Union Jack flies proudly alongside the Mexican flag and the staple dish is the pasty.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Radio Alwan has broadcast independent news &amp; drama since 2014 but its future is in doubt</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Radio Alwan is an independent radio station that has been entertaining the people of Syria with dramas, phone-ins and their very own version of Woman's Hour since 2014 - as well as providing an independent source of news. Now, as Emma Jane Kirby reveals, its future is in doubt.</p><p>Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world.</p><p>In Uganda, Sally Hayden meets a man who says he was forced to work as a babysitter by the child-soldier turned senior commander in the Lord's Resistance Army - Dominic Ongwen. </p><p>Chris Bowlby finds out what the Harley Davidson riding bikers of Wisconsin think of President Trump.</p><p>Sian Griffin dances with a ten-metre long puppet shaped like an eel and finds out why the American Eel population is shrinking in Canada.</p><p>And John Kampfner visits a Cornish town in Mexico where the Union Jack flies proudly alongside the Mexican flag and the staple dish is the pasty.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1764</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06l872f.mp3" length="28224000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06l872f.mp3" length="28224000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06l872f.mp3" length="28224000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06l878g</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06l878g</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06l872f.mp3" fileSize="28224000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1764"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06l878g</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Yazidis Still Missing In Iraq</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Some are buried in mass graves; others are still in the hands of Islamic State militants. Kate Adie introduces stories from Iraq, Chile, India, Colombia, and Sweden:
  1588. Four years since IS swept through northern Iraq and carried out what the UN called a genocidal attack on the Yazidi people who lived there, Lyse Doucet returns to see what remains.
  1589. Linda Pressly meets a Chilean woman who posed as a young boy online in her quest to get her local priesthood investigated.
  1590. Vivienne Nunis learns how women and their pink rickshaws are transforming the working world in Jaipur - much to the disapproval of some local men.
  1591. Nick Thorpe makes the long journey through the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range to reach the Ciudad Perdida – the Lost City which was abandoned by the indigenous people who once lived there when Spanish conquistadors arrived at the Colombian coast in the 16th century.
  1592. And Gabriel Gatehouse has a mysterious but revealing encounter with a real-life troll in Stockholm.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Some are buried in mass graves, others are still in the hands of Islamic State militants.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Some are buried in mass graves; others are still in the hands of Islamic State militants. Kate Adie introduces stories from Iraq, Chile, India, Colombia, and Sweden:
  1593. Four years since IS swept through northern Iraq and carried out what the UN called a genocidal attack on the Yazidi people who lived there, Lyse Doucet returns to see what remains.
  1594. Linda Pressly meets a Chilean woman who posed as a young boy online in her quest to get her local priesthood investigated.
  1595. Vivienne Nunis learns how women and their pink rickshaws are transforming the working world in Jaipur - much to the disapproval of some local men.
  1596. Nick Thorpe makes the long journey through the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range to reach the Ciudad Perdida – the Lost City which was abandoned by the indigenous people who once lived there when Spanish conquistadors arrived at the Colombian coast in the 16th century.
  1597. And Gabriel Gatehouse has a mysterious but revealing encounter with a real-life troll in Stockholm.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2018 10:20:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1713</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06kncqt.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06kncqt.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06kncqt.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06knctr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06knctr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06kncqt.mp3" fileSize="27408000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1713"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06knctr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Brainwashing, Legal Brothels and Hair Transplants</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is China trying to brainwash Muslim Uyhgurs? Kate Adie introduces stories and insights from correspondents around the world:
  1598. John Sweeney meets two men who say they fled China after seeing inside a ’re-education camp' in the north-west province of Xinjiang. It’s claimed that up to a million Uyghur people may be incarcerated in similar camps.
  1599. Lucy Ash meets the professional pimp running for office in Nevada. Dennis Hof runs a string of legal brothels in the state, but in one county people will soon be voting on whether to end legal sex work.
  1600. Tim Ecott hears how two new sub-sea tunnels could change the lives of some of the 50,000 people who live on the Faroes islands. When the work is complete 90% of the population will be connected by road.
  1601. Chris Robinson is in Istanbul where an increasing number of men, many of them British, are traveling to undergo hair transplant surgery.
  1602. And Hugh Schofield is just back from his summer break, and he wants to tell you why camping in rural France offers the best holiday there is.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Is China trying to brainwash Muslim Uyhgurs?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Is China trying to brainwash Muslim Uyhgurs? Kate Adie introduces stories and insights from correspondents around the world:
  1603. John Sweeney meets two men who say they fled China after seeing inside a ’re-education camp' in the north-west province of Xinjiang. It’s claimed that up to a million Uyghur people may be incarcerated in similar camps.
  1604. Lucy Ash meets the professional pimp running for office in Nevada. Dennis Hof runs a string of legal brothels in the state, but in one county people will soon be voting on whether to end legal sex work.
  1605. Tim Ecott hears how two new sub-sea tunnels could change the lives of some of the 50,000 people who live on the Faroes islands. When the work is complete 90% of the population will be connected by road.
  1606. Chris Robinson is in Istanbul where an increasing number of men, many of them British, are traveling to undergo hair transplant surgery.
  1607. And Hugh Schofield is just back from his summer break, and he wants to tell you why camping in rural France offers the best holiday there is.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1720</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06k11zq.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06k11zq.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06k11zq.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06k12mp</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06k12mp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06k11zq.mp3" fileSize="27520000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1720"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06k12mp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Leading The Change</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Rohingya village elder reduced to rags and the flash youngster who’s become kingpin. Kate Adie introduces stories, insight and analysis from correspondents around the world:
  1608. Helen Nianias meets two men trying to bring peace to the chaos of Bangladesh’s refugee camps which are home to almost a million Rohingya people many of whom fled a violent crackdown by the Burmese military in neighbouring Myanmar.
  1609. Guy De Launey reflects on a tale of identity that’s veered from absurd comedy to physical violence as Macedonians prepare to vote on plans to rename their country North Macedonia.
  1610. Martin Plaut was one of the thousand or so students who staged a ‘sit-in’ at the University of Cape Town, angry at its decision to withdraw the appointment of a black lecturer. Fifty years on, he’s reunited with some of his fellow protestors.
  1611. Mark Stratton learns about the scarification ceremonies in Papua New Guinea in which boys have their torsos, backs, and shoulders cut with razor blades so their skin will resemble a crocodile's – a mark of their progression to manhood.
  1612. And Jenny Hill meets a man who’s been trying for decades to rekindle Britain’s taste for Hock – the German wine favoured by Queen Victoria.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Rohingya village elder reduced to rags and the flash youngster who’s become kingpin.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Rohingya village elder reduced to rags and the flash youngster who’s become kingpin. Kate Adie introduces stories, insight and analysis from correspondents around the world:
  1613. Helen Nianias meets two men trying to bring peace to the chaos of Bangladesh’s refugee camps which are home to almost a million Rohingya people many of whom fled a violent crackdown by the Burmese military in neighbouring Myanmar.
  1614. Guy De Launey reflects on a tale of identity that’s veered from absurd comedy to physical violence as Macedonians prepare to vote on plans to rename their country North Macedonia.
  1615. Martin Plaut was one of the thousand or so students who staged a ‘sit-in’ at the University of Cape Town, angry at its decision to withdraw the appointment of a black lecturer. Fifty years on, he’s reunited with some of his fellow protestors.
  1616. Mark Stratton learns about the scarification ceremonies in Papua New Guinea in which boys have their torsos, backs, and shoulders cut with razor blades so their skin will resemble a crocodile's – a mark of their progression to manhood.
  1617. And Jenny Hill meets a man who’s been trying for decades to rekindle Britain’s taste for Hock – the German wine favoured by Queen Victoria.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1709</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06jfflf.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06jfflf.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06jfflf.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06jfg32</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06jfg32</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06jfflf.mp3" fileSize="27344000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1709"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06jfg32</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 19/08/2018</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. Garry Owen takes us to the west Wales coast and finds an Aberystwyth hotelier honing his plans to meet the competition from the hospitality chains. Sarah Oliver goes on an East Anglian road trip with an old friend she's not seen for years to discover how well their bonds have stood the test of time. Tom Edwards visits Cartmel in English Lakeland and finds that what was once a place of pilgrimage is again today but for reasons twelfth century visitors would definitely have frowned upon. John Forsyth unearths the secrets of a good furrow from two Scots about to participate in the European ploughing championships. And Jane Labous is in Biggleswade keen to discover why retraining to plant flowers in Beds is so popular there. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Welsh hospitality, old chums, a Lakeland pilgrimage centre and Scots ploughing champions.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. Garry Owen takes us to the west Wales coast and finds an Aberystwyth hotelier honing his plans to meet the competition from the hospitality chains. Sarah Oliver goes on an East Anglian road trip with an old friend she's not seen for years to discover how well their bonds have stood the test of time. Tom Edwards visits Cartmel in English Lakeland and finds that what was once a place of pilgrimage is again today but for reasons twelfth century visitors would definitely have frowned upon. John Forsyth unearths the secrets of a good furrow from two Scots about to participate in the European ploughing championships. And Jane Labous is in Biggleswade keen to discover why retraining to plant flowers in Beds is so popular there. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2018 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06hrhfz.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06hrhfz.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06hrhfz.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06hrj0k</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06hrj0k</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06hrhfz.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06hrj0k</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Clean Up Your Act</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Greece is poised to exit the terms of its third EU bailout as of August 20th. The Tsipras government has claimed this signals "the end of the drama" and greater freedom for Greeks to decide on their own fate and their own economy. Theopi Skarlatos talks to the Finance Ministry cleaners who became a symbol of the country's economic pain when they protested to keep their jobs - and hears what they make of the situation today.</p><p>Meanwhile Dublin is preparing for its first papal visit since John Paul II told a crowd of millions "young people of Ireland, I love you!" in 1979. Vincent Woods considers what message today's Irish Catholics would most like to hear from Pope Francis, as the Church reels from a string of scandals and faces some existential threats. </p><p>BBC Africa Editor Mary Harper pays tribute to a young Somali friend with a profusion of fresh ideas about how to make daily life in Mogadishu cleaner - and more colourful. Mohamed Mahamoud Sheikh Ali spotted a huge gap in the dry-cleaning market, ran a florist's, and mentored a whole new school of young entrepreneurs.</p><p>As the Trump Administration pushes a policy of "Hire American, Buy American", and steps up immigration enforcement measures, Hugo Bachega visits a mid-American town feeling the effects of recent raids to find and deport undocumented workers.</p><p>And fifty years on from the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, Alexa Dvorson hears from three men who vividly remember the Praque Spring and its aftermath as turning points in their own lives, as well as in their country's history.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories of rebellion and resistance from Greece, Ireland, Somalia, the US and Czechia</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Greece is poised to exit the terms of its third EU bailout as of August 20th. The Tsipras government has claimed this signals "the end of the drama" and greater freedom for Greeks to decide on their own fate and their own economy. Theopi Skarlatos talks to the Finance Ministry cleaners who became a symbol of the country's economic pain when they protested to keep their jobs - and hears what they make of the situation today.</p><p>Meanwhile Dublin is preparing for its first papal visit since John Paul II told a crowd of millions "young people of Ireland, I love you!" in 1979. Vincent Woods considers what message today's Irish Catholics would most like to hear from Pope Francis, as the Church reels from a string of scandals and faces some existential threats. </p><p>BBC Africa Editor Mary Harper pays tribute to a young Somali friend with a profusion of fresh ideas about how to make daily life in Mogadishu cleaner - and more colourful. Mohamed Mahamoud Sheikh Ali spotted a huge gap in the dry-cleaning market, ran a florist's, and mentored a whole new school of young entrepreneurs.</p><p>As the Trump Administration pushes a policy of "Hire American, Buy American", and steps up immigration enforcement measures, Hugo Bachega visits a mid-American town feeling the effects of recent raids to find and deport undocumented workers.</p><p>And fifty years on from the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, Alexa Dvorson hears from three men who vividly remember the Praque Spring and its aftermath as turning points in their own lives, as well as in their country's history.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1725</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06ht3rd.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06ht3rd.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06ht3rd.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06ht3ws</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06ht3ws</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06ht3rd.mp3" fileSize="27600000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1725"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06ht3ws</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Fighting for Life</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A hostage and captor meet again in Syria, anger grows amid Assam's floodwaters and young people take to the barricades in Nicaragua. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world.</p><p>Quentin Sommerville was wary of interviewing two former members of the so-called Islamic State: he didn't want to give them any kind of platform. But in Syria he did get to talk to them - and witness their reactions when a man whom they'd once held captive got to ask the questions.</p><p>As monsoon storms lash the subcontinent and flood waters rise, Nick Beake speaks to farmers and families who feel exhausted and marginalised by an endlessly repeating cycle of disaster and rebuilding in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.</p><p>In the past week, Argentina's Senate voted NOT to decriminalise abortion in the first three months of pregnancy - despite a vocal and vigorous campaign, led by women, to change the law. Katy Watson hears from both sides of the debate.</p><p>Arturo Wallace returns to Nicaragua, his homeland, and is unnerved by echoes of history in this year's political crisis there - as street protests, state repression, and unidentified assassins return to the streets of Managua. </p><p>And there's a football match in Agadez, Niger - a major stop-off on the migrant routes funnelling people from West Africa over the Sahara desert to the Mediterranean, and (they hope) to Europe. Jennifer O'Mahoney watches from the sidelines as local talent play newcomers, and even the kit is shared.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories of endurance from Syria, Argentina, India, Nicaragua and Niger</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A hostage and captor meet again in Syria, anger grows amid Assam's floodwaters and young people take to the barricades in Nicaragua. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world.</p><p>Quentin Sommerville was wary of interviewing two former members of the so-called Islamic State: he didn't want to give them any kind of platform. But in Syria he did get to talk to them - and witness their reactions when a man whom they'd once held captive got to ask the questions.</p><p>As monsoon storms lash the subcontinent and flood waters rise, Nick Beake speaks to farmers and families who feel exhausted and marginalised by an endlessly repeating cycle of disaster and rebuilding in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.</p><p>In the past week, Argentina's Senate voted NOT to decriminalise abortion in the first three months of pregnancy - despite a vocal and vigorous campaign, led by women, to change the law. Katy Watson hears from both sides of the debate.</p><p>Arturo Wallace returns to Nicaragua, his homeland, and is unnerved by echoes of history in this year's political crisis there - as street protests, state repression, and unidentified assassins return to the streets of Managua. </p><p>And there's a football match in Agadez, Niger - a major stop-off on the migrant routes funnelling people from West Africa over the Sahara desert to the Mediterranean, and (they hope) to Europe. Jennifer O'Mahoney watches from the sidelines as local talent play newcomers, and even the kit is shared.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2018 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1711</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06h5skn.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06h5skn.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06h5skn.mp3" length="27376000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06h5sq8</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06h5sq8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06h5skn.mp3" fileSize="27376000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1711"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06h5sq8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Zimbabwe - Where Fear is a Powerful Commodity</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The election was supposed to be the moment it turned a corner leaving fear behind. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world: </p><p>In Zimbabwe, Andrew Harding has followed the twists and turns of the past few days and reflects on the country’s struggle to shake off a repressive past.
  1618. In Colombia, Frank Gardner meets a former FARC guerrilla commander now making friends with the police and goes in search of an illicit makeshift cocaine lab hidden in the jungle.
  1619. In Holland euthanasia was legalised in 2002 but it remains controversial. While some say it should never be allowed as a means of dealing with psychiatric illness, Linda Pressly meets one bereaved mother who wants to make it easier for people to end their own lives.
  1620. In Mongolia, Roger Hearing meets Ganbold Dorjzodov the man who exposed the 60 billion scam – an apparent plan to swap government jobs for substantial bribes.
  1621. And in Albania Elizabeth Gowing finds herself surrounded by heaps of knickers and tables that are overflowing with bras – the textile industry is booming in Shkodra.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The election was supposed to be the moment it turned a corner leaving fear behind.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The election was supposed to be the moment it turned a corner leaving fear behind. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world: </p><p>In Zimbabwe, Andrew Harding has followed the twists and turns of the past few days and reflects on the country’s struggle to shake off a repressive past.
  1622. In Colombia, Frank Gardner meets a former FARC guerrilla commander now making friends with the police and goes in search of an illicit makeshift cocaine lab hidden in the jungle.
  1623. In Holland euthanasia was legalised in 2002 but it remains controversial. While some say it should never be allowed as a means of dealing with psychiatric illness, Linda Pressly meets one bereaved mother who wants to make it easier for people to end their own lives.
  1624. In Mongolia, Roger Hearing meets Ganbold Dorjzodov the man who exposed the 60 billion scam – an apparent plan to swap government jobs for substantial bribes.
  1625. And in Albania Elizabeth Gowing finds herself surrounded by heaps of knickers and tables that are overflowing with bras – the textile industry is booming in Shkodra.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1740</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06gk56p.mp3" length="27840000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06gk56p.mp3" length="27840000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06gk56p.mp3" length="27840000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06gk5hn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06gk5hn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06gk56p.mp3" fileSize="27840000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1740"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06gk5hn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Looking Back</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Elections in Pakistan, religious divisions in the Balkans and an ode to an Ethiopian airport. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world:
  1626. Secunder Kermani looks back on the election campaign in Pakistan and assesses what it means for the country’s future.
  1627. Anna Holligan travels around Bosnia - Herzegovina and finds that while the fighting may have ended more than twenty years ago, the country is even more religiously divided than it was before the war.
  1628. Will Grant remembers a great man of Cuban radio - Raul Luis Galiano. As his family sort through the late broadcasters belonging they find a huge hoard of carefully preserved possessions – some useful, some of historical value and others surprisingly revealing.
  1629. Mary Novakovich learns that while fish stocks are falling in Venice, local fishermen have stumbled on a new catch – tourists, and now take visitors out on expeditions to give them an idea of what life is like beyond the obvious attractions.
  1630. And Horatio Clare has an apology to make; Addis Ababa Bole airport has not, as he predicted, turned out to be a huge waste of money – unnecessary and over the top. Instead, it has turned out to be a shrewd investment and a place that continues to fascinate him.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Elections in Pakistan, religious division in the Balkans &amp; an ode to an Ethiopian airport</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Elections in Pakistan, religious divisions in the Balkans and an ode to an Ethiopian airport. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world:
  1631. Secunder Kermani looks back on the election campaign in Pakistan and assesses what it means for the country’s future.
  1632. Anna Holligan travels around Bosnia - Herzegovina and finds that while the fighting may have ended more than twenty years ago, the country is even more religiously divided than it was before the war.
  1633. Will Grant remembers a great man of Cuban radio - Raul Luis Galiano. As his family sort through the late broadcasters belonging they find a huge hoard of carefully preserved possessions – some useful, some of historical value and others surprisingly revealing.
  1634. Mary Novakovich learns that while fish stocks are falling in Venice, local fishermen have stumbled on a new catch – tourists, and now take visitors out on expeditions to give them an idea of what life is like beyond the obvious attractions.
  1635. And Horatio Clare has an apology to make; Addis Ababa Bole airport has not, as he predicted, turned out to be a huge waste of money – unnecessary and over the top. Instead, it has turned out to be a shrewd investment and a place that continues to fascinate him.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1715</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06fy9ln.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06fy9ln.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06fy9ln.mp3" length="27440000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06fyb0m</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06fyb0m</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06fy9ln.mp3" fileSize="27440000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1715"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06fyb0m</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 22/07/2018</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from writers and journalists around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. </p><p>The BBC's Social Affairs Correspondent, Michael Buchanan, tells the story of a man, now in his fifties, who discovered only after the funeral of the woman he thought was his mother, that he was adopted and that his birth mother was seeking to find him. Sally Green, the children's and young adults author, explains the appeal of taking part in the weekly Warrington parkrun over 5 kilometres (three miles). Datshiane Navanayagam talks to one family about the scourge of homelessness among those in full-time work. Chris Bowlby journeys on what remains of the route of the Stockton to Darlington railway - England's first public steam-powered track - and reflects on the current state of train services in north-east England. And Mary-Ann Ochota, a keen hill-walker, travels to the Isle of Skye for her latest challenge - the ascent of the Inaccessible Pinnacle - and finds its name all too apt. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Skye's inaccessible pinnacle, Warrington's parkrun, shuddering trains and homelessness.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from writers and journalists around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. </p><p>The BBC's Social Affairs Correspondent, Michael Buchanan, tells the story of a man, now in his fifties, who discovered only after the funeral of the woman he thought was his mother, that he was adopted and that his birth mother was seeking to find him. Sally Green, the children's and young adults author, explains the appeal of taking part in the weekly Warrington parkrun over 5 kilometres (three miles). Datshiane Navanayagam talks to one family about the scourge of homelessness among those in full-time work. Chris Bowlby journeys on what remains of the route of the Stockton to Darlington railway - England's first public steam-powered track - and reflects on the current state of train services in north-east England. And Mary-Ann Ochota, a keen hill-walker, travels to the Isle of Skye for her latest challenge - the ascent of the Inaccessible Pinnacle - and finds its name all too apt. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2018 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1697</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06f93ck.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06f93ck.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06f93ck.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06f9bh1</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06f9bh1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06f93ck.mp3" fileSize="27152000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1697"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06f9bh1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Warfare - the Soundtrack of Their Lives</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Children who are able to survive the ongoing civil war have to grow up fast in Yemen. Kate Adie introduces stories, insight, and analysis from correspondents around the world:</p><p>According to The United Nations, one child under five dies every ten minutes from preventable causes in Yemen. Orla Guerin meets some of the families struggling on and speaks to the President Ab’d Rabbu Mansur Hadi about the conflict.
  1636. In South Korea, Simon Maybin attends a lesson in the etiquette of dating, kissing and respecting your partner as the country tries to turn around its declining birth rate.
  1637. In Tunisia, Charlotte Bailey hears why young men are setting themselves on fire – just as Mohamed Bouazizi did in 2010. His death was one of the catalysts of the Arab Spring.
  1638. In the USA, Christine Finn follows in the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau and explores the shores of Walden Pond.
  1639. And as Justin Rowlatt leaves India and auctions off his belongings, he learns that you can put a price on just about anything.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Children who are able to survive the ongoing civil war have to grow up fast in Yemen.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Children who are able to survive the ongoing civil war have to grow up fast in Yemen. Kate Adie introduces stories, insight, and analysis from correspondents around the world:</p><p>According to The United Nations, one child under five dies every ten minutes from preventable causes in Yemen. Orla Guerin meets some of the families struggling on and speaks to the President Ab’d Rabbu Mansur Hadi about the conflict.
  1640. In South Korea, Simon Maybin attends a lesson in the etiquette of dating, kissing and respecting your partner as the country tries to turn around its declining birth rate.
  1641. In Tunisia, Charlotte Bailey hears why young men are setting themselves on fire – just as Mohamed Bouazizi did in 2010. His death was one of the catalysts of the Arab Spring.
  1642. In the USA, Christine Finn follows in the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau and explores the shores of Walden Pond.
  1643. And as Justin Rowlatt leaves India and auctions off his belongings, he learns that you can put a price on just about anything.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1727</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06fbq5y.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06fbq5y.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06fbq5y.mp3" length="27632000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06fbq74</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06fbq74</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06fbq5y.mp3" fileSize="27632000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1727"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06fbq74</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Taking on the 'Ndrangheta Mafia</title><description><![CDATA[<p>One of the few people able to strike fear into the international organised crime syndicate. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories and insights from around the world:
  1644. In Italy, Andrew Hosken meets Nicola Gratteri the single-minded judge who has put 6,000 Mafiosi behind bars. Today, he says, the biggest threat comes from the ‘Ndrangheta in Calabria whose power spreads far beyond their native Calabria.
  1645. In Peru, Grace Livingstone meets some of the thousands of indigenous women who say they were forcibly sterilised in the 1990s as part of a government family-planning scheme.
  1646. In the Sinai desert in Egypt, Fleur MacDonald meets the monks who have become the custodians of some of the oldest surviving Christian texts.
  1647. While it was good enough for the makers of the Taj Mahal, Grace Banks hears how millennials in India show little appetite for Pietra Dura – the craft of creating images out of finely cut stone.
  1648. And in Ireland, Andy Jones attends the Killorglin Puck fair – a three-day celebration in memory of the time a goat helped save the town from would-be British invaders.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>One of the few people able to strike fear into the international organised crime syndicate</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>One of the few people able to strike fear into the international organised crime syndicate. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories and insights from around the world:
  1649. In Italy, Andrew Hosken meets Nicola Gratteri the single-minded judge who has put 6,000 Mafiosi behind bars. Today, he says, the biggest threat comes from the ‘Ndrangheta in Calabria whose power spreads far beyond their native Calabria.
  1650. In Peru, Grace Livingstone meets some of the thousands of indigenous women who say they were forcibly sterilised in the 1990s as part of a government family-planning scheme.
  1651. In the Sinai desert in Egypt, Fleur MacDonald meets the monks who have become the custodians of some of the oldest surviving Christian texts.
  1652. While it was good enough for the makers of the Taj Mahal, Grace Banks hears how millennials in India show little appetite for Pietra Dura – the craft of creating images out of finely cut stone.
  1653. And in Ireland, Andy Jones attends the Killorglin Puck fair – a three-day celebration in memory of the time a goat helped save the town from would-be British invaders.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06f50fg.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06f50fg.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06f50fg.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06f50ry</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06f50ry</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06f50fg.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06f50ry</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Change of Heart</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ever since Jacob Zuma's resignation his family has faced all sorts of legal headaches. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world:
  1654. Three years ago, Duduzane Zuma drove his Porsche into the back of a minibus taxi, killing one passenger and injuring others. At the time, a magistrate concluded that the President's son had been negligent, but the state declined to prosecute. Now it's had a change of heart. Is the past catching up on the Zumas, wonders Andrew Harding in South Africa?
  1655. Peter Morgan witnesses a pink revolution in Norway as salmon replaces cod as the catch of choice and fisherman turn to aquaculture or farming rather than going out to sea, but at what environmental cost?
  1656. In Nigeria, Zeinab Badawi meets up with people weighing up the meaning of life in Lagos' death café.
  1657. James Stewart admires the film-set, feel-good atmosphere of Seaside Florida - the town where 'The Truman Show' was filmed twenty years ago.
  1658. And Mellissa Van Der Klugt meets the men and women making cheese on the African equator. The extreme weather may not be ideal, but that's not stopped Kenyan fromagiers.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Ever since Jacob Zuma's resignation his family has faced all sorts of legal headaches.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Ever since Jacob Zuma's resignation his family has faced all sorts of legal headaches. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world:
  1659. Three years ago, Duduzane Zuma drove his Porsche into the back of a minibus taxi, killing one passenger and injuring others. At the time, a magistrate concluded that the President's son had been negligent, but the state declined to prosecute. Now it's had a change of heart. Is the past catching up on the Zumas, wonders Andrew Harding in South Africa?
  1660. Peter Morgan witnesses a pink revolution in Norway as salmon replaces cod as the catch of choice and fisherman turn to aquaculture or farming rather than going out to sea, but at what environmental cost?
  1661. In Nigeria, Zeinab Badawi meets up with people weighing up the meaning of life in Lagos' death café.
  1662. James Stewart admires the film-set, feel-good atmosphere of Seaside Florida - the town where 'The Truman Show' was filmed twenty years ago.
  1663. And Mellissa Van Der Klugt meets the men and women making cheese on the African equator. The extreme weather may not be ideal, but that's not stopped Kenyan fromagiers.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2018 10:59:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1723</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06dqyp8.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06dqyp8.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06dqyp8.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06dqz7s</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06dqz7s</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06dqyp8.mp3" fileSize="27568000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1723"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06dqz7s</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Watching the World Cup</title><description><![CDATA[<p>When football takes over from Lebanon's other national obsession: politics. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world:
  1664. Celebratory gunfire, fireworks, and moped motorcades are common sights in Lebanon usually used as shows of political power but not during the World Cup when Brazil flags replace those of Hezbollah and pictures of political leaders are replaced by Lionel Messi's image. For four week political and religious differences are put aside says Richard Hall.
  1665. Nanna Muus Steffensen crosses the Turkish border into Syria to try and find out how the people of Afrin are faring since Kurdish fighters were forced out by Turkish troops and Syrian rebels.
  1666. John Pilkington visits a country run by one of the world's most secretive and repressive regimes and is surprised by what he finds in Eritrea.
  1667. James Jeffrey tries to locate the final haunts of his literary hero J G Farrell in the west of Ireland.
  1668. And Laura Dawson hears how you can make money by spinning sob stories in rural Rajasthan. She meets an Indian man who has gone from making money from scamming tourists to using art to help others avoid lives of poverty or petty crime.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>When football takes over from Lebanon's other national obsession: politics.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>When football takes over from Lebanon's other national obsession: politics. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world:
  1669. Celebratory gunfire, fireworks, and moped motorcades are common sights in Lebanon usually used as shows of political power but not during the World Cup when Brazil flags replace those of Hezbollah and pictures of political leaders are replaced by Lionel Messi's image. For four week political and religious differences are put aside says Richard Hall.
  1670. Nanna Muus Steffensen crosses the Turkish border into Syria to try and find out how the people of Afrin are faring since Kurdish fighters were forced out by Turkish troops and Syrian rebels.
  1671. John Pilkington visits a country run by one of the world's most secretive and repressive regimes and is surprised by what he finds in Eritrea.
  1672. James Jeffrey tries to locate the final haunts of his literary hero J G Farrell in the west of Ireland.
  1673. And Laura Dawson hears how you can make money by spinning sob stories in rural Rajasthan. She meets an Indian man who has gone from making money from scamming tourists to using art to help others avoid lives of poverty or petty crime.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2018 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1716</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06djv3h.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06djv3h.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06djv3h.mp3" length="27456000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06djvpq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06djvpq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06djv3h.mp3" fileSize="27456000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1716"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06djvpq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Dictator Hunter</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The challenge of rebuilding Syria. Kate Adie introduces stories and insight from correspondents around the world:
  1674. Jeremy Bowen has just returned from Damascus and concludes that though the fighting may have stopped “the virus of war has spread - not just breaking bodies, hearts, and minds, but poisoning the future.”
  1675. Lucy Ash discovers how seaweed farming in Zanzibar has proved a liberating force for thousands of women on the island.
  1676. Helen Nianias hears about one Uganda woman’s life-changing encounter after a night out clubbing. Slightly tipsy, on her way home in the early hours of the morning, she came across a baby that had been abandoned in the street and took it home.
  1677. Ashwin Bhardwaj retraces the steps of Brigadier Edmund “Trotsky” Davies in Albania and reveals his secret mission during the Second World War.
  1678. And Heidi Fuller-Love discovers how the fallout from the Greek financial crisis is still having an impact - on animals as well as people.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The challenge of rebuilding Syria</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The challenge of rebuilding Syria. Kate Adie introduces stories and insight from correspondents around the world:
  1679. Jeremy Bowen has just returned from Damascus and concludes that though the fighting may have stopped “the virus of war has spread - not just breaking bodies, hearts, and minds, but poisoning the future.”
  1680. Lucy Ash discovers how seaweed farming in Zanzibar has proved a liberating force for thousands of women on the island.
  1681. Helen Nianias hears about one Uganda woman’s life-changing encounter after a night out clubbing. Slightly tipsy, on her way home in the early hours of the morning, she came across a baby that had been abandoned in the street and took it home.
  1682. Ashwin Bhardwaj retraces the steps of Brigadier Edmund “Trotsky” Davies in Albania and reveals his secret mission during the Second World War.
  1683. And Heidi Fuller-Love discovers how the fallout from the Greek financial crisis is still having an impact - on animals as well as people.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1717</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06d3h9n.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06d3h9n.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06d3h9n.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06d3hl7</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06d3hl7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06d3h9n.mp3" fileSize="27472000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1717"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06d3hl7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Dictator Hunter</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The man trying to bring The Gambia's former strongman leader Yahya Jammeh to justice. Kate Adie introduces stories from journalists and correspondents around the world:</p><p>His critics claim Yahya Jammeh’s 22-year rule over The Gambia was nothing more than a brutal dictatorship marred by allegations of state-sanctioned murder, torture and forced disappearances. Now the lawyer Reed Brody, known to some as ‘The Dictator Hunter’, is trying to help some of his victims seek justice.</p><p>Far to the north of Norway, Horatio Clare finds Brits, Ukrainians, Ugandans, Vietnamese, and Russians all trying to start new lives on an island that was once a bastion of Soviet idealism.</p><p>“The public are not obliged to like us, but they are obliged not to attack us” – Sophie Cousins hears how things are changing – or not – for gay people in Serbia. </p><p>In the dry, isolated heartlands of Argentina finding the right ingredients for a middle-eastern feast can be difficult, but Aude Villiers meets the Syrian refugees settling in San Luis.  
  1684. And Rob Crossan takes a tour of the proud but small country that claims to be the world’s oldest constitutional republic – San Marino.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The man trying to bring The Gambia's former strongman leader Yahya Jammeh to justice.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The man trying to bring The Gambia's former strongman leader Yahya Jammeh to justice. Kate Adie introduces stories from journalists and correspondents around the world:</p><p>His critics claim Yahya Jammeh’s 22-year rule over The Gambia was nothing more than a brutal dictatorship marred by allegations of state-sanctioned murder, torture and forced disappearances. Now the lawyer Reed Brody, known to some as ‘The Dictator Hunter’, is trying to help some of his victims seek justice.</p><p>Far to the north of Norway, Horatio Clare finds Brits, Ukrainians, Ugandans, Vietnamese, and Russians all trying to start new lives on an island that was once a bastion of Soviet idealism.</p><p>“The public are not obliged to like us, but they are obliged not to attack us” – Sophie Cousins hears how things are changing – or not – for gay people in Serbia. </p><p>In the dry, isolated heartlands of Argentina finding the right ingredients for a middle-eastern feast can be difficult, but Aude Villiers meets the Syrian refugees settling in San Luis.  
  1685. And Rob Crossan takes a tour of the proud but small country that claims to be the world’s oldest constitutional republic – San Marino.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2018 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06cxglh.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06cxglh.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06cxglh.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06cxh4c</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06cxh4c</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06cxglh.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06cxh4c</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>What Hope?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>What hope is there amidst rising violence in Mexico and Afghanistan's 'forever war'? Kate Adie introduces stories and insight form correspondents around the world:
  1686. The rich and poor in Mexico City may live in seemingly different worlds, but they are united by a fear of violence ahead of local and national elections.
  1687. Could the prospect of peace talks in Afghanistan lead to the end of forty years of war? Lyse Doucet finds a tiny ray of hope.
  1688. When Jenny Hill first met Syrian refugee Eli at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, he seemed as thrilled to be in Abensberg as the German town was to have him. But a lot has changed since then…
  1689. Niall O’Gallagher’s search for the plotters behind the clandestine operation in which volunteers smuggled ballot boxes into Catalonia for its disputed referendum leads him to an unlikely location.
  1690. And Benjamin Zand manages to secure an interview with one of Venezuela’s notorious kidnap gangs – only to be accused of being an undercover policeman.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>What hope is there amidst rising violence in Mexico and Afghanistan's 'forever war'?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>What hope is there amidst rising violence in Mexico and Afghanistan's 'forever war'? Kate Adie introduces stories and insight form correspondents around the world:
  1691. The rich and poor in Mexico City may live in seemingly different worlds, but they are united by a fear of violence ahead of local and national elections.
  1692. Could the prospect of peace talks in Afghanistan lead to the end of forty years of war? Lyse Doucet finds a tiny ray of hope.
  1693. When Jenny Hill first met Syrian refugee Eli at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, he seemed as thrilled to be in Abensberg as the German town was to have him. But a lot has changed since then…
  1694. Niall O’Gallagher’s search for the plotters behind the clandestine operation in which volunteers smuggled ballot boxes into Catalonia for its disputed referendum leads him to an unlikely location.
  1695. And Benjamin Zand manages to secure an interview with one of Venezuela’s notorious kidnap gangs – only to be accused of being an undercover policeman.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1708</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06chlhj.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06chlhj.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06chlhj.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06chm0v</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06chm0v</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06chlhj.mp3" fileSize="27328000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1708"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06chm0v</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Hidden Conflict</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A civil war is brewing in Cameroon, but it rarely makes the headlines. Kate Adie introduces stories and insight from correspondents around the world:
  1696. In Nigeria, Stephanie Hegarty travels to its border with Cameroon which tens of thousands of people have crossed fleeing violent unrest in the République's Anglophone region.
  1697. Tim Hartley listens to the fears of indigenous people in Cordillera in the Philippines - of big business encroaching on their way of life and of state sanctioned harassment.
  1698. Jonathan Fryer attends a Candomblé initiation ceremony and hears how the Afro-Brazilian religion is becoming increasingly popular as economic problems persist in Brazil.
  1699. Cindy Sui reveals how easy it is for big businesses to be unwittingly drawn into arguments about China's territorial claim on Taiwan - even for companies based in mainland China.
  1700. And how about a game of three-sided football? David Taylor takes part in the other major international football tournament taking place this summer, in Spain.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A civil war is brewing in Cameroon, but it rarely makes the headlines.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A civil war is brewing in Cameroon, but it rarely makes the headlines. Kate Adie introduces stories and insight from correspondents around the world:
  1701. In Nigeria, Stephanie Hegarty travels to its border with Cameroon which tens of thousands of people have crossed fleeing violent unrest in the République's Anglophone region.
  1702. Tim Hartley listens to the fears of indigenous people in Cordillera in the Philippines - of big business encroaching on their way of life and of state sanctioned harassment.
  1703. Jonathan Fryer attends a Candomblé initiation ceremony and hears how the Afro-Brazilian religion is becoming increasingly popular as economic problems persist in Brazil.
  1704. Cindy Sui reveals how easy it is for big businesses to be unwittingly drawn into arguments about China's territorial claim on Taiwan - even for companies based in mainland China.
  1705. And how about a game of three-sided football? David Taylor takes part in the other major international football tournament taking place this summer, in Spain.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1725</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06c943m.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06c943m.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06c943m.mp3" length="27600000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06c94jz</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06c94jz</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06c943m.mp3" fileSize="27600000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1725"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06c94jz</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Playing To The Crowd</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Turkey's presidential hopefuls, provocative Italian ministers, and masked Mexican wrestlers. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world:
  1706. “He’s drawn vast crowds to his rallies, appearing at times like a comedy performer, breaking into traditional dances and using props to satirise Recep Tayyip Erdogan” Mark Lowen is on the trail of Muharrem Ince who wants to be the next President of Turkey.
  1707. John Sweeney is in Calabria investigating the growing influence of Matteo Salvini - the populist Italian minister who has become a hero of the hard right and an enemy of the liberal left.
  1708. Harriet Constable visits a project in South Africa which is helping women to reveal painful secrets they have kept for years and tell their children that they are HIV positive.
  1709. In Kazakhstan, Stephen Sackur hears about big plans for its capital – casinos to rival Las Vegas and a financial centre to challenge Singapore - but what will happen when its long-serving present finally steps down?
  1710. And in Mexico Sara Wheeler watches masked men fight while a crowd munches popcorn – she spends an evening at the Lucha Libre.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Turkey's presidential hopefuls, provocative Italian ministers &amp; masked Mexican wrestlers.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Turkey's presidential hopefuls, provocative Italian ministers, and masked Mexican wrestlers. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world:
  1711. “He’s drawn vast crowds to his rallies, appearing at times like a comedy performer, breaking into traditional dances and using props to satirise Recep Tayyip Erdogan” Mark Lowen is on the trail of Muharrem Ince who wants to be the next President of Turkey.
  1712. John Sweeney is in Calabria investigating the growing influence of Matteo Salvini - the populist Italian minister who has become a hero of the hard right and an enemy of the liberal left.
  1713. Harriet Constable visits a project in South Africa which is helping women to reveal painful secrets they have kept for years and tell their children that they are HIV positive.
  1714. In Kazakhstan, Stephen Sackur hears about big plans for its capital – casinos to rival Las Vegas and a financial centre to challenge Singapore - but what will happen when its long-serving present finally steps down?
  1715. And in Mexico Sara Wheeler watches masked men fight while a crowd munches popcorn – she spends an evening at the Lucha Libre.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1744</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06bx15c.mp3" length="27904000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06bx15c.mp3" length="27904000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06bx15c.mp3" length="27904000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06bx1p2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06bx1p2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06bx15c.mp3" fileSize="27904000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1744"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06bx1p2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A New Front In The Fight Against Terror</title><description><![CDATA[<p>An expanding international force is fighting Islamist extremists on the edge of the Sahara. Kate Adie introduces stories and insight from correspondents around the world:
  1716. Alastair Leithead is in the Sahel - the vast, often lawless, stretch of land that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and is filling up with radical extremist groups linked to Al-Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State.
  1717. As the Brexit negotiations enter their second year, Adam Fleming reveals why covering the talks has been a bit like reliving his university days - from freshers' week to regular exams.
  1718. Hannah McNeish is with fisherman turned coral farmers in Kenya as they show off their latest crop.
  1719. Isambard Wilkinson visits the family home of one of Pakistan’s most revered hereditary holy men - Pir Pagara, “the Turbaned Saint.”
  1720. And Katy Fallon spends a night in a cell in the Netherlands - in a former prison which has been turned into a hotel run by refugees.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>An expanding international force is fighting Islamist extremists in the Sahara</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>An expanding international force is fighting Islamist extremists on the edge of the Sahara. Kate Adie introduces stories and insight from correspondents around the world:
  1721. Alastair Leithead is in the Sahel - the vast, often lawless, stretch of land that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and is filling up with radical extremist groups linked to Al-Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State.
  1722. As the Brexit negotiations enter their second year, Adam Fleming reveals why covering the talks has been a bit like reliving his university days - from freshers' week to regular exams.
  1723. Hannah McNeish is with fisherman turned coral farmers in Kenya as they show off their latest crop.
  1724. Isambard Wilkinson visits the family home of one of Pakistan’s most revered hereditary holy men - Pir Pagara, “the Turbaned Saint.”
  1725. And Katy Fallon spends a night in a cell in the Netherlands - in a former prison which has been turned into a hotel run by refugees.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:47:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1729</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06bpxhl.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06bpxhl.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06bpxhl.mp3" length="27664000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06bpxy6</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06bpxy6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06bpxhl.mp3" fileSize="27664000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1729"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06bpxy6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 17/06/2018</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. </p><p>Petroc Trelawny celebrates the glittering world of Dingles, a Plymouth department store which weathered two firestorms and introduced him to glamour, magic and red gingham - but tellingly has now been humbled by the mundane; Alison Holt reflects on a thought-provoking conversation with an older woman in a Dorset care home about the growing financial pressures she and the home itself are facing, while Gareth Jones ponders the links between the NHS and the town of Tredegar - whose MP set up the service 70 years ago but who today might wonder at what he found there; Charmaine Cozier dons her best I-don't-care-look and reveals the pleasures of going to gigs alone; and Andrew Green, who is himself a villager in the Chilterns, wonders what the often tense relations between weekend cyclists and locals on country lanes tell us about life today on the open road.</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Going to gigs solo; when cyclists come to your village; and Tredegarisation of the NHS.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. </p><p>Petroc Trelawny celebrates the glittering world of Dingles, a Plymouth department store which weathered two firestorms and introduced him to glamour, magic and red gingham - but tellingly has now been humbled by the mundane; Alison Holt reflects on a thought-provoking conversation with an older woman in a Dorset care home about the growing financial pressures she and the home itself are facing, while Gareth Jones ponders the links between the NHS and the town of Tredegar - whose MP set up the service 70 years ago but who today might wonder at what he found there; Charmaine Cozier dons her best I-don't-care-look and reveals the pleasures of going to gigs alone; and Andrew Green, who is himself a villager in the Chilterns, wonders what the often tense relations between weekend cyclists and locals on country lanes tell us about life today on the open road.</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2018 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1681</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06b6rvt.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06b6rvt.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06b6rvt.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06b6sv2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06b6sv2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06b6rvt.mp3" fileSize="26896000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1681"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06b6sv2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Open For Business</title><description><![CDATA[<p>All manner of visitors are seeking an audience with the powerful in Zimbabwe these days. Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Fergal Keane was once blacklisted in Zimbabwe, and resorted to undercover reporting, but now the country is “open for business” he hears, as he is welcomed into the President’s office - ahead of politicians, would-be investors, and even a former leading light in the opposition.
  1726. Linda Pressly speaks to one of the survivors of a fire that killed 41 teenagers in a state-run children’s home. She is an orphan, the daughter of a drug dealer and a sex worker, but has big plans for herself and her brother.
  1727. Kirsty Lang meets a woman from New Zealand who arrived in Petra as a backpacker 40 years ago and has been there ever since. But why are some women being warned about the dangers of ‘Jack Sparrows’ in the ancient Jordanian city?
  1728. Laurence Blair is on manoeuvers with naval officers from Bolivia – the landlocked nation that is hoping the International Court of Justice will force its neighbour, Chile, to give up some of its coastline.
  1729. And, as he prepares to leave India, Justin Rowlatt reflects on his three and half years in South Asia – and finds time to savour one last street shave</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>All manner of visitors are seeking an audience with the powerful in Zimbabwe these days.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>All manner of visitors are seeking an audience with the powerful in Zimbabwe these days. Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Fergal Keane was once blacklisted in Zimbabwe, and resorted to undercover reporting, but now the country is “open for business” he hears, as he is welcomed into the President’s office - ahead of politicians, would-be investors, and even a former leading light in the opposition.
  1730. Linda Pressly speaks to one of the survivors of a fire that killed 41 teenagers in a state-run children’s home. She is an orphan, the daughter of a drug dealer and a sex worker, but has big plans for herself and her brother.
  1731. Kirsty Lang meets a woman from New Zealand who arrived in Petra as a backpacker 40 years ago and has been there ever since. But why are some women being warned about the dangers of ‘Jack Sparrows’ in the ancient Jordanian city?
  1732. Laurence Blair is on manoeuvers with naval officers from Bolivia – the landlocked nation that is hoping the International Court of Justice will force its neighbour, Chile, to give up some of its coastline.
  1733. And, as he prepares to leave India, Justin Rowlatt reflects on his three and half years in South Asia – and finds time to savour one last street shave</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1720</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06b8gzr.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06b8gzr.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06b8gzr.mp3" length="27520000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06b8h8b</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06b8h8b</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06b8gzr.mp3" fileSize="27520000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1720"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06b8h8b</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Water Wars</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Parts of India are facing acute water shortages and the consequences can be deadly. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world:
  1734. The scramble for water in the slums of New Delhi can mean waiting in line each day for hours to fill up from government tankers – as well as occasional violent disputes.
  1735. “Say no to a Chinese government” and “We are Chinese” – at two different presidential rallies earlier this year Olivia Acland heard very different reactions to China’s growing influence in Sierra Leone.
  1736. Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al-Said ended the isolationism that characterised his father’s rule and has cultivated new relationships with the Oman’s neighbours as well as Britain and the US. During his rule the capital Muscat has also been transformed into a glisteningly modern city, says Caroline Davies, and more change could soon be coming.
  1737. Ibrat Safo returns to his native Uzbekistan to find that the family reunions he enjoyed as a child are no longer possible – the Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan border now divides his relatives.
  1738. And Nick Thorpe takes a luxurious train journey across the Balkans and into the region's history.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Parts of India are facing acute water shortages and the consequences can be deadly.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Parts of India are facing acute water shortages and the consequences can be deadly. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world:
  1739. The scramble for water in the slums of New Delhi can mean waiting in line each day for hours to fill up from government tankers – as well as occasional violent disputes.
  1740. “Say no to a Chinese government” and “We are Chinese” – at two different presidential rallies earlier this year Olivia Acland heard very different reactions to China’s growing influence in Sierra Leone.
  1741. Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al-Said ended the isolationism that characterised his father’s rule and has cultivated new relationships with the Oman’s neighbours as well as Britain and the US. During his rule the capital Muscat has also been transformed into a glisteningly modern city, says Caroline Davies, and more change could soon be coming.
  1742. Ibrat Safo returns to his native Uzbekistan to find that the family reunions he enjoyed as a child are no longer possible – the Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan border now divides his relatives.
  1743. And Nick Thorpe takes a luxurious train journey across the Balkans and into the region's history.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1742</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06b1hlz.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06b1hlz.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p06b1hlz.mp3" length="27872000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p06b1hn3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06b1hn3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p06b1hlz.mp3" fileSize="27872000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1742"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p06b1hn3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Taste Of Climate Change</title><description><![CDATA[<p>They say climate change has a taste in Bangladesh - it tastes of salt. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world:
  1744. Peter Oborne has been to Bangladesh, home to some of the world’s first climate change refugees.; cyclones are common, crops are being ruined and fresh water is becoming harder to find for some.
  1745. Yolande Knell examines the unexpected consequences of the Gulf blockade of Qatar, a year since it began.
  1746. Masuma Ahuja visits a mandatory pre-departure training centre for domestic workers in Sri Lanka. Cleaning, personal hygiene, and basic Arabic are all on the curriculum for the women who will soon be working as housemaids in the Middle East.
  1747. John Murphy meets an aspiring ‘idol’ in Seoul – one of the thousands of young women hoping to make it as a K-Pop star.
  1748. And Kieran Cooke discovers how some of the great German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s last works ended up in a chicken-coup in the west of Ireland.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>They say climate change has a taste in Bangladesh - it tastes of salt.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>They say climate change has a taste in Bangladesh - it tastes of salt. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world:
  1749. Peter Oborne has been to Bangladesh, home to some of the world’s first climate change refugees.; cyclones are common, crops are being ruined and fresh water is becoming harder to find for some.
  1750. Yolande Knell examines the unexpected consequences of the Gulf blockade of Qatar, a year since it began.
  1751. Masuma Ahuja visits a mandatory pre-departure training centre for domestic workers in Sri Lanka. Cleaning, personal hygiene, and basic Arabic are all on the curriculum for the women who will soon be working as housemaids in the Middle East.
  1752. John Murphy meets an aspiring ‘idol’ in Seoul – one of the thousands of young women hoping to make it as a K-Pop star.
  1753. And Kieran Cooke discovers how some of the great German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s last works ended up in a chicken-coup in the west of Ireland.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1723</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p069l86l.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p069l86l.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p069l86l.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p069l8by</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p069l8by</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p069l86l.mp3" fileSize="27568000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1723"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p069l8by</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>When Survival Trumps Justice</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Justice can be elusive for the young domestic servants abused and mistreated in Pakistan. Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world:
  1754. Secunder Kermani investigates what he describes as the "mess of allegations" surrounding the death of a 16-year-old domestic servant in Pakistan, and learns that for some people money and survival can be more important than justice.
  1755. Amy Guttman explores the ironies that pervade one of the most heavily guarded borders in the world - the Demilitarised Zone between North and South Korea.
  1756. Athar Ahmad finds out what’s it like to observe one of the longest daily Ramadan fasts. Early sunrises and late summer sunsets, mean more than twenty hours a day without food or water. In Iceland.
  1757. Chloe Farand attends a cross-border meeting of indigenous people from Brazil, French Guinea, and Suriname as they unite in opposition to a controversial new gold mine.
  1758. And, Caroline Eden visits the ‘Museum of Soviet Lifestyle’ in Kazan; the Russian city will soon be welcoming World Cup fans, but she found memorabilia from the 1980 Summer Olympics still on display.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Justice can be elusive for the young domestic servants abused and mistreated in Pakistan.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Justice can be elusive for the young domestic servants abused and mistreated in Pakistan. Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world:
  1759. Secunder Kermani investigates what he describes as the "mess of allegations" surrounding the death of a 16-year-old domestic servant in Pakistan, and learns that for some people money and survival can be more important than justice.
  1760. Amy Guttman explores the ironies that pervade one of the most heavily guarded borders in the world - the Demilitarised Zone between North and South Korea.
  1761. Athar Ahmad finds out what’s it like to observe one of the longest daily Ramadan fasts. Early sunrises and late summer sunsets, mean more than twenty hours a day without food or water. In Iceland.
  1762. Chloe Farand attends a cross-border meeting of indigenous people from Brazil, French Guinea, and Suriname as they unite in opposition to a controversial new gold mine.
  1763. And, Caroline Eden visits the ‘Museum of Soviet Lifestyle’ in Kazan; the Russian city will soon be welcoming World Cup fans, but she found memorabilia from the 1980 Summer Olympics still on display.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2018 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1702</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p069cvj6.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p069cvj6.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p069cvj6.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p069cvqx</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p069cvqx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p069cvj6.mp3" fileSize="27232000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1702"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p069cvqx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Cloaked in Mystery</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Making sense of Italian politics, faking the news, and wedding suit shopping in Pakistan. Kate Adie presents correspondents' stories from around the world:
  1764. James Reynolds looks back on an eventful few months in Italy, and at what filled the gap between elections in March and a new government taking office in June.
  1765. Emily Webb meets a man accused of being a witch in Papua New Guinea. He says he was almost beaten to death by his own family and now lives in a refuge alongside others who've been branded sorcerers and driven from their land.
  1766. In preparation for his wedding, Mobeen Azhar finds himself in the sprawling concrete and iron beast that is Zainab market in Karachi.  A grimy and sweaty place, he says, that's considered 'too local' for some locals in Pakistan.
  1767. Sophia Smith Galer meets the male Baladi (or belly) dancer challenging gender stereotypes in Lebanon.
  1768. And the staged 'murder' of Arcady Babchenko has got Kevin Connolly thinking about fakes, forgeries and the murky world of international espionage.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Making sense of Italian politics, faking the news, and wedding suit shopping in Pakistan.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Making sense of Italian politics, faking the news, and wedding suit shopping in Pakistan. Kate Adie presents correspondents' stories from around the world:
  1769. James Reynolds looks back on an eventful few months in Italy, and at what filled the gap between elections in March and a new government taking office in June.
  1770. Emily Webb meets a man accused of being a witch in Papua New Guinea. He says he was almost beaten to death by his own family and now lives in a refuge alongside others who've been branded sorcerers and driven from their land.
  1771. In preparation for his wedding, Mobeen Azhar finds himself in the sprawling concrete and iron beast that is Zainab market in Karachi.  A grimy and sweaty place, he says, that's considered 'too local' for some locals in Pakistan.
  1772. Sophia Smith Galer meets the male Baladi (or belly) dancer challenging gender stereotypes in Lebanon.
  1773. And the staged 'murder' of Arcady Babchenko has got Kevin Connolly thinking about fakes, forgeries and the murky world of international espionage.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1707</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p068xlc7.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p068xlc7.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p068xlc7.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p068xlqj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p068xlqj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p068xlc7.mp3" fileSize="27312000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1707"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p068xlqj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Presidential Promises</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Will Grant attends a campaign rally in Mexico to hear presidential hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador promise a new investigation into the kidnapping of 43 students from Iguala in 2014: ‘They took them away alive, we want them back alive” their families demand.
  1774. Kim Chakanetsa is in Zimbabwe six months after Robert Mugabe was replaced by his former ally Emmerson Mnangagwa. Does the new President have a plan?
  1775. Howard Johnson meets Manny Pacquiao - a boxer, basketball coach, singer, actor, entrepreneur, church pastor and politician who some talk of as a possible future leader of the Philippines.
  1776. Robin Denselow is at a music festival on the West Bank designed to amplify the voices of those that live there and give the Palestinian music scene a boost.
  1777. And Chris Bockman has the tale of the punk rocker turned bank robber who's returned to France after decades on the run and, apparently, come back from for the dead.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>On the campaign trail in Mexico, and Zimbabwe without Mugabe - what's changed?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Will Grant attends a campaign rally in Mexico to hear presidential hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador promise a new investigation into the kidnapping of 43 students from Iguala in 2014: ‘They took them away alive, we want them back alive” their families demand.
  1778. Kim Chakanetsa is in Zimbabwe six months after Robert Mugabe was replaced by his former ally Emmerson Mnangagwa. Does the new President have a plan?
  1779. Howard Johnson meets Manny Pacquiao - a boxer, basketball coach, singer, actor, entrepreneur, church pastor and politician who some talk of as a possible future leader of the Philippines.
  1780. Robin Denselow is at a music festival on the West Bank designed to amplify the voices of those that live there and give the Palestinian music scene a boost.
  1781. And Chris Bockman has the tale of the punk rocker turned bank robber who's returned to France after decades on the run and, apparently, come back from for the dead.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1708</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p068xlkd.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p068xlkd.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p068xlkd.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p068xlry</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p068xlry</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p068xlkd.mp3" fileSize="27328000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1708"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p068xlry</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Boarding School For Boko Haram?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Why some schools are sending their students out to beg in northern Nigeria. Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Colin Freeman hears how students at some madrassas in Maiduguri are vulnerable to jihadi recruiters for Boko Haram, and he learns why going out to beg is part of the school timetable.
  1782. No one is suffering - one senior government figure in Venezuela tells Katy Watson; despite the country's continuing economic collapse, the people going hungry and the shortage of essential medicines.
  1783. Tim Luard finds that China's influence in Sri Lanka is growing, meaning locals now find some places are out of bounds.
  1784. In India, Melissa Van Der Klugt meets the craftsmen of Mandvi who are keeping alive the 400-year old skill of making wooden boats by hand.
  1785. And in the Portuguese capital, Paddy O'Connell finds Lisboners sit in a nutcracker caught between short-term holidaymakers and digital nomads - but is Paddy part of the problem?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Why some schools are sending their students out to beg in northern Nigeria.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Why some schools are sending their students out to beg in northern Nigeria. Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Colin Freeman hears how students at some madrassas in Maiduguri are vulnerable to jihadi recruiters for Boko Haram, and he learns why going out to beg is part of the school timetable.
  1786. No one is suffering - one senior government figure in Venezuela tells Katy Watson; despite the country's continuing economic collapse, the people going hungry and the shortage of essential medicines.
  1787. Tim Luard finds that China's influence in Sri Lanka is growing, meaning locals now find some places are out of bounds.
  1788. In India, Melissa Van Der Klugt meets the craftsmen of Mandvi who are keeping alive the 400-year old skill of making wooden boats by hand.
  1789. And in the Portuguese capital, Paddy O'Connell finds Lisboners sit in a nutcracker caught between short-term holidaymakers and digital nomads - but is Paddy part of the problem?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0689nnt.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0689nnt.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0689nnt.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0689p6h</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0689p6h</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0689nnt.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0689p6h</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Malaysia’s Political Drama</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A whirlwind of shifting loyalties, rotating characters, and plot twist after plot twist. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world:</p><p>Jonathan Head finds himself thinking of Shakespeare as he tries to make sense of recent events in Malaysia.
  1790. Jo Glanville is in Berlin as some of those driven from the city by the Nazi regime return to their old homes to teach young Berliners about this dark chapter in the city's history.
  1791. Edmund Bower reflects on how a Premier League footballer has restored a sense of national pride for some Egyptians. Mo Salah has become known as “The Egyptian King of England. ”
  1792. As hurricane season is approaches once again, Rossalyn Warren hears how some Puerto Ricans are still struggling to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Maria which tore through the island eight months ago,
  1793. And Simon Busch indulges in a bit of ironic retro nostalgia as Soviet era fashion is making a comeback - think stripy high-waited sports shorts, lurid checks and string vests.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A whirlwind of shifting loyalties, rotating characters, and plot twist after plot twist.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A whirlwind of shifting loyalties, rotating characters, and plot twist after plot twist. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world:</p><p>Jonathan Head finds himself thinking of Shakespeare as he tries to make sense of recent events in Malaysia.
  1794. Jo Glanville is in Berlin as some of those driven from the city by the Nazi regime return to their old homes to teach young Berliners about this dark chapter in the city's history.
  1795. Edmund Bower reflects on how a Premier League footballer has restored a sense of national pride for some Egyptians. Mo Salah has become known as “The Egyptian King of England. ”
  1796. As hurricane season is approaches once again, Rossalyn Warren hears how some Puerto Ricans are still struggling to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Maria which tore through the island eight months ago,
  1797. And Simon Busch indulges in a bit of ironic retro nostalgia as Soviet era fashion is making a comeback - think stripy high-waited sports shorts, lurid checks and string vests.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2018 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0682r91.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0682r91.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0682r91.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0682rv4</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0682rv4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0682r91.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0682rv4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 20/05/2018</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. </p><p>Gabriel Gatehouse reflects on the lot of the reluctant courting correspondent come a royal wedding; Sarah Smith considers where the latest vote on Brexit at Holyrood leaves the Scottish First Minister as she weighs her options on advancing the SNP's principal objective; Martin Bashir assesses the Archbishop of Canterbury's lonely repentance at the Independent Inquiry into Child Abuse; Caitlin Sneddon visits an isle made famous by a girl's adventures which is now bereft of high school-age children; and Martin Vennard considers what connects a Redcar cinema and a petrified forest.</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The cinema-by-the sea, an archbishop's repentance and a critical moment for Scotland.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. </p><p>Gabriel Gatehouse reflects on the lot of the reluctant courting correspondent come a royal wedding; Sarah Smith considers where the latest vote on Brexit at Holyrood leaves the Scottish First Minister as she weighs her options on advancing the SNP's principal objective; Martin Bashir assesses the Archbishop of Canterbury's lonely repentance at the Independent Inquiry into Child Abuse; Caitlin Sneddon visits an isle made famous by a girl's adventures which is now bereft of high school-age children; and Martin Vennard considers what connects a Redcar cinema and a petrified forest.</p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2018 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1671</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p067kjr1.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p067kjr1.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p067kjr1.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p067kkn6</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p067kkn6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p067kjr1.mp3" fileSize="26736000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1671"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p067kkn6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Toothpaste, Mud Bricks and Sparkling Wine</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories and insight from Iraq, Iran, Israel, Ireland and Spain:
  1798. Jeremy Bowen is in Mosul for the first elections there since the defeat of Islamic State. An exceptional leader is needed to help Iraq recover, he says, though he isn’t hopeful that one will emerge.
  1799. Rana Rahimpour explores what the US’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal might mean for the people of Iran - including their taste for toothpaste.
  1800. Simon Maybin visits a Bible camp where one Jewish Ethiopian student is testing Israel’s approach to citizenship.
  1801. Vincent Woods attempts to unravel the knots of politics, religion, and morality that lie behind Ireland’s upcoming referendum on changes to its abortion laws.
  1802. And John Murphy meets the independent winemakers of Catalonia trying to escape Cava’s image problem and low prices.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie introduces stories and insight from Iraq, Iran, Israel, Ireland and Spain.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories and insight from Iraq, Iran, Israel, Ireland and Spain:
  1803. Jeremy Bowen is in Mosul for the first elections there since the defeat of Islamic State. An exceptional leader is needed to help Iraq recover, he says, though he isn’t hopeful that one will emerge.
  1804. Rana Rahimpour explores what the US’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal might mean for the people of Iran - including their taste for toothpaste.
  1805. Simon Maybin visits a Bible camp where one Jewish Ethiopian student is testing Israel’s approach to citizenship.
  1806. Vincent Woods attempts to unravel the knots of politics, religion, and morality that lie behind Ireland’s upcoming referendum on changes to its abortion laws.
  1807. And John Murphy meets the independent winemakers of Catalonia trying to escape Cava’s image problem and low prices.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1692</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p066z24l.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p066z24l.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p066z24l.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p066z29r</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p066z29r</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p066z24l.mp3" fileSize="27072000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1692"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p066z29r</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Not Welcome Here</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Tales of revolutions, rainforests and the migrants returning home from Libya. Kate Adie introduces stories and insight from correspondents around the world:
  1808. In Nigeria, Colin Freeman meets some of the migrants who have given up on their European dreams and accepted the UN’s help to return home. </p><p>The ‘Velvet Revolution’ in Armenia saw its prime minister (and former president) relinquish power – all without a shot being fired. Rayhan Demytrie was in the capital Yerevan as tens of thousands of people took to the streets demanding change. </p><p>“Scum of the earth” is how one Goan politician described visitors from other parts of India, prompting Sushma Puri to try and find out what other residents of the southern Indian state think about domestic tourists. </p><p>The usual rule of thumb in rainforests is that you hear lots and see little, says Huw Cordey, but things were different in Suriname thanks to his guide Fred Pansa, who might just become the most famous South American conservationist from a country few have heard of. </p><p>And in France, Hugh Schofield stumbles across the grave, and the story, of the once-celebrated, and now largely forgotten English war poet Richard Aldington.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Tales of revolutions, rainforests and the migrants returning home from Libya.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Tales of revolutions, rainforests and the migrants returning home from Libya. Kate Adie introduces stories and insight from correspondents around the world:
  1809. In Nigeria, Colin Freeman meets some of the migrants who have given up on their European dreams and accepted the UN’s help to return home. </p><p>The ‘Velvet Revolution’ in Armenia saw its prime minister (and former president) relinquish power – all without a shot being fired. Rayhan Demytrie was in the capital Yerevan as tens of thousands of people took to the streets demanding change. </p><p>“Scum of the earth” is how one Goan politician described visitors from other parts of India, prompting Sushma Puri to try and find out what other residents of the southern Indian state think about domestic tourists. </p><p>The usual rule of thumb in rainforests is that you hear lots and see little, says Huw Cordey, but things were different in Suriname thanks to his guide Fred Pansa, who might just become the most famous South American conservationist from a country few have heard of. </p><p>And in France, Hugh Schofield stumbles across the grave, and the story, of the once-celebrated, and now largely forgotten English war poet Richard Aldington.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p066b472.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p066b472.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p066b472.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p066b4cx</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p066b4cx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p066b472.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p066b4cx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>40 Years Of War</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Amidst the violence, there are signs of a small but growing peace movement in Afghanistan. Kate Adie introduces stories and insight from correspondent around the world:
  1810. "This has again become, largely, an Afghan war," says Kate Clark in Kabul, " it is now overwhelmingly Afghans killing Afghans," but she has also noticed growing public exasperation at the conflict.
  1811. Diana Darke joined the British peers and priests recently granted access to Syria by the government, but as an Arabic speaker, who knows the country well, she was able to look beyond the official narrative and what her guides wanted her to see.
  1812. In a refugee camp in Bangladesh, home to some of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people who have fled violence in Myanmar, Aisha Gani stumbled across an unlikely scene. As they prepare their makeshift homes for the monsoon season, young men still find time to party.
  1813. Kevin Connolly has been rummaging through his attic and wondering what the changing design of matrioshka, or Russian, dolls reveal about Russia today.
  1814. And Sophie Raworth explains what it’s like to run 150 miles through sand dunes and over rocky cliffs in the Moroccan desert - carrying everything you need to survive for six days.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Amidst the violence, there are signs of a small but growing peace movement in Afghanistan</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Amidst the violence, there are signs of a small but growing peace movement in Afghanistan. Kate Adie introduces stories and insight from correspondent around the world:
  1815. "This has again become, largely, an Afghan war," says Kate Clark in Kabul, " it is now overwhelmingly Afghans killing Afghans," but she has also noticed growing public exasperation at the conflict.
  1816. Diana Darke joined the British peers and priests recently granted access to Syria by the government, but as an Arabic speaker, who knows the country well, she was able to look beyond the official narrative and what her guides wanted her to see.
  1817. In a refugee camp in Bangladesh, home to some of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people who have fled violence in Myanmar, Aisha Gani stumbled across an unlikely scene. As they prepare their makeshift homes for the monsoon season, young men still find time to party.
  1818. Kevin Connolly has been rummaging through his attic and wondering what the changing design of matrioshka, or Russian, dolls reveal about Russia today.
  1819. And Sophie Raworth explains what it’s like to run 150 miles through sand dunes and over rocky cliffs in the Moroccan desert - carrying everything you need to survive for six days.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p065ljrn.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p065ljrn.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p065ljrn.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p065lk3c</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p065lk3c</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p065ljrn.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p065lk3c</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 22/04/2018</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers that reflect the range of contemporary life across the country. Andy Kershaw visits the most cluttered workbench he's ever seen to discover how restoration work is going on a monument to British endeavour in speed on water; Jane Labous samples libraries in two counties to assess exactly what they have to offer; Adrian Goldberg indulges his sweet tooth among the burgeoning dessert shops of Birmingham; Ruth Alexander discovers how the town that's trying to turn itself around - literally - is faring; and Travis Elborough discovers perestroika among sixty thousand tulips on the South Downs. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Dessert shops, restoring a speed icon, a tulip festival, libraries and a turn-round town.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers that reflect the range of contemporary life across the country. Andy Kershaw visits the most cluttered workbench he's ever seen to discover how restoration work is going on a monument to British endeavour in speed on water; Jane Labous samples libraries in two counties to assess exactly what they have to offer; Adrian Goldberg indulges his sweet tooth among the burgeoning dessert shops of Birmingham; Ruth Alexander discovers how the town that's trying to turn itself around - literally - is faring; and Travis Elborough discovers perestroika among sixty thousand tulips on the South Downs. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2018 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1691</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0659yq6.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0659yq6.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0659yq6.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p064y241</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p064y241</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0659yq6.mp3" fileSize="27056000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1691"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p064y241</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Life On Hold</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Chechnya's bucolic beauty, touching hospitality and jihadi brides now lost in Iraq. Caroline Wyatt introduces correspondents' tales from around the world:</p><p>Chechnya's bucolic beauty, touching hospitality and jihadi brides now lost in Iraq. Caroline Wyatt introduces correspondents' tales from around the world.
  1820. In the foothills of the Caucasus mountains, Tim Whewell meets a woman whose life has been on agonising, soul-destroying hold ever since her daughter left to join Islamic State.
  1821. Nick Beake wonders whether freedom of the press is on trial in Myanmar as he crams into a Yangon courtroom where two journalists are in the dock accused of receiving classified documents as part of their investigations into the massacre of Rohingya people.
  1822. Nicola Kelly is in Tindouf, in Algeria, with Saharawi families who still dream of returning to their homes in Western Sahara which they were driven from by Moroccan troops in 1975.
  1823. Laurence Blair finds that ghosts of its long dictatorship are haunting Paraguay as it prepares to elect a new president this weekend.
  1824. And Elizabeth Gowing hears how Serbian vineyards once came to the rescue of thirsty Europeans elsewhere on the continent</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Chechnya's bucolic beauty, touching hospitality and jihadi brides now lost in Iraq.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chechnya's bucolic beauty, touching hospitality and jihadi brides now lost in Iraq. Caroline Wyatt introduces correspondents' tales from around the world:</p><p>Chechnya's bucolic beauty, touching hospitality and jihadi brides now lost in Iraq. Caroline Wyatt introduces correspondents' tales from around the world.
  1825. In the foothills of the Caucasus mountains, Tim Whewell meets a woman whose life has been on agonising, soul-destroying hold ever since her daughter left to join Islamic State.
  1826. Nick Beake wonders whether freedom of the press is on trial in Myanmar as he crams into a Yangon courtroom where two journalists are in the dock accused of receiving classified documents as part of their investigations into the massacre of Rohingya people.
  1827. Nicola Kelly is in Tindouf, in Algeria, with Saharawi families who still dream of returning to their homes in Western Sahara which they were driven from by Moroccan troops in 1975.
  1828. Laurence Blair finds that ghosts of its long dictatorship are haunting Paraguay as it prepares to elect a new president this weekend.
  1829. And Elizabeth Gowing hears how Serbian vineyards once came to the rescue of thirsty Europeans elsewhere on the continent</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2018 10:04:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1676</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p064zl4m.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p064zl4m.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p064zl4m.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p064zlp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p064zlp3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p064zl4m.mp3" fileSize="26816000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1676"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p064zlp3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Dramatic Developments</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The twists in Brazil's politics recently would shame the most melodramatic TV soap opera - but as she reported on last week's tense stand-off, with ex-President Lula da Silva at bay, Katy Watson was also moved to reflect on how polarised the political climate has become. As some Brazilians blame Lula for everything and profess nostalgia for the days of dictatorship, others denounce the media as lying right-wingers. In South India there's more drama as Andrew Whitehead traces the intimate relationship between the Tamil-language cinema box office, and the ballot box in local elections. Lorraine Mallinder reports from Guinea Bissau on whether international efforts to suppress the cocaine traffic have really driven the drug trade out, or just driven it underground. As the city of Basel prepares to mark the 75th anniversary of history's first LSD trip - with a commemorative bicycle ride - Matt Pickles traces the long and strange relationship between this rather staid place and one of the world's most notorious hallucinogens. And Simon Parker bats his way to cricketing glory - at least briefly - as an international in the Easter Cup, played last week in San Salvador at it sweltered in 40-degree heat.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents around the world examine the stories behind the news headlines.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The twists in Brazil's politics recently would shame the most melodramatic TV soap opera - but as she reported on last week's tense stand-off, with ex-President Lula da Silva at bay, Katy Watson was also moved to reflect on how polarised the political climate has become. As some Brazilians blame Lula for everything and profess nostalgia for the days of dictatorship, others denounce the media as lying right-wingers. In South India there's more drama as Andrew Whitehead traces the intimate relationship between the Tamil-language cinema box office, and the ballot box in local elections. Lorraine Mallinder reports from Guinea Bissau on whether international efforts to suppress the cocaine traffic have really driven the drug trade out, or just driven it underground. As the city of Basel prepares to mark the 75th anniversary of history's first LSD trip - with a commemorative bicycle ride - Matt Pickles traces the long and strange relationship between this rather staid place and one of the world's most notorious hallucinogens. And Simon Parker bats his way to cricketing glory - at least briefly - as an international in the Easter Cup, played last week in San Salvador at it sweltered in 40-degree heat.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1683</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p064922z.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p064922z.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p064922z.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p064928m</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p064928m</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p064922z.mp3" fileSize="26928000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1683"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p064928m</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mixed Societies</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Nick Thorpe in Hungary, contemplating this weekend's parliamentary election, wonders whether a recent vote in a small town near the Croatian border portends change for prime minister Viktor Orban or politics as usual. Claire Bolderson is in eastern Ohio, where opioid drug addiction has become the most serious public health crisis to hit the mid-Western US state in a generation. Speaking to recovering addicts, she discovers how it's affected their lives and communities - and their job prospects. Attending a premier of the new blockbuster movie, "Black Panther", in Guangzhou reveals to Marcus Ryder just how close the link between China and Africa has become - and what it may mean for the future. Rebecca Henschke in Jakarta considers what it has meant for her to go viral with stories three times in recent months in a country where social media platforms command huge numbers of enthusiastic users. And in Zambia Nick Miles speaks to firefighters in the capital and discovers they often have more than just flames to contend with when rushing to deal with a blaze. Editor: Richard Vadon.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Hungary's election, US opioids, China and Africa, going viral in Jakarta and Zambia fires</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Nick Thorpe in Hungary, contemplating this weekend's parliamentary election, wonders whether a recent vote in a small town near the Croatian border portends change for prime minister Viktor Orban or politics as usual. Claire Bolderson is in eastern Ohio, where opioid drug addiction has become the most serious public health crisis to hit the mid-Western US state in a generation. Speaking to recovering addicts, she discovers how it's affected their lives and communities - and their job prospects. Attending a premier of the new blockbuster movie, "Black Panther", in Guangzhou reveals to Marcus Ryder just how close the link between China and Africa has become - and what it may mean for the future. Rebecca Henschke in Jakarta considers what it has meant for her to go viral with stories three times in recent months in a country where social media platforms command huge numbers of enthusiastic users. And in Zambia Nick Miles speaks to firefighters in the capital and discovers they often have more than just flames to contend with when rushing to deal with a blaze. Editor: Richard Vadon.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1695</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p063lm9n.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p063lm9n.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p063lm9n.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p063lmhn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p063lmhn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p063lm9n.mp3" fileSize="27120000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1695"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p063lmhn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Trainspotting</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kim Jong Un’s train rolls into to Beijing as the North Korean leader meets President Xi. Kate Adie introduces stories, wit, and analysis from correspondents around the world:
  1830. China correspondents were once known as tealeaf readers, now they’ve become motorcade analysts and trainspotters says Stephen McDonell, as he tries to unpick the meaning of Kim Jong Un’s surprise visit to Beijing.
  1831. Jonah Fisher has the story of Nadya Savchenko and her journey from prison to national hero and back to prison again.
  1832. Bethany Bell explores why Austria won’t be implementing a smoking ban any time soon and finds out what the coffee drinkers of Vienna think of that.
  1833. Mike Wendling joins the pro-gun control crowds at the ‘March For Our Lives’ in Washington DC and reflects on how things have changed since he was a teenager in the US when he and his classmates would shoot at paper targets in their school’s basement.
  1834. And in Morocco, Kieran Cooke learns what impact Chinese tourists are having on Fes and comes face to face with the head of a dead camel.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kim Jong Un’s train rolls into to Beijing as the North Korean leader meets President Xi</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kim Jong Un’s train rolls into to Beijing as the North Korean leader meets President Xi. Kate Adie introduces stories, wit, and analysis from correspondents around the world:
  1835. China correspondents were once known as tealeaf readers, now they’ve become motorcade analysts and trainspotters says Stephen McDonell, as he tries to unpick the meaning of Kim Jong Un’s surprise visit to Beijing.
  1836. Jonah Fisher has the story of Nadya Savchenko and her journey from prison to national hero and back to prison again.
  1837. Bethany Bell explores why Austria won’t be implementing a smoking ban any time soon and finds out what the coffee drinkers of Vienna think of that.
  1838. Mike Wendling joins the pro-gun control crowds at the ‘March For Our Lives’ in Washington DC and reflects on how things have changed since he was a teenager in the US when he and his classmates would shoot at paper targets in their school’s basement.
  1839. And in Morocco, Kieran Cooke learns what impact Chinese tourists are having on Fes and comes face to face with the head of a dead camel.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1694</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p062wxb8.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p062wxb8.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p062wxb8.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p062wxkk</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p062wxkk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p062wxb8.mp3" fileSize="27104000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1694"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p062wxkk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The USA's Invisible Army</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The US Air Force has a third of its drones stationed at Kandahar airbase in Afghanistan. Kate Adie introduces stories, insight, and analysis from correspondents around the world:
  1840. During almost two weeks with US Forces in Afghanistan, Justin Rowlatt gets a glimpse of the intensity of the air war that is a key part of President Trump’s new strategy there.
  1841. In Belarus , Lucy Ash hears talk of dancing tractors and virtual tanks tearing through computer generated downs – unlikely indicators of economic success.
  1842. Paul Blake returns to the British Virgin Islands to see how they’re coping six months after Hurricane Irma tore through the Caribbean.
  1843. Jane Dyson marvels at the Pandav Lila – an epic, twelve-day re-enactment of the Hindu Mahabharata which consumes a village high up in the Indian Himalayas every two years.
  1844. And Petroc Trelawny meets a Transylvania aristocrat who’s just got his castle back three-quarters of a century after it was seized.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The US Air Force has a third of its drones stationed at Kandahar airbase in Afghanistan.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The US Air Force has a third of its drones stationed at Kandahar airbase in Afghanistan. Kate Adie introduces stories, insight, and analysis from correspondents around the world:
  1845. During almost two weeks with US Forces in Afghanistan, Justin Rowlatt gets a glimpse of the intensity of the air war that is a key part of President Trump’s new strategy there.
  1846. In Belarus , Lucy Ash hears talk of dancing tractors and virtual tanks tearing through computer generated downs – unlikely indicators of economic success.
  1847. Paul Blake returns to the British Virgin Islands to see how they’re coping six months after Hurricane Irma tore through the Caribbean.
  1848. Jane Dyson marvels at the Pandav Lila – an epic, twelve-day re-enactment of the Hindu Mahabharata which consumes a village high up in the Indian Himalayas every two years.
  1849. And Petroc Trelawny meets a Transylvania aristocrat who’s just got his castle back three-quarters of a century after it was seized.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1694</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0625wj0.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0625wj0.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0625wj0.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0625wpt</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0625wpt</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0625wj0.mp3" fileSize="27104000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1694"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0625wpt</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Incompetence and Conspiracy</title><description><![CDATA[<p>How was Boko Haram able to kidnap more than one hundred school girls in Dapchi, Nigeria? Kate Adie introduces stories and analysis from correspondents around the world:</p><p>A failure of the security services, conflicting official accounts, and misinformation - Stephanie Hegarty examines the similarities between Boko Haram’s 2014 attack in Chibok and the kidnapping in Dapchi last month.
  1850. In Bolivia, Laurence Blair visits the multi-million-pound museum celebrating the country’s President and asks how much longer can Evo Morales can stay in power?
  1851. In Greece, Sally Howard meets the anarchists who now see helping migrants, rather than spray-painting buildings or throwing Molotov cocktails at cops, as the best way to further their cause.
  1852. In Afghanistan, Auliya Atrafi reveals how repeated foreign interventions have only made his fellow Afghans more inventive in their conspiracy theories. From judges to generals everyone seems to accept that foreign powers are to blame for almost everything.
  1853. And in the US, Graeme Fife takes a tour of George Washington’s estate and the gardens that were never far from the mind or the heart of the country’s first president.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>How was Boko Haram able to kidnap more than one hundred school girls in Dapchi, Nigeria?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>How was Boko Haram able to kidnap more than one hundred school girls in Dapchi, Nigeria? Kate Adie introduces stories and analysis from correspondents around the world:</p><p>A failure of the security services, conflicting official accounts, and misinformation - Stephanie Hegarty examines the similarities between Boko Haram’s 2014 attack in Chibok and the kidnapping in Dapchi last month.
  1854. In Bolivia, Laurence Blair visits the multi-million-pound museum celebrating the country’s President and asks how much longer can Evo Morales can stay in power?
  1855. In Greece, Sally Howard meets the anarchists who now see helping migrants, rather than spray-painting buildings or throwing Molotov cocktails at cops, as the best way to further their cause.
  1856. In Afghanistan, Auliya Atrafi reveals how repeated foreign interventions have only made his fellow Afghans more inventive in their conspiracy theories. From judges to generals everyone seems to accept that foreign powers are to blame for almost everything.
  1857. And in the US, Graeme Fife takes a tour of George Washington’s estate and the gardens that were never far from the mind or the heart of the country’s first president.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p061ynnw.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p061ynnw.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p061ynnw.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p061yp9v</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p061yp9v</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p061ynnw.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p061yp9v</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country.</p><p>We hear how a small Scottish market town is responding to the new that its last remaining bank branch is scheduled for closure; what a flag-waving, Cornish yomp through the sand dunes and encounter with a 1500 year-old holy man reveals about the place and people; how the English, who once prided themselves on not cheating at sport and their sense of fair play, are adjusting to a different moral position; why the forthcoming abolition of tolls on the River Severn road crossings may intensify enthusiasm among the English for living in Wales; and what a humble kitchen worktop can reveal about origins, belonging and what's in a name.   </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Living in border country, sports cheats, Cornwall's saint, rural banks, kitchen worktops.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country.</p><p>We hear how a small Scottish market town is responding to the new that its last remaining bank branch is scheduled for closure; what a flag-waving, Cornish yomp through the sand dunes and encounter with a 1500 year-old holy man reveals about the place and people; how the English, who once prided themselves on not cheating at sport and their sense of fair play, are adjusting to a different moral position; why the forthcoming abolition of tolls on the River Severn road crossings may intensify enthusiasm among the English for living in Wales; and what a humble kitchen worktop can reveal about origins, belonging and what's in a name.   </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2018 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p061djs4.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p061djs4.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p061djs4.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p061dlj7</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p061dlj7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p061djs4.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p061dlj7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Changing Course</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is this going to be the moment when China's trajectory changed forever? Correspondents share their stories, wit, and analysis from around the world. Introduced by Kate Adie:
  1858. With Xi Jinping now effectively allowed to remain in power for life, after the two-term limit on the presidency was removed, John Sudworth reflects on what this means for China and the rest of the world. Steve Rosenberg examines Russia's ever-shifting relationship with the West from the frozen rust-belt town of Karabash. Linda Pressly reports from Tysfjord, where police have revealed decades’ worth of allegations of sexual abuse in the tiny Norwegian community close to the Arctic Circle.
  1859. Simon Maybin is on the tropical Panamanian island of Carti Sugdub to find out more about plans to move its entire population to the mainland and by doing so escape rising sea levels.
  1860. And Lindsay Johns tries (and sometimes fails) to make himself understood in South Africa - the proudly polyglot nation.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Is this going to be the moment when China's trajectory changed forever?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Is this going to be the moment when China's trajectory changed forever? Correspondents share their stories, wit, and analysis from around the world. Introduced by Kate Adie:
  1861. With Xi Jinping now effectively allowed to remain in power for life, after the two-term limit on the presidency was removed, John Sudworth reflects on what this means for China and the rest of the world. Steve Rosenberg examines Russia's ever-shifting relationship with the West from the frozen rust-belt town of Karabash. Linda Pressly reports from Tysfjord, where police have revealed decades’ worth of allegations of sexual abuse in the tiny Norwegian community close to the Arctic Circle.
  1862. Simon Maybin is on the tropical Panamanian island of Carti Sugdub to find out more about plans to move its entire population to the mainland and by doing so escape rising sea levels.
  1863. And Lindsay Johns tries (and sometimes fails) to make himself understood in South Africa - the proudly polyglot nation.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p061g20r.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p061g20r.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p061g20r.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p061g26m</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p061g26m</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p061g20r.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p061g26m</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Violence To Votes</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Former Farc rebels stand for election, but for many Colombians, it’s too soon to forgive. Kate Adie introduces stories and analysis from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Katy Watson is in Colombia as former guerrilla fighters for the rebel group turned political party fail to make an impact at the ballot box.
  1864. Chris Haslam is on 'the roof of the world' world in Tajikistan to meet a man threatening to take up arms and fight for Pamiri independence.
  1865. Cindy Sui reflects on her experience growing up in China and asks what the recent ban on foreign imported garbage reveals about changing attitudes to recycling there.
  1866. Simon Calder boards one of the last remaining boat ferries in Europe on which the carriages slot in between 40-ton trucks as they make their way from Denmark to Germany.
  1867. And Sian Griffiths marvels at Ottowa's annual river ice blast, as dynamite is used to break apart sheets of ice and stop meltwater flooding the city.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Former Farc rebels stand for election, but for many Colombians, it’s too soon to forgive.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Former Farc rebels stand for election, but for many Colombians, it’s too soon to forgive. Kate Adie introduces stories and analysis from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Katy Watson is in Colombia as former guerrilla fighters for the rebel group turned political party fail to make an impact at the ballot box.
  1868. Chris Haslam is on 'the roof of the world' world in Tajikistan to meet a man threatening to take up arms and fight for Pamiri independence.
  1869. Cindy Sui reflects on her experience growing up in China and asks what the recent ban on foreign imported garbage reveals about changing attitudes to recycling there.
  1870. Simon Calder boards one of the last remaining boat ferries in Europe on which the carriages slot in between 40-ton trucks as they make their way from Denmark to Germany.
  1871. And Sian Griffiths marvels at Ottowa's annual river ice blast, as dynamite is used to break apart sheets of ice and stop meltwater flooding the city.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1671</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0616lyb.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0616lyb.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0616lyb.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0616nn8</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0616nn8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0616lyb.mp3" fileSize="26736000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1671"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0616nn8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Show Of Force</title><description><![CDATA[<p>For the first time since the Vietnam War, a US aircraft carrier has arrived in the country. Kate Adie introduces stories, wit, and analysis from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Jonathan Head watches a show of military diplomacy as a 100,000 tonne, nuclear-powered carrier docks in Vietnamese waters with more than 5,000 crew and 70 aircraft on board.
  1872. A spot of misery tourism and a night on the town in Dublin help Louise Cooper understand what’s really going on in Ireland’s economy.
  1873. At the height of the European migrant crisis, Richard Hall walked the Balkan route. As he retraces his footsteps he finds fewer migrants but more dangers.
  1874. In Democratic Republic of Congo, Sally Howard joins the impressively dressed lady dandies or sapeuses.
  1875. And what’s it like to be teased by the Dalai Lama? Justin Rowlatt finds out</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>For the first time since the Vietnam War a US aircraft carrier has arrived in the country</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>For the first time since the Vietnam War, a US aircraft carrier has arrived in the country. Kate Adie introduces stories, wit, and analysis from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Jonathan Head watches a show of military diplomacy as a 100,000 tonne, nuclear-powered carrier docks in Vietnamese waters with more than 5,000 crew and 70 aircraft on board.
  1876. A spot of misery tourism and a night on the town in Dublin help Louise Cooper understand what’s really going on in Ireland’s economy.
  1877. At the height of the European migrant crisis, Richard Hall walked the Balkan route. As he retraces his footsteps he finds fewer migrants but more dangers.
  1878. In Democratic Republic of Congo, Sally Howard joins the impressively dressed lady dandies or sapeuses.
  1879. And what’s it like to be teased by the Dalai Lama? Justin Rowlatt finds out</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1696</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p060q18x.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p060q18x.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p060q18x.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p060q1qj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060q1qj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p060q18x.mp3" fileSize="27136000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1696"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p060q1qj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Blood And Tears</title><description><![CDATA[<p>From Lebanon, Syrian refugees watch the destruction of their homes in Eastern Ghouta. Kate Adie introduces stories and analysis from correspondents around the world:
  1880. "Life now is just about blood and tears,” one woman tells Yolande Knell, “all of Ghouta is crying over its lost people.”
  1881. In India, Krupa Padhy meets the head of a new union for unregister doctors - the quacks may be unqualified but they are also in demand.
  1882. In Sierra Leone, Ed Butler examines the economics of the sex trade and the role rich Western men play in it.
  1883. Vicky Baker meets the Nicaraguan women speaking, and singing, out against sexism.
  1884. And in Sweden, Keith Moore tries to teach his son how to speak with the help of Old MacDonald and Per Olsson - but do their horses say neigh-neigh here or gnägg-gnägg there?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>From Lebanon, Syrian refugees watch the destruction of their homes in Eastern Ghouta.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>From Lebanon, Syrian refugees watch the destruction of their homes in Eastern Ghouta. Kate Adie introduces stories and analysis from correspondents around the world:
  1885. "Life now is just about blood and tears,” one woman tells Yolande Knell, “all of Ghouta is crying over its lost people.”
  1886. In India, Krupa Padhy meets the head of a new union for unregister doctors - the quacks may be unqualified but they are also in demand.
  1887. In Sierra Leone, Ed Butler examines the economics of the sex trade and the role rich Western men play in it.
  1888. Vicky Baker meets the Nicaraguan women speaking, and singing, out against sexism.
  1889. And in Sweden, Keith Moore tries to teach his son how to speak with the help of Old MacDonald and Per Olsson - but do their horses say neigh-neigh here or gnägg-gnägg there?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2018 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1669</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p060gvs1.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p060gvs1.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p060gvs1.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p060gwqx</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060gwqx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p060gvs1.mp3" fileSize="26704000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1669"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p060gwqx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Hard To Find</title><description><![CDATA[<p>India’s missing children, selling drugs in Colombia &amp; searching for paradise in Costa Rica. Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Activists say that as many as 500,000 children went missing in India last year – Sonia Faleiro meets the father of one of them who says he’s been forced to marry off his other daughters in order to protect them.
  1890. Mathew Charles spends an evening with a Colombian drug dealer and learns how criminal gangs are searching for new ways to make money.
  1891. Jenny Hill visits a fairy-tale mansion in Hamburg whose 71 elderly female residents are celebrating their role in bringing about a ban on diesel cars.
  1892. Roger Hill goes to a market on the shore of the Panj River which separates Tajikistan and Afghanistan and looks for signs that life is getting better there.
  1893. And in Costa Rica, Benjamin Zand discovers that while the lure of paradise may be strong, it’s always so difficult to find.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>India’s missing children, Colombia's drug trade &amp; searching for paradise in Costa Rica</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>India’s missing children, selling drugs in Colombia &amp; searching for paradise in Costa Rica. Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Activists say that as many as 500,000 children went missing in India last year – Sonia Faleiro meets the father of one of them who says he’s been forced to marry off his other daughters in order to protect them.
  1894. Mathew Charles spends an evening with a Colombian drug dealer and learns how criminal gangs are searching for new ways to make money.
  1895. Jenny Hill visits a fairy-tale mansion in Hamburg whose 71 elderly female residents are celebrating their role in bringing about a ban on diesel cars.
  1896. Roger Hill goes to a market on the shore of the Panj River which separates Tajikistan and Afghanistan and looks for signs that life is getting better there.
  1897. And in Costa Rica, Benjamin Zand discovers that while the lure of paradise may be strong, it’s always so difficult to find.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1670</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05zzf0h.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05zzf0h.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05zzf0h.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05zzf7c</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05zzf7c</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05zzf0h.mp3" fileSize="26720000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1670"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05zzf7c</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The House Always Wins</title><description><![CDATA[<p>How the father of one of his presidential rivals helped Vladimir Putin to power. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world: </p><p>Ahead of elections in March, Gabriel Gatehouse looks back at the rise of President Putin and speaks to one of his challengers - Ksenia Sobchak.
  1898. Vladimir Hernandez returns to Venezuela to find a coffee now costs the same amount as he paid for his first flat, his relatives have lost weight and children are starving.
  1899. It may be thousands of years since the ancient Phoenicians traversed the seas but in modern day Lebanon claims on Phoenicians identity are still controversial, discovers Fleur MacDonald.
  1900. Gavin Fischer explores the recently released archive of recordings from the Rivonia trial in South Africa. His uncle defended Nelson Mandela and some of his co-accused.
  1901. And Phoebe Smith enjoys the solitude of Greenland’s Arctic Circle Trail – but for how much longer will others be able to experience its unspoilt landscape she wonders.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>How the father of one of his presidential rivals helped Vladimir Putin to power.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>How the father of one of his presidential rivals helped Vladimir Putin to power. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world: </p><p>Ahead of elections in March, Gabriel Gatehouse looks back at the rise of President Putin and speaks to one of his challengers - Ksenia Sobchak.
  1902. Vladimir Hernandez returns to Venezuela to find a coffee now costs the same amount as he paid for his first flat, his relatives have lost weight and children are starving.
  1903. It may be thousands of years since the ancient Phoenicians traversed the seas but in modern day Lebanon claims on Phoenicians identity are still controversial, discovers Fleur MacDonald.
  1904. Gavin Fischer explores the recently released archive of recordings from the Rivonia trial in South Africa. His uncle defended Nelson Mandela and some of his co-accused.
  1905. And Phoebe Smith enjoys the solitude of Greenland’s Arctic Circle Trail – but for how much longer will others be able to experience its unspoilt landscape she wonders.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2018 11:17:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05zr516.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05zr516.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05zr516.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05zr5yc</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05zr5yc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05zr516.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05zr5yc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Men Of Mystery</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A Gambian spymaster, a Czechoslovak secret agent and a South African ghost called Sam. Correspondents share wit, analysis, and tales of strange encounters. Introduced by Kate Adie.</p><p>Gambia’s intelligence agency has a new name and its boss is busy rebranding it – but beyond repainting the torture chamber, what does that mean, wonders Colin Freeman. Rob Cameron scours the archives of the StB – Czechoslovakia’s communist-era secret police– on the trail of ‘agent COB’. He meets the man who says he tried to recruit Jeremy Corbyn as an asset. Helen Nianais has coffee with a former jihadi who faces three years in jail after spending nine days in Syria. Now he’s trying to counter extremist propaganda online and help others reintegrate back into normal life in Kosovo.
  1906. Shabnam Mahmood returns to Pakistan and finds that Uber and other cab-hailing apps are driving rickshaw drivers out of business, but there are still some parts of Lahore where older methods of transport dominate. And Harriet Constable visits Kaapsehoop – a village whose fortunes may have faded since South Africa's 19th century gold rush, but which remains rich in history, folklore, and ghosts.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A Gambian spymaster, a Czechoslovak secret agent and a South African ghost called Sam.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A Gambian spymaster, a Czechoslovak secret agent and a South African ghost called Sam. Correspondents share wit, analysis, and tales of strange encounters. Introduced by Kate Adie.</p><p>Gambia’s intelligence agency has a new name and its boss is busy rebranding it – but beyond repainting the torture chamber, what does that mean, wonders Colin Freeman. Rob Cameron scours the archives of the StB – Czechoslovakia’s communist-era secret police– on the trail of ‘agent COB’. He meets the man who says he tried to recruit Jeremy Corbyn as an asset. Helen Nianais has coffee with a former jihadi who faces three years in jail after spending nine days in Syria. Now he’s trying to counter extremist propaganda online and help others reintegrate back into normal life in Kosovo.
  1907. Shabnam Mahmood returns to Pakistan and finds that Uber and other cab-hailing apps are driving rickshaw drivers out of business, but there are still some parts of Lahore where older methods of transport dominate. And Harriet Constable visits Kaapsehoop – a village whose fortunes may have faded since South Africa's 19th century gold rush, but which remains rich in history, folklore, and ghosts.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1692</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05z6xg4.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05z6xg4.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05z6xg4.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05z6xn5</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05z6xn5</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05z6xg4.mp3" fileSize="27072000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1692"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05z6xn5</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Haiti: Republic Of NGOs</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Many Haitians see Oxfam’s actions as the latest part of a much bigger problem. Kate Adie introduces stories, wit and analysis from correspondents around the world. </p><p>“Being poor, we’re a market for the NGOs” one Port-au-Prince resident tells Will Grant, “but it’s time to admit that we cannot develop our country with international aid.” </p><p>Ahead of elections in Italy, Dany Mitzman watches fascists and anti-fascists face off in Bologna - a city famed for its left-wing politics.</p><p>In Mozambique they’re trying to persuade parents not to give up on disabled children – Tom Shakespeare examine the latest development in inclusive education there.</p><p>In Uzbekistan, Caroline Eden visits the capital Tashkent - famed for its chewy, golden bread and its kindness. </p><p>And Alastair Leithead takes a trip along the Blue Nile with Marvin – a ball on a stick that sees virtually everything.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Many Haitians see Oxfam’s actions as the latest part of a much bigger problem.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Many Haitians see Oxfam’s actions as the latest part of a much bigger problem. Kate Adie introduces stories, wit and analysis from correspondents around the world. </p><p>“Being poor, we’re a market for the NGOs” one Port-au-Prince resident tells Will Grant, “but it’s time to admit that we cannot develop our country with international aid.” </p><p>Ahead of elections in Italy, Dany Mitzman watches fascists and anti-fascists face off in Bologna - a city famed for its left-wing politics.</p><p>In Mozambique they’re trying to persuade parents not to give up on disabled children – Tom Shakespeare examine the latest development in inclusive education there.</p><p>In Uzbekistan, Caroline Eden visits the capital Tashkent - famed for its chewy, golden bread and its kindness. </p><p>And Alastair Leithead takes a trip along the Blue Nile with Marvin – a ball on a stick that sees virtually everything.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1671</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05z0dj8.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05z0dj8.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05z0dj8.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05z0fh9</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05z0fh9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05z0dj8.mp3" fileSize="26736000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1671"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05z0fh9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent</title><description><![CDATA[<p>BBC correspondents take a closer look at the stories behind the headlines.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>BBC correspondents take a closer look at the stories behind the headlines.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>BBC correspondents take a closer look at the stories behind the headlines.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2018 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05yhmw6.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05yhmw6.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05yhmw6.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05yhnmn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05yhnmn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05yhmw6.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05yhnmn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Treading on Thin Ice</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents a programme reflecting on two men's political careers which effectively ended this week. Andrew Harding in Johannesburg reflects on the demise of Jacob Zuma who finally bowed to months of pressure and quit as president of South Africa; while Jenny Hill, reporting from Cologne, considers what the resignation of Martin Schulz, as leader of the Social Democrats (SPD), says about the current state of German politics. The death of a Cold War-era contact prompts Nick Thorpe in Budapest to consider how attitudes to the media more than thirty years ago seem eerily to be returning. Meanwhile Katty Kay has to persuade a nervous Moscow-born taxi driver that it really is safe to drive her to Compton, the city once synonymous with gang violence and murder and made famous - or notorious - by NWA's album, "Straight Outta Compton". Finally, Justin Rowlatt intrepidly ventures into India's icy Ladakh region to accompany a team bringing electricity to remote rural villages - and gets his feet frozen to the ice for his trouble.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>With reflections on Jacob Zuma and Martin Schulz, gangs in the US and Hungarian censors.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents a programme reflecting on two men's political careers which effectively ended this week. Andrew Harding in Johannesburg reflects on the demise of Jacob Zuma who finally bowed to months of pressure and quit as president of South Africa; while Jenny Hill, reporting from Cologne, considers what the resignation of Martin Schulz, as leader of the Social Democrats (SPD), says about the current state of German politics. The death of a Cold War-era contact prompts Nick Thorpe in Budapest to consider how attitudes to the media more than thirty years ago seem eerily to be returning. Meanwhile Katty Kay has to persuade a nervous Moscow-born taxi driver that it really is safe to drive her to Compton, the city once synonymous with gang violence and murder and made famous - or notorious - by NWA's album, "Straight Outta Compton". Finally, Justin Rowlatt intrepidly ventures into India's icy Ladakh region to accompany a team bringing electricity to remote rural villages - and gets his feet frozen to the ice for his trouble.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2018 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05yhcqz.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05yhcqz.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05yhcqz.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05yhd6h</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05yhd6h</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05yhcqz.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05yhd6h</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Caught in a Trap</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents dispatches from: Stephanie Hegarty in Nigeria on how the plight of former girl captives of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgents is being addressed when many return to their home communities only to ostracised and disowned; Edmund Bower on the murky political techniques employed in Egypt against some young activists as the presidential election approaches; Vincent Ni in Japan on a remarkable North Korean "minder" at a school educating children of Korean descent; Lizzie Porter on the savage depopulation affecting highland villages in Bosnia-Herzegovina - and those who are determined to stay; and Richard Hamilton, who visits Salt Spring Island off the coast of British Columbia to learn about a one-time Scottish welder who wrought a 1970s revolution in mental health that has survived the hippy era.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Dispatches on Nigeria on the plight of former captives of the Boko Haram insurgents</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents dispatches from: Stephanie Hegarty in Nigeria on how the plight of former girl captives of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgents is being addressed when many return to their home communities only to ostracised and disowned; Edmund Bower on the murky political techniques employed in Egypt against some young activists as the presidential election approaches; Vincent Ni in Japan on a remarkable North Korean "minder" at a school educating children of Korean descent; Lizzie Porter on the savage depopulation affecting highland villages in Bosnia-Herzegovina - and those who are determined to stay; and Richard Hamilton, who visits Salt Spring Island off the coast of British Columbia to learn about a one-time Scottish welder who wrought a 1970s revolution in mental health that has survived the hippy era.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 11:56:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05zdcn3.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05zdcn3.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05zdcn3.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05zdcxh</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05zdcxh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05zdcn3.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05zdcxh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>No Go Areas</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ending corruption in Ukraine and the woman enslaved by ISIS now trying to tell her story. Kate Adie introduces insight and analysis from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Viktor Yanukovych and his associates are accused of stealing billions during his time as president, but are they still be benefiting from corruption? Simon Maybin surveys the scene from a snowy rooftop in Kiev.
  1908. Stacey Dooley joins a 23-year-old Yazidi woman as she returns to find the house where she was held captive by ISIS in Mosul. She wants to tell her story but finds herself unexpectedly silenced.
  1909. An assault on freedom of speech or an attempt to protect a nation’s dignity? Adam Easton explores the controversy around a new law in Poland which proposes prison sentences for anyone blaming the country for Nazi crimes against Jews.
  1910. Simon Broughton meets a Mozambican artist turning bullets, guns and old mobiles phones into works of art.
  1911. And Megha Mohan confronts a taboo in India: why menstruating women are often denied access to temples. Left out of her own grandmother's last rites, she's left wondering why.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Ending corruption in Ukraine and the woman enslaved by ISIS now trying to tell her story.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Ending corruption in Ukraine and the woman enslaved by ISIS now trying to tell her story. Kate Adie introduces insight and analysis from correspondents around the world:</p><p>Viktor Yanukovych and his associates are accused of stealing billions during his time as president, but are they still be benefiting from corruption? Simon Maybin surveys the scene from a snowy rooftop in Kiev.
  1912. Stacey Dooley joins a 23-year-old Yazidi woman as she returns to find the house where she was held captive by ISIS in Mosul. She wants to tell her story but finds herself unexpectedly silenced.
  1913. An assault on freedom of speech or an attempt to protect a nation’s dignity? Adam Easton explores the controversy around a new law in Poland which proposes prison sentences for anyone blaming the country for Nazi crimes against Jews.
  1914. Simon Broughton meets a Mozambican artist turning bullets, guns and old mobiles phones into works of art.
  1915. And Megha Mohan confronts a taboo in India: why menstruating women are often denied access to temples. Left out of her own grandmother's last rites, she's left wondering why.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05xqnfq.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05xqnfq.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05xqnfq.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05xqnlb</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05xqnlb</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05xqnfq.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05xqnlb</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Invisible Scars</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Inside Afghanistan’s only secure psychiatric unit - the trauma of war laid bare. Caroline Wyatt introduces correspondents' stories from around the world:
  1916. Sarah Zand examines how nearly four decades of war have taken its toll on Afghanistan and its people. Elinor Goodman meets a man hoping a herd of goats and some lessons in animal husbandry might dissuade young boys from joining the violent gangs responsible for a state of emergency being declared in part of Jamaica. Tim Ecott explores ethnic identities and regional power plays in Seychelles. James Jeffrey is in Ethiopia where staid state TV has a new rival. And Simon Parker braves the wind and waves off the coast of Norway in search of king crab.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Inside Afghanistan’s only secure psychiatric unit - the trauma of war laid bare.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Inside Afghanistan’s only secure psychiatric unit - the trauma of war laid bare. Caroline Wyatt introduces correspondents' stories from around the world:
  1917. Sarah Zand examines how nearly four decades of war have taken its toll on Afghanistan and its people. Elinor Goodman meets a man hoping a herd of goats and some lessons in animal husbandry might dissuade young boys from joining the violent gangs responsible for a state of emergency being declared in part of Jamaica. Tim Ecott explores ethnic identities and regional power plays in Seychelles. James Jeffrey is in Ethiopia where staid state TV has a new rival. And Simon Parker braves the wind and waves off the coast of Norway in search of king crab.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 11:35:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05xh5r0.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05xh5r0.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05xh5r0.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05xh7gd</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05xh7gd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05xh5r0.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05xh7gd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mosul: Life After ISIS</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The changing sights and sounds of Iraq's second city. Kate Adie introduces stories, wit, and analysis from correspondents around the world:
  1918. Shaimaa Khalil meets a musician finally able to play his violin again and students returning to their studies in post-ISIS Mosul. John Sudworth finds that reporting from China’s Xinxjang province is difficult, risky and expensive – just the way the authorities there seem to want it to be. In Brazil, Katy Watson joins the queue for a Yellow Fever vaccine amid the panic caused by the latest outbreak.  John Watkins delves into Albania’s national archive, where thousands of decaying film reels reveal much about its communist past. And Mike Wendling meets Swedish politician Hanif Bali who wants to close the country’s borders and keep migrants out. As well as being a social media star, the MP is also a migrant himself having left Iran as a child.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The changing sights and sounds of Iraq's second city.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The changing sights and sounds of Iraq's second city. Kate Adie introduces stories, wit, and analysis from correspondents around the world:
  1919. Shaimaa Khalil meets a musician finally able to play his violin again and students returning to their studies in post-ISIS Mosul. John Sudworth finds that reporting from China’s Xinxjang province is difficult, risky and expensive – just the way the authorities there seem to want it to be. In Brazil, Katy Watson joins the queue for a Yellow Fever vaccine amid the panic caused by the latest outbreak.  John Watkins delves into Albania’s national archive, where thousands of decaying film reels reveal much about its communist past. And Mike Wendling meets Swedish politician Hanif Bali who wants to close the country’s borders and keep migrants out. As well as being a social media star, the MP is also a migrant himself having left Iran as a child.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1698</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05wzmls.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05wzmls.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05wzmls.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05wznqs</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05wznqs</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05wzmls.mp3" fileSize="27168000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1698"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05wznqs</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Your Move!</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Opposition leader Raila Odinga declares himself the ‘People’s President’ in Kenya. Kate Adie introduces stories wit and analysis from correspondents around the world.</p><p>Expecting trouble, Alastair Leithead attends a controversial swearing-in ceremony in Nairobi but the government’s show of force didn’t come from the security forces sent to police the event. The water crisis engulfing Cape Town is making headlines around the world, but Pumza Fihlani says a lack of running water has long been a way of life for millions of others in South Africa. Laurence Blair examines how immigration is becoming a political issue in Chile and how the recent arrivals and their hosts are having to adapt. In Switzerland, Katherine Forster revisits the site of a fancy dress party that changed her life and finds a country that, at first glance, appears the same. And Emma Levine plays chess in Armenia against an eleven yearold who is hoping to become one of the world’s youngest ever grandmasters.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Opposition leader Raila Odinga declares himself the ‘People’s President’ in Kenya.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Opposition leader Raila Odinga declares himself the ‘People’s President’ in Kenya. Kate Adie introduces stories wit and analysis from correspondents around the world.</p><p>Expecting trouble, Alastair Leithead attends a controversial swearing-in ceremony in Nairobi but the government’s show of force didn’t come from the security forces sent to police the event. The water crisis engulfing Cape Town is making headlines around the world, but Pumza Fihlani says a lack of running water has long been a way of life for millions of others in South Africa. Laurence Blair examines how immigration is becoming a political issue in Chile and how the recent arrivals and their hosts are having to adapt. In Switzerland, Katherine Forster revisits the site of a fancy dress party that changed her life and finds a country that, at first glance, appears the same. And Emma Levine plays chess in Armenia against an eleven yearold who is hoping to become one of the world’s youngest ever grandmasters.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05ws0y2.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05ws0y2.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05ws0y2.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05ws18q</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05ws18q</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05ws0y2.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05ws18q</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. In the latest programme, we hear from Chris Warburton on how Bolton in Greater Manchester is responding to the dramatically changing retail scene on its streets. The BBC's Religion Editor, Martin Bashir, draws on his own family's experience to consider the significance of the Church of England's intervention in the debate about pre-natal screening for Down's syndrome. Elizabeth Gowing reveals what one ex-offender has derived from his work with yoga and meditation - disciplines she has been struggling with - both out of gaol and while behind bars, and Martin Vennard explores a fifty year-old housing development with a new resident and the building's architect to see what ideas it may offer for tackling today's housing crisis. Finally, Felipe Fernández-Armesto - a globe-trotting historian with Spanish ancestry and impeccable British credentials - ponders the unravelling of the once tightly-furled British umbrella and the mores it represented.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Featuring pieces on Down's syndrome, Bolton's shops, pioneering housing and yoga in jails</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. In the latest programme, we hear from Chris Warburton on how Bolton in Greater Manchester is responding to the dramatically changing retail scene on its streets. The BBC's Religion Editor, Martin Bashir, draws on his own family's experience to consider the significance of the Church of England's intervention in the debate about pre-natal screening for Down's syndrome. Elizabeth Gowing reveals what one ex-offender has derived from his work with yoga and meditation - disciplines she has been struggling with - both out of gaol and while behind bars, and Martin Vennard explores a fifty year-old housing development with a new resident and the building's architect to see what ideas it may offer for tackling today's housing crisis. Finally, Felipe Fernández-Armesto - a globe-trotting historian with Spanish ancestry and impeccable British credentials - ponders the unravelling of the once tightly-furled British umbrella and the mores it represented.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05w7273.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2018 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1709</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05w71sm.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05w71sm.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05w71sm.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05w726l</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05w726l</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05w71sm.mp3" fileSize="27344000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1709"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05w726l</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>La Lucha</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Mark Lowen reports from both sides of the border as Turkey launches an offensive against Kurdish militia in Syria. In the Colombian jungle, Mathew Charles meets the surprisingly well-groomed members of the ELN guerrilla group. Are Louis and Louise beautiful or handsome? Joanna Robertson offers a lesson in the sexual politics of French grammar. Hero or villain? Peter Hadfield reports on how Taiwan views its former leader Chiang Kai Shek. And Melissa Van Der Klugt discovers why pollution in Delhi is giving some of its residents green fingers . . . and a new found interest in growing their own veg.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Turkey’s assault on Afrin, Colombian rebels still at war, and a fight over French grammar</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Mark Lowen reports from both sides of the border as Turkey launches an offensive against Kurdish militia in Syria. In the Colombian jungle, Mathew Charles meets the surprisingly well-groomed members of the ELN guerrilla group. Are Louis and Louise beautiful or handsome? Joanna Robertson offers a lesson in the sexual politics of French grammar. Hero or villain? Peter Hadfield reports on how Taiwan views its former leader Chiang Kai Shek. And Melissa Van Der Klugt discovers why pollution in Delhi is giving some of its residents green fingers . . . and a new found interest in growing their own veg.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1704</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05w8jhz.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05w8jhz.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05w8jhz.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05w8k0y</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05w8k0y</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05w8jhz.mp3" fileSize="27264000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1704"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05w8k0y</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>DRC - A Country On Hold?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Waiting for elections and trying to answer awkward questions about sex in the DRC. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world:</p><p>William Edmundson is in the Democratic Republic of Congo wondering just how democratic it really is. Katty Kay looks at how the mood in the #metoo movement has gone from hope to concern in the US. Will Grant boards a rather empty flight from Miami to Havana and assesses US –Cuba relations under President Trump - there may be turbulence ahead. Natalia Golysheva travels to the Russian Far East to meet some of the Old Believer sect, who’ve recently returned home. And Chris Bockman reports on the French island of Faisans that is soon to be Spain.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Waiting for elections and trying to answer awkward questions about sex in the DRC.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Waiting for elections and trying to answer awkward questions about sex in the DRC. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world:</p><p>William Edmundson is in the Democratic Republic of Congo wondering just how democratic it really is. Katty Kay looks at how the mood in the #metoo movement has gone from hope to concern in the US. Will Grant boards a rather empty flight from Miami to Havana and assesses US –Cuba relations under President Trump - there may be turbulence ahead. Natalia Golysheva travels to the Russian Far East to meet some of the Old Believer sect, who’ve recently returned home. And Chris Bockman reports on the French island of Faisans that is soon to be Spain.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2018 11:39:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1671</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05w8kpr.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05w8kpr.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05w8kpr.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05w8ktz</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05w8ktz</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05w8kpr.mp3" fileSize="26736000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1671"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05w8ktz</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Jailed For Having A Miscarriage?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Salvadoran woman who claims she faces 30 years in prison for having a miscarriage Kate Adie introduces correspondent's stories from around the world.  
  1920. Benjamin Zand is in El Salvador investigating the country's abortion laws - some of the harshest and most stringently enforced in the world. Colin Freeman meets the survivors of the Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh's HIV treatment programme. His 'miracle cure' turned out to be deadly for many. Lyse Doucet hears tales of Aleppo’s ancient souk from the traders who are starting to return. Rani Singh is on the roof of the world exploring relations between India and China, and hanging with a cool ex-monk. And Kevin Connolly returns to Bulgaria and remembers its communist past.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Salvadoran woman who says she faces 30 years in prison for having a miscarriage.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Salvadoran woman who claims she faces 30 years in prison for having a miscarriage Kate Adie introduces correspondent's stories from around the world.  
  1921. Benjamin Zand is in El Salvador investigating the country's abortion laws - some of the harshest and most stringently enforced in the world. Colin Freeman meets the survivors of the Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh's HIV treatment programme. His 'miracle cure' turned out to be deadly for many. Lyse Doucet hears tales of Aleppo’s ancient souk from the traders who are starting to return. Rani Singh is on the roof of the world exploring relations between India and China, and hanging with a cool ex-monk. And Kevin Connolly returns to Bulgaria and remembers its communist past.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2018 12:05:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05vjj1t.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05vjj1t.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05vjj1t.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05vjjkg</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05vjjkg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05vjj1t.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05vjjkg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Death and Textiles</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Why it's far too early to write Silvio Berlusconi's political obituary. Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world. </p><p>With a general election in March, James Reynolds finds some familiar faces on the campaign trail in Italy but will the grey men triumph? In Tanzania, it's idle machines and empty buildings that greet Helen Grady as 'mitumba' or cheap, imported, second-hand clothes are destroying the local textile industry. Auliya Atrafi is in northeastern Afghanistan in a village where few working-age men remain - many are now in prison in Iran sentenced to death for smuggling drugs. Jannat Jalil ponders presidential gifts, Franco-Chinese relations, and horse-diplomacy. And Lindsay Johns returns to Martinique to mark the death of a woman he once called mom.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Why it's far too early to write Silvio Berlusconi's political obituary.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Why it's far too early to write Silvio Berlusconi's political obituary. Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world. </p><p>With a general election in March, James Reynolds finds some familiar faces on the campaign trail in Italy but will the grey men triumph? In Tanzania, it's idle machines and empty buildings that greet Helen Grady as 'mitumba' or cheap, imported, second-hand clothes are destroying the local textile industry. Auliya Atrafi is in northeastern Afghanistan in a village where few working-age men remain - many are now in prison in Iran sentenced to death for smuggling drugs. Jannat Jalil ponders presidential gifts, Franco-Chinese relations, and horse-diplomacy. And Lindsay Johns returns to Martinique to mark the death of a woman he once called mom.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2018 11:48:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1676</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05trq89.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05trq89.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05trq89.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05trqmy</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05trqmy</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05trq89.mp3" fileSize="26816000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1676"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05trqmy</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Marching Orders</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Lucy Ash finds that morale is low amongst Ukrainian troops in the east of the country as they endure another winter at war and the frozen conflict rumbles on.
  1922. John Sudworth assesses rural poverty in China from the dizzying heights of a village accessible only by climbing half a mile of ladders.
  1923. Recent protests prompt Rana Rahimpour to reflect on previous rounds of unrest in Iran, and how parents are once again worrying if their children will return home.
  1924. Sara Wheeler soaks up the scenery in the north of Vietnam and marvels at the foot rowers of Tam Coc.
  1925. And Jeremy Grange finds that memories of the slave trade are still very much alive in Tanzania.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>From a clifftop village in China, a Ukrainian bunker and a former slave port in Tanzania.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Lucy Ash finds that morale is low amongst Ukrainian troops in the east of the country as they endure another winter at war and the frozen conflict rumbles on.
  1926. John Sudworth assesses rural poverty in China from the dizzying heights of a village accessible only by climbing half a mile of ladders.
  1927. Recent protests prompt Rana Rahimpour to reflect on previous rounds of unrest in Iran, and how parents are once again worrying if their children will return home.
  1928. Sara Wheeler soaks up the scenery in the north of Vietnam and marvels at the foot rowers of Tam Coc.
  1929. And Jeremy Grange finds that memories of the slave trade are still very much alive in Tanzania.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 12:59:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05tjkj2.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05tjkj2.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05tjkj2.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05tjkqs</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05tjkqs</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05tjkj2.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05tjkqs</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Memorable Moments of 2017</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The migrants clinging to hope, NATO military manoeuvres and a jungle prince. Kate Adie introduces some memorable moments correspondents have shared on the programme in 2017. Benjamin Zand encounters 'lies, lies and yet more lies" as he follows the treacherous migrant route that hundreds of thousands of people have followed in the hope of reaching Europe from Africa. Shaimaa Khalil recalls growing up in Egypt and her first experience of sexual harassment aged 11 #metoo. Emily Unia watches a NATO display of military might in Romania, but can't escape noticing that some members of the press pack don't seem to be taking it seriously. Tim Whewell tries to talk his way into Abkhazia - a country which most of the world refuses to recognise. And Justin Rowlatt has the tale of the lonely death of an Indian prince reduced to living in abject poverty in a hunting lodge in a forest in Delhi. Producer: Joe Kent.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The migrants clinging to hope, NATO military manoeuvres and a jungle prince.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The migrants clinging to hope, NATO military manoeuvres and a jungle prince. Kate Adie introduces some memorable moments correspondents have shared on the programme in 2017. Benjamin Zand encounters 'lies, lies and yet more lies" as he follows the treacherous migrant route that hundreds of thousands of people have followed in the hope of reaching Europe from Africa. Shaimaa Khalil recalls growing up in Egypt and her first experience of sexual harassment aged 11 #metoo. Emily Unia watches a NATO display of military might in Romania, but can't escape noticing that some members of the press pack don't seem to be taking it seriously. Tim Whewell tries to talk his way into Abkhazia - a country which most of the world refuses to recognise. And Justin Rowlatt has the tale of the lonely death of an Indian prince reduced to living in abject poverty in a hunting lodge in a forest in Delhi. Producer: Joe Kent.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:28:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05rtm50.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05rtm50.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05rtm50.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05rtmxn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05rtmxn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05rtm50.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05rtmxn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In a festive edition for Christmas Eve, Mishal Husain presents pieces by: Ian McMillan on the special pleasures of Christmas Eve; Sarah Oliver on advice for those daunted by the seasonal food extravaganza; Padraig O Tuama on what happened when Bethlehem came to Belfast; Datshiane Navanayagam on the make-or-break power of customer service departments at this time of year; and Jonnie Bayfield on how he fared in devising out-of-the-ordinary gift options.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Featuring the pleasures of Christmas Eve, do-it-yourself presents and festive cooking.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In a festive edition for Christmas Eve, Mishal Husain presents pieces by: Ian McMillan on the special pleasures of Christmas Eve; Sarah Oliver on advice for those daunted by the seasonal food extravaganza; Padraig O Tuama on what happened when Bethlehem came to Belfast; Datshiane Navanayagam on the make-or-break power of customer service departments at this time of year; and Jonnie Bayfield on how he fared in devising out-of-the-ordinary gift options.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05nnj06.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2017 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1671</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05rr377.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05rr377.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05rr377.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05rr62w</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05rr62w</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05rr377.mp3" fileSize="26736000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1671"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05rr62w</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Bet That Backfired?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Killing time on election day in Catalonia and the bitter experience of applying for a visa. Correspondents share their stories, insights, and complaints. Introduced by Kate Adie.</p><p>Reporting restrictions on polling day prompt Kevin Connolly to explore Barcelona and take a bit of a gamble. Yolande Knell tries to ignore the tempting local delicacies in Jerusalem and sample public opinion instead. Linda Pressly meets the people hoping the river the Pilcomayo will once again flow through the Chaco – one of the most arid and unforgiving regions of South America situated along the border between Paraguay and Argentina. Chris Bowlby remembers New Year’s Eve 1992 and the moment when Czechoslovakia became the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. And of the many challenges that foreign reporting presents, the one Colin Freeman dreads most is applying for a visa.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Killing time on election day in Catalonia and the bitter experience of applying for a visa</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Killing time on election day in Catalonia and the bitter experience of applying for a visa. Correspondents share their stories, insights, and complaints. Introduced by Kate Adie.</p><p>Reporting restrictions on polling day prompt Kevin Connolly to explore Barcelona and take a bit of a gamble. Yolande Knell tries to ignore the tempting local delicacies in Jerusalem and sample public opinion instead. Linda Pressly meets the people hoping the river the Pilcomayo will once again flow through the Chaco – one of the most arid and unforgiving regions of South America situated along the border between Paraguay and Argentina. Chris Bowlby remembers New Year’s Eve 1992 and the moment when Czechoslovakia became the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. And of the many challenges that foreign reporting presents, the one Colin Freeman dreads most is applying for a visa.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05rwy13.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05rwy13.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05rwy13.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05rwy4l</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05rwy4l</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05rwy13.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05rwy4l</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Losing Its Sparkle</title><description><![CDATA[<p>What next for the ANC as its chuckling, charismatic and divisive leader Jacob Zuma departs? Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories and insights from around the world. </p><p>In South Africa, Andrew Harding looks back on President Zuma's time at the top of his party and his country.
  1930. Joanna Robertson soaks up the seasonal spirit in Rome amid complaints about corruption, mafia collusion, a mangy municipal Christmas tree and a Christmas market with no stalls.
  1931. Tim Hartley reports from Hong Kong as Beijing tries to blow the final whistle on protesting football fans who dare to disrespect the national anthem.
  1932. Alexa Dvorson explores why all is not well in Bhutan, land of Gross National Happiness.
  1933. And at an art gallery in Budapest, Nick Thorpe is reminded of both the censorship imposed by Hungary's former Communist rulers and the paradoxical freedoms granted to its people.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>What next for the ANC as its chuckling, charismatic &amp; divisive leader Jacob Zuma departs?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>What next for the ANC as its chuckling, charismatic and divisive leader Jacob Zuma departs? Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories and insights from around the world. </p><p>In South Africa, Andrew Harding looks back on President Zuma's time at the top of his party and his country.
  1934. Joanna Robertson soaks up the seasonal spirit in Rome amid complaints about corruption, mafia collusion, a mangy municipal Christmas tree and a Christmas market with no stalls.
  1935. Tim Hartley reports from Hong Kong as Beijing tries to blow the final whistle on protesting football fans who dare to disrespect the national anthem.
  1936. Alexa Dvorson explores why all is not well in Bhutan, land of Gross National Happiness.
  1937. And at an art gallery in Budapest, Nick Thorpe is reminded of both the censorship imposed by Hungary's former Communist rulers and the paradoxical freedoms granted to its people.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05r9dqq.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05r9dqq.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05r9dqq.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05r9f7s</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05r9f7s</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05r9dqq.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05r9f7s</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Turf Wars</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Hindu nationalism in India, making money in war-torn Yemen and family drama in Uzbekistan. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world. It’s 25 years since Hindu mobs destroyed the Babri mosque in Ayodhya; Mark Tully was there and asks whether it really did mark the end of secularism in India, as was claimed at the time.
  1938. Bethan McKernan finds that business is booming in Yemen for the tribal leaders, arms traders and khat dealers who know where to look.
  1939. Peter Robertson dissects the rise and fall of Gulnara Karimova who was once seen as her father's favoured successor as president of Uzbekistan.
  1940. Katy Watson explores the complex history and geography of the word ‘America’ – should it be used to refer to a country, a continent, two continents?
  1941. And Hannah King joins the British soldiers training the Somali National Army.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Hindu nationalism in India, making money in war-torn Yemen and family drama in Uzbekistan.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Hindu nationalism in India, making money in war-torn Yemen and family drama in Uzbekistan. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world. It’s 25 years since Hindu mobs destroyed the Babri mosque in Ayodhya; Mark Tully was there and asks whether it really did mark the end of secularism in India, as was claimed at the time.
  1942. Bethan McKernan finds that business is booming in Yemen for the tribal leaders, arms traders and khat dealers who know where to look.
  1943. Peter Robertson dissects the rise and fall of Gulnara Karimova who was once seen as her father's favoured successor as president of Uzbekistan.
  1944. Katy Watson explores the complex history and geography of the word ‘America’ – should it be used to refer to a country, a continent, two continents?
  1945. And Hannah King joins the British soldiers training the Somali National Army.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1713</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05ql2b2.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05ql2b2.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05ql2b2.mp3" length="27408000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05ql2tq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05ql2tq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05ql2b2.mp3" fileSize="27408000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1713"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05ql2tq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Final Indignity</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stoicism, good humour and palpable tension as Rohingya Muslims flee Myanmar to Bangladesh. Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world.
  1946. Justin Rowlatt finds mixed emotions among Bangladeshis about the refugees arriving from across the border.
  1947. Tim Whewell reports on the women and children left behind as the so called Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate crumbles.
  1948. Sally Hayden explores how an outbreak of fake news and misinformation is making it harder to stop the spread of the plague in Madagascar.
  1949. Jonah Fisher tours the tented camp that has reappeared in the centre of Kiev – last seen before the revolution in 2014.
  1950. And Bill Law tries his best not to talk politics as Canadians gather for the annual Grey Cup football match or Canada’s Grand National Drunk as it’s often known.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stoicism, good humour and palpable tension as Rohingya Muslims flee Myanmar to Bangladesh</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stoicism, good humour and palpable tension as Rohingya Muslims flee Myanmar to Bangladesh. Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world.
  1951. Justin Rowlatt finds mixed emotions among Bangladeshis about the refugees arriving from across the border.
  1952. Tim Whewell reports on the women and children left behind as the so called Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate crumbles.
  1953. Sally Hayden explores how an outbreak of fake news and misinformation is making it harder to stop the spread of the plague in Madagascar.
  1954. Jonah Fisher tours the tented camp that has reappeared in the centre of Kiev – last seen before the revolution in 2014.
  1955. And Bill Law tries his best not to talk politics as Canadians gather for the annual Grey Cup football match or Canada’s Grand National Drunk as it’s often known.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2017 11:16:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1683</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05pvy5x.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05pvy5x.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05pvy5x.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05pvyhn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05pvyhn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05pvy5x.mp3" fileSize="26928000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1683"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05pvyhn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 19/11/17</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents pieces on a Devon pub admired by Prince Harry, why the future for local papers matters, executive pay and a moment of truth for a woman with breast cancer.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A moment of truth with breast cancer and a Devon pub admired by Prince Harry is for sale</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents pieces on a Devon pub admired by Prince Harry, why the future for local papers matters, executive pay and a moment of truth for a woman with breast cancer.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05nnj06.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:10:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1663</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05nnh1b.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05nnh1b.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05nnh1b.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05nnhy1</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05nnhy1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05nnh1b.mp3" fileSize="26608000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1663"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05nnhy1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Versions Of Reality</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is this the end of the Mugabe era? Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. </p><p>“Which version of reality would you like to read today?” Andrew Harding is asked as he’s offered a selection of newspapers in Zimbabwe. </p><p>Gabriel Gatehouse has been reporting on conflict for more than a decade but the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar has affected him like no other.</p><p>Caroline Bayley finds a surprising splash of red in a grey Moscow suburb – a strawberry firm turning a profit, not from harvesting fruit but producing houses.</p><p>Bethany Bell hears memories of the largest forced migration in European history – of the ethnic Germans made to leave their homes following the Second World War. Their stories have often received little international attention - overshadowed by the crimes of the Nazis.</p><p>And Clive Myrie has fulfilled a childhood dream – that of visiting Yemen. But the architectural wonders he longed to see have been disfigured by bullets and bombs.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Is this the end of the Mugabe era?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Is this the end of the Mugabe era? Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. </p><p>“Which version of reality would you like to read today?” Andrew Harding is asked as he’s offered a selection of newspapers in Zimbabwe. </p><p>Gabriel Gatehouse has been reporting on conflict for more than a decade but the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar has affected him like no other.</p><p>Caroline Bayley finds a surprising splash of red in a grey Moscow suburb – a strawberry firm turning a profit, not from harvesting fruit but producing houses.</p><p>Bethany Bell hears memories of the largest forced migration in European history – of the ethnic Germans made to leave their homes following the Second World War. Their stories have often received little international attention - overshadowed by the crimes of the Nazis.</p><p>And Clive Myrie has fulfilled a childhood dream – that of visiting Yemen. But the architectural wonders he longed to see have been disfigured by bullets and bombs.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1717</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05ng5r8.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05ng5r8.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05ng5r8.mp3" length="27472000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05ng64p</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05ng64p</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05ng5r8.mp3" fileSize="27472000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1717"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05ng64p</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Widows And War Criminals</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kenyan widows fighting sexual cleansing and talking to war criminals in the Balkans. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. </p><p>For some among the Luo tribe in Western Kenya, tradition dictates that widows must have repeated, unprotected sex with a stranger to rid themselves of evil spirits. Theopi Skarlatos meets the women fighting back. </p><p>Mark Urban talks to convicted war criminals from the former Yugoslavia – some accept their sentences and have moved on, others claim they are the victims. </p><p>Mark Stratton visits the Buddhist temple that has been at the heart of a long-running (and sometimes bloody) battle between Thailand and Cambodia. </p><p>Sophie Ribstein embarks on a journey of musical discovery that provides an unexpected insight into the complex rhythms of Apartheid South Africa. </p><p>And Lucy Williamson flies from Paris to the Gulf to spend seven minutes with the supposedly charming Emanuel Macron. He is a President that likes to talk, but what is he like to talk to?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kenyan widows fighting sexual cleansing and talking to war criminals in the Balkans.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kenyan widows fighting sexual cleansing and talking to war criminals in the Balkans. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. </p><p>For some among the Luo tribe in Western Kenya, tradition dictates that widows must have repeated, unprotected sex with a stranger to rid themselves of evil spirits. Theopi Skarlatos meets the women fighting back. </p><p>Mark Urban talks to convicted war criminals from the former Yugoslavia – some accept their sentences and have moved on, others claim they are the victims. </p><p>Mark Stratton visits the Buddhist temple that has been at the heart of a long-running (and sometimes bloody) battle between Thailand and Cambodia. </p><p>Sophie Ribstein embarks on a journey of musical discovery that provides an unexpected insight into the complex rhythms of Apartheid South Africa. </p><p>And Lucy Williamson flies from Paris to the Gulf to spend seven minutes with the supposedly charming Emanuel Macron. He is a President that likes to talk, but what is he like to talk to?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1708</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05n7dyj.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05n7dyj.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05n7dyj.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05n7fm2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05n7fm2</link><itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05n7dyj.mp3" fileSize="27328000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1708"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05n7fm2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Power Plays</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Prince’s purge: Mohammed Bin Salman’s moves to reform Saudi Arabia. Kate Adie introduces stories, wit, and analysis from correspondents around the world.Frank Gardner chronicles the meteoric rise of the Crown Prince reshaping Saudi Arabia.Kate Lamble meets the campaigners struggling to convince Muscovites that Alexei Navalny should be the next Russian President. They complain of political apathy and hostile media.Xavier Zapata mingles with the young Catalonians newly energised and politically engaged by the independence debate but struggling to get their voices heard.
  1956. Andrew Hosken is in Albania where new attempts are underway to investigate the crimes of Enver Hoxha’s brutal dictatorship. Thousands of people were ‘disappeared’ - many ended up in mass graves. And Juliet Rix reports from the Inuit region of Nunavut – the newest, northernmost and largest territory in Canada.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Prince’s purge: Mohammed Bin Salman’s moves to reform Saudi Arabia.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Prince’s purge: Mohammed Bin Salman’s moves to reform Saudi Arabia. Kate Adie introduces stories, wit, and analysis from correspondents around the world.Frank Gardner chronicles the meteoric rise of the Crown Prince reshaping Saudi Arabia.Kate Lamble meets the campaigners struggling to convince Muscovites that Alexei Navalny should be the next Russian President. They complain of political apathy and hostile media.Xavier Zapata mingles with the young Catalonians newly energised and politically engaged by the independence debate but struggling to get their voices heard.
  1957. Andrew Hosken is in Albania where new attempts are underway to investigate the crimes of Enver Hoxha’s brutal dictatorship. Thousands of people were ‘disappeared’ - many ended up in mass graves. And Juliet Rix reports from the Inuit region of Nunavut – the newest, northernmost and largest territory in Canada.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1681</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05mrcfk.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05mrcfk.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05mrcfk.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05mrd24</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05mrd24</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05mrcfk.mp3" fileSize="26896000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1681"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05mrd24</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>We Can’t See An End To It</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Life in cash-strapped Venezuela and a return to war-ravaged Damascus. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories and insights from around the world.
  1958. Katy Watson examines the staying power of Venezuela's ruling party. Despite ongoing shortages of food, medicine, and cash, Nicola Maduro's government has tightened its grip on the country.
  1959. Simon Parker hears renewed talk of independence on the Faroe Islands, an autonomous region of Denmark, but struggles to decipher what independence would actually mean.
  1960. Angellica Bell assesses the damage wrought by Hurricane Maria on the land of her grandfather – Dominica.
  1961. And the travel writer Colin Thubron returns to Damascus fifty years after the publication of his homage to the city. He is surprised to find old friends still there, to stumble through an Old City largely intact, and to be taken in for questioning by the intelligence service. “We can’t see an end to it,” people tell him of the civil war.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Life in cash-strapped Venezuela and a return to war-ravaged Damascus.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Life in cash-strapped Venezuela and a return to war-ravaged Damascus. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories and insights from around the world.
  1962. Katy Watson examines the staying power of Venezuela's ruling party. Despite ongoing shortages of food, medicine, and cash, Nicola Maduro's government has tightened its grip on the country.
  1963. Simon Parker hears renewed talk of independence on the Faroe Islands, an autonomous region of Denmark, but struggles to decipher what independence would actually mean.
  1964. Angellica Bell assesses the damage wrought by Hurricane Maria on the land of her grandfather – Dominica.
  1965. And the travel writer Colin Thubron returns to Damascus fifty years after the publication of his homage to the city. He is surprised to find old friends still there, to stumble through an Old City largely intact, and to be taken in for questioning by the intelligence service. “We can’t see an end to it,” people tell him of the civil war.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05mk2t7.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05mk2t7.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05mk2t7.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05mk3jq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05mk3jq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05mk2t7.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05mk3jq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Wanted Men</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A president in exile? The Brussels' press pack is in pursuit of Carles Puigdemont. Kate Adie introduces stories, wit, and analysis from correspondents around the world.</p><p>It’s been a busy week for Adam Fleming in Belgium, as he tried to track down the sacked Catalan leader and figure out what is really going on.</p><p>Colin Freeman reported from Liberia at the height of the Ebola crisis and has been back to see what has changed. Shaking hands is once again permitted, he finds, and the nation’s health service has been transformed. Justin Rowlatt has a tale of prince and poverty from the ridge forest in Delhi, India. And Amy Guttman is in Okinawa, Japan, home to thousands of American soldiers. </p><p>And Stephen Smith has the story behind Dr Zhivago - one of the best-known love stories of the 20th century.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A president in exile? The Brussels' press pack is in pursuit of Carles Puigdemont.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A president in exile? The Brussels' press pack is in pursuit of Carles Puigdemont. Kate Adie introduces stories, wit, and analysis from correspondents around the world.</p><p>It’s been a busy week for Adam Fleming in Belgium, as he tried to track down the sacked Catalan leader and figure out what is really going on.</p><p>Colin Freeman reported from Liberia at the height of the Ebola crisis and has been back to see what has changed. Shaking hands is once again permitted, he finds, and the nation’s health service has been transformed. Justin Rowlatt has a tale of prince and poverty from the ridge forest in Delhi, India. And Amy Guttman is in Okinawa, Japan, home to thousands of American soldiers. </p><p>And Stephen Smith has the story behind Dr Zhivago - one of the best-known love stories of the 20th century.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05m0w7k.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05m0w7k.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05m0w7k.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05m0wbk</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05m0wbk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05m0w7k.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05m0wbk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Something For The Pain</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Nigerian militants who rely on drugs to fight their fears and the displaced people taking them to forget the violence. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. </p><p>Sally Hayden reports from Madhugiri where the battle against Boko Haram is creating a growing problem with drug abuse.
  1966. Tom Stevenson is in Diyarbakir, the Turkish city which has for decades, been at the heart of the conflict between Kurdish rebels and the state.
  1967. Caroline Eden explores the Brodsky synagogue in Odessa and sifts through its archive which tells of controversies old and new.
  1968. Rahul Tandon finds out that what you wear, what you drive and how you speak can affect which shops and restaurants are willing to take your money in India. It is, he says, one of the most class-conscious societies in the world.
  1969. And David Chazan once owned a work of art worth tens of thousands of pounds – not that he knew it – opting instead to replace it with a coat of blanc cassé on the walls of his Paris flat.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>To fight and to forget - drug abuse in Nigeria.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Nigerian militants who rely on drugs to fight their fears and the displaced people taking them to forget the violence. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. </p><p>Sally Hayden reports from Madhugiri where the battle against Boko Haram is creating a growing problem with drug abuse.
  1970. Tom Stevenson is in Diyarbakir, the Turkish city which has for decades, been at the heart of the conflict between Kurdish rebels and the state.
  1971. Caroline Eden explores the Brodsky synagogue in Odessa and sifts through its archive which tells of controversies old and new.
  1972. Rahul Tandon finds out that what you wear, what you drive and how you speak can affect which shops and restaurants are willing to take your money in India. It is, he says, one of the most class-conscious societies in the world.
  1973. And David Chazan once owned a work of art worth tens of thousands of pounds – not that he knew it – opting instead to replace it with a coat of blanc cassé on the walls of his Paris flat.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2017 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1672</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05lt9lh.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05lt9lh.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05lt9lh.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05ltb3v</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05ltb3v</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05lt9lh.mp3" fileSize="26752000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1672"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05ltb3v</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A New Recipe</title><description><![CDATA[<p>With a political crisis, a push for freedom and talk of vegetables, Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from across the world.
  1974. Guy Hedgecoe is with the unionist Catalans, opposed to independence from Spain of their region.
  1975. In Saudi Arabia, the Crown Prince has called for a return to moderate Islam in the Kingdom. Kirsty Lang sees some noticeable changes for women in the country.
  1976. In the mountains of Nicaragua, Margaret Ward goes off grid but also sees the progress has made in using renewable energy.
  1977. 500 years ago Europe was torn apart by the Reformation. One of the leading actors in it was Martin Luther, and he used a new technology, the printing press to get his message out. Jenny Hill follows in his footsteps.
  1978. The we talk vegetables - tubers, to be precise - with Christine Finn, who reveals which one the people of Vermont voted for.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A political crisis, lifting the veil in Saudi and what vegetable would you vote for?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>With a political crisis, a push for freedom and talk of vegetables, Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from across the world.
  1979. Guy Hedgecoe is with the unionist Catalans, opposed to independence from Spain of their region.
  1980. In Saudi Arabia, the Crown Prince has called for a return to moderate Islam in the Kingdom. Kirsty Lang sees some noticeable changes for women in the country.
  1981. In the mountains of Nicaragua, Margaret Ward goes off grid but also sees the progress has made in using renewable energy.
  1982. 500 years ago Europe was torn apart by the Reformation. One of the leading actors in it was Martin Luther, and he used a new technology, the printing press to get his message out. Jenny Hill follows in his footsteps.
  1983. The we talk vegetables - tubers, to be precise - with Christine Finn, who reveals which one the people of Vermont voted for.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05l8qt1.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05l8qt1.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05l8qt1.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05l8qvg</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05l8qvg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05l8qt1.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05l8qvg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Rules of the Game</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Why women must walk fast and certainly not answer back in Egypt. Shaimaa Khalil remembers a childhood episode which impacts her even now when she visits her home city. James Coomarasamy is in the Russian countryside, where having links to President Putin can stave off the poverty affecting many other areas. Canada's healthcare system is often touted as one of the best, but Sian Griffiths finds that even here they're struggling to cope with an opioid crisis. Cricket isn't usually associated with Francophone countries. Yet in Rwanda, it's giving the country something else to be remembered for, as Jake Warren hears. And Jack Garland visits the Florida high school with a special connection to American football, to see if they're taking a knee during the national anthem.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Why women must walk fast in Egypt and not answer back. And balls,bails and bats in Rwanda</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Why women must walk fast and certainly not answer back in Egypt. Shaimaa Khalil remembers a childhood episode which impacts her even now when she visits her home city. James Coomarasamy is in the Russian countryside, where having links to President Putin can stave off the poverty affecting many other areas. Canada's healthcare system is often touted as one of the best, but Sian Griffiths finds that even here they're struggling to cope with an opioid crisis. Cricket isn't usually associated with Francophone countries. Yet in Rwanda, it's giving the country something else to be remembered for, as Jake Warren hears. And Jack Garland visits the Florida high school with a special connection to American football, to see if they're taking a knee during the national anthem.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2017 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05l1g89.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05l1g89.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05l1g89.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05l1grd</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05l1grd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05l1g89.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05l1grd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 22/10/17</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents more reflections on life in Britain today, including diesel car dilemmas, a mother remembers her army son and picking up the pieces after devastating floods</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>What to do with a diesel car, bureaucracy frustrates remembrance and cleaning up a flood</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents more reflections on life in Britain today, including diesel car dilemmas, a mother remembers her army son and picking up the pieces after devastating floods</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05khtlh.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2017 12:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1668</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05khswl.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05khswl.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05khswl.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05khtjz</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05khtjz</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05khswl.mp3" fileSize="26688000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1668"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05khtjz</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>This Time It's Different</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Twisted metal, smashed concrete and anger on the streets of Mogadishu. Bridget Kendall introduces stories, analysis, and insight from correspondents around the world. </p><p>After decades of war and years of terror attacks Somalia has seen a lot of violence, but this time it’s different says Alistair Leithead following the truck bomb which killed hundreds of people in the capital.
  1984. As the Chinese Communist Party meets for its five-yearly congress, Carrie Gracie goes underground on the Beijing subway to gauge the mood in the city.
  1985. John Sweeney is in Malta where the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, has raised questions about corruption and organised crime.
  1986. Linda Pressly reports from Sweden where hundreds of migrant children appear to have switched off from the world around them – refusing to talk, eat or get out of bed. How can 'Resignation Syndrome' be cured?
  1987. And on the Faroe Islands, Tim Ecott joins the annual gannet hunt – the young birds are a prized local delicacy.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Twisted metal, smashed concrete and anger on the streets of Mogadishu.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Twisted metal, smashed concrete and anger on the streets of Mogadishu. Bridget Kendall introduces stories, analysis, and insight from correspondents around the world. </p><p>After decades of war and years of terror attacks Somalia has seen a lot of violence, but this time it’s different says Alistair Leithead following the truck bomb which killed hundreds of people in the capital.
  1988. As the Chinese Communist Party meets for its five-yearly congress, Carrie Gracie goes underground on the Beijing subway to gauge the mood in the city.
  1989. John Sweeney is in Malta where the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, has raised questions about corruption and organised crime.
  1990. Linda Pressly reports from Sweden where hundreds of migrant children appear to have switched off from the world around them – refusing to talk, eat or get out of bed. How can 'Resignation Syndrome' be cured?
  1991. And on the Faroe Islands, Tim Ecott joins the annual gannet hunt – the young birds are a prized local delicacy.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1683</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05kk8k8.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05kk8k8.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05kk8k8.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05kk8w4</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05kk8w4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05kk8k8.mp3" fileSize="26928000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1683"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05kk8w4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Close Shave</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Continued confusion has taken its toll on Catalonia since the disputed referendum. Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world.
  1992. On the streets and at the school gates the question of independence is dividing the people of Barcelona. It is also disrupting their lives finds Pascale Harter.
  1993. Owen Bennett-Jones hears tales of abandoned babies in Pakistan; unwanted infants hurled into ice-cold rivers and others saved from disaster by caring strangers. </p><p>Mike Wendling meets masked Antifa activists in America. Who are these left-wing activists? And what do they really want?
  1994. Lucy Ash explores an often forgotten chapter in the history of WW1 – the invasion of Russia by Britain, Canada and the US.
  1995. And Leon McCarron has a shave in a barbers on the West Bank and gets a lesson in the history of the Samaritans.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Continued confusion has taken its toll on Catalonia since the disputed referendum.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Continued confusion has taken its toll on Catalonia since the disputed referendum. Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world.
  1996. On the streets and at the school gates the question of independence is dividing the people of Barcelona. It is also disrupting their lives finds Pascale Harter.
  1997. Owen Bennett-Jones hears tales of abandoned babies in Pakistan; unwanted infants hurled into ice-cold rivers and others saved from disaster by caring strangers. </p><p>Mike Wendling meets masked Antifa activists in America. Who are these left-wing activists? And what do they really want?
  1998. Lucy Ash explores an often forgotten chapter in the history of WW1 – the invasion of Russia by Britain, Canada and the US.
  1999. And Leon McCarron has a shave in a barbers on the West Bank and gets a lesson in the history of the Samaritans.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05kc6n0.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05kc6n0.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05kc6n0.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05kc77n</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05kc77n</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05kc6n0.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05kc77n</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Convicted Warlord, His Ex-Wife And A Footballer</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Election day was peaceful in Liberia, but are sinister forces at play? Kate Adie introduces analysis, wit, and story-telling from correspondents around the world.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie introduces analysis, wit, and storytelling from correspondents around the world</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Election day was peaceful in Liberia, but are sinister forces at play? Kate Adie introduces analysis, wit, and story-telling from correspondents around the world.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:43:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1664</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05k2w0l.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05k2w0l.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05k2w0l.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05k2zgb</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05k2zgb</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05k2w0l.mp3" fileSize="26624000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1664"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05k2zgb</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Exorcising The Past</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The spiritualists selling costly ‘cures’ and offering exorcisms for mental health problems. Kate Adie introduces stories, wit, and analysis from correspondents around the world.
  2000. Nicola Kelly is in Zanzibar where spiritual healers are getting rich as the country struggles to deal with rising demand for mental health services.
  2001. Mark Lowen ponders what the future may hold for Iraqi Kurdistan.
  2002. Zeinab Badawi explores Charleston in America’s Deep South. The carefully maintained Georgina houses are impressive, but look closely and the marks of the child slaves’ hands that built them are still visible.
  2003. Phoebe Smith visits a restaurant for vultures in Nepal.
  2004. And Hugh Schofield has become a dad again. He’s discovering that a lot has changed in France since his last child was born 18 years ago.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The spiritualists selling ‘cures’ and offering exorcisms for mental health problems</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The spiritualists selling costly ‘cures’ and offering exorcisms for mental health problems. Kate Adie introduces stories, wit, and analysis from correspondents around the world.
  2005. Nicola Kelly is in Zanzibar where spiritual healers are getting rich as the country struggles to deal with rising demand for mental health services.
  2006. Mark Lowen ponders what the future may hold for Iraqi Kurdistan.
  2007. Zeinab Badawi explores Charleston in America’s Deep South. The carefully maintained Georgina houses are impressive, but look closely and the marks of the child slaves’ hands that built them are still visible.
  2008. Phoebe Smith visits a restaurant for vultures in Nepal.
  2009. And Hugh Schofield has become a dad again. He’s discovering that a lot has changed in France since his last child was born 18 years ago.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05jxzgh.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05jxzgh.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05jxzgh.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05jxzpg</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05jxzpg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05jxzgh.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05jxzpg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>America's 51st State?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Hurricane Maria has exposed the complex relationship between Puerto Rico and the mainland USA. Kate Adie introduces insight, wit, and analysis from correspondents around the world.</p><p>Puerto Ricans are getting used to a new way of life on their storm-ravaged island but not, they tell Aleem Maqbool, getting the help they need from the rest of the United States. </p><p>In France, Stephen Sackur assesses President Macron’s chances of rebooting the nation’s economy and asks whether history is repeating itself. </p><p>John Sweeney is in Mesquite, once the hometown of Stephen Paddock, as he searches for clues as to what may have motivated the deadliest mass murder in modern America. </p><p>In Somalia, Yasmin Ahmed hears young men's dreams of footballing glory and life in Europe – at whatever cost. </p><p>And Justin Rowlatt has a confession to make.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Hurricane Maria exposes the complex relationship between Puerto Rico and the mainland USA</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Hurricane Maria has exposed the complex relationship between Puerto Rico and the mainland USA. Kate Adie introduces insight, wit, and analysis from correspondents around the world.</p><p>Puerto Ricans are getting used to a new way of life on their storm-ravaged island but not, they tell Aleem Maqbool, getting the help they need from the rest of the United States. </p><p>In France, Stephen Sackur assesses President Macron’s chances of rebooting the nation’s economy and asks whether history is repeating itself. </p><p>John Sweeney is in Mesquite, once the hometown of Stephen Paddock, as he searches for clues as to what may have motivated the deadliest mass murder in modern America. </p><p>In Somalia, Yasmin Ahmed hears young men's dreams of footballing glory and life in Europe – at whatever cost. </p><p>And Justin Rowlatt has a confession to make.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1666</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05j9kvk.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05j9kvk.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05j9kvk.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05j9lhw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05j9lhw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05j9kvk.mp3" fileSize="26656000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1666"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05j9lhw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 17/09/2017</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents dispatches on one family's fraught experience with sepsis, the night Jimi Hendrix played Ilkley and the prospects for coracle fishing in West Wales.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Ilkley's Hendrix experience, one family's struggle with sepsis and Welsh coracle fishing</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents dispatches on one family's fraught experience with sepsis, the night Jimi Hendrix played Ilkley and the prospects for coracle fishing in West Wales.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05htzy5.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2017 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05htzjl.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05htzjl.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05htzjl.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05htzxj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05htzxj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05htzjl.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05htzxj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Raqqa In Ruins</title><description><![CDATA[<p>It's as if doomsday had arrived early in Raqqa as bats swoop over the remains of the city. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories and analysis from around the world. </p><p>In Syria, Quentin Sommerville finds a city which had been occupied and terrorised by the so-called Islamic State and is now being destroyed by a thousand blows from coalition airstrikes.</p><p>In Colombia, Katy Watson reports from the border bridge which 25,000 Venezuelans cross each day. Most do so in search of food and medicine, but more and more are deciding to stay. </p><p>In South Africa, Milton Nkosi worries that history is repeating itself with the recent spate of political killings in KwaZulu Natal. </p><p>In America’s Deep South, Fleur Macdonald joins fellow MacDonalds, Alexanders, Johnsons, MacSweeneys and MacWhannells as they celebrate their Scottish heritage and their allegiance to Clan Donald. </p><p>And in Spain, Chris Bockman visits what was Europe's second-biggest train station, but was left to rot and rust. Today the terminal in Canfranc attracts more curious visitors than it ever did passengers. </p><p>Producer: Joe Kent</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>It's as if doomsday had arrived early in Raqqa as bats swoop over the remains of the city</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>It's as if doomsday had arrived early in Raqqa as bats swoop over the remains of the city. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories and analysis from around the world. </p><p>In Syria, Quentin Sommerville finds a city which had been occupied and terrorised by the so-called Islamic State and is now being destroyed by a thousand blows from coalition airstrikes.</p><p>In Colombia, Katy Watson reports from the border bridge which 25,000 Venezuelans cross each day. Most do so in search of food and medicine, but more and more are deciding to stay. </p><p>In South Africa, Milton Nkosi worries that history is repeating itself with the recent spate of political killings in KwaZulu Natal. </p><p>In America’s Deep South, Fleur Macdonald joins fellow MacDonalds, Alexanders, Johnsons, MacSweeneys and MacWhannells as they celebrate their Scottish heritage and their allegiance to Clan Donald. </p><p>And in Spain, Chris Bockman visits what was Europe's second-biggest train station, but was left to rot and rust. Today the terminal in Canfranc attracts more curious visitors than it ever did passengers. </p><p>Producer: Joe Kent</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2017 09:44:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1681</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05hnv1r.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05hnv1r.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05hnv1r.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05hny6y</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05hny6y</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05hnv1r.mp3" fileSize="26896000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1681"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05hny6y</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Clinging To Hope</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The rescue workers sifting through the rubble in Mexico and the African migrants that refuse to give up on their European dreams.  Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories.  </p><p>In Mexico City, Rajini Vaidyanathan joins the search for survivors following the earthquake earlier this week. Benjamin Zand follows the deadly migrant route through Niger, Nigeria, and Libya which thousands of people pass along in the hope of reaching Europe. Steve Rosenberg takes a Magical Mystery Tour with the Russian military in Syria. Rosamund Jones visits the Icelandic isle of Grimsey – population 80 people and hundreds of thousands of birds. And Neil Trevithick visits the forests of Myanmar, where people have suffered but wildlife has been left to flourish.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents’ stories: from the rubble in Mexico to the African migrant trail.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The rescue workers sifting through the rubble in Mexico and the African migrants that refuse to give up on their European dreams.  Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories.  </p><p>In Mexico City, Rajini Vaidyanathan joins the search for survivors following the earthquake earlier this week. Benjamin Zand follows the deadly migrant route through Niger, Nigeria, and Libya which thousands of people pass along in the hope of reaching Europe. Steve Rosenberg takes a Magical Mystery Tour with the Russian military in Syria. Rosamund Jones visits the Icelandic isle of Grimsey – population 80 people and hundreds of thousands of birds. And Neil Trevithick visits the forests of Myanmar, where people have suffered but wildlife has been left to flourish.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1656</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05h0z10.mp3" length="26496000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05h0z10.mp3" length="26496000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05h0z10.mp3" length="26496000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05h0zq9</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05h0zq9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05h0z10.mp3" fileSize="26496000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1656"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05h0zq9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Hard To Read</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A tour of Angela Merkel’s childhood, swapping books with Kurdish fighters and reading the landscape of Gabon. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories.</p><p>Jenny Hill visits the town where Angela Merkel grew up as she tries to learn more about the notoriously private politician. </p><p>Richard Hall’s repeated trips to the Qandil mountains of Iraq allow him to assess the evolution of the PKK. But is a copy of Hemingway’s ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’ an appropriate gift for a battle-hardened Kurdish commander fighting IS?</p><p>Nick Thorpe meets the migrants trying to cross the Hungary-Serbia border and Robin Banerji visits the Indian city where biryani was invented, or so some locals claim. </p><p>And Andy Jones learns how the Baka hunter-gatherers of Gabon are turning their mastery of the country's tropical forests against the poachers who prowl the region.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A tour of Angela Merkel’s childhood and other tales from our correspondents.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A tour of Angela Merkel’s childhood, swapping books with Kurdish fighters and reading the landscape of Gabon. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories.</p><p>Jenny Hill visits the town where Angela Merkel grew up as she tries to learn more about the notoriously private politician. </p><p>Richard Hall’s repeated trips to the Qandil mountains of Iraq allow him to assess the evolution of the PKK. But is a copy of Hemingway’s ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’ an appropriate gift for a battle-hardened Kurdish commander fighting IS?</p><p>Nick Thorpe meets the migrants trying to cross the Hungary-Serbia border and Robin Banerji visits the Indian city where biryani was invented, or so some locals claim. </p><p>And Andy Jones learns how the Baka hunter-gatherers of Gabon are turning their mastery of the country's tropical forests against the poachers who prowl the region.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2017 11:05:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05g8y0b.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05g8y0b.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05g8y0b.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05g8zdy</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05g8zdy</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05g8y0b.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05g8zdy</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Rohingya Running For Their Lives</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories and analysis from around the world - including from the Bangladeshi border, where we meet the Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar. Sanjoy Majumder is on the banks of the Naf River as families arrive by the boatload trying to escape Rakhine state. </p><p>In Uganda, Ruth Alexander finds out what it’s like to try and build a home and a new life in the country often applauded for its generous policy towards refugees. </p><p>In Germany, Damien McGuiness meets the “elite hipsters” of Berlin living in a parallel, English-speaking society.</p><p>In Russia, Martin Vennard joins the back to school celebrations on the Day of Knowledge. </p><p>And in Colombia, Mark Rickards witnesses an extraordinary race around the country and explores how cycling is helping to bring together a once divided nation.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>On the Bangladeshi border, we meet the Rohingya fleeing violence in Mynamar.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories and analysis from around the world - including from the Bangladeshi border, where we meet the Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar. Sanjoy Majumder is on the banks of the Naf River as families arrive by the boatload trying to escape Rakhine state. </p><p>In Uganda, Ruth Alexander finds out what it’s like to try and build a home and a new life in the country often applauded for its generous policy towards refugees. </p><p>In Germany, Damien McGuiness meets the “elite hipsters” of Berlin living in a parallel, English-speaking society.</p><p>In Russia, Martin Vennard joins the back to school celebrations on the Day of Knowledge. </p><p>And in Colombia, Mark Rickards witnesses an extraordinary race around the country and explores how cycling is helping to bring together a once divided nation.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1679</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05fl4qp.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05fl4qp.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05fl4qp.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05fl4wn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05fl4wn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05fl4qp.mp3" fileSize="26864000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1679"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05fl4wn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>“That’s the Judicial Process.”</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches by: Yolande Knell in Qaraqosh, who observes Iraq's trials of people accused of fighting for so-called Islamic State; Martin Patience, who takes his leave of Nigeria with mixed emotions after a two-year stay; Matthew Hill in Sri Lanka, who finds that the strains and tensions between those who govern and many of those whom they govern are intensifying; Harriet Constable, who reports from Kenya on the increasingly violent and costly incidence of sand harvesting; and Hywel Griffith visits one of Australia's many micro-nations to meet the white-bearded Prince Paul of Wy to discover why he has set up his own realm.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Iraq tries alleged fighters of so-called IS, Sri Lankan unrest and a farewell to Nigeria.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches by: Yolande Knell in Qaraqosh, who observes Iraq's trials of people accused of fighting for so-called Islamic State; Martin Patience, who takes his leave of Nigeria with mixed emotions after a two-year stay; Matthew Hill in Sri Lanka, who finds that the strains and tensions between those who govern and many of those whom they govern are intensifying; Harriet Constable, who reports from Kenya on the increasingly violent and costly incidence of sand harvesting; and Hywel Griffith visits one of Australia's many micro-nations to meet the white-bearded Prince Paul of Wy to discover why he has set up his own realm.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2017 10:55:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1662</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05dyzpd.mp3" length="26592000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05dyzpd.mp3" length="26592000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05dyzpd.mp3" length="26592000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05dz02z</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05dz02z</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05dyzpd.mp3" fileSize="26592000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1662"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05dz02z</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Aftermath</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Catalonia's uncertain future, Sierra Leone after the mudslide, Ethiopia embraces industrialisation, Uzbekistan's Soviet era bus shelters and reflections from a Macedonian nail bar</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Dispatches on the Catalonian attacks, Ethiopia's industrial future and Uzbek bus shelters</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Catalonia's uncertain future, Sierra Leone after the mudslide, Ethiopia embraces industrialisation, Uzbekistan's Soviet era bus shelters and reflections from a Macedonian nail bar</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2017 11:16:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05dd39y.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05dd39y.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05dd39y.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05dd442</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05dd442</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05dd39y.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05dd442</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Calm On Guam</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Despite the threat from North Korea to fire missiles towards Guam, we find a surprising calm on the island. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world.</p><p>From Guam, Rupert Wingfield Hayes has the latest developments in the war of words between the US and North Korea. </p><p>Secunder Kermani hears tales of the horrific violence that followed the Partition of India 70 years ago but finds little remorse amongst some of its perpetrators. </p><p>Hannah Armstrong visits Cape Verde where European migrants are starting new lives in Africa. </p><p>In Cuba, Will Grant finds that the 'battle against bureaucracy', launched by the late Fidel Castro in 1965, is far from over. Simple tasks like paying your rent can still take hours. </p><p>And in Swedish Lapland, Elizabeth Hotson goes down to the woods in search of a big surprise, and a bear.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Despite the threat of North Korean missiles, we find a surprising calm on Guam.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Despite the threat from North Korea to fire missiles towards Guam, we find a surprising calm on the island. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world.</p><p>From Guam, Rupert Wingfield Hayes has the latest developments in the war of words between the US and North Korea. </p><p>Secunder Kermani hears tales of the horrific violence that followed the Partition of India 70 years ago but finds little remorse amongst some of its perpetrators. </p><p>Hannah Armstrong visits Cape Verde where European migrants are starting new lives in Africa. </p><p>In Cuba, Will Grant finds that the 'battle against bureaucracy', launched by the late Fidel Castro in 1965, is far from over. Simple tasks like paying your rent can still take hours. </p><p>And in Swedish Lapland, Elizabeth Hotson goes down to the woods in search of a big surprise, and a bear.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:40:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1683</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05d7d06.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05d7d06.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05d7d06.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05d7d7d</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05d7d7d</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05d7d06.mp3" fileSize="26928000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1683"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05d7d7d</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 21/08/2017</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents stories on modern pilgrimage, British Asians' Partition experiences, reviving an ancient festival in Cornwall, a special stonemason and a cow man's reprieve</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>British Asians on Partition, a dairy farmer's vending machine and a modern pilgrimage</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents stories on modern pilgrimage, British Asians' Partition experiences, reviving an ancient festival in Cornwall, a special stonemason and a cow man's reprieve</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p05cy7qb.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2017 11:11:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1677</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05cy6st.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05cy6st.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05cy6st.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05cy7nq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05cy7nq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05cy6st.mp3" fileSize="26832000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1677"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05cy7nq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>An Act of Striking Bravado</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Marshal Khalifa Haftar has big ambitions for his army and his country, but what is the military strongman's vision for Libya? Caroline Wyatt introduces correspondents' stories.</p><p>Stephen Sackur has some challenging questions for The Marshal in Benghazi, but will he get to ask them? </p><p>In Liberia, Olivia Acland visits the Hotel Ducor and reflects on what it reveals about the country. It once attracted world leaders with its 5-star luxury - now it lies in ruins. </p><p>For an insight into President Duterte's ongoing war on drugs in the Philippines, Colin Freeman heads to a morgue in Manila and joins some crime reporters on their night shift. </p><p>In Italy, Dany Mitzman samples a plate of slippery, squidgy jellyfish. The ‘eat it to beat it’ movement offers a novel, and for some unpalatable, solution to dealing with invasive species.</p><p>And, what to say to a border guard? Tim Whewell tries to talk his way into Abkhazia – a largely forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union.</p><p>Producer: Joe Kent</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Can Marshal Khalifa Haftar rebuild Benghazi or even Libya?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Marshal Khalifa Haftar has big ambitions for his army and his country, but what is the military strongman's vision for Libya? Caroline Wyatt introduces correspondents' stories.</p><p>Stephen Sackur has some challenging questions for The Marshal in Benghazi, but will he get to ask them? </p><p>In Liberia, Olivia Acland visits the Hotel Ducor and reflects on what it reveals about the country. It once attracted world leaders with its 5-star luxury - now it lies in ruins. </p><p>For an insight into President Duterte's ongoing war on drugs in the Philippines, Colin Freeman heads to a morgue in Manila and joins some crime reporters on their night shift. </p><p>In Italy, Dany Mitzman samples a plate of slippery, squidgy jellyfish. The ‘eat it to beat it’ movement offers a novel, and for some unpalatable, solution to dealing with invasive species.</p><p>And, what to say to a border guard? Tim Whewell tries to talk his way into Abkhazia – a largely forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union.</p><p>Producer: Joe Kent</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1699</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05c6gc6.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05c6gc6.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05c6gc6.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05c6hcj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05c6hcj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05c6gc6.mp3" fileSize="27184000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1699"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05c6hcj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Fear, Foreboding &amp; Fake News In Kenya</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Strange and sinister things often happen before Kenyan elections, but recent events have left the country in shock. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' tales and insights:</p><p>In Nairobi, Alastair Leithead analyses the fallout from the murder and torture of the Kenyan election commission’s head of technology. </p><p>In Italy, Bob Walker walks the Francigena pilgrim trail amidst apocalyptic scenes caused by the wildfires that are sweeping parts of the country. </p><p>In Romania, Linda Pressly enters the world of online pornography as she explores the country’s growing live webcamming industry. </p><p>In Venezuela, political turmoil continues and Vladimir Hernandez wonders what's driving so many people to risk their lives in the ongoing street protests.</p><p>And in Germany, Rob Crossan visits the place that Elvis Presley once called home and is now preparing to remember ‘The King‘ 40 years after his death. Bad Nauheim is the town that gave him the GI Blues. </p><p>Producer: Joe Kent</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Strange and sinister things often happen before Kenyan elections</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Strange and sinister things often happen before Kenyan elections, but recent events have left the country in shock. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' tales and insights:</p><p>In Nairobi, Alastair Leithead analyses the fallout from the murder and torture of the Kenyan election commission’s head of technology. </p><p>In Italy, Bob Walker walks the Francigena pilgrim trail amidst apocalyptic scenes caused by the wildfires that are sweeping parts of the country. </p><p>In Romania, Linda Pressly enters the world of online pornography as she explores the country’s growing live webcamming industry. </p><p>In Venezuela, political turmoil continues and Vladimir Hernandez wonders what's driving so many people to risk their lives in the ongoing street protests.</p><p>And in Germany, Rob Crossan visits the place that Elvis Presley once called home and is now preparing to remember ‘The King‘ 40 years after his death. Bad Nauheim is the town that gave him the GI Blues. </p><p>Producer: Joe Kent</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05blpnc.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05blpnc.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05blpnc.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05blql5</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05blql5</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05blpnc.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05blql5</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Fridge Magnets And Foreign Policy</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Afghanistan’s new Top Guns and America’s dilemma over sending more US troops to the region.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Afghanistan’s new Top Guns</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Afghanistan’s new Top Guns and America’s dilemma over sending more US troops to the region.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2017 13:11:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05bbz4v.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05bbz4v.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05bbz4v.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05bc0m6</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05bc0m6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05bbz4v.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05bc0m6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 23/07/2017</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents reports from Jersey as a childhood islander returns, from Birmingham's closing greyhound stadium, plus the reflections of an ex-children's television star.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Grenfell Tower's locale, Swansea's drug roads, Jersey and a Brummie dog track all feature</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents reports from Jersey as a childhood islander returns, from Birmingham's closing greyhound stadium, plus the reflections of an ex-children's television star.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p059bnkv.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2017 12:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p059731d.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p059731d.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p059731d.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p059bnk9</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p059bnk9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p059731d.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p059bnk9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Heat Is On</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Gaza's power struggle: the city where mains electricity is available for two hours a day. Kate Adie introduces this and other reports from Italy, Alaska, Nigeria and the Black Sea.</p><p>The UN has said that conditions in Gaza are becoming increasingly "unliveable". Education and healthcare are declining, and energy is becoming increasingly scarce. Yolande Knell visits some old acquaintances to find out how Gazans are managing.</p><p>Tim Whewell takes a ferry across the Black Sea joining the Ukrainians, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Kazakh and Uzbek truckers seeking routes that avoid Russia. </p><p>In Sicily, Manuela Saragosa meets a wine maker trying to resist the rural mafia which wants his land. </p><p>Claire Marshall gets a glimpse of the fast-disappearing Inupiat way of life in Alaska, and eats a glistening chunk of whale meat. </p><p>And Alastair Leithead joins the celebrations marking 50 years since the creation of Lagos State in Nigeria.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Gaza's power struggle: the city where mains electricity is available for two hours a day.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Gaza's power struggle: the city where mains electricity is available for two hours a day. Kate Adie introduces this and other reports from Italy, Alaska, Nigeria and the Black Sea.</p><p>The UN has said that conditions in Gaza are becoming increasingly "unliveable". Education and healthcare are declining, and energy is becoming increasingly scarce. Yolande Knell visits some old acquaintances to find out how Gazans are managing.</p><p>Tim Whewell takes a ferry across the Black Sea joining the Ukrainians, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Kazakh and Uzbek truckers seeking routes that avoid Russia. </p><p>In Sicily, Manuela Saragosa meets a wine maker trying to resist the rural mafia which wants his land. </p><p>Claire Marshall gets a glimpse of the fast-disappearing Inupiat way of life in Alaska, and eats a glistening chunk of whale meat. </p><p>And Alastair Leithead joins the celebrations marking 50 years since the creation of Lagos State in Nigeria.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1695</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p059d519.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p059d519.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p059d519.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p059d5f1</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p059d5f1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p059d519.mp3" fileSize="27120000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1695"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p059d5f1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Closed Notebook</title><description><![CDATA[<p>People spotting, chance encounters, briefings in the pub - trying to decipher how Brexit negotiations are progressing. Kate Adie introduces this and other correspondents’ stories.</p><p>In Brussels, Adam Fleming is following negotiations on Britain’s exit from the European Union, but finding out what is going on is not easy, he finds.</p><p>In Uganda, Catherine Byaruhanga visits the place that has become home to more than 250,000 people who’ve fled war in South Sudan. Bidi Bidi is now one of the largest refugee settlements in the world. </p><p>Jake Wallis Simons spots signs of cooperation between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and asses an unlikely Middle-Eastern alliance.</p><p>Megha Mohan meets a Belarusian model hoping to make it as an online star in China.</p><p>And in Spain, Andy Jones tries not to look down as he edges along Malaga’s scary Caminito Del Rey.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Shouted questions, briefings in the pub . .  trying to make sense of Brexit negotiations.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>People spotting, chance encounters, briefings in the pub - trying to decipher how Brexit negotiations are progressing. Kate Adie introduces this and other correspondents’ stories.</p><p>In Brussels, Adam Fleming is following negotiations on Britain’s exit from the European Union, but finding out what is going on is not easy, he finds.</p><p>In Uganda, Catherine Byaruhanga visits the place that has become home to more than 250,000 people who’ve fled war in South Sudan. Bidi Bidi is now one of the largest refugee settlements in the world. </p><p>Jake Wallis Simons spots signs of cooperation between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and asses an unlikely Middle-Eastern alliance.</p><p>Megha Mohan meets a Belarusian model hoping to make it as an online star in China.</p><p>And in Spain, Andy Jones tries not to look down as he edges along Malaga’s scary Caminito Del Rey.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1672</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0595nk1.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0595nk1.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0595nk1.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0595p38</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0595p38</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0595nk1.mp3" fileSize="26752000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1672"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0595p38</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Battle For Our Beliefs</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Retaking Raqqa, revulsion in South Africa, and remembering an attempted coup in Turkey. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. </p><p>From Syria, Gabriel Gatehouse brings a tale of two women. One is a young Kurdish fighter trying to drive out the so called Islamic State from their de facto capital Raqqa. The other is an unrepentant jihadi bride. </p><p>One year on from the failed coup in Turkey, Mark Lowen finds a nation divided and defensive. </p><p>In Russia, the men who killed the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov may be behind bars, but that doesn’t mean we know the whole story, says Sarah Rainsford who was in court for much of their nine-month long trial. </p><p>There is no shortage of scandal in South Africa, says Andrew Harding, who has the latest on ‘state capture’ and corruption. </p><p>And Carrie Gracie reveals all about her 7,500-mile journey from China to the UK, following the route of the new Silk Road. Scorching sands, smelly camels, and dodgy lodgings are just some of the challenges she and her team faced.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Retaking Raqqa, revulsion in South Africa, and remembering an attempted coup in Turkey.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Retaking Raqqa, revulsion in South Africa, and remembering an attempted coup in Turkey. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. </p><p>From Syria, Gabriel Gatehouse brings a tale of two women. One is a young Kurdish fighter trying to drive out the so called Islamic State from their de facto capital Raqqa. The other is an unrepentant jihadi bride. </p><p>One year on from the failed coup in Turkey, Mark Lowen finds a nation divided and defensive. </p><p>In Russia, the men who killed the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov may be behind bars, but that doesn’t mean we know the whole story, says Sarah Rainsford who was in court for much of their nine-month long trial. </p><p>There is no shortage of scandal in South Africa, says Andrew Harding, who has the latest on ‘state capture’ and corruption. </p><p>And Carrie Gracie reveals all about her 7,500-mile journey from China to the UK, following the route of the new Silk Road. Scorching sands, smelly camels, and dodgy lodgings are just some of the challenges she and her team faced.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1692</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p058rrb8.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p058rrb8.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p058rrb8.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p058rrlv</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p058rrlv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p058rrb8.mp3" fileSize="27072000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1692"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p058rrlv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Fight Goes On</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Myanmar’s drug vigilantes, on the front-line in Mosul, and the mystical music of Morocco. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Myanmar’s drug vigilantes, on the front-line in Mosul, and the mystical music of Morocco</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Myanmar’s drug vigilantes, on the front-line in Mosul, and the mystical music of Morocco. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2017 10:49:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1653</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p058k8fz.mp3" length="26448000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p058k8fz.mp3" length="26448000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p058k8fz.mp3" length="26448000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p058k9sr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p058k9sr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p058k8fz.mp3" fileSize="26448000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1653"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p058k9sr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Talk of War</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Nuclear fears in South Korea, a homeless tour of Athens, and a porcupine hunt in Tanzania. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world. </p><p>Talk of war is worrying Steve Evans in the South Korean capital Seoul - he now fears for the future of his home city. In Italy, Nick Sturdee finds plain-clothes policemen following anti-migrant campaigners, while a TV drama is being filmed about the mayor opening up his town to Syrians, Bangladeshis and others. ‘Migrants wanted’ is the message Mark Stratton finds on Pitcairn Island – the British Overseas Territory with a dwindling population in the southern Pacific Ocean. Heidi Fuller-Love takes a tour of the Athens; guided by a former homeless drug addict, she’s introduced to sights of Greece most tourists are oblivious to. And in Tanzania, Dan Saladino joins one of the last remaining groups of hunter-gathers as they search for lunch.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Nuclear fears in South Korea, a homeless tour of Athens, and a porcupine hunt in Tanzania</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Nuclear fears in South Korea, a homeless tour of Athens, and a porcupine hunt in Tanzania. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world. </p><p>Talk of war is worrying Steve Evans in the South Korean capital Seoul - he now fears for the future of his home city. In Italy, Nick Sturdee finds plain-clothes policemen following anti-migrant campaigners, while a TV drama is being filmed about the mayor opening up his town to Syrians, Bangladeshis and others. ‘Migrants wanted’ is the message Mark Stratton finds on Pitcairn Island – the British Overseas Territory with a dwindling population in the southern Pacific Ocean. Heidi Fuller-Love takes a tour of the Athens; guided by a former homeless drug addict, she’s introduced to sights of Greece most tourists are oblivious to. And in Tanzania, Dan Saladino joins one of the last remaining groups of hunter-gathers as they search for lunch.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1658</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0583q5v.mp3" length="26528000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0583q5v.mp3" length="26528000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0583q5v.mp3" length="26528000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0583qgc</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0583qgc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0583q5v.mp3" fileSize="26528000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1658"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0583qgc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Strange Locations and Free Minds</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A nightmare ferry journey in The Gambia, a musical metro ride under East Berlin and a Shakespearean train journey in Russia. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. </p><p>In Pakistan, Secunder Kermani explores why the university student Mashal Khan, who was accused of blasphemy, ended up beaten to death by an angry mob on campus. </p><p>In The Gambia, Shaimaa Khalil makes the long and arduous commute across the River Gambia. The ferries – which are often over-crowed and much delayed - are the only way for many people to reach the capital Banjul.
  2010. As Brexit negotiations continue, Kevin Connolly recalls his first trip to ‘The Continent‘ in the year that Britain joined what was to become the European Union. </p><p>In Russian, Kirsty Lang finds that cultural ties to Britain remain strong, despite souring diplomatic relations. </p><p>And despite attempts to keep Western music out of East Germany during the Cold War, Chris Bowlby discovers that, in strange locations and in free minds, many refused to dance to the communist tune.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A nightmare ferry crossing, a musical metro ride and a Shakespearean train journey.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A nightmare ferry journey in The Gambia, a musical metro ride under East Berlin and a Shakespearean train journey in Russia. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. </p><p>In Pakistan, Secunder Kermani explores why the university student Mashal Khan, who was accused of blasphemy, ended up beaten to death by an angry mob on campus. </p><p>In The Gambia, Shaimaa Khalil makes the long and arduous commute across the River Gambia. The ferries – which are often over-crowed and much delayed - are the only way for many people to reach the capital Banjul.
  2011. As Brexit negotiations continue, Kevin Connolly recalls his first trip to ‘The Continent‘ in the year that Britain joined what was to become the European Union. </p><p>In Russian, Kirsty Lang finds that cultural ties to Britain remain strong, despite souring diplomatic relations. </p><p>And despite attempts to keep Western music out of East Germany during the Cold War, Chris Bowlby discovers that, in strange locations and in free minds, many refused to dance to the communist tune.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p057gtmm.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p057gtmm.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p057gtmm.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p057gv58</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p057gv58</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p057gtmm.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p057gv58</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Building A Better Future</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Narcopolitics in Paraguay, demolitions in Moscow and the incessant barking of feral dogs in Seychelles. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world.</p><p>In Moscow, Polina Ivanova visits one of the thousands of Soviet-era housing blocks earmarked for demolition as part one of the biggest urban redevelopment projects ever undertaken. While many residents support the plans, others suspect it’s a ruse to divert money to construction companies.
  2012. In Paraguay, Laurence Blair meets the journalist who relies on an around the clock police guard, as he to tries to stay safe reporting on the country’s violent drug trade. </p><p>In Seychelles, Tim Ecott is met by barking dogs, loud music and some selfish-driving – some of the more unwelcome signs of growing social freedom. Dave Lee joins the queues of people willing to wait for hours to get the chance to play the latest computer games before almost anyone else - even if only for a brief moment. And Sara Wheeler takes an architectural tour of Sri Lanka discovering that modernisation on the island often means working with what you’ve got – however ancient, rather than starting again.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Narcopolitics in Paraguay, demolitions in Moscow and barking feral dogs in Seychelles.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Narcopolitics in Paraguay, demolitions in Moscow and the incessant barking of feral dogs in Seychelles. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world.</p><p>In Moscow, Polina Ivanova visits one of the thousands of Soviet-era housing blocks earmarked for demolition as part one of the biggest urban redevelopment projects ever undertaken. While many residents support the plans, others suspect it’s a ruse to divert money to construction companies.
  2013. In Paraguay, Laurence Blair meets the journalist who relies on an around the clock police guard, as he to tries to stay safe reporting on the country’s violent drug trade. </p><p>In Seychelles, Tim Ecott is met by barking dogs, loud music and some selfish-driving – some of the more unwelcome signs of growing social freedom. Dave Lee joins the queues of people willing to wait for hours to get the chance to play the latest computer games before almost anyone else - even if only for a brief moment. And Sara Wheeler takes an architectural tour of Sri Lanka discovering that modernisation on the island often means working with what you’ve got – however ancient, rather than starting again.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:16:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1697</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0578yk8.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0578yk8.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0578yk8.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0578yxp</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0578yxp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0578yk8.mp3" fileSize="27152000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1697"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0578yxp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Home Correspondent 25/06/17</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents four dispatches, including Annalena McAfee on a Cotswold utopia, Ed Smith on leadership in cricket and John Ashton on the diabetes he, like his father, has.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A Cotswold utopia, treating diabetes, the nightingale and leadership in cricket feature</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Mishal Husain presents four dispatches, including Annalena McAfee on a Cotswold utopia, Ed Smith on leadership in cricket and John Ashton on the diabetes he, like his father, has.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0573wcp.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:59:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1648</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0573ts4.mp3" length="26368000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0573ts4.mp3" length="26368000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0573ts4.mp3" length="26368000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0573w9s</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0573w9s</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0573ts4.mp3" fileSize="26368000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1648"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0573w9s</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Dressed For Success</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Tight-fitting briefs in Mongolia, matching Donald Trump t-shirts in Iowa, NATO camouflage and some cut-off jeans in Romania. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories.</p><p>In Romania, Emily Unia watches NATO put on a show of force; 4,000 troops, drawn from nine different countries, backed by helicopters and armoured vehicles – serious stuff, or so she was expecting. In America, Rajini Vaidyanathan meets the Trump fans willing to sleep on the pavement in order to bag a prime spot at one of the President’s rallies. Jonathan Fryer finds entrepreneurial spirit, criminal enterprise, and death in Madagascar. In Indian-administered Kashmir, Melissa Van Der Klugt discovers an unlikely, but remarkable, archive of the region’s troubled history. And Rajan Datar finds himself face to face with a 15 stone Mongolian wrestler who is dressed in small, tight-fitting briefs, long leather boots and a collarless shirt that leaves his chest exposed.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Tight-fitting briefs, matching Donald Trump t-shirts, and NATO camouflage.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Tight-fitting briefs in Mongolia, matching Donald Trump t-shirts in Iowa, NATO camouflage and some cut-off jeans in Romania. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories.</p><p>In Romania, Emily Unia watches NATO put on a show of force; 4,000 troops, drawn from nine different countries, backed by helicopters and armoured vehicles – serious stuff, or so she was expecting. In America, Rajini Vaidyanathan meets the Trump fans willing to sleep on the pavement in order to bag a prime spot at one of the President’s rallies. Jonathan Fryer finds entrepreneurial spirit, criminal enterprise, and death in Madagascar. In Indian-administered Kashmir, Melissa Van Der Klugt discovers an unlikely, but remarkable, archive of the region’s troubled history. And Rajan Datar finds himself face to face with a 15 stone Mongolian wrestler who is dressed in small, tight-fitting briefs, long leather boots and a collarless shirt that leaves his chest exposed.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1697</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p056tnbp.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p056tnbp.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p056tnbp.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p056tpdq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p056tpdq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p056tnbp.mp3" fileSize="27152000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1697"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p056tpdq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Identity Politics</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A blood sausage, a clockwork orange and a glass of dirty water. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A blood sausage, a clockwork orange and a glass of dirty water</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A blood sausage, a clockwork orange and a glass of dirty water. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 11:47:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p056mfkt.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p056mfkt.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p056mfkt.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p056mgj0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p056mgj0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p056mfkt.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p056mgj0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Kill A Chicken To Scare The Monkey</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Tales from Thailand, Morocco, Myanmar, Kenya and the US-Mexico border. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories. </p><p>In a Chang Mai prison, Jonathan Head meets a woman facing more than a decade in jail, convicted of insulting the monarchy and sentenced under Thailand’s lèse majesté laws. Colin Freeman wonders whether change might be coming to Morocco as protests spread across the country – the largest since 2011, the era of the Arab Spring. Jonah Fisher looks back on his three and a half years in Myanmar and wonders how he went from eating cake with Aung San Suu Kyi in her home, to shouting questions at her at public rallies. Harriet Constable joins the roller-blading cool kids of Nairobi and finds a welcome distraction from warnings of violence ahead of Kenya’s upcoming general election. And on the US/Mexico border, Victoria Gill goes in search of the Sonoran Pronghorn as researchers try to assess what impact President Trump's plan for an "impassable barrier" might have on wildlife.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Tales from Thailand, Morocco, Myanmar, Kenya and the US-Mexico border.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Tales from Thailand, Morocco, Myanmar, Kenya and the US-Mexico border. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories. </p><p>In a Chang Mai prison, Jonathan Head meets a woman facing more than a decade in jail, convicted of insulting the monarchy and sentenced under Thailand’s lèse majesté laws. Colin Freeman wonders whether change might be coming to Morocco as protests spread across the country – the largest since 2011, the era of the Arab Spring. Jonah Fisher looks back on his three and a half years in Myanmar and wonders how he went from eating cake with Aung San Suu Kyi in her home, to shouting questions at her at public rallies. Harriet Constable joins the roller-blading cool kids of Nairobi and finds a welcome distraction from warnings of violence ahead of Kenya’s upcoming general election. And on the US/Mexico border, Victoria Gill goes in search of the Sonoran Pronghorn as researchers try to assess what impact President Trump's plan for an "impassable barrier" might have on wildlife.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0565nf2.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0565nf2.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0565nf2.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0565nwf</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0565nwf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0565nf2.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0565nwf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Village People</title><description><![CDATA[<p>From the Valley of Peace in Belize to a Libyan militia base, Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world. </p><p>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. </p><p>Producer: Joe Kent</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>From the Valley of Peace to a militia base: correspondents’ stories from around the world</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>From the Valley of Peace in Belize to a Libyan militia base, Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world. </p><p>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. </p><p>Producer: Joe Kent</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2017 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1736</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p055z439.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p055z439.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p055z439.mp3" length="27776000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p055z4mq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p055z4mq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p055z439.mp3" fileSize="27776000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1736"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p055z4mq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Looking For Trouble</title><description><![CDATA[<p>From the barricades of Venezuela’s street protests to the security scanners in an Egyptian airport - Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world.</p><p>Gideon Long joins protestors in Venezuela, finding the threat of violence is never far away. From Dublin, Vincent Woods reflects on Ireland’s response to the London Bridge terror attack and takes comfort in his memories of an English Imam singing traditional Irish songs. A pat-down by security staff in Cairo Airport leads to an unexpected lesson in women’s emancipation for Claire Read. Ed Davey goes in search of both good and bad voodoo in Benin, and in southern India, Andrew Whitehead stumbles across a tragic love story and one of the last remnants of the Jewish presence there.</p><p>Producer: Joe Kent</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Tales from Venezuela, Ireland, Benin, Egypt and India.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>From the barricades of Venezuela’s street protests to the security scanners in an Egyptian airport - Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world.</p><p>Gideon Long joins protestors in Venezuela, finding the threat of violence is never far away. From Dublin, Vincent Woods reflects on Ireland’s response to the London Bridge terror attack and takes comfort in his memories of an English Imam singing traditional Irish songs. A pat-down by security staff in Cairo Airport leads to an unexpected lesson in women’s emancipation for Claire Read. Ed Davey goes in search of both good and bad voodoo in Benin, and in southern India, Andrew Whitehead stumbles across a tragic love story and one of the last remnants of the Jewish presence there.</p><p>Producer: Joe Kent</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jun 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1698</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p055hsjx.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p055hsjx.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p055hsjx.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p055hsmx</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p055hsmx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p055hsjx.mp3" fileSize="27168000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1698"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p055hsmx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Hard To Stomach</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Tea with the Taliban in Afghanistan, radioactive wild boar goulash in the Czech Republic, and past its best parsley in Denmark. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories.</p><p>Auliya Atrafi gained rare access to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and found a group keen to give the impression that there is more to it than military muscle. Claire Bolderson meets the women fighting back against machismo in Peru, and James Jeffrey watches the flow of refugees that continue to cross the Eritrean border into Ethiopia. In the Czech Republic, Rob Cameron takes a trip to the national park where wild boars roam free – some of them radioactive. And in Denmark, Christine Finn finds wrinkled mushrooms and wilted parsley on sale in a shop that wants us to think differently about food that’s past its best before date. </p><p>Producer: Joe Kent</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Tea with the Taliban, radioactive wild boar, and past its best parsley.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Tea with the Taliban in Afghanistan, radioactive wild boar goulash in the Czech Republic, and past its best parsley in Denmark. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories.</p><p>Auliya Atrafi gained rare access to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and found a group keen to give the impression that there is more to it than military muscle. Claire Bolderson meets the women fighting back against machismo in Peru, and James Jeffrey watches the flow of refugees that continue to cross the Eritrean border into Ethiopia. In the Czech Republic, Rob Cameron takes a trip to the national park where wild boars roam free – some of them radioactive. And in Denmark, Christine Finn finds wrinkled mushrooms and wilted parsley on sale in a shop that wants us to think differently about food that’s past its best before date. </p><p>Producer: Joe Kent</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:31:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05598g8.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05598g8.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p05598g8.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p05598lq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05598lq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p05598g8.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p05598lq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Love Those Shoes</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The sounds of protest, popping champagne corks and the piercing shrieks of megabats. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world. Aleem Maqbool watches a confederate monument fall in America’s south, and wonders what difference statues and symbols really make.
  2014. In Egypt, activists tell Orla Guerin that while previous leaders may have tried to restrict the space for civil society, President Sisi wants to eliminate it. They claim their strongman leader has been emboldened by Donald Trump who has praised his work - and his shoes.
  2015. In Australia, Phil Mercer finds that residents of Sydney are not too happy with their new neighbours. Megabats or flying-foxes fly in gothic squadrons, emit a piercing cacophony and leave behind a lingering stench. In the shadow of towering glass and steel skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Rob Crossan has lunch in the traditional Malay village trying to resist the tides of gentrification and modernisation. And Juliet Rix has a drink in France, as she meets the women shaking up the champagne industry.
  2016. Producer: Joe Kent</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The sounds of protest, popping champagne corks and the piercing shrieks of megabats.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The sounds of protest, popping champagne corks and the piercing shrieks of megabats. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world. Aleem Maqbool watches a confederate monument fall in America’s south, and wonders what difference statues and symbols really make.
  2017. In Egypt, activists tell Orla Guerin that while previous leaders may have tried to restrict the space for civil society, President Sisi wants to eliminate it. They claim their strongman leader has been emboldened by Donald Trump who has praised his work - and his shoes.
  2018. In Australia, Phil Mercer finds that residents of Sydney are not too happy with their new neighbours. Megabats or flying-foxes fly in gothic squadrons, emit a piercing cacophony and leave behind a lingering stench. In the shadow of towering glass and steel skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Rob Crossan has lunch in the traditional Malay village trying to resist the tides of gentrification and modernisation. And Juliet Rix has a drink in France, as she meets the women shaking up the champagne industry.
  2019. Producer: Joe Kent</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2017 08:20:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1750</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p054z9xb.mp3" length="28000000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p054z9xb.mp3" length="28000000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p054z9xb.mp3" length="28000000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p054tmzz</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054tmzz</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p054z9xb.mp3" fileSize="28000000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1750"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p054tmzz</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Finding The Right Words</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A president pursued, a preacher accused and a social media star. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Germany, and Spain.
  2020. Amidst calls for the Brazilian President to resign, Katy Watson finds that political slogans have taken on a life of their own – no longer simply scrawled on placards but found in some unusual places. In Indonesia, Rebecca Henschke tries and tries to get a word with the controversial hard-line cleric accused of breaking the anti-pornography laws that he once campaigned for. In Germany, Amol Rajan meets the Syrian selfie fanatic at the heart of the battle against fake news. And in Japan, Mark Stratton finds himself lost for words as he attempts to describe the sights to the partially-sighted.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A president pursued, a preacher accused and a social media star.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A president pursued, a preacher accused and a social media star. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Germany, and Spain.
  2021. Amidst calls for the Brazilian President to resign, Katy Watson finds that political slogans have taken on a life of their own – no longer simply scrawled on placards but found in some unusual places. In Indonesia, Rebecca Henschke tries and tries to get a word with the controversial hard-line cleric accused of breaking the anti-pornography laws that he once campaigned for. In Germany, Amol Rajan meets the Syrian selfie fanatic at the heart of the battle against fake news. And in Japan, Mark Stratton finds himself lost for words as he attempts to describe the sights to the partially-sighted.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2017 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p054lfc5.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p054lfc5.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p054lfc5.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p054lgc3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054lgc3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p054lfc5.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p054lgc3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Haircut and a Pedicure</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A trendy haircut in Maipur, baby-blue painted nails in Athens and the authentic taste of a South Pacific superfood. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories.
  2022. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has sparked repeated international criticism, but Colin Freeman finds support in surprising places: drug users, or ex-drug users, for Duterte.
  2023. Secunder Kermani gets a haircut in Mirpur, and a lesson in relations between British Pakistanis and their cousins back home. While Louise Cooper gets her nails done in Athens and finds the ugly face of recession, in a Greek beauty parlour.
  2024. In Moscow, Steve Rosenberg watches as thousands of Russians queue for a chance to glimpse a golden ark. Inside it are fragments of St Nicholas’ rib, on loan from Italy.
  2025. And Simon Parker swims in the clean seas around French Polynesia and samples the silky, mustard-coloured gonads of a sea urchin.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A haircut in Maipur, baby-blue painted nails in Athens and superfood of the South Pacific</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A trendy haircut in Maipur, baby-blue painted nails in Athens and the authentic taste of a South Pacific superfood. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories.
  2026. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has sparked repeated international criticism, but Colin Freeman finds support in surprising places: drug users, or ex-drug users, for Duterte.
  2027. Secunder Kermani gets a haircut in Mirpur, and a lesson in relations between British Pakistanis and their cousins back home. While Louise Cooper gets her nails done in Athens and finds the ugly face of recession, in a Greek beauty parlour.
  2028. In Moscow, Steve Rosenberg watches as thousands of Russians queue for a chance to glimpse a golden ark. Inside it are fragments of St Nicholas’ rib, on loan from Italy.
  2029. And Simon Parker swims in the clean seas around French Polynesia and samples the silky, mustard-coloured gonads of a sea urchin.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1691</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0544xtc.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0544xtc.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0544xtc.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0544y02</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0544y02</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0544xtc.mp3" fileSize="27056000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1691"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0544y02</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Men On A Mission</title><description><![CDATA[<p>White candles for a murdered Mexican journalist, purple glitter for an Iranian President and the Pope's modest blue car. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories.
  2030. On his first full day in office, the recently elected French President Emmanuel Macron was in Berlin to “breathe new dynamism" into Franco-German relations. But what does Germany make of Macron? Damien McGuinness has been finding out.
  2031. Purple was the signature colour of President Rouhani’s re-election campaign in Iran and, following his victory, Nanna Muus Steffensen finds it everywhere; purple glitter, headbands, t-shirts, even hair dye.
  2032. In Mexico Juan Paullier is among the journalists protesting the murder of one of their own – the committed chronicler of the country’s drug wars, Javier Valdez.
  2033. While the Pope wants a simpler, humbler Church, he’s also very willing to use the grandeur of the Vatican to his advantage, finds Christopher Lamb as President Trump meets Pope Francis for the first time.
  2034. And in America, could a good walk help heal a divided country? Phoebe Smith goes for a hike along the Appalachian Trail.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>White candles for a murdered Mexican journalist, purple glitter for an Iranian President.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>White candles for a murdered Mexican journalist, purple glitter for an Iranian President and the Pope's modest blue car. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories.
  2035. On his first full day in office, the recently elected French President Emmanuel Macron was in Berlin to “breathe new dynamism" into Franco-German relations. But what does Germany make of Macron? Damien McGuinness has been finding out.
  2036. Purple was the signature colour of President Rouhani’s re-election campaign in Iran and, following his victory, Nanna Muus Steffensen finds it everywhere; purple glitter, headbands, t-shirts, even hair dye.
  2037. In Mexico Juan Paullier is among the journalists protesting the murder of one of their own – the committed chronicler of the country’s drug wars, Javier Valdez.
  2038. While the Pope wants a simpler, humbler Church, he’s also very willing to use the grandeur of the Vatican to his advantage, finds Christopher Lamb as President Trump meets Pope Francis for the first time.
  2039. And in America, could a good walk help heal a divided country? Phoebe Smith goes for a hike along the Appalachian Trail.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2017 10:16:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p053xvnc.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p053xvnc.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p053xvnc.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p053xw3k</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p053xw3k</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p053xvnc.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p053xw3k</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Pride and Prejudice</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Patriotic clubs in Uganda and gang violence in America. Kate Adie introduces correspondent’s stories from around the world.
  2040. In America, Lucy Ash visits Long Island – not the opulent and extravagant mansions of The Great Gatsby but the other Long Island. The site of several murders linked to MS-13 - the street gang President Trump has vowed to crush.
  2041. In Uganda, a teacher stands bolt upright, legs apart, with a rather stern expression. The words ‘Belief’ and ‘Determination’ are emblazoned on the wall. Mike Thomson attends a class in patriotism.
  2042. Nicola Kelly meets the Yazidi families who fled violence in Iraq, only to find they are not always welcome among the Yazidis of Armenia.
  2043. We take tea in Malawi as Nick Redmayne visits one of the country’s traditional tea estates trying to reinvent itself in response to changing tastes and falling prices.
  2044. And in Goa, Paul Moss finds talk of body rebalancing, tantric imitation and a reptilian elite.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Patriotic clubs in Uganda and gang violence in America.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Patriotic clubs in Uganda and gang violence in America. Kate Adie introduces correspondent’s stories from around the world.
  2045. In America, Lucy Ash visits Long Island – not the opulent and extravagant mansions of The Great Gatsby but the other Long Island. The site of several murders linked to MS-13 - the street gang President Trump has vowed to crush.
  2046. In Uganda, a teacher stands bolt upright, legs apart, with a rather stern expression. The words ‘Belief’ and ‘Determination’ are emblazoned on the wall. Mike Thomson attends a class in patriotism.
  2047. Nicola Kelly meets the Yazidi families who fled violence in Iraq, only to find they are not always welcome among the Yazidis of Armenia.
  2048. We take tea in Malawi as Nick Redmayne visits one of the country’s traditional tea estates trying to reinvent itself in response to changing tastes and falling prices.
  2049. And in Goa, Paul Moss finds talk of body rebalancing, tantric imitation and a reptilian elite.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2017 11:14:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p053n7kd.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p053n7kd.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p053n7kd.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p053h3pd</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p053h3pd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p053n7kd.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p053h3pd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Funny Old Game</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A diplomatic dance, football playing politicians, mountain music and robotic sex dolls. Kate Adie introduces correspondent’s stories from around the world.</p><p>In Germany - he almost became a professional footballer now he wants to be Chancellor - Jenny Hill meets a former teammate, and childhood friend, of Martin Schulz. In Sierra Leone Bob Howard meets the ‘friends of the dead’ as young entrepreneurs seek any way they can to escape the country’s staggering levels of unemployment. Micky Bristow reflects on the diplomatic games being played out between China and Taiwan. Special number plates and invitations to Swiss summits may seem insignificant to some, but not when on you’re an island that few nations recognise as an independent country. In Peru, Robin Denselow samples the sounds of mountain music at a reconciliation concert high in the Andes. And in San Marcos, California, Jane Wakefield takes a tour of a rather unusual factory offering the latest in AI equipped, robotic sex dolls.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A diplomatic dance, football playing politicians, mountain music and robotic sex dolls.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A diplomatic dance, football playing politicians, mountain music and robotic sex dolls. Kate Adie introduces correspondent’s stories from around the world.</p><p>In Germany - he almost became a professional footballer now he wants to be Chancellor - Jenny Hill meets a former teammate, and childhood friend, of Martin Schulz. In Sierra Leone Bob Howard meets the ‘friends of the dead’ as young entrepreneurs seek any way they can to escape the country’s staggering levels of unemployment. Micky Bristow reflects on the diplomatic games being played out between China and Taiwan. Special number plates and invitations to Swiss summits may seem insignificant to some, but not when on you’re an island that few nations recognise as an independent country. In Peru, Robin Denselow samples the sounds of mountain music at a reconciliation concert high in the Andes. And in San Marcos, California, Jane Wakefield takes a tour of a rather unusual factory offering the latest in AI equipped, robotic sex dolls.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1726</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p052tq4n.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p052tq4n.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p052tq4n.mp3" length="27616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p052tqb4</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p052tqb4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p052tq4n.mp3" fileSize="27616000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1726"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p052tqb4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Enemies of Old</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Somalia faces famine, ethnic conflict continues in Myanmar and the ‘She-Wolf’ retires. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world. </p><p>On a rare trip into the remote Northern Shan State of Myanmar, Nick Sturdee meets one of the ethnic militias still at war with the military. </p><p>There are harrowing sights for Mary Harper in Somalia and  Somaliland, as she sees for herself the toll that severe drought and threat of famine are taking on the population, particularly the children. </p><p>In contrast Will Grant finds something to celebrate for Cuba’s socialist leadership. As the annual May Day workers’ march took place, the US Congresswoman described by Fidel Castro as the ‘big bad she-wolf’ announced her retirement. </p><p>Elizabeth Hotson reflects on tales of the Cold War spies and challenges to press freedom, as she joins the Ski Club of International Journalists in France. </p><p>And in India, Melissa Van Der Klugt watches a tent being cleaned. Rajasthan's Royal Red Tent, which is taller than a double bus and made from exquisite silk, velvet and gold, is being given its first proper spring clean in 350 years.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Somalia faces famine, ethnic conflict continues in Myanmar and the ‘She-Wolf’ retires.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Somalia faces famine, ethnic conflict continues in Myanmar and the ‘She-Wolf’ retires. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world. </p><p>On a rare trip into the remote Northern Shan State of Myanmar, Nick Sturdee meets one of the ethnic militias still at war with the military. </p><p>There are harrowing sights for Mary Harper in Somalia and  Somaliland, as she sees for herself the toll that severe drought and threat of famine are taking on the population, particularly the children. </p><p>In contrast Will Grant finds something to celebrate for Cuba’s socialist leadership. As the annual May Day workers’ march took place, the US Congresswoman described by Fidel Castro as the ‘big bad she-wolf’ announced her retirement. </p><p>Elizabeth Hotson reflects on tales of the Cold War spies and challenges to press freedom, as she joins the Ski Club of International Journalists in France. </p><p>And in India, Melissa Van Der Klugt watches a tent being cleaned. Rajasthan's Royal Red Tent, which is taller than a double bus and made from exquisite silk, velvet and gold, is being given its first proper spring clean in 350 years.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 May 2017 10:51:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0524c3n.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0524c3n.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0524c3n.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0524c6x</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0524c6x</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0524c3n.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0524c6x</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>In Search of Happiness</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The summer fighting season has begun in Afghanistan and, as Justin Rowlatt discovers, there is already a shortage of coffins following a Taliban attack. As the world worries about North Korea, Nick Danziger gets a glimpse of life in Pyongyang; designer coats, European football shirts and courting couples furiously tapping away on locally-manufactured mobile phones were not what he was expecting. In Uzbekistan, it’s the crunch of crinoline and sound of snapping cameras that surprise Caroline Eden – because now is wedding season in the former Soviet state. In the UAE, Julia Wheeler discovers a road named ‘Happiness Street’, a Minister of State for Happiness and fines for those who aren’t quite happy enough. And Mark Stratton goes to Sao Tome and Principe to see how a new approach to the cocoa trade is replacing the bitter legacy of the slave trade.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Afghan Taliban’s spring offensive, surprises in North Korea and happiness in UAE.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The summer fighting season has begun in Afghanistan and, as Justin Rowlatt discovers, there is already a shortage of coffins following a Taliban attack. As the world worries about North Korea, Nick Danziger gets a glimpse of life in Pyongyang; designer coats, European football shirts and courting couples furiously tapping away on locally-manufactured mobile phones were not what he was expecting. In Uzbekistan, it’s the crunch of crinoline and sound of snapping cameras that surprise Caroline Eden – because now is wedding season in the former Soviet state. In the UAE, Julia Wheeler discovers a road named ‘Happiness Street’, a Minister of State for Happiness and fines for those who aren’t quite happy enough. And Mark Stratton goes to Sao Tome and Principe to see how a new approach to the cocoa trade is replacing the bitter legacy of the slave trade.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p051h8tf.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p051h8tf.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p051h8tf.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p051h94v</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p051h94v</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p051h8tf.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p051h94v</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Getting Out</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Birthday cakes, icons of cool and the candidate coining new words in the French election. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world. </p><p>On the campaign trail in France, Hugh Schofield finds visions of a new world and calls to ‘“get em out’ ahead of the election on Sunday. Alastair Leithead asses the political turmoil in South Africa - not by speaking with protesters, but by mingling with party-goers at a presidential birthday-bash. In Argentina, Newsnight’s Stephen Smith meets Che Guevara’s younger brother and discovers that the revolutionary's legacy is probably not what he would have hoped for. As President Donald Trump approaches his 100th day in office Shaimaa Khalil has been on a road trip across middle-America, visiting the states that helped get him elected. And in Kabul Nanna Muus Steffensen meets that young student asking herself ‘should I stay and be part of Afghanistan’s future or get out while I can?’</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Birthday cakes, icons of cool and the candidate coining new words in the French election.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Birthday cakes, icons of cool and the candidate coining new words in the French election. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories from around the world. </p><p>On the campaign trail in France, Hugh Schofield finds visions of a new world and calls to ‘“get em out’ ahead of the election on Sunday. Alastair Leithead asses the political turmoil in South Africa - not by speaking with protesters, but by mingling with party-goers at a presidential birthday-bash. In Argentina, Newsnight’s Stephen Smith meets Che Guevara’s younger brother and discovers that the revolutionary's legacy is probably not what he would have hoped for. As President Donald Trump approaches his 100th day in office Shaimaa Khalil has been on a road trip across middle-America, visiting the states that helped get him elected. And in Kabul Nanna Muus Steffensen meets that young student asking herself ‘should I stay and be part of Afghanistan’s future or get out while I can?’</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2017 11:41:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1667</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p050tlrk.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p050tlrk.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p050tlrk.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p050tlvn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p050tlvn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p050tlrk.mp3" fileSize="26672000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1667"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p050tlvn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Stamina of the Strongmen</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Controversial votes in Turkey and Kashmir, and a university challenged in Hungary. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories: Justin Rowlatt is in Kashmir on election day where he sees plenty of police and protestors, but where are the voters? In Turkey Mark Lowen finds that paranoia has reached the level of absurdity ahead of the country’s referendum. </p><p>Not only are TV chefs accused of being spies, but our own correspondent comes under suspicion of being a foreign agent, though thankfully not for long. In Cuba Linda Pressly meets the scientists behind a cancer vaccine now being trialled in the US; they owe everything to Fidel Castro, they tell her. As part of the World Service Life Stories season, Sahar Zand meets the Toraja people of Eastern Indonesia for whom death doesn’t always mean goodbye. And in Hungary Nick Thorpe dips his toe into the stream of controversy that surrounds the government’s ongoing war against liberalism.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Controversial votes in Turkey and Kashmir, and a university challenged in Hungary..</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Controversial votes in Turkey and Kashmir, and a university challenged in Hungary. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories: Justin Rowlatt is in Kashmir on election day where he sees plenty of police and protestors, but where are the voters? In Turkey Mark Lowen finds that paranoia has reached the level of absurdity ahead of the country’s referendum. </p><p>Not only are TV chefs accused of being spies, but our own correspondent comes under suspicion of being a foreign agent, though thankfully not for long. In Cuba Linda Pressly meets the scientists behind a cancer vaccine now being trialled in the US; they owe everything to Fidel Castro, they tell her. As part of the World Service Life Stories season, Sahar Zand meets the Toraja people of Eastern Indonesia for whom death doesn’t always mean goodbye. And in Hungary Nick Thorpe dips his toe into the stream of controversy that surrounds the government’s ongoing war against liberalism.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2017 10:54:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1696</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0505qj7.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0505qj7.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0505qj7.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0505qx7</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0505qx7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0505qj7.mp3" fileSize="27136000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1696"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0505qx7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Excitement and disgust</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Pastry police, pardoned bulls and pricey pigeons. Correspondents’ stories with Kate Adie.
  2050. Stephen Sackur's visit to Venezuela ends rather more abruptly than he'd intended, foreign journalists are rarely welcome he discovers. In Spain the debate about the ethics of bullfighting has started its annual dance and Antonia Quirke finds both excitement and disgust. One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, a President Lenin will soon take office in Ecuador. Joe Gerlach watches election day unfold from an airport lounge in the capital. Flora Bradley-Watson is among the pigeon fanciers of Istanbul talking politics and feathered friends. And Owen Bennett-Jones finds himself answering, rather than asking, questions as he gets to know the Somali Americans living in Minneapolis.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Pastry police, pardoned bulls and pricey pigeons. Correspondents’ stories with Kate Adie.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Pastry police, pardoned bulls and pricey pigeons. Correspondents’ stories with Kate Adie.
  2051. Stephen Sackur's visit to Venezuela ends rather more abruptly than he'd intended, foreign journalists are rarely welcome he discovers. In Spain the debate about the ethics of bullfighting has started its annual dance and Antonia Quirke finds both excitement and disgust. One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, a President Lenin will soon take office in Ecuador. Joe Gerlach watches election day unfold from an airport lounge in the capital. Flora Bradley-Watson is among the pigeon fanciers of Istanbul talking politics and feathered friends. And Owen Bennett-Jones finds himself answering, rather than asking, questions as he gets to know the Somali Americans living in Minneapolis.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Apr 2017 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1679</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04zgf0w.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04zgf0w.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04zgf0w.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04zgf62</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04zgf62</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04zgf0w.mp3" fileSize="26864000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1679"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04zgf62</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Tumbling Down</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Robbery, extortion, kidnapping; bananas with everything; and a monkey cascade. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories: Tom Stevenson is in the Libyan capital Tripoli, where the lights are out, the militias are enriching themselves, and chaos reigns. Matthew Brunwasser tells the story of the man fighting for justice in Serbia, 17 years after his three brothers were murdered. Gemma Newby tucks into bananas for breakfast, lunch and dinner in the Dominican Republic as she visits a now crumbling town built by one of the banana giants; Kieran Cooke is in the town in the West of Ireland which used to have the highest pub to people ratio in the country. That, and much else, has changed but the spirit remains undiminished. And in Ethiopia's Highlands, the writer Tim Butcher witnesses the extraordinary and heart-warming spectacle of the great African monkey cascade</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Robbery, extortion, kidnapping; bananas with everything; and a monkey cascade</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Robbery, extortion, kidnapping; bananas with everything; and a monkey cascade. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories: Tom Stevenson is in the Libyan capital Tripoli, where the lights are out, the militias are enriching themselves, and chaos reigns. Matthew Brunwasser tells the story of the man fighting for justice in Serbia, 17 years after his three brothers were murdered. Gemma Newby tucks into bananas for breakfast, lunch and dinner in the Dominican Republic as she visits a now crumbling town built by one of the banana giants; Kieran Cooke is in the town in the West of Ireland which used to have the highest pub to people ratio in the country. That, and much else, has changed but the spirit remains undiminished. And in Ethiopia's Highlands, the writer Tim Butcher witnesses the extraordinary and heart-warming spectacle of the great African monkey cascade</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2017 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04yqj8m.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04yqj8m.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04yqj8m.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04yqjkn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04yqjkn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04yqj8m.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04yqjkn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Saying It Straight</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Tall stories, strange names, ancient giants and linguistic confusion. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Colin Freeman, in the Pakistani city of Quetta, wonders if it is still a Taliban stronghold. Chris Haslam, in Zambia, is shocked by some of the strange names given to children. Tim Ecott is among giants on Mexico's Baja Peninsula - both in the ocean and on land. Sodaba Haidare visits a special restaurant in the Afghan capital Kabul which is empowering women victims of domestic abuse. And Joanna Robertson reaches for the NervenTee in Italy's South Tyrol region - but which language should she use? More tea please!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Tall stories, strange names, ancient giants and linguistic confusion.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Tall stories, strange names, ancient giants and linguistic confusion. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Colin Freeman, in the Pakistani city of Quetta, wonders if it is still a Taliban stronghold. Chris Haslam, in Zambia, is shocked by some of the strange names given to children. Tim Ecott is among giants on Mexico's Baja Peninsula - both in the ocean and on land. Sodaba Haidare visits a special restaurant in the Afghan capital Kabul which is empowering women victims of domestic abuse. And Joanna Robertson reaches for the NervenTee in Italy's South Tyrol region - but which language should she use? More tea please!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:12:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1691</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04y01mw.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04y01mw.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04y01mw.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04y01y4</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04y01y4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04y01mw.mp3" fileSize="27056000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1691"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04y01y4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Chips and Mayonnaise</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Rancid fried onion, a great wall of iron, chips and mayonnaise with a healthy sprinkle of identity. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories: Lucy Ash is in northern France, in Denain, scene of Emile Zola's Germinal. The poverty may be less extreme today but it's part of the "forgotten France" being targetted by the Front National. Gabriel Gatehouse grew up in Amsterdam in a time when questioning immigration would label you a racist. That's all changed as, it seems. And if the famous Dutch tolerance has gone, what's left? The vast region of Xinjiang, in western China, is home to 10 million people from the Uigher minority. The government says it's also the front line in its war on terror. It's not a place which the authorities like journalists to visit. But Carrie Gracie did get there. Lebanon has a million and a half Syrian refugees - the most per capita of any nation. Martin Bell is in the Bekaa Valley, where the refugees have become a profitable source of cheap labour. Many would like to return home but their chances of doing so are slight. And Kevin Connolly's mother is proud of the name she chose for him. But he's not so sure anymore - especially when he heard about "The Curse of Kevin" in a French magazine.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Rancid fried onion, a great wall of iron, chips and mayonnaise with questions of identity</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Rancid fried onion, a great wall of iron, chips and mayonnaise with a healthy sprinkle of identity. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories: Lucy Ash is in northern France, in Denain, scene of Emile Zola's Germinal. The poverty may be less extreme today but it's part of the "forgotten France" being targetted by the Front National. Gabriel Gatehouse grew up in Amsterdam in a time when questioning immigration would label you a racist. That's all changed as, it seems. And if the famous Dutch tolerance has gone, what's left? The vast region of Xinjiang, in western China, is home to 10 million people from the Uigher minority. The government says it's also the front line in its war on terror. It's not a place which the authorities like journalists to visit. But Carrie Gracie did get there. Lebanon has a million and a half Syrian refugees - the most per capita of any nation. Martin Bell is in the Bekaa Valley, where the refugees have become a profitable source of cheap labour. Many would like to return home but their chances of doing so are slight. And Kevin Connolly's mother is proud of the name she chose for him. But he's not so sure anymore - especially when he heard about "The Curse of Kevin" in a French magazine.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1659</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04x83d7.mp3" length="26544000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04x83d7.mp3" length="26544000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04x83d7.mp3" length="26544000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04x83zc</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04x83zc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04x83d7.mp3" fileSize="26544000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1659"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04x83zc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Political Distractions</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Pets and Politics; football and narcotics; and building a country with a flag. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. South Korea is in political turmoil but, as Steve Evans explains, people seem more concerned with the fate of the now ex-president's pets. The narcotic plant Qat and Premiership football provide a welcome distraction from boredom in the Horn of Africa, says James Jeffrey. And governments are quite happy with that. How do you unify a country? That was a challenge faced by Kyrgystan's flag designers, as Caroline Eden discovered. The village of Deià, on Mallorca's north shore, is where the poet and novelist Robert Graves lived and died. Graeme Fife used to be a frequent visitor. Now he wonders how much the place has changed. Belize is one of the countries that still has the death penalty on its statute books. But it hasn't executed anyone for decades. And now others, including a woman with the nickname of the anti-Christ, are having their life sentences reduced. Charlotte McDonald explains why.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Pets and Politics; football and narcotics; and building a country with a flag.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Pets and Politics; football and narcotics; and building a country with a flag. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. South Korea is in political turmoil but, as Steve Evans explains, people seem more concerned with the fate of the now ex-president's pets. The narcotic plant Qat and Premiership football provide a welcome distraction from boredom in the Horn of Africa, says James Jeffrey. And governments are quite happy with that. How do you unify a country? That was a challenge faced by Kyrgystan's flag designers, as Caroline Eden discovered. The village of Deià, on Mallorca's north shore, is where the poet and novelist Robert Graves lived and died. Graeme Fife used to be a frequent visitor. Now he wonders how much the place has changed. Belize is one of the countries that still has the death penalty on its statute books. But it hasn't executed anyone for decades. And now others, including a woman with the nickname of the anti-Christ, are having their life sentences reduced. Charlotte McDonald explains why.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04x0zfz.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04x0zfz.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04x0zfz.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04x0zm0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04x0zm0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04x0zfz.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04x0zm0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Cutting Through</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The duffel-coated outcast; from bomb factory to museum; icy cooperation; singing for home; greening sands. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories: Hugh Schofield meets a defiant - and chipper - Jean-Marie Le Pen, the outcast founder of the France's Front National; in north-west Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, Colin Freeman is shown a bomb-making factory - just the latest evidence of the violence that has dominated the region for more than a century; in the icy seas off Finland, fears of Russian 'little green men' are put aside as a Finnish icebreaker - with Horatio Clare on board - introduces a moment of peace and cooperation. Singing for home and a lost culture - Nicola Kelly hears how Nubians in Egypt are trying to reconnect with their lost homeland. And, in Oman, it's not golden sands that Antonia Quirke sees in the desert but a carpet of green.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The duffel-coated outcast; from bomb factory to museum; icy cooperation; greening sands.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The duffel-coated outcast; from bomb factory to museum; icy cooperation; singing for home; greening sands. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories: Hugh Schofield meets a defiant - and chipper - Jean-Marie Le Pen, the outcast founder of the France's Front National; in north-west Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, Colin Freeman is shown a bomb-making factory - just the latest evidence of the violence that has dominated the region for more than a century; in the icy seas off Finland, fears of Russian 'little green men' are put aside as a Finnish icebreaker - with Horatio Clare on board - introduces a moment of peace and cooperation. Singing for home and a lost culture - Nicola Kelly hears how Nubians in Egypt are trying to reconnect with their lost homeland. And, in Oman, it's not golden sands that Antonia Quirke sees in the desert but a carpet of green.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04wjgdh.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04wjgdh.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04wjgdh.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04wjh0r</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04wjh0r</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04wjgdh.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04wjh0r</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Unsolved</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Voting with your husband, unsolved murders, cooking on the centre spot, shamans and mud. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Melissa Van Der Klugt is in India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, where a giant exercise in democracy has been taking place but where illiteracy and political ignorance remains high. Peter Walker, in Malawi, comes across worrying signs that the police are ready to sweep murder under the carpet. In China, they're spending a fortune on football but will it bring world cup glory, as the President wants. Richard Dove has his doubts. In Peru, Simon Parker comes face to face with an Andean Shaman for the first time and hears concerns that too many tourists are more interested in bragging rights and profile pictures than in the sacred heritage of Machu Picchu. And in Vermont, winter is fading and they're on the cusp of spring - it's time to get dirty, says Christine Finn, because it's Mud Season.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Voting with your husband, unsolved murders, cooking on the centre spot, shamans and mud.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Voting with your husband, unsolved murders, cooking on the centre spot, shamans and mud. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Melissa Van Der Klugt is in India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, where a giant exercise in democracy has been taking place but where illiteracy and political ignorance remains high. Peter Walker, in Malawi, comes across worrying signs that the police are ready to sweep murder under the carpet. In China, they're spending a fortune on football but will it bring world cup glory, as the President wants. Richard Dove has his doubts. In Peru, Simon Parker comes face to face with an Andean Shaman for the first time and hears concerns that too many tourists are more interested in bragging rights and profile pictures than in the sacred heritage of Machu Picchu. And in Vermont, winter is fading and they're on the cusp of spring - it's time to get dirty, says Christine Finn, because it's Mud Season.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2017 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04w90f2.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04w90f2.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04w90f2.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04w90nv</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04w90nv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04w90f2.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04w90nv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Journalist's Best Friend</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Lost confidence, fake seeds, masked assignations, steaming glory and animal insights. Humphrey Hawksley is in a fishing village in the Philippines, hard hit by China's expanding maritime claims. Adam Shaw is in rural Kenya where a precarious existence for farmers is made even worse by crooks selling counterfeit seeds. In Venice, it's a time to dress up in your feathers and mantillas and, of course, masks - to look your very Carnivale best - but not if you're a local. Petroc Trelawny takes the slow train through Germany's Harz mountains, once the frontline between east and west. And Andrew Harding has travelled far and wide as a correspondent, experiencing the excitement, the tension, and the vets.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Lost confidence, fake seeds, masked assignations, steaming glory and animal insights.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Lost confidence, fake seeds, masked assignations, steaming glory and animal insights. Humphrey Hawksley is in a fishing village in the Philippines, hard hit by China's expanding maritime claims. Adam Shaw is in rural Kenya where a precarious existence for farmers is made even worse by crooks selling counterfeit seeds. In Venice, it's a time to dress up in your feathers and mantillas and, of course, masks - to look your very Carnivale best - but not if you're a local. Petroc Trelawny takes the slow train through Germany's Harz mountains, once the frontline between east and west. And Andrew Harding has travelled far and wide as a correspondent, experiencing the excitement, the tension, and the vets.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04vs0s2.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04vs0s2.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04vs0s2.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04vs12k</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04vs12k</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04vs0s2.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04vs12k</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Too Many Ways to Talk</title><description><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Tales of civil war, murder, rescues, patriotic birds and why waiting gives you a story.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2017 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1669</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04vj9t1.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04vj9t1.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04vj9t1.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04vj9zl</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04vj9zl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04vj9t1.mp3" fileSize="26704000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1669"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04vj9zl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Hidden Dangers</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Colin Freeman sees the devastating consequences of IS mines and booby traps, left behind for civilians anxious to return to their homes. Elisabeth Kendall hears how social media have broadened the horizons of Yemeni tribesmen armed to the hilt. British citizens living and working in Germany are worried about what might happen to them once the UK leaves the EU; Damien McGuinness hears how many of them are rushing to town halls to become German. The new Gambian president has vowed to improve his poor nation's economy; Andy Jones argues that tourism - and brightly painted murals - could be part of the answer. And Margaret Bradley sees and hears the destruction trail of a red peril that's invaded Portugal.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie with correspondents' stories: Iraq, Yemen, Germany, The Gambia and Portugal.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Colin Freeman sees the devastating consequences of IS mines and booby traps, left behind for civilians anxious to return to their homes. Elisabeth Kendall hears how social media have broadened the horizons of Yemeni tribesmen armed to the hilt. British citizens living and working in Germany are worried about what might happen to them once the UK leaves the EU; Damien McGuinness hears how many of them are rushing to town halls to become German. The new Gambian president has vowed to improve his poor nation's economy; Andy Jones argues that tourism - and brightly painted murals - could be part of the answer. And Margaret Bradley sees and hears the destruction trail of a red peril that's invaded Portugal.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1698</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04v0785.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04v0785.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04v0785.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04v0781</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04v0781</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04v0785.mp3" fileSize="27168000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1698"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04v0781</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Digging In</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents's stories. Vincent Woods on the whistleblowing scandal that has threatened the Taoiseach and what it says about modern Ireland. Cathy Otten is with the gravediggers of Mosul, in Iraq, as they ignore the missiles overhead and continue their work with death. Owen Bennett Jones is in Ukraine, where the memory of a meeting with a political dissident during the Cold War pushes him to search him out. Puerto Rico has a conflicted relationship with the United States. On the island of Vieques Datshiane Navanayagam hears about a love-hate tussle. And in southern Chile Rob Crossan joins the local community in a feast that has existed for thousands of years.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents's stories from Ireland, Iraq, Ukraine, Puerto Rico and feasting in Chile.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents's stories. Vincent Woods on the whistleblowing scandal that has threatened the Taoiseach and what it says about modern Ireland. Cathy Otten is with the gravediggers of Mosul, in Iraq, as they ignore the missiles overhead and continue their work with death. Owen Bennett Jones is in Ukraine, where the memory of a meeting with a political dissident during the Cold War pushes him to search him out. Puerto Rico has a conflicted relationship with the United States. On the island of Vieques Datshiane Navanayagam hears about a love-hate tussle. And in southern Chile Rob Crossan joins the local community in a feast that has existed for thousands of years.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2017 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1696</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04ts926.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04ts926.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04ts926.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04ts923</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04ts923</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04ts926.mp3" fileSize="27136000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1696"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04ts923</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The All-Seeing Eye</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. With President Putin enjoying sky-high approval ratings, Sarah Rainsford travels to the hear the verdict in the trial of a man hoping to replace Mr. Putin. Just how difficult is it to be in opposition in Russia? In Turkey, there have been tens of thousands of arrests, numerous terrorist attacks, and the government is planning to hold a referendum, aimed at giving the President more powers. Its a time of instability. As a result, as Louise Callaghan has found, people are flocking to the psychics. The scale of the sex trafficking trade is hard to determine, though many governments have now admitted they need to do more about the problem. Often the victims are reluctant to talk. In south east Nigeria, Colin Freeman finds that the belief in a slave goddess is now being exploited by traffickers to instill fear into trafficked women. In Indonesia, Rebecca Henschke is invited to a judge in the annual transgender beauty contest. But amid all the glamour and glitter, there is an underlying worry about growing intolerance in the country. And our man in Paris, Hugh Schofield, says sometimes the cliche that a teacher can change your life is actually true. He reminisces about a man called "Mush" who taught him French, in 1960s Dublin.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents' stories from Russia, Turkey, Nigeria, Indonesia and 1960s Dublin.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. With President Putin enjoying sky-high approval ratings, Sarah Rainsford travels to the hear the verdict in the trial of a man hoping to replace Mr. Putin. Just how difficult is it to be in opposition in Russia? In Turkey, there have been tens of thousands of arrests, numerous terrorist attacks, and the government is planning to hold a referendum, aimed at giving the President more powers. Its a time of instability. As a result, as Louise Callaghan has found, people are flocking to the psychics. The scale of the sex trafficking trade is hard to determine, though many governments have now admitted they need to do more about the problem. Often the victims are reluctant to talk. In south east Nigeria, Colin Freeman finds that the belief in a slave goddess is now being exploited by traffickers to instill fear into trafficked women. In Indonesia, Rebecca Henschke is invited to a judge in the annual transgender beauty contest. But amid all the glamour and glitter, there is an underlying worry about growing intolerance in the country. And our man in Paris, Hugh Schofield, says sometimes the cliche that a teacher can change your life is actually true. He reminisces about a man called "Mush" who taught him French, in 1960s Dublin.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04t9prl.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04t9prl.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04t9prl.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04t9prg</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04t9prg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04t9prl.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04t9prg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From the Vatican to Vienna</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Christopher Lamb on the opposition to Pope Francis within the Vatican - visible for all to see in the streets. Humphrey Hawksley, on the Taiwanese island of Kinmen, hears how President Trump must understand the importance of face to China. Pay respect and give compliments because no-one wants it to end in blood. Diana Darke is in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, the birthplace of Queen Dido, where the different communities have grown weary of war and are now seeking to build together. Daniel Pardo marvels at the resilience he witnesses in Chile, in the face of the worst forest fires the country has faced in its recent history. And Bethany Bell, with an intoxicating sense of giddiness, on why the Blue Danube Waltz - now 150 years old - is Austria's second national anthem.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents's stories from The Vatican, Taiwan, Lebanon, Chile and dancing in Vienna.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Christopher Lamb on the opposition to Pope Francis within the Vatican - visible for all to see in the streets. Humphrey Hawksley, on the Taiwanese island of Kinmen, hears how President Trump must understand the importance of face to China. Pay respect and give compliments because no-one wants it to end in blood. Diana Darke is in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, the birthplace of Queen Dido, where the different communities have grown weary of war and are now seeking to build together. Daniel Pardo marvels at the resilience he witnesses in Chile, in the face of the worst forest fires the country has faced in its recent history. And Bethany Bell, with an intoxicating sense of giddiness, on why the Blue Danube Waltz - now 150 years old - is Austria's second national anthem.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1695</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04t2nnm.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04t2nnm.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04t2nnm.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04t2nnk</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04t2nnk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04t2nnm.mp3" fileSize="27120000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1695"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04t2nnk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: Andrew Harding, in South Africa, says the word "sorry" hasn't had much air time in recent years, despite numerous incidents of corruption and poor governance. Nick Thorpe, with the protests in Romania, remembers earlier - and recent - revolutions in Europe. Lyse Doucet is in Saudi Arabia, where the collapse in the oil price is bringing about some changes - could that include introducing more fun? John Sweeney meets Geert Wilders, the leader of the far-right Freedom Party in the Netherlands and feels distinctly uncomfortable. And Phoebe Smith spots something in the trees in Alaska that traces its roots to more difficult times.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents' stories: South Africa, Romania, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands and Alaska.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: Andrew Harding, in South Africa, says the word "sorry" hasn't had much air time in recent years, despite numerous incidents of corruption and poor governance. Nick Thorpe, with the protests in Romania, remembers earlier - and recent - revolutions in Europe. Lyse Doucet is in Saudi Arabia, where the collapse in the oil price is bringing about some changes - could that include introducing more fun? John Sweeney meets Geert Wilders, the leader of the far-right Freedom Party in the Netherlands and feels distinctly uncomfortable. And Phoebe Smith spots something in the trees in Alaska that traces its roots to more difficult times.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1693</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04slqqv.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04slqqv.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04slqqv.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04slqqr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04slqqr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04slqqv.mp3" fileSize="27088000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1693"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04slqqr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Radio Baa Baa</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today, Mike Thomson speaks to an extraordinary man in Idlib, north-west Syria, as he responds to demands from extremists by broadcasting animal noises on his radio station. Amid an escalation of settlement activity in Israel, Yolande Knell sees one Jewish settlement bulldozed while others are given the green light by the Israeli parliament; James Coomarasamy is reminded of characters from 19th century Russian literature as he visits rural Russia. Olivia Acland partakes in a slightly boozy breakfast in Sierra Leone where palm wine is the drink of choice; and Andy Jones is in Loveland, Colorado, with the silver-haired Valentines' elves as they stamp away to bluegrass music.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents' stories from Syria, Israel, Russia, Sierra Leone and Loveland, in the US.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today, Mike Thomson speaks to an extraordinary man in Idlib, north-west Syria, as he responds to demands from extremists by broadcasting animal noises on his radio station. Amid an escalation of settlement activity in Israel, Yolande Knell sees one Jewish settlement bulldozed while others are given the green light by the Israeli parliament; James Coomarasamy is reminded of characters from 19th century Russian literature as he visits rural Russia. Olivia Acland partakes in a slightly boozy breakfast in Sierra Leone where palm wine is the drink of choice; and Andy Jones is in Loveland, Colorado, with the silver-haired Valentines' elves as they stamp away to bluegrass music.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2017 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04sc2m4.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04sc2m4.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04sc2m4.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04sc2m2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04sc2m2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04sc2m4.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04sc2m2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>It's Just Not Cricket</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents' stories. Jon Sopel asks if we have got it all wrong about Donald Trump. He's not just a deal maker, he has ideologues standing right behind him. Will Grant, in Mexico City, muses on how President Trump wants to build a wall on the Mexican border and yet a distinctly unsavoury Mexican has been sent back across that border, to the US. North East Nigeria is still in the grip of violence as the military continues its operations against Boko Haram. But Katerina Vittozzi visits a zoo where life is more peaceful and where young lovers can meet - but don't touch. Lucy Daltroff is in Japan, where modern life and screens are getting in the way of getting together, so babies are not being born. And Huw Cordey struggles to find sleep in West Papua because of a pesky insect; and matters soon turn sinister.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondent stories from the USA, Mexico, Nigeria, Japan and Indonesian West Papua.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents' stories. Jon Sopel asks if we have got it all wrong about Donald Trump. He's not just a deal maker, he has ideologues standing right behind him. Will Grant, in Mexico City, muses on how President Trump wants to build a wall on the Mexican border and yet a distinctly unsavoury Mexican has been sent back across that border, to the US. North East Nigeria is still in the grip of violence as the military continues its operations against Boko Haram. But Katerina Vittozzi visits a zoo where life is more peaceful and where young lovers can meet - but don't touch. Lucy Daltroff is in Japan, where modern life and screens are getting in the way of getting together, so babies are not being born. And Huw Cordey struggles to find sleep in West Papua because of a pesky insect; and matters soon turn sinister.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04rw7c6.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04rw7c6.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04rw7c6.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04rw7c3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04rw7c3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04rw7c6.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04rw7c3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>"Beautiful, Beautiful Chaos"</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents' stories. Today, Tim Hartley hears how politics are forgotten amid the colour and friendship of the African Cup of Nations in Gabon. Nick Sturdee has a fantastical tale of intrigue and murder in Turkey - but where does the trail lead? Hywel Griffith, in Sydney, Australia, is with the 90 year old who is keeping the developers at bay. Emma Levine hunts down Albania's elusive rail network; and phoning home may have been difficult during the Kosovo conflict but Andrew Gray remembers fondly the opportunities and advantages of not being connected.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondent stories, including football, not politics, in Gabon, and intrigue in Turkey</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents' stories. Today, Tim Hartley hears how politics are forgotten amid the colour and friendship of the African Cup of Nations in Gabon. Nick Sturdee has a fantastical tale of intrigue and murder in Turkey - but where does the trail lead? Hywel Griffith, in Sydney, Australia, is with the 90 year old who is keeping the developers at bay. Emma Levine hunts down Albania's elusive rail network; and phoning home may have been difficult during the Kosovo conflict but Andrew Gray remembers fondly the opportunities and advantages of not being connected.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2017 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1691</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04rmvc6.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04rmvc6.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04rmvc6.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04rmvc0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04rmvc0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04rmvc6.mp3" fileSize="27056000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1691"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04rmvc0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mission Accomplishment</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents' stories: Justin Rowlatt sees the high cost Afghanistan's soldiers are paying to fight off the Taleban and hears how important American troops are to the NATO mission in the country. The US Marines are training the first female recruits to be deployed to combat units; Hannah King witnesses the gruelling training and hears the ditties. Andrew Harding is in Somalia, where Al-Shabab have launched more attacks this week; he wonders if the country is turning a corner. Jenny Hill is in the Netherlands and Germany, where far right groups hope to make significant gains in elections this year. She hears how the promise of a patriotic spring is being welcomed. And Simon Busch is in Northern Cyprus, where the turtles come ashore and the coast has yet to be covered in concrete. Could that all change with reunification of the island?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents' stories: Afghanistan; female US Marines; Somalia; Europe's right; Cyprus</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents' stories: Justin Rowlatt sees the high cost Afghanistan's soldiers are paying to fight off the Taleban and hears how important American troops are to the NATO mission in the country. The US Marines are training the first female recruits to be deployed to combat units; Hannah King witnesses the gruelling training and hears the ditties. Andrew Harding is in Somalia, where Al-Shabab have launched more attacks this week; he wonders if the country is turning a corner. Jenny Hill is in the Netherlands and Germany, where far right groups hope to make significant gains in elections this year. She hears how the promise of a patriotic spring is being welcomed. And Simon Busch is in Northern Cyprus, where the turtles come ashore and the coast has yet to be covered in concrete. Could that all change with reunification of the island?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1693</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04r32kg.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04r32kg.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04r32kg.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04r32kc</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04r32kc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04r32kg.mp3" fileSize="27088000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1693"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04r32kc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>More Alternative Facts</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents' stories. In The Gambia, Alastair Leithead watched the old president and dictator leaving; and as he waits for the new one to arrive, he wonders if the president will be able to tackle the country's problems. In Germany, they are worried about what impact "fake" or "alternative news" could have on their election. Damien McGuinness says there's an unusual international interest in German domestic politics - and all of it is healthy. Karen Allen remembers shivering one cold evening in Africa, during the birth pains of South Sudan. In Myanmar, Jonah Fisher reflects on how Aung San Suu Kyi's government is so quick to dismiss any stories of abuses committed against the minority Rohingya community as "fake news." And Dany Mitzman is with two of the top four-legged students of a special university in northern Italy as they sniff out some of the world's most expensive delicacy.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents in The Gambia, Germany, South Sudan, Myanmar and Italy with their stories.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents' stories. In The Gambia, Alastair Leithead watched the old president and dictator leaving; and as he waits for the new one to arrive, he wonders if the president will be able to tackle the country's problems. In Germany, they are worried about what impact "fake" or "alternative news" could have on their election. Damien McGuinness says there's an unusual international interest in German domestic politics - and all of it is healthy. Karen Allen remembers shivering one cold evening in Africa, during the birth pains of South Sudan. In Myanmar, Jonah Fisher reflects on how Aung San Suu Kyi's government is so quick to dismiss any stories of abuses committed against the minority Rohingya community as "fake news." And Dany Mitzman is with two of the top four-legged students of a special university in northern Italy as they sniff out some of the world's most expensive delicacy.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2017 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04qtysp.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04qtysp.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04qtysp.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04qtysm</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04qtysm</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04qtysp.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04qtysm</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Drawing Out the Story</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents' stories. Today, Robin Denselow is in one of the most sparsely populated countries on the planet, Namibia, where they are seeking divine intervention in a time of drought. Andrew North uses his sketchbook to weave his way through Soviet memorabilia in Georgia. In Nepal, economic necessity means that families aren't able to look after their older relatives as they once did. Melissa Van der Klugt visits an alien concept in the country - the first old people's home. Rob Stepney is with Austrian archaeologists before they're thrown out, in the ancient Turkish city of Ephesus. And it's the bean-eaters they're focused on. And Tim Mansel is in Leipzig, in eastern Germany, with the football upstarts of RB. But he's careful not to spill the beans over dinner with the old stalwarts of LOK.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Bridget Kendall with correspondents' stories: Namibia, Georgia, Nepal, Turkey, Germany.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Bridget Kendall introduces correspondents' stories. Today, Robin Denselow is in one of the most sparsely populated countries on the planet, Namibia, where they are seeking divine intervention in a time of drought. Andrew North uses his sketchbook to weave his way through Soviet memorabilia in Georgia. In Nepal, economic necessity means that families aren't able to look after their older relatives as they once did. Melissa Van der Klugt visits an alien concept in the country - the first old people's home. Rob Stepney is with Austrian archaeologists before they're thrown out, in the ancient Turkish city of Ephesus. And it's the bean-eaters they're focused on. And Tim Mansel is in Leipzig, in eastern Germany, with the football upstarts of RB. But he's careful not to spill the beans over dinner with the old stalwarts of LOK.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1695</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04q8f5s.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04q8f5s.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04q8f5s.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04q8f5p</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04q8f5p</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04q8f5s.mp3" fileSize="27120000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1695"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04q8f5p</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>This Mortal Coil</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Emily Buchanan introduces correspondents' stories. John Beck meets the policeman who used a special disguise to escape from ISIS killers in Iraq; Rebecca Henschke is outside court to hear why some think Jakarta cannot have a non-Muslim Governor. The first president of Seychelles is given a special burial; Tim Ecott explains why it could be the start of reconciliation in the archipelago. Helier Cheung was right there, singing, when Hong Kong was handed back to China; she hasn't forgotten the sandwiches, even if the politics are now more on her menu. Simon Parker is in a Bolivian market, struggling amid the sights and smells of animal flesh, hearing how the meat trade has survived during the country's worst drought in thirty years.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondent stories - dressing up to save your life and why a burial could heal wounds.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Emily Buchanan introduces correspondents' stories. John Beck meets the policeman who used a special disguise to escape from ISIS killers in Iraq; Rebecca Henschke is outside court to hear why some think Jakarta cannot have a non-Muslim Governor. The first president of Seychelles is given a special burial; Tim Ecott explains why it could be the start of reconciliation in the archipelago. Helier Cheung was right there, singing, when Hong Kong was handed back to China; she hasn't forgotten the sandwiches, even if the politics are now more on her menu. Simon Parker is in a Bolivian market, struggling amid the sights and smells of animal flesh, hearing how the meat trade has survived during the country's worst drought in thirty years.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1692</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04q07r0.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04q07r0.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04q07r0.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04q07qv</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04q07qv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04q07r0.mp3" fileSize="27072000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1692"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04q07qv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Striving for Clarity</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. John Sudworth is doing his best to tape up the windows of his Beijing flat as he tries to protect his family from the city's dangerous smog. Thomas Fessy remembers his days in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, fondly. But now the dancing in this lively city is more mechanical and there's anxiety that a full-blown insurgency may be about to break out once again. Phoebe Smith is in one of the coldest inhabited places on earth, Svalbard, where the miners have been packing up their picks but new opportunities are opening up. The battle between fact, fiction and "truth" is being fought in the American media. Robert Colls says it's increasingly difficult to tell one from the other. And we have the story of a cat called Django from Will Grant in Havana, Cuba, where being a pet owner is an expensive business; but if you don't do it, who will?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Pollution in China, cats in Cuba and other stories from the US, Svalbard and Congo.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. John Sudworth is doing his best to tape up the windows of his Beijing flat as he tries to protect his family from the city's dangerous smog. Thomas Fessy remembers his days in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, fondly. But now the dancing in this lively city is more mechanical and there's anxiety that a full-blown insurgency may be about to break out once again. Phoebe Smith is in one of the coldest inhabited places on earth, Svalbard, where the miners have been packing up their picks but new opportunities are opening up. The battle between fact, fiction and "truth" is being fought in the American media. Robert Colls says it's increasingly difficult to tell one from the other. And we have the story of a cat called Django from Will Grant in Havana, Cuba, where being a pet owner is an expensive business; but if you don't do it, who will?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04pgv4f.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04pgv4f.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04pgv4f.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04pgv3v</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04pgv3v</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04pgv4f.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04pgv3v</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>"May it Pass"</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: Mark Lowen takes the increasingly well-trodden path to the mosque for another funeral in Turkey; Vin Ray visits the secretive airbase at the centre of the US's drone warfare, and he speaks to the pilots who juggle family life and fighting; Linda Pressly is in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where heightened security and fear intermingle, and meets up with an old friend and colleague; Richard Dove is in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where you can find everything - as long as you're rich; and with a deep chill in relations between the White House and the Kremlin, Deirdre Finnerty takes shelter from the Washington DC's cold wind in a Russian cafe.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents' stories from Turkey, Nevada, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone and Washington DC.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: Mark Lowen takes the increasingly well-trodden path to the mosque for another funeral in Turkey; Vin Ray visits the secretive airbase at the centre of the US's drone warfare, and he speaks to the pilots who juggle family life and fighting; Linda Pressly is in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where heightened security and fear intermingle, and meets up with an old friend and colleague; Richard Dove is in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where you can find everything - as long as you're rich; and with a deep chill in relations between the White House and the Kremlin, Deirdre Finnerty takes shelter from the Washington DC's cold wind in a Russian cafe.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1695</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04np81l.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04np81l.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04np81l.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04np81j</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04np81j</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04np81l.mp3" fileSize="27120000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1695"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04np81j</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Cooking up 2016</title><description><![CDATA[<p>By any standard, 2016 has been a momentous year, right across the world: unexpected election results, disastrous wars, huge flows of migrants and refugees, major terrorist attacks, the death of memorable people. Some of our correspondents reflect on their region. The BBC's Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, comes across - of all things - a cookbook that, for him, sums up so much of what has been lost in Syria. Carrie Gracie, the BBC's China Editor, is struck by the growing number of Chinese who seem prepared to go against the government's flow and to take the consequences. Nick Thorpe, who has reported extensively on Europe's migrant crisis, and who lives in Budapest, examines Hungary's reaction to the crisis. Karen Allen has been reporting from Africa for 12 years but she's now leaving; she describes some of the memorable changes she's seen. Cuba is one place that's seen a lot of change - and not just because of the death of Fidel Castro. Our man in Havana, Will Grant, goes fishing for what it all means to ordinary Cubans.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents reflect on a momentous year and what has happened in their region.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>By any standard, 2016 has been a momentous year, right across the world: unexpected election results, disastrous wars, huge flows of migrants and refugees, major terrorist attacks, the death of memorable people. Some of our correspondents reflect on their region. The BBC's Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, comes across - of all things - a cookbook that, for him, sums up so much of what has been lost in Syria. Carrie Gracie, the BBC's China Editor, is struck by the growing number of Chinese who seem prepared to go against the government's flow and to take the consequences. Nick Thorpe, who has reported extensively on Europe's migrant crisis, and who lives in Budapest, examines Hungary's reaction to the crisis. Karen Allen has been reporting from Africa for 12 years but she's now leaving; she describes some of the memorable changes she's seen. Cuba is one place that's seen a lot of change - and not just because of the death of Fidel Castro. Our man in Havana, Will Grant, goes fishing for what it all means to ordinary Cubans.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2016 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04mb2tw.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04mb2tw.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04mb2tw.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04mb2tt</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04mb2tt</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04mb2tw.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04mb2tt</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Hollywood Smiles and Sweet Memories</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents stories: Mary Harper goes to the Syrian dentist bringing Hollywood smiles to Somaliland; Guy Hedgecoe travels to the highlands of Spanish Catalonia, a stronghold of calls for independence; Melissa Van der Klugt is in clouds of flour in Pune, in western India, where they can't get enough of an English biscuit; Andrew Dickson has gone to the Urals and comes across a new presidential museum asking people to re-consider Russia's wild 90s, when a red-faced Boris Yeltsin was in charge; and Joanna Robertson is in the City of Light, amid thousands of bulbs, spreading their magical fairytale twinkle across Paris.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents' stories from Somaliland, Catalonia, India, Russia and the City of Light.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents stories: Mary Harper goes to the Syrian dentist bringing Hollywood smiles to Somaliland; Guy Hedgecoe travels to the highlands of Spanish Catalonia, a stronghold of calls for independence; Melissa Van der Klugt is in clouds of flour in Pune, in western India, where they can't get enough of an English biscuit; Andrew Dickson has gone to the Urals and comes across a new presidential museum asking people to re-consider Russia's wild 90s, when a red-faced Boris Yeltsin was in charge; and Joanna Robertson is in the City of Light, amid thousands of bulbs, spreading their magical fairytale twinkle across Paris.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2016 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1694</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04mb2lw.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04mb2lw.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04mb2lw.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04mb2lt</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04mb2lt</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04mb2lw.mp3" fileSize="27104000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1694"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04mb2lt</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Rwandan Echoes</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Memories of Rwanda return to Alastair Leithead in northern Uganda as he watches refugees fleeing from South Sudan's civil war; Gideon Long tries not to lose all his money as he changes cash in Venezuela; President Obama described the new UN Secretary General as having "an extraordinary reputation." Alison Roberts, in Portugal, says he's a man who likes to talk and talk and talk. Uzbekistan has just elected only it's second president in a quarter of a century. Peter Robertson sees some signs that this autocratic country might be changing. There's a cash crisis in India too. Horatio Clare retreats to one place where you're not supposed to need money, though you do have to pay for that privilege.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie with Correspondents' stories: Uganda, Venezuela, Portugal, Uzbekistan and India.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Memories of Rwanda return to Alastair Leithead in northern Uganda as he watches refugees fleeing from South Sudan's civil war; Gideon Long tries not to lose all his money as he changes cash in Venezuela; President Obama described the new UN Secretary General as having "an extraordinary reputation." Alison Roberts, in Portugal, says he's a man who likes to talk and talk and talk. Uzbekistan has just elected only it's second president in a quarter of a century. Peter Robertson sees some signs that this autocratic country might be changing. There's a cash crisis in India too. Horatio Clare retreats to one place where you're not supposed to need money, though you do have to pay for that privilege.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2016 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1693</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04lr4cr.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04lr4cr.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04lr4cr.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04lr4cp</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04lr4cp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04lr4cr.mp3" fileSize="27088000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1693"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04lr4cp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Vigilantes, Strongmen and Mannequins</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Jill McGivering investigates the cow protection squads in northern India, some of which have been accused of extreme violence against Muslims. Colin Freeman gets a Blue Feeling moment in Gambia as he explores why so many young men are leaving the country. Turkmenistan has one of the world's most repressive governments, and now the president's personality cult includes a nationwide health kick. Abdujalil Abdurasulov asks if that means everybody has to jump to it. Fifty years ago, South Africa's apartheid government razed the District Six neighbourhood of Cape Town: as a multiracial, rackety, creative hotbed it didn't fit a model of strict segregation. Lindsay Johns has personal links to the area, and considers how the evictions destroyed far more than just homes among the Coloured community. And Katie Razzall is in West Virginia, in the coal mining areas, where people voted in droves for Donald Trump. They're hoping he'll re-open the mines and bring jobs back to the area but will real life return to the bars and hotels?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories of strong-arm tactics, strongmen, emptying places and discarded lives and hopes.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Jill McGivering investigates the cow protection squads in northern India, some of which have been accused of extreme violence against Muslims. Colin Freeman gets a Blue Feeling moment in Gambia as he explores why so many young men are leaving the country. Turkmenistan has one of the world's most repressive governments, and now the president's personality cult includes a nationwide health kick. Abdujalil Abdurasulov asks if that means everybody has to jump to it. Fifty years ago, South Africa's apartheid government razed the District Six neighbourhood of Cape Town: as a multiracial, rackety, creative hotbed it didn't fit a model of strict segregation. Lindsay Johns has personal links to the area, and considers how the evictions destroyed far more than just homes among the Coloured community. And Katie Razzall is in West Virginia, in the coal mining areas, where people voted in droves for Donald Trump. They're hoping he'll re-open the mines and bring jobs back to the area but will real life return to the bars and hotels?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2016 12:58:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1693</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04ky53n.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04ky53n.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04ky53n.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04ky53k</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04ky53k</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04ky53n.mp3" fileSize="27088000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1693"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04ky53k</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Real or Fake?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories: Katerina Vittozzi is in northeastern Nigeria, where assassinations, bombings and kidnapping are now combined with starvation. But amid the bleakness she also finds ingenuity and survival. Emma Jane Kirby goes to the source of much of the fake news that swirled around social media sites during the US presidential election - and it's nowhere near America. In Nicaragua, Nick Redmayne is shown the proposed route of another huge canal, akin to the Panama canal; and he hears how the country's revolutionary fervour, as symbolized by the Sandinistas in the 1980s, is hard to find nowadays. Austrians could be about to elect the EU's first far right head of state. "I'm not a fighter, I'm a calm man," the far right candidate tells Bethany Bell. But others believe he's a wolf in expensive sheep's clothing. And in California, where anything can happen, Kieran Cooke is invited to a wedding. The catch is....he has to do the marrying.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Extracting the truth: stories from Nigeria, Macedonia, Nicaragua, Austria and California.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories: Katerina Vittozzi is in northeastern Nigeria, where assassinations, bombings and kidnapping are now combined with starvation. But amid the bleakness she also finds ingenuity and survival. Emma Jane Kirby goes to the source of much of the fake news that swirled around social media sites during the US presidential election - and it's nowhere near America. In Nicaragua, Nick Redmayne is shown the proposed route of another huge canal, akin to the Panama canal; and he hears how the country's revolutionary fervour, as symbolized by the Sandinistas in the 1980s, is hard to find nowadays. Austrians could be about to elect the EU's first far right head of state. "I'm not a fighter, I'm a calm man," the far right candidate tells Bethany Bell. But others believe he's a wolf in expensive sheep's clothing. And in California, where anything can happen, Kieran Cooke is invited to a wedding. The catch is....he has to do the marrying.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2016 12:55:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04ky4np.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04ky4np.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04ky4np.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04ky4nm</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04ky4nm</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04ky4np.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04ky4nm</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Changing Fortunes</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. The move to bigger offices makes Mark Lowen ponder the huge changes in Turkey. In Iraq the army, Kurdish forces and various militia groups have common cause now, to oust Islamic State, but Richard Galpin asks: what happens next? Linda Pressly hurtles through the Albanian countryside and is confronted by the pungent smell of one of the biggest drugs seizures yet. Simon Broughton discusses the power of poetry and literature to encourage free thinking in Bangladesh, all the while surrounded by armed guards. In Uzbekistan, reds bleed into greens, and blues into yellows, as silk weavers revive the art of carpet making.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Malaise in Turkey and Iraq; drugs in Albania; poetry in Bangladesh and Uzbek weavers.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. The move to bigger offices makes Mark Lowen ponder the huge changes in Turkey. In Iraq the army, Kurdish forces and various militia groups have common cause now, to oust Islamic State, but Richard Galpin asks: what happens next? Linda Pressly hurtles through the Albanian countryside and is confronted by the pungent smell of one of the biggest drugs seizures yet. Simon Broughton discusses the power of poetry and literature to encourage free thinking in Bangladesh, all the while surrounded by armed guards. In Uzbekistan, reds bleed into greens, and blues into yellows, as silk weavers revive the art of carpet making.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2016 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1692</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04j0m2z.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04j0m2z.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04j0m2z.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04j0m2v</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04j0m2v</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04j0m2z.mp3" fileSize="27072000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1692"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04j0m2v</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Neither Love Nor Money</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories: Dan Isaacs is on Aleppo's frontline with the last shopkeeper of the Old City; Soutik Biswas is thwarted in his search for cash in India; Tulip Mazumdar has an uncomfortable encounter with a "cutter" and undergoes a demonstration of what really happens during FGM. A year ago four Italian banks collapsed on the same day; Ruth Sunderland hears how thousands lost their life savings and even those who didn't find little hope in the future. South Korea is a technological giant, seemingly hurtling into the future, but Steve Evans observes how old-fashioned sexism persists across society.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Frontline biscuits, burning cash, a shocking demonstration, no love nor money, and sexism</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories: Dan Isaacs is on Aleppo's frontline with the last shopkeeper of the Old City; Soutik Biswas is thwarted in his search for cash in India; Tulip Mazumdar has an uncomfortable encounter with a "cutter" and undergoes a demonstration of what really happens during FGM. A year ago four Italian banks collapsed on the same day; Ruth Sunderland hears how thousands lost their life savings and even those who didn't find little hope in the future. South Korea is a technological giant, seemingly hurtling into the future, but Steve Evans observes how old-fashioned sexism persists across society.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2016 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1696</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04gzq5p.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04gzq5p.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04gzq5p.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04gzq5m</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04gzq5m</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04gzq5p.mp3" fileSize="27136000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1696"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04gzq5m</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Crack in Everything</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie lets the light in with stories of post-trump shivers in Ireland, with Vincent Woods; Katy Watson describes dejection and keen memories in Mexico; democracy of sorts and state-building in southern Somalia, as witnessed by Alastair Leithead; Searching for a libertarian utopia in the Balkans, with Jolyon Jenkins; and Anand Menon remembers his interrailing years as he takes to the tracks again across a post-Brexit Europe.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Golf courses, state building and utopia from Ireland, Mexico, Somalia, Croatia to the EU.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie lets the light in with stories of post-trump shivers in Ireland, with Vincent Woods; Katy Watson describes dejection and keen memories in Mexico; democracy of sorts and state-building in southern Somalia, as witnessed by Alastair Leithead; Searching for a libertarian utopia in the Balkans, with Jolyon Jenkins; and Anand Menon remembers his interrailing years as he takes to the tracks again across a post-Brexit Europe.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2016 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1697</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04g2q00.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04g2q00.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04g2q00.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04g2pzy</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04g2pzy</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04g2q00.mp3" fileSize="27152000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1697"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04g2pzy</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Constitutionally Capable</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from China, Venezuela, Italy, Cote d'Ivoire and Kosovo. As the news of Donald Trump's victory in the US Presidential election sinks in around the world, former China correspondent Celia Hatton reflects on how the whole story of his campaign has been spun in the Chinese media - and whether it's dampened or sharpened the public's appetite for more democracy at home. James Copnall takes in the new air of bustling, business-friendly Cote d'Ivoire - a country which seems keen to leave its recent political crises behind it. The eclectic, insurgent Five Star Movement has shaken the political landscape of Italy and Helen Grady weighs up what it's offering voters as they prepare for a referendum on changing the Italian constitution. Amid the escalating chaos and often-alarming news in Venezuela, Daniel Pardo concentrates - for once - on the nation's brighter sides. And Andrew Gray gets on the supporters' bus with the passionate fans of Europe's newest national footaball team: Kosovo.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Tales of power plays and tactics from China, Venezuela, Cote d'Ivoire, Italy and Kosovo</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from China, Venezuela, Italy, Cote d'Ivoire and Kosovo. As the news of Donald Trump's victory in the US Presidential election sinks in around the world, former China correspondent Celia Hatton reflects on how the whole story of his campaign has been spun in the Chinese media - and whether it's dampened or sharpened the public's appetite for more democracy at home. James Copnall takes in the new air of bustling, business-friendly Cote d'Ivoire - a country which seems keen to leave its recent political crises behind it. The eclectic, insurgent Five Star Movement has shaken the political landscape of Italy and Helen Grady weighs up what it's offering voters as they prepare for a referendum on changing the Italian constitution. Amid the escalating chaos and often-alarming news in Venezuela, Daniel Pardo concentrates - for once - on the nation's brighter sides. And Andrew Gray gets on the supporters' bus with the passionate fans of Europe's newest national footaball team: Kosovo.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:31:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1698</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04ftjl1.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04ftjl1.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04ftjl1.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04ftjkv</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04ftjkv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04ftjl1.mp3" fileSize="27168000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1698"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04ftjkv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Reading the Signs</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: Justin Rowlatt, in the smog of Delhi, hears how Theresa May's hopes of brokering a free-trade deal with India could be much harder than the government would admit to. Gabriel Gatehouse is shown a decades old piece in St Petersburg as the authorities tell people to prepare for the worst. Alexander Beetham, on the US-Mexico border, comes face-to-face with some of those Donald Trump says he will keep out of the US. Hugh Schofield wonders about the decline in the art of sign-painting in France and what it says about small-town life. And Christine Finn is in a forest of colours, with the leaf-peepers of Vermont.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents stories from India, Russia, the US-Mexico border, France and Vermont.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: Justin Rowlatt, in the smog of Delhi, hears how Theresa May's hopes of brokering a free-trade deal with India could be much harder than the government would admit to. Gabriel Gatehouse is shown a decades old piece in St Petersburg as the authorities tell people to prepare for the worst. Alexander Beetham, on the US-Mexico border, comes face-to-face with some of those Donald Trump says he will keep out of the US. Hugh Schofield wonders about the decline in the art of sign-painting in France and what it says about small-town life. And Christine Finn is in a forest of colours, with the leaf-peepers of Vermont.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2016 11:14:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1668</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04f8fh8.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04f8fh8.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04f8fh8.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04f8fh2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04f8fh2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04f8fh8.mp3" fileSize="26688000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1668"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04f8fh2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Too Hot To Think</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: On a flight to Las Vegas, Rajini Vaidynathan strikes up conversation with what turn out to be mainly Trump supporters and concludes that, wherever you are in the US, it's difficult to get agreement across the aisle. How a trip to Northern Ireland gave Nick Thorpe some new vocabulary to describe politics back home, in Hungary. In the Ugandan capital, Kampala, Tom Shakespeare discovers why a brand new fleet of buses is simply parked up and failing to provide a service. And we indulge in some food and drink - in Georgia with Rob Crossan, involving singing, toasts, hugs, more toasts, more singing - you get the picture; and in southern California, where Sarah Wheeler walks through the heat slowly, in search of ice cold refreshment - anything to cool the brain.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents stories from the US, Hungary, Uganda, Georgia &amp; California, with Kate Adie</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: On a flight to Las Vegas, Rajini Vaidynathan strikes up conversation with what turn out to be mainly Trump supporters and concludes that, wherever you are in the US, it's difficult to get agreement across the aisle. How a trip to Northern Ireland gave Nick Thorpe some new vocabulary to describe politics back home, in Hungary. In the Ugandan capital, Kampala, Tom Shakespeare discovers why a brand new fleet of buses is simply parked up and failing to provide a service. And we indulge in some food and drink - in Georgia with Rob Crossan, involving singing, toasts, hugs, more toasts, more singing - you get the picture; and in southern California, where Sarah Wheeler walks through the heat slowly, in search of ice cold refreshment - anything to cool the brain.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2016 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04f10sd.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04f10sd.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04f10sd.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04f10sb</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04f10sb</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04f10sd.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04f10sb</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Awkward Questions</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: Karen Allen is caught up in the anger of the student protests in South Africa. After the latest terror attack in Pakistan, Shahzeb Jillani wonders why no-one wants to ask the difficult questions. Bill Law, from Canada, tells us how despite a fascination with the US Presidential race, it's sometimes best to leave politics aside and stick to the diving. Gavin Lee, who has been reporting from the Jungle migrant camp for several years, explains about the dog and the wolf, and the sights and scents that will linger. And, watch out on the hillsides of Montenegro - you really might catch your death, as Elizabeth Gowing hears.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents stories from South Africa, Pakistan, Canada, France and Montenegro.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: Karen Allen is caught up in the anger of the student protests in South Africa. After the latest terror attack in Pakistan, Shahzeb Jillani wonders why no-one wants to ask the difficult questions. Bill Law, from Canada, tells us how despite a fascination with the US Presidential race, it's sometimes best to leave politics aside and stick to the diving. Gavin Lee, who has been reporting from the Jungle migrant camp for several years, explains about the dog and the wolf, and the sights and scents that will linger. And, watch out on the hillsides of Montenegro - you really might catch your death, as Elizabeth Gowing hears.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2016 10:43:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1661</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04djvww.mp3" length="26576000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04djvww.mp3" length="26576000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04djvww.mp3" length="26576000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04djvwt</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04djvwt</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04djvww.mp3" fileSize="26576000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1661"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04djvwt</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Linguistic confusion and mass killers</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Damien McGuinness is in Berlin where the politicians are frustrated that British politicians don't seem to understand that no means no. Jake Wallis Simons returns to the scene of the terrorist attacks in Paris last year. James Jeffrey is in Addis Ababa, under a state of emergency, where there's confusion about what really is going on but people are partying as hard as ever. Lindsay Johns travels from Harvard to Harlem in a divided America. And Chris Carnegy meets one of the world's most prolific killers, in the South Atlantic. But his targets are mice.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents stories from Berlin, Paris, Ethiopia, the US and the South Atlantic.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Damien McGuinness is in Berlin where the politicians are frustrated that British politicians don't seem to understand that no means no. Jake Wallis Simons returns to the scene of the terrorist attacks in Paris last year. James Jeffrey is in Addis Ababa, under a state of emergency, where there's confusion about what really is going on but people are partying as hard as ever. Lindsay Johns travels from Harvard to Harlem in a divided America. And Chris Carnegy meets one of the world's most prolific killers, in the South Atlantic. But his targets are mice.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 10:31:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04f24wy.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04f24wy.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04f24wy.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04f24ww</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04f24ww</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04f24wy.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04f24ww</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Memento Mori</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In a week of remembrance and recollection, Jannat Jalil explains how the French authorities - who are preparing to remember those killed in last November’s Paris attacks - find other deaths on the capital’s streets more than fifty years ago far more difficult to commemorate. Adam Easton in Warsaw reflects on how Poles saw their country’s recent history in the life and work of one of their leading film directors, Andrzej Wajda, who died this week. Carrie Gracie in Beijing joins one of the Chinese Communist Party’s new pilgrimage tours to revolutionary martyr sites from the civil war era of the twentieth century which President Xi Jinping wants party members to attend in order to rekindle ideological fervour. Robin Denselow reports on how Turkey’s volatile political situation is having an effect on Islamic cooperation even at Sufi festivals, like the famous one he visited at Konya. And we remember Chris Simpson, a long-standing and distinguished contributor to "From Our Own Correspondent", who died suddenly this week. We hear again a characteristically witty and perceptive dispatch he recorded in the Central African Republic in 2010.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>China’s martyrs, a Turkish Sufi festival and an Algerian massacre in Paris feature today</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In a week of remembrance and recollection, Jannat Jalil explains how the French authorities - who are preparing to remember those killed in last November’s Paris attacks - find other deaths on the capital’s streets more than fifty years ago far more difficult to commemorate. Adam Easton in Warsaw reflects on how Poles saw their country’s recent history in the life and work of one of their leading film directors, Andrzej Wajda, who died this week. Carrie Gracie in Beijing joins one of the Chinese Communist Party’s new pilgrimage tours to revolutionary martyr sites from the civil war era of the twentieth century which President Xi Jinping wants party members to attend in order to rekindle ideological fervour. Robin Denselow reports on how Turkey’s volatile political situation is having an effect on Islamic cooperation even at Sufi festivals, like the famous one he visited at Konya. And we remember Chris Simpson, a long-standing and distinguished contributor to "From Our Own Correspondent", who died suddenly this week. We hear again a characteristically witty and perceptive dispatch he recorded in the Central African Republic in 2010.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2016 10:46:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1692</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04ctgm1.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04ctgm1.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04ctgm1.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04ctglz</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04ctglz</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04ctgm1.mp3" fileSize="27072000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1692"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04ctglz</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Sense of Place</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Recollections of working in Warsaw thirty years ago prompt Kevin Connolly to consider how life there then informs Poles’ support now for freedom of movement within the European Union. Bethany Bell visits the birthplace of Adolf Hitler, the town of Braunau, and discovers Austrians are divided over whether or not his childhood home should be torn down. James Longman finds that Lebanon’s capital exerts a special attraction for him as Beirut Correspondent – even though he already knows it well. Adam Shaw visits one of the world's wealthiest men, Carlos Slim, in Mexico City and finds migration very much on the telecoms mogul’s mind. And Jane Labous gets parenting advice from her Senegalese mother-in-law. The programme is introduced by Kate Adie.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Poles’ esteem for free movement, Carlos Slim and Hitler’s home feature in this edition.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Recollections of working in Warsaw thirty years ago prompt Kevin Connolly to consider how life there then informs Poles’ support now for freedom of movement within the European Union. Bethany Bell visits the birthplace of Adolf Hitler, the town of Braunau, and discovers Austrians are divided over whether or not his childhood home should be torn down. James Longman finds that Lebanon’s capital exerts a special attraction for him as Beirut Correspondent – even though he already knows it well. Adam Shaw visits one of the world's wealthiest men, Carlos Slim, in Mexico City and finds migration very much on the telecoms mogul’s mind. And Jane Labous gets parenting advice from her Senegalese mother-in-law. The programme is introduced by Kate Adie.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2016 10:35:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1707</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04clg67.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04clg67.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04clg67.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04clg65</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04clg65</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04clg67.mp3" fileSize="27312000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1707"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04clg65</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Treading Carefully</title><description><![CDATA[<p>We travel to Hawai'i, The Gambia, France and India-administered Kashmir this week. The programme begins in Australia where the plans of the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, to hold a national plebiscite on the issue of same-sex marriage have run into difficulties. Phil Mercer explains why, although his opponents agree with the premier’s objective, they don’t support his approach for achieving it. Chris Simpson is in The Gambia, the smallest country on the African mainland. Elections are due in December and the opposition parties agreed only yesterday to field a single candidate against the sitting president. But what are the prospects of the long-serving head of state losing power? Chris Bockman is in Toulouse following the story of a plane and its erstwhile owner. Colonel Gadaffi of Libya, the fifth anniversary of whose death falls next Thursday, hated flying but nevertheless acquired and fitted out in grand style an Airbus A340. But disagreements between the new Libyan authorities and creditors claiming that bills racked up by the former leader have been left unpaid in France mean the plane is parked at Perpignan airport. What will happen next? Kashmir is one of the most militarised regions of the world with India and Pakistan administering parts of it while both claiming all of it. Melissa van der Klugt journeyed to Attari to meet the station superintendent who manages the daily routine of journeys between Delhi and Lahore under the shadow of nuclear weapons held on both sides. And Simon Parker is fascinated by the active volcanoes on Hawai'i, particularly Kilauea. He decides to get up close and personal with the lava-spewing natural wonder – but will his feet be able to endure the trek</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Seeking lava on Hawaii, Gaddafi’s plane in Perpignan and the murky politics of The Gambia</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>We travel to Hawai'i, The Gambia, France and India-administered Kashmir this week. The programme begins in Australia where the plans of the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, to hold a national plebiscite on the issue of same-sex marriage have run into difficulties. Phil Mercer explains why, although his opponents agree with the premier’s objective, they don’t support his approach for achieving it. Chris Simpson is in The Gambia, the smallest country on the African mainland. Elections are due in December and the opposition parties agreed only yesterday to field a single candidate against the sitting president. But what are the prospects of the long-serving head of state losing power? Chris Bockman is in Toulouse following the story of a plane and its erstwhile owner. Colonel Gadaffi of Libya, the fifth anniversary of whose death falls next Thursday, hated flying but nevertheless acquired and fitted out in grand style an Airbus A340. But disagreements between the new Libyan authorities and creditors claiming that bills racked up by the former leader have been left unpaid in France mean the plane is parked at Perpignan airport. What will happen next? Kashmir is one of the most militarised regions of the world with India and Pakistan administering parts of it while both claiming all of it. Melissa van der Klugt journeyed to Attari to meet the station superintendent who manages the daily routine of journeys between Delhi and Lahore under the shadow of nuclear weapons held on both sides. And Simon Parker is fascinated by the active volcanoes on Hawai'i, particularly Kilauea. He decides to get up close and personal with the lava-spewing natural wonder – but will his feet be able to endure the trek</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04c3m3t.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04c3m3t.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04c3m3t.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04c3m3q</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04c3m3q</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04c3m3t.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04c3m3q</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Battle Lines</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Today, twenty years after the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital, Kabul, Kate Clark, who was the only Western reporter in the country during their final years in power, reflects on what has changed there during the last twenty years. In Ethiopia, the government has this week declared a six-months-long state of emergency after violent protests in one of the nine ethnically-based states. James Jeffrey in Addis Ababa has been looking at the ethnic tensions which beset the country. The US presidential election campaign has been full of melodrama and incident more befitting a reality television show than a political debate. Gabriel Gatehouse passed through Washington en route to the rustbelt to gauge how far reality and the peculiar 2016 campaign are in alignment. Albania wants to be on everyone's tourist destination list after ending its long period of reclusive communist dictatorship. But Rob Stepney has found some national habits are so ingrained that making such a radical change isn't straightforward. The tentacles of corruption have inveigled their way deep into Mexican life, in part thanks to the drug trade. Antonia Quirke has been to the Caribbean coast to discover just how far they now reach and what effect they have on daily life.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Today: Afghanistan's Taliban, Ethiopia's emergency, Mexico and Albanian cheese-making.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Today, twenty years after the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital, Kabul, Kate Clark, who was the only Western reporter in the country during their final years in power, reflects on what has changed there during the last twenty years. In Ethiopia, the government has this week declared a six-months-long state of emergency after violent protests in one of the nine ethnically-based states. James Jeffrey in Addis Ababa has been looking at the ethnic tensions which beset the country. The US presidential election campaign has been full of melodrama and incident more befitting a reality television show than a political debate. Gabriel Gatehouse passed through Washington en route to the rustbelt to gauge how far reality and the peculiar 2016 campaign are in alignment. Albania wants to be on everyone's tourist destination list after ending its long period of reclusive communist dictatorship. But Rob Stepney has found some national habits are so ingrained that making such a radical change isn't straightforward. The tentacles of corruption have inveigled their way deep into Mexican life, in part thanks to the drug trade. Antonia Quirke has been to the Caribbean coast to discover just how far they now reach and what effect they have on daily life.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:04:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04bw9c8.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04bw9c8.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04bw9c8.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04bw9c5</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04bw9c5</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04bw9c8.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04bw9c5</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Bitter Harvests</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces tales of fear, bravery and love from around the world. Justin Rowlatt is in Bangladesh, asking whether security is as important to the country’s leadership as going after its political enemies. In Michoacán state, one of the centres of Mexico’s war on drugs, Linda Pressly visits a community which rebelled against intimidation and organised crime to protect its forests as well as its people - and decided to shut out national police and political parties too. As Milton Nkosi has reported on South Africa’s student protests this week, he’s been moved to reflect on how young people’s political goals have changed since the apartheid era. Stephen Evans is staying calm under pressure, just like his South Korean neighbours - whether they’re navigating the nightmarish road traffic in Seoul or studiously refusing to be panicked by nuclear threats from Pyongyang. And Juliet Rix has some myths to dispel in Verona, as she sifts history from legend in the courtyard which many tourists believe really was the setting for Romeo and Juliet’s great romance.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie introduces reports from Bangladesh, Mexico, South Africa, Italy and South Korea.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces tales of fear, bravery and love from around the world. Justin Rowlatt is in Bangladesh, asking whether security is as important to the country’s leadership as going after its political enemies. In Michoacán state, one of the centres of Mexico’s war on drugs, Linda Pressly visits a community which rebelled against intimidation and organised crime to protect its forests as well as its people - and decided to shut out national police and political parties too. As Milton Nkosi has reported on South Africa’s student protests this week, he’s been moved to reflect on how young people’s political goals have changed since the apartheid era. Stephen Evans is staying calm under pressure, just like his South Korean neighbours - whether they’re navigating the nightmarish road traffic in Seoul or studiously refusing to be panicked by nuclear threats from Pyongyang. And Juliet Rix has some myths to dispel in Verona, as she sifts history from legend in the courtyard which many tourists believe really was the setting for Romeo and Juliet’s great romance.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2016 11:04:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04bdklm.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04bdklm.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04bdklm.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04bdklj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04bdklj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04bdklm.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04bdklj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Peeling Back the Layers</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stories of surface image - and underlying reality - from around the world, introduced by Kate Adie. In Moscow, the alleged killers of liberal politician Boris Nemtsov are on trial, but questions remain about who was really responsible for his murder. Sarah Rainsford, who remembers Nemtsov as one of the poster boys for the newly democratic Russia of the 1990s, describes seeing the legal process unfold in court. In Ethiopia, some of the country's finest farmland is drying out as drought threatens the food supply for almost 18 million people - and Nicola Kelly's left unsure that traditional methods of weather forecasting, like reading signs in the livers of slaughtered goats, can work in these conditions. While travelling in Costa Rica's verdant forests, Tim Hartley also dug into the causes of a rot creeping across the country: corruption, on both the small and large scale. Bob Walker's been trudging a pilgrimage path in the footsteps of St Olaf through rural Sweden, and stepped into some ongoing debates about how many migrants the country could or should shelter. In Morocco, it's not easy for women to walk unmolested and Morgan Meaker hears from some who'd like to put an end to the endemic harassment on the streets.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Reports from writers and journalists around the world. Presented by Kate Adie.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stories of surface image - and underlying reality - from around the world, introduced by Kate Adie. In Moscow, the alleged killers of liberal politician Boris Nemtsov are on trial, but questions remain about who was really responsible for his murder. Sarah Rainsford, who remembers Nemtsov as one of the poster boys for the newly democratic Russia of the 1990s, describes seeing the legal process unfold in court. In Ethiopia, some of the country's finest farmland is drying out as drought threatens the food supply for almost 18 million people - and Nicola Kelly's left unsure that traditional methods of weather forecasting, like reading signs in the livers of slaughtered goats, can work in these conditions. While travelling in Costa Rica's verdant forests, Tim Hartley also dug into the causes of a rot creeping across the country: corruption, on both the small and large scale. Bob Walker's been trudging a pilgrimage path in the footsteps of St Olaf through rural Sweden, and stepped into some ongoing debates about how many migrants the country could or should shelter. In Morocco, it's not easy for women to walk unmolested and Morgan Meaker hears from some who'd like to put an end to the endemic harassment on the streets.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2016 15:57:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04bqg3x.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04bqg3x.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04bqg3x.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04bqg3s</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04bqg3s</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04bqg3x.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04bqg3s</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Last of the Founding Fathers</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from around the globe.  This week, Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem recollects his last meeting with Shimon Peres, and assesses the late president’s legacy; John Sweeney, trying to cover the bloody conflict in Syria, calls on unorthodox sources in Aleppo to do it; Mary-Ann Ochota explores the reality of contemporary life amid the yaks and motorbikes in the thin air and vast expanses of Tibet; Nick Thorpe in Budapest considers this Sunday’s referendum in Hungary on EU migrants and how likely it is the country’s prime minister will win the vote he has called; and Mary Margaronis travels to the Western Pyrenees to learn about the language which has so many words for rain.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie presents reports from Israel, Syria, Hungary, Tibet and the Basque country.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from around the globe.  This week, Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem recollects his last meeting with Shimon Peres, and assesses the late president’s legacy; John Sweeney, trying to cover the bloody conflict in Syria, calls on unorthodox sources in Aleppo to do it; Mary-Ann Ochota explores the reality of contemporary life amid the yaks and motorbikes in the thin air and vast expanses of Tibet; Nick Thorpe in Budapest considers this Sunday’s referendum in Hungary on EU migrants and how likely it is the country’s prime minister will win the vote he has called; and Mary Margaronis travels to the Western Pyrenees to learn about the language which has so many words for rain.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p049n6qx.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p049n6qx.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p049n6qx.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p049n6qt</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p049n6qt</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p049n6qx.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p049n6qt</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Wilder Shores</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. In this edition: Tim Ecott reports from the Seychelles in the week the president shocked the affluent island nation by his resignation; amid the growing lawlessness in Venezuela, Jake Wallis Simons is taken to the lair of a gangland boss who explains why he orders so many kidnappings in the district of Caracas where his group's writ runs; Chris Simpson in Mauritania considers the reasons for the persistence of the historic racial divides which characterise its society; Jane Labous reflects on the splendid September spectacle of gathering shell-fish on the Normandy shores - and the colourful characters who do it; while Philip Sweeney samples both the cuisine and the political temperature in Iran now that direct flights between London and Tehran have resumed.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie presents reports from Iran, Mauritania, Venezuela, Normandy and the Seychelles.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. In this edition: Tim Ecott reports from the Seychelles in the week the president shocked the affluent island nation by his resignation; amid the growing lawlessness in Venezuela, Jake Wallis Simons is taken to the lair of a gangland boss who explains why he orders so many kidnappings in the district of Caracas where his group's writ runs; Chris Simpson in Mauritania considers the reasons for the persistence of the historic racial divides which characterise its society; Jane Labous reflects on the splendid September spectacle of gathering shell-fish on the Normandy shores - and the colourful characters who do it; while Philip Sweeney samples both the cuisine and the political temperature in Iran now that direct flights between London and Tehran have resumed.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2016 09:56:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1657</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p049dj3m.mp3" length="26512000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p049dj3m.mp3" length="26512000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p049dj3m.mp3" length="26512000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p049dj3k</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p049dj3k</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p049dj3m.mp3" fileSize="26512000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1657"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p049dj3k</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Barriers and Borders</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week, Lyse Doucet reports from her native Canada on the country’s sponsorship scheme for refugees; Joe Miller considers the major impact there has been on a Texas border town of many months of migration from Central America by women and unaccompanied children; Lucy Ash travels to the Loire Valley to visit France’s first centre for deradicalisation and discovers what local people think of it; Kamal Ahmed considers whether the Swiss, who have negotiated a bespoke deal with the European Union, offer a model for the United Kingdom to emulate in the Brexit negotiations; and Chris Terrill joins a British ex-soldier who is training wardens in one of South Africa’s private nature reserves to resist poachers.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie introduces reports on French deradicalisation, Syrian refugees and Switzerland.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week, Lyse Doucet reports from her native Canada on the country’s sponsorship scheme for refugees; Joe Miller considers the major impact there has been on a Texas border town of many months of migration from Central America by women and unaccompanied children; Lucy Ash travels to the Loire Valley to visit France’s first centre for deradicalisation and discovers what local people think of it; Kamal Ahmed considers whether the Swiss, who have negotiated a bespoke deal with the European Union, offer a model for the United Kingdom to emulate in the Brexit negotiations; and Chris Terrill joins a British ex-soldier who is training wardens in one of South Africa’s private nature reserves to resist poachers.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2016 09:51:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1723</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04b172c.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04b172c.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04b172c.mp3" length="27568000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04b1729</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b1729</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04b172c.mp3" fileSize="27568000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1723"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04b1729</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Higher Powers</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents the first in a new series of eight programmes. In this edition, John Murphy reports from Najaf on the mounting death toll among Iraqis from the conflict with so-called Islamic State; Olivia Crellin tells the remarkable story of a transgender couple in Ecuador who are challenging some local assumptions by seeking to become parents; as South Africa's athletes return from Rio, Lindsay Johns in Cape Town reflects on the extraordinary impact that Olympic success is having there on coloured South Africans more than twenty-five years after the end of apartheid; Caroline Davies in Cairo discovers how, despite the growing intolerance Copts face in Egypt, they are enjoying great success in the country's recycling business; and Hugh Schofield in Paris ponders the world of Anglo-French mathematics as he studies for his A level in the subject and his son works on his baccalauréat.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie presents dispatches from Iraq, South Africa, France and Egypt.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents the first in a new series of eight programmes. In this edition, John Murphy reports from Najaf on the mounting death toll among Iraqis from the conflict with so-called Islamic State; Olivia Crellin tells the remarkable story of a transgender couple in Ecuador who are challenging some local assumptions by seeking to become parents; as South Africa's athletes return from Rio, Lindsay Johns in Cape Town reflects on the extraordinary impact that Olympic success is having there on coloured South Africans more than twenty-five years after the end of apartheid; Caroline Davies in Cairo discovers how, despite the growing intolerance Copts face in Egypt, they are enjoying great success in the country's recycling business; and Hugh Schofield in Paris ponders the world of Anglo-French mathematics as he studies for his A level in the subject and his son works on his baccalauréat.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1681</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04b1qwt.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04b1qwt.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04b1qwt.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04b1qwn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b1qwn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04b1qwt.mp3" fileSize="26896000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1681"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04b1qwn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>It's Not What It Was</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week: Kevin Connolly reports from Bratislava as EU leaders have a perfectly normal get-together - except someone's missing; Sebastian Usher chronicles the war of words between Saudi Arabia and Iran during the Hajj; Jenny Hill visits Hamburg to discover if Mrs Merkel is right to say Germany "can do it" as it tries to absorb its large influx of migrants; Stephanie Hegarty tells the story of shocked shop owners in Lagos and their dramatic tussle with the local authorities; and what Adam Shaw learnt when he met aspiring techies in St Louis.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>EU leaders meet without the UK, Saudi-Iranian tensions and Lagos shops fight officialdom.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week: Kevin Connolly reports from Bratislava as EU leaders have a perfectly normal get-together - except someone's missing; Sebastian Usher chronicles the war of words between Saudi Arabia and Iran during the Hajj; Jenny Hill visits Hamburg to discover if Mrs Merkel is right to say Germany "can do it" as it tries to absorb its large influx of migrants; Stephanie Hegarty tells the story of shocked shop owners in Lagos and their dramatic tussle with the local authorities; and what Adam Shaw learnt when he met aspiring techies in St Louis.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2016 11:08:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1664</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0485zdp.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0485zdp.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0485zdp.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0485zdf</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0485zdf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0485zdp.mp3" fileSize="26624000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1664"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0485zdf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Rites of Passage</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world.  This week: Yolande Knell reports on the boom in civil marriages on Cyprus - for couples from Lebanon and Israel; Roger Hearing reveals what happened when he fell foul of the Russian authorities at the border with North Korea; Jannat Jalil speaks to townspeople in Calais about the impact of the continuing crisis at the so-called Jungle migrant camp; Monica Whitlock considers how lasting Islam Karimov’s influence will be in Uzbekistan; and Nick Thorpe assesses what the Turkish and Hungarian celebrations of the 450th anniversary of the Battle of Szigetvar say about relations between the two countries.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie introduces reports from Cyprus, the North Korean border, Calais and Hungary</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world.  This week: Yolande Knell reports on the boom in civil marriages on Cyprus - for couples from Lebanon and Israel; Roger Hearing reveals what happened when he fell foul of the Russian authorities at the border with North Korea; Jannat Jalil speaks to townspeople in Calais about the impact of the continuing crisis at the so-called Jungle migrant camp; Monica Whitlock considers how lasting Islam Karimov’s influence will be in Uzbekistan; and Nick Thorpe assesses what the Turkish and Hungarian celebrations of the 450th anniversary of the Battle of Szigetvar say about relations between the two countries.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1663</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p047f2h0.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p047f2h0.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p047f2h0.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p047f2gx</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p047f2gx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p047f2h0.mp3" fileSize="26608000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1663"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p047f2gx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Follow the Leaders</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week: As the latest summit of the Group of 20 leading nations takes place in China this weekend, Carrie Gracie profiles the historic city of Hangzhou which will host the meetings of the heads of government and central bank governors. Wyre Davies considers the vote of the Brazilian Senate to impeach Dilma Rousseff and whether the change at the top of the country's politics amounts to a coup. Katerina Vittozzi reports from the Central African Republic on her meeting with the victim of a brutal sexual assault. With Pyongyang holding its first international beer festival, Stephen Evans considers how the drink is a surprisingly unifying facet of life in North and South Korea. And David Willis in Los Angeles ponders whether errant American Olympian, Ryan Lochte, may yet be rehabilitated by dancing with the stars.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie presents reports from Hangzhou, Brazil, the Central African Republic and Korea.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week: As the latest summit of the Group of 20 leading nations takes place in China this weekend, Carrie Gracie profiles the historic city of Hangzhou which will host the meetings of the heads of government and central bank governors. Wyre Davies considers the vote of the Brazilian Senate to impeach Dilma Rousseff and whether the change at the top of the country's politics amounts to a coup. Katerina Vittozzi reports from the Central African Republic on her meeting with the victim of a brutal sexual assault. With Pyongyang holding its first international beer festival, Stephen Evans considers how the drink is a surprisingly unifying facet of life in North and South Korea. And David Willis in Los Angeles ponders whether errant American Olympian, Ryan Lochte, may yet be rehabilitated by dancing with the stars.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p046qdfb.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p046qdfb.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p046qdfb.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p046qdf8</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p046qdf8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p046qdfb.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p046qdf8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Drug Wars</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week: a special insight into the extraordinary number of recent deaths in the Philippines as Jonathan Head talks to one of the country's hired killers; Mark Tully discovers how the "war on drugs" - particularly heroin - in Punjab is going; in the United States, Linda Pressly goes on call with an Ohio coroner dealing with the explosion in the number of deaths resulting from overdoses of prescription drugs and heroin supplied on the street; Justin Rowlatt gets early warning of a possible coup in the Maldives and heads for the island paradise; and Caroline Juler discovers how to improve medical care in Romania as doctors and nurses are drawn to jobs in other countries.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie introduces reports from the Philippines, Punjab, the Maldives and Romania.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week: a special insight into the extraordinary number of recent deaths in the Philippines as Jonathan Head talks to one of the country's hired killers; Mark Tully discovers how the "war on drugs" - particularly heroin - in Punjab is going; in the United States, Linda Pressly goes on call with an Ohio coroner dealing with the explosion in the number of deaths resulting from overdoses of prescription drugs and heroin supplied on the street; Justin Rowlatt gets early warning of a possible coup in the Maldives and heads for the island paradise; and Caroline Juler discovers how to improve medical care in Romania as doctors and nurses are drawn to jobs in other countries.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1669</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0461hwr.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0461hwr.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0461hwr.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0461hwn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0461hwn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0461hwr.mp3" fileSize="26704000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1669"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0461hwn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>What's in a Name?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week: </p><p>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.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Turkey today and a month ago; Canada's First Nations; Senegal; and France.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces dispatches from writers and correspondents around the world. This week: </p><p>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.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1660</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0459z4d.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0459z4d.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0459z4d.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0459z4b</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0459z4b</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0459z4d.mp3" fileSize="26560000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1660"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0459z4b</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Rebels with a Cause</title><description><![CDATA[<p>India and Pakistan have often confronted each other - but each nation also has to deal with domestic security problems. In Indian-administered Kashmir, Justin Rowlatt hears from restive crowds who have been silenced by neither days of curfew nor a news blackout, and witnesses the police tactics used to try and tamp down their protests. Over the border in Pakistan, Shaimaa Khalil explains why the troubled province of Baluchistan is such a headache for central government - and why the violence which plagues it is now being turned against local lawyers. Lucy Ash hears how drama itself can play a role in reconciling Colombians with their past, as former left-wing rebels, ex-right-wing paramilitiaries, and the victims of their crimes meet on stage. Rayhan Demytrie recently saw a different kind of political theatre unfolding on the streets of Armenia's capital, Yerevan, as veterans of the war with Azerbaijan mounted an armed attack against their own state - and were applauded for it by many Armenians. And far from all the madding crowds, Justin Marozzi joins a scientific mission a thousand feet below the surface of the Sargasso Sea hoping to unlock some of the mysteries of the deep ocean.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Baluchistan and Kashmir, Colombia, Armenia, and the deep ocean off Bermuda.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>India and Pakistan have often confronted each other - but each nation also has to deal with domestic security problems. In Indian-administered Kashmir, Justin Rowlatt hears from restive crowds who have been silenced by neither days of curfew nor a news blackout, and witnesses the police tactics used to try and tamp down their protests. Over the border in Pakistan, Shaimaa Khalil explains why the troubled province of Baluchistan is such a headache for central government - and why the violence which plagues it is now being turned against local lawyers. Lucy Ash hears how drama itself can play a role in reconciling Colombians with their past, as former left-wing rebels, ex-right-wing paramilitiaries, and the victims of their crimes meet on stage. Rayhan Demytrie recently saw a different kind of political theatre unfolding on the streets of Armenia's capital, Yerevan, as veterans of the war with Azerbaijan mounted an armed attack against their own state - and were applauded for it by many Armenians. And far from all the madding crowds, Justin Marozzi joins a scientific mission a thousand feet below the surface of the Sargasso Sea hoping to unlock some of the mysteries of the deep ocean.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1669</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p044kjq5.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p044kjq5.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p044kjq5.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p044kjq2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p044kjq2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p044kjq5.mp3" fileSize="26704000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1669"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p044kjq2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Democracy and discontent: South Africa and Germany</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces reports on South Africa's elections, Germany and migration, Kosovo's Olympic debut, Gujarat's Dalits march against discrimination and old meets new in Samoa.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>South Africa, Germany, Kosovo, India and Samoa.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces reports on South Africa's elections, Germany and migration, Kosovo's Olympic debut, Gujarat's Dalits march against discrimination and old meets new in Samoa.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2016 10:05:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1683</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p043sy99.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p043sy99.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p043sy99.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p043sy95</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p043sy95</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p043sy99.mp3" fileSize="26928000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1683"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p043sy95</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Tale of Two Men in a City</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Two friends reunited in Baghdad, hot cuisine in Chengdu and slow traffic in Serbia.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Two friends reunited in Baghdad, hot cuisine in Chengdu and slow traffic in Serbia.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Two friends reunited in Baghdad, hot cuisine in Chengdu and slow traffic in Serbia.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2016 10:42:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0431p09.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0431p09.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0431p09.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0431p04</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0431p04</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0431p09.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0431p04</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Aftermath</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces analysis, reflection and reporting from correspondents around the world. As Turkey recovers from last week's attempted coup, Mark Urban finds that in Ankara the conspiracy theories are burgeoning. Could these events be the pretext (or a catalyst) for Turkey snubbing the EU, walking away from its relationship with the US or even distancing itself from Nato? Karen Allen's been at the 21st International Aids Conference in Durban to get a global picture of the HIV epidemic; while there have been some notable advances on treatment and prevention, she sees South Africa's still struggling to deal with the virus. Despite the heavily-reported warming up of its relationship with the USA, Cuba still has a hidebound economy and is warning its people to tighten their belts and prepare for austerity - again - says Will Grant in Havana. Martin Patience reaches some resentful corners of Nigeria's Delta region the only way anyone can: by speedboat, and with an entourage of local dignitaries. And Antonia Quirke treads in the footsteps of giants, seeing how the beautiful, creamy marble which once inspired Michelangelo is still being quarried from a site in Tuscany.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie introduces reports from Turkey, South Africa, Cuba, the Niger delta and Carrara</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces analysis, reflection and reporting from correspondents around the world. As Turkey recovers from last week's attempted coup, Mark Urban finds that in Ankara the conspiracy theories are burgeoning. Could these events be the pretext (or a catalyst) for Turkey snubbing the EU, walking away from its relationship with the US or even distancing itself from Nato? Karen Allen's been at the 21st International Aids Conference in Durban to get a global picture of the HIV epidemic; while there have been some notable advances on treatment and prevention, she sees South Africa's still struggling to deal with the virus. Despite the heavily-reported warming up of its relationship with the USA, Cuba still has a hidebound economy and is warning its people to tighten their belts and prepare for austerity - again - says Will Grant in Havana. Martin Patience reaches some resentful corners of Nigeria's Delta region the only way anyone can: by speedboat, and with an entourage of local dignitaries. And Antonia Quirke treads in the footsteps of giants, seeing how the beautiful, creamy marble which once inspired Michelangelo is still being quarried from a site in Tuscany.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2016 11:03:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1663</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p042brnc.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p042brnc.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p042brnc.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p042brn6</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p042brn6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p042brnc.mp3" fileSize="26608000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1663"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p042brn6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Heartlands</title><description><![CDATA[<p>John Sopel on what to expect from Donald Trump’s coronation party. Cowboy country in Argentina - but where have all the cows gone?</p><p>We meet the Aboriginal activists trying to make native title to land actually mean something, in Australia’s northernmost point, Cape York. </p><p>A new wall in the West Bank – our correspondent gets kitted out for rock climbing in Ramallah. And nudity and birch twigs in the Karelia region in Russia</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Trump in Ohio Soya in Argentina, Ramallah rock-climbs and nude with birch twigs in Russia</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>John Sopel on what to expect from Donald Trump’s coronation party. Cowboy country in Argentina - but where have all the cows gone?</p><p>We meet the Aboriginal activists trying to make native title to land actually mean something, in Australia’s northernmost point, Cape York. </p><p>A new wall in the West Bank – our correspondent gets kitted out for rock climbing in Ramallah. And nudity and birch twigs in the Karelia region in Russia</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p041nknt.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p041nknt.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p041nknt.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p041nknq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p041nknq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p041nknt.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p041nknq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Keep A Cool Head</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces tales of true grit - and grace under pressure - from around the world. As the USA agonises over questions of policing, race and firearms, Barbara Plett Usher in Minnesota hears how little trust some protesters have in the future. As veteran reporter Jim Muir prepares to leave the BBC, he remembers first setting out for Lebanon in 1974. His beloved city of Beirut would soon be engulfed by war - a fate shared by much of the Middle East since then. Nicola Kelly talks to people in the so-called 'jihadi north' of Burkina Faso about the growing threats from militant groups which are affecting their lives and businesses. Tim Ecott is on the Faroe Islands, where there are more sheep than humans - but it's the birds which are the true owners of the landscape. And Heidi Fuller Love breaks out of the luxury-hotel bubble in the Maldives to attend a gathering in honour of a national hero: the sixteenth-century Sultan and sea captain who liberated these islands from the Portuguese empire.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories this week from the USA, the Maldives, Lebanon, Burkina Faso and the Faroe Islands.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces tales of true grit - and grace under pressure - from around the world. As the USA agonises over questions of policing, race and firearms, Barbara Plett Usher in Minnesota hears how little trust some protesters have in the future. As veteran reporter Jim Muir prepares to leave the BBC, he remembers first setting out for Lebanon in 1974. His beloved city of Beirut would soon be engulfed by war - a fate shared by much of the Middle East since then. Nicola Kelly talks to people in the so-called 'jihadi north' of Burkina Faso about the growing threats from militant groups which are affecting their lives and businesses. Tim Ecott is on the Faroe Islands, where there are more sheep than humans - but it's the birds which are the true owners of the landscape. And Heidi Fuller Love breaks out of the luxury-hotel bubble in the Maldives to attend a gathering in honour of a national hero: the sixteenth-century Sultan and sea captain who liberated these islands from the Portuguese empire.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2016 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1666</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p041fd34.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p041fd34.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p041fd34.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p041fd28</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p041fd28</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p041fd34.mp3" fileSize="26656000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1666"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p041fd28</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The man who inspired a killer</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world.
  2052. Frank Gardner assesses the reaction to the bombing close to one of Islam's holiest sites.
  2053. Shaimaa Khalil tells how a Pakistani assassin and the country's strict blasphemy laws influenced a killer in the UK.
  2054. We go to Colombia to hear from Natalio Cosoy and the story of legislators who are struggling with a problem: how do you pass laws to force senators to turn up for work when the senators needed to pass the laws don't turn up for work.
  2055. Olivia Acland travels to meet residents of a small island off the coast of Sierra Leone who learn that rich foreigners bearing gifts don't always keep their promises.
  2056. And Diarmaid Fleming tells how the appearance of mayflies causes the residents of one Irish town to drop everything and take to the water in search of trout</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the UK, Colombia, Sierra Leone and Ireland</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world.
  2057. Frank Gardner assesses the reaction to the bombing close to one of Islam's holiest sites.
  2058. Shaimaa Khalil tells how a Pakistani assassin and the country's strict blasphemy laws influenced a killer in the UK.
  2059. We go to Colombia to hear from Natalio Cosoy and the story of legislators who are struggling with a problem: how do you pass laws to force senators to turn up for work when the senators needed to pass the laws don't turn up for work.
  2060. Olivia Acland travels to meet residents of a small island off the coast of Sierra Leone who learn that rich foreigners bearing gifts don't always keep their promises.
  2061. And Diarmaid Fleming tells how the appearance of mayflies causes the residents of one Irish town to drop everything and take to the water in search of trout</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2016 11:08:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1672</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p040y5fn.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p040y5fn.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p040y5fn.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p040y5ff</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p040y5ff</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p040y5fn.mp3" fileSize="26752000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1672"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p040y5ff</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Middle class terrorists</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world: This week: After the killing of 20 hostages at an upmarket café in Bangladesh Sanjoy Majumder hears how it is the backgrounds of the killers that is worrying people in Dhaka. Linda Pressly meets the people attending an unusual rehab centre for alcoholics in Canada. Martin Patience tries in vain to get an accident report for a prang in his car in Nigeria. Shile Khumalo looks at how the Oscar Pistorius murder trial is being seen as an example of lingering white privilege in the South African Justice system. And Tony Vale is on the hunt of avocado rustlers in New Zealand.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world: This week: After the killing of 20 hostages at an upmarket café in Bangladesh Sanjoy Majumder hears how it is the backgrounds of the killers that is worrying people in Dhaka. Linda Pressly meets the people attending an unusual rehab centre for alcoholics in Canada. Martin Patience tries in vain to get an accident report for a prang in his car in Nigeria. Shile Khumalo looks at how the Oscar Pistorius murder trial is being seen as an example of lingering white privilege in the South African Justice system. And Tony Vale is on the hunt of avocado rustlers in New Zealand.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2016 14:10:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1652</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p040qhtx.mp3" length="26432000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p040qhtx.mp3" length="26432000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p040qhtx.mp3" length="26432000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p040qhtp</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p040qhtp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p040qhtx.mp3" fileSize="26432000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1652"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p040qhtp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Planes, Tanks and Teaspoons</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. Today: with the Chilcot Report into the 2003 invasion and its aftermath, Jeremy Bowen is in Iraq, a country in a state of perpetual war. Chris Bowlby remembers a special tea party in Prague, just as Czechoslovakia was splitting apart, where the talk was of British political stability; Shaimaa Khalil tells the story of a controversial social media star - Pakistan's Kim Kardashian. There's a month to go until the Rio Olympics but the country is embroiled in economic and political turmoil; Wyre Davies is the middle of it all. And, in South Sudan, Mark Doyle gets up close to some magnificent beasts and he discusses democracy.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents' stories from: Iraq, Czechoslovakia, Pakistan, Brazil and South Sudan.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. Today: with the Chilcot Report into the 2003 invasion and its aftermath, Jeremy Bowen is in Iraq, a country in a state of perpetual war. Chris Bowlby remembers a special tea party in Prague, just as Czechoslovakia was splitting apart, where the talk was of British political stability; Shaimaa Khalil tells the story of a controversial social media star - Pakistan's Kim Kardashian. There's a month to go until the Rio Olympics but the country is embroiled in economic and political turmoil; Wyre Davies is the middle of it all. And, in South Sudan, Mark Doyle gets up close to some magnificent beasts and he discusses democracy.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04069tw.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04069tw.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p04069tw.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p04069ts</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04069ts</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p04069tw.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p04069ts</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Brexit Wind Tunnel</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents stories. Our man in Budapest, Nick Thorpe, hears how the Brexit vote has created fear and insecurity across eastern Europe. With Leave campaigners saying that Britain has a bright future trading with the rest of the world, Sanjoy Majumder is in Delhi, where Indian businesses and students think they could profit; Lizzie Porter visits the old aiport-turned Olympic site which is now home to thousands of Afghans in Greece; James Jeffrey is fascinated by fasting and marvels at how dock workers in Djibouti just keep carrying on under the baking sun - even during Ramadan; And Steve Rosenberg remembers his favourite Soviet cartoon as he explores Russia's hurt sporting pride.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents stories from east Europe, India, Greece, Djibouti and Russia.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents stories. Our man in Budapest, Nick Thorpe, hears how the Brexit vote has created fear and insecurity across eastern Europe. With Leave campaigners saying that Britain has a bright future trading with the rest of the world, Sanjoy Majumder is in Delhi, where Indian businesses and students think they could profit; Lizzie Porter visits the old aiport-turned Olympic site which is now home to thousands of Afghans in Greece; James Jeffrey is fascinated by fasting and marvels at how dock workers in Djibouti just keep carrying on under the baking sun - even during Ramadan; And Steve Rosenberg remembers his favourite Soviet cartoon as he explores Russia's hurt sporting pride.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2016 10:33:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1660</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03zz5p4.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03zz5p4.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03zz5p4.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03zz5nz</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zz5nz</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03zz5p4.mp3" fileSize="26560000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1660"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03zz5nz</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Paint on the Cream Cake</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. Today: Lucy Ash is in the midst of the Republic of Macedonia's "Colourful Revolution," where it's buildings and statues that are getting a new lick of paint; Richard Lim is in Iraqi Kurdistan which may be relatively peaceful but its economy is faltering; Joe Gerlach has an odd taste in his mouth in Ecuador as he's invited to quaff a somewhat metallic concoction; James Jeffrey reflects on the Ethiopian mindset, in which any criticism is unwelcome. And, in the United States, they've waited 17 years for them but Simon Parker soon gets a mouthful of critters.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents stories from Macedonia, Iraq, Ecuador, Ethiopia and critters in the US.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. Today: Lucy Ash is in the midst of the Republic of Macedonia's "Colourful Revolution," where it's buildings and statues that are getting a new lick of paint; Richard Lim is in Iraqi Kurdistan which may be relatively peaceful but its economy is faltering; Joe Gerlach has an odd taste in his mouth in Ecuador as he's invited to quaff a somewhat metallic concoction; James Jeffrey reflects on the Ethiopian mindset, in which any criticism is unwelcome. And, in the United States, they've waited 17 years for them but Simon Parker soon gets a mouthful of critters.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2016 13:24:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1692</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03z7b1d.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03z7b1d.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03z7b1d.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03z7b19</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03z7b19</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03z7b1d.mp3" fileSize="27072000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1692"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03z7b19</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Departures</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Leaving's the theme of this edition. Bridget Kendall, the BBC's Russia specialist, is hanging up her headphones but not before she talks about secret agents and considers what the past can tell us about that country's future. Past and present are on Kevin Connolly's mind too. He's off to a new BBC posting and points out that within half an hour's walk of his home in Jerusalem some of the defining dramas of the ancient world played themselves out. He also talks of the pleasures and pitfalls of Middle East reporting today. And Gabriel Gatehouse hums the theme tune from 'The Great Escape' while considering departures in his essay about the EU referendum and the Euro2016 football tournament in France</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Senior correspondents prepare to leave for pastures new</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Leaving's the theme of this edition. Bridget Kendall, the BBC's Russia specialist, is hanging up her headphones but not before she talks about secret agents and considers what the past can tell us about that country's future. Past and present are on Kevin Connolly's mind too. He's off to a new BBC posting and points out that within half an hour's walk of his home in Jerusalem some of the defining dramas of the ancient world played themselves out. He also talks of the pleasures and pitfalls of Middle East reporting today. And Gabriel Gatehouse hums the theme tune from 'The Great Escape' while considering departures in his essay about the EU referendum and the Euro2016 football tournament in France</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03yhmcn.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03yhmcn.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03yhmcn.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03yhmcd</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03yhmcd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03yhmcn.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03yhmcd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Old Habits Die Hard</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Around the world in less than half an hour. A slump in global oil prices has hit Angola hard but still, there are glimpses of wealth everywhere and abject poverty's never far away; the Iraqi city of Basra is governed by hardline Iranian-backed Islamic politicians but that doesn't stop its citizens enjoying themselves at a brand new shopping mall they call Times Square; what happens to the clothes you give away to charity shops? Many are beginning a journey which could lead to countries in Asia or Africa but first stop, we learn, might be a giant warehouse in Hungary; the quality of the air in Hong Kong has reached new lows and people are becoming ill with respiratory problems and cancers -- we're off in search of the one spot in the city that usually escapes the smog. And, in the primary schools of France they take poetry very seriously indeed. That can mean a homework nightmare. For the children -- and for parents too</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Oil revenue's down in Angola but the rich are still rich, the poor are still poor</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Around the world in less than half an hour. A slump in global oil prices has hit Angola hard but still, there are glimpses of wealth everywhere and abject poverty's never far away; the Iraqi city of Basra is governed by hardline Iranian-backed Islamic politicians but that doesn't stop its citizens enjoying themselves at a brand new shopping mall they call Times Square; what happens to the clothes you give away to charity shops? Many are beginning a journey which could lead to countries in Asia or Africa but first stop, we learn, might be a giant warehouse in Hungary; the quality of the air in Hong Kong has reached new lows and people are becoming ill with respiratory problems and cancers -- we're off in search of the one spot in the city that usually escapes the smog. And, in the primary schools of France they take poetry very seriously indeed. That can mean a homework nightmare. For the children -- and for parents too</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1676</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03y0gvj.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03y0gvj.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03y0gvj.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03y0gvg</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03y0gvg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03y0gvj.mp3" fileSize="26816000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1676"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03y0gvg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Cupboard is Bare</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters with the news behind the news. In this edition: it used to be Cuba, but today Venezuela is the more troubled of the two socialist allies and the country the US president prefers to visit; there's a portrait of the city of Venice, of the quarters where the tourists don't visit, where houses are boarded up as more and more residents move away; exotic Kashgar used to be one of the key stop-overs on the ancient Silk Route. Today the modern and the ancient are coming into conflict there as China tries to bring the restive region under control; countries in southern Africa face a damaging drought after another year of insufficient rainfall - we're in landlocked Lesotho, where food supplies are now at risk; and why do we develop loyalties to one particular part of a city? In Paris, there's acute rivalry between neighbourhoods on the north and south of the River Seine. Our man in the great city climbs on his bike to sample life on the other side ...</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Anger over food shortages hits the streets of Caracas</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters with the news behind the news. In this edition: it used to be Cuba, but today Venezuela is the more troubled of the two socialist allies and the country the US president prefers to visit; there's a portrait of the city of Venice, of the quarters where the tourists don't visit, where houses are boarded up as more and more residents move away; exotic Kashgar used to be one of the key stop-overs on the ancient Silk Route. Today the modern and the ancient are coming into conflict there as China tries to bring the restive region under control; countries in southern Africa face a damaging drought after another year of insufficient rainfall - we're in landlocked Lesotho, where food supplies are now at risk; and why do we develop loyalties to one particular part of a city? In Paris, there's acute rivalry between neighbourhoods on the north and south of the River Seine. Our man in the great city climbs on his bike to sample life on the other side ...</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2016 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1664</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03xrzyg.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03xrzyg.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03xrzyg.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03xrzyb</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03xrzyb</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03xrzyg.mp3" fileSize="26624000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1664"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03xrzyb</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Writing on the Wall</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A week in the life of correspondents around the world. In this edition, the paint flies as the race for the presidency in Peru gets colourful; a battle for control of the Iraqi city of Falluja is about to begin - it could be a long and gruelling one, the ISIS fighters dug in there have had time to prepare for the arrival of the government forces; time is running out for the German authorities to prosecute those who committed mass murder in Hitler's time - we meet a man trying to hunt them down before it's too late; a barbed wire fence may be in place but migrants are making it through the border from Bulgaria to Serbia with help from smugglers ... and some policemen. And on a visit to Asmara, the Italianate capital city of Eritrea in north east Africa, our correspondent tries to find out the truth about allegations of repression, political prisoners and torture</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>An 'emulsional' election campaign comes to a close in Peru</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A week in the life of correspondents around the world. In this edition, the paint flies as the race for the presidency in Peru gets colourful; a battle for control of the Iraqi city of Falluja is about to begin - it could be a long and gruelling one, the ISIS fighters dug in there have had time to prepare for the arrival of the government forces; time is running out for the German authorities to prosecute those who committed mass murder in Hitler's time - we meet a man trying to hunt them down before it's too late; a barbed wire fence may be in place but migrants are making it through the border from Bulgaria to Serbia with help from smugglers ... and some policemen. And on a visit to Asmara, the Italianate capital city of Eritrea in north east Africa, our correspondent tries to find out the truth about allegations of repression, political prisoners and torture</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1704</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03x8b68.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03x8b68.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03x8b68.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03x8b64</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03x8b64</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03x8b68.mp3" fileSize="27264000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1704"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03x8b64</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Strike! Strike! Strike!</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents look at some of the week's developments. In this edition, how the mounting industrial strife in France presents an increasingly serious challenge to President Hollande and his unpopular government. Illegal gold mining in Ghana - the authorities are worried about the amount of gold being smuggled out of the country and its effect on the nation's economy. Nature's taking over some of the Jewish cemeteries in Warsaw - we meet a group of volunteers trying to make some amends for the amnesia and oblivion about Jewish life in Poland before the war. The Swiss weren't just opening the world's longest rail tunnel this week, they were also using the occasion to try to re-negotiate their relations with the European Union. And we sail the south Atlantic on the Royal Mail ship St Helena - the scrapyard's beckoning and this is one of her final voyages</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>French trades unions battle President Hollande over his government's new work bill</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents look at some of the week's developments. In this edition, how the mounting industrial strife in France presents an increasingly serious challenge to President Hollande and his unpopular government. Illegal gold mining in Ghana - the authorities are worried about the amount of gold being smuggled out of the country and its effect on the nation's economy. Nature's taking over some of the Jewish cemeteries in Warsaw - we meet a group of volunteers trying to make some amends for the amnesia and oblivion about Jewish life in Poland before the war. The Swiss weren't just opening the world's longest rail tunnel this week, they were also using the occasion to try to re-negotiate their relations with the European Union. And we sail the south Atlantic on the Royal Mail ship St Helena - the scrapyard's beckoning and this is one of her final voyages</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2016 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1669</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03x0t8g.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03x0t8g.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03x0t8g.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03x0t7z</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03x0t7z</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03x0t8g.mp3" fileSize="26704000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1669"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03x0t7z</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Opium Field</title><description><![CDATA[<p>People in the news. Today, how the policeman's helping the opium farmer in Afghanistan. The president’s critics say democracy's under assault, freedom of speech is being stifled - but amongst some in Turkey, President Erdogan is more popular than ever. Young women in Malawi explain how sanitary protection is not affordable -- and that means they miss school for several days every month. The corner of Venice where one of the world's most hateful words was coined -- today the place is among the city's more fashionable neighbourhoods. And the news media may love an anniversary, but some of its senior correspondents have dates they'd sooner forget ...</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A bumper crop of opium poppies in Afghanistan</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>People in the news. Today, how the policeman's helping the opium farmer in Afghanistan. The president’s critics say democracy's under assault, freedom of speech is being stifled - but amongst some in Turkey, President Erdogan is more popular than ever. Young women in Malawi explain how sanitary protection is not affordable -- and that means they miss school for several days every month. The corner of Venice where one of the world's most hateful words was coined -- today the place is among the city's more fashionable neighbourhoods. And the news media may love an anniversary, but some of its senior correspondents have dates they'd sooner forget ...</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03wk79h.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03wk79h.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03wk79h.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03wk79c</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03wk79c</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03wk79h.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03wk79c</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Death from Above</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Insight, analysis, description and colour. Today, death on a dusty highway in Baluchistan and what that might mean for neighbouring Afghanistan; how the people of Hiroshima, where America set off an atomic bomb in 1945, feel about the imminent visit by President Obama;  the Swiss have never joined the European Union so why are they so interested in the result of the in/out referendum in Britain next month? We hear how Turkey's Kurdish population fits into the President Erdogan's plan to continue being the dominant force in the country's politics and finally there's an account of a day delightfully wasted on a slow train journey across the south-eastern tip of Australia</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Taliban leader killed in a drone strike</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Insight, analysis, description and colour. Today, death on a dusty highway in Baluchistan and what that might mean for neighbouring Afghanistan; how the people of Hiroshima, where America set off an atomic bomb in 1945, feel about the imminent visit by President Obama;  the Swiss have never joined the European Union so why are they so interested in the result of the in/out referendum in Britain next month? We hear how Turkey's Kurdish population fits into the President Erdogan's plan to continue being the dominant force in the country's politics and finally there's an account of a day delightfully wasted on a slow train journey across the south-eastern tip of Australia</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2016 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1693</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03w9v2y.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03w9v2y.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03w9v2y.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03w9v2s</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03w9v2s</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03w9v2y.mp3" fileSize="27088000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1693"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03w9v2s</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Kurdistan Tapes</title><description><![CDATA[<p>People in the news: it's a hundred years since the signing of the secret Sykes-Picot agreement under which the British and French agreed to divide up the Middle East, and now the President of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, says it's time for outright independence for the Iraqi Kurds. Jim Muir considers the Kurds' flight from Saddam Hussein 25-years ago and what has happened to some of the people he encountered back then. Bethany Bell is in Austria where voting could result in the country getting Europe's first far right president. The French leader Francois Hollande's again said he wants the new nuclear plant in the English county of Somerset to go ahead. It's to be built by the French. David Shukman's been to a construction site in Finland where the French are building a similar reactor -  amid some controversy. Have you had a 'camelccino' yet? Hannah McNeish in Kenya tells us camel milk could be the next big thing and that could mean huge benefits for the country's economy, and its camel herders. And vitriol from the presidential campaign might have given people reasons to be discouraged about America, but Robert Hodierne tells a story which he says illustrates the basic goodness of folks in that country</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>25-years on: the cassettes which tell the dramatic story of the flight of the Kurds</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>People in the news: it's a hundred years since the signing of the secret Sykes-Picot agreement under which the British and French agreed to divide up the Middle East, and now the President of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, says it's time for outright independence for the Iraqi Kurds. Jim Muir considers the Kurds' flight from Saddam Hussein 25-years ago and what has happened to some of the people he encountered back then. Bethany Bell is in Austria where voting could result in the country getting Europe's first far right president. The French leader Francois Hollande's again said he wants the new nuclear plant in the English county of Somerset to go ahead. It's to be built by the French. David Shukman's been to a construction site in Finland where the French are building a similar reactor -  amid some controversy. Have you had a 'camelccino' yet? Hannah McNeish in Kenya tells us camel milk could be the next big thing and that could mean huge benefits for the country's economy, and its camel herders. And vitriol from the presidential campaign might have given people reasons to be discouraged about America, but Robert Hodierne tells a story which he says illustrates the basic goodness of folks in that country</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03vv6n2.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03vv6n2.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03vv6n2.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03vv6my</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03vv6my</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03vv6n2.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03vv6my</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Murder in Bangladesh</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Insight, colour and analysis. In this edition: the authorities deny IS or al-Qaeda is active in Bangladesh but others believe a spate of vicious killings there is the work of Islamist extremists; after Columbine, Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook, American schools are now having to rehearse what they'll do if their place of learning comes under gun attack -- but the precautions aren't always a comfort to parents; there are now hundreds of thousands of Syrians taking shelter from the war in neighbouring Jordan - their presence is having a marked effect on the Jordanian economy and on its peoples' eating habits; we meet a man in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania who tells us how the country's new president is providing his country with inspirational leadership at last. And surely covering the Cannes Film Festival is a thoroughly pleasant experience? Only up to a point, apparently. We hear a story of status anxiety and snobbery, indignity and humiliation</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The wave of brutal killings which has shocked the nation</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Insight, colour and analysis. In this edition: the authorities deny IS or al-Qaeda is active in Bangladesh but others believe a spate of vicious killings there is the work of Islamist extremists; after Columbine, Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook, American schools are now having to rehearse what they'll do if their place of learning comes under gun attack -- but the precautions aren't always a comfort to parents; there are now hundreds of thousands of Syrians taking shelter from the war in neighbouring Jordan - their presence is having a marked effect on the Jordanian economy and on its peoples' eating habits; we meet a man in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania who tells us how the country's new president is providing his country with inspirational leadership at last. And surely covering the Cannes Film Festival is a thoroughly pleasant experience? Only up to a point, apparently. We hear a story of status anxiety and snobbery, indignity and humiliation</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1666</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03vlfly.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03vlfly.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03vlfly.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03vlfls</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03vlfls</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03vlfly.mp3" fileSize="26656000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1666"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03vlfls</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Complex Man</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The newsmakers. In this edition: a foul-mouthed despot or a man to grapple with the problems of the Philippines? Jonathan Head considers the country's controversial choice for president. A mock funeral at a migrants' camp in Greece - Theopi Skarlatos finds patience with the governments of northern Europe wearing thin. They may have put the clocks forward recently, but Paul Moss reckons time in Venezuela is actually going backwards. Andrew Hosken is in the building in Tirana which was once the headquarters of the country's feared secret police while Sara Wheeler take a look at a way of life on the South Atlantic island of St Helena which many there fear will vanish forever once the long-awaited airport finally opens for business</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The word 'controversial' could have been made for the new president of the Philippines</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The newsmakers. In this edition: a foul-mouthed despot or a man to grapple with the problems of the Philippines? Jonathan Head considers the country's controversial choice for president. A mock funeral at a migrants' camp in Greece - Theopi Skarlatos finds patience with the governments of northern Europe wearing thin. They may have put the clocks forward recently, but Paul Moss reckons time in Venezuela is actually going backwards. Andrew Hosken is in the building in Tirana which was once the headquarters of the country's feared secret police while Sara Wheeler take a look at a way of life on the South Atlantic island of St Helena which many there fear will vanish forever once the long-awaited airport finally opens for business</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03v3s40.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03v3s40.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03v3s40.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03v3s3w</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03v3s3w</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03v3s40.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03v3s3w</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>What is Truth? What is Fantasy?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>What's life like in North Korea? Our reporter Steve Evans gets rare access, but wonders if all is as it seems. Gabriel Gatehouse meets Hungarians once so keen to tear down barriers between them and their eastern European neighbours who now believe it's time to put up fences. Katy Watson witnesses poignant scenes on the US/Mexico border as families enjoy a brief reunion amid speculation about what a Trump presidency might mean for Mexicans. What's trash-talking got to do with playing chess? David Edmonds has been finding out on a visit to the American state of Missouri. And Emma Jane Kirby's in Istanbul learning why a gentle novel from the 1940s is striking a chord with today's young Turks</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Thrown off balance on a visit to North Korea</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>What's life like in North Korea? Our reporter Steve Evans gets rare access, but wonders if all is as it seems. Gabriel Gatehouse meets Hungarians once so keen to tear down barriers between them and their eastern European neighbours who now believe it's time to put up fences. Katy Watson witnesses poignant scenes on the US/Mexico border as families enjoy a brief reunion amid speculation about what a Trump presidency might mean for Mexicans. What's trash-talking got to do with playing chess? David Edmonds has been finding out on a visit to the American state of Missouri. And Emma Jane Kirby's in Istanbul learning why a gentle novel from the 1940s is striking a chord with today's young Turks</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1677</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03tdwd8.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03tdwd8.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03tdwd8.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03tdwd5</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03tdwd5</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03tdwd8.mp3" fileSize="26832000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1677"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03tdwd5</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Peace for South Sudan?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>It's been a momentous week in South Sudan, where a national unity government has been formed under President Salva Kiir as his old enemy, the rebel leader Riek Machar returned to the capital Juba for the first time since the civil war broke out in December 2013. Can these men now lead their country to a much longed-for peace?
  2062. Imagine being fined four years' salary for having a second child. That's what used to happen in China. We meet a rare family in Beijing with two daughters.
  2063. Cuba's Fidel Castro is celebrating his 90th birthday this year. Last week he effectively said goodbye to his key supporters, but there is no sign that his fellow revolutionaries, now well into their eighties, are going to retire any time soon.
  2064. If you'd suffered the kind of radioactive contamination that came with the fallout of the accident at Chernobyl, would you risk building a nuclear power plant? Ukraine's neighbour Belarus is hoping that atomic lightning won't strike twice.
  2065. And if you're going on a pilgrimage to Lourdes in the French Pyrenees, you may find that a trip to a beauty spot in the nearby mountains can be as soothing, if not more, than a wander around town. Just don't try and catch a bus there, at least not until July.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Peace at last for South Sudan? And other stories from around the world.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>It's been a momentous week in South Sudan, where a national unity government has been formed under President Salva Kiir as his old enemy, the rebel leader Riek Machar returned to the capital Juba for the first time since the civil war broke out in December 2013. Can these men now lead their country to a much longed-for peace?
  2066. Imagine being fined four years' salary for having a second child. That's what used to happen in China. We meet a rare family in Beijing with two daughters.
  2067. Cuba's Fidel Castro is celebrating his 90th birthday this year. Last week he effectively said goodbye to his key supporters, but there is no sign that his fellow revolutionaries, now well into their eighties, are going to retire any time soon.
  2068. If you'd suffered the kind of radioactive contamination that came with the fallout of the accident at Chernobyl, would you risk building a nuclear power plant? Ukraine's neighbour Belarus is hoping that atomic lightning won't strike twice.
  2069. And if you're going on a pilgrimage to Lourdes in the French Pyrenees, you may find that a trip to a beauty spot in the nearby mountains can be as soothing, if not more, than a wander around town. Just don't try and catch a bus there, at least not until July.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1679</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03spgrq.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03spgrq.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03spgrq.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03spgrm</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03spgrm</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03spgrq.mp3" fileSize="26864000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1679"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03spgrm</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>On board Air Force One</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The plane where even the paper napkins sport the presidential seal, and where exclusive little boxes of chocolate sweets feature a picture of Barack Obama: it's America's presidential Air Force One, and you're only allowed on board if you're in "the bubble". In the West Bank a roundabout encapsulates what's going on, and going wrong, in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
  2070. Libya has seen much chaos and suffering in the last five years. But one family now wants to embrace the future optimistically again, despite losing several of their relatives in the fighting. The beautiful trekkers’ destination with tea houses and stunning mountain landscapes that was turned into a sea of rubble. For the survivors of the Nepalese village obliterated by the earthquake a year ago, the suffering is still raw.
  2071. And on a trip to China to take tea in a picturesque garden and haggle with antiques dealers, our correspondent's local guide lets slip more than she had perhaps planned.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Flying on board Air Force One, and other stories from around the world.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The plane where even the paper napkins sport the presidential seal, and where exclusive little boxes of chocolate sweets feature a picture of Barack Obama: it's America's presidential Air Force One, and you're only allowed on board if you're in "the bubble". In the West Bank a roundabout encapsulates what's going on, and going wrong, in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
  2072. Libya has seen much chaos and suffering in the last five years. But one family now wants to embrace the future optimistically again, despite losing several of their relatives in the fighting. The beautiful trekkers’ destination with tea houses and stunning mountain landscapes that was turned into a sea of rubble. For the survivors of the Nepalese village obliterated by the earthquake a year ago, the suffering is still raw.
  2073. And on a trip to China to take tea in a picturesque garden and haggle with antiques dealers, our correspondent's local guide lets slip more than she had perhaps planned.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1701</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03ryj4m.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03ryj4m.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03ryj4m.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03ryj40</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03ryj40</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03ryj4m.mp3" fileSize="27216000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1701"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03ryj40</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Drama for Dilma</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Colouring in the spaces between the world headlines. In this edition, trouble for ladies who lead - with Brazil's President Dilma Roussef facing impeachment and a traditional chief in Malawi going into battle against child marriage. No ordinary kitchen-sink drama: we go inside the recording studio where they make a radio soap opera beamed into war-ravaged Syria. Has child protection in Norway become overzealous? And why's the subject hit a raw nerve in the former Communist countries of eastern Europe? And is it a case of wanderlust lost as Germans seemingly fall out of love with the foreign holiday?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Crunch time for Brazil's embattled president</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Colouring in the spaces between the world headlines. In this edition, trouble for ladies who lead - with Brazil's President Dilma Roussef facing impeachment and a traditional chief in Malawi going into battle against child marriage. No ordinary kitchen-sink drama: we go inside the recording studio where they make a radio soap opera beamed into war-ravaged Syria. Has child protection in Norway become overzealous? And why's the subject hit a raw nerve in the former Communist countries of eastern Europe? And is it a case of wanderlust lost as Germans seemingly fall out of love with the foreign holiday?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03r7cls.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03r7cls.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03r7cls.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03r7clq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03r7clq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03r7cls.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03r7clq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Babylon Brigade</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this edition: a greyish sticky dough called fufu from the Democratic Republic of Congo; pesto Genovese from Italy, made as it used to be, with a pestle and mortar; there's a dish of smoked puffin from Iceland and some of the finest cannabis lollipops in the American west. All this culinary exotica comes as part of this weekly insight, analysis, colour and description served up by reporters covering some of the  week’s big news stories around the world</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Iraqis with a bible in one hand and a gun in the other ...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In this edition: a greyish sticky dough called fufu from the Democratic Republic of Congo; pesto Genovese from Italy, made as it used to be, with a pestle and mortar; there's a dish of smoked puffin from Iceland and some of the finest cannabis lollipops in the American west. All this culinary exotica comes as part of this weekly insight, analysis, colour and description served up by reporters covering some of the  week’s big news stories around the world</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1677</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03qjdyp.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03qjdyp.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03qjdyp.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03qjdyh</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03qjdyh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03qjdyp.mp3" fileSize="26832000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1677"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03qjdyh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Even the Dead Can’t Escape Politics</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Insight, colour, analysis. Steve Evans visits a cemetery which poignantly illuminates present day politics in the troubled Korean peninsula; Owen Bennett Jones has the story of a young Pakistani man who left home to see a film and ended up with the Taliban in Afghanistan; Jonah Fisher in Myanmar explains how Aung San Suu Kyi has turned the tables on the generals and taken for herself a string of top government jobs; Rachel Wright has been in Colombia where they're preparing a case for the UN saying the war on drugs isn't working and it's time for a radical change and Neal Razzell's been talking to cowboys out in the canyonlands of eastern Oregon. There's a plan to turn huge tracts of them into a national park. So why are the ranchers far from keen?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Korean cemetery where the dead have much to say about the living</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Insight, colour, analysis. Steve Evans visits a cemetery which poignantly illuminates present day politics in the troubled Korean peninsula; Owen Bennett Jones has the story of a young Pakistani man who left home to see a film and ended up with the Taliban in Afghanistan; Jonah Fisher in Myanmar explains how Aung San Suu Kyi has turned the tables on the generals and taken for herself a string of top government jobs; Rachel Wright has been in Colombia where they're preparing a case for the UN saying the war on drugs isn't working and it's time for a radical change and Neal Razzell's been talking to cowboys out in the canyonlands of eastern Oregon. There's a plan to turn huge tracts of them into a national park. So why are the ranchers far from keen?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2016 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1671</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03pst33.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03pst33.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03pst33.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03pst2z</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03pst2z</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03pst33.mp3" fileSize="26736000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1671"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03pst2z</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Memories of Murder</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The lives behind the headlines. In this edition: forty years in prison for the former Bosnian Serb Leader Radovan Karadzic, found guilty of war crimes. Does it send a signal to those in positions of power that they will, ultimately, be held accountable? Brussels -- not just a city of Eurocrats, but one where people and families live and grow up and where's there's been a phlegmatic response to Tuesday's bomb attacks there; Mexicans are increasingly angry about the level of corruption in their country - organised crime's now said to be deeply embedded in the country's legal and political establishment and the police can't be trusted either; the nine hundred-plus clumps of rock which make up the Solomon Islands may now be independent but, we find, old ties with Britain have not been entirely severed. And while some might regard Cantonese cooking as a little old hat, our correspondent says it is in fact one of China's most exquisite cuisines, with many of its delights unknown to outsiders</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>One of the bloodiest chapters in European history closes with a verdict of genocide</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The lives behind the headlines. In this edition: forty years in prison for the former Bosnian Serb Leader Radovan Karadzic, found guilty of war crimes. Does it send a signal to those in positions of power that they will, ultimately, be held accountable? Brussels -- not just a city of Eurocrats, but one where people and families live and grow up and where's there's been a phlegmatic response to Tuesday's bomb attacks there; Mexicans are increasingly angry about the level of corruption in their country - organised crime's now said to be deeply embedded in the country's legal and political establishment and the police can't be trusted either; the nine hundred-plus clumps of rock which make up the Solomon Islands may now be independent but, we find, old ties with Britain have not been entirely severed. And while some might regard Cantonese cooking as a little old hat, our correspondent says it is in fact one of China's most exquisite cuisines, with many of its delights unknown to outsiders</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1667</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03p3mdc.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03p3mdc.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03p3mdc.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03p3md9</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03p3md9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03p3mdc.mp3" fileSize="26672000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1667"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03p3md9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Dancing in Damascus</title><description><![CDATA[<p>There's dancing in a nightclub in Damascus, though some remain seated during the songs played in honour of the leaders of Syria and Hezbollah. And not much dancing in the suburbs. How are locals coping after five years of war? He started out as a caring psychiatrist, and before his capture he lived as an alternative healer. Yes, it's the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. who may be convicted of genocide next week. Playing chess with God - or rather, in a stunning part of Ethiopia called the Chess pieces of God, is it check mate for some very rare animals, or the local mountain people? In Romania, shepherds cloaked in sheep skins are on the war path, and we sail past the remotest island in the world, Bouvetoya. It is only inhabited by penguins, but has its own internet domain.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Dancing in a nightclub in Damascus - how are locals coping after five years of war?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>There's dancing in a nightclub in Damascus, though some remain seated during the songs played in honour of the leaders of Syria and Hezbollah. And not much dancing in the suburbs. How are locals coping after five years of war? He started out as a caring psychiatrist, and before his capture he lived as an alternative healer. Yes, it's the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. who may be convicted of genocide next week. Playing chess with God - or rather, in a stunning part of Ethiopia called the Chess pieces of God, is it check mate for some very rare animals, or the local mountain people? In Romania, shepherds cloaked in sheep skins are on the war path, and we sail past the remotest island in the world, Bouvetoya. It is only inhabited by penguins, but has its own internet domain.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2016 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03n9nr4.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03n9nr4.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03n9nr4.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03n9nr1</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03n9nr1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03n9nr4.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03n9nr1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>No way to Macedonia</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Refugees stuck in Greece keep trying to cross into Macedonia even though the border is now closed. One man has got through the fence, and then been taken back, fourteen times. In the meantime, new Syrian refugees keep arriving at the other end of Greece, on the island of Lesbos. We hear about hopes that a Basque pro-independence leader newly released from prison can bring about real peace in his region, and not just a permanent ceasefire.
  2074. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and in drought-stricken eastern Kenya, cattle herders feel they have no option but to let their animals graze in game reserves. Who says Americans haven't been able to go to Cuba legally? In Florida's Key West, we hear how despite the embargo, some US citizens have been doing it for decades, without breaking the law. And if you fall for a money-making scam of a boy begging near the rock-carved churches of Lalibela in northern Ethiopia, don't feel too bad.....</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Refugees keep trying to cross into Macedonia even though the border is now closed.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Refugees stuck in Greece keep trying to cross into Macedonia even though the border is now closed. One man has got through the fence, and then been taken back, fourteen times. In the meantime, new Syrian refugees keep arriving at the other end of Greece, on the island of Lesbos. We hear about hopes that a Basque pro-independence leader newly released from prison can bring about real peace in his region, and not just a permanent ceasefire.
  2075. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and in drought-stricken eastern Kenya, cattle herders feel they have no option but to let their animals graze in game reserves. Who says Americans haven't been able to go to Cuba legally? In Florida's Key West, we hear how despite the embargo, some US citizens have been doing it for decades, without breaking the law. And if you fall for a money-making scam of a boy begging near the rock-carved churches of Lalibela in northern Ethiopia, don't feel too bad.....</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1652</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03n0qpb.mp3" length="26432000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03n0qpb.mp3" length="26432000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03n0qpb.mp3" length="26432000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03n0qnw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03n0qnw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03n0qpb.mp3" fileSize="26432000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1652"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03n0qnw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Stuck in Turkey.</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Turkey and the EU are hammering out a deal that would turn Turkey into the gatekeeper of Europe, to stop undocumented migrants from reaching the West. But will the refugees agree to stay in Turkey, or try to reach the EU by any means possible?</p><p>They have lost limbs, parents, homes, and favourite dolls. But not their bravery and spirit. We meet the children who have been affected by the five years of war in Syria. If you're an American, your annual tax return form 1040 has an instruction booklet that's over 100 pages long. Luckily, help is at hand, not just from accountants, but also from specially trained volunteers, like our correspondent. We go on a pilgrimage to the holy city of the Mourides brotherhood in Senegal, where offering hospitality is such an honour, that some believers ask people at the bus stop if they'd come and be their guest. And Paris fashion - for those with no interest in sartorial trends. Was it the universe that pushed our correspondent to brush up on his 'overcast shell hems', and 'poodle cloth'?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Migrants are stuck in Turkey as the way to the EU is blocked in a new deal.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Turkey and the EU are hammering out a deal that would turn Turkey into the gatekeeper of Europe, to stop undocumented migrants from reaching the West. But will the refugees agree to stay in Turkey, or try to reach the EU by any means possible?</p><p>They have lost limbs, parents, homes, and favourite dolls. But not their bravery and spirit. We meet the children who have been affected by the five years of war in Syria. If you're an American, your annual tax return form 1040 has an instruction booklet that's over 100 pages long. Luckily, help is at hand, not just from accountants, but also from specially trained volunteers, like our correspondent. We go on a pilgrimage to the holy city of the Mourides brotherhood in Senegal, where offering hospitality is such an honour, that some believers ask people at the bus stop if they'd come and be their guest. And Paris fashion - for those with no interest in sartorial trends. Was it the universe that pushed our correspondent to brush up on his 'overcast shell hems', and 'poodle cloth'?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2016 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1663</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03mfnqy.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03mfnqy.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03mfnqy.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03mfnqv</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03mfnqv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03mfnqy.mp3" fileSize="26608000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1663"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03mfnqv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>China's corruption clampdown</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In China, customers are staying away from the pearl and jewellery shops, but lingerie sales are soaring. The strange effects that the clampdown on corruption is having on the country's economy. </p><p>Fighting elephant poachers can a dangerous business in the Democratic Republic of Congo where part of who you're up against appears to be a neighbouring country's army. We travel on the ancient Via Egnatia that used to join two great empires. Though on the modern Greek version of the route, you don't get quite as far as you hope. Though it's nothing to do with closed borders. And, with the zika virus outbreak in Brazil, would you want to try for a baby there now? What if you're at an age where you can't afford to wait too much longer?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Since China's clampdown on corruption, the pearl and jewellery shops are empty.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In China, customers are staying away from the pearl and jewellery shops, but lingerie sales are soaring. The strange effects that the clampdown on corruption is having on the country's economy. </p><p>Fighting elephant poachers can a dangerous business in the Democratic Republic of Congo where part of who you're up against appears to be a neighbouring country's army. We travel on the ancient Via Egnatia that used to join two great empires. Though on the modern Greek version of the route, you don't get quite as far as you hope. Though it's nothing to do with closed borders. And, with the zika virus outbreak in Brazil, would you want to try for a baby there now? What if you're at an age where you can't afford to wait too much longer?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:07:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1702</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03m44xq.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03m44xq.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03m44xq.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03m44xh</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m44xh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03m44xq.mp3" fileSize="27232000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1702"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03m44xh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Donald Trump 2.0</title><description><![CDATA[<p>They are coiffed, lacquered, expensively attired and perfumed - and that's just the men in a Donald Trump audience in Florida. And while our North America editor expects the unexpected from Donald Trump, he is surprised to find him in a conciliatory mood. </p><p>Spending four months on a single page of A4 - the art of calligraphy and other skills are being revived in Kabul, and now exhibited in Washington. They're both in their nineties, and now the former Auschwitz guard comes face to face with an Auschwitz survivor in a German courtroom. Germany confronts its past just as violent anti-migrant attacks are on the rise. In Pakistan, thousands turn out at a funeral to mourn their hero, a killer. He was executed for murdering a provincial governor who had wanted to reform the harsh blasphemy laws. And the road to Mandalay - in a right-hand drive taxi, on a left-hand drive road. So what were the passengers talking about?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Donald Trump 2.0 - the conciliatory version</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>They are coiffed, lacquered, expensively attired and perfumed - and that's just the men in a Donald Trump audience in Florida. And while our North America editor expects the unexpected from Donald Trump, he is surprised to find him in a conciliatory mood. </p><p>Spending four months on a single page of A4 - the art of calligraphy and other skills are being revived in Kabul, and now exhibited in Washington. They're both in their nineties, and now the former Auschwitz guard comes face to face with an Auschwitz survivor in a German courtroom. Germany confronts its past just as violent anti-migrant attacks are on the rise. In Pakistan, thousands turn out at a funeral to mourn their hero, a killer. He was executed for murdering a provincial governor who had wanted to reform the harsh blasphemy laws. And the road to Mandalay - in a right-hand drive taxi, on a left-hand drive road. So what were the passengers talking about?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2016 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1683</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03llwd9.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03llwd9.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03llwd9.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03llwd6</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03llwd6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03llwd9.mp3" fileSize="26928000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1683"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03llwd6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Trapped in a dead end</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Having reached Greece after often perilous journeys, many migrants now find that their hoped-for route north is blocked. Danny Savage meets some of those who have to live in tents in Athens, and on the Greek-Macedonian border with little hope of reaching their final destinations. Many refugees have come from Syria, where neighbourhoods in some cities have been reduced to rubble. Warda al-Jawahiry visits Homs, parts of which have been completely bombed out. Yet there are those who still live there, and bear emotional scars that are as real as the physical destruction. In the Ethiopian capital Addis Abeba, James Jeffrey goes for his early morning run, and finds he's not alone. For early dawn is the time when hyenas finish their night time scavenging in the city. Chris Bockman is in the Spanish enclave of Llivia - a small town completely surrounded by France, but with surprisingly few French speakers. And in Mongolia many young people are giving up the outdoor life of herding sheep on the steppe, and reading novels by candlelight in a yurt at night, for that of a polluted city. Anthony Denselow meets some of them.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Migrants who have reached Greece find it's the end of the road.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Having reached Greece after often perilous journeys, many migrants now find that their hoped-for route north is blocked. Danny Savage meets some of those who have to live in tents in Athens, and on the Greek-Macedonian border with little hope of reaching their final destinations. Many refugees have come from Syria, where neighbourhoods in some cities have been reduced to rubble. Warda al-Jawahiry visits Homs, parts of which have been completely bombed out. Yet there are those who still live there, and bear emotional scars that are as real as the physical destruction. In the Ethiopian capital Addis Abeba, James Jeffrey goes for his early morning run, and finds he's not alone. For early dawn is the time when hyenas finish their night time scavenging in the city. Chris Bockman is in the Spanish enclave of Llivia - a small town completely surrounded by France, but with surprisingly few French speakers. And in Mongolia many young people are giving up the outdoor life of herding sheep on the steppe, and reading novels by candlelight in a yurt at night, for that of a polluted city. Anthony Denselow meets some of them.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2016 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03lbz6p.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03lbz6p.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03lbz6p.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03lbz6k</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03lbz6k</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03lbz6p.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03lbz6k</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Opting to go lower caste</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The human stories behind the headlines. In this edition, we hear from India, where protests deprived ten million Delhi residents of their water. Members of the Jat caste want to force the government to reclassify them as lower-caste, so they can get quotas for government jobs and study places. Used Field Marshall for sale - the things you find on eBay in Egypt, when locals take the president at his word.
  2076. What happens when a Trump supporter meets a young Muslim refugee for brunch in Alabama? Our Moscow correspondent gets a distinctly chilly welcome in Siberia, and no, it's nothing to do with the weather. And arriving at the airport in Havana, it's an event in itself.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Downgrading your caste to get privileges in India.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The human stories behind the headlines. In this edition, we hear from India, where protests deprived ten million Delhi residents of their water. Members of the Jat caste want to force the government to reclassify them as lower-caste, so they can get quotas for government jobs and study places. Used Field Marshall for sale - the things you find on eBay in Egypt, when locals take the president at his word.
  2077. What happens when a Trump supporter meets a young Muslim refugee for brunch in Alabama? Our Moscow correspondent gets a distinctly chilly welcome in Siberia, and no, it's nothing to do with the weather. And arriving at the airport in Havana, it's an event in itself.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:03:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03l8qp4.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03l8qp4.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03l8qp4.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03l8qnt</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03l8qnt</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03l8qp4.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03l8qnt</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Turkey points the finger</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The stories behind the headlines. In this edition, we hear from Turkey, where the authorities are blaming a Syrian Kurd for a bombing that killed 29 people. Turkey is unhappy at US support for Kurdish fighters in Syria, who combat so-called Islamic State there. The complexities of the war in Syria are becoming mingled with those of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict. Sri Lanka suffered almost 30 years of civil war, and many an autocratic regime, yet now the country seems set on a path of reconciliation. But will a former President and his supporters try and scupper it? In Ethiopia, our correspondent faints at the sight of eyelid surgery - performed on sufferers of an infection that risks turning them blind. The Galapagos islands are home to wondrous wildlife, but there are fears that this year's seal pups might not survive the effects of the El Nino phenomenon. And Detroit, once known for its motors and recent bankruptcy, is now reinventing itself as a place that makes bicycles, and attracts crowds of hipsters.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Turkey points the finger at the Kurds - in Syria</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The stories behind the headlines. In this edition, we hear from Turkey, where the authorities are blaming a Syrian Kurd for a bombing that killed 29 people. Turkey is unhappy at US support for Kurdish fighters in Syria, who combat so-called Islamic State there. The complexities of the war in Syria are becoming mingled with those of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict. Sri Lanka suffered almost 30 years of civil war, and many an autocratic regime, yet now the country seems set on a path of reconciliation. But will a former President and his supporters try and scupper it? In Ethiopia, our correspondent faints at the sight of eyelid surgery - performed on sufferers of an infection that risks turning them blind. The Galapagos islands are home to wondrous wildlife, but there are fears that this year's seal pups might not survive the effects of the El Nino phenomenon. And Detroit, once known for its motors and recent bankruptcy, is now reinventing itself as a place that makes bicycles, and attracts crowds of hipsters.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03kn1mt.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03kn1mt.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03kn1mt.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03kn1mp</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03kn1mp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03kn1mt.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03kn1mp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Man Dies Twice</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Meeting the people populating the world of news. In this edition: thousands were massacred in the Bosnian town of Visegrad during the war there in 1992 - today, as Fergal Keane has been finding out, the authorities there want it to become a tourist destination. Visegrad is also on Nick Thorpe's mind only he's talking about the town by the River Danube in Hungary, where the so-called Visegrad 4, a grouping of regional nations, was born. Nick says that in today's Europe, their voice can no longer be ignored. As the US-election spotlight turns to South Carolina and Nevada, Robert Hodierne examines gun control and why the laws governing it won't be changing any time soon. Beth McLeod is in Malawi travelling on a boat built in Scotland when the country was a British protectorate which continues to provide a vital service to local communities. And he may have lived in Paris for two decades, but our man Hugh Schofield explains why it's only now, finally, that he seems to wield a bit of influence!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Bosnian town keen to forget some of its recent past</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Meeting the people populating the world of news. In this edition: thousands were massacred in the Bosnian town of Visegrad during the war there in 1992 - today, as Fergal Keane has been finding out, the authorities there want it to become a tourist destination. Visegrad is also on Nick Thorpe's mind only he's talking about the town by the River Danube in Hungary, where the so-called Visegrad 4, a grouping of regional nations, was born. Nick says that in today's Europe, their voice can no longer be ignored. As the US-election spotlight turns to South Carolina and Nevada, Robert Hodierne examines gun control and why the laws governing it won't be changing any time soon. Beth McLeod is in Malawi travelling on a boat built in Scotland when the country was a British protectorate which continues to provide a vital service to local communities. And he may have lived in Paris for two decades, but our man Hugh Schofield explains why it's only now, finally, that he seems to wield a bit of influence!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03k57qx.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03k57qx.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03k57qx.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03k57qv</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03k57qv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03k57qx.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03k57qv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Showdown Summit</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Colouring in the space between the headlines. In this edition: behind the scenes at the EU as a meeting nears which could determine Britain's future in Europe; why many in Venezuela, mired in economic crisis, have a fond word for their former hardline socialist president Hugo Chavez; mass migrations's one of the biggest stories of our time but in Portugal they're concerned not about new arrivals, but about the number of people leaving; a visit to a jail in the US state of Oregon leaves our correspondent considering what it must be like to be locked up there and what it must be like to work there -- and clog dancing's not a subject tackled frequently on this programme but in Brittany, we find, it’s a good excuse for a bit of a knees-up!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Countdown to a crucial EU meeting for prime minister Mr Cameron and for Britain</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Colouring in the space between the headlines. In this edition: behind the scenes at the EU as a meeting nears which could determine Britain's future in Europe; why many in Venezuela, mired in economic crisis, have a fond word for their former hardline socialist president Hugo Chavez; mass migrations's one of the biggest stories of our time but in Portugal they're concerned not about new arrivals, but about the number of people leaving; a visit to a jail in the US state of Oregon leaves our correspondent considering what it must be like to be locked up there and what it must be like to work there -- and clog dancing's not a subject tackled frequently on this programme but in Brittany, we find, it’s a good excuse for a bit of a knees-up!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1672</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03jyb78.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03jyb78.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03jyb78.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03jyb75</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03jyb75</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03jyb78.mp3" fileSize="26752000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1672"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03jyb75</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Trapped in a Nightmare</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Human stories behind the headlines: Fergal Keane is on the frontline in Ukraine with a husband and wife who are determined to stay on in their home even as war consumes their town. Two boys talk to Quentin Sommerville about life, death and indoctrination in an ISIS-held town in Syria. Grace Livingstone is in the Venezuelan countryside finding that livelihoods are being hit hard by the financial crisis. On Mafia Island, off the coast of Tanzania, Hannah McNeish finds there are two principal topics of conversation - the performance of the new president and a fish called Jesus which, so the story goes, is as big as a car. And it is now official: the very best baguettes in the world are baked by Koreans. Steve Evans, in Seoul, talks of changing tastes in a young market with a global, fashionable appetite for the trappings of European culture and cuisine</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The frontline Ukrainian town where nothing changes for the better</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Human stories behind the headlines: Fergal Keane is on the frontline in Ukraine with a husband and wife who are determined to stay on in their home even as war consumes their town. Two boys talk to Quentin Sommerville about life, death and indoctrination in an ISIS-held town in Syria. Grace Livingstone is in the Venezuelan countryside finding that livelihoods are being hit hard by the financial crisis. On Mafia Island, off the coast of Tanzania, Hannah McNeish finds there are two principal topics of conversation - the performance of the new president and a fish called Jesus which, so the story goes, is as big as a car. And it is now official: the very best baguettes in the world are baked by Koreans. Steve Evans, in Seoul, talks of changing tastes in a young market with a global, fashionable appetite for the trappings of European culture and cuisine</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2016 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03jfn7k.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03jfn7k.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03jfn7k.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03jfn7f</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03jfn7f</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03jfn7k.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03jfn7f</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Black Lives Matter</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The fuller story. In this edition, crime's a major talking point as campaigning intensifies in the US presidential election - activists under the banner 'Black Lives Matter' are drawing attention to the number of young African-American men who've been shot by the police; security forces are standing by as a presidential election looms in Uganda - some aren't happy that President Museveni is trying to extend a rule which has already lasted thirty years; Malaysia may be a rainbow nation made up of ethnic Malays, Chinese, Indian and indigenous people but resentment is festering and a controversy over the prime minister's financial affairs threatens to polarise the country further; thousands of migrants have come ashore on the Italian island of Lampedusa - it's a place which used to rely on its tourism, today the holidaymakers are staying away and … as Valentine's Day approaches, we look inside the world of internet dating - more and more people are using it but some say it's addictive, impersonal and it's made looking for love a depressing business</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Shot - not by gangsters, but by the police</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The fuller story. In this edition, crime's a major talking point as campaigning intensifies in the US presidential election - activists under the banner 'Black Lives Matter' are drawing attention to the number of young African-American men who've been shot by the police; security forces are standing by as a presidential election looms in Uganda - some aren't happy that President Museveni is trying to extend a rule which has already lasted thirty years; Malaysia may be a rainbow nation made up of ethnic Malays, Chinese, Indian and indigenous people but resentment is festering and a controversy over the prime minister's financial affairs threatens to polarise the country further; thousands of migrants have come ashore on the Italian island of Lampedusa - it's a place which used to rely on its tourism, today the holidaymakers are staying away and … as Valentine's Day approaches, we look inside the world of internet dating - more and more people are using it but some say it's addictive, impersonal and it's made looking for love a depressing business</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2016 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03j6mtg.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03j6mtg.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03j6mtg.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03j6mt9</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03j6mt9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03j6mtg.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03j6mt9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Nightmare of Uncertainty</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The human stories behind the headlines. In this edition one correspondent flies through the Latin American night visiting three countries in search of the truth about the Zika crisis; another accompanies members of a private militia on patrol in Kenya. They're looking for rhino poachers and if they find them, they'll kill them; the kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been built on oil. But the oil price has nosedived and for the Saudi leaders, it's a time of unprecedented insecurity; the Syria peace talks in Geneva have been put on hold - no point talking just for the sake of talking, says the UN special envoy. And 'imagine a dolphin or a unicorn jumping through your third eye!' That's one of the suggestions at a group therapy session out in the Sahara Desert. But what did the man from the BBC make of it all?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Not a good time to get pregnant in Brazil</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The human stories behind the headlines. In this edition one correspondent flies through the Latin American night visiting three countries in search of the truth about the Zika crisis; another accompanies members of a private militia on patrol in Kenya. They're looking for rhino poachers and if they find them, they'll kill them; the kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been built on oil. But the oil price has nosedived and for the Saudi leaders, it's a time of unprecedented insecurity; the Syria peace talks in Geneva have been put on hold - no point talking just for the sake of talking, says the UN special envoy. And 'imagine a dolphin or a unicorn jumping through your third eye!' That's one of the suggestions at a group therapy session out in the Sahara Desert. But what did the man from the BBC make of it all?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2016 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03hqlqd.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03hqlqd.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03hqlqd.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03hqlq8</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03hqlq8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03hqlqd.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03hqlq8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Nervous Sweden</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this edition: how Russian military activity above and below the surface of the Baltic Sea is causing increasing concern in Sweden; Ethiopia's suffering its worst drought in years - but with a buoyant economy why does it need international aid to help it cope? We find out why Finns appear to have fallen out of love with the migrants and why the migrants no longer seem fond of Finland; Belarus might have a reputation as Europe's last dictatorship but a visit to its capital Minsk reveals a positively gleaming city - a cathedral with standing room only and an opera house thronged with the well-heeled and the expensively turned-out. Mali's best-loved export, music, has struggled to make its voice heard during recent years of instability in the country. But a festival's just been staged in the capital, Bamako. Its aim, to show the world there's more to Mali than disorder and violence</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Why Sweden's sending troops to an island in the Baltic</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In this edition: how Russian military activity above and below the surface of the Baltic Sea is causing increasing concern in Sweden; Ethiopia's suffering its worst drought in years - but with a buoyant economy why does it need international aid to help it cope? We find out why Finns appear to have fallen out of love with the migrants and why the migrants no longer seem fond of Finland; Belarus might have a reputation as Europe's last dictatorship but a visit to its capital Minsk reveals a positively gleaming city - a cathedral with standing room only and an opera house thronged with the well-heeled and the expensively turned-out. Mali's best-loved export, music, has struggled to make its voice heard during recent years of instability in the country. But a festival's just been staged in the capital, Bamako. Its aim, to show the world there's more to Mali than disorder and violence</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2016 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1695</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03hhfzk.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03hhfzk.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03hhfzk.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03hhfz9</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03hhfz9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03hhfzk.mp3" fileSize="27120000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1695"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03hhfz9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Colonel's Camerman</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents around the world tell their stories. In this edition Gabriel Gatehouse is back in Tripoli as speculation grows about a new military intervention in Libya; Mark Lowen is in Diyarbakir where there's been intense fighting between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants; Miles Warde is in a dusty town on the edge of Kenya where there are plans for pipelines, resort cities and Chinese-built railways but the locals wonder if any of them will ever materialise; Claudia Hammond visits what they call a 'geriatric rehabilitation centre' in Cuba where, apparently, there's never a dull moment and Victoria Gill is in Antarctica meeting the rather amusing residents of a place called Moot Point</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The White House contemplates military action in Libya</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents around the world tell their stories. In this edition Gabriel Gatehouse is back in Tripoli as speculation grows about a new military intervention in Libya; Mark Lowen is in Diyarbakir where there's been intense fighting between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants; Miles Warde is in a dusty town on the edge of Kenya where there are plans for pipelines, resort cities and Chinese-built railways but the locals wonder if any of them will ever materialise; Claudia Hammond visits what they call a 'geriatric rehabilitation centre' in Cuba where, apparently, there's never a dull moment and Victoria Gill is in Antarctica meeting the rather amusing residents of a place called Moot Point</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2016 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1677</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03h1bbj.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03h1bbj.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03h1bbj.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03h1bbf</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03h1bbf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03h1bbj.mp3" fileSize="26832000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1677"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03h1bbf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Inspecting the Troops</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Insight, storytelling, colour, detail. In this edition, the Russians in Syria show off their fighter jets and warships, a message from Moscow that Russia once again sees itself as a major player on the world stage. A million incomers to Germany in a year -- can they give the economy a useful bounce as well as defuse a demographic timebomb? The old men of the Vietnamese communist party leadership have their say at the big five-yearly meeting in Hanoi, but is their tightly-controlled socialist state beginning to unravel and is there anything they can do to stop it? We visit the world's largest refugee camp in the Kenyan desert. It has a population the size of New Orleans'. Many were born there and will never leave it. Some wonder if similarly huge camps will soon spring up on the fringes of Europe. Pensioners have been among the hardest hit by the Greek government's tough austerity measures. Their income's been cut a dozen times as the government tries to hit economic targets set by the EU and the IMF. It's left some on the island of Crete foraging in the mountains for food to eat</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Why the Russians invited our correspondent to see their military in action in Syria</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Insight, storytelling, colour, detail. In this edition, the Russians in Syria show off their fighter jets and warships, a message from Moscow that Russia once again sees itself as a major player on the world stage. A million incomers to Germany in a year -- can they give the economy a useful bounce as well as defuse a demographic timebomb? The old men of the Vietnamese communist party leadership have their say at the big five-yearly meeting in Hanoi, but is their tightly-controlled socialist state beginning to unravel and is there anything they can do to stop it? We visit the world's largest refugee camp in the Kenyan desert. It has a population the size of New Orleans'. Many were born there and will never leave it. Some wonder if similarly huge camps will soon spring up on the fringes of Europe. Pensioners have been among the hardest hit by the Greek government's tough austerity measures. Their income's been cut a dozen times as the government tries to hit economic targets set by the EU and the IMF. It's left some on the island of Crete foraging in the mountains for food to eat</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p02r4ych.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2016 11:31:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03gt33t.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03gt33t.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03gt33t.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03gt33j</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03gt33j</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03gt33t.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03gt33j</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Steel in Crisis</title><description><![CDATA[<p>China's economy falters and is blamed for nosediving stock markets and, partly, for the loss of hundreds of steel industry jobs in South Wales. In this edition, Steve Evans visits a steelworks in China, which has just closed down, and considers the lessons the Chinese leadership may consider. The misery of the war in Yemen continues and Nawal al-Maghafi, recently back from there, explains why no-one is rushing into peace talks. Chris Morris joins a group of migrants on their voyage to across the Mediterranean to Europe and learns about some of the extraordinary lengths that Syrians are going to to escape the killing fields of home. Mobile phones and televisions come to a monastery in the foothills of the Himalayas in now-Chinese eastern Tibet. Horatio Clare wonders if a centuries-old monastic way of life is under threat. And, in Delhi, Anu Anand weaves a tale about music and memory set against a backdrop of love, loss and the passing of time</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Portrait of a town which has lost its steelworks</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>China's economy falters and is blamed for nosediving stock markets and, partly, for the loss of hundreds of steel industry jobs in South Wales. In this edition, Steve Evans visits a steelworks in China, which has just closed down, and considers the lessons the Chinese leadership may consider. The misery of the war in Yemen continues and Nawal al-Maghafi, recently back from there, explains why no-one is rushing into peace talks. Chris Morris joins a group of migrants on their voyage to across the Mediterranean to Europe and learns about some of the extraordinary lengths that Syrians are going to to escape the killing fields of home. Mobile phones and televisions come to a monastery in the foothills of the Himalayas in now-Chinese eastern Tibet. Horatio Clare wonders if a centuries-old monastic way of life is under threat. And, in Delhi, Anu Anand weaves a tale about music and memory set against a backdrop of love, loss and the passing of time</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2016 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1677</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03gbchr.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03gbchr.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03gbchr.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03gbchn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03gbchn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03gbchr.mp3" fileSize="26832000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1677"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03gbchn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Lessons for Migrants</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Today our correspondents ... are in the classroom as migrants, newly arrived in Finland, are taught about Finnish values, culture and the place of women in western society; consider how much the self-styled Islamic State has been damaged by recent successes by Iraqi government forces supported by foreign air power; go to Norway, a country outside the EU but inside the single market. Is that an example the UK might follow after the referendum has been held on whether it should stay in or leave the EU? Our man in Cuba takes a stroll through Havana's poorly lit streets amid concerns that an upsurge in tourism will lead to a rise in crime; and a trip to the hopfields of southern Germany where one brewer is finding that beer and art can be an intoxicating mix.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Classes in manners and culture for migrants arriving in Finland.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Today our correspondents ... are in the classroom as migrants, newly arrived in Finland, are taught about Finnish values, culture and the place of women in western society; consider how much the self-styled Islamic State has been damaged by recent successes by Iraqi government forces supported by foreign air power; go to Norway, a country outside the EU but inside the single market. Is that an example the UK might follow after the referendum has been held on whether it should stay in or leave the EU? Our man in Cuba takes a stroll through Havana's poorly lit streets amid concerns that an upsurge in tourism will lead to a rise in crime; and a trip to the hopfields of southern Germany where one brewer is finding that beer and art can be an intoxicating mix.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1653</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03g3snh.mp3" length="26448000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03g3snh.mp3" length="26448000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03g3snh.mp3" length="26448000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03g3snb</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03g3snb</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03g3snh.mp3" fileSize="26448000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1653"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03g3snb</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Poles Apart</title><description><![CDATA[<p>'Don't tell us how to run our country!' That was the word from Warsaw as the European Commission launched an investigation into some of the decisions taken by the new right-wing government in Poland; the authorities in India meet on Monday to evaluate the controversial traffic experiment in Delhi which was aimed at reducing pollution; the latest consumer spending figures in France offer little evidence that an economic recovery is underway -- but in Toulouse some people know where to get their food for free; lawyers for the Mexican drug lord known as 'el Chapo' have started to prepare a case against his extradition to the US -- some in Mexico would anyway prefer to see him face justice there. And there's something to sing about in northern Norway - after six weeks their polar night season has come to an end, the sun has finally made an appearance and it’s something to sing about!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Brussels gets involved in Polish politics</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>'Don't tell us how to run our country!' That was the word from Warsaw as the European Commission launched an investigation into some of the decisions taken by the new right-wing government in Poland; the authorities in India meet on Monday to evaluate the controversial traffic experiment in Delhi which was aimed at reducing pollution; the latest consumer spending figures in France offer little evidence that an economic recovery is underway -- but in Toulouse some people know where to get their food for free; lawyers for the Mexican drug lord known as 'el Chapo' have started to prepare a case against his extradition to the US -- some in Mexico would anyway prefer to see him face justice there. And there's something to sing about in northern Norway - after six weeks their polar night season has come to an end, the sun has finally made an appearance and it’s something to sing about!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2016 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03fnzw9.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03fnzw9.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03fnzw9.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03fnzw5</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03fnzw5</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03fnzw9.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03fnzw5</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Chairman Mao or Colonel Sanders</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The best in news and current affairs storytelling. Today, after a troubled week for the Chinese economy, we wonder who's more popular in China today, the author of that Little Red Book, Chairman Mao, or the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Colonel Sanders. Violence continues to rain down on Yemen - the Islamic State group has now become involved in the civil war and is believed to have been behind a string of suicide bombings. Our correspondent witnessed the horrific aftermath of one such attack in the capital Sana'a. Chancellor Merkel's ruling Christian Democrats in Germany plan tougher action against migrants who commit crimes. The announcement follows the assaults on women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve which have triggered further heated debate about Mrs Merkel's welcoming policy towards migrants. Was the recent election in Seychelles, those 'paradise islands' in the Indian Ocean, rigged? While the people wait for a court's verdict, we visit Seychelles and hear there have been big changes in the way of life there. And change is also the word employed to describe what's going on in Cuba these days. We've been taking the temperature at the seaside there, at a resort where Che Guevara, one of the great heroes of the Cuban revolution, went on honeymoon.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Who's the real hero in today's China?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The best in news and current affairs storytelling. Today, after a troubled week for the Chinese economy, we wonder who's more popular in China today, the author of that Little Red Book, Chairman Mao, or the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Colonel Sanders. Violence continues to rain down on Yemen - the Islamic State group has now become involved in the civil war and is believed to have been behind a string of suicide bombings. Our correspondent witnessed the horrific aftermath of one such attack in the capital Sana'a. Chancellor Merkel's ruling Christian Democrats in Germany plan tougher action against migrants who commit crimes. The announcement follows the assaults on women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve which have triggered further heated debate about Mrs Merkel's welcoming policy towards migrants. Was the recent election in Seychelles, those 'paradise islands' in the Indian Ocean, rigged? While the people wait for a court's verdict, we visit Seychelles and hear there have been big changes in the way of life there. And change is also the word employed to describe what's going on in Cuba these days. We've been taking the temperature at the seaside there, at a resort where Che Guevara, one of the great heroes of the Cuban revolution, went on honeymoon.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2016 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03f078h.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03f078h.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03f078h.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03f078d</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03f078d</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03f078h.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03f078d</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>New Year Questions</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Your window on the wider world. The Iraqi forces claimed victory over IS fighters when they swept into the city of Ramadi - but the place has been devastated, it will be months before residents can return to their homes. Thomas Fessy, who's been there, explains why this is being viewed as a significant achievement by the Iraqi security forces. On the Greek island of Lesbos, bad weather has slowed the tide of human migrants sweeping into the EU but Paul Adams says the new year will see European leaders trying again to come up with a coherent response to what's been one of the great human migrations of recent times. The new Argentine president is trying to breathe life into the country's moribund economy -- in Buenos Aires, as Petroc Trelawny's been finding out, some dare to dream this could bring the glamour back to the once-smart shopping streets of the capital. We're amazed to learn from Carolyn Browne in Brittany that it's possible to drive a car quite legally on the roads of France -- even if you've lost your driving licence after being convicted of drink/driving! And Kota Bharu in Malaysia is a city which few westerners get to - but Gareth Armstrong was a recent visitor and talks to us about a harmonious place where people of different faiths live happily side by side. He points out though that it pays to carry an umbrella there!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The urgent questions world leaders must face up to in 2016</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Your window on the wider world. The Iraqi forces claimed victory over IS fighters when they swept into the city of Ramadi - but the place has been devastated, it will be months before residents can return to their homes. Thomas Fessy, who's been there, explains why this is being viewed as a significant achievement by the Iraqi security forces. On the Greek island of Lesbos, bad weather has slowed the tide of human migrants sweeping into the EU but Paul Adams says the new year will see European leaders trying again to come up with a coherent response to what's been one of the great human migrations of recent times. The new Argentine president is trying to breathe life into the country's moribund economy -- in Buenos Aires, as Petroc Trelawny's been finding out, some dare to dream this could bring the glamour back to the once-smart shopping streets of the capital. We're amazed to learn from Carolyn Browne in Brittany that it's possible to drive a car quite legally on the roads of France -- even if you've lost your driving licence after being convicted of drink/driving! And Kota Bharu in Malaysia is a city which few westerners get to - but Gareth Armstrong was a recent visitor and talks to us about a harmonious place where people of different faiths live happily side by side. He points out though that it pays to carry an umbrella there!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2016 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03dgkpm.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03dgkpm.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03dgkpm.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03dgkpj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03dgkpj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03dgkpm.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03dgkpj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A special Boxing Day edition</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Looking back at some historic FOOC despatches: Allan Little, Bridget Kendall, Emma Jane Kirby, Steve Evans and Gabriel Gatehouse read pieces by Fergal Keane, Caroline Wyatt, Charles Wheeler, John Crawley and Kevin Connolly</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Past and present voices</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Looking back at some historic FOOC despatches: Allan Little, Bridget Kendall, Emma Jane Kirby, Steve Evans and Gabriel Gatehouse read pieces by Fergal Keane, Caroline Wyatt, Charles Wheeler, John Crawley and Kevin Connolly</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03c8n6g.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03c8n6g.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03c8n6g.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03c8n6b</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03c8n6b</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03c8n6g.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03c8n6b</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Damascus Rules</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Almost better than travelling yourself! Insight, wit and colour from around the globe. In this one: the tablecloth approach to ending war -- serious discussions about how to end the fighting in Syria; the end of another long conflict may be in sight as the government in Bogota signs an interim peace deal with Colombia's FARC rebels; arguments intensify over territorial claims in the South China Sea -- we meet Vietnamese fishermen who now find themselves in the front line; the Turks and the Hungarians redouble their search for the missing heart of Suleiman the Magnificent, but why are they bothering? And they've got problems in Rome: alleged corruption in high places, organised crime, traditional shops and businesses being chased away. But the Romans are putting all this to one side, at least for a few days. After all, it's Christmas! And there are menus to be planned!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stepping up efforts to find an end to the Syria conflict</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Almost better than travelling yourself! Insight, wit and colour from around the globe. In this one: the tablecloth approach to ending war -- serious discussions about how to end the fighting in Syria; the end of another long conflict may be in sight as the government in Bogota signs an interim peace deal with Colombia's FARC rebels; arguments intensify over territorial claims in the South China Sea -- we meet Vietnamese fishermen who now find themselves in the front line; the Turks and the Hungarians redouble their search for the missing heart of Suleiman the Magnificent, but why are they bothering? And they've got problems in Rome: alleged corruption in high places, organised crime, traditional shops and businesses being chased away. But the Romans are putting all this to one side, at least for a few days. After all, it's Christmas! And there are menus to be planned!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1677</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03ckhqf.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03ckhqf.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03ckhqf.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03ckhq9</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03ckhq9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03ckhqf.mp3" fileSize="26832000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1677"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03ckhq9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Turning to Trump</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The programme with the bigger picture. Why the controversial comments and adverse publicity surrounding Donald Trump are not harming the billionaire businessman's bid for the US presidency. Seismic shifts in Spanish politics - we get a view of the upcoming general election there from the Valley of the Fallen, where the country's late dictator Francisco Franco is buried. The talk in Malaysia's of scandal stalking the prime minister and of fears for the future of a country loved by many for its relaxed, inclusive and multicultural nature. The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu is one of the wonders of the world, so no wonder visitors have been trekking up there in huge numbers. Now the Peruvian government wants to make it easier for them to get there. But its plans have met spirited opposition. And from Germany we hear about the 12-people who're being paid to do everything lying down. That includes exercising -- and going to the loo</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Americans who believe Donald Trump's the man for the US-presidency</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The programme with the bigger picture. Why the controversial comments and adverse publicity surrounding Donald Trump are not harming the billionaire businessman's bid for the US presidency. Seismic shifts in Spanish politics - we get a view of the upcoming general election there from the Valley of the Fallen, where the country's late dictator Francisco Franco is buried. The talk in Malaysia's of scandal stalking the prime minister and of fears for the future of a country loved by many for its relaxed, inclusive and multicultural nature. The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu is one of the wonders of the world, so no wonder visitors have been trekking up there in huge numbers. Now the Peruvian government wants to make it easier for them to get there. But its plans have met spirited opposition. And from Germany we hear about the 12-people who're being paid to do everything lying down. That includes exercising -- and going to the loo</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03bxbfh.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03bxbfh.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03bxbfh.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03bxbff</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03bxbff</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03bxbfh.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03bxbff</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>In the Shadow of the Strong Men</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Colouring in the spaces between the headlines. In this edition: the Front National is expected to do well in the French regional elections - our correspondent goes for a drive along the Cote d'Azur and asks why the party's apparently finding favour with voters. 'We cannot allow our revolution to be stolen!' The Venezuelan president has been imploring the electorate there to give his socialists another term in office, but most observers feel the left's grip on this nation will be severely weakened in this weekend's election. Three and a half million and counting! We find out why so many young Nepalis have decided to leave their country. And is it the truth or is it just paranoia? We hear that the influence of the long-dead dictator Enver Hoxha continues even today in Albania.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The dictators may have gone, but their influence lives on</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Colouring in the spaces between the headlines. In this edition: the Front National is expected to do well in the French regional elections - our correspondent goes for a drive along the Cote d'Azur and asks why the party's apparently finding favour with voters. 'We cannot allow our revolution to be stolen!' The Venezuelan president has been imploring the electorate there to give his socialists another term in office, but most observers feel the left's grip on this nation will be severely weakened in this weekend's election. Three and a half million and counting! We find out why so many young Nepalis have decided to leave their country. And is it the truth or is it just paranoia? We hear that the influence of the long-dead dictator Enver Hoxha continues even today in Albania.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2015 12:54:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1676</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03b5p9s.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03b5p9s.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03b5p9s.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03b5p9n</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03b5p9n</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03b5p9s.mp3" fileSize="26816000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1676"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03b5p9n</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Brussels on Edge</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories. In the wake of the attacks in Paris, nearby Belgium has been portrayed as a dysfunctional place with failing state structures, a country where terrorists can go about their business unchallenged. Tim Whewell's been to Brussels to talk to some who feel alienated and abandoned by the Belgian state. Eight months of war in Yemen -- and Iona Craig has been finding out how people living in the country’s third city are now relying on smugglers to bring in vital supplies. Fifty-one thousand refugees are now living in Berlin -- Chris Haslam's been hearing that for some, their problems are only just beginning. Preparations are underway for the big climate conference starting in Paris next week. Some say global warming is a problem that's just too difficult to solve. But David Shukman believes there's reason for some guarded optimism. And Juliet Rix has been to Malta, the scene of the Commonwealth heads of government meeting. The Mediterranean island long ago ceased to be a British colony but she finds some lasting affection for the old motherland although a continuing fondness for the traditional English breakfast might be doing more harm than good!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Is Belgium really a country unable to confront the threat of terrorism?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories. In the wake of the attacks in Paris, nearby Belgium has been portrayed as a dysfunctional place with failing state structures, a country where terrorists can go about their business unchallenged. Tim Whewell's been to Brussels to talk to some who feel alienated and abandoned by the Belgian state. Eight months of war in Yemen -- and Iona Craig has been finding out how people living in the country’s third city are now relying on smugglers to bring in vital supplies. Fifty-one thousand refugees are now living in Berlin -- Chris Haslam's been hearing that for some, their problems are only just beginning. Preparations are underway for the big climate conference starting in Paris next week. Some say global warming is a problem that's just too difficult to solve. But David Shukman believes there's reason for some guarded optimism. And Juliet Rix has been to Malta, the scene of the Commonwealth heads of government meeting. The Mediterranean island long ago ceased to be a British colony but she finds some lasting affection for the old motherland although a continuing fondness for the traditional English breakfast might be doing more harm than good!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2015 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1666</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p039hf9t.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p039hf9t.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p039hf9t.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p039hf9r</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p039hf9r</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p039hf9t.mp3" fileSize="26656000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1666"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p039hf9r</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>November in Paris</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Foreign correspondents' stories. In this programme, Kevin Connolly talks of the dogged durability that got Parisians out to work again in the days after the terrorist attacks, 'the foot soldiers' ability to soldier on through the darkness'. Joanna Robertson, also in the French capital, says despite the huge numbers of police deployed in various parts of the city, many in the suburbs are complaining they've been left unprotected. She is asked: 'What's being done to protect our way of life?' Emma Jane Kirby meets up again with an Italian man who can't forget the day he went out boating and came across scores of migrants scattered across the sea, only some of whom he managed to rescue. A way of life comes to an end with the closing of a well-known narrow gauge railway in central India. Mark Tully's among the last to travel on the Satpura Lines in the centre of the country. A station master asks him: 'Why do they have to close such a busy railway?' Steve Evans tells us that in Seoul, a whole building is full of civil servants preparing for the day North and South Korea will finally be united. But that's a development unlikely to happen soon. Perhaps it will never happen and, as a result, Steve finds these are workers not over-burdened with work!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The ordinary citizens of Europe deploy their own weapon against terror</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Foreign correspondents' stories. In this programme, Kevin Connolly talks of the dogged durability that got Parisians out to work again in the days after the terrorist attacks, 'the foot soldiers' ability to soldier on through the darkness'. Joanna Robertson, also in the French capital, says despite the huge numbers of police deployed in various parts of the city, many in the suburbs are complaining they've been left unprotected. She is asked: 'What's being done to protect our way of life?' Emma Jane Kirby meets up again with an Italian man who can't forget the day he went out boating and came across scores of migrants scattered across the sea, only some of whom he managed to rescue. A way of life comes to an end with the closing of a well-known narrow gauge railway in central India. Mark Tully's among the last to travel on the Satpura Lines in the centre of the country. A station master asks him: 'Why do they have to close such a busy railway?' Steve Evans tells us that in Seoul, a whole building is full of civil servants preparing for the day North and South Korea will finally be united. But that's a development unlikely to happen soon. Perhaps it will never happen and, as a result, Steve finds these are workers not over-burdened with work!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1683</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p038q8n7.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p038q8n7.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p038q8n7.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p038q8n5</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p038q8n5</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p038q8n7.mp3" fileSize="26928000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1683"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p038q8n5</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Smell of History</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Analysis, observation, writing, storytelling. In this edition, the smells of a city's chequered history are resurrected in a shop in Serbia's capital, Belgrade. From inside Syria, the tactics a new force is employing to take the fight to the militants of IS. Aung San Suu Kyi's new government in Myanmar should soon be sworn in after its historic election victory -- but there are tough challenges ahead. All change in Poland too -- but why's the electorate there turned its back on an administration which provided new roads, airport terminals and jobs? And we're inside a beauty salon in Kabul turning down advice on a new coiffure and learning instead what sort of future Afghans think lies in store for their nation.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A whiff of history in a shop in old Belgrade.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Analysis, observation, writing, storytelling. In this edition, the smells of a city's chequered history are resurrected in a shop in Serbia's capital, Belgrade. From inside Syria, the tactics a new force is employing to take the fight to the militants of IS. Aung San Suu Kyi's new government in Myanmar should soon be sworn in after its historic election victory -- but there are tough challenges ahead. All change in Poland too -- but why's the electorate there turned its back on an administration which provided new roads, airport terminals and jobs? And we're inside a beauty salon in Kabul turning down advice on a new coiffure and learning instead what sort of future Afghans think lies in store for their nation.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:13:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p038b62z.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p038b62z.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p038b62z.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p038b62w</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p038b62w</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p038b62z.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p038b62w</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>North of Timbuktu</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Fifty nations are contributing 14-thousand people to peace-keeping in northern Mali - and their abilities are being severely tested. The tourists have turned their backs on the Greek holiday island of Lesbos but the volunteers, who've flooded in to help the migrants arriving on its shores, are generating new business opportunities. A visit to two military cemeteries, back to back in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, where the dead lie after Italy's African empire was brought to a abrupt end. The extraordinary tenacity and stoicism of the fishermen of Greenland as they prepare for the long cold winter ahead. And Eccles, the Wirral and the frozen borderlands between Norway and Russia are all involved in a story about a giant crab and its march on western civilisation</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Trying to bring peace to one of the earth's most inhospitable and lawless places</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Fifty nations are contributing 14-thousand people to peace-keeping in northern Mali - and their abilities are being severely tested. The tourists have turned their backs on the Greek holiday island of Lesbos but the volunteers, who've flooded in to help the migrants arriving on its shores, are generating new business opportunities. A visit to two military cemeteries, back to back in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, where the dead lie after Italy's African empire was brought to a abrupt end. The extraordinary tenacity and stoicism of the fishermen of Greenland as they prepare for the long cold winter ahead. And Eccles, the Wirral and the frozen borderlands between Norway and Russia are all involved in a story about a giant crab and its march on western civilisation</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p037dn86.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p037dn86.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p037dn86.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p037dn83</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p037dn83</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p037dn86.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p037dn83</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>An Audible Gasp</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Insight, wit and story-telling from reporters worldwide. In this edition, Gulf governments get paranoid as tensions pile up on their doorsteps and western reporters ask tricky questions; so many Syrians are seeking refuge in Jordan that aid agencies are struggling to help them find food and shelter; on the election campaign trail with Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar - she may win the most votes, but she won't be the country's next president; the debt we owe the Namibian Beetle - just one of the potentially life-saving lessons scientists are learning from close observation of plants and animals. And the honey-making that's going on high above the sales floors of some of the most elegant shops in Paris</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>There's surprise as a question about democracy is asked in Bahrain</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Insight, wit and story-telling from reporters worldwide. In this edition, Gulf governments get paranoid as tensions pile up on their doorsteps and western reporters ask tricky questions; so many Syrians are seeking refuge in Jordan that aid agencies are struggling to help them find food and shelter; on the election campaign trail with Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar - she may win the most votes, but she won't be the country's next president; the debt we owe the Namibian Beetle - just one of the potentially life-saving lessons scientists are learning from close observation of plants and animals. And the honey-making that's going on high above the sales floors of some of the most elegant shops in Paris</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1666</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03761g0.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03761g0.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03761g0.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03761fw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03761fw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03761g0.mp3" fileSize="26656000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1666"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03761fw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Turkey on Edge</title><description><![CDATA[<p>What has happened to Turkey? Not so long ago it was held up as a model of Middle Eastern harmony, a successful mix of Islam and democracy. Mark Lowen explains how the optimism of those days has turned to disenchantment and anxiety ahead of the general election there this weekend. There's an encounter with the religious police in Saudi Arabia as Lyse Doucet in Riyadh observes how the country's trying to hang on to ancient traditions while moving forward with the wider world. Ed Butler’s been in Puerto Rico – finding out what lies behind President Obama’s warning that the island’s economic problems could lead to a humanitarian crisis. Opportunity doesn’t often knock for women in Nepal yet a female president has just been appointed there and Chris Haslam has been talking to a young woman sports star who ran away from home and is set to become the most famous Nepali since the hero of Everest, Sherpa Tensing</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Anxiety in Turkey as people prepare to go to the polls for the second election this year</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>What has happened to Turkey? Not so long ago it was held up as a model of Middle Eastern harmony, a successful mix of Islam and democracy. Mark Lowen explains how the optimism of those days has turned to disenchantment and anxiety ahead of the general election there this weekend. There's an encounter with the religious police in Saudi Arabia as Lyse Doucet in Riyadh observes how the country's trying to hang on to ancient traditions while moving forward with the wider world. Ed Butler’s been in Puerto Rico – finding out what lies behind President Obama’s warning that the island’s economic problems could lead to a humanitarian crisis. Opportunity doesn’t often knock for women in Nepal yet a female president has just been appointed there and Chris Haslam has been talking to a young woman sports star who ran away from home and is set to become the most famous Nepali since the hero of Everest, Sherpa Tensing</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1658</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p036r7sr.mp3" length="26528000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p036r7sr.mp3" length="26528000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p036r7sr.mp3" length="26528000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p036r7sn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p036r7sn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p036r7sr.mp3" fileSize="26528000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1658"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p036r7sn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Comedian President</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Guatemalans, united by anger against violence and a political system riddled with corruption, have chosen a comedian to be their next president. Jimmy Morales is riding on a wave of excitement - but his people want change. And they want it fast. There's another election this coming weekend -- it's in Turkey and the voting takes place amidst fears that the country could find itself sucked into the vortex of the seemingly endless war in neighbouring Syria. Russia's involvement in the conflict in Syria has its opponents outside the country but within Russia, few oppose President Putin's foreign policy. In this programme we meet a Russian war veteran who's defying public abuse and saying: those who launched this military operation don't know how dangerous it is, or how it will end. We travel to Patagonia in the south of Argentina to see how a Welsh community there is faring in the shadow of the snow-capped Andes. And the tastebuds are tingling in the American state of Oregon where a rather special kind of beer, only available at this time of year, is nearly ready!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A comedian wins the presidency of one of the world's most violent nations</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Guatemalans, united by anger against violence and a political system riddled with corruption, have chosen a comedian to be their next president. Jimmy Morales is riding on a wave of excitement - but his people want change. And they want it fast. There's another election this coming weekend -- it's in Turkey and the voting takes place amidst fears that the country could find itself sucked into the vortex of the seemingly endless war in neighbouring Syria. Russia's involvement in the conflict in Syria has its opponents outside the country but within Russia, few oppose President Putin's foreign policy. In this programme we meet a Russian war veteran who's defying public abuse and saying: those who launched this military operation don't know how dangerous it is, or how it will end. We travel to Patagonia in the south of Argentina to see how a Welsh community there is faring in the shadow of the snow-capped Andes. And the tastebuds are tingling in the American state of Oregon where a rather special kind of beer, only available at this time of year, is nearly ready!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2015 11:41:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p036k4vw.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p036k4vw.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p036k4vw.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p036k4vr</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p036k4vr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p036k4vw.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p036k4vr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>History's Long Shadow</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters' stories. In this edition: Kevin Connolly goes for an evening stroll in Jerusalem observing that the triumphs and disasters of the past are as real as the tensions of the present if you know where to look. Nick Thorpe's with the migrants on the border between Croatia and Slovenia where everyone seems to have lost someone and the refugee crisis can seem like a football match. Jon Donnison tells us that life doesn't get much tougher than for a Filipino fishermen in typhoon season. Mark Stratton gets to know the extravagant role the dead play in the lives of people on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. And Mary Harper tells us they've got a camera now, but no costumes. And when they want guns, they have to borrow them from the police. This is the world of action film-making -- in Somaliland</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The short walk with a two thousand year backdrop</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters' stories. In this edition: Kevin Connolly goes for an evening stroll in Jerusalem observing that the triumphs and disasters of the past are as real as the tensions of the present if you know where to look. Nick Thorpe's with the migrants on the border between Croatia and Slovenia where everyone seems to have lost someone and the refugee crisis can seem like a football match. Jon Donnison tells us that life doesn't get much tougher than for a Filipino fishermen in typhoon season. Mark Stratton gets to know the extravagant role the dead play in the lives of people on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. And Mary Harper tells us they've got a camera now, but no costumes. And when they want guns, they have to borrow them from the police. This is the world of action film-making -- in Somaliland</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1667</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03639wh.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03639wh.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p03639wh.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p03639wf</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03639wf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03639wh.mp3" fileSize="26672000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1667"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p03639wf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Murder at Number 48</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporter despatches from far and wide. In this edition: Alastair Leithead on the wave of violence in the African state of Burundi connected to the president's third term in office. David Shukman's in the Philippines where thousands of people have been driven from their homes by a typhoon in which it rained, and then went on raining for days on end. Lucy Ash is in Beziers in southern France, a city accused of being a laboratory for the far right. Trudeaumania's back in Canada - Rajini Vaidyanathan talks of how he was swept to power on a tide of votes, many from the country's young, but the question is, can he now deliver? And it's a capital city determined to become the Dubai of Africa - James Jeffrey is in Djibouti where some locals wonder what might be lost in their republic's drive for modernity.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A wave of killings in the African state of Burundi and other despatches</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporter despatches from far and wide. In this edition: Alastair Leithead on the wave of violence in the African state of Burundi connected to the president's third term in office. David Shukman's in the Philippines where thousands of people have been driven from their homes by a typhoon in which it rained, and then went on raining for days on end. Lucy Ash is in Beziers in southern France, a city accused of being a laboratory for the far right. Trudeaumania's back in Canada - Rajini Vaidyanathan talks of how he was swept to power on a tide of votes, many from the country's young, but the question is, can he now deliver? And it's a capital city determined to become the Dubai of Africa - James Jeffrey is in Djibouti where some locals wonder what might be lost in their republic's drive for modernity.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2015 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1683</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p035wv9f.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p035wv9f.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p035wv9f.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p035wv96</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p035wv96</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p035wv9f.mp3" fileSize="26928000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1683"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p035wv96</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Night Train to Luxor</title><description><![CDATA[<p>How the world really works. These despatches come from: Egypt, where a former military intelligence officer is now firmly in control of the presidency and awaits the election of the kind of parliament from which seldom is heard a discouraging word; China - its president is about to pay a state visit to Britain. At home, his press relations staff are working hard to ensure foreign journalists toe the party line; South Sudan - can a city vanish? Yes it can, according to our correspondent who's just been to Malakal, once the country's lively second city; Australia – it can be fifty degrees centigrade in the Simpson Desert, a landscape virtually untouched by human hand. So why would anyone choose to go there, accompanied by a camel? And Afghanistan – a story about the sound of music, and of hope, amid the din of Kabul.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A new confidence about the security forces in Egypt</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>How the world really works. These despatches come from: Egypt, where a former military intelligence officer is now firmly in control of the presidency and awaits the election of the kind of parliament from which seldom is heard a discouraging word; China - its president is about to pay a state visit to Britain. At home, his press relations staff are working hard to ensure foreign journalists toe the party line; South Sudan - can a city vanish? Yes it can, according to our correspondent who's just been to Malakal, once the country's lively second city; Australia – it can be fifty degrees centigrade in the Simpson Desert, a landscape virtually untouched by human hand. So why would anyone choose to go there, accompanied by a camel? And Afghanistan – a story about the sound of music, and of hope, amid the din of Kabul.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1681</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p035gygz.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p035gygz.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p035gygz.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p035gygw</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p035gygw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p035gygz.mp3" fileSize="26896000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1681"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p035gygw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Old Fears Return</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In Israel's parks and shopping districts more people are now visibly carrying guns amid the worst surge of violence in months. Also in this programme: Myanmar prepares for an historic election in November -- but one candidate, try as he might, just can't get to his constituency to campaign! We're up in the Alps in south west France where specialist wolf hunters have just been deployed after an angry campaign by shepherds and sheep farmers; talking to a man on the coast of Senegal in west Africa who's doing his best to keep hope, fish and his community alive - by tending to some remarkable trees. And there's drama on a family holiday in China which did not go entirely according to plan!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Talk of a third 'intifada' or uprising as violence flares again in Israel</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In Israel's parks and shopping districts more people are now visibly carrying guns amid the worst surge of violence in months. Also in this programme: Myanmar prepares for an historic election in November -- but one candidate, try as he might, just can't get to his constituency to campaign! We're up in the Alps in south west France where specialist wolf hunters have just been deployed after an angry campaign by shepherds and sheep farmers; talking to a man on the coast of Senegal in west Africa who's doing his best to keep hope, fish and his community alive - by tending to some remarkable trees. And there's drama on a family holiday in China which did not go entirely according to plan!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2015 10:33:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1667</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0358szq.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0358szq.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0358szq.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0358szm</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0358szm</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0358szq.mp3" fileSize="26672000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1667"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0358szm</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Feast of Fungi</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The programme which takes you places. In this one, to Wolfsburg in Germany, forever associated with Volkswagen and today speculating about the long-term consequences of the emissions scandal that has so damaged the car-maker's reputation. Is it the end for the 'Rainbow Nation? A new generation of black South Africans is coming of age and is angry that so much of the country's wealth remains in the hands of the white population. There may be oxcarts in the villages outside the North Korean capital, but no shortage of flash cars in Pyongyang itself, a city where some people are taking power into their own hands. Seven families have set up home in a former bank in troubled South Sudan - there's safety in numbers, they hope. And as summer burns out to autumn, it's time to go foraging in the hills of Austria and time later for a dinner to remember!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A search for mushroom gold in the hills of Austria and other stories</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The programme which takes you places. In this one, to Wolfsburg in Germany, forever associated with Volkswagen and today speculating about the long-term consequences of the emissions scandal that has so damaged the car-maker's reputation. Is it the end for the 'Rainbow Nation? A new generation of black South Africans is coming of age and is angry that so much of the country's wealth remains in the hands of the white population. There may be oxcarts in the villages outside the North Korean capital, but no shortage of flash cars in Pyongyang itself, a city where some people are taking power into their own hands. Seven families have set up home in a former bank in troubled South Sudan - there's safety in numbers, they hope. And as summer burns out to autumn, it's time to go foraging in the hills of Austria and time later for a dinner to remember!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1677</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p034w6wd.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p034w6wd.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p034w6wd.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p034w6w9</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034w6w9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p034w6wd.mp3" fileSize="26832000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1677"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p034w6w9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Tunnel of Stories</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Insight, writing, storytelling. In this edition Nick Thorpe reflects on the many tales he's heard in months covering the migrant crisis at the gateways of Europe; Gabriel Gatehouse is in Germany where the influx of refugees has caused a surge in the popularity of right-wing anti-immigration parties; Stephanie Hegarty talks of her visit to the Central African Republic where UN-troops are trying to restore peace after violent clashes between Christian and Muslim militias; Jonathan Fryer goes to Astana in Kazahstan, a capital city with awe-inspiring architecture and a president determined that nothing will stand in the way of his vision for the country's future and Kieran Cooke goes to Ireland's holy mountain, Croagh Patrick in County Mayo, to investigate a claim that 'nature's greatest cathedral in the west is being severely damaged'</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Notebooks filling up with stories from the doorways of the European Union</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Insight, writing, storytelling. In this edition Nick Thorpe reflects on the many tales he's heard in months covering the migrant crisis at the gateways of Europe; Gabriel Gatehouse is in Germany where the influx of refugees has caused a surge in the popularity of right-wing anti-immigration parties; Stephanie Hegarty talks of her visit to the Central African Republic where UN-troops are trying to restore peace after violent clashes between Christian and Muslim militias; Jonathan Fryer goes to Astana in Kazahstan, a capital city with awe-inspiring architecture and a president determined that nothing will stand in the way of his vision for the country's future and Kieran Cooke goes to Ireland's holy mountain, Croagh Patrick in County Mayo, to investigate a claim that 'nature's greatest cathedral in the west is being severely damaged'</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2015 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p034nq8d.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p034nq8d.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p034nq8d.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p034nq89</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034nq89</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p034nq8d.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p034nq89</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Mermaid of Madagascar</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Storytelling, writing and looking beyond the news spotlight. Today: warm orangeade, a tot of rum and some chain-smoking - all part of daily life for the fishermen and women of Madagascar who've harnessed new conservation techniques to long-standing traditions. Also, a despatch from south-eastern Turkey, where renewed hostilities between government forces and Kurdish PKK militants have left efforts to establish a long-term peace in shreds; there's an examination of the reasons why Russia has chosen to step up its military activity in the Middle East; the Spanish bullfighting season's coming to an end and many now wonder if the same will soon be said of bullfighting itself. And why tonight's big rugby match at Twickenham might set off some wild, if lonely, rejoicing in a small hotel room in Japan.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Modern ideas and ancient traditions in the fishing communities of Madagascar</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Storytelling, writing and looking beyond the news spotlight. Today: warm orangeade, a tot of rum and some chain-smoking - all part of daily life for the fishermen and women of Madagascar who've harnessed new conservation techniques to long-standing traditions. Also, a despatch from south-eastern Turkey, where renewed hostilities between government forces and Kurdish PKK militants have left efforts to establish a long-term peace in shreds; there's an examination of the reasons why Russia has chosen to step up its military activity in the Middle East; the Spanish bullfighting season's coming to an end and many now wonder if the same will soon be said of bullfighting itself. And why tonight's big rugby match at Twickenham might set off some wild, if lonely, rejoicing in a small hotel room in Japan.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1671</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0347ym7.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0347ym7.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0347ym7.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0347ym2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0347ym2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0347ym7.mp3" fileSize="26736000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1671"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0347ym2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>FOOC at 60: Memorable Reports 2</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Includes Fergal Keane's 1996 Letter to Daniel and Allan Little in Kinshasa as President Mobutu fell in 1997</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Includes Fergal Keane's 1996 Letter to Daniel and Allan Little in Kinshasa as Mobutu fell</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Includes Fergal Keane's 1996 Letter to Daniel and Allan Little in Kinshasa as President Mobutu fell in 1997</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2015 14:23:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1733</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0345kp0.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0345kp0.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0345kp0.mp3" length="27728000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0345knq</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0345knq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0345kp0.mp3" fileSize="27728000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1733"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0345knq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Kindness of a Baker</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Insight, storytelling, colour. Today, there's endless bread but not much comfort as Nigerian children find shelter in a bakery from the extremists of Boko Haram. India's accused of involvement in disturbances just over the border in Nepal - people have died in clashes with the security forces and cross-border commerce has been hard hit. The amount of violence in eastern Ukraine has gone down, but there are other problems for the government in Kiev: the economy's in deep trouble and frustrated ultra-nationalists are making their presence felt. Voodoo's coming under attack on the island of Haiti in the Caribbean - one senior Roman Catholic churchman's called it 'magic'. And there's a visit to the 'alternative' American city of Portland, Oregon. It's certainly a place of beards and tattoos but is it falling victim to creeping provincialism?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A Nigerian bakery provides sanctuary for boys fleeing the Boko Haram extremists</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Insight, storytelling, colour. Today, there's endless bread but not much comfort as Nigerian children find shelter in a bakery from the extremists of Boko Haram. India's accused of involvement in disturbances just over the border in Nepal - people have died in clashes with the security forces and cross-border commerce has been hard hit. The amount of violence in eastern Ukraine has gone down, but there are other problems for the government in Kiev: the economy's in deep trouble and frustrated ultra-nationalists are making their presence felt. Voodoo's coming under attack on the island of Haiti in the Caribbean - one senior Roman Catholic churchman's called it 'magic'. And there's a visit to the 'alternative' American city of Portland, Oregon. It's certainly a place of beards and tattoos but is it falling victim to creeping provincialism?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2015 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0341gjt.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0341gjt.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0341gjt.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0341gjp</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0341gjp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0341gjt.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0341gjp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Miracle on the Beach</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Filling in the gaps between the headlines: shock, horror, remorse, guilt -- how a piece of gold triggered an emotional tsunami on a beach near Cape Town. Why the Pope's been so in demand on his visit to Washington, a city where it's usually money that's talking the loudest; robbed of everything she had, even her blanket: it's one of the stories of those fleeing the violence in South Sudan, the world's newest nation; electioneering gathers pace in Myanmar, formerly Burma, and there's at least one point the human rights lawyer and the man who's been called the Buddhist Bin Laden can agree on and Germany might seem the promised land to many of the migrants making the long trek up through Europe but, it seems, not all of them are happy with what they find</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A valuable discovery on the beach in South Africa and other correspondents' stories</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Filling in the gaps between the headlines: shock, horror, remorse, guilt -- how a piece of gold triggered an emotional tsunami on a beach near Cape Town. Why the Pope's been so in demand on his visit to Washington, a city where it's usually money that's talking the loudest; robbed of everything she had, even her blanket: it's one of the stories of those fleeing the violence in South Sudan, the world's newest nation; electioneering gathers pace in Myanmar, formerly Burma, and there's at least one point the human rights lawyer and the man who's been called the Buddhist Bin Laden can agree on and Germany might seem the promised land to many of the migrants making the long trek up through Europe but, it seems, not all of them are happy with what they find</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1660</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p033m572.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p033m572.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p033m572.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p033m56z</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033m56z</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p033m572.mp3" fileSize="26560000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1660"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p033m56z</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>War and Peace</title><description><![CDATA[<p>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
  2078. the home front.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Despatches from the frontline - from conflict and post-conflict</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>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
  2079. the home front.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2015 10:35:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p033cjt6.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p033cjt6.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p033cjt6.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p033cjsz</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033cjsz</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p033cjt6.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p033cjsz</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>60th Anniversary – Memorable Reports 1</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Includes Gabriel Gatehouse on the 2014 Ebola crisis; Kevin Connolly in Libya in 2011; Misha Glenny, on searching for family in Davos.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Includes Gabriel Gatehouse on the 2014 Ebola crisis and Kevin Connolly in Libya in 2011.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Includes Gabriel Gatehouse on the 2014 Ebola crisis; Kevin Connolly in Libya in 2011; Misha Glenny, on searching for family in Davos.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1614</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p032tpkf.mp3" length="25824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p032tpkf.mp3" length="25824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p032tpkf.mp3" length="25824000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p032tpkc</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p032tpkc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p032tpkf.mp3" fileSize="25824000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1614"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p032tpkc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Special UK Edition</title><description><![CDATA[<p>For once, and as part of FOOC's sixtieth birthday celebrations, the programme's handed over to home correspondents and the stories they have to tell about the UK today. The growth in Scottish nationalism is explored; we find out how important listening will be as the inquiry into child sex abuse in this country prepares to get underway; we travel to one of the most picturesque villages in England to hear concerns about the increasing cost of housing in rural areas; with the power-sharing government in Belfast close to collapse, we are told of the continuing tensions in both Republican and Unionist communities and we find out what effect the extraordinary political developments of recent days will have on the party political conference season, which is about to begin.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>UK correspondents tell their stories</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>For once, and as part of FOOC's sixtieth birthday celebrations, the programme's handed over to home correspondents and the stories they have to tell about the UK today. The growth in Scottish nationalism is explored; we find out how important listening will be as the inquiry into child sex abuse in this country prepares to get underway; we travel to one of the most picturesque villages in England to hear concerns about the increasing cost of housing in rural areas; with the power-sharing government in Belfast close to collapse, we are told of the continuing tensions in both Republican and Unionist communities and we find out what effect the extraordinary political developments of recent days will have on the party political conference season, which is about to begin.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1660</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p032y22n.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p032y22n.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p032y22n.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p032y22l</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p032y22l</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p032y22n.mp3" fileSize="26560000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1660"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p032y22l</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>From Our Own Correspondent: 60th Anniversary Special</title><description><![CDATA[<p>As part of marking 60 years of reporting on landmark international events by Radio 4's iconic series, "From Our Own Correspondent", Owen Bennett-Jones presents a discussion, recorded at London's Frontline Club, on how foreign reporting has evolved over the decades – and where it is heading. </p><p>Joined by a panel of leading journalists and an audience that includes experienced reporters on foreign events, the programme recalls outstanding moments of foreign reporting. How did coverage of significant events – such as the Suez Crisis, the independence of former British colonies and the fall of communism – shape our views of the world, of particular countries and peoples? </p><p>The programme will also consider how politics and broader economic and social changes – plus the demands of modern-day broadcasting – have all changed the way correspondents now bring often complicated international stories to diverse audiences here at home. </p><p>Some developments continue to be far-reaching – such as China's transition from revolutionary peasant state to burgeoning economic power and the advent of extreme Islamism. How have more specialised reporting, embedding journalists with different participants in conflicts and focusing on the experiences of the general public changed the way we understand such issues? And how is the use of social media affecting reporting on foreign events? </p><p>The programme will name the places we should be watching in the years ahead, and discuss how reporting is likely to change further as "citizen journalists" become ubiquitous and the trustworthiness of information around the world becomes ever more important. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Owen Bennett-Jones chairs a discussion on foreign reporting's past, present and future.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>As part of marking 60 years of reporting on landmark international events by Radio 4's iconic series, "From Our Own Correspondent", Owen Bennett-Jones presents a discussion, recorded at London's Frontline Club, on how foreign reporting has evolved over the decades – and where it is heading. </p><p>Joined by a panel of leading journalists and an audience that includes experienced reporters on foreign events, the programme recalls outstanding moments of foreign reporting. How did coverage of significant events – such as the Suez Crisis, the independence of former British colonies and the fall of communism – shape our views of the world, of particular countries and peoples? </p><p>The programme will also consider how politics and broader economic and social changes – plus the demands of modern-day broadcasting – have all changed the way correspondents now bring often complicated international stories to diverse audiences here at home. </p><p>Some developments continue to be far-reaching – such as China's transition from revolutionary peasant state to burgeoning economic power and the advent of extreme Islamism. How have more specialised reporting, embedding journalists with different participants in conflicts and focusing on the experiences of the general public changed the way we understand such issues? And how is the use of social media affecting reporting on foreign events? </p><p>The programme will name the places we should be watching in the years ahead, and discuss how reporting is likely to change further as "citizen journalists" become ubiquitous and the trustworthiness of information around the world becomes ever more important. </p><p>Producer: Simon Coates</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2015 08:53:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>2512</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p032qf71.mp3" length="40192000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p032qf71.mp3" length="40192000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p032qf71.mp3" length="40192000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p032qf6z</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p032qf6z</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p032qf71.mp3" fileSize="40192000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="2512"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p032qf6z</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Migration Special</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The migrant crisis hasn't erupted from nowhere: From Our Own Correspondent has been following migrant routes into Europe for years. Kate Adie presents a selection of dispatches from Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Czech Republic and Syria.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The migrant crisis hasn't erupted from nowhere</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The migrant crisis hasn't erupted from nowhere: From Our Own Correspondent has been following migrant routes into Europe for years. Kate Adie presents a selection of dispatches from Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Czech Republic and Syria.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2015 10:25:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1679</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0320hpq.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0320hpq.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0320hpq.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p0320hpl</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0320hpl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0320hpq.mp3" fileSize="26864000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1679"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p0320hpl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Europe's Migration Turmoil</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. This week, as Europe agonises over how to deal with the flow of migrants heading westwards, we hear two different perspectives from the Continent: in Vienna they've been shocked into action, while in Prague the loudest message is "keep out." Azerbaijan is spending millions on trying to improve its image but our correspondent says it should save its money and just stop locking people up. In Ireland speed, skill and passion are the order of the day on the pitch - and having a Putin-like stare helps. While on America's Amtrak network it's less a question of speed and more a matter of finding your moment of Zen.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents' stories including the migration crisis, Irish hurling &amp; trains with Zen</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. This week, as Europe agonises over how to deal with the flow of migrants heading westwards, we hear two different perspectives from the Continent: in Vienna they've been shocked into action, while in Prague the loudest message is "keep out." Azerbaijan is spending millions on trying to improve its image but our correspondent says it should save its money and just stop locking people up. In Ireland speed, skill and passion are the order of the day on the pitch - and having a Putin-like stare helps. While on America's Amtrak network it's less a question of speed and more a matter of finding your moment of Zen.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2015 09:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1695</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p031xl77.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p031xl77.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p031xl77.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p031xl70</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031xl70</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p031xl77.mp3" fileSize="27120000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1695"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p031xl70</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Great Fall of China</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The news behind the news. In this edition: severe turbulence in the financial markets in China: why the country's leadership makes no mention of it and the mainstream media avoids the subject; what's it like living on Little Diomede, the American island in the Bering Strait, just a few miles from Russia? Our correspondent has been talking to fishermen trying to pursue their livelihoods amid mounting tension between the two superpowers; hundreds of migrants have been arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos. Some there, we find, are treating the new arrivals as business opportunities; we've been meeting some of the hermits and holy men still living in caves amid the sandy wastes and rocky mountains of the West Bank and have been touring Jamaica in search of a moonshine rum with a particularly notorious reputation.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>An important moment of decision for China's leaders</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The news behind the news. In this edition: severe turbulence in the financial markets in China: why the country's leadership makes no mention of it and the mainstream media avoids the subject; what's it like living on Little Diomede, the American island in the Bering Strait, just a few miles from Russia? Our correspondent has been talking to fishermen trying to pursue their livelihoods amid mounting tension between the two superpowers; hundreds of migrants have been arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos. Some there, we find, are treating the new arrivals as business opportunities; we've been meeting some of the hermits and holy men still living in caves amid the sandy wastes and rocky mountains of the West Bank and have been touring Jamaica in search of a moonshine rum with a particularly notorious reputation.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1676</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p031242k.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p031242k.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p031242k.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p031242h</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031242h</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p031242k.mp3" fileSize="26816000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1676"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p031242h</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Andy Warhol's Trousers</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The full story - correspondents with despatches from around the world. Today: from Bangkok, scene of a devastating bomb attack earlier in the week, it's the smallest detail which makes the deepest impression; there's a visit to the coastline of Somalia where a thriving piracy industry has been closed down but myriad problems still remain; we're in the Panamanian highlands talking about cocoa beans -- the experts may not be entirely convinced that eating chocolate is good for you, but there's no doubt the business is proving beneficial to the economy of that central American nation; we examine Sri Lanka's relationship with the sweet heart of the country, otherwise known as the coconut and our reporter sweats and strains in the shop where Andy Warhol and generations of New York rockers have gone shopping for their leather trousers and other stage gear</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Trying out Andy Warhol's leather look + other stories</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The full story - correspondents with despatches from around the world. Today: from Bangkok, scene of a devastating bomb attack earlier in the week, it's the smallest detail which makes the deepest impression; there's a visit to the coastline of Somalia where a thriving piracy industry has been closed down but myriad problems still remain; we're in the Panamanian highlands talking about cocoa beans -- the experts may not be entirely convinced that eating chocolate is good for you, but there's no doubt the business is proving beneficial to the economy of that central American nation; we examine Sri Lanka's relationship with the sweet heart of the country, otherwise known as the coconut and our reporter sweats and strains in the shop where Andy Warhol and generations of New York rockers have gone shopping for their leather trousers and other stage gear</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p030dsyh.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p030dsyh.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p030dsyh.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p030dsyc</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p030dsyc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p030dsyh.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p030dsyc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Politics and Witchcraft</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The stories behind the news. In this edition: the government in Tanzania warns of the dangers of black magic as the country prepares to go to the polls in October; how the presence of militants in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, who are allied to the so-called Islamic State, marks an ominous turn for the authorities in Cairo; in the Czech Republic there's a plan to extend overcast mining in what was once a largely-undisturbed landscape of pine forests and deep valleys -- and it could have severe consequences for some of the people living there; an island community pulls together as a medical emergency descends on distant Tristan da Cunha, six days' sail away from specialist health treatment. And the music, the cars, the sunshine and the history - they're all part of the daily drive to work enjoyed by our man in the Cuban capital, Havana.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Black magic on the election trail in Tanzania</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The stories behind the news. In this edition: the government in Tanzania warns of the dangers of black magic as the country prepares to go to the polls in October; how the presence of militants in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, who are allied to the so-called Islamic State, marks an ominous turn for the authorities in Cairo; in the Czech Republic there's a plan to extend overcast mining in what was once a largely-undisturbed landscape of pine forests and deep valleys -- and it could have severe consequences for some of the people living there; an island community pulls together as a medical emergency descends on distant Tristan da Cunha, six days' sail away from specialist health treatment. And the music, the cars, the sunshine and the history - they're all part of the daily drive to work enjoyed by our man in the Cuban capital, Havana.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2015 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02zr0lt.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02zr0lt.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02zr0lt.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p02zr0ll</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02zr0ll</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02zr0lt.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02zr0ll</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>We Are All Emigrants Now</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Insight and colour from around the globe. In this edition: Syrian tears for the waste and suffering of a lost generation; the migrants crossing into Europe via the border between Serbia and Hungary -- they say it'll take more than the steel fence, currently being constructed, to stop them. It's Happy Birthday Singapore! The island state's fifty years old and big business hasn't been slow to join the party. We meet a count in Transylvania who dreams that this part of Romania can one day be as famous for its meadows and its hospitality as it is for Count Dracula. And we're out with a postman in the Malian capital, Bamako, who has a very special delivery.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Despatches from migration's front lines + other stories</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Insight and colour from around the globe. In this edition: Syrian tears for the waste and suffering of a lost generation; the migrants crossing into Europe via the border between Serbia and Hungary -- they say it'll take more than the steel fence, currently being constructed, to stop them. It's Happy Birthday Singapore! The island state's fifty years old and big business hasn't been slow to join the party. We meet a count in Transylvania who dreams that this part of Romania can one day be as famous for its meadows and its hospitality as it is for Count Dracula. And we're out with a postman in the Malian capital, Bamako, who has a very special delivery.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02z2vz2.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02z2vz2.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02z2vz2.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p02z2vz0</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02z2vz0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02z2vz2.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02z2vz0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Busy Executioner</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Story-telling from reporters around the world. In this edition, as the UN, EU and others voice criticism of the number of executions now being carried out in Pakistan, our correspondent meets a hangman who talks frankly about his job; a colleague visits a far-right militia group's training camp in Ukraine and hears why it's against not only the pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country but also the government in the capital, Kiev; we gaze at a minaret in Tunisia and consider the forgotten history of a town where migrants FROM Europe once arrived in search of a new life. A reporter tours the capital of Albania, Tirana, and discovers why soft toys have been pressed in to service against the 'evil eye.' And we find out how a posse of elderly Italian ladies raised enough money to enjoy a holiday by the sea</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A meeting with a hangman in Pakistan + other correspondents' stories</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Story-telling from reporters around the world. In this edition, as the UN, EU and others voice criticism of the number of executions now being carried out in Pakistan, our correspondent meets a hangman who talks frankly about his job; a colleague visits a far-right militia group's training camp in Ukraine and hears why it's against not only the pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country but also the government in the capital, Kiev; we gaze at a minaret in Tunisia and consider the forgotten history of a town where migrants FROM Europe once arrived in search of a new life. A reporter tours the capital of Albania, Tirana, and discovers why soft toys have been pressed in to service against the 'evil eye.' And we find out how a posse of elderly Italian ladies raised enough money to enjoy a holiday by the sea</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 10:13:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02ykgg7.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02ykgg7.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02ykgg7.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p02ykgg4</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02ykgg4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02ykgg7.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02ykgg4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Walk in the West Wing</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stories from reporters around the world. In this edition: summoned to the White House to talk to the president of the United States of America - but what was it like meeting one of the most powerful and important men in the world? After that interview, Mr Obama flew on to Kenya and we learn how the need for ever-greater security is just one of the factors which bind Kenya and the US together. While the rest of Greece is counting its money, we set sail for an island counting on its own history to see it through the current economic crisis. The house in the Pakistani city of Karachi offering hope and treatment to children suffering from drug addiction and, in many cases, years of neglect and abuse. And we make use of the sun and a mobile phone app as we hunt for a place to cross the Zambezi River in Africa</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The US-president takes us behind the scenes at the White House</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stories from reporters around the world. In this edition: summoned to the White House to talk to the president of the United States of America - but what was it like meeting one of the most powerful and important men in the world? After that interview, Mr Obama flew on to Kenya and we learn how the need for ever-greater security is just one of the factors which bind Kenya and the US together. While the rest of Greece is counting its money, we set sail for an island counting on its own history to see it through the current economic crisis. The house in the Pakistani city of Karachi offering hope and treatment to children suffering from drug addiction and, in many cases, years of neglect and abuse. And we make use of the sun and a mobile phone app as we hunt for a place to cross the Zambezi River in Africa</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1670</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02y0pgq.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02y0pgq.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02y0pgq.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p02y0pgj</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02y0pgj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02y0pgq.mp3" fileSize="26720000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1670"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02y0pgj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Shaping a New World Order</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters' stories. About Iran, Togo, Mexico, Ethiopia and the United States</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The far-reaching political and economic consequences of the Iran nuclear deal</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters' stories. About Iran, Togo, Mexico, Ethiopia and the United States</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:56:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1672</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02xnwwl.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02xnwwl.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02xnwwl.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p02xnwwg</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02xnwwg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02xnwwl.mp3" fileSize="26752000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1672"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02xnwwg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Without Stability We Have Nothing</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Context and colour behind the headlines. In this edition: mounting discontent in Algeria as the authorities try to restore order to a desert town where more than twenty people were killed last week. 'Mass incarceration,' according to President Obama, 'makes our country worse off.' We meet some of the prisoners, originally handed long sentences, who've now been granted clemency. What lessons can African leaders, and western democracies, learn from the rise and rise of Ethiopia? We're on a dance floor in Addis Ababa trying to work them out. With pilgrimages apparently proving more popular than ever, our man sets out on one a particularly demanding one, in southeastern Brazil. And four year long years of drought have hit the fruit farms of California hard. How can they maintain their levels of production while under strict orders to consume less water?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Cracks appear in the stability so vital to those charged with keeping order in Algeria</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Context and colour behind the headlines. In this edition: mounting discontent in Algeria as the authorities try to restore order to a desert town where more than twenty people were killed last week. 'Mass incarceration,' according to President Obama, 'makes our country worse off.' We meet some of the prisoners, originally handed long sentences, who've now been granted clemency. What lessons can African leaders, and western democracies, learn from the rise and rise of Ethiopia? We're on a dance floor in Addis Ababa trying to work them out. With pilgrimages apparently proving more popular than ever, our man sets out on one a particularly demanding one, in southeastern Brazil. And four year long years of drought have hit the fruit farms of California hard. How can they maintain their levels of production while under strict orders to consume less water?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:44:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02x70kh.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02x70kh.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02x70kh.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p02x70k7</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02x70k7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02x70kh.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02x70k7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Sunny Place for Shady People</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Long  Eccentric expats once came to Tangier in search of sun, sea, gay sex and drugs. Today only their ghosts remain as the Moroccan authorities try to find for their country a successful balance between Islam and the West. Peace and prosperity never quite arrived when South Sudan won its independence from Sudan four years ago. But, despite tensions, people on both sides of the border still often depend on each other -- these are long-standing, if complicated, bonds. We travel to Dubai to examine a claim that this Islamic nation is a place where people of other faiths can practise their religion without fear of harassment or rebuke. The Parsis used to enjoy leading roles in Indian society. Today, their numbers are declining sharply and we're in Mumbai looking at a glorious past and wondering if the Indian government will have any success in its attempt to prevent a truly distinctive community from fading away altogether. And family life in Gaza: how the rituals of life -- working, eating and courtship -- continue amid the ruins of last year's war.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Global developments change the face of the seafront in Tangier + other despatches</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Long  Eccentric expats once came to Tangier in search of sun, sea, gay sex and drugs. Today only their ghosts remain as the Moroccan authorities try to find for their country a successful balance between Islam and the West. Peace and prosperity never quite arrived when South Sudan won its independence from Sudan four years ago. But, despite tensions, people on both sides of the border still often depend on each other -- these are long-standing, if complicated, bonds. We travel to Dubai to examine a claim that this Islamic nation is a place where people of other faiths can practise their religion without fear of harassment or rebuke. The Parsis used to enjoy leading roles in Indian society. Today, their numbers are declining sharply and we're in Mumbai looking at a glorious past and wondering if the Indian government will have any success in its attempt to prevent a truly distinctive community from fading away altogether. And family life in Gaza: how the rituals of life -- working, eating and courtship -- continue amid the ruins of last year's war.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2015 07:56:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02wygbk.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02wygbk.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02wygbk.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p02wygbh</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02wygbh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02wygbk.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02wygbh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Fear and Fun in Baghdad</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters. In this edition: a sign reads: 'Welcome to Baghdad'. But residents in the Iraqi capital fear their city, and the country, are doomed. What will Greeks say, fifty years from now, about what happened in their country during the turbulence of summer 2015? As the talks in Vienna over Iran's nuclear programme inch, perhaps, towards a deal, our correspondent sees evidence of Iran's continuing suspicion of the United States on the streets of the capital, Tehran. We're overwhelmed by music as we trace the route of the first missionaries along the River Congo in Africa and find out how a million dollars, raised in the United States, is helping to train dogs to save lives.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Contradictions and confusion as Iraqis celebrate Ramadan in their capital, Baghdad</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters. In this edition: a sign reads: 'Welcome to Baghdad'. But residents in the Iraqi capital fear their city, and the country, are doomed. What will Greeks say, fifty years from now, about what happened in their country during the turbulence of summer 2015? As the talks in Vienna over Iran's nuclear programme inch, perhaps, towards a deal, our correspondent sees evidence of Iran's continuing suspicion of the United States on the streets of the capital, Tehran. We're overwhelmed by music as we trace the route of the first missionaries along the River Congo in Africa and find out how a million dollars, raised in the United States, is helping to train dogs to save lives.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2015 12:10:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1663</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02wn846.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02wn846.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02wn846.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p02wn840</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02wn840</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02wn846.mp3" fileSize="26608000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1663"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02wn840</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Greek Tragedies</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: Theopi Skarlatos traces the growing divide in Athens; Nick Thorpe says it's not just Italy and Greece that thousands of migrants are heading for - Hungary is now putting up the barbed wire to stem the tide; Mark Urban is in Bosnia where 20 years ago the flow of mujaheddin fighters was into the former Yugoslavia but now the government there is worried about the consequences of that; Kirsty Land learns why a two and a half thousand year old play from ancient Greece still resonates in a refugee camp in Beirut; and Alastair Leithead checks out of Hotel California - but can he ever really leave?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents stories from Athens, Hungary, Bosnia, Beirut and Los Angeles.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: Theopi Skarlatos traces the growing divide in Athens; Nick Thorpe says it's not just Italy and Greece that thousands of migrants are heading for - Hungary is now putting up the barbed wire to stem the tide; Mark Urban is in Bosnia where 20 years ago the flow of mujaheddin fighters was into the former Yugoslavia but now the government there is worried about the consequences of that; Kirsty Land learns why a two and a half thousand year old play from ancient Greece still resonates in a refugee camp in Beirut; and Alastair Leithead checks out of Hotel California - but can he ever really leave?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1666</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02w96tw.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02w96tw.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02w96tw.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p02w96tn</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02w96tn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02w96tw.mp3" fileSize="26656000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1666"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02w96tn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Escape from Boko Haram</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today Tulip Mazumdar hears the story of a 17 year old girl, now escaped from Boko Haram; Tom Burridge meets an old Ukrainian woman, who is proud of her country's Soviet past but wants Putin to leave Ukraine alone; Fanny Durville takes her family on an outing in Tunisia, the day after the shootings, and struggles with the contrast between the friendliness and the tension; Gary O'Donoghue examines how Obama has gone from lame duck to soaring eagle in a week; and Bethany Bell discovers some Hapsburg nostalgia on the train to Trieste.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents stories from Nigeria, Ukraine, Tunisia, the US and Italian Trieste.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today Tulip Mazumdar hears the story of a 17 year old girl, now escaped from Boko Haram; Tom Burridge meets an old Ukrainian woman, who is proud of her country's Soviet past but wants Putin to leave Ukraine alone; Fanny Durville takes her family on an outing in Tunisia, the day after the shootings, and struggles with the contrast between the friendliness and the tension; Gary O'Donoghue examines how Obama has gone from lame duck to soaring eagle in a week; and Bethany Bell discovers some Hapsburg nostalgia on the train to Trieste.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2015 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1666</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02w3q1v.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02w3q1v.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02w3q1v.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p02w3q1s</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02w3q1s</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02w3q1v.mp3" fileSize="26656000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1666"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02w3q1s</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mali's Magical Onions</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from across the globe. Today, Jeremy Bowen on the layers of war in Yemen; Carrie Gracie follows China's extraordinary transformation of farmers into workers AND shoppers, and villages into cities; Stephen Sackur on how President Putin is turning his attentions to Russia's far east, with the help of roulette wheels; in northern Norway, with Simon Parker, it's lashings of homebrew and strange dancing to greet midsummer; and, despite Alex Duval Smith's best efforts to find out, the secret of Mali's shallots remains...well....secret. But what about the genie?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Yemen, China, Vladivostock, northern Norway and about shallots in Mali.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from across the globe. Today, Jeremy Bowen on the layers of war in Yemen; Carrie Gracie follows China's extraordinary transformation of farmers into workers AND shoppers, and villages into cities; Stephen Sackur on how President Putin is turning his attentions to Russia's far east, with the help of roulette wheels; in northern Norway, with Simon Parker, it's lashings of homebrew and strange dancing to greet midsummer; and, despite Alex Duval Smith's best efforts to find out, the secret of Mali's shallots remains...well....secret. But what about the genie?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1692</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02vqx47.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02vqx47.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02vqx47.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p02vqx45</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02vqx45</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02vqx47.mp3" fileSize="27072000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1692"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02vqx45</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Malta's Birds: Loved and Hunted</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. Today Rajini Vaidyanathan returns to the scene of the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina; Julia Langdon hears from the local people of Corfu on their five years - and counting - of economic misery; Lawrence Grissell speaks to widows in Nepal who are trying to find out what happened to their relatives who died while working overseas; David Shukman travels to one of Madagascar's most remote corners where tortoises are being protected with the help of a two-headed bull; and Mario Cacciottolo is in Malta, talking to hunters, who balance a passion for nature with an urge to shoot wild birds.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Charleston, Corfu, Nepal, Madagascar and the bird hunters of Malta.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. Today Rajini Vaidyanathan returns to the scene of the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina; Julia Langdon hears from the local people of Corfu on their five years - and counting - of economic misery; Lawrence Grissell speaks to widows in Nepal who are trying to find out what happened to their relatives who died while working overseas; David Shukman travels to one of Madagascar's most remote corners where tortoises are being protected with the help of a two-headed bull; and Mario Cacciottolo is in Malta, talking to hunters, who balance a passion for nature with an urge to shoot wild birds.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02vkdvh.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02vkdvh.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02vkdvh.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p02vkdv2</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02vkdv2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02vkdvh.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02vkdv2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Billion-Dollar Heist</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters around the world. In this edition: what's happened to Moldova's missing billions? Tim Whewell has been investigating. Rupert Wingfield Hayes tells us about Beijing's controversial island-building in the South China Sea. How much cross-border cooperation is there between European intelligence services? Nick Thorpe's been making inquiries in Bulgaria. Tim Butcher, travelling in Myanmar, has come face to face with some of the country's racial tensions and the Paris authorities have been refurbishing some of the city's historic bandstands - Joanna Robertson says they have once again become a focus for summer pleasure and relaxation.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A huge bank robbery in Europe's poorest country, plus other despatches.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters around the world. In this edition: what's happened to Moldova's missing billions? Tim Whewell has been investigating. Rupert Wingfield Hayes tells us about Beijing's controversial island-building in the South China Sea. How much cross-border cooperation is there between European intelligence services? Nick Thorpe's been making inquiries in Bulgaria. Tim Butcher, travelling in Myanmar, has come face to face with some of the country's racial tensions and the Paris authorities have been refurbishing some of the city's historic bandstands - Joanna Robertson says they have once again become a focus for summer pleasure and relaxation.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1661</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02v83r3.mp3" length="26576000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02v83r3.mp3" length="26576000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02v83r3.mp3" length="26576000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:bbc:podcast:p02v83r1</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02v83r1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02v83r3.mp3" fileSize="26576000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1661"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02v83r1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>On the Brink</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Insight, context and colour. Today, the barbs fly as Greece seems to be stumbling towards default; ambitious plans for a new trans-continental railway in South America -- but who stands to benefit and who will lose out? The migrants living on boulders on Italy's shoreline just along the coast from the glittering French Riviera; dissatisfaction among Estonia's Russian minority as relations between Russia and the West become colder and our correspondent makes a discovery in war-ravaged Gaza City -- the very best ice cream he's ever tasted!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Insight, context and colour.  Today, the barbs fly as Greece seems to be stumbling for...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Insight, context and colour. Today, the barbs fly as Greece seems to be stumbling towards default; ambitious plans for a new trans-continental railway in South America -- but who stands to benefit and who will lose out? The migrants living on boulders on Italy's shoreline just along the coast from the glittering French Riviera; dissatisfaction among Estonia's Russian minority as relations between Russia and the West become colder and our correspondent makes a discovery in war-ravaged Gaza City -- the very best ice cream he's ever tasted!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1668</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02v56tn.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02v56tn.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02v56tn.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150618-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02v56tl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02v56tn.mp3" fileSize="26688000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1668"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02v56tl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Between Life and Death</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Storytelling and writing. In this edition Gabriel Gatehouse is in Sicily which suffered waves of emigration in the 20th century. Today it's having to get used to being a centre of immigration with the arrival of thousands of mainly African migrants; Orla Guerin's in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The jihadists of Islamic State are only 70-miles away now, but residents seem more concerned about the renewed wave of sectarian killings than about the advance of IS; Mark Stratton's in Micronesia. Some of the islands there, with their immaculate beaches and swaying palms, seem like paradise. Yet people are leaving. Why? Peter Day looks back at the frenzied casino which was the trading floor at the Chicago Board of Trade. With computers now having taken over much of the business, its doors will soon close for the final time. And Tom Holland's in a town in Canada which boasts a replica of Jerusalem in the time of Jesus and where there are plans to fill a ravine with dinosaurs.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Storytelling and writing.  In this edition Gabriel Gatehouse is in Sicily which waves...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Storytelling and writing. In this edition Gabriel Gatehouse is in Sicily which suffered waves of emigration in the 20th century. Today it's having to get used to being a centre of immigration with the arrival of thousands of mainly African migrants; Orla Guerin's in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The jihadists of Islamic State are only 70-miles away now, but residents seem more concerned about the renewed wave of sectarian killings than about the advance of IS; Mark Stratton's in Micronesia. Some of the islands there, with their immaculate beaches and swaying palms, seem like paradise. Yet people are leaving. Why? Peter Day looks back at the frenzied casino which was the trading floor at the Chicago Board of Trade. With computers now having taken over much of the business, its doors will soon close for the final time. And Tom Holland's in a town in Canada which boasts a replica of Jerusalem in the time of Jesus and where there are plans to fill a ravine with dinosaurs.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1661</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02v00bx.mp3" length="26576000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02v00bx.mp3" length="26576000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02v00bx.mp3" length="26576000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150613-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02v00bv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02v00bx.mp3" fileSize="26576000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1661"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02v00bv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Battle for Aden</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Insight, colour, context, detail. In this edition, war rips the heart out of old Aden as the warring parties in Yemen prepare for peace talks; a day of reckoning in Canada as extensive, painful details are released about the way the country's aboriginal children were treated over more than a century; a British man, fighting against Islamic State in Syria, tells us why it's time for him to leave the battlefield and head home; a controversy in Moscow about a plan to erect a huge statue of St Vladimir - Christianity is well and truly back as part of Russia's new identity; and a bronze Jacques Cousteau stares out to sea as our man dives into the water off Mexico to swim with a shark</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Insight, colour, context, detail.  In this edition, war rips the heart out of old Aden...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Insight, colour, context, detail. In this edition, war rips the heart out of old Aden as the warring parties in Yemen prepare for peace talks; a day of reckoning in Canada as extensive, painful details are released about the way the country's aboriginal children were treated over more than a century; a British man, fighting against Islamic State in Syria, tells us why it's time for him to leave the battlefield and head home; a controversy in Moscow about a plan to erect a huge statue of St Vladimir - Christianity is well and truly back as part of Russia's new identity; and a bronze Jacques Cousteau stares out to sea as our man dives into the water off Mexico to swim with a shark</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:35:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1667</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02tzzd5.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02tzzd5.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02tzzd5.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150611-1135.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02tzzd0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02tzzd5.mp3" fileSize="26672000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1667"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02tzzd0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Turkish Mosaic</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Windows on the world. Today: diverse and contradictory views about the Turkish election and the country's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan from three very different parts of the country; there's now a record number of migrants in the French port of Calais - they're concerned not only about the hostility they face but also about the widespread ignorance in Europe about what's really going on in their home countries; as gloom deepens further at FIFA headquarters in Zurich, we hear Swiss fears the scandal is a further blow to the image the country once enjoyed as a place of chocolate and cheese, competence and quality; there's a visit to the world's biggest shipyard, which is in South Korea, but why does the place remind our correspondent of sepia photographs and old newsreels and it's 'transhumance' time: we're in the Pyrenees as thousands of cattle and sheep set off for their summer pastures on the slopes</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Windows on the world.  Today: diverse and contradictory views about the Turkish and the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Windows on the world. Today: diverse and contradictory views about the Turkish election and the country's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan from three very different parts of the country; there's now a record number of migrants in the French port of Calais - they're concerned not only about the hostility they face but also about the widespread ignorance in Europe about what's really going on in their home countries; as gloom deepens further at FIFA headquarters in Zurich, we hear Swiss fears the scandal is a further blow to the image the country once enjoyed as a place of chocolate and cheese, competence and quality; there's a visit to the world's biggest shipyard, which is in South Korea, but why does the place remind our correspondent of sepia photographs and old newsreels and it's 'transhumance' time: we're in the Pyrenees as thousands of cattle and sheep set off for their summer pastures on the slopes</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1663</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02t7vky.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02t7vky.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02t7vky.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150606-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02t7vkw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02t7vky.mp3" fileSize="26608000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1663"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02t7vkw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Last Election?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Context and colour. In today's edition: Turkey at the crossroads ahead of Sunday's election; the Spanish city where there's only one Christian family left in a neighbourhood of 12-thousand people; the farmers of Namibia are being urged to go easy on the big cats they feel threaten their livestock. Why the picturesque but cash-strapped Darjeeling Himalayan Railway won't be receiving private investment any time soon and why the followers of the controversial Reverend Moon believe they might hold the formula which could ensure a peaceful future for north east Asia?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Context and colour.  In today's edition: Turkey at the crossroads ahead of Sunday's the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Context and colour. In today's edition: Turkey at the crossroads ahead of Sunday's election; the Spanish city where there's only one Christian family left in a neighbourhood of 12-thousand people; the farmers of Namibia are being urged to go easy on the big cats they feel threaten their livestock. Why the picturesque but cash-strapped Darjeeling Himalayan Railway won't be receiving private investment any time soon and why the followers of the controversial Reverend Moon believe they might hold the formula which could ensure a peaceful future for north east Asia?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2015 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02t7vmb.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02t7vmb.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02t7vmb.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150604-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02t7vm7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02t7vmb.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02t7vm7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Should I Stay or Should I Go?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>News and current affairs storytelling, context and colour: the Russians contemplating leaving the country because of what they see as an increasingly harsh and intolerant political climate; Cuba and the US may be close to announcing a date for the re-opening of their respective embassies, but many in Havana still wait for the thaw to bring more products onto the shelves of shops; the Indians driven away from their villages by a bitter conflict between the state and Maoist guerillas; a leak from upstairs causes an unwanted shower but brings an insight into the interesting peculiarities of plumbing in Paris and how tourism has driven an economic recovery in Iceland and changed the way of life in this Scandinavian outpost.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> News and current affairs storytelling, context and colour: the Russians contemplating...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>News and current affairs storytelling, context and colour: the Russians contemplating leaving the country because of what they see as an increasingly harsh and intolerant political climate; Cuba and the US may be close to announcing a date for the re-opening of their respective embassies, but many in Havana still wait for the thaw to bring more products onto the shelves of shops; the Indians driven away from their villages by a bitter conflict between the state and Maoist guerillas; a leak from upstairs causes an unwanted shower but brings an insight into the interesting peculiarities of plumbing in Paris and how tourism has driven an economic recovery in Iceland and changed the way of life in this Scandinavian outpost.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02stn9y.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02stn9y.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02stn9y.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150530-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02stn9v</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02stn9y.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02stn9v</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The American Dream in Trouble</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Talking points from around the globe. In this edition, the gulf between rich and poor in New York just goes on growing -- working hard doesn't seem enough any more, the next rung on the ladder increasingly appears to be out of reach; more shootings in the Somali capital Mogadishu - rebuilding may be proceeding there after two decades of civil war, but the security situation remains precarious; sixty thousand churches in Ghana, but some ministers seem more interested in making money than saving souls; thousands turn out for a free festival in Morocco where the aim of the musicians was to show that music and Islam can live together in harmony; and our correspondent spends the night in one of the oldest houses in the Faroe Islands. It was, she tells us, quite literally a door into the islands' past.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Talking points from around the globe.  In this edition, the gulf between rich and poor...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Talking points from around the globe. In this edition, the gulf between rich and poor in New York just goes on growing -- working hard doesn't seem enough any more, the next rung on the ladder increasingly appears to be out of reach; more shootings in the Somali capital Mogadishu - rebuilding may be proceeding there after two decades of civil war, but the security situation remains precarious; sixty thousand churches in Ghana, but some ministers seem more interested in making money than saving souls; thousands turn out for a free festival in Morocco where the aim of the musicians was to show that music and Islam can live together in harmony; and our correspondent spends the night in one of the oldest houses in the Faroe Islands. It was, she tells us, quite literally a door into the islands' past.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2015 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1664</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02stnbf.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02stnbf.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02stnbf.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150528-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02stnb9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02stnbf.mp3" fileSize="26624000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1664"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02stnb9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The War That Made Itself At Home</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Storytelling from the world of news and current affairs. In this edition: Fergal Keane on why there's little international drive to bring the fighting in eastern Ukraine to an end; Frank Gardner on how there's increasing nervousness in Jordan as Islamic State continues to gain ground in neighbouring Iraq and Syria; Stephen Sackur on signs of upheaval inside the Zanu-PF party as speculation grows about who, eventually, will replace the ageing Robert Mugabe as leader of Zimbabwe; Shaimaa Khalil's at a police academy outside the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, where the recruits keep on coming and young women are among the keenest! And Justin Marozzi visits a hospital in Qatar which specialises in treating injured falcons.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Storytelling from the world of news and current affairs.  In this edition: Fergal Keane...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Storytelling from the world of news and current affairs. In this edition: Fergal Keane on why there's little international drive to bring the fighting in eastern Ukraine to an end; Frank Gardner on how there's increasing nervousness in Jordan as Islamic State continues to gain ground in neighbouring Iraq and Syria; Stephen Sackur on signs of upheaval inside the Zanu-PF party as speculation grows about who, eventually, will replace the ageing Robert Mugabe as leader of Zimbabwe; Shaimaa Khalil's at a police academy outside the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, where the recruits keep on coming and young women are among the keenest! And Justin Marozzi visits a hospital in Qatar which specialises in treating injured falcons.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1655</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02sglsm.mp3" length="26480000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02sglsm.mp3" length="26480000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02sglsm.mp3" length="26480000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150523-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sglsk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02sglsm.mp3" fileSize="26480000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1655"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02sglsk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Coup Crumbles</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The programme that takes you places. In this edition to two countries, Burundi and Macedonia, where people have taken to the streets demanding change. In both, the outcome remains uncertain, the mood volatile, the conditions dangerous. Another correspondent looks on as thousands of troops from the US and its allies take part in a military exercise in Jordan - the top brass, meanwhile, are considering how best to tackle the advance of the fighters of Islamic State across the border in Iraq and Syria. Spaniards, after years of economic woe, are deserting their traditional political parties and we're in Barcelona, hearing why the radical left could soon seize control of the city hall. And 20-years after a spectacular volcanic eruption in the largest of the islands which make up Papua New Guinea we visit East New Britain and find people there upset that the tourists continue to give their homeland a wide berth.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The programme that takes you places.  In this edition to two countries, Burundi and to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The programme that takes you places. In this edition to two countries, Burundi and Macedonia, where people have taken to the streets demanding change. In both, the outcome remains uncertain, the mood volatile, the conditions dangerous. Another correspondent looks on as thousands of troops from the US and its allies take part in a military exercise in Jordan - the top brass, meanwhile, are considering how best to tackle the advance of the fighters of Islamic State across the border in Iraq and Syria. Spaniards, after years of economic woe, are deserting their traditional political parties and we're in Barcelona, hearing why the radical left could soon seize control of the city hall. And 20-years after a spectacular volcanic eruption in the largest of the islands which make up Papua New Guinea we visit East New Britain and find people there upset that the tourists continue to give their homeland a wide berth.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2015 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1681</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s1dgp.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s1dgp.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s1dgp.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150521-1132.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s1dgl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s1dgp.mp3" fileSize="26896000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1681"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s1dgl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Stranded at Sea</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Around the world. Today - the increasingly desperate plight of men, women and children who have fled Burma but are being denied permission to go ashore in Thailand, Malaysia or Indonesia. Five months after British and American forces left Afghanistan, instability is growing and the nation's political elite stands accused of failing to give the armed forces the support they need. We learn how part of the war in Jordan against the fighters who call themselves Islamic State is being waged in cyberspace. There's the story of 'a hot Hungarian sex machine on top of a Russian cream cake' causing controversy in the centre of Budapest and one about how the cheap flights revolution has touched down on an archipelago in the mid-Atlantic. The prospect of hordes of sun-seeking northern Europeans arriving is causing some apprehension!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Around the world.  Today - the increasingly desperate plight of men, women and children...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Around the world. Today - the increasingly desperate plight of men, women and children who have fled Burma but are being denied permission to go ashore in Thailand, Malaysia or Indonesia. Five months after British and American forces left Afghanistan, instability is growing and the nation's political elite stands accused of failing to give the armed forces the support they need. We learn how part of the war in Jordan against the fighters who call themselves Islamic State is being waged in cyberspace. There's the story of 'a hot Hungarian sex machine on top of a Russian cream cake' causing controversy in the centre of Budapest and one about how the cheap flights revolution has touched down on an archipelago in the mid-Atlantic. The prospect of hordes of sun-seeking northern Europeans arriving is causing some apprehension!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2015 11:04:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1691</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs0n.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs0n.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzs0n.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150516-1204.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzs0j</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs0n.mp3" fileSize="27056000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1691"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzs0j</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Reversing the Ageing Process</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Now where have I put the car keys? A Japanese neuro-scientist believes a regular brain 'workout' can improve the lives, and the memories, of older people who might otherwise fall victim to dementia; Italy's planning to tell the UN Security Council next week that the country's in urgent need of more help in dealing with the tide of migrants washing up on its shores - we're in a port in Sicily where boatloads of them now arrive almost every day; the authorities in Saudi Arabia show our correspondent round a high security jail near Riyadh where, they say, they are succeeding in reforming extremists from ISIS and al-Qaeda; farmer suicides in India - many possible reasons are cited for their decisions to kill themselves but it's clear that distress among the agricultural community is part of a wider malaise afflicting the countryside. And on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba there's increasing concern about the snake population's tendency to go hitch-hiking!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Now where have I put the car keys? A Japanese neuro-scientist believes a regular brain...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Now where have I put the car keys? A Japanese neuro-scientist believes a regular brain 'workout' can improve the lives, and the memories, of older people who might otherwise fall victim to dementia; Italy's planning to tell the UN Security Council next week that the country's in urgent need of more help in dealing with the tide of migrants washing up on its shores - we're in a port in Sicily where boatloads of them now arrive almost every day; the authorities in Saudi Arabia show our correspondent round a high security jail near Riyadh where, they say, they are succeeding in reforming extremists from ISIS and al-Qaeda; farmer suicides in India - many possible reasons are cited for their decisions to kill themselves but it's clear that distress among the agricultural community is part of a wider malaise afflicting the countryside. And on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba there's increasing concern about the snake population's tendency to go hitch-hiking!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1672</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9sl.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9sl.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9sl.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150509-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9sg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9sl.mp3" fileSize="26752000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1672"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9sg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Lucky Ones</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The best in news and current affairs story-telling. In this edition: a week after the quake in Nepal huge problems remain but some believe it could all have been much worse; El Salvador has some of the toughest abortion laws in the world - it's meant some women doing time for crimes they never committed; the double life of a far-right Hungarian politician who was both an anti-Semite and a Jew; forty years after the Vietnam War ended - the many families still grieving for someone who was lost in the conflict. And the correspondent who set off for Rome on an improbable mission -- to play the Vatican at cricket!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The best in news and current affairs story-telling.  In this edition: a week after the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The best in news and current affairs story-telling. In this edition: a week after the quake in Nepal huge problems remain but some believe it could all have been much worse; El Salvador has some of the toughest abortion laws in the world - it's meant some women doing time for crimes they never committed; the double life of a far-right Hungarian politician who was both an anti-Semite and a Jew; forty years after the Vietnam War ended - the many families still grieving for someone who was lost in the conflict. And the correspondent who set off for Rome on an improbable mission -- to play the Vatican at cricket!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1661</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzx1k.mp3" length="26576000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzx1k.mp3" length="26576000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzx1k.mp3" length="26576000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150502-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzx14</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzx1k.mp3" fileSize="26576000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1661"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzx14</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Sahafa BBC</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The human stories behind the news headlines: dodging bullets while trying to reach Yemen's port of Aden, where the hospital is overwhelmed with casualties. The Africans who moved to South Africa for a better life, and ended up having to seek refuge from violence. In Turkey's south-east, a hundred years after the Armenian minority was massacred, the Kurdish minority has hopes for a stronger presence in national politics. China and Russia are best buddies at the moment, but it hasn't always been thus, as one woman whose life mirrors the relationship between these two countries knows all too well. And what are the chances of getting pneumonia each time you stay in the same, foreign country? That's if you count Russia and the Soviet Union as the same country.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The human stories behind the news headlines: dodging bullets while trying to reach of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The human stories behind the news headlines: dodging bullets while trying to reach Yemen's port of Aden, where the hospital is overwhelmed with casualties. The Africans who moved to South Africa for a better life, and ended up having to seek refuge from violence. In Turkey's south-east, a hundred years after the Armenian minority was massacred, the Kurdish minority has hopes for a stronger presence in national politics. China and Russia are best buddies at the moment, but it hasn't always been thus, as one woman whose life mirrors the relationship between these two countries knows all too well. And what are the chances of getting pneumonia each time you stay in the same, foreign country? That's if you count Russia and the Soviet Union as the same country.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1679</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzctw.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzctw.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzctw.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150425-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzctq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzctw.mp3" fileSize="26864000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1679"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzctq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Risking Everything</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The people behind the news headlines: the migrants risking everything boarding flimsy boats to cross the Mediterranean; the inhabitants of a Russian provincial town and what they think of the country's leadership at a time of economic hardship; the families living in Delhi, alarmed by reports that the Indian capital has the worst air quality in the world; the Venezuelans having to queue at the shops for basic goods; and the Ethiopian volunteers who, by hard graft, are bringing change to a region once known for misery and famine</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The people behind the news headlines: the migrants risking everything boarding flimsy...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The people behind the news headlines: the migrants risking everything boarding flimsy boats to cross the Mediterranean; the inhabitants of a Russian provincial town and what they think of the country's leadership at a time of economic hardship; the families living in Delhi, alarmed by reports that the Indian capital has the worst air quality in the world; the Venezuelans having to queue at the shops for basic goods; and the Ethiopian volunteers who, by hard graft, are bringing change to a region once known for misery and famine</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgvp.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgvp.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzgvp.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150418-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzgvh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgvp.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzgvh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Battles over Books and Statues</title><description><![CDATA[<p>History rears its head, not for the first time, in this edition of From Our Own Correspondent. Attacks on colonial-era statues in South Africa mean people there are making a fresh assessment of their country's historical legacy; while in the Far East, what's written in the text books is the subject of a fierce row between South Korea and Japan. A farewell may be bid to decades of hostility between the US and Cuba - their leaders are in Panama and historic developments are anticipated. Why do HIV rates remain so high in Russia? We're out with health workers whose efforts seem stymied by ideology and a sense that if it works in the West, then it must be bad for Russia. And a correspondent in Thailand goes to a monastery and tries to bid a temporary farewell to the torrid world of journalism and hunt instead for inner peace. He wasn't entirely successful.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> History rears its head, not for the first time, in this edition of From Our Own...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>History rears its head, not for the first time, in this edition of From Our Own Correspondent. Attacks on colonial-era statues in South Africa mean people there are making a fresh assessment of their country's historical legacy; while in the Far East, what's written in the text books is the subject of a fierce row between South Korea and Japan. A farewell may be bid to decades of hostility between the US and Cuba - their leaders are in Panama and historic developments are anticipated. Why do HIV rates remain so high in Russia? We're out with health workers whose efforts seem stymied by ideology and a sense that if it works in the West, then it must be bad for Russia. And a correspondent in Thailand goes to a monastery and tries to bid a temporary farewell to the torrid world of journalism and hunt instead for inner peace. He wasn't entirely successful.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsc5.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsc5.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzsc5.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150411-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzsc0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsc5.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzsc0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>'A Win-Win Outcome'</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The stories behind the week's news: what's led to this outbreak of fighting in Yemen? Who stands to lose and who to win? Why some are not convinced about the deal reached in Lausanne on Iran's nuclear programme. The Nigerian election: a great moment for democracy but the new president faces a people with high expectations. The steady growth in the wealth of some Chinese - it means consumption is now more important than investment in driving the nation's economic growth. And the mighty money spinner that is coffee -- where on earth can you find the most delicious cup of all?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The stories behind the week's news: what's led to this outbreak of fighting in Yemen?...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The stories behind the week's news: what's led to this outbreak of fighting in Yemen? Who stands to lose and who to win? Why some are not convinced about the deal reached in Lausanne on Iran's nuclear programme. The Nigerian election: a great moment for democracy but the new president faces a people with high expectations. The steady growth in the wealth of some Chinese - it means consumption is now more important than investment in driving the nation's economic growth. And the mighty money spinner that is coffee -- where on earth can you find the most delicious cup of all?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2015 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1704</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9bm.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9bm.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9bm.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150404-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9bg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9bm.mp3" fileSize="27264000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1704"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9bg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Kafkaesque Nightmare</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Insight. Analysis. Colour. In this edition, people in the German town of Montabaur try to come to terms with the fact that one of their neighbours, Andreas Lubitz, deliberately crashed an aircraft into the French Alps killing 149-people; two years of negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme reach a climax in Lausanne -- the implications, if there's agreement, could be far-reaching; the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Argus is on its way home from Sierra Leone -- its airmen and sailors have spent months helping in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus; have you tried organic kosher shazamazam? We're in LA trying to penetrate a sub-culture with a language of its own and in Africa, he's the man presidents, rebels and villagers alike all want to meet. But they'll find it harder to do so in the future. West Africa correspondent Mark Doyle is leaving the BBC.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Insight. Analysis. Colour.  In this edition, people in the German town of Montabaur try...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Insight. Analysis. Colour. In this edition, people in the German town of Montabaur try to come to terms with the fact that one of their neighbours, Andreas Lubitz, deliberately crashed an aircraft into the French Alps killing 149-people; two years of negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme reach a climax in Lausanne -- the implications, if there's agreement, could be far-reaching; the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Argus is on its way home from Sierra Leone -- its airmen and sailors have spent months helping in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus; have you tried organic kosher shazamazam? We're in LA trying to penetrate a sub-culture with a language of its own and in Africa, he's the man presidents, rebels and villagers alike all want to meet. But they'll find it harder to do so in the future. West Africa correspondent Mark Doyle is leaving the BBC.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1660</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwz1.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwz1.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzwz1.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150328-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzwyq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwz1.mp3" fileSize="26560000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1660"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzwyq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Dramatic Turnaround</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Colouring in the spaces between the headlines. In this edition: from elected government to Death Row, the change in fortunes of the Muslim Brotherhood is creating ripples throughout the Middle East; livelihoods devastated by a cyclone - Vanuatu is the kind of place that only makes the news when it's bad news; the Cubans and Americans are talking at last, historic announcements seem imminent, but on the ground in Havana, it's clear the process of change is already well underway; 'it's lean, fast and elegant,' not a racing car, but the Danube Salmon, a fish whose very future, we hear, is under threat. And the only grand piano in Gaza has been located. We tell the story of how it was found and how it's being lovingly restored.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Colouring in the spaces between the headlines.  In this edition: from elected to Death...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Colouring in the spaces between the headlines. In this edition: from elected government to Death Row, the change in fortunes of the Muslim Brotherhood is creating ripples throughout the Middle East; livelihoods devastated by a cyclone - Vanuatu is the kind of place that only makes the news when it's bad news; the Cubans and Americans are talking at last, historic announcements seem imminent, but on the ground in Havana, it's clear the process of change is already well underway; 'it's lean, fast and elegant,' not a racing car, but the Danube Salmon, a fish whose very future, we hear, is under threat. And the only grand piano in Gaza has been located. We tell the story of how it was found and how it's being lovingly restored.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1660</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcr8.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcr8.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzcr8.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150321-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzcr5</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcr8.mp3" fileSize="26560000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1660"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzcr5</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>'We Dazed Them!'</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Around the world in less than half an hour! In this edition: euphoria in the Nigerian army as successes are notched up in the battle against the jihadis of Boko Haram; a stunning election victory for Benjamin Netanyahou in Israel -- but it means frustration, anger and dismay for the country's Palestinian population; bombs explode in a Christian neighbourhood in Pakistan - we hear how Christians there are regularly targetted by extremists and feel abandoned by their government; how the argument between states and the White House over immigration to the US is raising profound questions about what kind of a country the United States is and a community in China exclusively for those who are short in stature - we're off to find out whether its residents feel exploited or happy with their lot.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Around the world in less than half an hour! In this edition: euphoria in the Nigerian...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Around the world in less than half an hour! In this edition: euphoria in the Nigerian army as successes are notched up in the battle against the jihadis of Boko Haram; a stunning election victory for Benjamin Netanyahou in Israel -- but it means frustration, anger and dismay for the country's Palestinian population; bombs explode in a Christian neighbourhood in Pakistan - we hear how Christians there are regularly targetted by extremists and feel abandoned by their government; how the argument between states and the White House over immigration to the US is raising profound questions about what kind of a country the United States is and a community in China exclusively for those who are short in stature - we're off to find out whether its residents feel exploited or happy with their lot.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:31:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1671</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzr1l.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzr1l.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzr1l.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150319-1131.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzr18</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzr1l.mp3" fileSize="26736000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1671"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzr18</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Novice on the Front Line</title><description><![CDATA[<p>News and current affairs story-telling. In this edition, the foreign fighters signing up to join the battle against Islamic State - some British and without military experience; China's political event of the year is coming to an end with most people completely unaware of what's been going on there; could Indian Bollywood inspire Pakistan to lavish more attention on one of its ancient cities, crumbling through neglect? There's a close encounter with the surprisingly flexible tax authorities in Bamako, the capital of Mali and with a horseman who could well be the oldest gaucho in Chilean Patagonia.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>News and current affairs story-telling.  In this edition, the foreign fighters signing...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>News and current affairs story-telling. In this edition, the foreign fighters signing up to join the battle against Islamic State - some British and without military experience; China's political event of the year is coming to an end with most people completely unaware of what's been going on there; could Indian Bollywood inspire Pakistan to lavish more attention on one of its ancient cities, crumbling through neglect? There's a close encounter with the surprisingly flexible tax authorities in Bamako, the capital of Mali and with a horseman who could well be the oldest gaucho in Chilean Patagonia.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4jx.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4jx.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz4jx.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150314-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz4jr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4jx.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz4jr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Dreams Deferred, Hope on Hold</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters' stories. Obstacles to President Obama's immigration reforms pile up -- it could mean a long wait for those who came looking to become legal US citizens.  Will prime minister Modi's plans for investment in India's infrastructure adversely affect the country's longterm development? Sixty thousand Indian troops were killed fighting for the British in World War 1 -- we visit the battlefield in France where they fought their first major engagement. A freak injury in China provides an unexpected opportunity to examine the accident and emergency facilities in a Chinese hospital. And we meet a group of young men in the DRC capital Kinshasa whose outrageous dress sense brings rush hour traffic, even football games, to a standstill.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Reporters' stories.  Obstacles to President Obama's immigration reforms pile up -- it a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters' stories. Obstacles to President Obama's immigration reforms pile up -- it could mean a long wait for those who came looking to become legal US citizens.  Will prime minister Modi's plans for investment in India's infrastructure adversely affect the country's longterm development? Sixty thousand Indian troops were killed fighting for the British in World War 1 -- we visit the battlefield in France where they fought their first major engagement. A freak injury in China provides an unexpected opportunity to examine the accident and emergency facilities in a Chinese hospital. And we meet a group of young men in the DRC capital Kinshasa whose outrageous dress sense brings rush hour traffic, even football games, to a standstill.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1663</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzl3v.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzl3v.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzl3v.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150312-1132.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzl3q</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzl3v.mp3" fileSize="26608000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1663"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzl3q</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Death of Gypsy Music</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The best in news and current affairs story-telling. In this edition, the music which once provided the soundtrack to life in eastern and central Europe is fading into history, Nick Thorpe; a despatch by Fergal Keane from the Ukrainian city reduced to rubble by shelling; the Indian tea business hit by scandal and reports that workers face routine abuse, Humphrey Hawksley; Stephen Sackur's been to the Philippines to see how its economy is coping with a rapidly growing population and Heather Simons is on the island of Komodo in Indonesia, getting up close to the world's largest venomous reptile.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The best in news and current affairs story-telling.  In this edition, the music which a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The best in news and current affairs story-telling. In this edition, the music which once provided the soundtrack to life in eastern and central Europe is fading into history, Nick Thorpe; a despatch by Fergal Keane from the Ukrainian city reduced to rubble by shelling; the Indian tea business hit by scandal and reports that workers face routine abuse, Humphrey Hawksley; Stephen Sackur's been to the Philippines to see how its economy is coping with a rapidly growing population and Heather Simons is on the island of Komodo in Indonesia, getting up close to the world's largest venomous reptile.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1669</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzclb.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzclb.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzclb.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150307-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzcl7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzclb.mp3" fileSize="26704000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1669"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzcl7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Please Don't Kill Our Sons</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Around the world with correspondents' stories. In this edition: executions in Indonesia - the authorities believe they will help counter a national drug emergency. Security forces in Tunisia crack down on Islamist hardliners -- most people there insist they don't want ISIS or other militants gaining a foothold in their country; the president of Mexico has been on a state visit to Britain -- at home he faces continuing anger about the disappearance last year of 43-students; the Indian prime minister has promised a huge cash boost for the railways which are becoming ever more decrepit and dangerous and we hear about the 'marabouts' or holy men of Muslim west Africa. Theirs is an ancient tradition but these days they are quite happy to dispense advice via email, Twitter and Skype.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Around the world with correspondents' stories.  In this edition: executions in - the a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Around the world with correspondents' stories. In this edition: executions in Indonesia - the authorities believe they will help counter a national drug emergency. Security forces in Tunisia crack down on Islamist hardliners -- most people there insist they don't want ISIS or other militants gaining a foothold in their country; the president of Mexico has been on a state visit to Britain -- at home he faces continuing anger about the disappearance last year of 43-students; the Indian prime minister has promised a huge cash boost for the railways which are becoming ever more decrepit and dangerous and we hear about the 'marabouts' or holy men of Muslim west Africa. Theirs is an ancient tradition but these days they are quite happy to dispense advice via email, Twitter and Skype.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2015 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzktf.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzktf.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzktf.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150305-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzksy</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzktf.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzksy</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Devil's Building Site</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Around the world in less than half an hour! Today: a four-day trek through the remotest parts of Argentina in search of an old man who might have a story to tell; communal activities finally return to the agenda in Liberia now the fear of Ebola is fading; the Israeli prime minister's about to address the joint Houses of Congress in Washington - the White House is not enthusiastic; a journey underground in the Iranian capital Tehran - it provides a picture of Iranian society most tourists will never see and as American and Cuban representatives resume diplomatic negotiations, there's hope in Havana it might all result in better menus!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Around the world in less than half an hour! Today: a four-day trek through the parts a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Around the world in less than half an hour! Today: a four-day trek through the remotest parts of Argentina in search of an old man who might have a story to tell; communal activities finally return to the agenda in Liberia now the fear of Ebola is fading; the Israeli prime minister's about to address the joint Houses of Congress in Washington - the White House is not enthusiastic; a journey underground in the Iranian capital Tehran - it provides a picture of Iranian society most tourists will never see and as American and Cuban representatives resume diplomatic negotiations, there's hope in Havana it might all result in better menus!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1663</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9hv.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9hv.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9hv.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150228-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9hs</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9hv.mp3" fileSize="26608000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1663"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9hs</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Best Nightclub in Africa</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Story-telling from around the world. In this edition Charlotte Pritchard  travels to Botswana in search of the best nightclub in Africa; Jonah Fisher in Myanmar tells us why the much-criticised military there is enjoying an unlikely surge in support; Rosie Goldsmith meets writers in Colombia convinced their country's in a critical year of its history; Rob Crossan's hunting for even a crumb of good news in Madagascar, one of the poorest nations on earth and Paul Adams, in the east of Ukraine, talks to a man who's travelled five thousand miles to fight in someone else's war</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Story-telling from around the world.  In this edition Charlotte Pritchard travels to in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Story-telling from around the world. In this edition Charlotte Pritchard  travels to Botswana in search of the best nightclub in Africa; Jonah Fisher in Myanmar tells us why the much-criticised military there is enjoying an unlikely surge in support; Rosie Goldsmith meets writers in Colombia convinced their country's in a critical year of its history; Rob Crossan's hunting for even a crumb of good news in Madagascar, one of the poorest nations on earth and Paul Adams, in the east of Ukraine, talks to a man who's travelled five thousand miles to fight in someone else's war</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkyn.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkyn.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzkyn.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150226-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzky6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkyn.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzky6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Athens Experiment</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The human lives behind the headlines: a view from the pistachio field after a tense night of talks on the Greek debt crisis; the Argentine president under scrutiny as thousands take to the streets demanding an investigation into the death of state prosecutor Nisman; the government in Bangkok tries to stop foreign couples using Thai women as surrogate mothers; the young foreigners flying into Suriname hoping they'll make their fortunes illegally panning for gold. And it may not be fashionable, but it's Italy's favourite spirit -- we're at the grappa distillery where they do not frown on drinking at work.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The human lives behind the headlines: a view from the pistachio field after a tense of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The human lives behind the headlines: a view from the pistachio field after a tense night of talks on the Greek debt crisis; the Argentine president under scrutiny as thousands take to the streets demanding an investigation into the death of state prosecutor Nisman; the government in Bangkok tries to stop foreign couples using Thai women as surrogate mothers; the young foreigners flying into Suriname hoping they'll make their fortunes illegally panning for gold. And it may not be fashionable, but it's Italy's favourite spirit -- we're at the grappa distillery where they do not frown on drinking at work.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1660</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzm2y.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzm2y.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzm2y.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150221-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzm2v</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzm2y.mp3" fileSize="26560000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1660"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzm2v</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Please Mick. Not boring ..</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The correspondent's trade: memories of the late Ian McDougall who filed for the BBC from more than 40-countries and once told this programme he'd broadcast from the only radio studio in the world equipped with a bidet! Also in this edition: Steve Evans on perceptions of the north/south divide in Korea; Linda Yueh asking if American workers will really countenance a return to the factory floor; James Hassam on a surprise at the dinner table in Ethiopia and Chris Bockman meets 144 new French citizens in Toulouse.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The correspondent's trade: memories of the late Ian McDougall who filed for the BBC in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The correspondent's trade: memories of the late Ian McDougall who filed for the BBC from more than 40-countries and once told this programme he'd broadcast from the only radio studio in the world equipped with a bidet! Also in this edition: Steve Evans on perceptions of the north/south divide in Korea; Linda Yueh asking if American workers will really countenance a return to the factory floor; James Hassam on a surprise at the dinner table in Ethiopia and Chris Bockman meets 144 new French citizens in Toulouse.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1679</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkwx.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkwx.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzkwx.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150219-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzkwv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkwx.mp3" fileSize="26864000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1679"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzkwv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Pig of a Sea</title><description><![CDATA[<p>More and more migrants are trying to cross the Mediterranean and there are suggestions the new force charged with rescuing those in danger of drowning isn't up to the job. Emma Jane Kirby's been to Europe's southern shores to see how it's coping. Andrew Harding was in the parliament building in Cape Town when President Zuma's state of the nation speech was interrupted by hecklers. He considers whether the chaos was a sign that democracy's in decline in South Africa. The global crude oil market has collapsed, the price has plummeted. Jon Sopel has been to Texas where the mood is, perhaps surprisingly, not altogether pessimistic. Elections in Nigeria have been postponed. Will Ross says many people there view the decision with deep suspicion. And carnival season's underway in many parts of the world. Dany Mitzman's been witnessing preparations in one Italian town where there were fears this year that this was a party which would never happen.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> More and more migrants are trying to cross the Mediterranean and there are suggestions...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>More and more migrants are trying to cross the Mediterranean and there are suggestions the new force charged with rescuing those in danger of drowning isn't up to the job. Emma Jane Kirby's been to Europe's southern shores to see how it's coping. Andrew Harding was in the parliament building in Cape Town when President Zuma's state of the nation speech was interrupted by hecklers. He considers whether the chaos was a sign that democracy's in decline in South Africa. The global crude oil market has collapsed, the price has plummeted. Jon Sopel has been to Texas where the mood is, perhaps surprisingly, not altogether pessimistic. Elections in Nigeria have been postponed. Will Ross says many people there view the decision with deep suspicion. And carnival season's underway in many parts of the world. Dany Mitzman's been witnessing preparations in one Italian town where there were fears this year that this was a party which would never happen.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1664</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9y5.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9y5.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9y5.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150214-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9xw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9y5.mp3" fileSize="26624000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1664"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9xw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Tea and Cakes in Addis</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Questions and answers beyond the headlines. Little urgency apparent as the factions from the bitter war in South Sudan gather in Ethiopia to talk about peace. President Putin's been attending another peace conference, this one in Minsk - we've been considering how his standing at home has been affected by the worsening conflict in eastern Ukraine. Our Middle East Editor has a face to face interview with Bashar al-Assad of Syria -- but was it really the BBC audience the president was hoping to reach with his answers? Three years after the sinking of the cruise ship the Costa Concordia, we return to the Italian island of Giglio to find out what effect the wreck has had on the local economy. And it's one of the windiest regions on earth -- so is China's new bullet train across the Gobi Desert in danger of being blown over?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Questions and answers beyond the headlines.  Little urgency apparent as the factions in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Questions and answers beyond the headlines. Little urgency apparent as the factions from the bitter war in South Sudan gather in Ethiopia to talk about peace. President Putin's been attending another peace conference, this one in Minsk - we've been considering how his standing at home has been affected by the worsening conflict in eastern Ukraine. Our Middle East Editor has a face to face interview with Bashar al-Assad of Syria -- but was it really the BBC audience the president was hoping to reach with his answers? Three years after the sinking of the cruise ship the Costa Concordia, we return to the Italian island of Giglio to find out what effect the wreck has had on the local economy. And it's one of the windiest regions on earth -- so is China's new bullet train across the Gobi Desert in danger of being blown over?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2015 11:35:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfph.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfph.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzfph.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150212-1135.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzfp7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfph.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzfp7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Jordan Retaliates</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The news behind the news. In this edition Paul Adams is in Jordan as the country takes the fight to Islamic State. Sian Griffiths in Ottawa talks of the plight of homeless people in an icy winter. Nick Thorpe in Hungary on why a little baby's at the centre of a storm over racism. Chris Bowlby has been trying to find details about the killing of an ancestor in China. And Christine Finn on how a pack of howling dogs helped her appreciate the Northern Lights</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The news behind the news.  In this edition Paul Adams is in Jordan as the country takes...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The news behind the news. In this edition Paul Adams is in Jordan as the country takes the fight to Islamic State. Sian Griffiths in Ottawa talks of the plight of homeless people in an icy winter. Nick Thorpe in Hungary on why a little baby's at the centre of a storm over racism. Chris Bowlby has been trying to find details about the killing of an ancestor in China. And Christine Finn on how a pack of howling dogs helped her appreciate the Northern Lights</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1667</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd25.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd25.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzd25.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150207-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzd20</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd25.mp3" fileSize="26672000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1667"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzd20</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Into the Line of Fire</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Around the world in 28-minutes. Residents of eastern Ukraine fear the war raging around them is set to intensify. A life in hiding -- how the husband of a Pakistani woman accused of committing blasphemy fears for his life and wants the international community to intervene. We visit the heart of the Tata empire in India and, in the wake of the release from an Egyptian prison of the former BBC-correspondent Peter Greste, examine allegations that the justice system there is unfair, unjust and heavy-handed. And in the Malian capital Bamako, some are concerned about what's going to happen to a set of priceless manuscripts. Others, however, seem more concerned about football.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Around the world in 28-minutes.  Residents of eastern Ukraine fear the war raging them...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Around the world in 28-minutes. Residents of eastern Ukraine fear the war raging around them is set to intensify. A life in hiding -- how the husband of a Pakistani woman accused of committing blasphemy fears for his life and wants the international community to intervene. We visit the heart of the Tata empire in India and, in the wake of the release from an Egyptian prison of the former BBC-correspondent Peter Greste, examine allegations that the justice system there is unfair, unjust and heavy-handed. And in the Malian capital Bamako, some are concerned about what's going to happen to a set of priceless manuscripts. Others, however, seem more concerned about football.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2015 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz69b.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz69b.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz69b.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150205-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz694</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz69b.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz694</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Tomorrow You Will Be Heroes</title><description><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The human stories behind the headlines.  Like any war, the one against Ebola is leaving...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6ls.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6ls.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz6ls.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150131-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz6lk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6ls.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz6lk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Cosy Dinner in Leipzig</title><description><![CDATA[<p>What are they talking about?  In Germany there's emotional debate about Pegida; Libyans try to lead normal lives amid violence and instability; left-wingers from around Europe descend on Greece hoping a revolution's underway; surprise, subterfuge and misinformation swirl around the fighting in eastern Ukraine while Brazilians explain why they are proud to be the only nation in the region speaking Portuguese.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> What are they talking about? In Germany there's emotional debate about Pegida; Libyans...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>What are they talking about?  In Germany there's emotional debate about Pegida; Libyans try to lead normal lives amid violence and instability; left-wingers from around Europe descend on Greece hoping a revolution's underway; surprise, subterfuge and misinformation swirl around the fighting in eastern Ukraine while Brazilians explain why they are proud to be the only nation in the region speaking Portuguese.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdh2.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdh2.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzdh2.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150129-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzdgy</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdh2.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzdgy</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Revolt Against Austerity</title><description><![CDATA[<p>'Crisis' and 'Hope,' two words which have continually cropped up in the Greek election campaign. Chris Morris has been out with campaigners from the leftist Syriza party. Kamal Ahmed talks of chasing the stories in the bubble that is the World Economic Forum in Davos. Devastating floods in Malawi, Rosie Blunt's been meeting families who've lost everything. Kevin Connolly's in Auschwitz where they are getting ready to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp. And the birds are doing well. So are the whales and the seals too. But Juliet Rix, far away in the South Atlantic, finds these are difficult, indeed fatal, times for the rats of South Georgia.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> 'Crisis' and 'Hope,' two words which have continually cropped up in the Greek election...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>'Crisis' and 'Hope,' two words which have continually cropped up in the Greek election campaign. Chris Morris has been out with campaigners from the leftist Syriza party. Kamal Ahmed talks of chasing the stories in the bubble that is the World Economic Forum in Davos. Devastating floods in Malawi, Rosie Blunt's been meeting families who've lost everything. Kevin Connolly's in Auschwitz where they are getting ready to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp. And the birds are doing well. So are the whales and the seals too. But Juliet Rix, far away in the South Atlantic, finds these are difficult, indeed fatal, times for the rats of South Georgia.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1670</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwlf.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwlf.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzwlf.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150124-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzwl9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwlf.mp3" fileSize="26720000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1670"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzwl9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Knot Comes to the Comb</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories: in this edition Maria Margaronis on the keenly-awaited Greek election; Will Ross meets soldiers who've been dismissed from the Nigerian army and asks them for their views on the battle against Boko Haram; Susie Emmett's in South Africa talking to farmers about controversial government plans for land reform; Richard Fleming's in Haiti where he's been meeting a photographer who found himself caught up in the devastating earthquake five years ago and Lucy Daltroff is on one of the many thousands of islands sprinkled along Chile's skinny coastline hearing magical legends and fears about what the modern world might bring once that community is joined to the mainland by a new bridge.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents' stories: in this edition Maria Margaronis on the keenly-awaited Greek...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories: in this edition Maria Margaronis on the keenly-awaited Greek election; Will Ross meets soldiers who've been dismissed from the Nigerian army and asks them for their views on the battle against Boko Haram; Susie Emmett's in South Africa talking to farmers about controversial government plans for land reform; Richard Fleming's in Haiti where he's been meeting a photographer who found himself caught up in the devastating earthquake five years ago and Lucy Daltroff is on one of the many thousands of islands sprinkled along Chile's skinny coastline hearing magical legends and fears about what the modern world might bring once that community is joined to the mainland by a new bridge.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh2b.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh2b.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzh2b.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150122-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzh25</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh2b.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzh25</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Poached Pangolin</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Story-telling from the world of news and current affairs. In this edition: Shaimaa Khalil in Pakistan meets relatives and survivors of last year’s army school massacre in Peshawar, on the day the school reopens; Ruth Sherlock in Lebanon on how Syrian refugees are struggling in the snow; Caroline Wyatt flies to Sri Lanka on the Papal plane; Martin Fletcher in Vietnam on how an unusual scaly creature has become the most poached mammal in the world. And Aidan O’Donnell meets the cash-strapped Burundian national cycling team as they prepare to cycle home - from Rwanda.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Story-telling from the world of news and current affairs.  In this edition: Shaimaa in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Story-telling from the world of news and current affairs. In this edition: Shaimaa Khalil in Pakistan meets relatives and survivors of last year’s army school massacre in Peshawar, on the day the school reopens; Ruth Sherlock in Lebanon on how Syrian refugees are struggling in the snow; Caroline Wyatt flies to Sri Lanka on the Papal plane; Martin Fletcher in Vietnam on how an unusual scaly creature has become the most poached mammal in the world. And Aidan O’Donnell meets the cash-strapped Burundian national cycling team as they prepare to cycle home - from Rwanda.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1654</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4cy.mp3" length="26464000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4cy.mp3" length="26464000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz4cy.mp3" length="26464000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150117-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz4cn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4cy.mp3" fileSize="26464000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1654"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz4cn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Charlie Hebdo</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Looking beyond the headlines: correspondents with insight and analysis consider: Charlie Hebdo and the way life used to be in France; the rallies in Germany for and against the influence of Islam on society there and the arguments over free speech in Turkey. Also in this edition one correspondent, leaving Mexico, pays tribute to the country's brave mothers while another, visiting Antarctica, wonders if tourists should be allowed even to set foot in this, the earth's last great unspoiled wilderness.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Looking beyond the headlines: correspondents with insight and analysis consider: Hebdo...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Looking beyond the headlines: correspondents with insight and analysis consider: Charlie Hebdo and the way life used to be in France; the rallies in Germany for and against the influence of Islam on society there and the arguments over free speech in Turkey. Also in this edition one correspondent, leaving Mexico, pays tribute to the country's brave mothers while another, visiting Antarctica, wonders if tourists should be allowed even to set foot in this, the earth's last great unspoiled wilderness.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1695</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz52l.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz52l.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz52l.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150110-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz52b</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz52l.mp3" fileSize="27120000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1695"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz52b</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Everything to Play For</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Insight, colour, analysis: in this edition, the once impregnable Rajapaksa camp is suddenly looking vulnerable as the Sri Lankan election approaches, Charles Haviland; Russians are enjoying their extended Christmas break but for their president, Vladimir Putin, difficult times may lie ahead, Sarah Rainsford; the Ethiopian government faces accusations over its plans to create huge new agricultural complexes, Matthew Newsome set off towards the southern lowlands to investigate and a journey of a lifetime in the US: Jonathan Izard points his car towards the sunset and ponders the meaning of life itself.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Insight, colour, analysis: in this edition, the once impregnable Rajapaksa camp is as...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Insight, colour, analysis: in this edition, the once impregnable Rajapaksa camp is suddenly looking vulnerable as the Sri Lankan election approaches, Charles Haviland; Russians are enjoying their extended Christmas break but for their president, Vladimir Putin, difficult times may lie ahead, Sarah Rainsford; the Ethiopian government faces accusations over its plans to create huge new agricultural complexes, Matthew Newsome set off towards the southern lowlands to investigate and a journey of a lifetime in the US: Jonathan Izard points his car towards the sunset and ponders the meaning of life itself.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2015 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzltz.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzltz.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzltz.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20150103-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzltv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzltz.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzltv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Dec 27,2014: I Hate New York!</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Seasonal stories and festive fables: Mike Wendling strongly disagrees with the thought that New York City is the world's most magical place at this festive time of year; why Yolande Knell in Bethlehem is looking forward to two MORE Christmases in the coming weeks; Nick Thorpe meets a Gypsy 'Santa Claus' on an allotment in southern Hungary; Petroc Trelawny on how the glittering New Years's Day ball in Vienna has its roots in a dark era of Austrian history and in Paris, Joanna Robertson tracks down a seasonal delicacy which, while delicious, carries the unmistakeable whiff of ... gunpowder!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Seasonal stories and festive fables: Mike Wendling strongly disagrees with the thought...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Seasonal stories and festive fables: Mike Wendling strongly disagrees with the thought that New York City is the world's most magical place at this festive time of year; why Yolande Knell in Bethlehem is looking forward to two MORE Christmases in the coming weeks; Nick Thorpe meets a Gypsy 'Santa Claus' on an allotment in southern Hungary; Petroc Trelawny on how the glittering New Years's Day ball in Vienna has its roots in a dark era of Austrian history and in Paris, Joanna Robertson tracks down a seasonal delicacy which, while delicious, carries the unmistakeable whiff of ... gunpowder!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2014 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1693</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhkm.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhkm.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzhkm.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141227-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzhk9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhkm.mp3" fileSize="27088000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1693"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzhk9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Heaviest Coffin</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Story-telling from the world of news and current affairs. In this edition: Shaimaa Khalil on the mood in Peshawar after the Taliban attack on a school in which more than a hundred children were killed; Barbara Plett-Usher on how Cubans are reacting to the prospect of improved relations with the United States; Quentin Sommerville visits the Iraqi army frontline as it tries to stop the militants from Islamic State seizing strategic Anbar province; Malcolm Billings is in a little-known Anglican place of worship hidden away in a web of cobbled streets in Istanbul and Hugh Schofield's doing some seasonal research involving whisky and chocolate biscuits in a remote corner of central France.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Story-telling from the world of news and current affairs.  In this edition: Shaimaa on...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Story-telling from the world of news and current affairs. In this edition: Shaimaa Khalil on the mood in Peshawar after the Taliban attack on a school in which more than a hundred children were killed; Barbara Plett-Usher on how Cubans are reacting to the prospect of improved relations with the United States; Quentin Sommerville visits the Iraqi army frontline as it tries to stop the militants from Islamic State seizing strategic Anbar province; Malcolm Billings is in a little-known Anglican place of worship hidden away in a web of cobbled streets in Istanbul and Hugh Schofield's doing some seasonal research involving whisky and chocolate biscuits in a remote corner of central France.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2014 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1671</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzl4d.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzl4d.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzl4d.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141220-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzl48</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzl4d.mp3" fileSize="26736000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1671"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzl48</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A New Empire</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Story-telling from the world of news and current affairs. 'For God, Tsar and Nation'. That's the motto of some of those fighting with the pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine. Tim Whewell's been to talk to them about their dreams of a new Orthodox autocratic state; Mary Harper, in Mogadishu, has been finding out why there's a love affair going on between Somalia and Turkey; South Koreans are big believers in plastic surgery but Steve Evans, in Seoul, says there are now negative headlines after a string of news reports about botched operations; Bangladesh is known as a prolific producer of clothes for the mass market but Caroline Eden's been discovering it also makes saris so fine they're highly coveted and hugely expensive. And after more than a quarter of a century Justin Marozzi has mixed feelings as he bids farewell to the Moroccan town regarded as being the hashish capital of the world.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Story-telling from the world of news and current affairs. 'For God, Tsar and Nation'.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Story-telling from the world of news and current affairs. 'For God, Tsar and Nation'. That's the motto of some of those fighting with the pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine. Tim Whewell's been to talk to them about their dreams of a new Orthodox autocratic state; Mary Harper, in Mogadishu, has been finding out why there's a love affair going on between Somalia and Turkey; South Koreans are big believers in plastic surgery but Steve Evans, in Seoul, says there are now negative headlines after a string of news reports about botched operations; Bangladesh is known as a prolific producer of clothes for the mass market but Caroline Eden's been discovering it also makes saris so fine they're highly coveted and hugely expensive. And after more than a quarter of a century Justin Marozzi has mixed feelings as he bids farewell to the Moroccan town regarded as being the hashish capital of the world.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2014 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzjv5.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzjv5.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzjv5.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141213-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzjv1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzjv5.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzjv1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Dec 06: Spies are Everywhere</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters tell their stories: in this edition, Carrie Gracie travels to China's most troubled region Xinjiang - it's in the midst of a crackdown on what the authorities describe as 'terrorism driven by religious extremism'. Fergal Keane, just back from Ukraine, examines the circumstances which led to one of Europe's bloodiest conflicts in decades. Mike Wendling's in the United States where a campaign to persuade the Washington Redskins football team to change its name is gathering pace. Will Ross is in north eastern Nigeria where bows and arrows, magic and ancient hunting rifles are now being used in the battle against the Boko Haram jihadists. And David Mazower's at a festival in Poland where it's clear a growing number of Poles feel profound loss about the Jewish nation in their midst which was ripped apart in the Second World War.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Reporters tell their stories: in this edition, Carrie Gracie travels to China's most -...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters tell their stories: in this edition, Carrie Gracie travels to China's most troubled region Xinjiang - it's in the midst of a crackdown on what the authorities describe as 'terrorism driven by religious extremism'. Fergal Keane, just back from Ukraine, examines the circumstances which led to one of Europe's bloodiest conflicts in decades. Mike Wendling's in the United States where a campaign to persuade the Washington Redskins football team to change its name is gathering pace. Will Ross is in north eastern Nigeria where bows and arrows, magic and ancient hunting rifles are now being used in the battle against the Boko Haram jihadists. And David Mazower's at a festival in Poland where it's clear a growing number of Poles feel profound loss about the Jewish nation in their midst which was ripped apart in the Second World War.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2014 12:03:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1655</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj13.mp3" length="26480000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj13.mp3" length="26480000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzj13.mp3" length="26480000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141206-1203.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzj0z</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj13.mp3" fileSize="26480000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1655"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzj0z</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Buckwheat Barometer</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Despatches. Steve Rosenberg sets out to discover who the Russian public holds responsible for rising prices and the ailing rouble? Owen Bennett Jones has a series of encounters in Tunis which offer clues to the direction in which the country's heading. Germany takes in more refugees than any other EU country - Jenny Hill in Munich says it's costing a huge amount and there's uncertainty over who will pay the bills. The giant tortoises on the Galapagos Islands may be used to playing a long game but Horatio Clare, who's just been visiting, says the islands' human residents are having to prepare for change. And Carolyn Brown has been finding out why a steady stream of travellers is choosing to stop off at a small town in the north of France</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Despatches.  Steve Rosenberg sets out to discover who the Russian public holds for and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Despatches. Steve Rosenberg sets out to discover who the Russian public holds responsible for rising prices and the ailing rouble? Owen Bennett Jones has a series of encounters in Tunis which offer clues to the direction in which the country's heading. Germany takes in more refugees than any other EU country - Jenny Hill in Munich says it's costing a huge amount and there's uncertainty over who will pay the bills. The giant tortoises on the Galapagos Islands may be used to playing a long game but Horatio Clare, who's just been visiting, says the islands' human residents are having to prepare for change. And Carolyn Brown has been finding out why a steady stream of travellers is choosing to stop off at a small town in the north of France</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2014 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgsx.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgsx.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzgsx.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141129-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzgsq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgsx.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzgsq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Swimming in Iran</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Foreign correspondents. Nick Thorpe on the Russian speakers in Ukraine who want the future of their country linked to western Europe, not to Moscow; Thomas Fessy examines how the Islamist fighters of Boko Haram are extending their operations out of Nigeria into neighbouring Cameroon; Shaimaa Khalil in Karachi on the difficulties and the dangers health workers face trying to convince people to be immunised against polio; Chris Bockman in Montpellier has been learning what an exiled Syrian billionaire has to do with the local rugby club and what's the correct etiquette for an American woman keen for a swim in Iran? Amy Guttman has been finding out.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Foreign correspondents.  Nick Thorpe on the Russian speakers in Ukraine who want the of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Foreign correspondents. Nick Thorpe on the Russian speakers in Ukraine who want the future of their country linked to western Europe, not to Moscow; Thomas Fessy examines how the Islamist fighters of Boko Haram are extending their operations out of Nigeria into neighbouring Cameroon; Shaimaa Khalil in Karachi on the difficulties and the dangers health workers face trying to convince people to be immunised against polio; Chris Bockman in Montpellier has been learning what an exiled Syrian billionaire has to do with the local rugby club and what's the correct etiquette for an American woman keen for a swim in Iran? Amy Guttman has been finding out.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2014 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdjk.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdjk.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzdjk.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141122-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzdjd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdjk.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzdjd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>An End to Education</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Despatches from correspondents worldwide. In this edition: Mishal Husain's in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley talking to refugees from the war in Syria and learning how a generation of Syrian children is no longer able to go to school; the waters off Somalia aren't the world's piracy hotspot any more - Mary Harper's been finding out how Nigeria's trying to counter an upsurge in maritime crime off the west African coast; with towns and cities expanding across India, Anu Anand has been seeing how animal habitats are being gobbled up, and it's the animals who're suffering; Victoria Gill is in Malawi where powerful motorbikes are now helping out in the country's battle against HIV/AIDS and ... empty that hot tub, do NOT fill the jacuzzi: David Willis says desperate times call for desperate measures in California, now in its third year of drought.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Despatches from correspondents worldwide.  In this edition: Mishal Husain's in Bekaa to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Despatches from correspondents worldwide. In this edition: Mishal Husain's in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley talking to refugees from the war in Syria and learning how a generation of Syrian children is no longer able to go to school; the waters off Somalia aren't the world's piracy hotspot any more - Mary Harper's been finding out how Nigeria's trying to counter an upsurge in maritime crime off the west African coast; with towns and cities expanding across India, Anu Anand has been seeing how animal habitats are being gobbled up, and it's the animals who're suffering; Victoria Gill is in Malawi where powerful motorbikes are now helping out in the country's battle against HIV/AIDS and ... empty that hot tub, do NOT fill the jacuzzi: David Willis says desperate times call for desperate measures in California, now in its third year of drought.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbgz.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbgz.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzbgz.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141115-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzbgt</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbgz.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzbgt</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Missing Students</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Despatches from around the world. In this edition: Will Grant on the protests in Mexico City as families try to find out what happened to a group of students seized by the police; the Indian prime minister may have called for more protection for the country's women but Razia Iqbal, in Western Harayana, says many still suffer appalling violence; what's Qatar really up to in Syria? Frank Gardner sets out over a flat featureless desert in his attempt to find out; Hamilton Wende visits the casbah in Algiers and explains why he finds it filled 'with half-remembered pockets of history and of war' and where in these islands is the very best place to take a look at Venus and Mars? Christine Finn boarded a ferry and went to find out.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Despatches from around the world.  In this edition: Will Grant on the protests in City...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Despatches from around the world. In this edition: Will Grant on the protests in Mexico City as families try to find out what happened to a group of students seized by the police; the Indian prime minister may have called for more protection for the country's women but Razia Iqbal, in Western Harayana, says many still suffer appalling violence; what's Qatar really up to in Syria? Frank Gardner sets out over a flat featureless desert in his attempt to find out; Hamilton Wende visits the casbah in Algiers and explains why he finds it filled 'with half-remembered pockets of history and of war' and where in these islands is the very best place to take a look at Venus and Mars? Christine Finn boarded a ferry and went to find out.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1671</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc8b.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc8b.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzc8b.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141113-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzc86</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc8b.mp3" fileSize="26736000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1671"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzc86</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Jerusalem On Edge</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Foreign correspondents. Today, Kevin Connolly on tension in Jerusalem:- a reminder, he says, that the very thing that makes the city one of the glories of human civilisation makes it difficult and dangerous too; a walk through the Menin Gate towards Flanders fields - Chris Haslam on the storm of commercialisation sweeping through the memorial sites of World War One; some of the Russian republics want independence but Mark Stratton, travelling through the Middle Volga lowlands, finds others happy to be part of Moscow's empire; students in India have been talking to Craig Jeffrey about their right to cheat in university exams and as Berlin marks the anniversary of the Wall coming down, Jenny Hill tells us the story of one young couple's 'forbidden journey'.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Foreign correspondents.  Today, Kevin Connolly on tension in Jerusalem:- a reminder, he...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Foreign correspondents. Today, Kevin Connolly on tension in Jerusalem:- a reminder, he says, that the very thing that makes the city one of the glories of human civilisation makes it difficult and dangerous too; a walk through the Menin Gate towards Flanders fields - Chris Haslam on the storm of commercialisation sweeping through the memorial sites of World War One; some of the Russian republics want independence but Mark Stratton, travelling through the Middle Volga lowlands, finds others happy to be part of Moscow's empire; students in India have been talking to Craig Jeffrey about their right to cheat in university exams and as Berlin marks the anniversary of the Wall coming down, Jenny Hill tells us the story of one young couple's 'forbidden journey'.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2014 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1665</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8pk.mp3" length="26640000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8pk.mp3" length="26640000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz8pk.mp3" length="26640000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141108-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz8pc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8pk.mp3" fileSize="26640000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1665"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz8pc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Talking to Ghosts</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters. Today, from Sierra Leone: why covering the Ebola outbreak is an assignment like no other, Andrew Harding; did the now-deposed leader of Burkina Faso ignore warning signs that an extension to his rule wouldn't be tolerated, Chris Simpson; Malta's an island rich in history and heritage, but it isn't only rooted in the past, Juliet Rix; Germany has its own views on immigration - official policy says the incomers must be made welcome, Jenny Hill; Germany and Korea were once BOTH divided countries; Steve Evans who's lived in Berlin and in Seoul finds these are nations which have much in common, yet they're very different too.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Reporters.  Today, from Sierra Leone: why covering the Ebola outbreak is an assignment...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters. Today, from Sierra Leone: why covering the Ebola outbreak is an assignment like no other, Andrew Harding; did the now-deposed leader of Burkina Faso ignore warning signs that an extension to his rule wouldn't be tolerated, Chris Simpson; Malta's an island rich in history and heritage, but it isn't only rooted in the past, Juliet Rix; Germany has its own views on immigration - official policy says the incomers must be made welcome, Jenny Hill; Germany and Korea were once BOTH divided countries; Steve Evans who's lived in Berlin and in Seoul finds these are nations which have much in common, yet they're very different too.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2014 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1677</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s0303.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s0303.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s0303.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141106-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s02zv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s0303.mp3" fileSize="26832000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1677"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s02zv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Ghosts of old Naples</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters. Today: Alan Johnston on the richness of the past lying in the bones of the buildings in the historic heart of old Naples; Hugh Sykes in a minibus taxi in Tunis after an election which proved a victory for the secularists; Shaimaa Khalil in Lahore visits a palace of beauty which has been forced to face up to some ugly attitudes; Jon Donnison in Sydney talks to Muslims about the wave of Islamophobic attacks in cities across Australia; James Coomarasamy meets an unconventional mayor in Kentucky as the USA gears up for the mid-term elections</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Reporters.  Today: Alan Johnston on the richness of the past lying in the bones of the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters. Today: Alan Johnston on the richness of the past lying in the bones of the buildings in the historic heart of old Naples; Hugh Sykes in a minibus taxi in Tunis after an election which proved a victory for the secularists; Shaimaa Khalil in Lahore visits a palace of beauty which has been forced to face up to some ugly attitudes; Jon Donnison in Sydney talks to Muslims about the wave of Islamophobic attacks in cities across Australia; James Coomarasamy meets an unconventional mayor in Kentucky as the USA gears up for the mid-term elections</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2014 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1701</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhqh.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhqh.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzhqh.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141101-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzhq9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhqh.mp3" fileSize="27216000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1701"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzhq9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Most Dangerous Job in th World?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents'despatches: Gabriel Gatehouse with the medical team who have collected hundreds of Ebola patients from their homes in the Liberian capital, Monrovia; Andrew Hosken on the extraordinary efforts made by the people of Baghdad to clear up amidst a new wave of bombings; once a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the city of Trieste now has an independence movement which believes the place would be better off severing its ties to Rome - Tara Isabella Burton's been there to listen to their argument; how can a herd of cows indicate the economic health of a nation? It's a question Damien McGuinness has been addressing in the German capital, Berlin; and three-solid-meals-a-day man James Jeffrey's been getting to know about the extreme fasting traditions of Ethiopia.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents'despatches: Gabriel Gatehouse with the medical team who have collected...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents'despatches: Gabriel Gatehouse with the medical team who have collected hundreds of Ebola patients from their homes in the Liberian capital, Monrovia; Andrew Hosken on the extraordinary efforts made by the people of Baghdad to clear up amidst a new wave of bombings; once a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the city of Trieste now has an independence movement which believes the place would be better off severing its ties to Rome - Tara Isabella Burton's been there to listen to their argument; how can a herd of cows indicate the economic health of a nation? It's a question Damien McGuinness has been addressing in the German capital, Berlin; and three-solid-meals-a-day man James Jeffrey's been getting to know about the extreme fasting traditions of Ethiopia.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhjn.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhjn.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzhjn.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141030-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzhjj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhjn.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzhjj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Flying River</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters around the world. Misha Glenny says surely it's a national emergency -- but it's one the candidates in Brazil's election campaign have largely ignored. The civil war drags on in South Sudan - Tristan McConnell visits a town that's changed hands, between government troops and rebels, six times and has left its people shattered. Chris Morris was with the sub-hunters on the Stockholm Archipelago. They didn't find a submarine, but it's clear there are security implications. Who do you call when you see little green men in the sky? In France, you can phone the government, as Chris Bockman's been finding out. And Bethany Bell has been visiting a lake which is much-loved in Austria and not just because of its unique rose-scented breezes.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Reporters around the world.  Misha Glenny says surely it's a national emergency -- but...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters around the world. Misha Glenny says surely it's a national emergency -- but it's one the candidates in Brazil's election campaign have largely ignored. The civil war drags on in South Sudan - Tristan McConnell visits a town that's changed hands, between government troops and rebels, six times and has left its people shattered. Chris Morris was with the sub-hunters on the Stockholm Archipelago. They didn't find a submarine, but it's clear there are security implications. Who do you call when you see little green men in the sky? In France, you can phone the government, as Chris Bockman's been finding out. And Bethany Bell has been visiting a lake which is much-loved in Austria and not just because of its unique rose-scented breezes.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsfm.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsfm.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzsfm.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141025-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzsfg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsfm.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzsfg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Home Grown Heroes</title><description><![CDATA[<p>War may still be raging in the east, but Ukraine's gearing up for elections -- and Jamie Coomarasamy says there are some unexpected candidates; Michael Bristow in Indonesia meets a former jihadist who now works for the government and has become something of a celebrity; not far from California's information hub, Silicon Valley, an old Native American language faces extinction - Caroline Davies explains why it's being allowed to go; a civil war rumbles on in South Sudan -- James Copnall's been meeting some who were forced to flee into the bush, living off wild animals and water lilies; the European Union's spent billions on programmes aimed at integrating the Roma people, but many remain out on the margins of society, as Lucy Irvine's been finding out in Bulgaria.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> War may still be raging in the east, but Ukraine's gearing up for elections -- and are...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>War may still be raging in the east, but Ukraine's gearing up for elections -- and Jamie Coomarasamy says there are some unexpected candidates; Michael Bristow in Indonesia meets a former jihadist who now works for the government and has become something of a celebrity; not far from California's information hub, Silicon Valley, an old Native American language faces extinction - Caroline Davies explains why it's being allowed to go; a civil war rumbles on in South Sudan -- James Copnall's been meeting some who were forced to flee into the bush, living off wild animals and water lilies; the European Union's spent billions on programmes aimed at integrating the Roma people, but many remain out on the margins of society, as Lucy Irvine's been finding out in Bulgaria.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:29:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1664</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwgg.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwgg.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzwgg.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141023-1129.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzwgd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwgg.mp3" fileSize="26624000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1664"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzwgd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Spectres of Afghanistan</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The past looms large over Afghanistan's new leader -- Fergal Keane says the scale of the task he faces is immense; as civil war rages in Libya, Tim Whewell finds a corner of calm and tolerance amid a country full of discord and violence. Do institutions like the European Union make nationhood increasingly irrelevant? That was on Martin Buckley's mind in Corsica where an armed struggle for independence seems to be losing support. As Tehran and the West sit down to talk about Iran's nuclear ambitions, Diana Darke's been finding out how Iranians revel in the words of a poet who's been dead for six hundred years. And Hugh Schofield knows how to unearth the secrets of a stately home with a history -- he asked the butler!!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The past looms large over Afghanistan's new leader -- Fergal Keane says the scale of a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The past looms large over Afghanistan's new leader -- Fergal Keane says the scale of the task he faces is immense; as civil war rages in Libya, Tim Whewell finds a corner of calm and tolerance amid a country full of discord and violence. Do institutions like the European Union make nationhood increasingly irrelevant? That was on Martin Buckley's mind in Corsica where an armed struggle for independence seems to be losing support. As Tehran and the West sit down to talk about Iran's nuclear ambitions, Diana Darke's been finding out how Iranians revel in the words of a poet who's been dead for six hundred years. And Hugh Schofield knows how to unearth the secrets of a stately home with a history -- he asked the butler!!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1677</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5xx.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5xx.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz5xx.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141018-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz5xs</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5xx.mp3" fileSize="26832000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1677"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz5xs</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Rio Rubbish</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' tales: why they're arguing about Macchiavelli on a rubbish tip in Rio as the second round of the Brazilian election approaches, Neil Trevithick; Shaimaa Khalil investigates the upsurge in violence on the India/Pakistan border in Kashmir; Julia Macfarlane accompanies a group of British doctors who've gone to help out Palestinian medics in Gaza; has the historic city of Timbuktu recovered from a brutal period of conflict and occupation by Islamic extremists? Chris Simpson has been finding out. And the Star Wars film crew have been to the remote Irish island of Skellig Michael and so too has our man Vincent Dowd.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents' tales: why they're arguing about Macchiavelli on a rubbish tip in Rio...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' tales: why they're arguing about Macchiavelli on a rubbish tip in Rio as the second round of the Brazilian election approaches, Neil Trevithick; Shaimaa Khalil investigates the upsurge in violence on the India/Pakistan border in Kashmir; Julia Macfarlane accompanies a group of British doctors who've gone to help out Palestinian medics in Gaza; has the historic city of Timbuktu recovered from a brutal period of conflict and occupation by Islamic extremists? Chris Simpson has been finding out. And the Star Wars film crew have been to the remote Irish island of Skellig Michael and so too has our man Vincent Dowd.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1693</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkly.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkly.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzkly.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141016-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzkll</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkly.mp3" fileSize="27088000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1693"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzkll</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Battle for Hong Kong</title><description><![CDATA[<p>'Caught between the demands of the masses and the stern imperatives of Beijing's control': Fergal Keane on the Hong Kong authorities' reaction to the demonstrations which have brought parts of the territory to a standstill. Nick Thorpe is in Bulgaria hearing ever-louder demands for a new European union, this one to be centred on Moscow. A spotlight on La Paz - Katy Watson's in the extraordinary capital of Bolivia as people prepare to vote in a general election. The verdant hill town of Zomba in Malawi is said to be one of the most attractive places in the heart of Africa -- but Jonathan Fryer's been learning that, for many locals, making a living's not easy. And Horatio Clare's in the Danube Delta's archipelago of waters, marshes and sighing trees listening to stories of conservation, propagation and extinction.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> 'Caught between the demands of the masses and the stern imperatives of Beijing's Keane...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>'Caught between the demands of the masses and the stern imperatives of Beijing's control': Fergal Keane on the Hong Kong authorities' reaction to the demonstrations which have brought parts of the territory to a standstill. Nick Thorpe is in Bulgaria hearing ever-louder demands for a new European union, this one to be centred on Moscow. A spotlight on La Paz - Katy Watson's in the extraordinary capital of Bolivia as people prepare to vote in a general election. The verdant hill town of Zomba in Malawi is said to be one of the most attractive places in the heart of Africa -- but Jonathan Fryer's been learning that, for many locals, making a living's not easy. And Horatio Clare's in the Danube Delta's archipelago of waters, marshes and sighing trees listening to stories of conservation, propagation and extinction.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3z3.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3z3.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz3z3.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141011-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz3yv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3z3.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz3yv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Tap You Can't Turn Off</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The European Union's announced plans to support, but not replace, efforts being made by Italy to save lives at sea. Emma Jane Kirby's been to the port town of Syracusa to see the difficulties the Italians have been facing. Will Ross has been meeting children in Nigeria who've been separated from their parents by the war against the militants of Boko Haram. What's it like when a family discovers that a loved one's gone to fight with extremists in the Middle East? Linda Pressly's been finding out in Kosovo. Jamie Coomarasamy's been to the west of Ukraine, hundreds of miles from the fighting in the east of the country, to find out what they think there of the struggle between government forces and the pro-Russia rebels. And the hair industry is big business in China and most of the customers, as Sam Piranty has been finding out, are Africans. But is that human hair they're buying or something else?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The European Union's announced plans to support, but not replace, efforts being made...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The European Union's announced plans to support, but not replace, efforts being made by Italy to save lives at sea. Emma Jane Kirby's been to the port town of Syracusa to see the difficulties the Italians have been facing. Will Ross has been meeting children in Nigeria who've been separated from their parents by the war against the militants of Boko Haram. What's it like when a family discovers that a loved one's gone to fight with extremists in the Middle East? Linda Pressly's been finding out in Kosovo. Jamie Coomarasamy's been to the west of Ukraine, hundreds of miles from the fighting in the east of the country, to find out what they think there of the struggle between government forces and the pro-Russia rebels. And the hair industry is big business in China and most of the customers, as Sam Piranty has been finding out, are Africans. But is that human hair they're buying or something else?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1679</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc7f.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc7f.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzc7f.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141009-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzc78</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc7f.mp3" fileSize="26864000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1679"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzc78</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Three Questions for Mr Leung</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The questions arising from a week of protest in Hong Kong are asked by the BBC's China editor Carrie Gracie; the Yangon River in Burma, now Myanmar, doesn't have the mightiest of reputations. But on its banks lay one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities. Andrew Whitehead caught the ferry to see how Rangoon, as it used to be known, looks in today's era of political and economic change; Lyse Doucet is in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital where residents heard this week the militants from Islamic State were only a few miles away; the Turkish parliament has voted to take the fight to IS and Mark Lowen's been to the border between Turkey and Syria to consider the consequences; Wyre Davies is covering the Brazilian election and wonders if it can be won by the environmentalist daughter of a rubber tapper from the Amazon jungle.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The questions arising from a week of protest in Hong Kong are asked by the BBC's China...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The questions arising from a week of protest in Hong Kong are asked by the BBC's China editor Carrie Gracie; the Yangon River in Burma, now Myanmar, doesn't have the mightiest of reputations. But on its banks lay one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities. Andrew Whitehead caught the ferry to see how Rangoon, as it used to be known, looks in today's era of political and economic change; Lyse Doucet is in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital where residents heard this week the militants from Islamic State were only a few miles away; the Turkish parliament has voted to take the fight to IS and Mark Lowen's been to the border between Turkey and Syria to consider the consequences; Wyre Davies is covering the Brazilian election and wonders if it can be won by the environmentalist daughter of a rubber tapper from the Amazon jungle.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9n7.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9n7.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9n7.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141004-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9n4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9n7.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9n4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A New Egypt</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Global despatches: some are pleased at what President al-Sisi's achieved in his first months in office in Egypt - others say that when it comes to repression, he's outdoing even his hardline predecessor Hosni Mubarak. Predicting what's about to happen in President Putin's Russia has become difficult now the country seems to have embraced an 'anything goes' philosophy. We're in the far north of Sweden learning that the Sami people believe widespread mining will ruin their traditional lands. The introduction of some democracy in Myanmar and the lifting of some western sanctions has not brought the predicted business boom, but for many citizens, the quality of life is slowly improving; and the sad story of the lonely baboon who's become trapped on a river island in Zimbabwe and is resisting all attempts to reunite him with his family.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Global despatches: some are pleased at what President al-Sisi's achieved in his first...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Global despatches: some are pleased at what President al-Sisi's achieved in his first months in office in Egypt - others say that when it comes to repression, he's outdoing even his hardline predecessor Hosni Mubarak. Predicting what's about to happen in President Putin's Russia has become difficult now the country seems to have embraced an 'anything goes' philosophy. We're in the far north of Sweden learning that the Sami people believe widespread mining will ruin their traditional lands. The introduction of some democracy in Myanmar and the lifting of some western sanctions has not brought the predicted business boom, but for many citizens, the quality of life is slowly improving; and the sad story of the lonely baboon who's become trapped on a river island in Zimbabwe and is resisting all attempts to reunite him with his family.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2014 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb9r.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb9r.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzb9r.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20141002-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzb9p</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb9r.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzb9p</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Fractured Syllogisms</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Despatches from around the world: Kevin Connolly on how Western policy makers, trying to respond to developments in the Middle East, are grappling with difficulties created by their own predecessors. As American warships prepared to fire missiles at targets in Syria, out in the Pacific Ocean two US carrier battle groups were carrying out the biggest live fire exercise in years. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes wondered if they had a target in mind. Iona Craig on a revolution in Yemen and how the nation was surprised when a previously marginalised militia group swiftly seized control of the capital, Sana'a. The economic news just gets gloomier and gloomier in France. Hugh Schofield says one area everyone agrees should be confronted is the so-called regulated professions. And the mushrooms, aided by a long wet summer, have been bursting out in the woods in Hungary. Nick Thorpe has been out to pick them. But which ones will lift his dinner to gastronomic heights and which ones might kill?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Despatches from around the world: Kevin Connolly on how Western policy makers, trying...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Despatches from around the world: Kevin Connolly on how Western policy makers, trying to respond to developments in the Middle East, are grappling with difficulties created by their own predecessors. As American warships prepared to fire missiles at targets in Syria, out in the Pacific Ocean two US carrier battle groups were carrying out the biggest live fire exercise in years. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes wondered if they had a target in mind. Iona Craig on a revolution in Yemen and how the nation was surprised when a previously marginalised militia group swiftly seized control of the capital, Sana'a. The economic news just gets gloomier and gloomier in France. Hugh Schofield says one area everyone agrees should be confronted is the so-called regulated professions. And the mushrooms, aided by a long wet summer, have been bursting out in the woods in Hungary. Nick Thorpe has been out to pick them. But which ones will lift his dinner to gastronomic heights and which ones might kill?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1668</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgqb.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgqb.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzgqb.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140927-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzgq3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgqb.mp3" fileSize="26688000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1668"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzgq3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Taking Meat off the Menu</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Few French restaurants offer a menu without meat, so John Laurenson's been finding out why one of the country's top chefs has decided to do just that. Paul Adams explains why the government in the Ukrainian capital Kiev might have given up trying to seize back control of rebel-held eastern parts of the country. Misha Glenny talks of plans to establish a global parliament of city mayors taking powers away from 'tired old nation states'. One of Europe's most wanted men is thought to be hiding out in the mountains of central Greece - Jeff Maysh has been talking to people about this fugitive with a Robin Hood reputation and Antonia Quirke talks of Sicily where there's widespread exasperation about the corruption still pervasive in Italian society and where the Mafia continues to wield influence.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Few French restaurants offer a menu without meat, so John Laurenson's been finding out...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Few French restaurants offer a menu without meat, so John Laurenson's been finding out why one of the country's top chefs has decided to do just that. Paul Adams explains why the government in the Ukrainian capital Kiev might have given up trying to seize back control of rebel-held eastern parts of the country. Misha Glenny talks of plans to establish a global parliament of city mayors taking powers away from 'tired old nation states'. One of Europe's most wanted men is thought to be hiding out in the mountains of central Greece - Jeff Maysh has been talking to people about this fugitive with a Robin Hood reputation and Antonia Quirke talks of Sicily where there's widespread exasperation about the corruption still pervasive in Italian society and where the Mafia continues to wield influence.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2014 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1698</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd2j.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd2j.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzd2j.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140925-1132.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzd2g</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd2j.mp3" fileSize="27168000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1698"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzd2g</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Why the Kissing's Had to Stop</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The kissing's had to stop in west Africa - a despatch from Mark Doyle about the Ebola crisis, which is now having a profound effect on people's lifestyles throughout the region. The United States Senate has approved President Obama's plan to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State militants - Jeremy Bowen, in Damascus, tells us this means a wide range of forces is lining up to combat the jihadists. Shabnam Mahmood's been to a society wedding in Pakistan - it was an opportunity to note some of the details of that country's social hierarchy. The controversial mayor of Toronto is in hospital battling cancer - Lee Carter says this latest chapter in Rob Ford's colourful life has brought a rare show of unity to a city Mr Ford was accused of dividing. And Will Grant tells us a story from the Latin American capital where the streets are clogged with vehicles yet many of the drivers haven't even taken a driving test!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The kissing's had to stop in west Africa - a despatch from Mark Doyle about the Ebola...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The kissing's had to stop in west Africa - a despatch from Mark Doyle about the Ebola crisis, which is now having a profound effect on people's lifestyles throughout the region. The United States Senate has approved President Obama's plan to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State militants - Jeremy Bowen, in Damascus, tells us this means a wide range of forces is lining up to combat the jihadists. Shabnam Mahmood's been to a society wedding in Pakistan - it was an opportunity to note some of the details of that country's social hierarchy. The controversial mayor of Toronto is in hospital battling cancer - Lee Carter says this latest chapter in Rob Ford's colourful life has brought a rare show of unity to a city Mr Ford was accused of dividing. And Will Grant tells us a story from the Latin American capital where the streets are clogged with vehicles yet many of the drivers haven't even taken a driving test!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2014 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1706</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9mh.mp3" length="27296000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9mh.mp3" length="27296000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9mh.mp3" length="27296000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140920-1202.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9mb</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9mh.mp3" fileSize="27296000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1706"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9mb</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Domestic Strife</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces Correspondents' stories. This week Paul Wood hears warnings of civil war returning to Lebanon; Andrew Harding reflects on the Pistorius trial; Darius Barzagan can't get the images of MH17 out of his head; Niall O'Gallagher joins Catalans celebrating their National Day and calling for independence; and Lucy Ash meets Ivory Coast's most famous actress to talk about infidelity.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie introduces Correspondents' stories.  This week Paul Wood hears warnings of to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces Correspondents' stories. This week Paul Wood hears warnings of civil war returning to Lebanon; Andrew Harding reflects on the Pistorius trial; Darius Barzagan can't get the images of MH17 out of his head; Niall O'Gallagher joins Catalans celebrating their National Day and calling for independence; and Lucy Ash meets Ivory Coast's most famous actress to talk about infidelity.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1666</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcpt.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcpt.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzcpt.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140913-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzcpp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcpt.mp3" fileSize="26656000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1666"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzcpp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Silent Wards</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents stories from around the world. This week Gabriel Gatehouse takes a nerve-wracking drive, trying to avoid IS forces in Iraq. Shahzeb Jillani explains what Pakistan's political turmoil is about; John Sweeney comes face to face with President Putin after 14 years of trying. Claudia Hammond discovers that many patients in Israel remain on life support for years; and Steve Evans has the story of how a German board game took off in the trenches of WW1.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie introduces correspondents stories from around the world.  This week Gabriel a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents stories from around the world. This week Gabriel Gatehouse takes a nerve-wracking drive, trying to avoid IS forces in Iraq. Shahzeb Jillani explains what Pakistan's political turmoil is about; John Sweeney comes face to face with President Putin after 14 years of trying. Claudia Hammond discovers that many patients in Israel remain on life support for years; and Steve Evans has the story of how a German board game took off in the trenches of WW1.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhh1.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhh1.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzhh1.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140906-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzhgw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhh1.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzhgw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Lucky Country</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Global despatches. In this edition, Australia's tough immigration policy comes under the spotlight as a group of asylum seekers goes to court; why the mark which writer Ernest Hemingway left on Paris is now beginning to disappear; how the militants of Islamic State have affected Kurdish dreams of a state of their own; the tourists have returned to the beaches of Greece but, we learn, there's one correspondent who might not be so welcome in the country. And we hear from the reporter who's had second thoughts about wearing the headscarf, or hijab.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Global despatches.  In this edition, Australia's tough immigration policy comes under a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Global despatches. In this edition, Australia's tough immigration policy comes under the spotlight as a group of asylum seekers goes to court; why the mark which writer Ernest Hemingway left on Paris is now beginning to disappear; how the militants of Islamic State have affected Kurdish dreams of a state of their own; the tourists have returned to the beaches of Greece but, we learn, there's one correspondent who might not be so welcome in the country. And we hear from the reporter who's had second thoughts about wearing the headscarf, or hijab.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1668</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4x6.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4x6.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz4x6.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140830-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz4x1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4x6.mp3" fileSize="26688000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1668"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz4x1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Poet at War</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Foreign correspondents. Today: can a meeting of presidents halt the fighting in eastern Ukraine? Why the international health workers who've come to tackle the Ebola virus in west Africa are not always welcome. Deported from the US - and back home in Guatemala; why life is difficult for many of the returnees. On leaving Pakistan, there are many happy memories -- but none of them, one departing correspondent says, feature the national airline PIA. And it may be a cool damp summer in Switzerland, but the stories coming from parliament are distinctly hot and steamy.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Foreign correspondents.  Today: can a meeting of presidents halt the fighting in Why to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Foreign correspondents. Today: can a meeting of presidents halt the fighting in eastern Ukraine? Why the international health workers who've come to tackle the Ebola virus in west Africa are not always welcome. Deported from the US - and back home in Guatemala; why life is difficult for many of the returnees. On leaving Pakistan, there are many happy memories -- but none of them, one departing correspondent says, feature the national airline PIA. And it may be a cool damp summer in Switzerland, but the stories coming from parliament are distinctly hot and steamy.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2014 11:16:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1706</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s01m7.mp3" length="27296000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s01m7.mp3" length="27296000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s01m7.mp3" length="27296000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140823-1216.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s01m2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s01m7.mp3" fileSize="27296000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1706"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s01m2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Shopping List for Cuba</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Despatches from correspondents: Why should the west intervene with aid or arms? It's a question asked by our reporter in northern Iraq. The six-year-olds in Gaza who've already lived through three wars. Awesome sights and stressful moments as the Panama Canal celebrates its centenary. The militants of al-Shabaab use film and social media to get their message across - they also like to telephone a certain BBC editor. And why did another reporter pack an orange bottle of cleaning fluid along with the tennis shoes? She talks of a frantic shopping run before a return to Cuba.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Despatches from correspondents: Why should the west intervene with aid or arms? It's a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Despatches from correspondents: Why should the west intervene with aid or arms? It's a question asked by our reporter in northern Iraq. The six-year-olds in Gaza who've already lived through three wars. Awesome sights and stressful moments as the Panama Canal celebrates its centenary. The militants of al-Shabaab use film and social media to get their message across - they also like to telephone a certain BBC editor. And why did another reporter pack an orange bottle of cleaning fluid along with the tennis shoes? She talks of a frantic shopping run before a return to Cuba.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s01h4.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s01h4.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s01h4.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140816-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s01gt</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s01h4.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s01gt</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Footnote to Conflict</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Foreign correspondents tell their stories - in this edition, discussions in Israel about the conflict in Gaza, Tim Whewell; why the Turkish prime minister seems set to become the country's new president, Natalie Martin; why Argentina's demanding that global financial systems be overhauled, Katy Watson; tourists start to return to parts of The Philippines battered by storms and an earthquake, Rajan Datar and Reggie Nadelson visits a seaside town on America's east coast where African Americans traditionally took their summer holidays.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Foreign correspondents tell their stories - in this edition, discussions in Israel the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Foreign correspondents tell their stories - in this edition, discussions in Israel about the conflict in Gaza, Tim Whewell; why the Turkish prime minister seems set to become the country's new president, Natalie Martin; why Argentina's demanding that global financial systems be overhauled, Katy Watson; tourists start to return to parts of The Philippines battered by storms and an earthquake, Rajan Datar and Reggie Nadelson visits a seaside town on America's east coast where African Americans traditionally took their summer holidays.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1700</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzw8v.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzw8v.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzw8v.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140809-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzw8p</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzw8v.mp3" fileSize="27200000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1700"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzw8p</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Aug 02 2014</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Despatches by reporters around the world. In this edition, Chris Morris, who was in Gaza twenty years ago, returns to chronicle how things 'have got worse, much worse'. Claudia Hammond, in Cyprus, on the latest attempts to find out what happened to those who went missing decades ago during fighting between the island's Greek and Turkish communities; Tim Mansel is in Sierra Leone amid growing alarm over the spread of the Ebola virus in west Africa. Why a seagull observed in Vatican City could be a disturbing omen for peace - that's from Alan Johnston and Petroc Trelawny finds out where the newly-weds like to go in Guangzhou, one of China's fastest-developing cities.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Despatches by reporters around the world.  In this edition, Chris Morris, who was in to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Despatches by reporters around the world. In this edition, Chris Morris, who was in Gaza twenty years ago, returns to chronicle how things 'have got worse, much worse'. Claudia Hammond, in Cyprus, on the latest attempts to find out what happened to those who went missing decades ago during fighting between the island's Greek and Turkish communities; Tim Mansel is in Sierra Leone amid growing alarm over the spread of the Ebola virus in west Africa. Why a seagull observed in Vatican City could be a disturbing omen for peace - that's from Alan Johnston and Petroc Trelawny finds out where the newly-weds like to go in Guangzhou, one of China's fastest-developing cities.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:12:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1670</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s028l.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s028l.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s028l.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140802-1212.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s028d</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s028l.mp3" fileSize="26720000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1670"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s028d</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Last Night in Gaza</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents tell their stories: a week in Gaza, Paul Adams; on the night train from Kiev to Donetsk, Gabriel Gatehouse; trouble in the vineyards of Moldova, Stephen Sackur; how the US city which brought us Campbell's Soup fell into decline, Sophie Reid and how frugality set two German brothers on the road to super-riches, Steve Evans</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents tell their stories: a week in Gaza, Paul Adams; on the night train from...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents tell their stories: a week in Gaza, Paul Adams; on the night train from Kiev to Donetsk, Gabriel Gatehouse; trouble in the vineyards of Moldova, Stephen Sackur; how the US city which brought us Campbell's Soup fell into decline, Sophie Reid and how frugality set two German brothers on the road to super-riches, Steve Evans</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9l1.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9l1.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9l1.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140726-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9kz</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9l1.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9kz</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Whatever Happened to the War Song?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Back in the days of the Vietnam War the airwaves were full of protest songs. Today, plenty of conflict, but none of those songs. Humphrey Hawksley's been to Nashville to find out why. Jeremy Bowen's just been to Gaza, Syria and Iraq and reflects on what the fighting there might achieve. Caroline Wyatt's been reporting on global conflicts for seven years in her role as BBC Defence Correspondent. One question she's frequently been asked about war is: was it all worth it? The Irish economy may once again be gathering strength, but John Murphy, in the west of the republic, finds that emigration is taking its toll on rural life. And how difficult is it to go off for a swim? In the Indian capital Delhi, as Anu Anand's been finding out, the answer is ... VERY difficult!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Back in the days of the Vietnam War the airwaves were full of protest songs...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Back in the days of the Vietnam War the airwaves were full of protest songs. Today, plenty of conflict, but none of those songs. Humphrey Hawksley's been to Nashville to find out why. Jeremy Bowen's just been to Gaza, Syria and Iraq and reflects on what the fighting there might achieve. Caroline Wyatt's been reporting on global conflicts for seven years in her role as BBC Defence Correspondent. One question she's frequently been asked about war is: was it all worth it? The Irish economy may once again be gathering strength, but John Murphy, in the west of the republic, finds that emigration is taking its toll on rural life. And how difficult is it to go off for a swim? In the Indian capital Delhi, as Anu Anand's been finding out, the answer is ... VERY difficult!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02dp.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02dp.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s02dp.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140719-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s02dj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02dp.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s02dj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Fasting under Fire</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Despatches. In this edition: some of the families caught up in Israel's fight against Palestinian militants in Gaza. Out on patrol on the dimly-lit streets of Caracas - the city with the  highest murder rate of any capital. Two months to go to the Scottish referendum:- so what happened when other nations set out to assert their identities, to run their own affairs? And we find out why there are absolutely no women enjoying one of the most spectacular views in all of Greece.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Despatches.  In this edition: some of the families caught up in Israel's fight against...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Despatches. In this edition: some of the families caught up in Israel's fight against Palestinian militants in Gaza. Out on patrol on the dimly-lit streets of Caracas - the city with the  highest murder rate of any capital. Two months to go to the Scottish referendum:- so what happened when other nations set out to assert their identities, to run their own affairs? And we find out why there are absolutely no women enjoying one of the most spectacular views in all of Greece.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhw3.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhw3.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzhw3.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140717-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzhw0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhw3.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzhw0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Watching the World Cup in the Woods</title><description><![CDATA[<p>We join the German football fans watching the world cup in the middle of a forest. Also: Fighting corruption in China; the culture of silence in a Mexican town ravaged by violence; why the French would rather speak Latin; and Italy's oldest police force celebrates its 200th anniversary. Presented by Kate Adie.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>We join the German football fans watching the world cup in the middle of a forest.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>We join the German football fans watching the world cup in the middle of a forest. Also: Fighting corruption in China; the culture of silence in a Mexican town ravaged by violence; why the French would rather speak Latin; and Italy's oldest police force celebrates its 200th anniversary. Presented by Kate Adie.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlll.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlll.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzlll.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140712-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzll9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlll.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzll9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Tennis in Baghdad</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Jeremy Bowen laments the loss of everyday freedoms in Baghdad; Hilary Andersson investigates the mistreatment of prison inmates with mental health problems in the UDA; Alex Preston ventures into the biggest jade market in the world in Mandalay; Diana Darke meets Syriac christians rebuilding communities in their ancestral homeland in southeast Turkey; and Alex Marshall goes 'dumb walking' with his smartphone in Tokyo.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Jeremy Bowen laments the loss of everyday freedoms in Baghdad; Hilary Andersson the of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Jeremy Bowen laments the loss of everyday freedoms in Baghdad; Hilary Andersson investigates the mistreatment of prison inmates with mental health problems in the UDA; Alex Preston ventures into the biggest jade market in the world in Mandalay; Diana Darke meets Syriac christians rebuilding communities in their ancestral homeland in southeast Turkey; and Alex Marshall goes 'dumb walking' with his smartphone in Tokyo.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1671</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcp3.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcp3.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzcp3.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140710-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzcp1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcp3.mp3" fileSize="26736000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1671"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzcp1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Two Worlds Collide</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporting the world: correspondents with insight, colour and analysis from Baghdad, Kirkuk, Rome, Lahore and Paris</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Reporting the world: correspondents with insight, colour and analysis from Baghdad,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporting the world: correspondents with insight, colour and analysis from Baghdad, Kirkuk, Rome, Lahore and Paris</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2014 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcsw.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcsw.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzcsw.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140705-1202.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzcsr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcsw.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzcsr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>No More Boat People</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Global despatches: in this edition, why hunger is again taking hold in South Sudan - even after a plentiful harvest; Australia gets tough with asylum seekers -- and the problems pile up for those seeking a new life down under; how America's attachment to its First Amendment gives hate groups the freedom to disseminate their beliefs; we visit a cemetery in the Czech Republic: a place of awful history, but also one where you learn about a community determined to create a successful future for itself; and fine dining for only a few pounds? we meet a man in Chile dedicated to reviving his country's culinary heritage.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Global despatches: in this edition, why hunger is again taking hold in South Sudan - a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Global despatches: in this edition, why hunger is again taking hold in South Sudan - even after a plentiful harvest; Australia gets tough with asylum seekers -- and the problems pile up for those seeking a new life down under; how America's attachment to its First Amendment gives hate groups the freedom to disseminate their beliefs; we visit a cemetery in the Czech Republic: a place of awful history, but also one where you learn about a community determined to create a successful future for itself; and fine dining for only a few pounds? we meet a man in Chile dedicated to reviving his country's culinary heritage.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2014 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgh9.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgh9.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzgh9.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140703-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzgh5</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgh9.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzgh5</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Hero or Villain?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>June the 28th 1914 was the day Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Ferdinand. It led to the start of the First World War. Allan Little considers why today's Sarajevo is divided over whether Princip was a hero or a terrorist. President al-Sisi's new regime in Cairo: Louisa Loveluck's been finding out whether Egyptians regret voting in a new era of authoritarianism. Brazil has one of the world's worst crack cocaine problems: Katy Watson's been to see a government project which is trying to address it. Aidan O'Donnell visits a sacred city in the Horn of Africa. It is also noted for its production of beer. And while India's new rulers are keen to promote the use of Hindi, Craig Jeffrey's been finding out that the English language is still omnipresent, creeping into even unexpected corners of everyday society.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>June the 28th 1914 was the day Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Ferdinand.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>June the 28th 1914 was the day Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Ferdinand. It led to the start of the First World War. Allan Little considers why today's Sarajevo is divided over whether Princip was a hero or a terrorist. President al-Sisi's new regime in Cairo: Louisa Loveluck's been finding out whether Egyptians regret voting in a new era of authoritarianism. Brazil has one of the world's worst crack cocaine problems: Katy Watson's been to see a government project which is trying to address it. Aidan O'Donnell visits a sacred city in the Horn of Africa. It is also noted for its production of beer. And while India's new rulers are keen to promote the use of Hindi, Craig Jeffrey's been finding out that the English language is still omnipresent, creeping into even unexpected corners of everyday society.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1681</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzw2n.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzw2n.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzw2n.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140628-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzw2g</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzw2n.mp3" fileSize="26896000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1681"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzw2g</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Consequences of History</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The foreign interventionists whose actions have contributed to today's violent events in Iraq. How Burmese rebels crash-landed a plane and then made off with its cargo of cash. Increasingly pressing challenges face the government of Kenya -- not least a drastic reduction in the number of people wanting to spend their holidays there. We are told that a refugee camp in Beirut might just be the best place to go and watch a match in the World Cup and find out why a village on the south coast of Spain is celebrating the life of the very English author Laurie Lee.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The foreign interventionists whose actions have contributed to today's violent events...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The foreign interventionists whose actions have contributed to today's violent events in Iraq. How Burmese rebels crash-landed a plane and then made off with its cargo of cash. Increasingly pressing challenges face the government of Kenya -- not least a drastic reduction in the number of people wanting to spend their holidays there. We are told that a refugee camp in Beirut might just be the best place to go and watch a match in the World Cup and find out why a village on the south coast of Spain is celebrating the life of the very English author Laurie Lee.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzqh7.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzqh7.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzqh7.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140626-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzqgx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzqh7.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzqgx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>I Never Got to Florence</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories. Few British go to the Italian seaside town of Alassio these days but the library created for them there is still going - just. Coffee prices are rocketing in Brazil and the producers in this country which traditionally produces 'an awful lot of coffee' are concerned. There's a despatch from Baghdad, the Iraqi capital which is now a target of ISIS and other Sunni rebels. The problems pile up for the French president -- but he takes time off to praise an artist who only ever paints in black. And from the USA, we find out what happened to Little Germany, once a thriving part of New York City. Today, little more than a distant memory.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents' stories.  Few British go to the Italian seaside town of Alassio these -...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories. Few British go to the Italian seaside town of Alassio these days but the library created for them there is still going - just. Coffee prices are rocketing in Brazil and the producers in this country which traditionally produces 'an awful lot of coffee' are concerned. There's a despatch from Baghdad, the Iraqi capital which is now a target of ISIS and other Sunni rebels. The problems pile up for the French president -- but he takes time off to praise an artist who only ever paints in black. And from the USA, we find out what happened to Little Germany, once a thriving part of New York City. Today, little more than a distant memory.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1669</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdkp.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdkp.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzdkp.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140621-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzdkm</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdkp.mp3" fileSize="26704000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1669"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzdkm</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Dilemma for the US</title><description><![CDATA[<p>'Getting rid of Saddam was the easy bit.' The problems stack up for the United States as fighting continues in Iraq. Elves have had a place in Icelandic folklore for more than a thousand years. We find out why they're treated with such respect. Also, how countries around the world are drawing lines on the map of Antarctica, carving up the ice with their territorial claims. The climbing season on Mount Everest comes to a close; we hear it's been one of the worst on record and what happened when a British woman living in Bulgaria offered work to a gypsy boy.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>'Getting rid of Saddam was the easy bit. ' The problems stack up for the United States...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>'Getting rid of Saddam was the easy bit.' The problems stack up for the United States as fighting continues in Iraq. Elves have had a place in Icelandic folklore for more than a thousand years. We find out why they're treated with such respect. Also, how countries around the world are drawing lines on the map of Antarctica, carving up the ice with their territorial claims. The climbing season on Mount Everest comes to a close; we hear it's been one of the worst on record and what happened when a British woman living in Bulgaria offered work to a gypsy boy.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 10:31:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1681</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfyr.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfyr.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzfyr.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140619-1131.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzfyl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfyr.mp3" fileSize="26896000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1681"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzfyl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Glimpse of the Future</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Two conflicting visions of the future present themselves on a visit to the Middle East; the Americans send in the drones to attack the Pakistani Taliban again -- what chance now of a negotiated peace? The long strike in South Africa's platinum mines may be ending, but the bitterness which has divided mining families will be long lasting; the president of Burundi is a keen footballer, we hear, but is it a surprise that he scores so many goals? And fond memories of a school in New York celebrating its centenary -- but what is it exactly that makes this school such a well-loved place? Producer - Tony Grant</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Two conflicting visions of the future present themselves on a visit to the Middle the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Two conflicting visions of the future present themselves on a visit to the Middle East; the Americans send in the drones to attack the Pakistani Taliban again -- what chance now of a negotiated peace? The long strike in South Africa's platinum mines may be ending, but the bitterness which has divided mining families will be long lasting; the president of Burundi is a keen footballer, we hear, but is it a surprise that he scores so many goals? And fond memories of a school in New York celebrating its centenary -- but what is it exactly that makes this school such a well-loved place? Producer - Tony Grant</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1649</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb81.mp3" length="26384000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb81.mp3" length="26384000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzb81.mp3" length="26384000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140614-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzb7z</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb81.mp3" fileSize="26384000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1649"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzb7z</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Guitar or Sitar?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents with stories to tell: how is traditional Indian culture faring with the country engulfed in a tide of globalisation? World football's governing body FIFA is in crisis as the World Cup kicks off in Brazil. Germany and Britain are at odds over how Europe should be governed. What's in a name? It's of great importance when you're bidding to be the next president of Afghanistan. And how new technology can help those visiting the First World War battlefields of France and Belgium.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents with stories to tell: how is traditional Indian culture faring with the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents with stories to tell: how is traditional Indian culture faring with the country engulfed in a tide of globalisation? World football's governing body FIFA is in crisis as the World Cup kicks off in Brazil. Germany and Britain are at odds over how Europe should be governed. What's in a name? It's of great importance when you're bidding to be the next president of Afghanistan. And how new technology can help those visiting the First World War battlefields of France and Belgium.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:31:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1668</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3q2.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3q2.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz3q2.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140612-1131.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz3py</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3q2.mp3" fileSize="26688000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1668"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz3py</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mort Pour La France</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The news -- with added insight, colour and perspective. In this edition, the unsung French civilian heroes who gave up their lives in World War Two. The people in eastern Ukraine who fear the consequences of being caught up in a power struggle between east and west. Why Libyans are wary of the former general who's pledged to rid the country of Islamist militias. There's an historical battle re-enactment in Don Quixote territory in Spain. It's a bit like rugby, a bit like boxing. But why haven't the Russians been invited? And another question: why have the North Koreans opened a chain of restaurants across Asia? Our man tries to find out whether they're just proud of their cuisine, or if they have more sinister motives?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The news -- with added insight, colour and perspective.  In this edition, the unsung up...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The news -- with added insight, colour and perspective. In this edition, the unsung French civilian heroes who gave up their lives in World War Two. The people in eastern Ukraine who fear the consequences of being caught up in a power struggle between east and west. Why Libyans are wary of the former general who's pledged to rid the country of Islamist militias. There's an historical battle re-enactment in Don Quixote territory in Spain. It's a bit like rugby, a bit like boxing. But why haven't the Russians been invited? And another question: why have the North Koreans opened a chain of restaurants across Asia? Our man tries to find out whether they're just proud of their cuisine, or if they have more sinister motives?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1691</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5lw.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5lw.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz5lw.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140607-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz5lq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5lw.mp3" fileSize="27056000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1691"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz5lq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>the Education Minister's Watch</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Looking behind the headlines: the new patriotic conservative mood in Russia -why it's making the country's beleaguered opposition feel under siege; the Thai military which has seized control of the country promises increased prosperity but warns protestors must keep quiet; the Nigerian authorities try to improve educational facilities in the north as the insurgency by Boko Haram gathers pace; education's under discussion in Mexico too - the president's decreed there must be improvements and the politicians in the United States who're not tightening up the firearms laws, they're GIVING guns away!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Looking behind the headlines: the new patriotic conservative mood in Russia -why it's...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Looking behind the headlines: the new patriotic conservative mood in Russia -why it's making the country's beleaguered opposition feel under siege; the Thai military which has seized control of the country promises increased prosperity but warns protestors must keep quiet; the Nigerian authorities try to improve educational facilities in the north as the insurgency by Boko Haram gathers pace; education's under discussion in Mexico too - the president's decreed there must be improvements and the politicians in the United States who're not tightening up the firearms laws, they're GIVING guns away!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2014 10:31:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s03pz.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s03pz.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s03pz.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140605-1131.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s03px</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s03pz.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s03px</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The News in 2039</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Global despatches: will the African elephant be extinct in two decades? And which of the stories preoccupying correspondents today will still be seen as important in the future? In this edition, reporters in Kenya, Egypt, Kashmir, Niger and China.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Global despatches: will the African elephant be extinct in two decades? And which of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Global despatches: will the African elephant be extinct in two decades? And which of the stories preoccupying correspondents today will still be seen as important in the future? In this edition, reporters in Kenya, Egypt, Kashmir, Niger and China.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh6x.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh6x.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzh6x.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140531-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzh6j</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh6x.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzh6j</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Thurs May 29 2014: Spinning Myths</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Insight, colour, analysis and description. In this edition the stories come from Odessa, Rio de Janeiro, Naples, San Francisco and Saintes-Maries-De-La-Mer.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Insight, colour, analysis and description.  In this edition the stories come from Rio...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Insight, colour, analysis and description. In this edition the stories come from Odessa, Rio de Janeiro, Naples, San Francisco and Saintes-Maries-De-La-Mer.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1700</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh8n.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh8n.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzh8n.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140529-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzh8j</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh8n.mp3" fileSize="27200000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1700"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzh8j</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Less Freedom, More Stability</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents telling us more: how there's always been someone lying awake in Egypt waiting for the policeman's midnight knock; on mounting anger in Nigeria that the authorities aren't doing enough to counter the threat posed by the militants of Boko Haram; why the fishing communities of the far west of Ireland feel it's not just distance which separates them from the bureaucrats in Brussels and Strasbourg; why, in Brazil as the World Cup approaches, so many feel disillusioned, disrespected and discriminated against and our reporter's in Texas, flipping pancakes with the oldest Congressman in the House of Representatives. At 91, the veteran politician says, he's certainly not too old to continue serving the public. Tony Grant is the programme's producer.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents telling us more: how there's always been someone lying awake in Egypt...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents telling us more: how there's always been someone lying awake in Egypt waiting for the policeman's midnight knock; on mounting anger in Nigeria that the authorities aren't doing enough to counter the threat posed by the militants of Boko Haram; why the fishing communities of the far west of Ireland feel it's not just distance which separates them from the bureaucrats in Brussels and Strasbourg; why, in Brazil as the World Cup approaches, so many feel disillusioned, disrespected and discriminated against and our reporter's in Texas, flipping pancakes with the oldest Congressman in the House of Representatives. At 91, the veteran politician says, he's certainly not too old to continue serving the public. Tony Grant is the programme's producer.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs6f.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs6f.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzs6f.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140524-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzs69</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs6f.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzs69</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Walk Warily in Waziristan</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents worldwide: Owen Bennett-Jones attends a Christian church service in Waziristan, Pakistan's Taliban country; Mark Tully considers whether India's secular tradition is under threat now the Hindu nationalist BJP has been voted in to power; Justin Rowlatt watches the Brazilian authorities trying to protect 'the most endangered tribe on the planet'; Thomas Fessy visits a ski shop on the edge of the Sahara Desert in Niger and on 'Good Neighbours Day' in France, Joanna Robertson finds suspicion, hostility, grievance and gossip alive and well in the apartment blocks of Paris. Programme produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents worldwide: Owen Bennett-Jones attends a Christian church service in is...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents worldwide: Owen Bennett-Jones attends a Christian church service in Waziristan, Pakistan's Taliban country; Mark Tully considers whether India's secular tradition is under threat now the Hindu nationalist BJP has been voted in to power; Justin Rowlatt watches the Brazilian authorities trying to protect 'the most endangered tribe on the planet'; Thomas Fessy visits a ski shop on the edge of the Sahara Desert in Niger and on 'Good Neighbours Day' in France, Joanna Robertson finds suspicion, hostility, grievance and gossip alive and well in the apartment blocks of Paris. Programme produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1701</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5wn.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5wn.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz5wn.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140522-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz5wd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5wn.mp3" fileSize="27216000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1701"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz5wd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Tourists Have Gone</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stories from reporters around the world. In this edition: empty hotels and a deserted holiday coastline in Kenya as tourists head home after a Foreign Office terrorism warning; five years after the defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels, the Sri Lankan government says the country's on the path to ethnic reconciliation - but is it? The coming European elections: will they reflect a growing wave of scepticism about the effectiveness of pan-continental government? A disaster in central America three hundred years ago which brought to an end the last independent kingdom of Scotland. It's a city even Parisians want to move to! how Nantes has been transformed from a grimy old port into a dynamic, artistic powerhouse. The producer - Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from reporters around the world.  In this edition: empty hotels and a deserted...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stories from reporters around the world. In this edition: empty hotels and a deserted holiday coastline in Kenya as tourists head home after a Foreign Office terrorism warning; five years after the defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels, the Sri Lankan government says the country's on the path to ethnic reconciliation - but is it? The coming European elections: will they reflect a growing wave of scepticism about the effectiveness of pan-continental government? A disaster in central America three hundred years ago which brought to an end the last independent kingdom of Scotland. It's a city even Parisians want to move to! how Nantes has been transformed from a grimy old port into a dynamic, artistic powerhouse. The producer - Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1696</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkwf.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkwf.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzkwf.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140517-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzkwc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkwf.mp3" fileSize="27136000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1696"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzkwc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Beauty and horror in South Sudan</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Beauty and brutality coexist after a battle in South Sudan: a bullet whistles over the head of our correspondent in eastern Ukraine: watching the maple syrup wars in Canada: out on the town in Colombia, despite the threat from FARC rebels: and a memento in Bosnia of Gavrilo Princip, the assassin who sparked World War I. Presented by Kate Adie.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Beauty and brutality coexist after a battle in South Sudan: a bullet whistles over the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Beauty and brutality coexist after a battle in South Sudan: a bullet whistles over the head of our correspondent in eastern Ukraine: watching the maple syrup wars in Canada: out on the town in Colombia, despite the threat from FARC rebels: and a memento in Bosnia of Gavrilo Princip, the assassin who sparked World War I. Presented by Kate Adie.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2014 10:45:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzx4d.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzx4d.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzx4d.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140510-1145.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzx46</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzx4d.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzx46</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Heroes of Baghdad</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Global viewpoints. In this edition: Kevin Connolly visits the Baghdad book market and salutes the bravery of those who carry on with their daily lives amid a constant threat of violence; Jeremy Bowen considers the impact on the Middle East of the apparent coming together of the two rival Palestinian factions; Chris Terrill's on a perilous day out with the fishermen of Mauritania in west Africa; Katy Watson is in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo where housing's a serious problem - this is a place with the world's largest slum population. And fish and rice they are used to, but Robin Lustig was in the Burma's Irrawaddy Delta when the locals, for the first time, were invited to sample German sausages and tomato ketchup.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Global viewpoints.  In this edition: Kevin Connolly visits the Baghdad book market and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Global viewpoints. In this edition: Kevin Connolly visits the Baghdad book market and salutes the bravery of those who carry on with their daily lives amid a constant threat of violence; Jeremy Bowen considers the impact on the Middle East of the apparent coming together of the two rival Palestinian factions; Chris Terrill's on a perilous day out with the fishermen of Mauritania in west Africa; Katy Watson is in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo where housing's a serious problem - this is a place with the world's largest slum population. And fish and rice they are used to, but Robin Lustig was in the Burma's Irrawaddy Delta when the locals, for the first time, were invited to sample German sausages and tomato ketchup.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc9s.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc9s.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzc9s.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140503-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzc9q</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc9s.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzc9q</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Dilemmas in Damascus</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Despatches: Syrians, exhausted by a seemingly unending conflict, face agonising decisions over their future, as Lyse Doucet has been finding out. Misha Glenny's in Rio as violent protests continue less than two months before the Brazilian city hosts the World Cup. The far-right Front Nationale could emerge from next month's European elections as the best-supported party in France -- Emma Jane Kirby encounters Euroscepticism, verging on Europhobia, in the south of the country. Matthew Teller's in Qatar: its economy's growing at nearly twenty per cent a year but its people are finding it hard to cope with a rapid pace of change. And Simon Worrall in the United States hears a love song as he witnesses the annual migration of Hispanic workers to Long Island.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Despatches: Syrians, exhausted by a seemingly unending conflict, face agonising over...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Despatches: Syrians, exhausted by a seemingly unending conflict, face agonising decisions over their future, as Lyse Doucet has been finding out. Misha Glenny's in Rio as violent protests continue less than two months before the Brazilian city hosts the World Cup. The far-right Front Nationale could emerge from next month's European elections as the best-supported party in France -- Emma Jane Kirby encounters Euroscepticism, verging on Europhobia, in the south of the country. Matthew Teller's in Qatar: its economy's growing at nearly twenty per cent a year but its people are finding it hard to cope with a rapid pace of change. And Simon Worrall in the United States hears a love song as he witnesses the annual migration of Hispanic workers to Long Island.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1703</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb8b.mp3" length="27248000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb8b.mp3" length="27248000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzb8b.mp3" length="27248000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140426-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzb87</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb8b.mp3" fileSize="27248000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1703"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzb87</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>End of Era</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Global insight and colour. In this programme: Russians or locals? Gabriel Gatehouse goes to meet some of those still occupying government buildings in the east of Ukraine. Lives and jobs start to disappear in South Africa as a bitter mining dispute continues amid a mood of deepening disenchantment, a despatch from Hamilton Wende; On one of Rome's holiest weekends of the year, Alan Johnston's been to a non-Roman Catholic corner of the eternal city which enchanted the poets Keats and Shelley; Carrie Gracie starts her new job as the BBC's China editor with a list of hard-to-answer questions while Owen Bennett-Jones is down on the banks of the River Ganges wondering how a journalist can sort facts from fiction. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Global insight and colour.  In this programme: Russians or locals? Gabriel Gatehouse to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Global insight and colour. In this programme: Russians or locals? Gabriel Gatehouse goes to meet some of those still occupying government buildings in the east of Ukraine. Lives and jobs start to disappear in South Africa as a bitter mining dispute continues amid a mood of deepening disenchantment, a despatch from Hamilton Wende; On one of Rome's holiest weekends of the year, Alan Johnston's been to a non-Roman Catholic corner of the eternal city which enchanted the poets Keats and Shelley; Carrie Gracie starts her new job as the BBC's China editor with a list of hard-to-answer questions while Owen Bennett-Jones is down on the banks of the River Ganges wondering how a journalist can sort facts from fiction. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:58:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1676</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgbj.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgbj.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzgbj.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140419-1158.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzgbb</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgbj.mp3" fileSize="26816000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1676"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzgbb</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Happy Ending</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The stories behind the stories. In this edition: why Germany's ambivalence towards Russia may emerge as east meets west to discuss Ukraine next week; West Bengal plans to restore the lost glory of Kolkata - the idea is, we hear, to make it a bit more like London; life gets harder in the Gaza Strip as the interim government in neighbouring Egypt cranks up the pressure on Hamas; 'Isn't that you know who?' A chance meeting, in a Budapest hospital, with the man who is arguably Europe's most controversial leader. And what happened when our man in Marrakech asked the king to step in to save an ancient tradition from oblivion.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The stories behind the stories.  In this edition: why Germany's ambivalence towards may...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The stories behind the stories. In this edition: why Germany's ambivalence towards Russia may emerge as east meets west to discuss Ukraine next week; West Bengal plans to restore the lost glory of Kolkata - the idea is, we hear, to make it a bit more like London; life gets harder in the Gaza Strip as the interim government in neighbouring Egypt cranks up the pressure on Hamas; 'Isn't that you know who?' A chance meeting, in a Budapest hospital, with the man who is arguably Europe's most controversial leader. And what happened when our man in Marrakech asked the king to step in to save an ancient tradition from oblivion.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2014 11:13:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02kn.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02kn.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s02kn.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140412-1213.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s02kf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02kn.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s02kf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Underneath the Mango Tree</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Despatches from foreign correspondents. Today: Tim Whewell on what's caused the savage breakdown in law and order in the Central African Republic. As Afghans go to the polls, Lynne O'Donnell reflects on the daily threats they face from the Taliban. Ritula Shah in Gujarat on how there's cake for SOME Indians as their mammoth election approaches. Will Grant meets migrants in Mexico preparing for a dangerous and illegal desert trek into the United States and it's a literary mystery that's baffled the brilliant for more than a century - Simon Worrall's been to study the controversial Voynich Manuscript.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Despatches from foreign correspondents.  Today: Tim Whewell on what's caused the savage...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Despatches from foreign correspondents. Today: Tim Whewell on what's caused the savage breakdown in law and order in the Central African Republic. As Afghans go to the polls, Lynne O'Donnell reflects on the daily threats they face from the Taliban. Ritula Shah in Gujarat on how there's cake for SOME Indians as their mammoth election approaches. Will Grant meets migrants in Mexico preparing for a dangerous and illegal desert trek into the United States and it's a literary mystery that's baffled the brilliant for more than a century - Simon Worrall's been to study the controversial Voynich Manuscript.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2014 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1683</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlwt.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlwt.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzlwt.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140405-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzlwn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlwt.mp3" fileSize="26928000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1683"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzlwn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Are the Russians coming?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories. In this edition, Humphrey Hawksley's in a part of Europe where an increase in Russian influence would not be unwelcome. Twenty-five years after the fall of Communism, Monica Whitlock is in Romania where they are still unlocking secrets from the past. As election time approaches in India, Kieran Cooke's visiting Assam and finding remnants of a bygone, colonial era. And not far from high-tech Silicon Valley, Andrew Whitehead finds there's still enthusiasm for the old-style, printed book.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents' stories.  In this edition, Humphrey Hawksley's in a part of Europe an...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories. In this edition, Humphrey Hawksley's in a part of Europe where an increase in Russian influence would not be unwelcome. Twenty-five years after the fall of Communism, Monica Whitlock is in Romania where they are still unlocking secrets from the past. As election time approaches in India, Kieran Cooke's visiting Assam and finding remnants of a bygone, colonial era. And not far from high-tech Silicon Valley, Andrew Whitehead finds there's still enthusiasm for the old-style, printed book.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1476</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs32.mp3" length="23616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs32.mp3" length="23616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzs32.mp3" length="23616000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140329-1230.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzs2q</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs32.mp3" fileSize="23616000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1476"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzs2q</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Hirsute History + Desert Verse</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. Today, Jamie Coomarasamy meets the man who once was Crimea's one and only President and dreams of a new landscape; James Menendez goes to the city where month-long demonstrations started in Venezuela; Shahida Bari find camels, dogs, four by fours, twitter and verse in the deserts of the UAE; Rajan Datar is in Goa, trying his best to help pick up the rubbish; and Stephen Mulvey's memories of Ukrainian independence don't match President Putin's.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world.  Today, Jamie meets...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. Today, Jamie Coomarasamy meets the man who once was Crimea's one and only President and dreams of a new landscape; James Menendez goes to the city where month-long demonstrations started in Venezuela; Shahida Bari find camels, dogs, four by fours, twitter and verse in the deserts of the UAE; Rajan Datar is in Goa, trying his best to help pick up the rubbish; and Stephen Mulvey's memories of Ukrainian independence don't match President Putin's.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1694</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb3h.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb3h.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzb3h.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140322-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzb3c</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb3h.mp3" fileSize="27104000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1694"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzb3c</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Forensics and Scrummaging</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories from around the world, introduced by Kate Adie. Today: Will Grant meets El Salvador's only forensic archaeologist, with the unenviable task of unearthing and identifying murder victims; Emma Jane Kirby is in a French border town, discovering why the Front National is gaining support; Karen Allen visits the former Taleban capital of Kandahar where businessmen are in desperate need of more power; Alex Preston, in Sri Lanka, finds out why rugby is becoming so popular; and Susannah Knights is with the musicians and performers of Tunisia who are poor but flourishing in their new found freedom.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents' stories from around the world, introduced by Kate Adie.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories from around the world, introduced by Kate Adie. Today: Will Grant meets El Salvador's only forensic archaeologist, with the unenviable task of unearthing and identifying murder victims; Emma Jane Kirby is in a French border town, discovering why the Front National is gaining support; Karen Allen visits the former Taleban capital of Kandahar where businessmen are in desperate need of more power; Alex Preston, in Sri Lanka, finds out why rugby is becoming so popular; and Susannah Knights is with the musicians and performers of Tunisia who are poor but flourishing in their new found freedom.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2014 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsd9.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsd9.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzsd9.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140320-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzsd4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsd9.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzsd4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>History, Aliens and Chicken Wings</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. This week Mark Lowen is reminded of his days in the Balkans as he talks about history to people in Crimea; three years after the start of the uprising in Syria, Lina Sinjab catches up with those who once had so much hope; Sue Lloyd Roberts hears how a religious sect that believes in Aliens and the pursuit of pleasure is trying to help victims of female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso; In Serbia, Guy de Launey tells us how a political double-act could be replaced by Superman; and Tara Isabella Burton explains why chickens should avoid the Wing Bowl in Philadelphia.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories.  This week Mark Lowen is reminded of his...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. This week Mark Lowen is reminded of his days in the Balkans as he talks about history to people in Crimea; three years after the start of the uprising in Syria, Lina Sinjab catches up with those who once had so much hope; Sue Lloyd Roberts hears how a religious sect that believes in Aliens and the pursuit of pleasure is trying to help victims of female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso; In Serbia, Guy de Launey tells us how a political double-act could be replaced by Superman; and Tara Isabella Burton explains why chickens should avoid the Wing Bowl in Philadelphia.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9d0.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9d0.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9d0.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140315-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9cy</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9d0.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9cy</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Troubles in Paradise</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces Correspondents' stories from around the world. Today Ukrainian journalist Andriy Kulykov wonders why silence is the order of the day with the armed men of Crimea. Peter Day is in industrious South Korea where they are trying to make the place more relaxed. Damien McGuinness visits a mega-brothel in Germany, where prostitution has been legal for over a decade, but he questions if much has really changed. We take a remarkly tourist-free ride down the Nile with Robin Denselow; it's good for him but not so good for Egypt. And Charlotte Ashton discovers why Singapore is at the bottom of the happy pile.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie introduces Correspondents' stories from around the world.  Today Ukrainian is...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces Correspondents' stories from around the world. Today Ukrainian journalist Andriy Kulykov wonders why silence is the order of the day with the armed men of Crimea. Peter Day is in industrious South Korea where they are trying to make the place more relaxed. Damien McGuinness visits a mega-brothel in Germany, where prostitution has been legal for over a decade, but he questions if much has really changed. We take a remarkly tourist-free ride down the Nile with Robin Denselow; it's good for him but not so good for Egypt. And Charlotte Ashton discovers why Singapore is at the bottom of the happy pile.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwnx.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwnx.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzwnx.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140313-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzwnc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwnx.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzwnc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Courthouses and Codpieces</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. This week, with American and British combat troops soon to leave, the author and historian William Dalrymple gives his assessment of where the latest military intervention into Afghanistan fits into the country's troubled history. Quentin Sommerville attends the court hearing of some Al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt and finds the prosecution less than convincing. Linda Pressly is in Uruguay to see if legalising marijuana will help tackle the problem of hard drugs. In India, Ed Butler spends time with sleuths of a special kind - the wedding detectives. And Stephen Smith re-visits Italy's Renaissance with its ruffs, doublets and, of course, cod-pieces.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world.  This week, with to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. This week, with American and British combat troops soon to leave, the author and historian William Dalrymple gives his assessment of where the latest military intervention into Afghanistan fits into the country's troubled history. Quentin Sommerville attends the court hearing of some Al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt and finds the prosecution less than convincing. Linda Pressly is in Uruguay to see if legalising marijuana will help tackle the problem of hard drugs. In India, Ed Butler spends time with sleuths of a special kind - the wedding detectives. And Stephen Smith re-visits Italy's Renaissance with its ruffs, doublets and, of course, cod-pieces.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2014 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1699</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz91k.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz91k.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz91k.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140308-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz91g</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz91k.mp3" fileSize="27184000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1699"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz91g</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>spaceships in the desert</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stories from correspondents around the world, introduced by Kate Adie. In this programme Mark Urban hears an Iraqi policeman let rip about his own government and there are predictions of mayhem. In Afghanistan Chris Terrill visits a school that's daring to teach boys and girls together. Niger has joined the club of oil producers and Celeste Hicks describes how the arrival of a spaceship of sorts in the desert is affecting people's lives - but they need to read the small print. James Rodgers visits a World War 1 cemetery near Jerusalem and ponders how events there 100 years ago influenced the region and still do. And Justin Marozzi has been given a nickname - in Somalia. It's not flattering but it's better than the last one.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from correspondents around the world, introduced by Kate Adie.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stories from correspondents around the world, introduced by Kate Adie. In this programme Mark Urban hears an Iraqi policeman let rip about his own government and there are predictions of mayhem. In Afghanistan Chris Terrill visits a school that's daring to teach boys and girls together. Niger has joined the club of oil producers and Celeste Hicks describes how the arrival of a spaceship of sorts in the desert is affecting people's lives - but they need to read the small print. James Rodgers visits a World War 1 cemetery near Jerusalem and ponders how events there 100 years ago influenced the region and still do. And Justin Marozzi has been given a nickname - in Somalia. It's not flattering but it's better than the last one.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2014 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1699</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3s5.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3s5.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz3s5.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140306-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz3s2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3s5.mp3" fileSize="27184000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1699"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz3s2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Revolutions are Unpredictable</title><description><![CDATA[<p>'When change happens, it can happen very, very fast,' Steve Rosenberg in Ukraine. Revolutions: no-one can be quite sure how they'll turn out, Kevin Connolly in Egypt. Bush fires in Australia: Jim Carey on what can be learned from the Aborigines, who spent tens of thousands of years controlling the land. The modern world is closing in on the Amish communities of the US, but Beth McLeod says they're not dying out. They are, in fact, thriving. And a conflict zone is not a place where the mentally ill thrive, as Mary Harper's been learning at a hospital in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>'When change happens, it can happen very, very fast,' Steve Rosenberg in Ukraine.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>'When change happens, it can happen very, very fast,' Steve Rosenberg in Ukraine. Revolutions: no-one can be quite sure how they'll turn out, Kevin Connolly in Egypt. Bush fires in Australia: Jim Carey on what can be learned from the Aborigines, who spent tens of thousands of years controlling the land. The modern world is closing in on the Amish communities of the US, but Beth McLeod says they're not dying out. They are, in fact, thriving. And a conflict zone is not a place where the mentally ill thrive, as Mary Harper's been learning at a hospital in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1703</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcvv.mp3" length="27248000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcvv.mp3" length="27248000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzcvv.mp3" length="27248000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140301-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzcvr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcvv.mp3" fileSize="27248000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1703"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzcvr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Here for Eternity?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents with tales to tell. In this edition: Gabriel Gatehouse watching the unfolding revolution in Ukraine; Abigail Fielding-Smith in the Lebanese capital Beirut as the war in Syria creeps ever closer; Will Grant on the latest chapter in the extraordinary story of drugs baron Joaquin 'Shorty' Guzman; Rachel McCormack gets a taste of the heated argument in Spain over the possibility of Catalan independence and 12 hours across the Karakum desert: Jonathan Fryer has time on the train to consider the ripples of revolution and who, if anyone, might be here for eternity.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents with tales to tell.  In this edition: Gabriel Gatehouse watching the in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents with tales to tell. In this edition: Gabriel Gatehouse watching the unfolding revolution in Ukraine; Abigail Fielding-Smith in the Lebanese capital Beirut as the war in Syria creeps ever closer; Will Grant on the latest chapter in the extraordinary story of drugs baron Joaquin 'Shorty' Guzman; Rachel McCormack gets a taste of the heated argument in Spain over the possibility of Catalan independence and 12 hours across the Karakum desert: Jonathan Fryer has time on the train to consider the ripples of revolution and who, if anyone, might be here for eternity.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1664</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5cw.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5cw.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz5cw.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140227-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz5cf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5cw.mp3" fileSize="26624000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1664"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz5cf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Hyenas Come to Town</title><description><![CDATA[<p>London may be infested by urban foxes and Delhi beseiged by urban monkeys but Addis Ababa, as Martin Fletcher's been seeing for himself, is plagued by urban hyenas -- and they're ugly-looking creatures! David Stern's been living in Kiev, Ukraine, for five years -- and has had to get used to living with a revolution on his doorstep. A quarter of a million people, some estimate, have been detained in Syria by either the authorities or the rebels; Lyse Doucet's been talking to two men who know a lot about detainees. The long-serving leader of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, is ninety years old and Kim Chakanetsa has been finding out what people there think of their president, who's been in power nearly 34-years. And Neal Razzell's been making a programme with two reporters, one from China, the other from Japan. The programme's about the strained relationship between those two countries. But how did the reporting team get on?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> London may be infested by urban foxes and Delhi beseiged by urban monkeys but Addis as...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>London may be infested by urban foxes and Delhi beseiged by urban monkeys but Addis Ababa, as Martin Fletcher's been seeing for himself, is plagued by urban hyenas -- and they're ugly-looking creatures! David Stern's been living in Kiev, Ukraine, for five years -- and has had to get used to living with a revolution on his doorstep. A quarter of a million people, some estimate, have been detained in Syria by either the authorities or the rebels; Lyse Doucet's been talking to two men who know a lot about detainees. The long-serving leader of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, is ninety years old and Kim Chakanetsa has been finding out what people there think of their president, who's been in power nearly 34-years. And Neal Razzell's been making a programme with two reporters, one from China, the other from Japan. The programme's about the strained relationship between those two countries. But how did the reporting team get on?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1679</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8nj.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8nj.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz8nj.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140222-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz8n4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8nj.mp3" fileSize="26864000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1679"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz8n4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Saddam Hussein Lives!</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stories from foreign correspondents. In this edition: Prashant Rao meets an Iraqi called Saddam Hussein and hears how difficult it is being named after the brutal and hated dictator; Lynne O'Donnell visits the famous 'laneways' of Melbourne in Australia and wonders whether this precious example of architectural heritage is being properly looked after by the local council; Jane Beresford finds her preconceptions shattered when she visits the Beirut suburb associated with the Hezbollah movement; Tamasin Ford journeys to a remote corner of Madagascar where an illegal trade in a rare wood is worth billions and Alan Johnston in Rome considers the man most likely to be Italy's next prime minister and suggests his strength may actually lie in his inexperience.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from foreign correspondents.  In this edition: Prashant Rao meets an Iraqi and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stories from foreign correspondents. In this edition: Prashant Rao meets an Iraqi called Saddam Hussein and hears how difficult it is being named after the brutal and hated dictator; Lynne O'Donnell visits the famous 'laneways' of Melbourne in Australia and wonders whether this precious example of architectural heritage is being properly looked after by the local council; Jane Beresford finds her preconceptions shattered when she visits the Beirut suburb associated with the Hezbollah movement; Tamasin Ford journeys to a remote corner of Madagascar where an illegal trade in a rare wood is worth billions and Alan Johnston in Rome considers the man most likely to be Italy's next prime minister and suggests his strength may actually lie in his inexperience.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbjq.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbjq.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzbjq.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140220-1132.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzbjj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbjq.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzbjj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Marauding Baboons</title><description><![CDATA[<p>'No wonder everyone is looting now. The elites here have been doing it for years,' our correspondent Andrew Harding is told in the troubled Central African Republic.' As Brazil awaits further demonstrations against a proposed ten per cent hike in public transport costs, Wyre Davies takes a cameraman to hospital who was fatally injured in clashes between protestors and police. Gabriel Gatehouse in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa talks about atheism and jazz with a man who warns him that an army of Allah will rise up out of the desert. Mariko Oi, herself a reporter from Japan, talks about the difficulties of making a programme about the often troubled relations between her country and China. And Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa, may be best known these days for its American military base, but Frank Gardner gets away from that and learns a little more about life, and the baboons, in the country's tranquil Rift Valley.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>'No wonder everyone is looting now.  The elites here have been doing it for years,' our...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>'No wonder everyone is looting now. The elites here have been doing it for years,' our correspondent Andrew Harding is told in the troubled Central African Republic.' As Brazil awaits further demonstrations against a proposed ten per cent hike in public transport costs, Wyre Davies takes a cameraman to hospital who was fatally injured in clashes between protestors and police. Gabriel Gatehouse in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa talks about atheism and jazz with a man who warns him that an army of Allah will rise up out of the desert. Mariko Oi, herself a reporter from Japan, talks about the difficulties of making a programme about the often troubled relations between her country and China. And Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa, may be best known these days for its American military base, but Frank Gardner gets away from that and learns a little more about life, and the baboons, in the country's tranquil Rift Valley.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2014 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1692</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj1p.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj1p.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzj1p.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140215-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzj1l</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj1p.mp3" fileSize="27072000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1692"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzj1l</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Come to Sunny Gaza!</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Why is Bosnia seeing its most serious unrest since the country was at war in the 1990s? How difficult is it getting America back to work? Is there public support in Nigeria for the authorities' new law against homosexuals? What evidence is there of the links between Soviet East Germany and the exotic spice island of Zanzibar? And why might our man visiting the Gaza Strip be considering going back there, with his family, for a holiday? They are all questions addressed in this latest edition of From Our Own Correspondent.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Why is Bosnia seeing its most serious unrest since the country was at war in the How a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Why is Bosnia seeing its most serious unrest since the country was at war in the 1990s? How difficult is it getting America back to work? Is there public support in Nigeria for the authorities' new law against homosexuals? What evidence is there of the links between Soviet East Germany and the exotic spice island of Zanzibar? And why might our man visiting the Gaza Strip be considering going back there, with his family, for a holiday? They are all questions addressed in this latest edition of From Our Own Correspondent.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s03k0.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s03k0.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s03k0.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140213-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s03js</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s03k0.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s03js</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Robots Come Out at Night</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Robots are doing the cleaning up in an old people's home in Denmark. Are they popular? Jake Wallis Simons has been finding out. A journalist in Sri Lanka is stabbed to death in her home. Charles Haviland says colleagues are now talking of a society brutalised by years of violence, where the value of life has been eroded. What do Judaism and Confucianism have in common? Quite a lot apparently, as Michael Goldfarb's been discovering in the Chinese city of Jinan. American schoolchildren are now being taught what to do should a gunman start shooting in their school. Laura Trevelyan in New York's been talking to children and to parents about it. And as a corruption scandal swirls around the Spanish royal family, Tom Burridge goes to two royal palaces to try to learn how the Spanish royals can win back their popularity.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Robots are doing the cleaning up in an old people's home in Denmark.  Are they popular?...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Robots are doing the cleaning up in an old people's home in Denmark. Are they popular? Jake Wallis Simons has been finding out. A journalist in Sri Lanka is stabbed to death in her home. Charles Haviland says colleagues are now talking of a society brutalised by years of violence, where the value of life has been eroded. What do Judaism and Confucianism have in common? Quite a lot apparently, as Michael Goldfarb's been discovering in the Chinese city of Jinan. American schoolchildren are now being taught what to do should a gunman start shooting in their school. Laura Trevelyan in New York's been talking to children and to parents about it. And as a corruption scandal swirls around the Spanish royal family, Tom Burridge goes to two royal palaces to try to learn how the Spanish royals can win back their popularity.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1666</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdhv.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdhv.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzdhv.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140208-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzdhq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdhv.mp3" fileSize="26656000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1666"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzdhq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Tiny Boats at Sea</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Spain crawls painfully out of recession but Pascale Harter, in Barcelona, says so much damage has already been done to Spanish families; in America, six million manufacturing jobs have gone but there are still some things Made in the USA, as Mike Wendling's been discovering in New York State; one territory full of natural resources is Inner Mongolia, which is part of China. But, as Martin Patience has been learning, there are concerns that development's coming at a heavy cost to tradition and heritage; Edward Lewis climbs aboard the train to Luxor to ask passengers what they make of Egypt's military leader Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and Simon Atkinson, in the deserts of Abu Dhabi, learns what exactly it is that makes a camel beautiful.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Spain crawls painfully out of recession but Pascale Harter, in Barcelona, says so much...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Spain crawls painfully out of recession but Pascale Harter, in Barcelona, says so much damage has already been done to Spanish families; in America, six million manufacturing jobs have gone but there are still some things Made in the USA, as Mike Wendling's been discovering in New York State; one territory full of natural resources is Inner Mongolia, which is part of China. But, as Martin Patience has been learning, there are concerns that development's coming at a heavy cost to tradition and heritage; Edward Lewis climbs aboard the train to Luxor to ask passengers what they make of Egypt's military leader Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and Simon Atkinson, in the deserts of Abu Dhabi, learns what exactly it is that makes a camel beautiful.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:47:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvd5.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvd5.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzvd5.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140206-1147.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzvcw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvd5.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzvcw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Don't Call it a Drone!</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters worldwide. In this edition: Britain and France are to co-operate on a new unmanned combat aircraft but all involved agree - let's not call it a drone! The first round of the Syrian peace talks have come to an end in Geneva. You might think little's been achieved, but that's not necessarily the case. We go to meet the former warlord with links to Osama bin Laden who wants to be the next president of Afghanistan and to Work Street in Athens where, despite some upbeat government forecasts, the workers reckon there are more hard times ahead. And in Delhi, arguably the world's noisiest city, we visit the car horn bazaar to find the loudest hooter of them all.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Reporters worldwide.  In this edition: Britain and France are to co-operate on a new -...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters worldwide. In this edition: Britain and France are to co-operate on a new unmanned combat aircraft but all involved agree - let's not call it a drone! The first round of the Syrian peace talks have come to an end in Geneva. You might think little's been achieved, but that's not necessarily the case. We go to meet the former warlord with links to Osama bin Laden who wants to be the next president of Afghanistan and to Work Street in Athens where, despite some upbeat government forecasts, the workers reckon there are more hard times ahead. And in Delhi, arguably the world's noisiest city, we visit the car horn bazaar to find the loudest hooter of them all.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2014 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1616</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb1n.mp3" length="25856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb1n.mp3" length="25856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzb1n.mp3" length="25856000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140201-1202.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzb1f</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb1n.mp3" fileSize="25856000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1616"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzb1f</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Doomed Romance</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A love affair going nowhere in Damascus -- it's what happens when a rebel footsoldier falls in love with the daughter of one of the Syrian regime's security chiefs; one correspondent comes face to face with what she describes as 'the most exquisite banquet in Chinese history' while another is with the protestors in the Ukrainian capital Kiev saying the city 'looks and feels like some surreal parallel universe where an idealised, heroic past has collided with a menacing dystopian future.' We hear that Kazakhstan is suffering an identity crisis: while some now chase post-perestroika wealth, others are looking to the past and seeking guidance from the cults of their ancestors. And their songs have been labelled 'vulgar and slanderous' but we find out that the Calypsonians of Guyana claim their government's trying to silence them.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> A love affair going nowhere in Damascus -- it's what happens when a rebel footsoldier...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A love affair going nowhere in Damascus -- it's what happens when a rebel footsoldier falls in love with the daughter of one of the Syrian regime's security chiefs; one correspondent comes face to face with what she describes as 'the most exquisite banquet in Chinese history' while another is with the protestors in the Ukrainian capital Kiev saying the city 'looks and feels like some surreal parallel universe where an idealised, heroic past has collided with a menacing dystopian future.' We hear that Kazakhstan is suffering an identity crisis: while some now chase post-perestroika wealth, others are looking to the past and seeking guidance from the cults of their ancestors. And their songs have been labelled 'vulgar and slanderous' but we find out that the Calypsonians of Guyana claim their government's trying to silence them.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:35:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1668</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb4t.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb4t.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzb4t.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140130-1135.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzb4q</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb4t.mp3" fileSize="26688000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1668"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzb4q</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Guns and Showers</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters' despatches from around the world, introduced by Kate Adie. Today, Will Grant on the astonishing prevalence of guns in Central America: Josh Spero in Jerusalem asks how best to teach Israeli children about the Holocaust without traumatising them: Jake Wallis Simons witnesses friendship across the Muslim-Christian divide in Sierra Leone: Lina Sinjab returns to her home city of Damascus, where the once-vibrant cafe society is fast fading away: and in Toulouse, Chris Bockman discovers that the municipal bathhouse has become a virtual community centre.
  2080. Producer: John Murphy</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Reporters' despatches from around the world, introduced by Kate Adie.  Today, Will on a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters' despatches from around the world, introduced by Kate Adie. Today, Will Grant on the astonishing prevalence of guns in Central America: Josh Spero in Jerusalem asks how best to teach Israeli children about the Holocaust without traumatising them: Jake Wallis Simons witnesses friendship across the Muslim-Christian divide in Sierra Leone: Lina Sinjab returns to her home city of Damascus, where the once-vibrant cafe society is fast fading away: and in Toulouse, Chris Bockman discovers that the municipal bathhouse has become a virtual community centre.
  2081. Producer: John Murphy</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2014 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1626</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3sz.mp3" length="26016000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3sz.mp3" length="26016000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz3sz.mp3" length="26016000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140125-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz3ss</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3sz.mp3" fileSize="26016000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1626"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz3ss</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Battlegrounds</title><description><![CDATA[<p>As athletes turn up to the winter Olympic games, what might they find? The Thai fishing industry is accused of using slave labour; Syrians can only look across the border from Turkey at their old homes and hope to return one day; an Italian priest takes on militia groups in the Central African Republic to save Muslims and Christians alike; and we hear of one of Britain's worst military defeats which is still a source of great pride for Zulus.
  2082. Kate Adie introduces these reports from around the world.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> As athletes turn up to the winter Olympic games, what might they find? The Thai is of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>As athletes turn up to the winter Olympic games, what might they find? The Thai fishing industry is accused of using slave labour; Syrians can only look across the border from Turkey at their old homes and hope to return one day; an Italian priest takes on militia groups in the Central African Republic to save Muslims and Christians alike; and we hear of one of Britain's worst military defeats which is still a source of great pride for Zulus.
  2083. Kate Adie introduces these reports from around the world.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1693</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh9r.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh9r.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzh9r.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140123-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzh9l</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh9r.mp3" fileSize="27088000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1693"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzh9l</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Kerouac's Back</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Story telling: Kerouac the runaway dog returns from his adventures in Mali and the police present their bill; our camera crew in Cairo set out to film a poster which the military authorities strongly disapprove of; violence against women is on the rise in Afghanistan as the withdrawal of western troops gathers pace; there's despondency in the world's newest nation, South Sudan, as foreign troops join the fighting there and, in a sauna deep in the Ural Mountains, our correspondent meets two hunters and asks questions about bribery, corruption and gay sex.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Story telling: Kerouac the runaway dog returns from his adventures in Mali and the our...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Story telling: Kerouac the runaway dog returns from his adventures in Mali and the police present their bill; our camera crew in Cairo set out to film a poster which the military authorities strongly disapprove of; violence against women is on the rise in Afghanistan as the withdrawal of western troops gathers pace; there's despondency in the world's newest nation, South Sudan, as foreign troops join the fighting there and, in a sauna deep in the Ural Mountains, our correspondent meets two hunters and asks questions about bribery, corruption and gay sex.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:59:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1676</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9bv.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9bv.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9bv.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140118-1159.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9bs</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9bv.mp3" fileSize="26816000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1676"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9bs</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A City of Intrigue</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A secret city, melted cheese, female freedom fighters, buried treasure, an emperor's magnificent lifestyle, songs by the camp fire, Kalashnikovs and puppies, Kazakh carpenters and Tajik tilers</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> A secret city, melted cheese, female freedom fighters, buried treasure, an emperor's...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A secret city, melted cheese, female freedom fighters, buried treasure, an emperor's magnificent lifestyle, songs by the camp fire, Kalashnikovs and puppies, Kazakh carpenters and Tajik tilers</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2014 12:05:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1679</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsb9.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsb9.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzsb9.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140111-1205.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzsb4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsb9.mp3" fileSize="26864000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1679"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzsb4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Somalis on Ice</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Foreign correspondents: James Copnall meets the men now controlling the opposing forces in the battle for South Sudan; Nick Meo hears the concerns surrounding the huge project designed to cover over the radiation threat from the old Chernobyl plant in Ukraine; Humphrey Hawksley examines the working conditions of the brick makers helping to construct India's economic miracle; Matthew Teller relives a historic flight along the River Nile -- it may have taken three months to complete, but those responsible were hailed as heroes and Mary Harper meets the skaters from Somalia taking to the ice and hoping to make their mark at an international tournament in Siberia.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Foreign correspondents: James Copnall meets the men now controlling the opposing in to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Foreign correspondents: James Copnall meets the men now controlling the opposing forces in the battle for South Sudan; Nick Meo hears the concerns surrounding the huge project designed to cover over the radiation threat from the old Chernobyl plant in Ukraine; Humphrey Hawksley examines the working conditions of the brick makers helping to construct India's economic miracle; Matthew Teller relives a historic flight along the River Nile -- it may have taken three months to complete, but those responsible were hailed as heroes and Mary Harper meets the skaters from Somalia taking to the ice and hoping to make their mark at an international tournament in Siberia.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2014 12:07:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3k7.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3k7.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz3k7.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140104-1207.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz3k3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3k7.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz3k3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Transglobal Express</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Over the past year, BBC correspondents have reported on upheaval in Egypt, war in Syria, a government shutdown in America, a new pope and a royal baby. But this special edition of From Our Own Correspondent avoids the major headlines and the big breaking stories in favour of a ground-level view of the last 12 months. So, in this programme: Rajan Datar takes a ride with a polyphonic choir in Georgia and Reggie Nadelson hears the story of Harlem's Apollo Theatre. Nick Thorpe finds strangely tender moments in a Romanian slaughterhouse while Steve Rosenberg plays piano with the man who ended the Cold War. We journey to the deserts of Sahara and South America, take trains in Portugal and Nigeria and hear reporters grapple with strange musical instruments in Vietnam and Switzerland. And there's more in this montage of some of the year's more entertaining dispatches, presented by Kate Adie. Producer: Mike Wendling</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Over the past year, BBC correspondents have reported on upheaval in Egypt, war in a in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Over the past year, BBC correspondents have reported on upheaval in Egypt, war in Syria, a government shutdown in America, a new pope and a royal baby. But this special edition of From Our Own Correspondent avoids the major headlines and the big breaking stories in favour of a ground-level view of the last 12 months. So, in this programme: Rajan Datar takes a ride with a polyphonic choir in Georgia and Reggie Nadelson hears the story of Harlem's Apollo Theatre. Nick Thorpe finds strangely tender moments in a Romanian slaughterhouse while Steve Rosenberg plays piano with the man who ended the Cold War. We journey to the deserts of Sahara and South America, take trains in Portugal and Nigeria and hear reporters grapple with strange musical instruments in Vietnam and Switzerland. And there's more in this montage of some of the year's more entertaining dispatches, presented by Kate Adie. Producer: Mike Wendling</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1659</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd77.mp3" length="26544000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd77.mp3" length="26544000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzd77.mp3" length="26544000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131228-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzd75</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd77.mp3" fileSize="26544000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1659"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzd75</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Good to See You Again!</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Good to see you again! Mark Doyle is reunited with his spectacles, which were lost on a battlefield, and gets to see some of the lesser reported glories of Somalia. The Greek central bank forecasts an end to six years of recession and Mark Lowen, in Athens, talks of the resilience of the Greek people and their love of life. Reasons to be cheerful in the eastern German city of Leipzig too: Chris Bowlby's there talking to locals about a huge transport project ready after lengthy delays; Susie Emmett sees signs of energy, ingenuity, integrity and community in Kenyan farming but is less impressed by the colour of her bath water and James Fletcher is grounded by an Arctic storm while out news gathering in Greenland. Can he make it home in time for Christmas? From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Good to see you again! Mark Doyle is reunited with his spectacles, which were lost on...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Good to see you again! Mark Doyle is reunited with his spectacles, which were lost on a battlefield, and gets to see some of the lesser reported glories of Somalia. The Greek central bank forecasts an end to six years of recession and Mark Lowen, in Athens, talks of the resilience of the Greek people and their love of life. Reasons to be cheerful in the eastern German city of Leipzig too: Chris Bowlby's there talking to locals about a huge transport project ready after lengthy delays; Susie Emmett sees signs of energy, ingenuity, integrity and community in Kenyan farming but is less impressed by the colour of her bath water and James Fletcher is grounded by an Arctic storm while out news gathering in Greenland. Can he make it home in time for Christmas? From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzv4d.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzv4d.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzv4d.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131221-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzv45</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzv4d.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzv45</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Turmoil in Thailand</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents with stories from around the world: in this edition, Jonathan Head on how an argument over democracy lies at the heart of the current political turmoil in Thailand; Lucy Williamson's in the Chinese city closest to North Korea where a brutal leadership purge was underway; Katy Watson meets a man in the United States who a thousand women a year turn to for help after having breast cancer surgery; James Harkin on the Syrian air force officer who's been imprisoned on three separate occasions and Joanna Robertson in Paris explodes the myth that French women don't get fat and hears the claim that in French society, a fat female is a failure. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents with stories from around the world: in this edition, Jonathan Head on a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents with stories from around the world: in this edition, Jonathan Head on how an argument over democracy lies at the heart of the current political turmoil in Thailand; Lucy Williamson's in the Chinese city closest to North Korea where a brutal leadership purge was underway; Katy Watson meets a man in the United States who a thousand women a year turn to for help after having breast cancer surgery; James Harkin on the Syrian air force officer who's been imprisoned on three separate occasions and Joanna Robertson in Paris explodes the myth that French women don't get fat and hears the claim that in French society, a fat female is a failure. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2013 12:14:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1692</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhl3.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhl3.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzhl3.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131214-1214.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzhky</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhl3.mp3" fileSize="27072000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1692"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzhky</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mandela: five correspondents' stories</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Nelson Mandela: five correspondents who'll never forget how their own stories came to coincide with that of the great South African leader, who died on Thursday. Fergal Keane was our man in Johannesburg as Mr Mandela fought to keep his country back from the brink of civil war; John Simpson on the day he met a man who had 'become perhaps the most revered person on earth.' Milton Nkosi recalls the risks taken to keep the name of Nelson Mandela alive in the townships during his long years of imprisonment; Hamilton Wende on what it was like, as a white South African, growing up in a country where even talking of Mr Mandela could be dangerous and James Robbins on the long-awaited day when the man who went on to lead the country was freed from prison and appeared before a jubilant crowd in Cape Town. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Nelson Mandela: five correspondents who'll never forget how their own stories came to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Nelson Mandela: five correspondents who'll never forget how their own stories came to coincide with that of the great South African leader, who died on Thursday. Fergal Keane was our man in Johannesburg as Mr Mandela fought to keep his country back from the brink of civil war; John Simpson on the day he met a man who had 'become perhaps the most revered person on earth.' Milton Nkosi recalls the risks taken to keep the name of Nelson Mandela alive in the townships during his long years of imprisonment; Hamilton Wende on what it was like, as a white South African, growing up in a country where even talking of Mr Mandela could be dangerous and James Robbins on the long-awaited day when the man who went on to lead the country was freed from prison and appeared before a jubilant crowd in Cape Town. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2013 12:07:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1651</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzqkj.mp3" length="26416000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzqkj.mp3" length="26416000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzqkj.mp3" length="26416000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131207-1207.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzqk6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzqkj.mp3" fileSize="26416000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1651"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzqk6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>East or West?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents with stories from the news. Today, Steve Rosenberg on how Ukraine's caught in a tug-of-war between Russia and the European Union; a huge refugee camp by the Sahara Desert is hit by drought - Chris Terrill says it's difficult for the inmates and the aid agencies trying to help them. But it's a boon for the Islamic militant groups looking for recruits; freak weather has killed thirty thousand cattle in the American state, South Dakota - Sybil Ruscoe's been there to see how the ranchers are coping; James Menendez has been travelling in Burma, also known as Myanmar. The place is fast modernising, but transformation has yet to arrive on its railways. And Robin Lustig goes hiking through Peru's Andean foothills looking for coca growers and finding out why they're dubious about their government's anti-drugs initiative. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents with stories from the news.  Today, Steve Rosenberg on how Ukraine's in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents with stories from the news. Today, Steve Rosenberg on how Ukraine's caught in a tug-of-war between Russia and the European Union; a huge refugee camp by the Sahara Desert is hit by drought - Chris Terrill says it's difficult for the inmates and the aid agencies trying to help them. But it's a boon for the Islamic militant groups looking for recruits; freak weather has killed thirty thousand cattle in the American state, South Dakota - Sybil Ruscoe's been there to see how the ranchers are coping; James Menendez has been travelling in Burma, also known as Myanmar. The place is fast modernising, but transformation has yet to arrive on its railways. And Robin Lustig goes hiking through Peru's Andean foothills looking for coca growers and finding out why they're dubious about their government's anti-drugs initiative. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1677</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd6v.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd6v.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzd6v.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131130-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzd6s</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd6v.mp3" fileSize="26832000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1677"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzd6s</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Heroes of Baghdad</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters' despatches: already this year more than seven thousand people have been killed in the upsurge of violence in Iraq. Andrew Hosken explores a country full of widows, orphans and frightened people mourning the loss of loved ones. In America, two significant anniversaries - Allan Little has been to the locations involved, Gettysburg and Dallas, and uncovers surprising revelations about the state of the USA today. The president of Bulgaria's talking of 'emergency' as demonstrations against the government show no sign of letting up - Emma Jane Kirby's been talking to the protestors in the capital, Sofia. Peter Day visits a Chinese village where they haven't yet turned their backs on the 'Great Helmsman' Mao tse Tung. And as the big Thanksgiving Day American football matches approach, Mike Wendling reflects on a sport facing difficult questions about the safety of its players. The producer of From Our Own Correspondent is Tony Grant</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Reporters' despatches: already this year more than seven thousand people have been in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters' despatches: already this year more than seven thousand people have been killed in the upsurge of violence in Iraq. Andrew Hosken explores a country full of widows, orphans and frightened people mourning the loss of loved ones. In America, two significant anniversaries - Allan Little has been to the locations involved, Gettysburg and Dallas, and uncovers surprising revelations about the state of the USA today. The president of Bulgaria's talking of 'emergency' as demonstrations against the government show no sign of letting up - Emma Jane Kirby's been talking to the protestors in the capital, Sofia. Peter Day visits a Chinese village where they haven't yet turned their backs on the 'Great Helmsman' Mao tse Tung. And as the big Thanksgiving Day American football matches approach, Mike Wendling reflects on a sport facing difficult questions about the safety of its players. The producer of From Our Own Correspondent is Tony Grant</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1699</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz63c.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz63c.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz63c.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131123-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz638</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz63c.mp3" fileSize="27184000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1699"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz638</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Noise of the Typhoon</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The noise and devastation of Hurricane Haiyan: Andrew Harding on the first town in the Philippines to feel the force of the storm; Charles Haviland on how the furore surrounding the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Sri Lanka has pushed the Tamil north of the country into the news spotlight; Nicholas Wade travels to Jerusalem to hear people's views about the latest attempts to reach a Middle East peace settlement; Moldova and other former Soviet satellites are due to sign a trade deal with the EU and Tessa Dunlop's been finding out that not everyone there feels it's a good idea to turn their backs on Russia and Will Ross has been taking time off from the hard news of Nigeria to take a look at its thriving arts scene -- and a novel use for the xylophone! From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The noise and devastation of Hurricane Haiyan: Andrew Harding on the first town in the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The noise and devastation of Hurricane Haiyan: Andrew Harding on the first town in the Philippines to feel the force of the storm; Charles Haviland on how the furore surrounding the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Sri Lanka has pushed the Tamil north of the country into the news spotlight; Nicholas Wade travels to Jerusalem to hear people's views about the latest attempts to reach a Middle East peace settlement; Moldova and other former Soviet satellites are due to sign a trade deal with the EU and Tessa Dunlop's been finding out that not everyone there feels it's a good idea to turn their backs on Russia and Will Ross has been taking time off from the hard news of Nigeria to take a look at its thriving arts scene -- and a novel use for the xylophone! From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgzf.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgzf.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzgzf.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131116-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzgz7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgzf.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzgz7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Lost Orchards</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' despatches: Jeremy Bowen on the talks, restarting in Geneva next week, about Iran's nuclear ambitions; the Colombian authorities are trying to rehabilitate child soldiers who have fought for leftist armed groups like the FARC - Tom Esslemont's been along to take a look; Steve Vickers finds out why people no longer want to live among the thousands of islands off the coast of Sweden; an atheist goes to church: Andrew Whitehead visits Martin Luther King's Baptist church in Alabama and finds himself caught up in a service. And is there any trace left of the apple orchards which once covered the island of Jersey? The answer to that one comes from Christine Finn. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents' despatches: Jeremy Bowen on the talks, restarting in Geneva next week,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' despatches: Jeremy Bowen on the talks, restarting in Geneva next week, about Iran's nuclear ambitions; the Colombian authorities are trying to rehabilitate child soldiers who have fought for leftist armed groups like the FARC - Tom Esslemont's been along to take a look; Steve Vickers finds out why people no longer want to live among the thousands of islands off the coast of Sweden; an atheist goes to church: Andrew Whitehead visits Martin Luther King's Baptist church in Alabama and finds himself caught up in a service. And is there any trace left of the apple orchards which once covered the island of Jersey? The answer to that one comes from Christine Finn. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rztm5.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rztm5.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rztm5.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131114-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rztm3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rztm5.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rztm3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Fraying at the Edges</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents worldwide: Kevin Connolly talks of unfinished business in the Middle East finally being attended to after one hundred years. Historical and continuing allegations of rape and torture in Sri Lanka are investigated by Frances Harrison. For India, its mission to Mars is an opportunity to come out top of a new Asian space race -- Justin Rowlatt examines the question: couldn't the cash instead have been used to lift many Indians out of poverty? Kieran Cooke boards a train in the west of Ireland to see if passengers feel optimistic now their prime minister has decreed the country's well on the way to seeing off an economic crisis. And David Mazower on stories of remembrance and loss which emerge in the wake of that extraordinary discovery of a huge cache of looted artwork in Germany. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents worldwide: Kevin Connolly talks of unfinished business in the Middle to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents worldwide: Kevin Connolly talks of unfinished business in the Middle East finally being attended to after one hundred years. Historical and continuing allegations of rape and torture in Sri Lanka are investigated by Frances Harrison. For India, its mission to Mars is an opportunity to come out top of a new Asian space race -- Justin Rowlatt examines the question: couldn't the cash instead have been used to lift many Indians out of poverty? Kieran Cooke boards a train in the west of Ireland to see if passengers feel optimistic now their prime minister has decreed the country's well on the way to seeing off an economic crisis. And David Mazower on stories of remembrance and loss which emerge in the wake of that extraordinary discovery of a huge cache of looted artwork in Germany. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1696</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4q4.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4q4.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz4q4.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131109-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz4q1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4q4.mp3" fileSize="27136000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1696"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz4q1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Midnight Bus to Damascus</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters worldwide: while refugees continue to stream out of Syria in their thousands, there are people who need to go INTO the country. Nigel Wilson's been talking to a group of them at the bus station in the Jordanian capital, Amman. Lyse Doucet, meanwhile, is in the Syrian capital Damascus where life for some, but not others, is becoming increasingly hard. Thomas Fessy talks of the shock in Francophone Africa at the killing of two French radio journalists in Mali. In Malaysia, elephants are losing their habitat as development continues apace. Bob Walker takes a look at a controversial plan to give the animals a new home. And Indian women over the centuries have been wearing the elegant sari -- Anu Anand has been hearing of a campaign to boost its popularity in the face of competition from more contemporary, if less stylish, clothing.
  2084. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Reporters worldwide: while refugees continue to stream out of Syria in their there are...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters worldwide: while refugees continue to stream out of Syria in their thousands, there are people who need to go INTO the country. Nigel Wilson's been talking to a group of them at the bus station in the Jordanian capital, Amman. Lyse Doucet, meanwhile, is in the Syrian capital Damascus where life for some, but not others, is becoming increasingly hard. Thomas Fessy talks of the shock in Francophone Africa at the killing of two French radio journalists in Mali. In Malaysia, elephants are losing their habitat as development continues apace. Bob Walker takes a look at a controversial plan to give the animals a new home. And Indian women over the centuries have been wearing the elegant sari -- Anu Anand has been hearing of a campaign to boost its popularity in the face of competition from more contemporary, if less stylish, clothing.
  2085. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2013 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1672</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s015t.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s015t.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s015t.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131107-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s015m</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s015t.mp3" fileSize="26752000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1672"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s015m</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Cities on Edge</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories: Jeremy Bowen on the effect in Egypt of the upcoming trials of senior figures from the Muslim Brotherhood; you could write the history of the South Pacific as a succession of arrivals of powerful, foreign vessels in palm-fringed lagoons, according to John Pickford in Tonga; the Sudanese capital Khartoum 'changed forever' after the recent riots in the capital - that's what James Copnall's been hearing in Khartoum; Linda Pressly's been to the Spanish city of Melilla, on the north coast of Morocco, to meet the so-called 'mule women' and find out why they're prepared to shoulder such heavy loads and Russians have never been famous for their smiles, but Jamie Coomarasamy's wondering if times have changed and they're now no longer trying to keep a straight face! The programme is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents' stories: Jeremy Bowen on the effect in Egypt of the upcoming trials of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories: Jeremy Bowen on the effect in Egypt of the upcoming trials of senior figures from the Muslim Brotherhood; you could write the history of the South Pacific as a succession of arrivals of powerful, foreign vessels in palm-fringed lagoons, according to John Pickford in Tonga; the Sudanese capital Khartoum 'changed forever' after the recent riots in the capital - that's what James Copnall's been hearing in Khartoum; Linda Pressly's been to the Spanish city of Melilla, on the north coast of Morocco, to meet the so-called 'mule women' and find out why they're prepared to shoulder such heavy loads and Russians have never been famous for their smiles, but Jamie Coomarasamy's wondering if times have changed and they're now no longer trying to keep a straight face! The programme is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Nov 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1677</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s033b.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s033b.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s033b.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131102-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s0332</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s033b.mp3" fileSize="26832000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1677"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s0332</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Night Out in Greenland</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories: once the cradle of the Arab Spring, Tunisia's now battling an Islamist insurgency and an huge influx of refugees from neighbouring Libya - Andrew Hosken has been investigating; Andreas Gebauer finds parallels between Israel's security barrier and the Berlin wall which he first saw as a young boy; Emilie Filou is in the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean meeting people desperate to start a new life in nearby French territory; Vincent Dowd's visiting a corner of south west Ireland he describes as paradise and Rob Crossan creates a stir among drinkers at the only pub in a remote town in Greenland.
  2086. The programme's producer is Tony Grant</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents' stories: once the cradle of the Arab Spring, Tunisia's now battling an...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories: once the cradle of the Arab Spring, Tunisia's now battling an Islamist insurgency and an huge influx of refugees from neighbouring Libya - Andrew Hosken has been investigating; Andreas Gebauer finds parallels between Israel's security barrier and the Berlin wall which he first saw as a young boy; Emilie Filou is in the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean meeting people desperate to start a new life in nearby French territory; Vincent Dowd's visiting a corner of south west Ireland he describes as paradise and Rob Crossan creates a stir among drinkers at the only pub in a remote town in Greenland.
  2087. The programme's producer is Tony Grant</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1694</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsvm.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsvm.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzsvm.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131031-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzsvj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsvm.mp3" fileSize="27104000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1694"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzsvj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Ruin of Rome</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The financial crash has devastated the historic centre of Rome - Joanna Robertson talks of a favourite city now drained of community life; the perils of newsgathering in Sri Lanka: Fergal Keane meets journalists there determined to carry on reporting despite the risk of intimidation, assault and even murder. Jon Donnison's in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales where the wildfires are still raging and there's a heated debate about how much climate change is to blame; Steve Evans, on the row surrounding the bugging of Chancellor Merkel's 'phone, wonders what information the Americans have gleaned. And a travelling correspondent may carry a lap-top, a digital recorder, a camera but a two-month-old baby? Madeleine Morris has the story of what happened when a toddler came too.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The financial crash has devastated the historic centre of Rome - Joanna Robertson of a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The financial crash has devastated the historic centre of Rome - Joanna Robertson talks of a favourite city now drained of community life; the perils of newsgathering in Sri Lanka: Fergal Keane meets journalists there determined to carry on reporting despite the risk of intimidation, assault and even murder. Jon Donnison's in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales where the wildfires are still raging and there's a heated debate about how much climate change is to blame; Steve Evans, on the row surrounding the bugging of Chancellor Merkel's 'phone, wonders what information the Americans have gleaned. And a travelling correspondent may carry a lap-top, a digital recorder, a camera but a two-month-old baby? Madeleine Morris has the story of what happened when a toddler came too.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1661</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlgj.mp3" length="26576000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlgj.mp3" length="26576000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzlgj.mp3" length="26576000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131026-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzlgf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlgj.mp3" fileSize="26576000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1661"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzlgf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Don't Mention the War!</title><description><![CDATA[<p>As one of the last heroes of the Vietnam War is laid to rest, Rajan Datar hears young people there keen to move on from those years of conflict, to celebrate instead a land rich in culture and economic opportunity; Jonah Fisher talks of the debate in swiftly-changing Myanmar about what exactly makes a detainee a political prisoner; as Greece continues its punishing austerity programme, Alexa Dvorson has been finding out how they are coping out in the countryside, away from the main cities; 'let there be light' seems to be the message in Lagos: Neal Razzell has been to see a state government initiative in Nigeria's biggest city introduce street lighting to many formerly-dark and threatening streets and the BBC's bureau in Moscow has been celebrating fifty years of existence. Steve Rosenberg has been looking at news reporting there then and now.
  2088. The producer is Tony Grant</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> As one of the last heroes of the Vietnam War is laid to rest, Rajan Datar hears young...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>As one of the last heroes of the Vietnam War is laid to rest, Rajan Datar hears young people there keen to move on from those years of conflict, to celebrate instead a land rich in culture and economic opportunity; Jonah Fisher talks of the debate in swiftly-changing Myanmar about what exactly makes a detainee a political prisoner; as Greece continues its punishing austerity programme, Alexa Dvorson has been finding out how they are coping out in the countryside, away from the main cities; 'let there be light' seems to be the message in Lagos: Neal Razzell has been to see a state government initiative in Nigeria's biggest city introduce street lighting to many formerly-dark and threatening streets and the BBC's bureau in Moscow has been celebrating fifty years of existence. Steve Rosenberg has been looking at news reporting there then and now.
  2089. The producer is Tony Grant</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkhf.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkhf.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzkhf.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131024-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzkh9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkhf.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzkh9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Migrants Who Made it</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Via Roma in the Italian island of Lampedusa -- Alan Johnston says that for the migrants who make it in from the sea, this is the road which may take them to better lives in a richer world. Owen Bennett Jones studies the contrast between the lives of the women who present programmes on Pakistani TV with those who live in distant villages. There's a heated debate in France about what they should do about their seriously overcrowded prisons. Christian Fraser's been to one of the country's biggest jails. Lynne O'Donnell in Afghanistan finds out what can be learned in a visit to some of the world's oldest, most magnificent and archaeologically significant sites. And it's been a tense and anxious few days for some in the Senegalese capital, Dakar and all, Thomas Fessy tells us, because of the price of sheep.
  2090. The producer is Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The Via Roma in the Italian island of Lampedusa -- Alan Johnston says that for the who...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Via Roma in the Italian island of Lampedusa -- Alan Johnston says that for the migrants who make it in from the sea, this is the road which may take them to better lives in a richer world. Owen Bennett Jones studies the contrast between the lives of the women who present programmes on Pakistani TV with those who live in distant villages. There's a heated debate in France about what they should do about their seriously overcrowded prisons. Christian Fraser's been to one of the country's biggest jails. Lynne O'Donnell in Afghanistan finds out what can be learned in a visit to some of the world's oldest, most magnificent and archaeologically significant sites. And it's been a tense and anxious few days for some in the Senegalese capital, Dakar and all, Thomas Fessy tells us, because of the price of sheep.
  2091. The producer is Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcgq.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcgq.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzcgq.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131019-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzcgm</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcgq.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzcgm</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Songs of Love and Loss</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The traditional sad songs of Portugal have become sadder still as the government in Lisbon announces another tough, cost-cutting budget -- Andrew Hosken has been noting the reaction in Lisbon. The Indian authorities launch an inquiry into a stampede at a temple which killed more than a hundred people -- Andrew North says only days before they were being praised for the measures they'd taken as a cyclone battered the country's east coast. There's an election next week in Madagascar -- Emilie Filou wonders if it might bring improvements to the island's beleaguered education system. On St Kitts in the Caribbean, Orin Gordon finds people divided over plans to build luxury homes in some of the island's most celebrated spots. While in the Italian province of Puglia, the discussion's not so much about luxury homes as why rich foreigners are flying in to buy homes which once only the poor lived in.
  2092. Tony Grant produces From Our Own Correspondent</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The traditional sad songs of Portugal have become sadder still as the government in --...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The traditional sad songs of Portugal have become sadder still as the government in Lisbon announces another tough, cost-cutting budget -- Andrew Hosken has been noting the reaction in Lisbon. The Indian authorities launch an inquiry into a stampede at a temple which killed more than a hundred people -- Andrew North says only days before they were being praised for the measures they'd taken as a cyclone battered the country's east coast. There's an election next week in Madagascar -- Emilie Filou wonders if it might bring improvements to the island's beleaguered education system. On St Kitts in the Caribbean, Orin Gordon finds people divided over plans to build luxury homes in some of the island's most celebrated spots. While in the Italian province of Puglia, the discussion's not so much about luxury homes as why rich foreigners are flying in to buy homes which once only the poor lived in.
  2093. Tony Grant produces From Our Own Correspondent</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2013 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1718</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhnc.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhnc.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzhnc.mp3" length="27488000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131017-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzhn3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhnc.mp3" fileSize="27488000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1718"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzhn3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Breaking the Rules</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories: the Champs d'Elysees is an icon of Paris, a majestic piece of town planning. So why does our man in Paris Hugh Schofield suggest, rather forcefully, that visitors should avoid it? The news caravan may have moved on from Libya, but Tim Whewell's been finding out that the country's still in the midst of a revolution. Joanna Jolly has been to Uttar Pradesh in India to report on the aftermath of fighting between Hindus and Muslims. Listening to people's stories of violence and suffering, she found herself becoming involved in ways she hadn't expected; James Coomarasamy has been to Tajikistan in Central Asia where there's mounting concern about the future, when NATO troops leave neighbouring Afghanistan and Jonathan Head joins a group of well-heeled women in a luxury spa in Myanmar and hears stories of a country in the grip of dramatic change.
  2094. Tony Grant is the producer of From Our Own Correspondent</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents' stories: the Champs d'Elysees is an icon of Paris, a majestic piece of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories: the Champs d'Elysees is an icon of Paris, a majestic piece of town planning. So why does our man in Paris Hugh Schofield suggest, rather forcefully, that visitors should avoid it? The news caravan may have moved on from Libya, but Tim Whewell's been finding out that the country's still in the midst of a revolution. Joanna Jolly has been to Uttar Pradesh in India to report on the aftermath of fighting between Hindus and Muslims. Listening to people's stories of violence and suffering, she found herself becoming involved in ways she hadn't expected; James Coomarasamy has been to Tajikistan in Central Asia where there's mounting concern about the future, when NATO troops leave neighbouring Afghanistan and Jonathan Head joins a group of well-heeled women in a luxury spa in Myanmar and hears stories of a country in the grip of dramatic change.
  2095. Tony Grant is the producer of From Our Own Correspondent</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Oct 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1693</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvf0.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvf0.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzvf0.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131012-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzvdv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvf0.mp3" fileSize="27088000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1693"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzvdv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Iceland's Book Boom</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Looking behind the news. In this programme: David Loyn examines the claim that NATO has achieved nothing but suffering in Afghanistan; Louisa Loveluck on controversy surrounding the Egyptian military offensive in Sinai; there's a book boom going on in Iceland and Rosie Goldsmith has been finding out why; gun-toting gangsters on the streets of Acapulco as Mexico tries to deal with the aftermath of two deadly storms - Will Grant's on that story and what makes a war memorial memorable? Steve Evans ponders that question in Leipzig.
  2096. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Looking behind the news.  In this programme: David Loyn examines the claim that NATO in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Looking behind the news. In this programme: David Loyn examines the claim that NATO has achieved nothing but suffering in Afghanistan; Louisa Loveluck on controversy surrounding the Egyptian military offensive in Sinai; there's a book boom going on in Iceland and Rosie Goldsmith has been finding out why; gun-toting gangsters on the streets of Acapulco as Mexico tries to deal with the aftermath of two deadly storms - Will Grant's on that story and what makes a war memorial memorable? Steve Evans ponders that question in Leipzig.
  2097. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzslp.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzslp.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzslp.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131010-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzslk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzslp.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzslk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Giant Snake Comes to Town</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Colour and analysis from around the world: Kevin Connolly says as much as a quarter of the population of Lebanon is now Syrian - and the cost of hosting so many refugees is soaring; Mark Lowen in Athens on the reaction of Greek men and women to the authorities' campaign against members of the far-right Golden Dawn party; there's been an economic revolution in The Seychelles and Tim Ecott's been finding out how it was achieved; Kirsty Lang talks about the day a six metre long snake brought terror to the streets of a small town in Brazil while Joanna Robertson has been observing the French easing their way into autumn with the help of some particularly exotic cakes. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Colour and analysis from around the world: Kevin Connolly says as much as a quarter of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Colour and analysis from around the world: Kevin Connolly says as much as a quarter of the population of Lebanon is now Syrian - and the cost of hosting so many refugees is soaring; Mark Lowen in Athens on the reaction of Greek men and women to the authorities' campaign against members of the far-right Golden Dawn party; there's been an economic revolution in The Seychelles and Tim Ecott's been finding out how it was achieved; Kirsty Lang talks about the day a six metre long snake brought terror to the streets of a small town in Brazil while Joanna Robertson has been observing the French easing their way into autumn with the help of some particularly exotic cakes. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2013 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfhs.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfhs.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzfhs.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131005-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzfhm</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfhs.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzfhm</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Sibelius, Saunas and Salmiakki</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents with colour and analysis from around the world: Theopi Skarlatos in Thessaloniki on the authorities' crackdown on the far right; Alex Preston is in what he calls one of Africa's most expensive and charmless capitals, Abuja in Nigeria; distant La Reunion, in the Indian Ocean, is a popular destination for well off French tourists -- Robin Denselow's been learning that's causing resentment among some local people; Tessa Dunlop discovers how a photographer's work is teaching residents in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, what happened to their city centre during the days of the Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. And among correspondents there are many tales about daunting dishes -- here, Mark Bosworth in Finland talks of a national favourite: licorice shot through with ammonium chloride. The programme is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents with colour and analysis from around the world: Theopi Skarlatos in on...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents with colour and analysis from around the world: Theopi Skarlatos in Thessaloniki on the authorities' crackdown on the far right; Alex Preston is in what he calls one of Africa's most expensive and charmless capitals, Abuja in Nigeria; distant La Reunion, in the Indian Ocean, is a popular destination for well off French tourists -- Robin Denselow's been learning that's causing resentment among some local people; Tessa Dunlop discovers how a photographer's work is teaching residents in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, what happened to their city centre during the days of the Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. And among correspondents there are many tales about daunting dishes -- here, Mark Bosworth in Finland talks of a national favourite: licorice shot through with ammonium chloride. The programme is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1707</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00tt.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00tt.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s00tt.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20131003-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s00tp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00tt.mp3" fileSize="27312000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1707"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s00tp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The President's Golden Scissors</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories: behind the scenes at the UN General Assembly in New York - Nick Bryant says it's been about so much more than the keynote speeches in the assembly hall. Andrew Harding was covering the seige in Nairobi in which more than 60-people were killed. Many of the city's residents, he says, feel personally scarred by the horrors of what happened at the Westgate Centre. Havana Marking talks of her bid to track down the Pink Panthers, the gang thought responsible for a string of daring jewel heists in the south of France this summer. There's a visit to Dushanbe in Tajikistan: Jamie Coomarasamy takes a look at the president's spectacular building programme while Nick Thorpe is in Austria where hydropower is a major issue and the hills are alive with the sound of disagreement.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents' stories: behind the scenes at the UN General Assembly in New York - so...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories: behind the scenes at the UN General Assembly in New York - Nick Bryant says it's been about so much more than the keynote speeches in the assembly hall. Andrew Harding was covering the seige in Nairobi in which more than 60-people were killed. Many of the city's residents, he says, feel personally scarred by the horrors of what happened at the Westgate Centre. Havana Marking talks of her bid to track down the Pink Panthers, the gang thought responsible for a string of daring jewel heists in the south of France this summer. There's a visit to Dushanbe in Tajikistan: Jamie Coomarasamy takes a look at the president's spectacular building programme while Nick Thorpe is in Austria where hydropower is a major issue and the hills are alive with the sound of disagreement.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1660</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj2h.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj2h.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzj2h.mp3" length="26560000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130928-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzj2b</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj2h.mp3" fileSize="26560000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1660"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzj2b</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Love Hunters</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Global despatches. Today: it was Gabriel Gatehouse's local shopping mall but now the Westgate Centre in Nairobi has become known as a place of fear, suffering and death; did Angela Merkel do TOO well in the German election? Chris Morris on why forming a new government there could be a protracted business. As the Egyptian authorities move to ban the Muslim Brotherhood, Quentin Sommerville talks of the country's increasing polarisation. China's wealthy elite have found their own solution to the country's girl shortage - Lucy Ash has been meeting 'The Love Hunters' in Shanghai. And John Pickford has been finding out if there are still beachcombers to be found in the faraway islands of the South Pacific.
  2098. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Global despatches.  Today: it was Gabriel Gatehouse's local shopping mall but now the a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Global despatches. Today: it was Gabriel Gatehouse's local shopping mall but now the Westgate Centre in Nairobi has become known as a place of fear, suffering and death; did Angela Merkel do TOO well in the German election? Chris Morris on why forming a new government there could be a protracted business. As the Egyptian authorities move to ban the Muslim Brotherhood, Quentin Sommerville talks of the country's increasing polarisation. China's wealthy elite have found their own solution to the country's girl shortage - Lucy Ash has been meeting 'The Love Hunters' in Shanghai. And John Pickford has been finding out if there are still beachcombers to be found in the faraway islands of the South Pacific.
  2099. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1679</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s0204.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s0204.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s0204.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130926-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s01zz</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s0204.mp3" fileSize="26864000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1679"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s01zz</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Dry Bones of a Thousand Empires</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' despatches: Jeremy Bowen in Damascus reflects on the lessons a reporter learns after more than twenty years covering conflicts around the world; Steve Evans meets a lady down on her luck in a Baltic port city as Germany prepares for new elections; Diana Darke looks at Turkey's huge 'GAP' water project and wonders if it will work for or against the country's Kurdish population; near Toulouse in France they've found a crashed German wartime aircraft in a cave -- and some locals, it seems, weren't all that keen on digging up its history and can Emma Thomas really get to grips with the Danish language without looking at textbooks or going to classes? All will be revealed.
  2100. Tony Grant produces From Our Own Correspondent</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents' despatches: Jeremy Bowen in Damascus reflects on the lessons a learns...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' despatches: Jeremy Bowen in Damascus reflects on the lessons a reporter learns after more than twenty years covering conflicts around the world; Steve Evans meets a lady down on her luck in a Baltic port city as Germany prepares for new elections; Diana Darke looks at Turkey's huge 'GAP' water project and wonders if it will work for or against the country's Kurdish population; near Toulouse in France they've found a crashed German wartime aircraft in a cave -- and some locals, it seems, weren't all that keen on digging up its history and can Emma Thomas really get to grips with the Danish language without looking at textbooks or going to classes? All will be revealed.
  2101. Tony Grant produces From Our Own Correspondent</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:04:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1703</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5kd.mp3" length="27248000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5kd.mp3" length="27248000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz5kd.mp3" length="27248000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130921-1204.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz5k7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5kd.mp3" fileSize="27248000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1703"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz5k7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Unanswered Questions</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces reports from correspondents around the world. Following the death sentences handed down to four men in India for the rape and killing of a young woman, Rupa Jha reflects on her own personal experience of some disturbing events from her childhood. Linda Pressly is with the gold miners of Kalimantan in Indonesia and sees the high price they have to pay as they try to earn a living. Mary Harper is in Somaliland, where books have a more powerful draw than guns. Lindsay Johns reflects on the culture of the Caribbean island of Martinique and what it means to be French by accident. And Emma Jane Kirby is with the former Casanovas of Italy who are still hoping for a return to better days.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie introduces reports from correspondents around the world.  Following the death...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces reports from correspondents around the world. Following the death sentences handed down to four men in India for the rape and killing of a young woman, Rupa Jha reflects on her own personal experience of some disturbing events from her childhood. Linda Pressly is with the gold miners of Kalimantan in Indonesia and sees the high price they have to pay as they try to earn a living. Mary Harper is in Somaliland, where books have a more powerful draw than guns. Lindsay Johns reflects on the culture of the Caribbean island of Martinique and what it means to be French by accident. And Emma Jane Kirby is with the former Casanovas of Italy who are still hoping for a return to better days.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1692</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfnv.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfnv.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzfnv.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130914-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzfnp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfnv.mp3" fileSize="27072000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1692"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzfnp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Shattered Mosaic</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents correspondents' stories from Syria, the US, Australia, South Africa and Italy.
  2102. Lyse Doucet hears how Syria's mosaic of cultures is being shattered; Humphrey Hawksley visits the big brains of America's Ivy League who have been thinking about how to put a country back together again; James Fletcher rides the Australian economic engine, and listens to the roar of Harley Davidsons; Mark Lowen discovers the anti-apartheid pedigree of his grandfather; while Tom Carver is in Italy, celebrating his father's escape from a POW camp in 1943 and the brave family who helped him.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Kate Adie presents correspondents' stories from Syria, the US, Australia, South Africa...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents correspondents' stories from Syria, the US, Australia, South Africa and Italy.
  2103. Lyse Doucet hears how Syria's mosaic of cultures is being shattered; Humphrey Hawksley visits the big brains of America's Ivy League who have been thinking about how to put a country back together again; James Fletcher rides the Australian economic engine, and listens to the roar of Harley Davidsons; Mark Lowen discovers the anti-apartheid pedigree of his grandfather; while Tom Carver is in Italy, celebrating his father's escape from a POW camp in 1943 and the brave family who helped him.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1694</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6d6.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6d6.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz6d6.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130907-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz6d0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6d6.mp3" fileSize="27104000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1694"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz6d0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Banquet of Unpalatable Choices</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents tell their stories: Mark Mardell in Washington on difficult decisions for President Obama: Charles Haviland, off for dinner with the departing president of Pakistan, ponders over the milk pudding on the legacy Asif Ali Zardari leaves behind; a different perspective on the state of Chinese justice comes from John Sudworth, who was covering the trial in Jinan of ousted politician Bo Xilai; as immigration tops the election headlines in Australia, Jon Donnison tells the story of a refugee who made it from the civil war in Syria to the offices of a women's magazine in Sydney and Nick Thorpe's unearthed the reason why, somewhere in the dry Hungarian soil, the heart of Suleiman the Magnificent is beating a little faster.
  2104. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents tell their stories: Mark Mardell in Washington on difficult decisions a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents tell their stories: Mark Mardell in Washington on difficult decisions for President Obama: Charles Haviland, off for dinner with the departing president of Pakistan, ponders over the milk pudding on the legacy Asif Ali Zardari leaves behind; a different perspective on the state of Chinese justice comes from John Sudworth, who was covering the trial in Jinan of ousted politician Bo Xilai; as immigration tops the election headlines in Australia, Jon Donnison tells the story of a refugee who made it from the civil war in Syria to the offices of a women's magazine in Sydney and Nick Thorpe's unearthed the reason why, somewhere in the dry Hungarian soil, the heart of Suleiman the Magnificent is beating a little faster.
  2105. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1695</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc9g.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc9g.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzc9g.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130831-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzc99</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc9g.mp3" fileSize="27120000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1695"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzc99</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>You Can't Kill an Idea</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' despatches: the wealthy principality of Liechtenstein is forced to face up to the idea of belt-tightening, Alex Marshall; Alastair Newton Brown strolls through the streets of the Iranian capital, Tehran where he finds people keen to engage with the West; Rajini Vaidyanathan in Washington considers the implications of the jail sentence handed down to secrets leaker Bradley Manning; Justin Rowlatt may have struggled to appreciate traditional Vietnamese music but more and more Vietnamese, he says, are keen to learn it. And Kevin Connolly is in Cairo where he's been hearing members of the Muslim Brotherhood explain why they believe they're a force that's not about to go away.
  2106. Producer: Tony Grant</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents' despatches: the wealthy principality of Liechtenstein is forced to up...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' despatches: the wealthy principality of Liechtenstein is forced to face up to the idea of belt-tightening, Alex Marshall; Alastair Newton Brown strolls through the streets of the Iranian capital, Tehran where he finds people keen to engage with the West; Rajini Vaidyanathan in Washington considers the implications of the jail sentence handed down to secrets leaker Bradley Manning; Justin Rowlatt may have struggled to appreciate traditional Vietnamese music but more and more Vietnamese, he says, are keen to learn it. And Kevin Connolly is in Cairo where he's been hearing members of the Muslim Brotherhood explain why they believe they're a force that's not about to go away.
  2107. Producer: Tony Grant</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb6w.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb6w.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzb6w.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130824-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzb6r</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb6w.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzb6r</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Seventy-Two Snipers</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories. Today: Hugh Sykes is in Cairo where the mood, at the end of a troubled week, is bleak and the outlook, apparently bleaker. Syrians caught in the cross hairs - Hannah Lucinda Smith on the real story of Aleppo's war: one of people trying to carry on with their lives amidst a conflict they never chose; Petroc Trelawny is on a bridge in Hanoi. The Vietnamese city, once the capital of French Indochina, is growing fast and economic forecasts are optimistic. Celeste Hicks suffers a head injury in Chad. It gives her a chance to see whether any of the country's extensive oil wealth has trickled down as far as the local hospital emergency room and David Stern has been in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where he walked in the footsteps of the man accused of killing President John F Kennedy and ended up facing something of a quandary.
  2108. The producer of From Our Own Correspondent is Tony Grant</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents' stories.  Today: Hugh Sykes is in Cairo where the mood, at the end of a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories. Today: Hugh Sykes is in Cairo where the mood, at the end of a troubled week, is bleak and the outlook, apparently bleaker. Syrians caught in the cross hairs - Hannah Lucinda Smith on the real story of Aleppo's war: one of people trying to carry on with their lives amidst a conflict they never chose; Petroc Trelawny is on a bridge in Hanoi. The Vietnamese city, once the capital of French Indochina, is growing fast and economic forecasts are optimistic. Celeste Hicks suffers a head injury in Chad. It gives her a chance to see whether any of the country's extensive oil wealth has trickled down as far as the local hospital emergency room and David Stern has been in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where he walked in the footsteps of the man accused of killing President John F Kennedy and ended up facing something of a quandary.
  2109. The producer of From Our Own Correspondent is Tony Grant</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcb5.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcb5.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzcb5.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130817-1201.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzcb3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcb5.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzcb3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Prepared to Die</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Will the Egyptian army move in to break up the camp in Cairo set up by supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi? Caroline Wyatt has been meeting residents of a city which is bitterly divided. Christians are leaving Syria in their thousands. Diana Darke's been learning that they're being greeted with enthusiasm in neighbouring Turkey. Jonathan Head says there's been a conciliatory mood in Burma as people gathered this week to mark the anniversary of an uprising which launched the country's pro-democracy movement. There are some in Gibraltar who feel the British government's not doing enough for them - Tom Burridge is on the Rock as the latest chapter in a 300-year-old row unfolds and the BBC's new man in Australia, Jon Donnison, explains why he's finding it hard coming to terms with the sheer size of his new patch.
  2110. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Will the Egyptian army move in to break up the camp in Cairo set up by supporters of a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Will the Egyptian army move in to break up the camp in Cairo set up by supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi? Caroline Wyatt has been meeting residents of a city which is bitterly divided. Christians are leaving Syria in their thousands. Diana Darke's been learning that they're being greeted with enthusiasm in neighbouring Turkey. Jonathan Head says there's been a conciliatory mood in Burma as people gathered this week to mark the anniversary of an uprising which launched the country's pro-democracy movement. There are some in Gibraltar who feel the British government's not doing enough for them - Tom Burridge is on the Rock as the latest chapter in a 300-year-old row unfolds and the BBC's new man in Australia, Jon Donnison, explains why he's finding it hard coming to terms with the sheer size of his new patch.
  2111. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1696</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcsf.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcsf.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzcsf.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130810-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzcs9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcsf.mp3" fileSize="27136000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1696"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzcs9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>the Himalayan Tsunami</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Indians living in the shadow of the Himalayas are being told they could face further life-threatening weather events -- Jane Dyson tells the story of a man and a mule who were unable to contend with the power of nature. Jake Wallis Simons drinks beer with an Israeli settler who tells him that whatever the outcome of the current John Kerry peace initiative, he and others like him still believe in their rights to the land. Shaimaa Khalil is in Libya, meeting the founder of a well-known militia group and asking him about al-Qaeda and about the Libyans who've gone to join the fighting in Syria. There's much talk in Latin America about legalising marijuana and liberalising other drug laws - Will Grant in Mexico takes a look at who might make money from the change. And Frederick Dove travels to China to find out if it's true that the Chinese are falling in love with the game of cricket.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Indians living in the shadow of the Himalayas are being told they could face further a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Indians living in the shadow of the Himalayas are being told they could face further life-threatening weather events -- Jane Dyson tells the story of a man and a mule who were unable to contend with the power of nature. Jake Wallis Simons drinks beer with an Israeli settler who tells him that whatever the outcome of the current John Kerry peace initiative, he and others like him still believe in their rights to the land. Shaimaa Khalil is in Libya, meeting the founder of a well-known militia group and asking him about al-Qaeda and about the Libyans who've gone to join the fighting in Syria. There's much talk in Latin America about legalising marijuana and liberalising other drug laws - Will Grant in Mexico takes a look at who might make money from the change. And Frederick Dove travels to China to find out if it's true that the Chinese are falling in love with the game of cricket.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 10:57:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9jc.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9jc.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9jc.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130803-1157.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9j7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9jc.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9j7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Albanian Riviera</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Albania, not so long ago a redoubt of hardline Communism, is now hoping for EU membership. Julia Langdon's been assessing its chances during a visit to the seaside there. Emma Jane Kirby's visiting a company which makes men's pants in France. She's looking into claims that it's harder than ever for French businesses to prosper. Wyre Davies is reporting on the papal visit to Brazil - gauging the impact it's making in a country buoyed up by economic optimism but still, in many places, very poor. Prashant Rao tells us about a favourite supermarket in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and how its luck finally ran out when it was targeted by bombers. And John Pickford, in the kingdom of Tonga, finds Chinese aid to this archipelago in the Pacific plentiful but sometimes, a mixed blessing.
  2112. Tony Grant produces From Our Own Correspondent.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Albania, not so long ago a redoubt of hardline Communism, is now hoping for EU membership.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Albania, not so long ago a redoubt of hardline Communism, is now hoping for EU membership. Julia Langdon's been assessing its chances during a visit to the seaside there. Emma Jane Kirby's visiting a company which makes men's pants in France. She's looking into claims that it's harder than ever for French businesses to prosper. Wyre Davies is reporting on the papal visit to Brazil - gauging the impact it's making in a country buoyed up by economic optimism but still, in many places, very poor. Prashant Rao tells us about a favourite supermarket in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and how its luck finally ran out when it was targeted by bombers. And John Pickford, in the kingdom of Tonga, finds Chinese aid to this archipelago in the Pacific plentiful but sometimes, a mixed blessing.
  2113. Tony Grant produces From Our Own Correspondent.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02jf.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02jf.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s02jf.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130727-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s02j7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02jf.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s02j7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mrs Wong and Mrs Lim Go Shopping</title><description><![CDATA[<p>"He knew nothing about politics." A father talks to Humphrey Hawksley about his only son, killed in a street protest in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Will Grant in Mexico on the Central American migrants who face abuse at every turn as they try to make their way to the United States. A fishing community in Alaska is engaged in a bitter battle with the mining industry - Stephen Sackur says it's dividing opinion in this wild and sparsely populated territory. Sarah Toms on the mums and dads in Singapore going to school so they can help their children with the homework. And Lyndsay Johns crams into a minibus taxi in South Africa and finds out about the highs and lows of a morning commute in Cape Town.
  2114. The producer of From Our Own Correspondent is Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>"He knew nothing about politics. " A father talks to Humphrey Hawksley about his only a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>"He knew nothing about politics." A father talks to Humphrey Hawksley about his only son, killed in a street protest in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Will Grant in Mexico on the Central American migrants who face abuse at every turn as they try to make their way to the United States. A fishing community in Alaska is engaged in a bitter battle with the mining industry - Stephen Sackur says it's dividing opinion in this wild and sparsely populated territory. Sarah Toms on the mums and dads in Singapore going to school so they can help their children with the homework. And Lyndsay Johns crams into a minibus taxi in South Africa and finds out about the highs and lows of a morning commute in Cape Town.
  2115. The producer of From Our Own Correspondent is Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzspt.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzspt.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzspt.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130720-1201.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzspr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzspt.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzspr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Million Smartphones</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Bulgarian establishment under threat from a million smartphones - Nick Thorpe on the protestors demanding their government steps down. Ahead of election day in Cambodia, Annie Caulfield goes to the circus and finds happy children and painful memories. Peter Day is in Zambia where diarrhoea is a major killer of children - medication works, but getting it to remote villages presents a huge challenge. John Pickford's in the Cook Islands, in the South Pacific, and tells us why the arrival there of two large canoes caused great excitement. And Simon Wilson has discovered that baseball's not just a metaphor for life in the US, it's also a way of preparing Americans - for failure!
  2116. FOOC is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The Bulgarian establishment under threat from a million smartphones - Nick Thorpe on...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Bulgarian establishment under threat from a million smartphones - Nick Thorpe on the protestors demanding their government steps down. Ahead of election day in Cambodia, Annie Caulfield goes to the circus and finds happy children and painful memories. Peter Day is in Zambia where diarrhoea is a major killer of children - medication works, but getting it to remote villages presents a huge challenge. John Pickford's in the Cook Islands, in the South Pacific, and tells us why the arrival there of two large canoes caused great excitement. And Simon Wilson has discovered that baseball's not just a metaphor for life in the US, it's also a way of preparing Americans - for failure!
  2117. FOOC is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1669</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6bh.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6bh.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz6bh.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130718-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz6bc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6bh.mp3" fileSize="26704000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1669"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz6bc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Return to Rangoon</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Quentin Sommerville talks to protestors on Cairo's streets; Andrew Harding returns to Burma and this time he doesn't need a disguise! Linda Pressly visits a unique community of sex offenders in Florida, Leo Johnson is blasting for gold in Ecuador and David Chazan learns how to be a cyber-hacker in Lille.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Quentin Sommerville talks to protestors on Cairo's streets; Andrew Harding returns to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Quentin Sommerville talks to protestors on Cairo's streets; Andrew Harding returns to Burma and this time he doesn't need a disguise! Linda Pressly visits a unique community of sex offenders in Florida, Leo Johnson is blasting for gold in Ecuador and David Chazan learns how to be a cyber-hacker in Lille.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2013 11:10:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzpzm.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzpzm.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzpzm.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130713-1210.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzpz7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzpzm.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzpz7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Saints and Sinners</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The recent feuding within Nelson Mandela's family has reminded us that within the anti-apartheid hero's myth is a man and a family with very human frailties, as Gabriel Gatehouse ponders when he visits a play in Johannesburg. Yolande Knell pays a visit to the deported cleric Abu Qatada's new home - Jordan's al-Muwaqar Prison. Jo Fidgen joins the crew of a Norwegian whale hunting boat. Ed Stocker finds out why some poorer Bolivians can't afford to eat their staple food, quinoa, any more. And Dany Mitzman on the Calabrian mafia's most recent and high profile victim.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The recent feuding within Nelson Mandela's family has reminded us that within the myth...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The recent feuding within Nelson Mandela's family has reminded us that within the anti-apartheid hero's myth is a man and a family with very human frailties, as Gabriel Gatehouse ponders when he visits a play in Johannesburg. Yolande Knell pays a visit to the deported cleric Abu Qatada's new home - Jordan's al-Muwaqar Prison. Jo Fidgen joins the crew of a Norwegian whale hunting boat. Ed Stocker finds out why some poorer Bolivians can't afford to eat their staple food, quinoa, any more. And Dany Mitzman on the Calabrian mafia's most recent and high profile victim.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1679</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9nm.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9nm.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9nm.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130712-1030.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9ng</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9nm.mp3" fileSize="26864000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1679"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9ng</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>You Can't Hug on Facebook</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Portuguese people are leaving the country in their thousands, travelling to the country's former colonies in search of work - Emma Jane Kirby's in Porto and Lisbon learning how recession's driving many away from their family and loved ones. The exodus from conflict-ridden Syria continues too - Kieran Cooke meets a family from Damascus now selling shoes in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. Kevin Connolly's in Cairo and asks how the military will react at the next election if the people once again select an Islamist candidate to be the country's leader. Beth McLeod has been finding out that a high proportion of Vietnam's sucessful businesses are run by women - she suggests the country's turbulent history may point at some of the reasons why. And far out in the Pacific, John Pickford's on Christmas Island where he stumbles across a reminder that this was the place where Britain carried out some of its first nuclear weapons testing.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Portuguese people are leaving the country in their thousands, travelling to the former...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Portuguese people are leaving the country in their thousands, travelling to the country's former colonies in search of work - Emma Jane Kirby's in Porto and Lisbon learning how recession's driving many away from their family and loved ones. The exodus from conflict-ridden Syria continues too - Kieran Cooke meets a family from Damascus now selling shoes in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. Kevin Connolly's in Cairo and asks how the military will react at the next election if the people once again select an Islamist candidate to be the country's leader. Beth McLeod has been finding out that a high proportion of Vietnam's sucessful businesses are run by women - she suggests the country's turbulent history may point at some of the reasons why. And far out in the Pacific, John Pickford's on Christmas Island where he stumbles across a reminder that this was the place where Britain carried out some of its first nuclear weapons testing.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1683</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzq89.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzq89.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzq89.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130706-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzq81</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzq89.mp3" fileSize="26928000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1683"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzq81</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A House in Damascus</title><description><![CDATA[<p>What's happened to her house in the Old City in Damascus? Diana Darke hears how it's fared during the ongoing conflict in Syria. David Shukman is in Prescott, Arizona, a community devastated after 19 firefighters lost their lives battling a forest fire. Kinshasa in DR Congo is Africa's fastest-growing city - Jonny Hogg's been finding out how law and order's fast collapsing there too. Natasha Breed, who lives in Kenya and regularly films lions there, is shocked at the conditions a lion's forced to endure at a circus in France. And, on a lighter note, Rajan Datar, high in the Caucusus mountains of Georgia, is invited to try his hand, or rather his larynx, at the ancient art of polyphonic singing.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> What's happened to her house in the Old City in Damascus? Diana Darke hears how it's...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>What's happened to her house in the Old City in Damascus? Diana Darke hears how it's fared during the ongoing conflict in Syria. David Shukman is in Prescott, Arizona, a community devastated after 19 firefighters lost their lives battling a forest fire. Kinshasa in DR Congo is Africa's fastest-growing city - Jonny Hogg's been finding out how law and order's fast collapsing there too. Natasha Breed, who lives in Kenya and regularly films lions there, is shocked at the conditions a lion's forced to endure at a circus in France. And, on a lighter note, Rajan Datar, high in the Caucusus mountains of Georgia, is invited to try his hand, or rather his larynx, at the ancient art of polyphonic singing.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:34:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1668</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkbc.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkbc.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzkbc.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130704-1134.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzkb2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkbc.mp3" fileSize="26688000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1668"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzkb2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Thousand Horses Come to Town</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A thousand horses. Three thousand sheep. And people, thousands of them too, clustered like locusts around the Old Port in Marseille. What on earth were they all doing there? Anna Magnusson was finding out. European leaders have announced they'll try to tackle unemployment; Emma Jane Kirby's in southern Spain where the under-25s are finding it hardest to get jobs. Qatar has a new ruler, or emir; Frank Gardner's just back from this ultra-rich Gulf state wondering: is this the world's most ironic country? Rupert Wingfield Hayes has been to the Indonesian island of Sumatra to look into South East Asia's worst smog crisis in years. And among the correspondents in Senegal, reporting on the excitement, the rumours and the disruption which accompany a visiting American president, was Caspar Leighton.
  2118. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A thousand horses. Three thousand sheep.  And people, thousands of them too, clustered...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A thousand horses. Three thousand sheep. And people, thousands of them too, clustered like locusts around the Old Port in Marseille. What on earth were they all doing there? Anna Magnusson was finding out. European leaders have announced they'll try to tackle unemployment; Emma Jane Kirby's in southern Spain where the under-25s are finding it hardest to get jobs. Qatar has a new ruler, or emir; Frank Gardner's just back from this ultra-rich Gulf state wondering: is this the world's most ironic country? Rupert Wingfield Hayes has been to the Indonesian island of Sumatra to look into South East Asia's worst smog crisis in years. And among the correspondents in Senegal, reporting on the excitement, the rumours and the disruption which accompany a visiting American president, was Caspar Leighton.
  2119. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Jun 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1649</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzrhl.mp3" length="26384000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzrhl.mp3" length="26384000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzrhl.mp3" length="26384000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130629-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzrh6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzrhl.mp3" fileSize="26384000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1649"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzrh6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Story That Never Happened</title><description><![CDATA[<p>It's the great reconciliation story which never happened -- Andrew Hosken in Libya on a homecoming which didn't take place. Nigel Wilson tells us of the dangers involved in trying to provide a taste of home to Syrians stuck in Jordan. Marie Keyworth on the Portuguese struggling to get by as the long recession continues. In Croatia, Mick Webb finds many enthusiastic about joining the EU - the country's set to become a full member next month. And who's for some red-braised wallaby tail with native fruits? Not many Australians apparently. Fuchsia Dunlop says there's a reluctance to tuck in to some of the local wildlife.
  2120. Tony Grant produces From Our Own Correspondent.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> It's the great reconciliation story which never happened -- Andrew Hosken in Libya on...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>It's the great reconciliation story which never happened -- Andrew Hosken in Libya on a homecoming which didn't take place. Nigel Wilson tells us of the dangers involved in trying to provide a taste of home to Syrians stuck in Jordan. Marie Keyworth on the Portuguese struggling to get by as the long recession continues. In Croatia, Mick Webb finds many enthusiastic about joining the EU - the country's set to become a full member next month. And who's for some red-braised wallaby tail with native fruits? Not many Australians apparently. Fuchsia Dunlop says there's a reluctance to tuck in to some of the local wildlife.
  2121. Tony Grant produces From Our Own Correspondent.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2013 10:29:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1668</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9gs.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9gs.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9gs.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130627-1129.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9gn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9gs.mp3" fileSize="26688000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1668"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9gn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Seat With a View</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Air travel may be not quite the glamorous, magical experience it once was but our frequent flier Peter Day, sitting bolt upright in economy class, says there can still be something magnificent about it. For Shaiima Khalil, it's a long hot overnight train journey to Upper Egypt to find out how the revolution's playing out far from the big cities of the north. Chris Morris, covering the anti-government demonstrations in Turkey, hears the prime minister Mr Erdogan promise better days ahead. Fergal Keane tells of past and future colliding on a beach near the southern tip of Africa. And Stephen Smith, deep in a vault in London, gets his hands on some of the glittering riches of the Russian Tsars.
  2122. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Air travel may be not quite the glamorous, magical experience it once was but our Day,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Air travel may be not quite the glamorous, magical experience it once was but our frequent flier Peter Day, sitting bolt upright in economy class, says there can still be something magnificent about it. For Shaiima Khalil, it's a long hot overnight train journey to Upper Egypt to find out how the revolution's playing out far from the big cities of the north. Chris Morris, covering the anti-government demonstrations in Turkey, hears the prime minister Mr Erdogan promise better days ahead. Fergal Keane tells of past and future colliding on a beach near the southern tip of Africa. And Stephen Smith, deep in a vault in London, gets his hands on some of the glittering riches of the Russian Tsars.
  2123. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1662</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb54.mp3" length="26592000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb54.mp3" length="26592000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzb54.mp3" length="26592000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130622-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzb52</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb54.mp3" fileSize="26592000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1662"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzb52</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Discontent on the Nile</title><description><![CDATA[<p>'Everything is worse after the revolution' -  tourism workers along the River Nile in Egypt tell Matthew Teller about the turmoil in their industry. Tessa Dunlop returns to Romania to see if the lot of orphans there has improved in the last twenty years. How some refugees from the fighting in Syria are finding a warm welcome in Hizbollah communities in northern Lebanon - Sakhr Al-Makhadhi explains. Alastair Leithead meets the Yurock tribe in northern California -- an ancient people in modern America. And why Andy Martin found the huge police presence at the G8 gathering of world leaders in Ireland distinctly disarming.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> 'Everything is worse after the revolution' - tourism workers along the River Nile in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>'Everything is worse after the revolution' -  tourism workers along the River Nile in Egypt tell Matthew Teller about the turmoil in their industry. Tessa Dunlop returns to Romania to see if the lot of orphans there has improved in the last twenty years. How some refugees from the fighting in Syria are finding a warm welcome in Hizbollah communities in northern Lebanon - Sakhr Al-Makhadhi explains. Alastair Leithead meets the Yurock tribe in northern California -- an ancient people in modern America. And why Andy Martin found the huge police presence at the G8 gathering of world leaders in Ireland distinctly disarming.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1667</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgxw.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgxw.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzgxw.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130620-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzgxr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgxw.mp3" fileSize="26672000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1667"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzgxr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Demo a Day</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A passion for protest: street demonstrations, rarely permitted in the days of President Mubarak, have become common in Cairo and Egypt's other cities; Aleem Maqbool sets out to see if he can find a demo a day. Phil Goodwin on how war has changed Syria from a hospitable, friendly place into one that's brutal, paranoid and vicious. A meeting critical to the future of Detroit - Jonny Dymond on a great American city poised on the edge of bankruptcy. Peter Meanwell meets cross-dressing musicians in Equatorial Guinea and tucks in to crocodile in chocolate sauce. And a snake guarding a pot of gold? Jane Dyson says it's one of the less alarming ghosts believed to reside in the forests of the Himalayas.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> A passion for protest: street demonstrations, rarely permitted in the days of Mubarak,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A passion for protest: street demonstrations, rarely permitted in the days of President Mubarak, have become common in Cairo and Egypt's other cities; Aleem Maqbool sets out to see if he can find a demo a day. Phil Goodwin on how war has changed Syria from a hospitable, friendly place into one that's brutal, paranoid and vicious. A meeting critical to the future of Detroit - Jonny Dymond on a great American city poised on the edge of bankruptcy. Peter Meanwell meets cross-dressing musicians in Equatorial Guinea and tucks in to crocodile in chocolate sauce. And a snake guarding a pot of gold? Jane Dyson says it's one of the less alarming ghosts believed to reside in the forests of the Himalayas.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlt4.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlt4.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzlt4.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130615-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzlsy</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlt4.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzlsy</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>God Bless Hungary!</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Hungarians fight the floods! This collection of despatches from radio correspondents includes Nick Thorpe in Budapest on how people buried their differences and worked together to save their capital from an overflowing River Danube. Bethany Bell says they're picking cherries in the Golan Heights as the Syrian war rages on in the valley below. Croatia is about to join the EU - but Andy Hosken finds that the campaign to eradicate old ethnic animosities has only achieved limited success. Yolande Knell is in Gaza from where, in recent times, rockets have been fired at Israel. She discovers how Gazans are coping with the sanctions imposed on them by the Israelis. And who is responsible for climate change in the Himalayas? Kieran Cooke, who was there, is told the answer - by a Hindu holy man!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Hungarians fight the floods! This collection of despatches from radio correspondents...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Hungarians fight the floods! This collection of despatches from radio correspondents includes Nick Thorpe in Budapest on how people buried their differences and worked together to save their capital from an overflowing River Danube. Bethany Bell says they're picking cherries in the Golan Heights as the Syrian war rages on in the valley below. Croatia is about to join the EU - but Andy Hosken finds that the campaign to eradicate old ethnic animosities has only achieved limited success. Yolande Knell is in Gaza from where, in recent times, rockets have been fired at Israel. She discovers how Gazans are coping with the sanctions imposed on them by the Israelis. And who is responsible for climate change in the Himalayas? Kieran Cooke, who was there, is told the answer - by a Hindu holy man!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:33:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1697</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhpp.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhpp.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzhpp.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130613-1133.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzhpb</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhpp.mp3" fileSize="27152000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1697"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzhpb</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mussolini's Gay Island</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' despatches from around the globe. Who'll emerge victorious from the struggle in Taksim Square? Paul Mason gives his view after spending the week in Istanbul. Lyse Doucet believes the new prime minister of Pakistan faces a daunting set of problems -- but she finds there's little chance of him going hungry! The Nigerian military say they're making progress in their campaign against the rebels of Boko Haram - Will Ross has been to the north-east of the country to make his own assessment. Alan Johnston explains how Mussolini's Fascists created a corner of Italy where homosexuals could be glad to be gay. And foreign journalists are rarely welcomed in North Korea but Juliet Rix has been there as a tourist and was delighted to meet the locals and go dancing in a park in Pyongyang.
  2124. Tony Grant produces From Our Own Correspondent</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents' despatches from around the globe.  Who'll emerge victorious from the in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' despatches from around the globe. Who'll emerge victorious from the struggle in Taksim Square? Paul Mason gives his view after spending the week in Istanbul. Lyse Doucet believes the new prime minister of Pakistan faces a daunting set of problems -- but she finds there's little chance of him going hungry! The Nigerian military say they're making progress in their campaign against the rebels of Boko Haram - Will Ross has been to the north-east of the country to make his own assessment. Alan Johnston explains how Mussolini's Fascists created a corner of Italy where homosexuals could be glad to be gay. And foreign journalists are rarely welcomed in North Korea but Juliet Rix has been there as a tourist and was delighted to meet the locals and go dancing in a park in Pyongyang.
  2125. Tony Grant produces From Our Own Correspondent</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdml.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdml.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzdml.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130608-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzdmj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdml.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzdmj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Is Mr Erdogan Listening?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is the Turkish prime minister Mr Erdogan listening to the demonstrators? James Reynolds has been following the protests in Istanbul and other cities. Chris Morris is in historic Mostar learning how difficult it is for Bosnians to forget about the past. People in the Golan Heights have been telling Wyre Davies they are concerned the fighting over the border in Syria is about to spill over into their territory. Lucy Ash has been to Yaroslavl in Russia to examine whether the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, really was the proletarian heroine she's made out to be.
  2126. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Is the Turkish prime minister Mr Erdogan listening to the demonstrators? James has the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Is the Turkish prime minister Mr Erdogan listening to the demonstrators? James Reynolds has been following the protests in Istanbul and other cities. Chris Morris is in historic Mostar learning how difficult it is for Bosnians to forget about the past. People in the Golan Heights have been telling Wyre Davies they are concerned the fighting over the border in Syria is about to spill over into their territory. Lucy Ash has been to Yaroslavl in Russia to examine whether the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, really was the proletarian heroine she's made out to be.
  2127. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1702</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbct.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbct.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzbct.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130606-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzbcq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbct.mp3" fileSize="27232000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1702"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzbcq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The World's Troubles - Put on Hold!</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A world that's not just full of doom and gloom: Anna Borzello on the remarkable changes that have happened in northern Uganda since the area was abandoned by the brutal rebels of the Lords Resistance Army; Richard Porter tells us how the cruelties of Saddam Hussein have become a distant memory in the marshlands of southern Iraq -- people have returned to their homes, the wildlife is back too; BBC foreign correspondent James Reynolds talks of the phone call to London which might have cost him his job; Elisabeth Kendall explains how tribesmen of eastern Yemen are finally getting a say in their own future and Hugh Schofield, a British dad in Paris, sees his daughter transformed by philosophy lessons.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> A world that's not just full of doom and gloom: Anna Borzello on the remarkable that a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A world that's not just full of doom and gloom: Anna Borzello on the remarkable changes that have happened in northern Uganda since the area was abandoned by the brutal rebels of the Lords Resistance Army; Richard Porter tells us how the cruelties of Saddam Hussein have become a distant memory in the marshlands of southern Iraq -- people have returned to their homes, the wildlife is back too; BBC foreign correspondent James Reynolds talks of the phone call to London which might have cost him his job; Elisabeth Kendall explains how tribesmen of eastern Yemen are finally getting a say in their own future and Hugh Schofield, a British dad in Paris, sees his daughter transformed by philosophy lessons.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 10:31:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1667</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdd6.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdd6.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzdd6.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130601-1131.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzdd3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdd6.mp3" fileSize="26672000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1667"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzdd3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Croc at the Door!</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Hungry crocodiles are invading homes in northern Australia looking for the family pet, Phil Mercer has that story; the dangers of a drive through increasingly violent Iraq, Paul Martin; what makes an Indian cinema crowd scream at the screen, Mark Tully; the former gangsters trying to reduce gun crime on the streets of LA, Frank Gardner and the controversy surrounding a new TV show in Denmark which features men in suits talking about naked women, Emma Jane Kirby.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Hungry crocodiles are invading homes in northern Australia looking for the family pet,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Hungry crocodiles are invading homes in northern Australia looking for the family pet, Phil Mercer has that story; the dangers of a drive through increasingly violent Iraq, Paul Martin; what makes an Indian cinema crowd scream at the screen, Mark Tully; the former gangsters trying to reduce gun crime on the streets of LA, Frank Gardner and the controversy surrounding a new TV show in Denmark which features men in suits talking about naked women, Emma Jane Kirby.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 10:29:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02fr.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02fr.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s02fr.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130530-1129.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s02fn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02fr.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s02fn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The German Sense of Humour</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters around the world with the news behind the headlines: Aleem Maqbool talks of the 14-hundred-year old conflict which lies behind today's breakdown in law and order in Iraq; the bicentenary of the controversial composer Wagner causes Steve Evans to question preconceptions about Germans and their society; Ed Butler meets a billionaire in Azerbaijan and chuckles over his plans for a huge building project; the African Union's optimistic about the continent's future but Gabriel Gatehouse finds good news in short supply in the Democratic Republic of Congo. And French schoolchildren will soon lose their traditional midweek day off school. Joanna Robertson tells us they're not happy about it!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Reporters around the world with the news behind the headlines: Aleem Maqbool talks of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters around the world with the news behind the headlines: Aleem Maqbool talks of the 14-hundred-year old conflict which lies behind today's breakdown in law and order in Iraq; the bicentenary of the controversial composer Wagner causes Steve Evans to question preconceptions about Germans and their society; Ed Butler meets a billionaire in Azerbaijan and chuckles over his plans for a huge building project; the African Union's optimistic about the continent's future but Gabriel Gatehouse finds good news in short supply in the Democratic Republic of Congo. And French schoolchildren will soon lose their traditional midweek day off school. Joanna Robertson tells us they're not happy about it!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 11:43:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhr9.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhr9.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzhr9.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130525-1243.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzhr4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhr9.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzhr4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Good Operator</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents around the world: Jeremy Bowen on the increasing difficulties of reporting the war in Syria; Paul Lewis explores how corruption is reaching into the heart of everyday life in India; the diaspora returns - Andrew Harding talks of Somalia at the crossroads; Louisa Loveluck's at the morgue in Cairo - some say it's been covering up cases of police brutality and in Rome, Alan Johnston has been walking the cobblestones beloved of the tourists but held in rather less affection by the locals.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents around the world: Jeremy Bowen on the increasing difficulties of the in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents around the world: Jeremy Bowen on the increasing difficulties of reporting the war in Syria; Paul Lewis explores how corruption is reaching into the heart of everyday life in India; the diaspora returns - Andrew Harding talks of Somalia at the crossroads; Louisa Loveluck's at the morgue in Cairo - some say it's been covering up cases of police brutality and in Rome, Alan Johnston has been walking the cobblestones beloved of the tourists but held in rather less affection by the locals.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzw9q.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzw9q.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzw9q.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130523-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzw9j</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzw9q.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzw9j</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Conspiracy!</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories from around the world: a field day for conspiracy theorists as the White House stumbles in a fog of political scandal; Libya's second city Benghazi's unstable, violent and there's uncertainty there over the presence and degree of influence of radical Islamists; as France slips back into recession, there's a trip to Lot-et-Garonne in the south west where they have their own ideas about how to cope in times of economic difficulty; to the holiday islands of The Seychelles to find out why there are Somali pirates there practising their football skills. And it's noisy, dirty, the poverty's shocking, the traffic awful. So why is it so hard to say goodbye to Mumbai?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents' stories from around the world: a field day for conspiracy theorists as...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories from around the world: a field day for conspiracy theorists as the White House stumbles in a fog of political scandal; Libya's second city Benghazi's unstable, violent and there's uncertainty there over the presence and degree of influence of radical Islamists; as France slips back into recession, there's a trip to Lot-et-Garonne in the south west where they have their own ideas about how to cope in times of economic difficulty; to the holiday islands of The Seychelles to find out why there are Somali pirates there practising their football skills. And it's noisy, dirty, the poverty's shocking, the traffic awful. So why is it so hard to say goodbye to Mumbai?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1669</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8vz.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8vz.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz8vz.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130518-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz8vt</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8vz.mp3" fileSize="26704000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1669"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz8vt</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Brides For Sale</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents around the world with the detail behind the headlines: Beth McLeod on the struggling Syrian refugees resorting to selling their daughters into marriage. The costs and consequences of standing in a Pakistani election are explored by Owen Bennett Jones. Another food scandal in China: Martin Patience on how, this time, it's rat which is leaving a nasty taste in the mouth. How can a pile of nappies in the British Museum spell good news for Somalia? The answer comes from Mary Harper while Tim Hartley takes time out at a football match in North Korea. It might still be the beautiful game but not as most of us know it!
  2128. The producer of From Our Own Correspondent is Tony Grant</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents around the world with the detail behind the headlines: Beth McLeod on...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents around the world with the detail behind the headlines: Beth McLeod on the struggling Syrian refugees resorting to selling their daughters into marriage. The costs and consequences of standing in a Pakistani election are explored by Owen Bennett Jones. Another food scandal in China: Martin Patience on how, this time, it's rat which is leaving a nasty taste in the mouth. How can a pile of nappies in the British Museum spell good news for Somalia? The answer comes from Mary Harper while Tim Hartley takes time out at a football match in North Korea. It might still be the beautiful game but not as most of us know it!
  2129. The producer of From Our Own Correspondent is Tony Grant</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1671</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzww4.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzww4.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzww4.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130511-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzwvz</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzww4.mp3" fileSize="26736000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1671"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzwvz</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Chocolate Revolution</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters' stories from around the world: why Rupert Wingfield Hayes believes North Korea's recent sabre-rattling speaks not of a regime that is strong and confident but one that is weak and scared, of the outside world and increasingly of its own people too. Emilie Filou accompanies the fly-catchers of Burkina Faso as they test an old legend - 'if you live too close to the river, it will eat your eyes!' Mexico's latest political scandal unfolds in a restaurant over the road from the BBC office - Will Grant's handily placed then to reveal all. 'A kind of hell' - Darius Bazargan finds out why heroin addiction's spreading through Afghani society and James Harkin's been on Turkey's border with Syria and tells a tale of the actress who couldn't stop crying and the boy who's made friends with a turtle.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Reporters' stories from around the world: why Rupert Wingfield Hayes believes North of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters' stories from around the world: why Rupert Wingfield Hayes believes North Korea's recent sabre-rattling speaks not of a regime that is strong and confident but one that is weak and scared, of the outside world and increasingly of its own people too. Emilie Filou accompanies the fly-catchers of Burkina Faso as they test an old legend - 'if you live too close to the river, it will eat your eyes!' Mexico's latest political scandal unfolds in a restaurant over the road from the BBC office - Will Grant's handily placed then to reveal all. 'A kind of hell' - Darius Bazargan finds out why heroin addiction's spreading through Afghani society and James Harkin's been on Turkey's border with Syria and tells a tale of the actress who couldn't stop crying and the boy who's made friends with a turtle.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb6c.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb6c.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzb6c.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130504-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzb69</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb6c.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzb69</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Nigeria's Lady Gaga</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters from around the world tell their stories.
  2130. Steve Rosenberg visits Dagestan on the trail of the alleged Boston bombers, and finds that violence is part of everyday life there. Nick Thorpe watches an attempt to educate Hungarian police cadets away from prejudice against the Roma minority. It's a tough sell. The military's continuing grip on Egyptian society is explained by Shaimaa Khalil, who hails from an army family herself. In the Sioux country of South Dakota, Matt Wells investigates the contested legacy of the site of the battle of Wounded Knee. And Will Ross in Nigeria's Bayelsa State sees the glamorous movie stars at an endless awards ceremony, and also the militants getting rich off illicit oil money.
  2131. Producer: Lucy Ash</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Reporters from around the world tell their stories.  Steve Rosenberg visits Dagestan on...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters from around the world tell their stories.
  2132. Steve Rosenberg visits Dagestan on the trail of the alleged Boston bombers, and finds that violence is part of everyday life there. Nick Thorpe watches an attempt to educate Hungarian police cadets away from prejudice against the Roma minority. It's a tough sell. The military's continuing grip on Egyptian society is explained by Shaimaa Khalil, who hails from an army family herself. In the Sioux country of South Dakota, Matt Wells investigates the contested legacy of the site of the battle of Wounded Knee. And Will Ross in Nigeria's Bayelsa State sees the glamorous movie stars at an endless awards ceremony, and also the militants getting rich off illicit oil money.
  2133. Producer: Lucy Ash</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1683</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc54.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc54.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzc54.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130502-1709.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzc4s</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc54.mp3" fileSize="26928000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1683"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzc4s</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Libyan Truffle</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories: why President Assad may now believe he's winning the argument; the garage man in Jordan recruiting young Islamists to go fight in Syria; why shackles are still being used to restrain some of the mentally ill in Indonesia -- even though officially they are banned; a truffle recipe's handed over at an army camp in Syria and exciting days in the northernmost reaches of Scandinavia as the annual reindeer migration approaches.
  2134. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents' stories: why President Assad may now believe he's winning the the man...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories: why President Assad may now believe he's winning the argument; the garage man in Jordan recruiting young Islamists to go fight in Syria; why shackles are still being used to restrain some of the mentally ill in Indonesia -- even though officially they are banned; a truffle recipe's handed over at an army camp in Syria and exciting days in the northernmost reaches of Scandinavia as the annual reindeer migration approaches.
  2135. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1663</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwkk.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwkk.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzwkk.mp3" length="26608000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130420-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzwkb</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwkk.mp3" fileSize="26608000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1663"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzwkb</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Stradivarius Tree</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Colour and insight from reporters around the world: the man who'll find you a violin tree in the Jura Mountains; what's going to happen to the man who tends the roses in the Afghan town of Lashkar Gah? Culture clash in Bamako -- how some of the refugees from Mali's north are overstaying their welcome. Why the Mexican president's warning about vigilantes may not be heeded in the mountainous south-west and ominous signs as birds of prey gather in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Colour and insight from reporters around the world: the man who'll find you a violin...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Colour and insight from reporters around the world: the man who'll find you a violin tree in the Jura Mountains; what's going to happen to the man who tends the roses in the Afghan town of Lashkar Gah? Culture clash in Bamako -- how some of the refugees from Mali's north are overstaying their welcome. Why the Mexican president's warning about vigilantes may not be heeded in the mountainous south-west and ominous signs as birds of prey gather in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1656</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4vm.mp3" length="26496000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4vm.mp3" length="26496000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz4vm.mp3" length="26496000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130413-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz4vb</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4vm.mp3" fileSize="26496000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1656"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz4vb</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>It Could Have Been Much Worse</title><description><![CDATA[<p>How the direction of the wind saved Tokyo from possible radioactive contamination -- Rupert Wingfield Hayes examines the debate over re-starting Japan's nuclear power plants. Andrew Harding considers how Nelson Mandela's hospitalisation has caused South Africans to look again at their country's development in the years since apartheid. The police are said to deal drugs, the playgrounds are littered with syringes -- but Lucy Ash says not all optimism's been extinguished in Ukraine. David Chazan in France on a man who stole from a bank and has become something of a folk hero. And Nick Thorpe goes to Slovenia and Bulgaria to find out what's irking the middle classes and why in the open-air markets, the strawberries are not selling.
  2136. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> How the direction of the wind saved Tokyo from possible radioactive contamination --...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>How the direction of the wind saved Tokyo from possible radioactive contamination -- Rupert Wingfield Hayes examines the debate over re-starting Japan's nuclear power plants. Andrew Harding considers how Nelson Mandela's hospitalisation has caused South Africans to look again at their country's development in the years since apartheid. The police are said to deal drugs, the playgrounds are littered with syringes -- but Lucy Ash says not all optimism's been extinguished in Ukraine. David Chazan in France on a man who stole from a bank and has become something of a folk hero. And Nick Thorpe goes to Slovenia and Bulgaria to find out what's irking the middle classes and why in the open-air markets, the strawberries are not selling.
  2137. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1704</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbhr.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbhr.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzbhr.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130406-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzbhm</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbhr.mp3" fileSize="27264000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1704"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzbhm</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Jihadi Vegetable Patch</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' despatches from around the world. In this edition: Thomas Fessy marches through Mali with the French Foreign Legion looking for insurgents; Jonathan Fryer's in the Angolan capital, Luanda, where people have much to look at but, in most cases, little money to spend. What's the point of the Swiss army? Imogen Foulkes says some there believe there's no further need for compulsory military service. Alan Johnston chronicles a sad, final day at a 'trotting' track in Italy which is closing down, another victim of the recession there. And the Germans may have a reputation for businesslike efficiency but Steve Evans in Berlin has been learning that they don't always get it right!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents' despatches from around the world.  In this edition: Thomas Fessy Mali...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' despatches from around the world. In this edition: Thomas Fessy marches through Mali with the French Foreign Legion looking for insurgents; Jonathan Fryer's in the Angolan capital, Luanda, where people have much to look at but, in most cases, little money to spend. What's the point of the Swiss army? Imogen Foulkes says some there believe there's no further need for compulsory military service. Alan Johnston chronicles a sad, final day at a 'trotting' track in Italy which is closing down, another victim of the recession there. And the Germans may have a reputation for businesslike efficiency but Steve Evans in Berlin has been learning that they don't always get it right!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1692</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s03tv.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s03tv.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s03tv.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130403-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s03ts</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s03tv.mp3" fileSize="27072000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1692"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s03ts</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Talking About Fish</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Insight, colour and analysis from reporters around the world. Mark Lowen's in Cyprus where the banks remain closed and the people have been getting angrier. Shahzeb Jillani makes the decision to work as a correspondent in the troubled Pakistani city of Karachi - his family questions his judgement! Charlotte Pritchard takes a drive through the smuggler borderlands between Colombia and Venezuela. As politicians and community leaders in Yemen discuss the future, Daniel Owen's been to one town where the talk is mainly about fish. Justin Rowlatt's investigating the mining boom bringing riches to Mongolia - he meets one man he describes as Mongolia's most influential since Genghis Khan!
  2138. Producer: Tony Grant</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Insight, colour and analysis from reporters around the world.  Mark Lowen's in Cyprus...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Insight, colour and analysis from reporters around the world. Mark Lowen's in Cyprus where the banks remain closed and the people have been getting angrier. Shahzeb Jillani makes the decision to work as a correspondent in the troubled Pakistani city of Karachi - his family questions his judgement! Charlotte Pritchard takes a drive through the smuggler borderlands between Colombia and Venezuela. As politicians and community leaders in Yemen discuss the future, Daniel Owen's been to one town where the talk is mainly about fish. Justin Rowlatt's investigating the mining boom bringing riches to Mongolia - he meets one man he describes as Mongolia's most influential since Genghis Khan!
  2139. Producer: Tony Grant</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh03.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh03.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzh03.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130323-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzgzx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh03.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzgzx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Black Cowboy</title><description><![CDATA[<p>How did Herb Jeffries become a black cowboy film star when he wasn't even black? Sarfraz Manzoor travels to Kansas in search of the answer. Mike Wooldridge is in Pakistan - an election date's been announced but will the new team of rulers tackle what some call an alarming rise in religious intolerance? Western Sahara is not much reported upon: Celeste Hicks goes there and tells a tale of secret police, comic book spies and wobbling octopus. Anthony Denselow travels to Uttar Pradesh in India to find out why so many widows make their way to the city of Vrindavan. And the Chinese have developed a thirst for fine wine. Jim Carey has been discovering that Australia's winemakers want a slice of this potentially huge new market.
  2140. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> How did Herb Jeffries become a black cowboy film star when he wasn't even black? to in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>How did Herb Jeffries become a black cowboy film star when he wasn't even black? Sarfraz Manzoor travels to Kansas in search of the answer. Mike Wooldridge is in Pakistan - an election date's been announced but will the new team of rulers tackle what some call an alarming rise in religious intolerance? Western Sahara is not much reported upon: Celeste Hicks goes there and tells a tale of secret police, comic book spies and wobbling octopus. Anthony Denselow travels to Uttar Pradesh in India to find out why so many widows make their way to the city of Vrindavan. And the Chinese have developed a thirst for fine wine. Jim Carey has been discovering that Australia's winemakers want a slice of this potentially huge new market.
  2141. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhxh.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhxh.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzhxh.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130321-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzhxd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhxh.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzhxd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Referendum Day</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Millions of Zimbabweans vote on a new constitution - Andrew Harding, in Harare, quotes one government minister saying the document is the 'midwife' to a brand new future for the country. Jonathan Head talks of Burma's most famous resident, the Nobel prizewinner Aung San Suu Kyi. Once revered as an icon, now she's having to get used to being heckled as she goes about her work as a politician. Louisa Loveluck talks of the crumbling Egyptian railway system and how it is starting to tarnish the reputation of the new government led by Mohammed Morsi. More than a billion Indians are about to get brand new state of the art identity cards. Peter Day says it's a bold move by the government -- but will it be a successful one? People in Jerusalem are awaiting the imminent arrival of Barack Obama. Kevin Connolly speculates on what may emerge from the trip and wonders if, afterwards, streets will be named in honour of the American president!
  2142. The programme is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Millions of Zimbabweans vote on a new constitution - Andrew Harding, in Harare, quotes...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Millions of Zimbabweans vote on a new constitution - Andrew Harding, in Harare, quotes one government minister saying the document is the 'midwife' to a brand new future for the country. Jonathan Head talks of Burma's most famous resident, the Nobel prizewinner Aung San Suu Kyi. Once revered as an icon, now she's having to get used to being heckled as she goes about her work as a politician. Louisa Loveluck talks of the crumbling Egyptian railway system and how it is starting to tarnish the reputation of the new government led by Mohammed Morsi. More than a billion Indians are about to get brand new state of the art identity cards. Peter Day says it's a bold move by the government -- but will it be a successful one? People in Jerusalem are awaiting the imminent arrival of Barack Obama. Kevin Connolly speculates on what may emerge from the trip and wonders if, afterwards, streets will be named in honour of the American president!
  2143. The programme is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1655</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00yr.mp3" length="26480000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00yr.mp3" length="26480000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s00yr.mp3" length="26480000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130316-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s00y8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00yr.mp3" fileSize="26480000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1655"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s00y8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Decision Time for the Aborigines</title><description><![CDATA[<p>What price can you put on memory? Neil Trevithick is with the Aborigines whose territory in Western Australia's being coveted for its mineral wealth. Once hundreds of hermits lived in the mountains of northern Lebanon. Today John Laurenson's meeting one of just three who remain. Joanna Jolly's in Nepal where, six years after the end of civil war, no-one's been brought to court to face charges of war crimes. Will Grant is with the Venezuelans paying their last respects to their late 'commandante' in Caracas. And oil should soon run again through the pipelines from South Sudan. Richard Nield says if the revenue it brings provides a more reliable supply of electricity, its people will be delighted.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> What price can you put on memory? Neil Trevithick is with the Aborigines whose in for...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>What price can you put on memory? Neil Trevithick is with the Aborigines whose territory in Western Australia's being coveted for its mineral wealth. Once hundreds of hermits lived in the mountains of northern Lebanon. Today John Laurenson's meeting one of just three who remain. Joanna Jolly's in Nepal where, six years after the end of civil war, no-one's been brought to court to face charges of war crimes. Will Grant is with the Venezuelans paying their last respects to their late 'commandante' in Caracas. And oil should soon run again through the pipelines from South Sudan. Richard Nield says if the revenue it brings provides a more reliable supply of electricity, its people will be delighted.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:31:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1666</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlw8.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlw8.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzlw8.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130314-1131.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzlw2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlw8.mp3" fileSize="26656000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1666"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzlw2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Battle Stations at the Vatican!</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Allan Little says there are deep disagreements among the cardinals as they prepare to elect a new pope. They are voting too in the Falklands. Caroline Wyatt says the result is in little doubt. But what will they make of it in Argentina? Stephen Sackur has been in Tunisia, a land which has been in deep political crisis since the shooting last month of a prominent critic of the government. How should a town handle the legacy of being the birthplace of a notorious dictator? Bethany Bell's been asking that question in Georgia and in Austria - and getting a variety of answers. And Steve Rosenberg went to interview a former leader of the Soviet Union. Little did he know he'd end up accompanying him on the piano!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Allan Little says there are deep disagreements among the cardinals as they prepare to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Allan Little says there are deep disagreements among the cardinals as they prepare to elect a new pope. They are voting too in the Falklands. Caroline Wyatt says the result is in little doubt. But what will they make of it in Argentina? Stephen Sackur has been in Tunisia, a land which has been in deep political crisis since the shooting last month of a prominent critic of the government. How should a town handle the legacy of being the birthplace of a notorious dictator? Bethany Bell's been asking that question in Georgia and in Austria - and getting a variety of answers. And Steve Rosenberg went to interview a former leader of the Soviet Union. Little did he know he'd end up accompanying him on the piano!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkl0.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkl0.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzkl0.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130309-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzkkp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkl0.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzkkp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Boy Who Knocked Stalin Down</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories. Today: Steve Rosenberg's in Moscow as Russians debate the legacy of Josef Stalin sixty years after his death. There's speculation that Turkey could be poised to sign a peace deal to end the long conflict with Turkish rebels - James Reynolds has been investigating. Steve Vickers tells us why the Swedish authorities want to move their northernmost city to a new location two miles away. Owen Bennett Jones reflects on how much the instability and violence in today's Pakistan has shaped a new generation of successful novelists and Judith Kampfner's returned to Singapore, where she was born and brought up, and found it readier than ever to embrace its multi-ethnic history. She also enjoyed its wobbly cakes!
  2144. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents' stories.  Today: Steve Rosenberg's in Moscow as Russians debate the of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' stories. Today: Steve Rosenberg's in Moscow as Russians debate the legacy of Josef Stalin sixty years after his death. There's speculation that Turkey could be poised to sign a peace deal to end the long conflict with Turkish rebels - James Reynolds has been investigating. Steve Vickers tells us why the Swedish authorities want to move their northernmost city to a new location two miles away. Owen Bennett Jones reflects on how much the instability and violence in today's Pakistan has shaped a new generation of successful novelists and Judith Kampfner's returned to Singapore, where she was born and brought up, and found it readier than ever to embrace its multi-ethnic history. She also enjoyed its wobbly cakes!
  2145. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc0v.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc0v.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzc0v.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130307-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzc0s</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc0v.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzc0s</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Teatime in Germany</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters worldwide tell their stories. Steve Evans in Berlin on how, perhaps surprisingly given their history, Germans feel a real affinity for Britain. She used to be called 'the most powerful woman in Mexico.' Will Grant on the arrest, on embezzlement charges, of one of the country's top union leaders. Paul Henley tries to keep his cool listening to a stream of homophobic vitriol in Russia. Young people in Portugal queuing up to leave the country - Alison Roberts is in Lisbon where morale's plummeting as the jobless figures soar. And as the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq approaches, Kevin Connolly's there musing on how one never quite knows how history will work out.  
  2146. The producer is Tony Grant</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Reporters worldwide tell their stories.  Steve Evans in Berlin on how, perhaps given a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters worldwide tell their stories. Steve Evans in Berlin on how, perhaps surprisingly given their history, Germans feel a real affinity for Britain. She used to be called 'the most powerful woman in Mexico.' Will Grant on the arrest, on embezzlement charges, of one of the country's top union leaders. Paul Henley tries to keep his cool listening to a stream of homophobic vitriol in Russia. Young people in Portugal queuing up to leave the country - Alison Roberts is in Lisbon where morale's plummeting as the jobless figures soar. And as the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq approaches, Kevin Connolly's there musing on how one never quite knows how history will work out.  
  2147. The producer is Tony Grant</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 12:08:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1672</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5qh.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5qh.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz5qh.mp3" length="26752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130302-1208.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz5qd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5qh.mp3" fileSize="26752000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1672"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz5qd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Cold in Calcutta</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters worldwide: Rahul Tandon is in Calcutta as its people struggle to cope with an unaccustomed spell of cold weather. 'Together Bulgarians are Strong' - Nick Thorpe tells us that's the cry of protestors whose disenchantment's brought down the government. The Kenyan election's on Monday and Gabriel Gatehouse has been finding out that land remains an issue of vital importance to many. A difficult decision for parents in Guatemala - Humphrey Hawksley explains why many would prefer their children NOT to go to school and Jennifer Chevalier in Ottowa on why Canadians are nervous about Europe making trade advances to the US.
  2148. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Reporters worldwide: Rahul Tandon is in Calcutta as its people struggle to cope with...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters worldwide: Rahul Tandon is in Calcutta as its people struggle to cope with an unaccustomed spell of cold weather. 'Together Bulgarians are Strong' - Nick Thorpe tells us that's the cry of protestors whose disenchantment's brought down the government. The Kenyan election's on Monday and Gabriel Gatehouse has been finding out that land remains an issue of vital importance to many. A difficult decision for parents in Guatemala - Humphrey Hawksley explains why many would prefer their children NOT to go to school and Jennifer Chevalier in Ottowa on why Canadians are nervous about Europe making trade advances to the US.
  2149. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:27:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzpq4.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzpq4.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzpq4.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130228-1127.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzppx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzpq4.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzppx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Lap of Luxury</title><description><![CDATA[<p>When Madeleine Morris returned to her native Australia after twelve years in the UK she knew she'd find things different there, but she didn't realise her wallet would take such a battering! Ian Pannell, in northern Syria, finds a group of little boys sheltering in a Roman-era tomb and asking where their mother's got to. Craig Jeffrey's at the Indian college where once students demonstrated for the right to cheat in exams. Sicily looks like being one of the key battlegrounds in the Italian election -Chris Morris is there communing with the dead ahead of the big vote. And as France prepared to take on England in the Six Nations tournament at Twickenham, Chris Bockman finds the congregation deep in prayer at a church they call 'Our Lady of Rugby.'</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> When Madeleine Morris returned to her native Australia after twelve years in the UK a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>When Madeleine Morris returned to her native Australia after twelve years in the UK she knew she'd find things different there, but she didn't realise her wallet would take such a battering! Ian Pannell, in northern Syria, finds a group of little boys sheltering in a Roman-era tomb and asking where their mother's got to. Craig Jeffrey's at the Indian college where once students demonstrated for the right to cheat in exams. Sicily looks like being one of the key battlegrounds in the Italian election -Chris Morris is there communing with the dead ahead of the big vote. And as France prepared to take on England in the Six Nations tournament at Twickenham, Chris Bockman finds the congregation deep in prayer at a church they call 'Our Lady of Rugby.'</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8qr.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8qr.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz8qr.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130223-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz8qj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8qr.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz8qj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Desperate for Tourists</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Despatches from around the world: Jonathan Head on a little-reported but long-running conflict in southern Thailand; a rare protest on the streets of Singapore - Karishma Vaswani tells of mounting anger in Asia's richest nation; a new government in Italy, after this weekend's election, seems unlikely to tinker much with the employment laws - Ed Butler believes nepotism in the labour market is set to continue; Paul Lewis talks to Ugandans finding it hard to get by even if official forecasts are upbeat about the country's economic future. And getting around wasn't much of a problem for King Tut -- but Terry Egan finds the going tough in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Despatches from around the world: Jonathan Head on a little-reported but long-running...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Despatches from around the world: Jonathan Head on a little-reported but long-running conflict in southern Thailand; a rare protest on the streets of Singapore - Karishma Vaswani tells of mounting anger in Asia's richest nation; a new government in Italy, after this weekend's election, seems unlikely to tinker much with the employment laws - Ed Butler believes nepotism in the labour market is set to continue; Paul Lewis talks to Ugandans finding it hard to get by even if official forecasts are upbeat about the country's economic future. And getting around wasn't much of a problem for King Tut -- but Terry Egan finds the going tough in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:35:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6r8.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6r8.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz6r8.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130221-1135.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz6r1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6r8.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz6r1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Wild Horse Chase</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters' despatches from far and wide: a vegetarian of 37 years' standing, Nick Thorpe, is despatched to ask questions about horse meat and to investigate a slaughter house in Romania. Can Japan spend its way out of recession and into prosperity? Economists are thrilled at the idea. But Rupert Wingfield Hayes in Tokyo has his doubts. What's the US military doing in a remote corner of the Philippines? Kate McGeown's gone to find out. Will Ross is in northern Nigeria wondering why so few of those detained, and suspected of militant attacks, are appearing in front of the courts. And Tim Butcher in New York meets up with an old friend with whom he once went to war.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Reporters' despatches from far and wide: a vegetarian of 37 years' standing, Nick is a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters' despatches from far and wide: a vegetarian of 37 years' standing, Nick Thorpe, is despatched to ask questions about horse meat and to investigate a slaughter house in Romania. Can Japan spend its way out of recession and into prosperity? Economists are thrilled at the idea. But Rupert Wingfield Hayes in Tokyo has his doubts. What's the US military doing in a remote corner of the Philippines? Kate McGeown's gone to find out. Will Ross is in northern Nigeria wondering why so few of those detained, and suspected of militant attacks, are appearing in front of the courts. And Tim Butcher in New York meets up with an old friend with whom he once went to war.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1696</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00gw.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00gw.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s00gw.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130216-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s00gp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00gw.mp3" fileSize="27136000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1696"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s00gp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Was It Worth It?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters worldwide - today: Ruth Sherlock on how the Free Syrian Army's losing support as people turn to the Islamists for help in getting by during difficult times. Wyre Davies on a plot still unfolding: he's in a bookshop in Tunis looking out on an unfinished revolution. Mark Mardell on how experience in the US military is helping to shape the new team around President Obama. Tom Esslemont on murder in Corsica -- old scores are being settled against a Mediterranean backdrop. And it's like a scene out of 'Spooks' as our Christian Fraser's taken, furtively, into the heart of one of Europe's biggest infrastructure projects.
  2150. The producer is Tony Grant</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Reporters worldwide - today: Ruth Sherlock on how the Free Syrian Army's losing as to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters worldwide - today: Ruth Sherlock on how the Free Syrian Army's losing support as people turn to the Islamists for help in getting by during difficult times. Wyre Davies on a plot still unfolding: he's in a bookshop in Tunis looking out on an unfinished revolution. Mark Mardell on how experience in the US military is helping to shape the new team around President Obama. Tom Esslemont on murder in Corsica -- old scores are being settled against a Mediterranean backdrop. And it's like a scene out of 'Spooks' as our Christian Fraser's taken, furtively, into the heart of one of Europe's biggest infrastructure projects.
  2151. The producer is Tony Grant</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:28:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9z3.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9z3.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9z3.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130214-1128.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9z0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9z3.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9z0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Low-Speed Rail</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Stories from around the world. Today: Will Grant in Mexico on the night horror descended on a beach holiday on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Why were 21-thousand knives handed out on the streets of Mumbai? Alex Preston was there and has the answer. Chris Morris finds out what the building with the biggest carpet in Europe can tell us about attitudes to the EU. Richard Hamilton senses a swagger of self-confidence on the streets of Nairobi but, he says, the ghosts of an older Kenya are never far away. And high-speed rail it isn't, but Will Ross finds it far from dull on the noon train to Kano in northern Nigeria.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Stories from around the world.  Today: Will Grant in Mexico on the night horror on a on...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Stories from around the world. Today: Will Grant in Mexico on the night horror descended on a beach holiday on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Why were 21-thousand knives handed out on the streets of Mumbai? Alex Preston was there and has the answer. Chris Morris finds out what the building with the biggest carpet in Europe can tell us about attitudes to the EU. Richard Hamilton senses a swagger of self-confidence on the streets of Nairobi but, he says, the ghosts of an older Kenya are never far away. And high-speed rail it isn't, but Will Ross finds it far from dull on the noon train to Kano in northern Nigeria.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs93.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs93.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzs93.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130209-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzs8r</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs93.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzs8r</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Digging Up The Beer</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Analysis, colour, wit and observation from journalists worldwide. Today: Pascale Harter chronicles the fury in Spain at reports that politicians are lining their pockets while the people are making painful sacrifices in the name of austerity. James Harkin on the death of a young engineer who wanted to help build a new Syria after the revolution. Jill McGivering on the Indian women being talked into hysterectomies by doctors eager to make more money. Orla Guerin meets an Afghan governor who says don't worry about the Taliban, peace is at hand - although he does keep an assault rifle close at hand! And Thomas Fessy, in newly-liberated Timbuktu, unearths the beer that had to be buried when the fabled city was seized by Islamist rebels.
  2152. Produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Analysis, colour, wit and observation from journalists worldwide.  Today: Pascale the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Analysis, colour, wit and observation from journalists worldwide. Today: Pascale Harter chronicles the fury in Spain at reports that politicians are lining their pockets while the people are making painful sacrifices in the name of austerity. James Harkin on the death of a young engineer who wanted to help build a new Syria after the revolution. Jill McGivering on the Indian women being talked into hysterectomies by doctors eager to make more money. Orla Guerin meets an Afghan governor who says don't worry about the Taliban, peace is at hand - although he does keep an assault rifle close at hand! And Thomas Fessy, in newly-liberated Timbuktu, unearths the beer that had to be buried when the fabled city was seized by Islamist rebels.
  2153. Produced by Tony Grant.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9r0.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9r0.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9r0.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130207-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9qw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9r0.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9qw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Settling Scores</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Tim Whewell, just back from Mali, talks of retribution. Every conflict throws up winners and losers. And it's the nomadic Touareg, he tells us, who have become targets for revenge.
  2154. Arguments over gun control have once again been dominating the headlines in the US and Paul Adams has been reporting on a debate he says is quintessentially American.
  2155. Darius Bazargan has been in northern Lebanon, where he has been talking to factions allied to different warring groups in Syria.
  2156. The Swiss train service has an enviable reputation, but Imogen Foulkes has been finding out it has managed to anger its customers.
  2157. And in South Africa, Hamilton Wende has been out with a group of township teenagers whose extravagance and flamboyance is angering some of their elders.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Tim Whewell, just back from Mali, talks of retribution.  Every conflict throws up and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Tim Whewell, just back from Mali, talks of retribution. Every conflict throws up winners and losers. And it's the nomadic Touareg, he tells us, who have become targets for revenge.
  2158. Arguments over gun control have once again been dominating the headlines in the US and Paul Adams has been reporting on a debate he says is quintessentially American.
  2159. Darius Bazargan has been in northern Lebanon, where he has been talking to factions allied to different warring groups in Syria.
  2160. The Swiss train service has an enviable reputation, but Imogen Foulkes has been finding out it has managed to anger its customers.
  2161. And in South Africa, Hamilton Wende has been out with a group of township teenagers whose extravagance and flamboyance is angering some of their elders.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:11:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02v9.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02v9.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s02v9.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130202-1211.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s02v7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02v9.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s02v7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>'Dream Big Kid!'</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents take a closer look at events in their part of the world. Aleem Maqbool follows a week of street protests with the question - can democracy really take root in Egypt? The arts world is in turmoil in Hungary, and Nick Thorpe tells us how the government there is being accused of hijacking the cultural agenda to promote its own political ends. Parto Parvin, and that's not her real name, talks of the difficulties being faced by exiled Iranian journalists trying to cover events in their homeland. Daniel Sanford hears an extraordinary tale of survival from the Battle of Stalingrad, which was drawing to a close exactly seventy years ago. And Reggie Nadelson tours the New York theatre which has staged concerts by just about everybody in African-American musical entertainment.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Correspondents take a closer look at events in their part of the world.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents take a closer look at events in their part of the world. Aleem Maqbool follows a week of street protests with the question - can democracy really take root in Egypt? The arts world is in turmoil in Hungary, and Nick Thorpe tells us how the government there is being accused of hijacking the cultural agenda to promote its own political ends. Parto Parvin, and that's not her real name, talks of the difficulties being faced by exiled Iranian journalists trying to cover events in their homeland. Daniel Sanford hears an extraordinary tale of survival from the Battle of Stalingrad, which was drawing to a close exactly seventy years ago. And Reggie Nadelson tours the New York theatre which has staged concerts by just about everybody in African-American musical entertainment.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:36:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1695</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s01tx.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s01tx.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s01tx.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130131-1136.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s01ts</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s01tx.mp3" fileSize="27120000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1695"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s01ts</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Art of Seduction</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem says keep that election bunting close at hand - Israelis may have to vote again before long. Will Self goes to the Romanian capital, Bucharest: millions live there but he's of the opinion that it would be hard to find a less homely place. The Chinese authorities say they're tackling the Great Smog of Beijing, but Martin Patience doesn't expect great change any time soon. A tale of violence, bribery and corruption from Brazil's Amazon frontier is told by Sue Branford. And in Paris, John Laurenson examines the shocking claim that French men no longer understand romance.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem says keep that election bunting close at hand - Israelis...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem says keep that election bunting close at hand - Israelis may have to vote again before long. Will Self goes to the Romanian capital, Bucharest: millions live there but he's of the opinion that it would be hard to find a less homely place. The Chinese authorities say they're tackling the Great Smog of Beijing, but Martin Patience doesn't expect great change any time soon. A tale of violence, bribery and corruption from Brazil's Amazon frontier is told by Sue Branford. And in Paris, John Laurenson examines the shocking claim that French men no longer understand romance.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzqdt.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzqdt.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzqdt.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130126-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzqdn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzqdt.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzqdn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Return of the Bunga Bunga King</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Andrew Harding travels to the centre of Mali to find out how the fight against the Islamist rebels is affecting life in one small country town. Thousands of prisoners are being released from jail in Georgia -- Damien McGuinness has been learning that not all Georgians think that's such a good idea. Silvio Berlusconi's trying again to be prime minister of Italy. Alan Johnston in Rome's been finding out that many Italians don't want to see a return of the bunga bunga king. Orla Guerin tells us what it's like to live and work in Pakistan, a land which sometimes seems as if it's in perpetual crisis and ... turbulence at 35-thousand feet!!! Paul Moss takes a flight where the hostesses dispensed diplomacy along with the gin and tonics.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Andrew Harding travels to the centre of Mali to find out how the fight against the is...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Andrew Harding travels to the centre of Mali to find out how the fight against the Islamist rebels is affecting life in one small country town. Thousands of prisoners are being released from jail in Georgia -- Damien McGuinness has been learning that not all Georgians think that's such a good idea. Silvio Berlusconi's trying again to be prime minister of Italy. Alan Johnston in Rome's been finding out that many Italians don't want to see a return of the bunga bunga king. Orla Guerin tells us what it's like to live and work in Pakistan, a land which sometimes seems as if it's in perpetual crisis and ... turbulence at 35-thousand feet!!! Paul Moss takes a flight where the hostesses dispensed diplomacy along with the gin and tonics.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1667</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcfc.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcfc.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzcfc.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130124-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzcf7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcfc.mp3" fileSize="26672000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1667"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzcf7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>New Enemies, New Friends</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents around the world telling their stories:
  2162. Lyse Doucet has been meeting some of the millions of people who've been forced to flee their homes in Syria because of the continuing bloodshed there.
  2163. Mark Doyle in Bamako on how the fighting in Mali has seen a new alliance being forged between the French and the Nigerian military.
  2164. The Hungarian economy may be tottering - but Petroc Trelawny has been finding out it's boom time in the flea markets and second-hand shops of Budapest.
  2165. Why are the French drinking so much less wine than they used to? John Laurenson set off for a country bistro in search of answers.
  2166. And as the fighting continues in Mali, Nick Thorpe remembers a visit there and a drive across the Sahara Desert in more peaceable times - thirty two years ago.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents around the world telling their stories: Lyse Doucet has been meeting of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents around the world telling their stories:
  2167. Lyse Doucet has been meeting some of the millions of people who've been forced to flee their homes in Syria because of the continuing bloodshed there.
  2168. Mark Doyle in Bamako on how the fighting in Mali has seen a new alliance being forged between the French and the Nigerian military.
  2169. The Hungarian economy may be tottering - but Petroc Trelawny has been finding out it's boom time in the flea markets and second-hand shops of Budapest.
  2170. Why are the French drinking so much less wine than they used to? John Laurenson set off for a country bistro in search of answers.
  2171. And as the fighting continues in Mali, Nick Thorpe remembers a visit there and a drive across the Sahara Desert in more peaceable times - thirty two years ago.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1679</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzm95.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzm95.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzm95.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130119-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzm91</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzm95.mp3" fileSize="26864000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1679"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzm91</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Return of the Gendarme of Africa</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' news and views from around the globe:
  2172. Hugh Schofield is in Paris as French troops take on Islamist rebels in the former French colony of Mali; Will Grant on how Venezuelans are starting to consider a future without their president, Hugo Chavez; Emily Buchanan on the Indian holy man who wowed the ladies in New England; Jo Fidgen on how the Sami people of northern Sweden haven't quite forgotten their traditionally nomadic ways and James Luckhurst takes shelter from the cold and finds a welcome in one of the most unusual museums in the Baltic states.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Correspondents' news and views from around the globe: Hugh Schofield is in Paris as on...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Correspondents' news and views from around the globe:
  2173. Hugh Schofield is in Paris as French troops take on Islamist rebels in the former French colony of Mali; Will Grant on how Venezuelans are starting to consider a future without their president, Hugo Chavez; Emily Buchanan on the Indian holy man who wowed the ladies in New England; Jo Fidgen on how the Sami people of northern Sweden haven't quite forgotten their traditionally nomadic ways and James Luckhurst takes shelter from the cold and finds a welcome in one of the most unusual museums in the Baltic states.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:39:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz612.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz612.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz612.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130117-1139.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz60t</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz612.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz60t</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Title: Stateless in Kuwait</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents reporters' despatches from across the globe.
  2174. Matthew Teller meets the stateless bidoons of Kuwait
  2175. Mark Lobel looks attempts to improve one of Cape Town's poorest settlement in the wake of a devastating fire.
  2176. Jonathan Fryer assesses Baghdad's surprising aspiration to become the conference capital of the Middle East.
  2177. Alan Johnston wonders whether the mystery of Garbaldi's final resting place will ever be solved.
  2178. Dany Mitzman describes the trials and tribulations of not eating meat while living in pork-crazed Bologna.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie presents reporters' despatches from across the globe.  Matthew Teller meets a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents reporters' despatches from across the globe.
  2179. Matthew Teller meets the stateless bidoons of Kuwait
  2180. Mark Lobel looks attempts to improve one of Cape Town's poorest settlement in the wake of a devastating fire.
  2181. Jonathan Fryer assesses Baghdad's surprising aspiration to become the conference capital of the Middle East.
  2182. Alan Johnston wonders whether the mystery of Garbaldi's final resting place will ever be solved.
  2183. Dany Mitzman describes the trials and tribulations of not eating meat while living in pork-crazed Bologna.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdgl.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdgl.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzdgl.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130112-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzdgh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdgl.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzdgh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The secrets of eternal youth</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Andrew North reflects on whether the recent rape and murder of a woman in Delhi might bring a greater soul searching amongst all sections of Indian society.
  2184. Owen Bennett-Jones teeters on the "fiscal cliff" with anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, asking if he's really the most powerful man in America?
  2185. Nicholas Shakespeare makes a nostalgic return to Phnom Penh.
  2186. Andrew Bomford uncovers the secrets of eternal youth on the Greek island of Ikaria.
  2187. Hugh Schofield banishes the January blues by exploring P.G. Wodehouse's love affair with France. And in the process, identifies what may be the master's finest opening paragraph.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Andrew North reflects on whether the recent rape and murder of a woman in Delhi might...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Andrew North reflects on whether the recent rape and murder of a woman in Delhi might bring a greater soul searching amongst all sections of Indian society.
  2188. Owen Bennett-Jones teeters on the "fiscal cliff" with anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, asking if he's really the most powerful man in America?
  2189. Nicholas Shakespeare makes a nostalgic return to Phnom Penh.
  2190. Andrew Bomford uncovers the secrets of eternal youth on the Greek island of Ikaria.
  2191. Hugh Schofield banishes the January blues by exploring P.G. Wodehouse's love affair with France. And in the process, identifies what may be the master's finest opening paragraph.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz59n.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz59n.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz59n.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20130105-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz59h</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz59n.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz59h</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Highlights of 2012</title><description><![CDATA[<p>As the year draws to an end, Kate Adie presents a feast of highlights from correspondents' despatches across 2012.
  2192. Fucshia Dunlop is in Shanghai, dancing the the city's glamourous past.
  2193. Lucy Ash is challenged by a call of nature in Russia's Siberian wilderness.
  2194. Kate McGowan decides against boiled duck foetus for breakfast in Manila.
  2195. Allan Little uncovers the great egg crisis in the Falkland Islands.
  2196. Emma Jane Kirby is feeling distinctly under dressed as she takes a table in St Tropez.
  2197. And Will Grant discovers that Mexico's 'Day of the Dead' is a suprizingly uplifting experience.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> As the year draws to an end, Kate Adie presents a feast of highlights from despatches...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>As the year draws to an end, Kate Adie presents a feast of highlights from correspondents' despatches across 2012.
  2198. Fucshia Dunlop is in Shanghai, dancing the the city's glamourous past.
  2199. Lucy Ash is challenged by a call of nature in Russia's Siberian wilderness.
  2200. Kate McGowan decides against boiled duck foetus for breakfast in Manila.
  2201. Allan Little uncovers the great egg crisis in the Falkland Islands.
  2202. Emma Jane Kirby is feeling distinctly under dressed as she takes a table in St Tropez.
  2203. And Will Grant discovers that Mexico's 'Day of the Dead' is a suprizingly uplifting experience.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkvr.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkvr.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzkvr.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121229-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzkvn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkvr.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzkvn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Parisian merry-go-round</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents despatches from reporters across the globe.
  2204. Lucy Ash travels to Burma where she finds that Chinese investment ventures are being challenged by local people.
  2205. As Greece receives it latest tranche of bailout funds, Mark Lowen looks back over a tumultuous year in the country.
  2206. Andrew North looks at the controversy surrounding the proposed introduction of foreign supermarkets to India.
  2207. Joanna Robertson joins in the Parisan love affair with fairgrounds.
  2208. Horatio Clare explains why change might be coming to the remote island of St. Helena in the very near future</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie presents despatches from reporters across the globe.  Lucy Ash travels to she...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents despatches from reporters across the globe.
  2209. Lucy Ash travels to Burma where she finds that Chinese investment ventures are being challenged by local people.
  2210. As Greece receives it latest tranche of bailout funds, Mark Lowen looks back over a tumultuous year in the country.
  2211. Andrew North looks at the controversy surrounding the proposed introduction of foreign supermarkets to India.
  2212. Joanna Robertson joins in the Parisan love affair with fairgrounds.
  2213. Horatio Clare explains why change might be coming to the remote island of St. Helena in the very near future</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2012 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgk3.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgk3.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzgk3.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121222-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzgk0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgk3.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzgk0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Dementia Village</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters worldwide provide context to the week's news. Today:
  2214. South Africa's ANC at the crossroads? As the party prepares for conference, its figurehead Nelson Mandela in fragile health, Andrew Harding reads the political runes at a critical time for the country.
  2215. Allan Little is in the Polish city of Wroclaw observing how old allegiances and old identities are emerging in the new Europe.
  2216. Now what's the attraction of the 'mitten' or 'hairy' crab? At this time of year in eastern China they're much in demand and Fuchsia Dunlop's been finding out why.
  2217. Not many of our correspondents have got to meet the president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang. Stephen Sackur has though and asked him questions the president thought impertinent and malicious.
  2218. And is getting dementia really the end of the world? The Dutch authorities have created a village for dementia sufferers which is pioneering a new sort of care.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Reporters worldwide provide context to the week's news.  Today: South Africa's ANC at a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters worldwide provide context to the week's news. Today:
  2219. South Africa's ANC at the crossroads? As the party prepares for conference, its figurehead Nelson Mandela in fragile health, Andrew Harding reads the political runes at a critical time for the country.
  2220. Allan Little is in the Polish city of Wroclaw observing how old allegiances and old identities are emerging in the new Europe.
  2221. Now what's the attraction of the 'mitten' or 'hairy' crab? At this time of year in eastern China they're much in demand and Fuchsia Dunlop's been finding out why.
  2222. Not many of our correspondents have got to meet the president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang. Stephen Sackur has though and asked him questions the president thought impertinent and malicious.
  2223. And is getting dementia really the end of the world? The Dutch authorities have created a village for dementia sufferers which is pioneering a new sort of care.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 12:06:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgxg.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgxg.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzgxg.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121215-1206.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzgx7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgxg.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzgx7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Nightmarish Tale</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen examines claims that a conclusion to the long conflict in Syria is within sight.
  2224. After a year of protests against President Putin, Steve Rosenberg finds support for him is still strong -- particularly in cities away from the capital, Moscow.
  2225. Bethany Bell's in South Tyrol where some are angry that the Italian authorities, in the midst of financial crisis, want this wealthy Alpine province to contribute more to the national exchequer.
  2226. The Turks know that the television soap opera's an effective means of extending influence throughout the Middle East. And the BBC man Rajan Datar gets offered a screen part!
  2227. And they've been harvesting the olives in the hills of Tuscany. Dany Mitzman's been lending a hand and observing that the harvest methods have changed little since ancient times.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen examines claims that a conclusion to the in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen examines claims that a conclusion to the long conflict in Syria is within sight.
  2228. After a year of protests against President Putin, Steve Rosenberg finds support for him is still strong -- particularly in cities away from the capital, Moscow.
  2229. Bethany Bell's in South Tyrol where some are angry that the Italian authorities, in the midst of financial crisis, want this wealthy Alpine province to contribute more to the national exchequer.
  2230. The Turks know that the television soap opera's an effective means of extending influence throughout the Middle East. And the BBC man Rajan Datar gets offered a screen part!
  2231. And they've been harvesting the olives in the hills of Tuscany. Dany Mitzman's been lending a hand and observing that the harvest methods have changed little since ancient times.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1693</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzv2l.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzv2l.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzv2l.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121208-1201.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzv2h</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzv2l.mp3" fileSize="27088000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1693"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzv2h</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Cairo at the Crossroads</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Jon Leyne in Cairo reflects on the debate about Egypt's future. Will it be dictatorship or democracy? Secular or religious? Ed Butler's been to Halabja, the town in the Kurdish region of Iraq which, almost 25 years ago, was attacked with chemical weapons. The tea industry in India is in trouble - Mark Tully says change is on the way to the tea plantations of Assam. Celeste Hicks returns to her old base in Mali and finds that the traditional history-singers have little to say about the Islamist takeover of Timbuktu. And Kieran Cooke is in Norway trying to work out the appeal of a particularly unfragrant culinary delicacy.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Jon Leyne in Cairo reflects on the debate about Egypt's future.  Will it be or Secular...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Jon Leyne in Cairo reflects on the debate about Egypt's future. Will it be dictatorship or democracy? Secular or religious? Ed Butler's been to Halabja, the town in the Kurdish region of Iraq which, almost 25 years ago, was attacked with chemical weapons. The tea industry in India is in trouble - Mark Tully says change is on the way to the tea plantations of Assam. Celeste Hicks returns to her old base in Mali and finds that the traditional history-singers have little to say about the Islamist takeover of Timbuktu. And Kieran Cooke is in Norway trying to work out the appeal of a particularly unfragrant culinary delicacy.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 12:09:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb03.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb03.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzb03.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121201-1209.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9zy</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb03.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9zy</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Worst Possible News</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Despatches from reporters across the globe.
  2232. Jon Donnison was in Gaza as the city came under Israeli attack and a BBC man took a distressing phone call.
  2233. Gabriel Gatehouse was in Goma as rebels took the town in eastern Congo with UN peacekeepers standing by, seemingly unable to intervene.
  2234. Petroc Trelawny was in a part of France which is taking a special interest in the vote in Catalonia which many feel could be a step along the road to Catalonian independence.
  2235. Owen Bennett Jones has been talking to a famer in New York state who feels consultancy might be a better earner than growing onions.
  2236. And cup cakes? Salsa classes? Nightclubs? Mary Harper's been seeing signs of Africa both old and new in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Despatches from reporters across the globe.  Jon Donnison was in Gaza as the city came...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Despatches from reporters across the globe.
  2237. Jon Donnison was in Gaza as the city came under Israeli attack and a BBC man took a distressing phone call.
  2238. Gabriel Gatehouse was in Goma as rebels took the town in eastern Congo with UN peacekeepers standing by, seemingly unable to intervene.
  2239. Petroc Trelawny was in a part of France which is taking a special interest in the vote in Catalonia which many feel could be a step along the road to Catalonian independence.
  2240. Owen Bennett Jones has been talking to a famer in New York state who feels consultancy might be a better earner than growing onions.
  2241. And cup cakes? Salsa classes? Nightclubs? Mary Harper's been seeing signs of Africa both old and new in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1702</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6q6.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6q6.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz6q6.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121124-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz6q2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6q6.mp3" fileSize="27232000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1702"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz6q2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Frugal Dinner</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reporters' despatches from around the world.
  2242. Afghanistan: as pressure grows on the British prime minister to bring the troops back home early, defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt considers the legacy they'll leave behind.
  2243. Russia: the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk is the country's prisons capital. Alex Preston has been to meet a former convict trying to help others, recently released, to find a toehold back in Russian society.
  2244. El Salvador: the murder rate in this Latin American nation has gone down significantly thanks to a truce between two notorious gangs. Linda Pressly has been talking to some of their leaders in a high security jail.
  2245. France: the infamous Sangatte asylum centre may have closed but Emma Jane Kirby has been finding out that migrants continue to flow into the port city of Calais.
  2246. Germany: Steve Evans gets offered relatively frugal fare at a dinner party in Berlin. But he isn't surprised.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Reporters' despatches from around the world.  Afghanistan: as pressure grows on the to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reporters' despatches from around the world.
  2247. Afghanistan: as pressure grows on the British prime minister to bring the troops back home early, defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt considers the legacy they'll leave behind.
  2248. Russia: the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk is the country's prisons capital. Alex Preston has been to meet a former convict trying to help others, recently released, to find a toehold back in Russian society.
  2249. El Salvador: the murder rate in this Latin American nation has gone down significantly thanks to a truce between two notorious gangs. Linda Pressly has been talking to some of their leaders in a high security jail.
  2250. France: the infamous Sangatte asylum centre may have closed but Emma Jane Kirby has been finding out that migrants continue to flow into the port city of Calais.
  2251. Germany: Steve Evans gets offered relatively frugal fare at a dinner party in Berlin. But he isn't surprised.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1709</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzq46.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzq46.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzq46.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121117-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzq3p</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzq46.mp3" fileSize="27344000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1709"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzq3p</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Poisonous Cocktail</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Burma: Jonathan Head goes to Rakhine state in Burma where bitter unrest has resulted in more than a hundred deaths and a hundred thousand displaced.
  2252. Libya: Kevin Connolly visits a war graves cemetery and considers stories of loss and love, grief and anger.
  2253. Japan: Rupert Wingfield-Hayes takes a boat to the islands at the centre of a bitter argument in the South China Sea.
  2254. USA: As the dust settles after the election Jonny Dymond's in Indiana looking on as the real business of America gets done.
  2255. and Mexico: Will Grant's in Oaxaca state where they believe in bidding farewell to the dead in a festive rather than a funereal atmosphere.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Burma: Jonathan Head goes to Rakhine state in Burma where bitter unrest has resulted a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Burma: Jonathan Head goes to Rakhine state in Burma where bitter unrest has resulted in more than a hundred deaths and a hundred thousand displaced.
  2256. Libya: Kevin Connolly visits a war graves cemetery and considers stories of loss and love, grief and anger.
  2257. Japan: Rupert Wingfield-Hayes takes a boat to the islands at the centre of a bitter argument in the South China Sea.
  2258. USA: As the dust settles after the election Jonny Dymond's in Indiana looking on as the real business of America gets done.
  2259. and Mexico: Will Grant's in Oaxaca state where they believe in bidding farewell to the dead in a festive rather than a funereal atmosphere.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:10:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1703</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9s1.mp3" length="27248000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9s1.mp3" length="27248000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9s1.mp3" length="27248000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121110-1210.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9rw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9s1.mp3" fileSize="27248000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1703"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9rw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Driving on Mars</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The United States of America: after the election excitement the Obama team start planning for four more years. Paul Adams.
  2260. Mali: preparations well advanced for a military operation to repel Islamist rebels from the north of the country. Afua Hirsch.
  2261. Oman: the Arab Spring comes calling at the Gulf state once called 'a place of wind and spiders.' Matthew Teller.
  2262. Georgia: Can the new government act to restore parts of the country now effectively under Russian control? Martin Plaut.
  2263. The USA: A visit to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a realisation that driving on Mars is harder than it looks. Richard Hollingham.
  2264. Producer: Tony Grant</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The United States of America: after the election excitement the Obama team start for...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The United States of America: after the election excitement the Obama team start planning for four more years. Paul Adams.
  2265. Mali: preparations well advanced for a military operation to repel Islamist rebels from the north of the country. Afua Hirsch.
  2266. Oman: the Arab Spring comes calling at the Gulf state once called 'a place of wind and spiders.' Matthew Teller.
  2267. Georgia: Can the new government act to restore parts of the country now effectively under Russian control? Martin Plaut.
  2268. The USA: A visit to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a realisation that driving on Mars is harder than it looks. Richard Hollingham.
  2269. Producer: Tony Grant</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:40:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1700</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz49t.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz49t.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz49t.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121108-1140.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz49l</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz49t.mp3" fileSize="27200000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1700"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz49l</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Terror in Northern Nigeria</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Will Ross on the bloodshed in Northern Nigeria;Theopi Skarlatos on why Golden Dawn is becoming Greece's worse nightmare;Anu Anand vents her frustrations about shambolic India - business is booming but what about power cuts and burst balloons? Also privileged Princeton -  Dave Edmonds explains why so many alumnae are happy to donate billions to one of the world's richest universities.  And Joanna Robertson tells us why the French Prime Minister reminds people of a small chocolate covered bear.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Will Ross on the bloodshed in Northern Nigeria;Theopi Skarlatos on why Golden Dawn is...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Will Ross on the bloodshed in Northern Nigeria;Theopi Skarlatos on why Golden Dawn is becoming Greece's worse nightmare;Anu Anand vents her frustrations about shambolic India - business is booming but what about power cuts and burst balloons? Also privileged Princeton -  Dave Edmonds explains why so many alumnae are happy to donate billions to one of the world's richest universities.  And Joanna Robertson tells us why the French Prime Minister reminds people of a small chocolate covered bear.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 11:45:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1665</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz51k.mp3" length="26640000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz51k.mp3" length="26640000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz51k.mp3" length="26640000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121103-1145.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz519</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz51k.mp3" fileSize="26640000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1665"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz519</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>No Safe Refuge</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Gabriel Gatehouse talks to a once-loyal Alawite pilot who ran foul of Syrian intelligence and was accused of planting bombs on military planes. Syrian refugees in Jordan tell Sahkr al Makhadhi how they fled the war zone but are now desperate to return. In Moscow, a new map marking the homes of Stalin's victims gives our correspondent Daniel Sandrof uncomfortable information about his own flat. Fact-checking is always tough, but Rana Jawad says it's especially tricky in Libya, where the rumour mill is stuck on overdrive. And David Willis explains why some Californians cough up for presidential campaigns - while others rage against the gridlock when Obama visits.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Gabriel Gatehouse talks to a once-loyal Alawite pilot who ran foul of Syrian and was...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Gabriel Gatehouse talks to a once-loyal Alawite pilot who ran foul of Syrian intelligence and was accused of planting bombs on military planes. Syrian refugees in Jordan tell Sahkr al Makhadhi how they fled the war zone but are now desperate to return. In Moscow, a new map marking the homes of Stalin's victims gives our correspondent Daniel Sandrof uncomfortable information about his own flat. Fact-checking is always tough, but Rana Jawad says it's especially tricky in Libya, where the rumour mill is stuck on overdrive. And David Willis explains why some Californians cough up for presidential campaigns - while others rage against the gridlock when Obama visits.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs5c.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs5c.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzs5c.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121101-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzs4z</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs5c.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzs4z</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>In the Valley of the Dawn</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents despatches from:
  2270. Tim Whewell in a small town in Syria in the midst of the current conflict.
  2271. Andrew North on trepidation in Afghanistan as the country prepares for NATO withdrawal and elections in 2014.
  2272. Rajan Datar meets members of Brazil's Valley of the Dawn cult.
  2273. Tim Dinham explains why your social life really can depend on the kind of Bewab or caretaker your apartment has in Cairo.
  2274. And Jon Donnison spends a day with the best Yasser Arafat lookalike on the West Bank.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Kate Adie presents despatches from: Tim Whewell in a small town in Syria in the midst...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie presents despatches from:
  2275. Tim Whewell in a small town in Syria in the midst of the current conflict.
  2276. Andrew North on trepidation in Afghanistan as the country prepares for NATO withdrawal and elections in 2014.
  2277. Rajan Datar meets members of Brazil's Valley of the Dawn cult.
  2278. Tim Dinham explains why your social life really can depend on the kind of Bewab or caretaker your apartment has in Cairo.
  2279. And Jon Donnison spends a day with the best Yasser Arafat lookalike on the West Bank.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:14:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1667</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs19.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs19.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzs19.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121027-1214.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzs14</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs19.mp3" fileSize="26672000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1667"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzs14</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Party Animals</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Will Grant in Cuba: 50 years after the Missile Crisis, Fidel Castro still has the power to made headlines. Jill McGivering in Shenzhen sees the gulf between different generations in modern China. Kate McGeown looks at the hopes for peace in the Southern Philippines. Kim Philley experiences the art of animist 'spirit possession' in Burma. And Steve Evans explores the etiquette of cycling in Berlin.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Will Grant in Cuba: 50 years after the Missile Crisis, Fidel Castro still has the to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Will Grant in Cuba: 50 years after the Missile Crisis, Fidel Castro still has the power to made headlines. Jill McGivering in Shenzhen sees the gulf between different generations in modern China. Kate McGeown looks at the hopes for peace in the Southern Philippines. Kim Philley experiences the art of animist 'spirit possession' in Burma. And Steve Evans explores the etiquette of cycling in Berlin.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzt50.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzt50.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzt50.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121025-1132.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzt4t</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzt50.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzt4t</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Cities United and Divided</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Dispatches from reporters across the globe, presented by Kate Adie.
  2280. Chris Morris in Berlin analyses Angela Merkel's increasing international confidence. Fergal Keane hears the echoes of history amidst Syrian refugees in the Turkish city of Izmir.
  2281. Niall O'Gallagher takes the temperature of Catalan nationalism on the streets of Barcelona.  Craig Jeffrey asks if "jugaad" - the spirit of creative  and quick fixes - is really the solution to India's challenges. And Hamilton Wende in Maputo, the booming capital of Mozambique, finds corruption on the rise.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Dispatches from reporters across the globe, presented by Kate Adie.  Chris Morris in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Dispatches from reporters across the globe, presented by Kate Adie.
  2282. Chris Morris in Berlin analyses Angela Merkel's increasing international confidence. Fergal Keane hears the echoes of history amidst Syrian refugees in the Turkish city of Izmir.
  2283. Niall O'Gallagher takes the temperature of Catalan nationalism on the streets of Barcelona.  Craig Jeffrey asks if "jugaad" - the spirit of creative  and quick fixes - is really the solution to India's challenges. And Hamilton Wende in Maputo, the booming capital of Mozambique, finds corruption on the rise.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:08:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1665</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcrx.mp3" length="26640000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcrx.mp3" length="26640000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzcrx.mp3" length="26640000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121022-1208.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzcrs</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcrx.mp3" fileSize="26640000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1665"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzcrs</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Lederhosen Style</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Thousands of Kenyans prepare to go to court to pursue claims against the British. Gabriel Gatehouse in Nairobi explains how they date back to the Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s and why they are getting little publicity inside Kenya itself.
  2284. The Dutch are changing their famously-liberal drugs laws. Manuela Saragosa says the decision's delighted some but infuriated others.
  2285. Caspar Leighton's been observing celebrations of fifty years of Ugandan independence. He says people there  are wondering whether, after their nation's shaky start, they are now suffering from too much stability.
  2286. Rich and poor , young and old, if you want to strike up a conversation with an Indian, start talking about gold. Rahul Tandon is in Calcutta finding out why.
  2287. Lederhosen for men. Heidi-style dresses for women. Bethany Bell has been learning why these clothes, so long the preserve of the ultra-conservatives in southern Germany and Austria, have now become highly fashionable.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Thousands of Kenyans prepare to go to court to pursue claims against the British.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Thousands of Kenyans prepare to go to court to pursue claims against the British. Gabriel Gatehouse in Nairobi explains how they date back to the Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s and why they are getting little publicity inside Kenya itself.
  2288. The Dutch are changing their famously-liberal drugs laws. Manuela Saragosa says the decision's delighted some but infuriated others.
  2289. Caspar Leighton's been observing celebrations of fifty years of Ugandan independence. He says people there  are wondering whether, after their nation's shaky start, they are now suffering from too much stability.
  2290. Rich and poor , young and old, if you want to strike up a conversation with an Indian, start talking about gold. Rahul Tandon is in Calcutta finding out why.
  2291. Lederhosen for men. Heidi-style dresses for women. Bethany Bell has been learning why these clothes, so long the preserve of the ultra-conservatives in southern Germany and Austria, have now become highly fashionable.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:31:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzljz.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzljz.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzljz.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121018-1131.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzljx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzljz.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzljx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Tough Cats</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Andrew Harding's in Zimbabwe where there are fears of a return to violence as the election season approaches
  2292. Ian Pannell's been in the Syrian city of Aleppo where there's been fierce fighting and where foreign fighters have responded to calls from the rebels for assistance
  2293. Will Grant tells us of the embarrassment suffered by the authorities in Mexico after the disappearance of the body of one of the country's most notorious drug lords
  2294. Louise Redvers visits the new multi-million pound seafront development in the Angolan capital Luanda and hears suggestions that, in this poor country where many live without water and electricity, the money would have been better spent on other projects
  2295. The cats in Jerusalem are tougher than the dogs in your neighbourhood! That's the view of Kevin Connolly who's trying to rub along with a feline population which believes in getting its own way.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Andrew Harding's in Zimbabwe where there are fears of a return to violence as the Ian...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Andrew Harding's in Zimbabwe where there are fears of a return to violence as the election season approaches
  2296. Ian Pannell's been in the Syrian city of Aleppo where there's been fierce fighting and where foreign fighters have responded to calls from the rebels for assistance
  2297. Will Grant tells us of the embarrassment suffered by the authorities in Mexico after the disappearance of the body of one of the country's most notorious drug lords
  2298. Louise Redvers visits the new multi-million pound seafront development in the Angolan capital Luanda and hears suggestions that, in this poor country where many live without water and electricity, the money would have been better spent on other projects
  2299. The cats in Jerusalem are tougher than the dogs in your neighbourhood! That's the view of Kevin Connolly who's trying to rub along with a feline population which believes in getting its own way.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1695</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02x1.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02x1.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s02x1.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121013-1201.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s02ww</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02x1.mp3" fileSize="27120000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1695"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s02ww</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>India's Missing Children</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Anu Anand in Delhi on what happens to the two hundred thousand Indian children abducted each year; a future vision for Africa -- Gabriel Gatehouse in Kenya meets a man with a radical plan; Chloe Arnold on how Algeria is desperate to escape the clutches of a violent past; how much has the Chinese rail network changed? Angus Foster has ample time for reflection on a 16-hour journey to Wuhan and Laura Trevelyan in New York gets an American style-makeover as she prepares to become an 'anchor' on American television.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Anu Anand in Delhi on what happens to the two hundred thousand Indian children each a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Anu Anand in Delhi on what happens to the two hundred thousand Indian children abducted each year; a future vision for Africa -- Gabriel Gatehouse in Kenya meets a man with a radical plan; Chloe Arnold on how Algeria is desperate to escape the clutches of a violent past; how much has the Chinese rail network changed? Angus Foster has ample time for reflection on a 16-hour journey to Wuhan and Laura Trevelyan in New York gets an American style-makeover as she prepares to become an 'anchor' on American television.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:38:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3mz.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3mz.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz3mz.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121011-1138.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz3ms</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3mz.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz3ms</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Coming Home Early?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Quentin Sommerville in Kabul says an early and substantial drawdown of British troops in Afghanistan is being privately considered
  2300. David Willey wonders who else at the Vatican - besides the butler on trial for stealing Papal documents -- is dissatisfied with the way the church is being run
  2301. Frances Harrison meets survivors from the civil war in Sri Lanka as officials there hope cricket will help restore the island's image as a holiday paradise
  2302. Pascale Harter in Barcelona on the Chinese finding business opportunities amidst the recession in Spain
  2303. Mattia Cabitza charts Peruvians' relationships with their cats: some revere them as furry family pets, while others think they make a tasty meal.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Quentin Sommerville in Kabul says an early and substantial drawdown of British troops...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Quentin Sommerville in Kabul says an early and substantial drawdown of British troops in Afghanistan is being privately considered
  2304. David Willey wonders who else at the Vatican - besides the butler on trial for stealing Papal documents -- is dissatisfied with the way the church is being run
  2305. Frances Harrison meets survivors from the civil war in Sri Lanka as officials there hope cricket will help restore the island's image as a holiday paradise
  2306. Pascale Harter in Barcelona on the Chinese finding business opportunities amidst the recession in Spain
  2307. Mattia Cabitza charts Peruvians' relationships with their cats: some revere them as furry family pets, while others think they make a tasty meal.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzq31.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzq31.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzq31.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121006-1202.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzq2v</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzq31.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzq2v</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Tale of Two Termini</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Unemployment's up, the tax bills are up, public cheerfulness is down. Hugh Schofield says these are gloomy times in France.
  2308. Sunday's general election in Venezuela could be a close one. And already it's providing our correspondent Paul Moss with a wardrobe nightmare.
  2309. The stalemate in London surrounding Wikileaks founder Julian Assange continues. Jo Fidgen says that in Sweden, where he's wanted after allegations of sexual assault, most people believe he should come back for questioning.
  2310. Hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars have been returning to their homeland. Robin Banerji has been learning that many are finding it hard to track down their cultural heritage.
  2311. And biggest, tallest, longest, most expensive? Modern China certainly deals in superlatives but Martin Patience wonders if size really does matter or if it's all a question of insecurity.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Unemployment's up, the tax bills are up, public cheerfulness is down.  Hugh Schofield...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Unemployment's up, the tax bills are up, public cheerfulness is down. Hugh Schofield says these are gloomy times in France.
  2312. Sunday's general election in Venezuela could be a close one. And already it's providing our correspondent Paul Moss with a wardrobe nightmare.
  2313. The stalemate in London surrounding Wikileaks founder Julian Assange continues. Jo Fidgen says that in Sweden, where he's wanted after allegations of sexual assault, most people believe he should come back for questioning.
  2314. Hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars have been returning to their homeland. Robin Banerji has been learning that many are finding it hard to track down their cultural heritage.
  2315. And biggest, tallest, longest, most expensive? Modern China certainly deals in superlatives but Martin Patience wonders if size really does matter or if it's all a question of insecurity.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:48:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1649</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzm9y.mp3" length="26384000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzm9y.mp3" length="26384000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzm9y.mp3" length="26384000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20121004-1148.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzm9t</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzm9y.mp3" fileSize="26384000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1649"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzm9t</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A War Getting Worse</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Lyse Doucet's in a Syrian suburb hearing stories about a civil war which is reaching more parts of the country every week.
  2316. Damien McGuinness finds there are complaints from some Turkish women about the good times which have arrived at a resort town on Georgia's Black Sea coast.
  2317. Justin Webb wonders whether ludicrous amounts of time and money are being spent trying to woo undecided voters in the US presidential election.
  2318. Lucy Ash is at a monastery contemplating the growing influence on the Russian state of the Orthodox Church.
  2319. And while visitors to the Philippines may have great things to say about a fascinating country, Kate McGeown says they rarely mention the food!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Lyse Doucet's in a Syrian suburb hearing stories about a civil war which is reaching...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Lyse Doucet's in a Syrian suburb hearing stories about a civil war which is reaching more parts of the country every week.
  2320. Damien McGuinness finds there are complaints from some Turkish women about the good times which have arrived at a resort town on Georgia's Black Sea coast.
  2321. Justin Webb wonders whether ludicrous amounts of time and money are being spent trying to woo undecided voters in the US presidential election.
  2322. Lucy Ash is at a monastery contemplating the growing influence on the Russian state of the Orthodox Church.
  2323. And while visitors to the Philippines may have great things to say about a fascinating country, Kate McGeown says they rarely mention the food!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:10:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1703</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzw63.mp3" length="27248000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzw63.mp3" length="27248000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzw63.mp3" length="27248000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120929-1210.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzw5w</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzw63.mp3" fileSize="27248000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1703"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzw5w</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Vegas Blues</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Justin Rowlatt visits Las Vegas and learns why America's casino capital has suffered more than most from the economic crisis. Sarah Birke, reporting from the border between Syria and Turkey, meets a rebel commander who says he'd rather write poetry than go to war. Will Ross has been investigating reports that young girls have been forced to hand over their babies for adoption in Nigeria.
  2324. Daniel Nasaw's has learned how the battles of the American Civil War have helped to shape the debate in the current US presidential campaign. And Gideon Long's been to the remote island in the South Pacific which inspired Daniel Defoe's castaway classic Robinson Crusoe.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Justin Rowlatt visits Las Vegas and learns why America's casino capital has suffered...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Justin Rowlatt visits Las Vegas and learns why America's casino capital has suffered more than most from the economic crisis. Sarah Birke, reporting from the border between Syria and Turkey, meets a rebel commander who says he'd rather write poetry than go to war. Will Ross has been investigating reports that young girls have been forced to hand over their babies for adoption in Nigeria.
  2325. Daniel Nasaw's has learned how the battles of the American Civil War have helped to shape the debate in the current US presidential campaign. And Gideon Long's been to the remote island in the South Pacific which inspired Daniel Defoe's castaway classic Robinson Crusoe.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:12:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzldd.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzldd.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzldd.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120927-1212.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzld7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzldd.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzld7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>A Mountain of Debt</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Damian Grammaticas in China on how accounts of forced abortions from around the country have fuelled a debate on a once-taboo subject: the state's One Child only policy.
  2326. Paul Mason tells how Spain's third city Valencia is being buried under a mountain of debt. Now the chemists are running out of prescription drugs.
  2327. Gabriel Gatehouse is in Kenya where questions are being asked about an outbreak of factional violence. Is it simply a matter of local feuding or should national politicians shoulder some of the blame?
  2328. Steve Rozenberg's been to meet the hardline president of Chechnya and ask him questions about the Islamicisation of his Russian republic.
  2329. And Georgia Paterson Dargham chronicles how Beirut is increasingly feeling the effects of the Syrian conflict. She tells us how some residents in the Lebanese capital are wondering: has the time now come to get out?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Damian Grammaticas in China on how accounts of forced abortions from around the have a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Damian Grammaticas in China on how accounts of forced abortions from around the country have fuelled a debate on a once-taboo subject: the state's One Child only policy.
  2330. Paul Mason tells how Spain's third city Valencia is being buried under a mountain of debt. Now the chemists are running out of prescription drugs.
  2331. Gabriel Gatehouse is in Kenya where questions are being asked about an outbreak of factional violence. Is it simply a matter of local feuding or should national politicians shoulder some of the blame?
  2332. Steve Rozenberg's been to meet the hardline president of Chechnya and ask him questions about the Islamicisation of his Russian republic.
  2333. And Georgia Paterson Dargham chronicles how Beirut is increasingly feeling the effects of the Syrian conflict. She tells us how some residents in the Lebanese capital are wondering: has the time now come to get out?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1696</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcdq.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcdq.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzcdq.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120922-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzcdm</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcdq.mp3" fileSize="27136000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1696"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzcdm</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Lots of Cakes, Not Many Eggs</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Andrew Harding says ending one miners dispute in South Africa does not mean the authorities' troubles are over.
  2334. Judith Kampner, a new US citizen, volunteers to become an election worker -- and all does not go according to plan.
  2335. Jonathan Fryer hears that while Istanbul may be one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities, Turkey does not officially approve of multiculturalism.
  2336. Martin Buckley takes the slow train to Belgrade and finds a lively city keen to move on from recent Balkans history.
  2337. Will Grant experiences an egg shortage in Mexico -- a country more reliant on eggs than any other.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Andrew Harding says ending one miners dispute in South Africa does not mean the are...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Andrew Harding says ending one miners dispute in South Africa does not mean the authorities' troubles are over.
  2338. Judith Kampner, a new US citizen, volunteers to become an election worker -- and all does not go according to plan.
  2339. Jonathan Fryer hears that while Istanbul may be one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities, Turkey does not officially approve of multiculturalism.
  2340. Martin Buckley takes the slow train to Belgrade and finds a lively city keen to move on from recent Balkans history.
  2341. Will Grant experiences an egg shortage in Mexico -- a country more reliant on eggs than any other.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:31:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9b6.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9b6.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9b6.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120920-1131.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9b2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9b6.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9b2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Palace of Shame</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kevin Connolly suggests that two deaths in the Middle East, eight hundred years and several hundred miles apart, offer lessons on the wisdom of foreign intervention in Syria.
  2342. Alan Johnston's been to a building in Rome they call the Palace of Shame where hundreds of migrants live with time on their hands to consider the difficulties of finding a dream life in Europe.
  2343. Some of the millions who left Zimbabwe as the country fell into violence and poverty have started to make their way back. But Jenny Cuffe's been discovering that not all are being welcomed home with open arms.
  2344. Nick Thorpe -- knocked off his bike in Budapest -- has had an unexpected opportunity to take a close look at the Hungarian health service.
  2345. And the economic crisis may have hit Ireland hard. But Kieran Cooke, in Blacksod Bay, County Mayo, has been learning that people are still determined to have some fun.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Kevin Connolly suggests that two deaths in the Middle East, eight hundred years and on...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kevin Connolly suggests that two deaths in the Middle East, eight hundred years and several hundred miles apart, offer lessons on the wisdom of foreign intervention in Syria.
  2346. Alan Johnston's been to a building in Rome they call the Palace of Shame where hundreds of migrants live with time on their hands to consider the difficulties of finding a dream life in Europe.
  2347. Some of the millions who left Zimbabwe as the country fell into violence and poverty have started to make their way back. But Jenny Cuffe's been discovering that not all are being welcomed home with open arms.
  2348. Nick Thorpe -- knocked off his bike in Budapest -- has had an unexpected opportunity to take a close look at the Hungarian health service.
  2349. And the economic crisis may have hit Ireland hard. But Kieran Cooke, in Blacksod Bay, County Mayo, has been learning that people are still determined to have some fun.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 11:29:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1707</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz55z.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz55z.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz55z.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120915-1229.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz55v</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz55z.mp3" fileSize="27312000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1707"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz55v</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Sacred Crocodiles</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Thomas Fessy flew into The Gambia to ask questions about recent executions. But he was thrown out of the country. It's left him asking: what have the authorities got to hide?
  2350. Iraqi police and army officers have been accused of taking part in a murderous campaign of persecution against the country's gay community. Natalia Antelava meets one senior official who reckons there are only about ten homosexuals in the whole country and, he tells her "they need to change."
  2351. John Laurenson's in a vast shanty town on the edge of Madrid hearing stories from people who've lost everything in the economic crisis.
  2352. The man who looked after the sacred crocodiles in the Ivory Coast is not doing the job any longer. John James tells us about his very last day at work.
  2353. And Kathy Flower, who lives in a village in the French Pyrenees, finds that the mayor plays a significant part in French community life.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Thomas Fessy flew into The Gambia to ask questions about recent executions.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Thomas Fessy flew into The Gambia to ask questions about recent executions. But he was thrown out of the country. It's left him asking: what have the authorities got to hide?
  2354. Iraqi police and army officers have been accused of taking part in a murderous campaign of persecution against the country's gay community. Natalia Antelava meets one senior official who reckons there are only about ten homosexuals in the whole country and, he tells her "they need to change."
  2355. John Laurenson's in a vast shanty town on the edge of Madrid hearing stories from people who've lost everything in the economic crisis.
  2356. The man who looked after the sacred crocodiles in the Ivory Coast is not doing the job any longer. John James tells us about his very last day at work.
  2357. And Kathy Flower, who lives in a village in the French Pyrenees, finds that the mayor plays a significant part in French community life.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:44:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1700</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb8t.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb8t.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzb8t.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120913-1144.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzb8q</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb8t.mp3" fileSize="27200000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1700"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzb8q</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Fourth Banned 'T'</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Greece remains a land where millions go each year to enjoy their holidays. But Mark Lowen's discovered that it's now also a place where increasing numbers of people are finding it hard to cope with the austerity demanded of them.
  2358. The Russian republic of Chechnya is enjoying the most peaceful time it's seen in years but Oliver Bulloughsays its people seem far from content.
  2359. Linda Pressly's been to Israel to talk to some of the Haredi, the inclreasingly influential ultra-orthodox, who seem set to play a critical role in the country's future.
  2360. Emma Jane Kirby is in St Tropez as the new French leader prepares to address his people on TV. She wonders if there might be lessons he can learn from the glitzy Cote d'Azure.
  2361. Justin Rowlatt, in China, knows Tiananmen, Taiwan and Tibet are subjects the authorities might prefer him to avoid. But now he's learned there's a fourth T - toilets. The Chinese, he's been finding out, do not like people poking fun at their loos.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Greece remains a land where millions go each year to enjoy their holidays.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Greece remains a land where millions go each year to enjoy their holidays. But Mark Lowen's discovered that it's now also a place where increasing numbers of people are finding it hard to cope with the austerity demanded of them.
  2362. The Russian republic of Chechnya is enjoying the most peaceful time it's seen in years but Oliver Bulloughsays its people seem far from content.
  2363. Linda Pressly's been to Israel to talk to some of the Haredi, the inclreasingly influential ultra-orthodox, who seem set to play a critical role in the country's future.
  2364. Emma Jane Kirby is in St Tropez as the new French leader prepares to address his people on TV. She wonders if there might be lessons he can learn from the glitzy Cote d'Azure.
  2365. Justin Rowlatt, in China, knows Tiananmen, Taiwan and Tibet are subjects the authorities might prefer him to avoid. But now he's learned there's a fourth T - toilets. The Chinese, he's been finding out, do not like people poking fun at their loos.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2012 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1695</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkfr.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkfr.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzkfr.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120908-1201.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzkfh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkfr.mp3" fileSize="27120000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1695"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzkfh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>. The eye of the storm</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie hosts correspondents' stories from the United States, Russia, France, Italy and the Czech Republic.
  2366. The United States breathes a sigh of relief that Hurricane Isaac didn't turn into another Katrina. Alastair Leithead has been in the eye of the storm.
  2367. The new 'skinheads'. Tom Esslemont tries to unpick what motivates Russia's ultra-nationalists.
  2368. Just where did Julius Caesar REALLY defeat the Gaulls? Hugh Schofield investigates a case of alleged archaeological skulduggery in Burgundy.
  2369. Alan Johnston meets the new Mayor of Palma, a member of the 'Five Star Movement' currently gaining political influence in Italy.
  2370. And Rob Cameron makes a sentimental journey ... to a campsite in South Bohemia.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Kate Adie hosts correspondents' stories from the United States, Russia, France, Italy...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie hosts correspondents' stories from the United States, Russia, France, Italy and the Czech Republic.
  2371. The United States breathes a sigh of relief that Hurricane Isaac didn't turn into another Katrina. Alastair Leithead has been in the eye of the storm.
  2372. The new 'skinheads'. Tom Esslemont tries to unpick what motivates Russia's ultra-nationalists.
  2373. Just where did Julius Caesar REALLY defeat the Gaulls? Hugh Schofield investigates a case of alleged archaeological skulduggery in Burgundy.
  2374. Alan Johnston meets the new Mayor of Palma, a member of the 'Five Star Movement' currently gaining political influence in Italy.
  2375. And Rob Cameron makes a sentimental journey ... to a campsite in South Bohemia.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 09:52:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1683</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzttm.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzttm.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzttm.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120901-1052.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzttg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzttm.mp3" fileSize="26928000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1683"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzttg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Meeting the last Emperor of China</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie hosts reports from correspondents around the world.
  2376. Mark Lobel attends a memorial service for the South African miners killed by police while striking for better pay and working conditions.
  2377. Mike Thompson is 'embedded' with the army in the West African Republic of Mali. Can it win back the north of the country from Islamist militants?
  2378. What do people in Ecuador make of the diplomatic stand-off between their government and the UK over the Julian Assange affair? Will Grant finds out.  
  2379. David Willey recalls his first visit to Beijing nearly fifty years ago - an extraordinary trip where he saw Chairman Mao and briefly met the last Emperor of China.
  2380. As Italians enjoy the last few days of their annual August break at the seaside Dany Mitzman reflects on the contradictory charms of the Riviera Romagnola.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie hosts reports from correspondents around the world.  Mark Lobel attends a for...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie hosts reports from correspondents around the world.
  2381. Mark Lobel attends a memorial service for the South African miners killed by police while striking for better pay and working conditions.
  2382. Mike Thompson is 'embedded' with the army in the West African Republic of Mali. Can it win back the north of the country from Islamist militants?
  2383. What do people in Ecuador make of the diplomatic stand-off between their government and the UK over the Julian Assange affair? Will Grant finds out.  
  2384. David Willey recalls his first visit to Beijing nearly fifty years ago - an extraordinary trip where he saw Chairman Mao and briefly met the last Emperor of China.
  2385. As Italians enjoy the last few days of their annual August break at the seaside Dany Mitzman reflects on the contradictory charms of the Riviera Romagnola.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2012 09:51:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvpd.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvpd.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzvpd.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120825-1051.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzvp7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvpd.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzvp7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>. A Yankee Learns Farsi</title><description><![CDATA[<p>French police have been placed on higher alert after rioting in the northern city of Amiens. Christian Fraser says the unrest poses a growing challenge to the new president, Francois Hollande.
  2386. Government forces have been re-deployed from north-east Syria. Orla Guerin believes the Kurds, who've long wanted to establish their own homeland, see this as a window of opportunity.
  2387. There've been more protests in Delhi against corruption in public life. But Mark Tully wonders if support for the anti-corruption movement is ebbing away.
  2388. How will life change in Egypt now there's a president from the Muslim Brotherhood? It's a question exercising many including foreign visitors to Cairo like Edwin Lane. He speculates whether time might soon be called on the capital's thriving bar scene.
  2389. And Daniel Nasaw tells of the difficulties and the embarrassments an American can face when he tries to get to grips with Farsi, the language of the Iranians.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> French police have been placed on higher alert after rioting in the northern city of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>French police have been placed on higher alert after rioting in the northern city of Amiens. Christian Fraser says the unrest poses a growing challenge to the new president, Francois Hollande.
  2390. Government forces have been re-deployed from north-east Syria. Orla Guerin believes the Kurds, who've long wanted to establish their own homeland, see this as a window of opportunity.
  2391. There've been more protests in Delhi against corruption in public life. But Mark Tully wonders if support for the anti-corruption movement is ebbing away.
  2392. How will life change in Egypt now there's a president from the Muslim Brotherhood? It's a question exercising many including foreign visitors to Cairo like Edwin Lane. He speculates whether time might soon be called on the capital's thriving bar scene.
  2393. And Daniel Nasaw tells of the difficulties and the embarrassments an American can face when he tries to get to grips with Farsi, the language of the Iranians.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 11:03:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1692</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlpn.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlpn.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzlpn.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120818-1203.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzlpk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlpn.mp3" fileSize="27072000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1692"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzlpk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>. A Return to the Countryside</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Chris Stewart is in Spain where some young people, unable to find employment in the cities in these austere times, are returning to work in the countryside.
  2394. The agricultural sector's been holding up reasonably well as parts of the US economy take a hammering. But Paul Adams has been finding out that in the corn fields of Nebraska, drought is the main threat.
  2395. Kate McGeown in the Philippines has been learning that the government in Manila is trying to bring home Filipina domestic workers caught up in the civil war in Syria.
  2396. Peter Biles has been to the First World War battlefields of Gallipoli. His grandfather was killed there as Allied forces engaged in deadly trench warfare against Turkish troops.
  2397. And Joanna Robertson explains why they say August in Paris is like a month of Sundays!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Chris Stewart is in Spain where some young people, unable to find employment in the in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chris Stewart is in Spain where some young people, unable to find employment in the cities in these austere times, are returning to work in the countryside.
  2398. The agricultural sector's been holding up reasonably well as parts of the US economy take a hammering. But Paul Adams has been finding out that in the corn fields of Nebraska, drought is the main threat.
  2399. Kate McGeown in the Philippines has been learning that the government in Manila is trying to bring home Filipina domestic workers caught up in the civil war in Syria.
  2400. Peter Biles has been to the First World War battlefields of Gallipoli. His grandfather was killed there as Allied forces engaged in deadly trench warfare against Turkish troops.
  2401. And Joanna Robertson explains why they say August in Paris is like a month of Sundays!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:06:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbkp.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbkp.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzbkp.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120811-1206.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzbkh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbkp.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzbkh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>. Life After Lonesome George</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Could Mogadishu be about to lose its title as the world's most dangerous city? Mary Harper says soon there'll be a new parliament and a new president in the Somali capital and there's hope the days of war, drought and famine could come to an end.
  2402. The authorities in Yemen helped by the US have been taking the battle to al-Qaeda but Natalia Antelava says some believe hearts and minds are being lost in the process.
  2403. Three years ago the north-eastern tip of Sri Lanka was the scene of the Tamil Tigers' last big battle against the Sri Lankan army. Charles Haviland's been allowed to visit the area.
  2404. Henry Nicholls, who's been in the Galapagos Islands out in the Pacific Ocean, says people there are finding it hard to pick themselves up after the death of their most famous resident, the giant tortoise, Lonesome George.
  2405. The annual Bayreuth Festival has been taking place in the south of Germany and Stephen Evans says that once again it's being stalked by controversy.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Could Mogadishu be about to lose its title as the world's most dangerous city? Mary be...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Could Mogadishu be about to lose its title as the world's most dangerous city? Mary Harper says soon there'll be a new parliament and a new president in the Somali capital and there's hope the days of war, drought and famine could come to an end.
  2406. The authorities in Yemen helped by the US have been taking the battle to al-Qaeda but Natalia Antelava says some believe hearts and minds are being lost in the process.
  2407. Three years ago the north-eastern tip of Sri Lanka was the scene of the Tamil Tigers' last big battle against the Sri Lankan army. Charles Haviland's been allowed to visit the area.
  2408. Henry Nicholls, who's been in the Galapagos Islands out in the Pacific Ocean, says people there are finding it hard to pick themselves up after the death of their most famous resident, the giant tortoise, Lonesome George.
  2409. The annual Bayreuth Festival has been taking place in the south of Germany and Stephen Evans says that once again it's being stalked by controversy.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1692</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3xj.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3xj.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz3xj.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120804-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz3x8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3xj.mp3" fileSize="27072000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1692"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz3x8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Battle for Aleppo</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ian Pannell visits a school which has become a morgue for children in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
  2410. James Harkin meets a Syrian whose chosen weapon, in his battle against the Assad regime, is a mobile phone rather than a gun
  2411. John Sweeney's in Belarus. It's ruled, he says, by a regime so cocky it can't even be bothered to rebrand its secret police. They're still known as the KGB.
  2412. Senegal's become the latest African country to grow melons for Europe. Susie Emmett joins workers who find time to take a break for a game of football.
  2413. And is it more Lord of the Flies or Swallows and Amazons? Laura Trevelyan travels to the state of Maine to investigate the phenomenon that is the US summer camp.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Ian Pannell visits a school which has become a morgue for children in the Syrian city...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Ian Pannell visits a school which has become a morgue for children in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
  2414. James Harkin meets a Syrian whose chosen weapon, in his battle against the Assad regime, is a mobile phone rather than a gun
  2415. John Sweeney's in Belarus. It's ruled, he says, by a regime so cocky it can't even be bothered to rebrand its secret police. They're still known as the KGB.
  2416. Senegal's become the latest African country to grow melons for Europe. Susie Emmett joins workers who find time to take a break for a game of football.
  2417. And is it more Lord of the Flies or Swallows and Amazons? Laura Trevelyan travels to the state of Maine to investigate the phenomenon that is the US summer camp.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:03:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1708</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4t6.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4t6.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz4t6.mp3" length="27328000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120728-1203.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz4sy</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4t6.mp3" fileSize="27328000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1708"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz4sy</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>. Austerity or not?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Pascale Harter's testing the mood in Spain in the week hundreds of thousands made clear their disapproval of the Madrid government's austerity measures.
  2418. In France the new administration of President Francois Hollande wants to restore prosperity without applying too much austerity. But David Chazan says the difficulties are piling up for the new man in the Elysee Palace.
  2419. The Nigerian economy is leaking millions. Will Ross has been to the Niger Delta to find out how people are helping themselves to the country's most valuable resource, oil.
  2420. Linda Pressley tells the extraordinary tale of the travels of the corpse of Argentina's most famous First Lady, Eva Peron.
  2421. While eight thousand miles from Buenos Aires, Mark Bosworth finds a hundred thousand Finns dancing the tango under the midnight sun.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Pascale Harter's testing the mood in Spain in the week hundreds of thousands made of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Pascale Harter's testing the mood in Spain in the week hundreds of thousands made clear their disapproval of the Madrid government's austerity measures.
  2422. In France the new administration of President Francois Hollande wants to restore prosperity without applying too much austerity. But David Chazan says the difficulties are piling up for the new man in the Elysee Palace.
  2423. The Nigerian economy is leaking millions. Will Ross has been to the Niger Delta to find out how people are helping themselves to the country's most valuable resource, oil.
  2424. Linda Pressley tells the extraordinary tale of the travels of the corpse of Argentina's most famous First Lady, Eva Peron.
  2425. While eight thousand miles from Buenos Aires, Mark Bosworth finds a hundred thousand Finns dancing the tango under the midnight sun.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:07:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1698</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzk88.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzk88.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzk88.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120721-1207.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzk85</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzk88.mp3" fileSize="27168000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1698"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzk85</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>An Unfinished Revolution</title><description><![CDATA[<p>As speculation continues about who's won the election in Libya, Rana Jawad in Tripoli hears how "Libyan women face five problems: the father, the son, the husband, the brother and the working man!"
  2426. Deep in the hills of Honduras Stephen Sackur's been talking to a man who's trying to escape the country's drugs and gang culture but fears he won't be allowed to succeed.
  2427. In the week China released figures showing how its economy has slowed down, Michael Bristow leaves the country in, as he puts it, the midst of an unfinished revolution.
  2428. Alan Johnston descends below ground level in Rome to learn a little more about the fears which beset Benito Mussolini in the final years of his dictatorship.
  2429. And did you know bird spit can be big business? It is in Malaysia. Jenifer Pak's been finding out how the market's now being flooded by counterfeiters.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> As speculation continues about who's won the election in Libya, Rana Jawad in Tripoli...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>As speculation continues about who's won the election in Libya, Rana Jawad in Tripoli hears how "Libyan women face five problems: the father, the son, the husband, the brother and the working man!"
  2430. Deep in the hills of Honduras Stephen Sackur's been talking to a man who's trying to escape the country's drugs and gang culture but fears he won't be allowed to succeed.
  2431. In the week China released figures showing how its economy has slowed down, Michael Bristow leaves the country in, as he puts it, the midst of an unfinished revolution.
  2432. Alan Johnston descends below ground level in Rome to learn a little more about the fears which beset Benito Mussolini in the final years of his dictatorship.
  2433. And did you know bird spit can be big business? It is in Malaysia. Jenifer Pak's been finding out how the market's now being flooded by counterfeiters.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2012 11:05:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz43n.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz43n.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz43n.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120714-1205.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz43j</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz43n.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz43j</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Ghosts of Bush House</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Natasha Breed on how the population of Kenya's expanding fast, urban areas are eating up the countryside. And it's proving disastrous and sometimes fatal for the country's wildlife.
  2434. A weird fungus which grows out of the heads of caterpillars is being harvested in parts of the Himalayas. Craig Jeffrey, who's been investigating, says it's proving a valuable cash crop for some of the mountain villagers.
  2435. Latvia has the fastest-growing economy in Europe. Damien McGuinness has been to the capital Riga to see how they've made austerity cool.
  2436. The Nigerian president's been speaking of the importance of family planning. The BBC's Jane Dreaper's been to a part of his country where having seven children is far from unusual.
  2437. And Anna Horsbrugh Porter is one of the BBC World Service staff who're leaving their headquarters in London, Bush House in the Strand. She's been talking to colleagues about a much-loved broadcasting institution.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Natasha Breed on how the population of Kenya's expanding fast, urban areas are eating...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Natasha Breed on how the population of Kenya's expanding fast, urban areas are eating up the countryside. And it's proving disastrous and sometimes fatal for the country's wildlife.
  2438. A weird fungus which grows out of the heads of caterpillars is being harvested in parts of the Himalayas. Craig Jeffrey, who's been investigating, says it's proving a valuable cash crop for some of the mountain villagers.
  2439. Latvia has the fastest-growing economy in Europe. Damien McGuinness has been to the capital Riga to see how they've made austerity cool.
  2440. The Nigerian president's been speaking of the importance of family planning. The BBC's Jane Dreaper's been to a part of his country where having seven children is far from unusual.
  2441. And Anna Horsbrugh Porter is one of the BBC World Service staff who're leaving their headquarters in London, Bush House in the Strand. She's been talking to colleagues about a much-loved broadcasting institution.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1698</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhz5.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhz5.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzhz5.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120707-1202.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzhz2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhz5.mp3" fileSize="27168000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1698"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzhz2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Shifting Sands</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Pauline Davies in the desert where nothing lives: the Atacama in Chile. But once thousands of miners lived here. Today ghost towns are all that remain.
  2442. Andrew Harding on how the fears of those living in the Malian city of Timbuktu came to be realised when Islamist militants came to town and started to destroy their historic monuments.
  2443. Could France be about to issue an apology to Algeria for the brutal events which led up to Algerian independence fifty years ago? Philip Sweeney wonders who exactly owes whom the apology?
  2444. Of all the postings a correspondent might expect, one in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo Kinshasa was never going to be dull! Thomas Hubert looks back on his three and a half years there.
  2445. And the dangers from Chernobyl have not come to an end yet. Patrick Evans says there's a real fear the summer heat could trigger radioactive wildfires with consequences which could be felt all over Europe.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Pauline Davies in the desert where nothing lives: the Atacama in Chile.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Pauline Davies in the desert where nothing lives: the Atacama in Chile. But once thousands of miners lived here. Today ghost towns are all that remain.
  2446. Andrew Harding on how the fears of those living in the Malian city of Timbuktu came to be realised when Islamist militants came to town and started to destroy their historic monuments.
  2447. Could France be about to issue an apology to Algeria for the brutal events which led up to Algerian independence fifty years ago? Philip Sweeney wonders who exactly owes whom the apology?
  2448. Of all the postings a correspondent might expect, one in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo Kinshasa was never going to be dull! Thomas Hubert looks back on his three and a half years there.
  2449. And the dangers from Chernobyl have not come to an end yet. Patrick Evans says there's a real fear the summer heat could trigger radioactive wildfires with consequences which could be felt all over Europe.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:42:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1707</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc0g.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc0g.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzc0g.mp3" length="27312000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120705-1142.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzc0c</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc0g.mp3" fileSize="27312000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1707"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzc0c</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Roman Austerity</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Churches and mosques are being targetted by the Boko Haram militant group in Nigeria. Will Ross has been to the northern city of Jos, a city he says feels like it's under seige.
  2450. The Europe-wide debt crisis is increasingly being felt in Italy, where both prices and unemployment are soaring. Alan Johnston's in a suburb of Rome, hearing that people have begun to feel the pinch.
  2451. It's fifty years now since Algerians won their battle for independence from France. Chloe Arnold in Algiers has been meeting a woman who feels she did her bit to liberate the country.
  2452. Jim Carey's in Jordan, a kingdom which prefers hospitality to headlines and has a policy of being nice to everybody.
  2453. And is conformism really a feature of the French psyche? It's a question which has been troubling Hugh Schofield on his morning runs around the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Churches and mosques are being targetted by the Boko Haram militant group in Nigeria.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Churches and mosques are being targetted by the Boko Haram militant group in Nigeria. Will Ross has been to the northern city of Jos, a city he says feels like it's under seige.
  2454. The Europe-wide debt crisis is increasingly being felt in Italy, where both prices and unemployment are soaring. Alan Johnston's in a suburb of Rome, hearing that people have begun to feel the pinch.
  2455. It's fifty years now since Algerians won their battle for independence from France. Chloe Arnold in Algiers has been meeting a woman who feels she did her bit to liberate the country.
  2456. Jim Carey's in Jordan, a kingdom which prefers hospitality to headlines and has a policy of being nice to everybody.
  2457. And is conformism really a feature of the French psyche? It's a question which has been troubling Hugh Schofield on his morning runs around the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1693</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00t3.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00t3.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s00t3.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120630-1202.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s00sy</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00t3.mp3" fileSize="27088000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1693"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s00sy</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Bombs + Kebabs</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ian Pannell tells us how the story of Robin Hood is proving popular with one of the Syrian rebel groups fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.
  2458. Will Grant, on the campaign trail ahead of Sunday's election in Mexico, finds himself in what he describes as 'the most dangerous place I've ever been.'
  2459. Hampi in India may once have been the heart of one of the biggest empires in Asia, but Anthony Denselow says it's increasingly drained of daily life.
  2460. Damien McGuinness has been learning that pagan traditions emerge from the past - and the forest - when Latvians go out to celebrate midsummer.
  2461. And Dany Mitzman reveals that at an Italian wedding food is more important than speeches - and confetti isn't something you throw, it's something you eat!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Ian Pannell tells us how the story of Robin Hood is proving popular with one of the to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Ian Pannell tells us how the story of Robin Hood is proving popular with one of the Syrian rebel groups fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.
  2462. Will Grant, on the campaign trail ahead of Sunday's election in Mexico, finds himself in what he describes as 'the most dangerous place I've ever been.'
  2463. Hampi in India may once have been the heart of one of the biggest empires in Asia, but Anthony Denselow says it's increasingly drained of daily life.
  2464. Damien McGuinness has been learning that pagan traditions emerge from the past - and the forest - when Latvians go out to celebrate midsummer.
  2465. And Dany Mitzman reveals that at an Italian wedding food is more important than speeches - and confetti isn't something you throw, it's something you eat!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdk5.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdk5.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzdk5.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120628-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzdk2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdk5.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzdk2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Folly of Empire</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Rumours and conspiracy theories swirl around Egypt; the Greeks fed up with being criticised for attitudes towards Europe; businessmen and environmentalists squabble over the River Danube in Croatia; how love, trolls and goblins help the Swedish government balance its books and musings on the folly of empire from half way up a volcano in Indonesia.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Rumours and conspiracy theories swirl around Egypt; the Greeks fed up with being for a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Rumours and conspiracy theories swirl around Egypt; the Greeks fed up with being criticised for attitudes towards Europe; businessmen and environmentalists squabble over the River Danube in Croatia; how love, trolls and goblins help the Swedish government balance its books and musings on the folly of empire from half way up a volcano in Indonesia.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1695</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3p8.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3p8.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz3p8.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120623-1202.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz3p3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3p8.mp3" fileSize="27120000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1695"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz3p3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Life Support</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kevin Connolly has the latest from Cairo, awash with conspiracy theories after the authorities delayed the results of Egypt's presidential election.
  2466. Jill McGivering's travelling across northern India investigating a growing water crisis. Major rivers are contaminated by pollution and wells are running dry.
  2467. As delegates at the Rio conference study papers on future energy sources, Jonny Dymond's been to Kentucky where livelihoods built around coal mining are now in doubt.
  2468. There's a building boom going on in the central African state of Chad but Celeste Hicks tells us it's still blighted by violence, poverty and disease.
  2469. South Koreans are being urged to dress down now that high summer's arrived. But Lucy Williamson's been finding out they won't listen to entreaties that they should slip into something something cooler.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Kevin Connolly has the latest from Cairo, awash with conspiracy theories after the the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kevin Connolly has the latest from Cairo, awash with conspiracy theories after the authorities delayed the results of Egypt's presidential election.
  2470. Jill McGivering's travelling across northern India investigating a growing water crisis. Major rivers are contaminated by pollution and wells are running dry.
  2471. As delegates at the Rio conference study papers on future energy sources, Jonny Dymond's been to Kentucky where livelihoods built around coal mining are now in doubt.
  2472. There's a building boom going on in the central African state of Chad but Celeste Hicks tells us it's still blighted by violence, poverty and disease.
  2473. South Koreans are being urged to dress down now that high summer's arrived. But Lucy Williamson's been finding out they won't listen to entreaties that they should slip into something something cooler.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s035z.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s035z.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s035z.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120621-1132.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s035q</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s035z.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s035q</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>The Stone Breakers</title><description><![CDATA[<p>All of Europe is watching the Greek elections. Chris Morris says they could have a profound effect on the Euro and on the future of the European Union.
  2474. The child stone breakers of Madagascar. They toil all day every day. It earns them just a few coins. And, as Luke Freeman finds out, there's no question of them ever going to school.
  2475. He was one of Cuba's revolutionary heroes. The funeral of boxer Teofilo Stevenson has just taken place in Havana. Sarah Rainsford was there and later talked to some of the Cuban athletes trying to emulate his Olympic success at this year's Games in London.
  2476. Jackie Bird has been to Korea with some of the Britons who fought in the war there sixty years ago. It's a conflict which few in Britain commemmorate. But there, the soldiers were applauded and thanked.
  2477. Fuchsia Dunlop dons her dancing shoes and heads out into Shanghai to get a glimpse of what this Chinese city must have been like during the glittering, decadent pre-war years.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>All of Europe is watching the Greek elections.  Chris Morris says they could have a on...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>All of Europe is watching the Greek elections. Chris Morris says they could have a profound effect on the Euro and on the future of the European Union.
  2478. The child stone breakers of Madagascar. They toil all day every day. It earns them just a few coins. And, as Luke Freeman finds out, there's no question of them ever going to school.
  2479. He was one of Cuba's revolutionary heroes. The funeral of boxer Teofilo Stevenson has just taken place in Havana. Sarah Rainsford was there and later talked to some of the Cuban athletes trying to emulate his Olympic success at this year's Games in London.
  2480. Jackie Bird has been to Korea with some of the Britons who fought in the war there sixty years ago. It's a conflict which few in Britain commemmorate. But there, the soldiers were applauded and thanked.
  2481. Fuchsia Dunlop dons her dancing shoes and heads out into Shanghai to get a glimpse of what this Chinese city must have been like during the glittering, decadent pre-war years.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzv0j.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzv0j.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzv0j.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120616-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzv0f</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzv0j.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzv0f</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Burmese Bling</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Paul Mason meets protesters in Spain finding new ways to signal their worries and anger about how their government's tackling the financial crisis.
  2482. Lucy Hooker declines to join the stampede of foreign customers in the gem markets of Rangoon in Burma.
  2483. Rana Jawad contends that while Libya's in a state of 'civilised anarchy', its people believe near-anarchy now might be the price to pay for the tyranny of the Gaddafi years.
  2484. As some European footballers have been taken to visit the site of Auschwitz in Poland, David Shukman has retraced his own family history in a nearby vilage.
  2485. And Anu Anand went a good deal further than the Internet to delve into the roots of her family tree. Finding out about ten generations of Anands  involved a trip to the River Ganges, special priests and a search for an ancient banyan tree.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Paul Mason meets protesters in Spain finding new ways to signal their worries and how...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Paul Mason meets protesters in Spain finding new ways to signal their worries and anger about how their government's tackling the financial crisis.
  2486. Lucy Hooker declines to join the stampede of foreign customers in the gem markets of Rangoon in Burma.
  2487. Rana Jawad contends that while Libya's in a state of 'civilised anarchy', its people believe near-anarchy now might be the price to pay for the tyranny of the Gaddafi years.
  2488. As some European footballers have been taken to visit the site of Auschwitz in Poland, David Shukman has retraced his own family history in a nearby vilage.
  2489. And Anu Anand went a good deal further than the Internet to delve into the roots of her family tree. Finding out about ten generations of Anands  involved a trip to the River Ganges, special priests and a search for an ancient banyan tree.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzr4n.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzr4n.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzr4n.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120614-1132.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzr3h</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzr4n.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzr3h</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Catholic Olympics</title><description><![CDATA[<p>From Mogadishu -- Gabriel Gatehouse on how the al-Shabab militants have managed to lose friends and influence among the population of Somalia and given a boost to the African peacekeepers there
  2490. Andy Martin's talking of a rift in the Irish church as Dublin prepares to welcome tens of thousands of Catholic visitors to the capital for an event some have called the 'Catholic Olympics.'
  2491. A shaded graveyard in Kabul: Andrew North says the memorials there tell a story about Afghanistan's strategic value and the many times foreign soldiers have marched onto its soil
  2492. Chancellor Merkel of Germany likes straight talking, Steve Evans in Berlin believes. During the visit to Berlin of prime minister Cameron, she used vocabulary British politicians would hesitate to voice in public.
  2493. And the repressive policies of the apartheid era may be long gone but colour remains a preoccupation in South Africa as new mother, Tara Neill, has been finding out</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> From Mogadishu -- Gabriel Gatehouse on how the al-Shabab militants have managed to and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>From Mogadishu -- Gabriel Gatehouse on how the al-Shabab militants have managed to lose friends and influence among the population of Somalia and given a boost to the African peacekeepers there
  2494. Andy Martin's talking of a rift in the Irish church as Dublin prepares to welcome tens of thousands of Catholic visitors to the capital for an event some have called the 'Catholic Olympics.'
  2495. A shaded graveyard in Kabul: Andrew North says the memorials there tell a story about Afghanistan's strategic value and the many times foreign soldiers have marched onto its soil
  2496. Chancellor Merkel of Germany likes straight talking, Steve Evans in Berlin believes. During the visit to Berlin of prime minister Cameron, she used vocabulary British politicians would hesitate to voice in public.
  2497. And the repressive policies of the apartheid era may be long gone but colour remains a preoccupation in South Africa as new mother, Tara Neill, has been finding out</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5gn.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5gn.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz5gn.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120609-1201.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz5gg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5gn.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz5gg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Destruction + Regeneration</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Alan Johnston's been to the Italian towns shaken by a series of earthquakes and aftershocks.
  2498. In Pakistan, monsoon season is approaching again: Aleem Maqbool meets victims of last year's disastrous flooding amid concerns it could happen again.
  2499. Hamilton Wende, a longterm resident of Johannesburg, believes it's shaking off a reputation for violence and urban decay.  
  2500. James McConnachie is in Nepal, where Chinese influence is bringing new road-building projects to the world's most dramatic mountain landscapes.
  2501. And Roland Buerk is in Tokyo, where pets are pampered like nowhere else on earth.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Alan Johnston's been to the Italian towns shaken by a series of earthquakes and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Alan Johnston's been to the Italian towns shaken by a series of earthquakes and aftershocks.
  2502. In Pakistan, monsoon season is approaching again: Aleem Maqbool meets victims of last year's disastrous flooding amid concerns it could happen again.
  2503. Hamilton Wende, a longterm resident of Johannesburg, believes it's shaking off a reputation for violence and urban decay.  
  2504. James McConnachie is in Nepal, where Chinese influence is bringing new road-building projects to the world's most dramatic mountain landscapes.
  2505. And Roland Buerk is in Tokyo, where pets are pampered like nowhere else on earth.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzx3f.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzx3f.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzx3f.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120607-1132.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzx37</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzx3f.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzx37</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Love Commandos</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Fergal Keane meets exiled Syrians in Istanbul and finds little agreement among them about the way forward for their troubled country.
  2506. Gabriel Gatehouse is in eastern Congo where politics, history and nature have conspired to create instability and danger.
  2507. David Willey talks of unrest and dismay at the Vatican as Cardinals plot and the Pope speaks of betrayal.
  2508. Anu Anand's been meeting The Love Commandos in Delhi -- they help young couples who dare to get together without parental approval.
  2509. And just ten miles from Wall Street and you're bathing in the Atlantic Ocean! Reggie Nadelson's in Brighton Beach, New York's most interesting ethnic enclave.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Fergal Keane meets exiled Syrians in Istanbul and finds little agreement among them...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Fergal Keane meets exiled Syrians in Istanbul and finds little agreement among them about the way forward for their troubled country.
  2510. Gabriel Gatehouse is in eastern Congo where politics, history and nature have conspired to create instability and danger.
  2511. David Willey talks of unrest and dismay at the Vatican as Cardinals plot and the Pope speaks of betrayal.
  2512. Anu Anand's been meeting The Love Commandos in Delhi -- they help young couples who dare to get together without parental approval.
  2513. And just ten miles from Wall Street and you're bathing in the Atlantic Ocean! Reggie Nadelson's in Brighton Beach, New York's most interesting ethnic enclave.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwxv.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwxv.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzwxv.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120602-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzwxn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwxv.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzwxn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Seaside Disappointment</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Jeremy Bowen in Beirut says the Middle East is certainly changing. But the dominoes aren't tumbling as quickly as some thought last year. Instead, the way ahead will be long and hard.
  2514. Will Ross in Lagos on the fuel subsidy scandal and why for Nigerians the price of petrol is a constant preoccupation.
  2515. Jonny Dymond takes to the skies over Arizona with a man determined to do his bit to reduce the flow of illegal immigrants into the US.
  2516. The campest show of them all, Eurovision, has come to Baku in Azerbaijan. And Steve Rosenberg, who's there, says it's attended by awkward questions about human rights.
  2517. And she was invited to a seaside tasting of some of Italy's finest fare. So what could possibly go wrong for Dany Mitzman?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Jeremy Bowen in Beirut says the Middle East is certainly changing.  But the dominoes as...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Jeremy Bowen in Beirut says the Middle East is certainly changing. But the dominoes aren't tumbling as quickly as some thought last year. Instead, the way ahead will be long and hard.
  2518. Will Ross in Lagos on the fuel subsidy scandal and why for Nigerians the price of petrol is a constant preoccupation.
  2519. Jonny Dymond takes to the skies over Arizona with a man determined to do his bit to reduce the flow of illegal immigrants into the US.
  2520. The campest show of them all, Eurovision, has come to Baku in Azerbaijan. And Steve Rosenberg, who's there, says it's attended by awkward questions about human rights.
  2521. And she was invited to a seaside tasting of some of Italy's finest fare. So what could possibly go wrong for Dany Mitzman?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 11:14:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rztyr.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rztyr.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rztyr.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120526-1214.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rztyp</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rztyr.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rztyp</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Heroes and Villains</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Portia Walker: optimism in Yemen has been punctured by a devastating bomb blast in the capital.
  2522. Alan Johnston: a state funeral has taken place in Sicily to honour a man who dared to take on the Mafia - and paid the ultimate price.
  2523. Laura Trevelyan: the town in Mexico which has grown rich on the profits of sex trafficking.
  2524. Matthew Teller: how the authorities in the Saudi capital Riyadh have transformed a public rubbish tip into lush parkland complete with lakes and walkways.
  2525. and Bethany Bell: why the people of Vienna, who live in one of the world's most desirable capital cities, still seem to have plenty to moan about.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Portia Walker: optimism in Yemen has been punctured by a devastating bomb blast in the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Portia Walker: optimism in Yemen has been punctured by a devastating bomb blast in the capital.
  2526. Alan Johnston: a state funeral has taken place in Sicily to honour a man who dared to take on the Mafia - and paid the ultimate price.
  2527. Laura Trevelyan: the town in Mexico which has grown rich on the profits of sex trafficking.
  2528. Matthew Teller: how the authorities in the Saudi capital Riyadh have transformed a public rubbish tip into lush parkland complete with lakes and walkways.
  2529. and Bethany Bell: why the people of Vienna, who live in one of the world's most desirable capital cities, still seem to have plenty to moan about.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz97y.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz97y.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz97y.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120524-1132.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz97t</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz97y.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz97t</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Nile Mystery</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kevin Connolly's in Luxor wondering if the military, which has controlled proceedings in Egypt since 1952, really will hand over power to civilians once the elections, starting next week, are over.
  2530. Jonathan Head in Turkey notes that talks about joining the European Union have started up again. But does Turkey really need to join an EU worrying about economic catastrophe?
  2531. David Belton's been to a remote part of New York state where the Amish religious sect has taken the question: can God really be wrong, to a court for judgement.
  2532. Fuchsia Dunlop's been to one part of China where they don't find cheese alien and revolting
  2533. And Mary Harper's been mingling with the Somali population in Dubai. And taking a drive, in some style, around the gleaming emirate.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Kevin Connolly's in Luxor wondering if the military, which has controlled proceedings...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kevin Connolly's in Luxor wondering if the military, which has controlled proceedings in Egypt since 1952, really will hand over power to civilians once the elections, starting next week, are over.
  2534. Jonathan Head in Turkey notes that talks about joining the European Union have started up again. But does Turkey really need to join an EU worrying about economic catastrophe?
  2535. David Belton's been to a remote part of New York state where the Amish religious sect has taken the question: can God really be wrong, to a court for judgement.
  2536. Fuchsia Dunlop's been to one part of China where they don't find cheese alien and revolting
  2537. And Mary Harper's been mingling with the Somali population in Dubai. And taking a drive, in some style, around the gleaming emirate.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 11:04:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1691</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9hc.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9hc.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9hc.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120519-1204.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9h8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9hc.mp3" fileSize="27056000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1691"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9h8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Syrian Ghosts</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Many Syrian doctors and medical staff have fled the country as the violence there continues. Portia Walker's been talking to one of them in Turkey.
  2538. The Arab Spring has failed to take root in Algeria. This week there were elections there and Chloe Arnold's been reflecting on the public reluctance to take part in a vote about the country's future.
  2539. Hugh Sykes has been listening to opposing views about the state Pakistan's in. Some talk of its political stability; others of how it's ripe for revolution. Everyone, though, has a view about corruption there.
  2540. A UN envoy, in Cambodia this week, spoke of how firearms were increasingly being used there against human rights activists. Guy Delauney considers this in the light of growing public controversy over land issues and illegal logging.
  2541. And as the nude bathing season gets underway in Germany Stephen Evans tells a story of how cultural confusion over nakedness caused embarrassment in a Berlin gym.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Many Syrian doctors and medical staff have fled the country as the violence there...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Many Syrian doctors and medical staff have fled the country as the violence there continues. Portia Walker's been talking to one of them in Turkey.
  2542. The Arab Spring has failed to take root in Algeria. This week there were elections there and Chloe Arnold's been reflecting on the public reluctance to take part in a vote about the country's future.
  2543. Hugh Sykes has been listening to opposing views about the state Pakistan's in. Some talk of its political stability; others of how it's ripe for revolution. Everyone, though, has a view about corruption there.
  2544. A UN envoy, in Cambodia this week, spoke of how firearms were increasingly being used there against human rights activists. Guy Delauney considers this in the light of growing public controversy over land issues and illegal logging.
  2545. And as the nude bathing season gets underway in Germany Stephen Evans tells a story of how cultural confusion over nakedness caused embarrassment in a Berlin gym.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 11:03:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdc3.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdc3.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzdc3.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120512-1203.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzdc1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdc3.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzdc1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Sunlounger economics</title><description><![CDATA[<p>In a week full of elections near and far, Mark Lowen says Sunday's vote in Greece could be the most critical of them all.
  2546. Justin Rowlatt is in Kenya noting a huge turnaound in the global economy -- while Europe and the USA are feeling the pain, the rest of the world is steadily getting richer.
  2547. Petroc Trelawney's been to find out why a new town in Ireland has houses and a new railway station, but very few people.
  2548. Lucy Ash is camping out in the Russian Arctic and seeing how Vladimir Putin's push for further energy supplies is affecting reindeer and their herders
  2549. And Alan Johnston, touring the celebrated sights of Rome, tells us there's one particular statue which casts a chill shadow -- even on the sunniest of Spring days.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> In a week full of elections near and far, Mark Lowen says Sunday's vote in Greece be...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>In a week full of elections near and far, Mark Lowen says Sunday's vote in Greece could be the most critical of them all.
  2550. Justin Rowlatt is in Kenya noting a huge turnaound in the global economy -- while Europe and the USA are feeling the pain, the rest of the world is steadily getting richer.
  2551. Petroc Trelawney's been to find out why a new town in Ireland has houses and a new railway station, but very few people.
  2552. Lucy Ash is camping out in the Russian Arctic and seeing how Vladimir Putin's push for further energy supplies is affecting reindeer and their herders
  2553. And Alan Johnston, touring the celebrated sights of Rome, tells us there's one particular statue which casts a chill shadow -- even on the sunniest of Spring days.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1701</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8st.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8st.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz8st.mp3" length="27216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120505-1201.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz8sl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8st.mp3" fileSize="27216000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1701"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz8sl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Congo warlord</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The British soldiers in Afghanistan have lost faith in their mission, there are fields full of opium poppies and the Taliban are everywhere. Quentin Sommerville talks of the mood among the troops as they prepare at last to return home.
  2554. After Charles Taylor, who'll next be taken to court to face charges relating to war crimes? Fiona Lloyd Davies has been in the Democratic Republic of Congo meeting one former rebel commander who is wanted for trial.
  2555. Ian Pannell has been talking to an English scholar in Syria whose library was destroyed as the struggle continues between protestors and the security forces.
  2556. What makes Kenyan athletes such fine distance runners? Claudia Hammond's been jogging through the Great Rift Valley learning some of the answers.
  2557. and Stephen Sackur went to Cairo to report on how the people's uprising there was faring but instead found himself captivated by a revolutionary TV chef whose recipes are being lapped up throughout the Middle East!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The British soldiers in Afghanistan have lost faith in their mission, there are fields...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The British soldiers in Afghanistan have lost faith in their mission, there are fields full of opium poppies and the Taliban are everywhere. Quentin Sommerville talks of the mood among the troops as they prepare at last to return home.
  2558. After Charles Taylor, who'll next be taken to court to face charges relating to war crimes? Fiona Lloyd Davies has been in the Democratic Republic of Congo meeting one former rebel commander who is wanted for trial.
  2559. Ian Pannell has been talking to an English scholar in Syria whose library was destroyed as the struggle continues between protestors and the security forces.
  2560. What makes Kenyan athletes such fine distance runners? Claudia Hammond's been jogging through the Great Rift Valley learning some of the answers.
  2561. and Stephen Sackur went to Cairo to report on how the people's uprising there was faring but instead found himself captivated by a revolutionary TV chef whose recipes are being lapped up throughout the Middle East!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:10:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1700</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4dw.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4dw.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz4dw.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120428-1210.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz4ds</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4dw.mp3" fileSize="27200000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1700"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz4ds</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Asparagus fever!</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Bahrain: Rupert Wingfield Hayes examines why all sides in the bitter conflict there feel the controversy surrounding this weekend's Grand Prix can work in their favour.
  2562. France: It's an election which lacks a feel-good factor. Perhaps, Chris Morris feels, that's why all the campaigners are looking back, at a vision of a romantic, glorious French past.
  2563. Kenya: Mary Harper's in a huge refugee camp, run on international money, and contrasts life there with that in an impoverished village not far away.
  2564. India: His mother warned him against walking on ice, but Paul Howard finds it's the only way to visit a remote community high in the Himalayas.
  2565. Germany: Great excitement at the start of the white asparagus season. Steve Evans finds the vegetable dominating menus and conversation. But surely it's not an aphrodisiac?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Bahrain: Rupert Wingfield Hayes examines why all sides in the bitter conflict there in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Bahrain: Rupert Wingfield Hayes examines why all sides in the bitter conflict there feel the controversy surrounding this weekend's Grand Prix can work in their favour.
  2566. France: It's an election which lacks a feel-good factor. Perhaps, Chris Morris feels, that's why all the campaigners are looking back, at a vision of a romantic, glorious French past.
  2567. Kenya: Mary Harper's in a huge refugee camp, run on international money, and contrasts life there with that in an impoverished village not far away.
  2568. India: His mother warned him against walking on ice, but Paul Howard finds it's the only way to visit a remote community high in the Himalayas.
  2569. Germany: Great excitement at the start of the white asparagus season. Steve Evans finds the vegetable dominating menus and conversation. But surely it's not an aphrodisiac?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:03:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s01wk.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s01wk.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s01wk.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120421-1203.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s01wg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s01wk.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s01wg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>14 April 2012</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Fergal Keane is on Turkey's border with Syria listening to the experiences of those seeking refuge from the violence.
  2570. The rise - and fall - of Italy's House of Bossi. David Willey reports.
  2571. Natalia Antelava uncovers what appears to be a secret programme to sterilize women in Uzbekistan.
  2572. Justin Marozzi finds street life returning to the Somali capital Mogadishu, once the most dangerous city on earth.
  2573. And Jon Donnison hears the Olympic dreams of one Libyan athlete.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Fergal Keane is on Turkey's border with Syria listening to the experiences of those...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Fergal Keane is on Turkey's border with Syria listening to the experiences of those seeking refuge from the violence.
  2574. The rise - and fall - of Italy's House of Bossi. David Willey reports.
  2575. Natalia Antelava uncovers what appears to be a secret programme to sterilize women in Uzbekistan.
  2576. Justin Marozzi finds street life returning to the Somali capital Mogadishu, once the most dangerous city on earth.
  2577. And Jon Donnison hears the Olympic dreams of one Libyan athlete.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1677</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhj0.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhj0.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzhj0.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120414-1232.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzhhx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhj0.mp3" fileSize="26832000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1677"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzhhx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Sarajevo</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Presenter Kate Adie's in Sarajevo along with Allan Little and Jeremy Bowen. All three of them correspondents who reported from the Bosnian war 20 years ago.
  2578. Also today Owen Bennett Jones on a controversial group of Iranian exiles whose camp in Iraq is about to be closed down.  
  2579. Pascale Harter's in Iceland talking of life in a town which remains in the shade from October to February.
  2580. While Simon Worrall goes to northern France with questions about what exactly happened in a battle more than seventy years ago.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Presenter Kate Adie's in Sarajevo along with Allan Little and Jeremy Bowen.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Presenter Kate Adie's in Sarajevo along with Allan Little and Jeremy Bowen. All three of them correspondents who reported from the Bosnian war 20 years ago.
  2581. Also today Owen Bennett Jones on a controversial group of Iranian exiles whose camp in Iraq is about to be closed down.  
  2582. Pascale Harter's in Iceland talking of life in a town which remains in the shade from October to February.
  2583. While Simon Worrall goes to northern France with questions about what exactly happened in a battle more than seventy years ago.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzg48.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzg48.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzg48.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120407-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzg43</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzg48.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzg43</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Libyan pets</title><description><![CDATA[<p>What does a chaotic pet market have to tell us about Libya's transition from dictatorship to democracy? Kevin Connolly's been finding out.
  2584. Refineries. Miles and miles of pipeline. Hundreds of workers from overseas. Antonia Quirke's learned they are all coming to a remote corner of Mozambique now there's been a huge gas find there.
  2585. Drug-related violence is a major issue in the Mexican presidential election campaign, which has just got underway. Will Grant's in the capital city where even news of the most gruesome happenings now seems to cause little surprise or horror.
  2586. Jonathan Fryer's been meeting a family hugely respected in Togo. Over the generations they've become known for producing twins -- regarded as particularly special in this part of west Africa.
  2587. And how on earth did a man from the high Himalayas come to be serving Jewish culinary specialities in a store in Manhattan? The answer to that one comes from Reggie Nadelson.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> What does a chaotic pet market have to tell us about Libya's transition from to Kevin...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>What does a chaotic pet market have to tell us about Libya's transition from dictatorship to democracy? Kevin Connolly's been finding out.
  2588. Refineries. Miles and miles of pipeline. Hundreds of workers from overseas. Antonia Quirke's learned they are all coming to a remote corner of Mozambique now there's been a huge gas find there.
  2589. Drug-related violence is a major issue in the Mexican presidential election campaign, which has just got underway. Will Grant's in the capital city where even news of the most gruesome happenings now seems to cause little surprise or horror.
  2590. Jonathan Fryer's been meeting a family hugely respected in Togo. Over the generations they've become known for producing twins -- regarded as particularly special in this part of west Africa.
  2591. And how on earth did a man from the high Himalayas come to be serving Jewish culinary specialities in a store in Manhattan? The answer to that one comes from Reggie Nadelson.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:17:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1668</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8xn.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8xn.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz8xn.mp3" length="26688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120331-1217.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz8xj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8xn.mp3" fileSize="26688000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1668"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz8xj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Afghan New Year</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Afghans enjoy New Year celebrations but Lyse Doucet finds they are concerned about what the months ahead may bring
  2592. John James travels to the west African state of Guinea-Bissau and finds unexpected charms amidst its shadows
  2593. The Burmese are finding out that recent reforms in their country have encouraged tourists to return. Caroline Hawley has been seeing what it has to offer the international visitor
  2594. The Egyptians are preparing to vote for a new president and Jon Leyne has been finding out there are hundreds of people who feel they should have the job
  2595. Gavin Esler meets Chancellor Merkel in Berlin and considers to what extent Germans feel obliged to help the poorer nations of southern Europe</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Afghans enjoy New Year celebrations but Lyse Doucet finds they are concerned about the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Afghans enjoy New Year celebrations but Lyse Doucet finds they are concerned about what the months ahead may bring
  2596. John James travels to the west African state of Guinea-Bissau and finds unexpected charms amidst its shadows
  2597. The Burmese are finding out that recent reforms in their country have encouraged tourists to return. Caroline Hawley has been seeing what it has to offer the international visitor
  2598. The Egyptians are preparing to vote for a new president and Jon Leyne has been finding out there are hundreds of people who feel they should have the job
  2599. Gavin Esler meets Chancellor Merkel in Berlin and considers to what extent Germans feel obliged to help the poorer nations of southern Europe</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:05:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1676</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02pn.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02pn.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s02pn.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120324-1205.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s02pk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s02pn.mp3" fileSize="26816000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1676"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s02pk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Boybandmania</title><description><![CDATA[<p>One Direction: behind the scenes with the boy band in the US.
  2600. Arrest warrant issued for a former premier of the troubled Turks and Caicos Islands.
  2602. Cambodian Americans deported from the US.
  2604. Why the Eurovision Song Contest reminds one woman in Azerbaijan of losing her home.
  2606. And the Brazilian port--- 900 miles from the sea.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>One Direction: behind the scenes with the boy band in the US.  Arrest warrant issued a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>One Direction: behind the scenes with the boy band in the US.
  2607. Arrest warrant issued for a former premier of the troubled Turks and Caicos Islands.
  2609. Cambodian Americans deported from the US.
  2611. Why the Eurovision Song Contest reminds one woman in Azerbaijan of losing her home.
  2613. And the Brazilian port--- 900 miles from the sea.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:10:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1664</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzswf.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzswf.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzswf.mp3" length="26624000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120322-1010.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzsw9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzswf.mp3" fileSize="26624000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1664"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzsw9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>the Kony film</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A hundred million plus hits on the internet. Our Africa correspondent Andrew Harding on the film about warlord Joseph Kony and why it's received the thumbs down from an audience in Uganda.
  2614. A group of former paramilitaries and police officers from Northern Ireland have been to South Africa to see how combatants in the apartheid era there are now trying to come to terms with their troubled past -- Fergal Keane joined them.
  2615. 'A steady pulse of pleasure' as Simon Worrall sails to the fabled Spice Islands in the wake of the great nineteenth century naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace.
  2616. Joanna Robertson's been to the cinema in Paris seeing how French children are being educated to become the film experts of the future.
  2617. And Peter Day describes the extraordinary Chinese ghost town -- empty streets, half-finished buildings -- which suggests to some that the great real estate bubble there has finally burst.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A hundred million plus hits on the internet.  Our Africa correspondent Andrew Harding...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A hundred million plus hits on the internet. Our Africa correspondent Andrew Harding on the film about warlord Joseph Kony and why it's received the thumbs down from an audience in Uganda.
  2618. A group of former paramilitaries and police officers from Northern Ireland have been to South Africa to see how combatants in the apartheid era there are now trying to come to terms with their troubled past -- Fergal Keane joined them.
  2619. 'A steady pulse of pleasure' as Simon Worrall sails to the fabled Spice Islands in the wake of the great nineteenth century naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace.
  2620. Joanna Robertson's been to the cinema in Paris seeing how French children are being educated to become the film experts of the future.
  2621. And Peter Day describes the extraordinary Chinese ghost town -- empty streets, half-finished buildings -- which suggests to some that the great real estate bubble there has finally burst.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:16:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1698</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzrsy.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzrsy.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzrsy.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120317-1216.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzrsh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzrsy.mp3" fileSize="27168000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1698"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzrsh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Benin Voodoo</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A voodoo priest visits in Benin; disappearances in Sri Lanka; a truce in Gaza and calls from Israeli intelligence; contemporary art arrives in the Kremlin; and specialist shops in Mexico's old city centre.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> A voodoo priest visits in Benin; disappearances in Sri Lanka; a truce in Gaza and from...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A voodoo priest visits in Benin; disappearances in Sri Lanka; a truce in Gaza and calls from Israeli intelligence; contemporary art arrives in the Kremlin; and specialist shops in Mexico's old city centre.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1683</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzl0c.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzl0c.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzl0c.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120315-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzl07</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzl0c.mp3" fileSize="26928000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1683"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzl07</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>March 10, 2012</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The fisherman who decided to sail TOWARDS the tsunami - Julian May hears his story as he drives around Japan a year after the tidal wave and nuclear emergency. Owen Bennett Jones has been meeting Syrians forced into making painful decisions by the ongoing fighting in their country. The BBC's moving out of Bush House in London and, for our man in Rome Alan Johnston, that's a cause of some sadness. Russia's often associated with having autocratic leaders and Tim Whewell's in the city of Krasnodar where many still revere the memory of the empress, Catherine the Great. And Will Ross receives an unexpected invitation to fly into troubled Somalia with the Ethiopian army.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The fisherman who decided to sail TOWARDS the tsunami - Julian May hears his story as...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The fisherman who decided to sail TOWARDS the tsunami - Julian May hears his story as he drives around Japan a year after the tidal wave and nuclear emergency. Owen Bennett Jones has been meeting Syrians forced into making painful decisions by the ongoing fighting in their country. The BBC's moving out of Bush House in London and, for our man in Rome Alan Johnston, that's a cause of some sadness. Russia's often associated with having autocratic leaders and Tim Whewell's in the city of Krasnodar where many still revere the memory of the empress, Catherine the Great. And Will Ross receives an unexpected invitation to fly into troubled Somalia with the Ethiopian army.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1696</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9pb.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9pb.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9pb.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120310-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9p6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9pb.mp3" fileSize="27136000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1696"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9p6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>March 08, 2012</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The extraordinarily spry 80-year-olds of Shikoku: Peter Day's met them and tells us about the problems countries such as Japan and Britain face with their ageing populations.
  2622. 'A match made in heaven.' Daniel Schweimler's impressed with the wines made in the Argentine region of Mendoza.
  2623. Matthew Price finds Greeks deeply concerned about the further demands they're facing for austerity as efforts continue to secure another cash bailout from the EU and IMF
  2624. What happens when Chinese villagers, incensed about land grabs, stand up against the authorities. Martin Patience, in Guangdong province, says they may have won the battle but they shouldn't feel too confident about winning the war.
  2625. And Martin Plaut meets an extraordinary man close to the troubled border between Sudan and South Sudan: a doctor, determined to dodge danger and bring help to all who need it.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The extraordinarily spry 80-year-olds of Shikoku: Peter Day's met them and tells us as...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The extraordinarily spry 80-year-olds of Shikoku: Peter Day's met them and tells us about the problems countries such as Japan and Britain face with their ageing populations.
  2626. 'A match made in heaven.' Daniel Schweimler's impressed with the wines made in the Argentine region of Mendoza.
  2627. Matthew Price finds Greeks deeply concerned about the further demands they're facing for austerity as efforts continue to secure another cash bailout from the EU and IMF
  2628. What happens when Chinese villagers, incensed about land grabs, stand up against the authorities. Martin Patience, in Guangdong province, says they may have won the battle but they shouldn't feel too confident about winning the war.
  2629. And Martin Plaut meets an extraordinary man close to the troubled border between Sudan and South Sudan: a doctor, determined to dodge danger and bring help to all who need it.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz99c.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz99c.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz99c.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120308-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz996</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz99c.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz996</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>March 3, 2012</title><description><![CDATA[<p>'A revolution with almost no co-ordination or planning.' That was Ian Pannell's assessment as he toured northern Syria trying to work out the extent of the rebellion against President Assad.
  2630. Meanwhile, James Harkin's in the capital Damascus where international sanctions are starting to leave their mark on everyday life.
  2631. Rachel Harvey's been meeting a group of Burmese opposition figures recently released from long jail sentences. Do they believe the new government is genuinely committed to a process of reform?
  2632. There's a story of connectivity, turtles and love from Huw Cordey in the central American state of Costa Rica.
  2633. And how would you like to get the tea for 49 young children? Catherine Fellowes has been talking to a mum in Kenya who does it every day!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>'A revolution with almost no co-ordination or planning. ' That was Ian Pannell's as he...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>'A revolution with almost no co-ordination or planning.' That was Ian Pannell's assessment as he toured northern Syria trying to work out the extent of the rebellion against President Assad.
  2634. Meanwhile, James Harkin's in the capital Damascus where international sanctions are starting to leave their mark on everyday life.
  2635. Rachel Harvey's been meeting a group of Burmese opposition figures recently released from long jail sentences. Do they believe the new government is genuinely committed to a process of reform?
  2636. There's a story of connectivity, turtles and love from Huw Cordey in the central American state of Costa Rica.
  2637. And how would you like to get the tea for 49 young children? Catherine Fellowes has been talking to a mum in Kenya who does it every day!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:06:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzmc7.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzmc7.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzmc7.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120303-1206.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzmbw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzmc7.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzmbw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Abbottabad, and Greeks in Germany</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Did you ever see bin Laden? Aleem Maqbool is in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where they've been bulldozing the compound where the al-Qaeda leader was killed by US special forces.
  2638. The German public appears to be tiring of rescue packages for Greece and Steve Evans in Berlin has been hearing it's not easy being a Greek in today's Germany.
  2639. David Loyn is in the Indian state of Bihar hearing the arguments for and against Britain's aid for India.
  2640. Hugely increased fees at UK universities mean that more British students than ever before are enrolling in foreign places of learning. Sanchia Berg's to Harvard in the US.
  2641. And Tom Burridge is in Barcelona where the regional politicians feel they're getting a raw deal from Madrid.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Did you ever see bin Laden? Aleem Maqbool is in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where they've by...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Did you ever see bin Laden? Aleem Maqbool is in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where they've been bulldozing the compound where the al-Qaeda leader was killed by US special forces.
  2642. The German public appears to be tiring of rescue packages for Greece and Steve Evans in Berlin has been hearing it's not easy being a Greek in today's Germany.
  2643. David Loyn is in the Indian state of Bihar hearing the arguments for and against Britain's aid for India.
  2644. Hugely increased fees at UK universities mean that more British students than ever before are enrolling in foreign places of learning. Sanchia Berg's to Harvard in the US.
  2645. And Tom Burridge is in Barcelona where the regional politicians feel they're getting a raw deal from Madrid.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:13:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhy3.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhy3.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzhy3.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120301-1113.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzhxy</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhy3.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzhxy</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>25 Feb, 2012</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Andrew Harding's in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia -- how impressed have they been there with the international gathering in London aimed at restoring stability to their country? Gerry Northam's in Japan where, a year after the devastating earthquake and tsunami, they're wondering whether to dump nuclear power altogether. David Willis is looking at a ninety-year-old murder mystery in the Hollywood hills. An extraordinary tableau's revealed in a Cairo bar: Sara Hashash meets a soldier who, on his days off, joins demonstrators throwing stones at the military! And Aleem Maqbool is finding out why a town in Pakistan's north-west is known as Little Britain.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Andrew Harding's in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia -- how impressed have they been...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Andrew Harding's in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia -- how impressed have they been there with the international gathering in London aimed at restoring stability to their country? Gerry Northam's in Japan where, a year after the devastating earthquake and tsunami, they're wondering whether to dump nuclear power altogether. David Willis is looking at a ninety-year-old murder mystery in the Hollywood hills. An extraordinary tableau's revealed in a Cairo bar: Sara Hashash meets a soldier who, on his days off, joins demonstrators throwing stones at the military! And Aleem Maqbool is finding out why a town in Pakistan's north-west is known as Little Britain.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:11:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhcb.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhcb.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzhcb.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120225-1211.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzhc1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhcb.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzhc1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>23 Feb 12</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is al-Qaeda giving the people of Yemen something their government is not? It's a question explored by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes who's there in the wake of this week's election. Who wants to venture seven miles to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean? Rebecca Morelle tells us four competing teams are developing submarines to do just that.
  2646. Christchurch in New Zealand is still far from rebuilt a year after the devastating earthquake there. Joanna Lester talks of a city centre in ruins and communities torn apart. The French province of Brittany has a great deal going for it but not, as Robert Colls has been telling us, much in the way of job opportunities. And Frank Gardner's taken to the skies off the coast of Somalia to see how an international force is dealing with the threat posed by pirates.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Is al-Qaeda giving the people of Yemen something their government is not? It's a by in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Is al-Qaeda giving the people of Yemen something their government is not? It's a question explored by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes who's there in the wake of this week's election. Who wants to venture seven miles to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean? Rebecca Morelle tells us four competing teams are developing submarines to do just that.
  2647. Christchurch in New Zealand is still far from rebuilt a year after the devastating earthquake there. Joanna Lester talks of a city centre in ruins and communities torn apart. The French province of Brittany has a great deal going for it but not, as Robert Colls has been telling us, much in the way of job opportunities. And Frank Gardner's taken to the skies off the coast of Somalia to see how an international force is dealing with the threat posed by pirates.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1681</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh44.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh44.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzh44.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120223-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzh40</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh44.mp3" fileSize="26896000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1681"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzh40</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>18 Feb 2012</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Guns remain the ultimate arbiter of disputes in post-Gaddafi Libya. And in Benghazi Gabriel Gatehouse says disarming the militias is a priority for the country's new leaders. Bill Law's been in Bahrain as violence between protestors and security forces has left many casualties in recent days. Justin Rowlatt meets a Brazilian who admits to cutting down swathes of Amazonian rainforest. But maintains he was doing what his government considered appropriate. There's growing resentment between the people of Hong Kong and Chinese mainlanders - Juliana Liu's been exploring the tensions... while in New York City Reggie Nadelson looks around a vast wedding emporium where you can spend thousands on a wedding dress - and many do!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Guns remain the ultimate arbiter of disputes in post-Gaddafi Libya.  And in Benghazi is...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Guns remain the ultimate arbiter of disputes in post-Gaddafi Libya. And in Benghazi Gabriel Gatehouse says disarming the militias is a priority for the country's new leaders. Bill Law's been in Bahrain as violence between protestors and security forces has left many casualties in recent days. Justin Rowlatt meets a Brazilian who admits to cutting down swathes of Amazonian rainforest. But maintains he was doing what his government considered appropriate. There's growing resentment between the people of Hong Kong and Chinese mainlanders - Juliana Liu's been exploring the tensions... while in New York City Reggie Nadelson looks around a vast wedding emporium where you can spend thousands on a wedding dress - and many do!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:04:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhyk.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhyk.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzhyk.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120218-1204.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzhyh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhyk.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzhyh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>16 Feb 2012</title><description><![CDATA[<p>No need for expensive cab fares this time! The regime change in The Maldives proves a story Andrew North was able to cover entirely on foot. Can Greece ever come back from this crisis? Paul Mason's on the road to Patras encountering a deep sense of gloom. As relations between Russia and the West nosedive amid arguments over Syria, a tale from Steve Rosenberg about the time when two Englishmen used football to boost productivity in Russian textile factories. For Africa's big football match, the Cup of Nations final, Tamasin Ford was at a sweltering screening in a refugee camp in Liberia. And very different weather in County Mayo: the winds howl and the hail lashes down as Kieran Cooke inspects a structure causing controversy in the far west of Ireland.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> No need for expensive cab fares this time! The regime change in The Maldives proves a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>No need for expensive cab fares this time! The regime change in The Maldives proves a story Andrew North was able to cover entirely on foot. Can Greece ever come back from this crisis? Paul Mason's on the road to Patras encountering a deep sense of gloom. As relations between Russia and the West nosedive amid arguments over Syria, a tale from Steve Rosenberg about the time when two Englishmen used football to boost productivity in Russian textile factories. For Africa's big football match, the Cup of Nations final, Tamasin Ford was at a sweltering screening in a refugee camp in Liberia. And very different weather in County Mayo: the winds howl and the hail lashes down as Kieran Cooke inspects a structure causing controversy in the far west of Ireland.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzljc.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzljc.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzljc.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120216-1100.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzlj2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzljc.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzlj2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Feb 11, 2012</title><description><![CDATA[<p>That windswept outpost of Britishness in the South Atlantic again causes tension between Britain and Argentina as the anniversary of the Falklands War approaches. Fergal Keane is in Buenos Aires where a longing to redeem the islands is deeply felt; Allan Little's in the capital of the Falklands, Port Stanley, finding out they are more concerned there about shortages of fruit, veg and eggs. Mark Lowen's our man in Athens where Greeks are becoming increasingly angry with the way their government's handling their debt crisis. Did you know the Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum's family comes from Lake Garda in northern Italy. No? Well nor did most of the people living there until Christine Finn told them! And Alastair Leithead's been to a village in southern Mexico to see how the government is trying to impress descendants of the great Mayan civilisation.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> That windswept outpost of Britishness in the South Atlantic again causes tension and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>That windswept outpost of Britishness in the South Atlantic again causes tension between Britain and Argentina as the anniversary of the Falklands War approaches. Fergal Keane is in Buenos Aires where a longing to redeem the islands is deeply felt; Allan Little's in the capital of the Falklands, Port Stanley, finding out they are more concerned there about shortages of fruit, veg and eggs. Mark Lowen's our man in Athens where Greeks are becoming increasingly angry with the way their government's handling their debt crisis. Did you know the Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum's family comes from Lake Garda in northern Italy. No? Well nor did most of the people living there until Christine Finn told them! And Alastair Leithead's been to a village in southern Mexico to see how the government is trying to impress descendants of the great Mayan civilisation.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:04:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1696</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzctb.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzctb.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzctb.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120211-1204.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzct7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzctb.mp3" fileSize="27136000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1696"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzct7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>9 Feb, 2012</title><description><![CDATA[<p>From Ambridge to Tunisia: Owen Bennett Jones meets a man at the heart of government power in Tunis who talks of The Archers and how Britain's the most Islamic country he's ever lived in. Michael Bristow finds the Chinese secret police not so secret as he tries to report on Tibetan protests in western China. The National Front in France hopes to be a significant force in the upcoming French elections -- Christian Fraser on how the party's changing under the leadership of Marine Le Pen. Rubbish is a hot political potato in Mexico City -- Will Grant's had a pungent day out with its binmen. And behind closed doors in Libya: it's a bride's day ... and as Saleya Ahsan tells us, it's not an occasion for the men!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> From Ambridge to Tunisia: Owen Bennett Jones meets a man at the heart of government in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>From Ambridge to Tunisia: Owen Bennett Jones meets a man at the heart of government power in Tunis who talks of The Archers and how Britain's the most Islamic country he's ever lived in. Michael Bristow finds the Chinese secret police not so secret as he tries to report on Tibetan protests in western China. The National Front in France hopes to be a significant force in the upcoming French elections -- Christian Fraser on how the party's changing under the leadership of Marine Le Pen. Rubbish is a hot political potato in Mexico City -- Will Grant's had a pungent day out with its binmen. And behind closed doors in Libya: it's a bride's day ... and as Saleya Ahsan tells us, it's not an occasion for the men!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:50:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkjx.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkjx.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzkjx.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120209-1150.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzkjs</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzkjx.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzkjs</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Feb 4, 2012</title><description><![CDATA[<p>After a journey from the calm of a hotel lobby to a city centre ladies' outfitters and on to the drum-beating heart of Syrian protest, Tim Whewell confronts the question: how much longer will the regime of Bashar al-Assad survive? Alan Johnston tells us Italy's young are worried about the economy and the future -- and many are deciding to emigrate. As protestors in Russia prepare again to take to the streets in anti-Putin demonstrations, James Coomarasamy's testing the public mood outside the capital. Will Ross is in Addis Ababa where the latest Chinese contribution to Ethiopian life is dominating the landscape. And how do you deal with evil spirits, ghosts and fallen angels? Kate McGeown is in a consulting room behind a karaoke bar in the Philippines finding out!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> After a journey from the calm of a hotel lobby to a city centre ladies' outfitters and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>After a journey from the calm of a hotel lobby to a city centre ladies' outfitters and on to the drum-beating heart of Syrian protest, Tim Whewell confronts the question: how much longer will the regime of Bashar al-Assad survive? Alan Johnston tells us Italy's young are worried about the economy and the future -- and many are deciding to emigrate. As protestors in Russia prepare again to take to the streets in anti-Putin demonstrations, James Coomarasamy's testing the public mood outside the capital. Will Ross is in Addis Ababa where the latest Chinese contribution to Ethiopian life is dominating the landscape. And how do you deal with evil spirits, ghosts and fallen angels? Kate McGeown is in a consulting room behind a karaoke bar in the Philippines finding out!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1699</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzv55.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzv55.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzv55.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120204-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzv51</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzv55.mp3" fileSize="27184000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1699"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzv51</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>2 Feb, 2012</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A rich seam of frustration - over poverty, bad leadership and corruption -- is being mined by the Nigerian militants Boko Haram, according to Andrew Harding.The fall of Colonel Gaddafi, says David Willey in Rome, has given Italy an opportunity to breathe new life into its long relationship with Libya. Chris Bockman meets some of those who worked for the French in what was then Indochina who are now living quietly by the River Lot in south west France. Hamilton Wende took a luxury train through six southern African countries - the passengers soon noted life outside their gilded carriages was a lot less comfortable. And UNESCO reckons the Viennese cafe's worth adding to its list of intangible items of cultural heritage. Bethany Bell explains why there's a lot more than just apple strudel behind the counter.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> A rich seam of frustration - over poverty, bad leadership and corruption -- is being...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A rich seam of frustration - over poverty, bad leadership and corruption -- is being mined by the Nigerian militants Boko Haram, according to Andrew Harding.The fall of Colonel Gaddafi, says David Willey in Rome, has given Italy an opportunity to breathe new life into its long relationship with Libya. Chris Bockman meets some of those who worked for the French in what was then Indochina who are now living quietly by the River Lot in south west France. Hamilton Wende took a luxury train through six southern African countries - the passengers soon noted life outside their gilded carriages was a lot less comfortable. And UNESCO reckons the Viennese cafe's worth adding to its list of intangible items of cultural heritage. Bethany Bell explains why there's a lot more than just apple strudel behind the counter.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:45:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1691</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzg1s.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzg1s.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzg1s.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120202-1145.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzg1p</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzg1s.mp3" fileSize="27056000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1691"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzg1p</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>28 Jan, 2012</title><description><![CDATA[<p>From our own curmudgeon. Hugh Schofield finds reasons to be dyspeptic in Paris. Jeremy Paxman on why he says: let's hear it for the Chinese Communist party. Mary Harper visits the Ethiopian town at the centre of the world qat trade. Mark Doyle investigates the link between corruption and crisis in Nigeria while Gabriel Gatehouse explains how the job of uniting the divided factions in the new Libya becomes harder by the day.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>From our own curmudgeon. Hugh Schofield finds reasons to be dyspeptic in Paris.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>From our own curmudgeon. Hugh Schofield finds reasons to be dyspeptic in Paris. Jeremy Paxman on why he says: let's hear it for the Chinese Communist party. Mary Harper visits the Ethiopian town at the centre of the world qat trade. Mark Doyle investigates the link between corruption and crisis in Nigeria while Gabriel Gatehouse explains how the job of uniting the divided factions in the new Libya becomes harder by the day.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1698</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd4s.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd4s.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzd4s.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120128-1202.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzd4p</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd4s.mp3" fileSize="27168000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1698"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzd4p</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>26 Jan 2012</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Twenty-six planeloads of Libyans arriving in Amman: Matthew Teller on how the downfall of Colonel Gaddafi's providing an economic windfall for Jordan. Pauline Davies learns what's meant by marriage Papua New Guinea-style at the nuptials of her niece there - she was, it seems, a four-pig bride. Aidan Lewis finds himself the subject of police scrutiny as he explores the troubled relationship between Morocco and Western Sahara. Mark Tully's finding out if the residents of Delhi really do resent the fact that their city was created as the capital of the British Raj ... and Allan Little's been meeting some of those behind the creation of the European single currency - he asks them: what on earth's gone wrong?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Twenty-six planeloads of Libyans arriving in Amman: Matthew Teller on how the downfall...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Twenty-six planeloads of Libyans arriving in Amman: Matthew Teller on how the downfall of Colonel Gaddafi's providing an economic windfall for Jordan. Pauline Davies learns what's meant by marriage Papua New Guinea-style at the nuptials of her niece there - she was, it seems, a four-pig bride. Aidan Lewis finds himself the subject of police scrutiny as he explores the troubled relationship between Morocco and Western Sahara. Mark Tully's finding out if the residents of Delhi really do resent the fact that their city was created as the capital of the British Raj ... and Allan Little's been meeting some of those behind the creation of the European single currency - he asks them: what on earth's gone wrong?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1676</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5dg.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5dg.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz5dg.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120126-1300.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz5d9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5dg.mp3" fileSize="26816000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1676"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz5d9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Jan 21, 2012</title><description><![CDATA[<p>BBC correspondents don't often go out gardening -- perhaps that's because it gives them a guilty conscience! At least it does Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem. He's been losing sleep over his lemon tree. Humphrey Hawksley's been meeting children in India who work, sometimes in poor conditions, to produce goods sold in shops on Western high streets. Owen Bennett Jones is in Pakistan where the agenda of the news anchors ranges from assassination and polical venality to gossip and who's had a hair transplant. Jeremy Bowen, heavily shadowed by government minders, tries to find out the degree of support for the campaign to oust the president Bashar al-Assad and Stephen Sackur has been to report in Yemen where a political vacuum seems to suit an al-Qaeda-backed insurgency.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> BBC correspondents don't often go out gardening -- perhaps that's because it gives a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>BBC correspondents don't often go out gardening -- perhaps that's because it gives them a guilty conscience! At least it does Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem. He's been losing sleep over his lemon tree. Humphrey Hawksley's been meeting children in India who work, sometimes in poor conditions, to produce goods sold in shops on Western high streets. Owen Bennett Jones is in Pakistan where the agenda of the news anchors ranges from assassination and polical venality to gossip and who's had a hair transplant. Jeremy Bowen, heavily shadowed by government minders, tries to find out the degree of support for the campaign to oust the president Bashar al-Assad and Stephen Sackur has been to report in Yemen where a political vacuum seems to suit an al-Qaeda-backed insurgency.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1696</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbfp.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbfp.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzbfp.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120121-1201.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzbfj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbfp.mp3" fileSize="27136000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1696"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzbfj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Jan 19, 2012</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The women are in charge - and the men don't seem to be doing much about it. Timothy Allen tells us that's how things are in one northeastern Indian state, where a nascent men's liberation movement is having little impact. Mark Lowen is in Libya, where one of the biggest problems facing the country's new rulers is disarming the many fighters who helped overthrow the dictator Colonel Gaddafi. One consequence of China's great migration, from country to town, is rising tension in some of the city areas where the migrants have set up home - Mukul Devichand's been investigating in the southern city of Guangzhou. Nick Haslam has been to Ecuador, finding out who must pick up the bill when the developed world asks a developing country to forgo economic growth in favour of the world's environment.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The women are in charge - and the men don't seem to be doing much about it.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The women are in charge - and the men don't seem to be doing much about it. Timothy Allen tells us that's how things are in one northeastern Indian state, where a nascent men's liberation movement is having little impact. Mark Lowen is in Libya, where one of the biggest problems facing the country's new rulers is disarming the many fighters who helped overthrow the dictator Colonel Gaddafi. One consequence of China's great migration, from country to town, is rising tension in some of the city areas where the migrants have set up home - Mukul Devichand's been investigating in the southern city of Guangzhou. Nick Haslam has been to Ecuador, finding out who must pick up the bill when the developed world asks a developing country to forgo economic growth in favour of the world's environment.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:31:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfwj.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfwj.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzfwj.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120119-1131.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzfwf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfwj.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzfwf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Jan 14, 2012</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Afghan women still suffering in silence - ten years after the fall of the Taliban. Caroline Wyatt, who's just back from Kabul, examines how their lives might change once the international community withdraws its troops from their country. Nick Thorpe's been to meet the president of Hungary - a man at the centre of a political and constitutional storm. Laura Trevelyan's in Haiti where, two years ago, a 35-second earthquake killed more than three hundred thousand people. She finds the process of reconstruction is still going on -- some say it's taking too long. Sara Hashash is in Cairo where they're trying to salvage what they can from thirty truckloads of ancient books, manuscripts and other documents damaged and destroyed during fighting in the capital last year and our Europe correspondent Chris Morris takes a break from talking about bail-outs and over-the-counter derivatives and heads off to Copenhagen for a heart-to-heart with the Queen of Denmark.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Afghan women still suffering in silence - ten years after the fall of the Taliban.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Afghan women still suffering in silence - ten years after the fall of the Taliban. Caroline Wyatt, who's just back from Kabul, examines how their lives might change once the international community withdraws its troops from their country. Nick Thorpe's been to meet the president of Hungary - a man at the centre of a political and constitutional storm. Laura Trevelyan's in Haiti where, two years ago, a 35-second earthquake killed more than three hundred thousand people. She finds the process of reconstruction is still going on -- some say it's taking too long. Sara Hashash is in Cairo where they're trying to salvage what they can from thirty truckloads of ancient books, manuscripts and other documents damaged and destroyed during fighting in the capital last year and our Europe correspondent Chris Morris takes a break from talking about bail-outs and over-the-counter derivatives and heads off to Copenhagen for a heart-to-heart with the Queen of Denmark.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1673</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd9w.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd9w.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzd9w.mp3" length="26768000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120114-1201.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzd9q</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd9w.mp3" fileSize="26768000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1673"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzd9q</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Jan 07, 2012</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Can international pressure on the military-backed government in Burma be relaxed now a series of reforms is underway? Fergal Keane has been accompanying the British foreign secretary on his visit there and offers an assessment of latest developments there. A year after the assassination of the Governor of Punjab Owen Bennett-Jones has been to Pakistan to examine the impact that killing's had there. John Sweeney talks of how it may be eighty years since millions of Ukrainians died in a famine but the tragedy remains deeply controversial today. Libby Spurrier's just been for a cruise down the River Nile and says it's clear that ten months of instability in Egypt has proved devastating for that country's tourist industry. Stephen Sackur's been getting tips on gastronomy from the man behind what some say is the world's best restaurant and he's emerged with controversial suggestions about what you might want on your Christmas table next December!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Can international pressure on the military-backed government in Burma be relaxed now a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Can international pressure on the military-backed government in Burma be relaxed now a series of reforms is underway? Fergal Keane has been accompanying the British foreign secretary on his visit there and offers an assessment of latest developments there. A year after the assassination of the Governor of Punjab Owen Bennett-Jones has been to Pakistan to examine the impact that killing's had there. John Sweeney talks of how it may be eighty years since millions of Ukrainians died in a famine but the tragedy remains deeply controversial today. Libby Spurrier's just been for a cruise down the River Nile and says it's clear that ten months of instability in Egypt has proved devastating for that country's tourist industry. Stephen Sackur's been getting tips on gastronomy from the man behind what some say is the world's best restaurant and he's emerged with controversial suggestions about what you might want on your Christmas table next December!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfqh.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfqh.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzfqh.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20120107-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzfqf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfqh.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzfqf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Dec 31, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie on the months of the Libyan revolution which led up to the death of Colonel Gaddafi in October. A chance to hear again some of the BBC's senior correspondents filing on the long road to Tripoli and charting a revolution which stunned the world.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Kate Adie on the months of the Libyan revolution which led up to the death of Colonel...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie on the months of the Libyan revolution which led up to the death of Colonel Gaddafi in October. A chance to hear again some of the BBC's senior correspondents filing on the long road to Tripoli and charting a revolution which stunned the world.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6km.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6km.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz6km.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111231-1132.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz6k7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6km.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz6k7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC World Service FOOC</title><description><![CDATA[<p>An American Dream: New Hampshire, 1996
  2648. Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch by Gavin Esler. In the runup to a Presidential election, he explored small-town America's values and aspirations in Manchester, NH.
  2649. And as things are today, he found that corporate raiders, rising unemployment and out-of-touch Washington politicians were much on the electorate's mind.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> An American Dream: New Hampshire, 1996 Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive by...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>An American Dream: New Hampshire, 1996
  2650. Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch by Gavin Esler. In the runup to a Presidential election, he explored small-town America's values and aspirations in Manchester, NH.
  2651. And as things are today, he found that corporate raiders, rising unemployment and out-of-touch Washington politicians were much on the electorate's mind.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>523</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfsz.mp3" length="8368000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfsz.mp3" length="8368000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzfsz.mp3" length="8368000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111230-0900.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzfsr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfsz.mp3" fileSize="8368000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="523"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzfsr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC World Service FOOC</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Prisoners of Norilsk - a city frozen in time
  2652. "A history of Soviet failure written in crumbling cement; a monument to a system which simply ran out of steam".
  2653. Norilsk, 1994
  2654. Owen Bennett Jones introduces a despatch from Kevin Connolly in the city of Norilsk in the Arctic Circle. He met people who had suffered and survived there for decades under the USSR - and seemed likely to spend the rest of their lives in this remote outpost.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Prisoners of Norilsk - a city frozen in time "A history of Soviet failure written in a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Prisoners of Norilsk - a city frozen in time
  2655. "A history of Soviet failure written in crumbling cement; a monument to a system which simply ran out of steam".
  2656. Norilsk, 1994
  2657. Owen Bennett Jones introduces a despatch from Kevin Connolly in the city of Norilsk in the Arctic Circle. He met people who had suffered and survived there for decades under the USSR - and seemed likely to spend the rest of their lives in this remote outpost.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>542</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6fh.mp3" length="8672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6fh.mp3" length="8672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz6fh.mp3" length="8672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111229-0900.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz6f3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6fh.mp3" fileSize="8672000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="542"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz6f3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC World Service FOOC</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Truth is Our Currency
  2658. Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from 1997 by Martin Bell.
  2659. At a time when television news in particular had been focusing on the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, journalism was wrestling with issues like the real meaning of 'objectivity' when reporting on wars, and the limits of neutrality.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The Truth is Our Currency Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from 1997...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Truth is Our Currency
  2660. Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from 1997 by Martin Bell.
  2661. At a time when television news in particular had been focusing on the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, journalism was wrestling with issues like the real meaning of 'objectivity' when reporting on wars, and the limits of neutrality.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>543</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgc7.mp3" length="8688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgc7.mp3" length="8688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzgc7.mp3" length="8688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111228-0900.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzgc3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgc7.mp3" fileSize="8688000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="543"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzgc3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC World Service FOOC</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Road to Mandalay
  2662. Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from 1984. Veteran correspondent Bob Jobbins describes a journey through Burma's history and culture as he travels from Rangoon to Mandalay.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Road to Mandalay
  2663. Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from 1984.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Road to Mandalay
  2664. Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from 1984. Veteran correspondent Bob Jobbins describes a journey through Burma's history and culture as he travels from Rangoon to Mandalay.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>543</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj0d.mp3" length="8688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj0d.mp3" length="8688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzj0d.mp3" length="8688000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111227-0900.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzj06</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj0d.mp3" fileSize="8688000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="543"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzj06</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC World Service FOOC</title><description><![CDATA[<p>"The army was rotten to the core and could not put up a fight" - Kinshasa, May 1997
  2665. Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from the country then still known as Zaire. Allan Little describes the last days of the Mobutu regime and the advance of Laurent Kabila's forces.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> "The army was rotten to the core and could not put up a fight" - Kinshasa, May 1997 an...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>"The army was rotten to the core and could not put up a fight" - Kinshasa, May 1997
  2666. Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from the country then still known as Zaire. Allan Little describes the last days of the Mobutu regime and the advance of Laurent Kabila's forces.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>547</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4j3.mp3" length="8752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4j3.mp3" length="8752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz4j3.mp3" length="8752000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111226-0900.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz4hw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4j3.mp3" fileSize="8752000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="547"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz4hw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Dec 24, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A dead man's suitcase in Cape Town transports Tim Butcher from today's Africa via World War Two Italy to Renaissance Tuscany. The most cosseted pets in the world: it's no dog's life, says Joanna Robertson, for the pampered pooches of Paris. High in the Himalayas Joanna Jolly goes searching for a little yellow idol which once wreaked terrible vengeance. Allan Little shares some of the jokes which have fuelled the big news stories in years gone by and Petroc Trelawny on the extraordinary history of Odessa and its enduring passion for music.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> A dead man's suitcase in Cape Town transports Tim Butcher from today's Africa via War...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A dead man's suitcase in Cape Town transports Tim Butcher from today's Africa via World War Two Italy to Renaissance Tuscany. The most cosseted pets in the world: it's no dog's life, says Joanna Robertson, for the pampered pooches of Paris. High in the Himalayas Joanna Jolly goes searching for a little yellow idol which once wreaked terrible vengeance. Allan Little shares some of the jokes which have fuelled the big news stories in years gone by and Petroc Trelawny on the extraordinary history of Odessa and its enduring passion for music.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:09:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1694</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzrjs.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzrjs.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzrjs.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111224-1209.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzrjc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzrjs.mp3" fileSize="27104000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1694"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzrjc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Dec 17, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The polar bear's back in the news - this time it's at the centre of controversy in Canada where some believe it's a far better animal to be the country's national symbol than the one which currently holds the honour, the beaver -- Lorraine Mallinder has been finding out that some Canadians reckon the beaver's just too boring for the job. At the end of another stressful week in the eurozone Chris Morris tells us that the Germans don't seem too concerned -- the Christmas party season's on their minds! The revolution's brought a new look to Libya but Tarik Kafala, who's been back to Tripoli after many years away, says not everything's changed. Jill McGivering's in Indian Kashmir where questions are being asked about thousands of unmarked graves. And a celebrated bookshop owner passed away this week in Paris and Christine Finn, who worked in his shop recently, tells us what made this store, over the bridge from Notre Dame, so special.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The polar bear's back in the news - this time it's at the centre of controversy in a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The polar bear's back in the news - this time it's at the centre of controversy in Canada where some believe it's a far better animal to be the country's national symbol than the one which currently holds the honour, the beaver -- Lorraine Mallinder has been finding out that some Canadians reckon the beaver's just too boring for the job. At the end of another stressful week in the eurozone Chris Morris tells us that the Germans don't seem too concerned -- the Christmas party season's on their minds! The revolution's brought a new look to Libya but Tarik Kafala, who's been back to Tripoli after many years away, says not everything's changed. Jill McGivering's in Indian Kashmir where questions are being asked about thousands of unmarked graves. And a celebrated bookshop owner passed away this week in Paris and Christine Finn, who worked in his shop recently, tells us what made this store, over the bridge from Notre Dame, so special.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5vc.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5vc.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz5vc.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111217-1201.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz5v7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5vc.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz5v7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Dec 10, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>'A political system which had considered itself as solid as rock has started to show cracks.' Steve Rosenberg's in Moscow on a weekend of  more demonstrations. The Americans are preparing for their withdrawal from Iraq and Gabriel Gatehouse has been considering what exactly's been achieved during their nine years there. There's a view from Hungary where Nick Thorpe's been looking at how the country's affected by the crisis in the Eurozone. It's forty years since Bangladesh came into being and Mark Tully, who remembers the long struggle which preceded its birth, wonders if too much celebration of that anniversary will lead to further bitterness. And Linda Pressley's in eastern Cuba climbing mountains and asking awkward questions about the love life of Fidel Castro.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> 'A political system which had considered itself as solid as rock has started to show...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>'A political system which had considered itself as solid as rock has started to show cracks.' Steve Rosenberg's in Moscow on a weekend of  more demonstrations. The Americans are preparing for their withdrawal from Iraq and Gabriel Gatehouse has been considering what exactly's been achieved during their nine years there. There's a view from Hungary where Nick Thorpe's been looking at how the country's affected by the crisis in the Eurozone. It's forty years since Bangladesh came into being and Mark Tully, who remembers the long struggle which preceded its birth, wonders if too much celebration of that anniversary will lead to further bitterness. And Linda Pressley's in eastern Cuba climbing mountains and asking awkward questions about the love life of Fidel Castro.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcd7.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcd7.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzcd7.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111210-1201.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzcd2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcd7.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzcd2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Dec 3, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Being Italian is bad for your health! That's the contention from Bologna where winter is descending and a range of ailments, unknown to British correspondent Danny Mitzman, are making their presence felt! It's election time in the Democratic Republic of Congo and while you might expect the sounds of tear gas canisters being fired and angry argument about electoral fraud, Will Ross has encountered an orchestra playing Handel's Water Music! A bag of snakes tipped out in a government office in India - Craig Jeffrey says the incident's once again got the country talking about corruption. A book fair --and a beating up: Sara Sheridan in the United Arab Emirates on the issues surrounding the release from prison of a group of people accused of being disrespectful to a ruling family. And the American state of Iowa's preparing for its moment in the political sunlight. It's time for the caucuses, critical for Republicans hoping to become their party's candidate for the White House.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Being Italian is bad for your health! That's the contention from Bologna where winter...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Being Italian is bad for your health! That's the contention from Bologna where winter is descending and a range of ailments, unknown to British correspondent Danny Mitzman, are making their presence felt! It's election time in the Democratic Republic of Congo and while you might expect the sounds of tear gas canisters being fired and angry argument about electoral fraud, Will Ross has encountered an orchestra playing Handel's Water Music! A bag of snakes tipped out in a government office in India - Craig Jeffrey says the incident's once again got the country talking about corruption. A book fair --and a beating up: Sara Sheridan in the United Arab Emirates on the issues surrounding the release from prison of a group of people accused of being disrespectful to a ruling family. And the American state of Iowa's preparing for its moment in the political sunlight. It's time for the caucuses, critical for Republicans hoping to become their party's candidate for the White House.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzmhm.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzmhm.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzmhm.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111203-1202.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzmhg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzmhm.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzmhg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Nov 26, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>'But of course there will be violence,' says one seasoned observer to Andrew Harding as he travels in the Democratic Republic of Congo wondering if Monday's election is a chance for Africa's wounded giant to get back on its feet. And there's another election, in Egypt, starting on Monday: Lyse Doucet joins a family whose window, overlooking Tahrir Square, offers a unique view of world history unfolding. Fergal Keane, who's been watching the opening of the Khmer Rouge trial in Cambodia, finds young people there more interested in the future than in their country's bloody past. Mark Lowen's in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia which lost the major part of its Jewish population to the holocaust and recalls the life of his own grandmother who once came face to face with the commandant of a Nazi death camp. And why James Harkin, chasing revolutionaries in Syria, found himself drawn, repeatedly, to what he claims is the best ice cream shop in the world!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> 'But of course there will be violence,' says one seasoned observer to Andrew Harding a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>'But of course there will be violence,' says one seasoned observer to Andrew Harding as he travels in the Democratic Republic of Congo wondering if Monday's election is a chance for Africa's wounded giant to get back on its feet. And there's another election, in Egypt, starting on Monday: Lyse Doucet joins a family whose window, overlooking Tahrir Square, offers a unique view of world history unfolding. Fergal Keane, who's been watching the opening of the Khmer Rouge trial in Cambodia, finds young people there more interested in the future than in their country's bloody past. Mark Lowen's in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia which lost the major part of its Jewish population to the holocaust and recalls the life of his own grandmother who once came face to face with the commandant of a Nazi death camp. And why James Harkin, chasing revolutionaries in Syria, found himself drawn, repeatedly, to what he claims is the best ice cream shop in the world!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1683</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwqj.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwqj.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzwqj.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111126-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzwq5</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwqj.mp3" fileSize="26928000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1683"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzwq5</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Nov 19, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are the generals in Egypt really about to relinquish power? Stephen Sackur in Cairo takes a closer look at the Tahrir Square revolution as Egyptians prepare to cast their votes. David Loyn's in Burma where vested interests, the cronies they're sometimes called, look on to see what will happen with the leaders' programme of reforms; Lucy Ash is in the Republic of Dagestan, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, where bomb attacks and shootouts on an almost daily basis make this the most volatile corner of the Russian Federation; Mike Thomson explains why Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, has become a 'closed city' but says it pays to get to know it better and Alastair Leithead's on a whirlwind tour of Colombia - he gets an apology from the president and tells us how gold has become the country's new cocaine.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Are the generals in Egypt really about to relinquish power? Stephen Sackur in Cairo a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Are the generals in Egypt really about to relinquish power? Stephen Sackur in Cairo takes a closer look at the Tahrir Square revolution as Egyptians prepare to cast their votes. David Loyn's in Burma where vested interests, the cronies they're sometimes called, look on to see what will happen with the leaders' programme of reforms; Lucy Ash is in the Republic of Dagestan, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, where bomb attacks and shootouts on an almost daily basis make this the most volatile corner of the Russian Federation; Mike Thomson explains why Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, has become a 'closed city' but says it pays to get to know it better and Alastair Leithead's on a whirlwind tour of Colombia - he gets an apology from the president and tells us how gold has become the country's new cocaine.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1704</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfvk.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfvk.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzfvk.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111119-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzfvc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfvk.mp3" fileSize="27264000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1704"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzfvc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Nov 12, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>"That's nobody's business but the Turks'." A quote from one of several songs which feature Turkey which are in turn quoted by Kevin Connolly as he talks about why the country remains keen to join the EU despite the Union's problems with debt and insecurity. Hugh Sykes is in Rome as prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's reported to be on the verge of resignation - he wonders why a country which does so many things so well, and manufactures so many goods coveted worldwide, can find itself in such trouble. A new property law's been introduced in Havana - Peter Day tries to answer the question: does this mean the grip of Castro-style Communism is  being relaxed? Justin Rowlatt sends a despatch from Varanasi in India where the traditional practice of cremating bodies continues by the River Ganges. And you have to be fit to trek across the Pyrenees. We find out how Edward Stourton got on as he retraced the wartime route of the hundreds who used that route to escape from Nazi-occupied Europe.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>"That's nobody's business but the Turks'. " A quote from one of several songs which are...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>"That's nobody's business but the Turks'." A quote from one of several songs which feature Turkey which are in turn quoted by Kevin Connolly as he talks about why the country remains keen to join the EU despite the Union's problems with debt and insecurity. Hugh Sykes is in Rome as prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's reported to be on the verge of resignation - he wonders why a country which does so many things so well, and manufactures so many goods coveted worldwide, can find itself in such trouble. A new property law's been introduced in Havana - Peter Day tries to answer the question: does this mean the grip of Castro-style Communism is  being relaxed? Justin Rowlatt sends a despatch from Varanasi in India where the traditional practice of cremating bodies continues by the River Ganges. And you have to be fit to trek across the Pyrenees. We find out how Edward Stourton got on as he retraced the wartime route of the hundreds who used that route to escape from Nazi-occupied Europe.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:18:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1691</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzmfj.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzmfj.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzmfj.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111112-1218.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzmfd</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzmfj.mp3" fileSize="27056000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1691"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzmfd</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Nov 10, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>'Prosperity for all!' That was the Ugandan president's promise as he stood for re-election but today, as Rob Young's been finding out, there's growing discontent at steeply rising food and fuel prices. There are accusations in Kyrgyzstan of persecution of the Uzbek minority in the south of the country -- Natalia Antelava, who's been investigating, says the official line is that reconciliation's well underway after vicious ethnic clashes there last year. Huw Cordey records that the image of Colombia is slowly changing now that government forces appear to have the upper hand in the long battle against the FARC rebels. Not all the British servicemen stationed in Germany will be coming home -- Chris Bowlby's been meeting some who plan to stay on there. And Vincent Dowd's been visiting a Philadelphia museum which offers a window onto recent American history ... and some rather fine singing too!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> 'Prosperity for all!' That was the Ugandan president's promise as he stood for but as...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>'Prosperity for all!' That was the Ugandan president's promise as he stood for re-election but today, as Rob Young's been finding out, there's growing discontent at steeply rising food and fuel prices. There are accusations in Kyrgyzstan of persecution of the Uzbek minority in the south of the country -- Natalia Antelava, who's been investigating, says the official line is that reconciliation's well underway after vicious ethnic clashes there last year. Huw Cordey records that the image of Colombia is slowly changing now that government forces appear to have the upper hand in the long battle against the FARC rebels. Not all the British servicemen stationed in Germany will be coming home -- Chris Bowlby's been meeting some who plan to stay on there. And Vincent Dowd's been visiting a Philadelphia museum which offers a window onto recent American history ... and some rather fine singing too!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlzf.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlzf.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzlzf.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111110-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzlz7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlzf.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzlz7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Nov 05, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>America has the Wild West, Russia has its Wild East. And Reggie Nadelson's there, in the port of Vladiovostok. The city, once closed to foreigners, is getting a big makeover. It'll be the new San Francisco, some claim. Paul Moss is in Athens where it's been a week of uncertainty and high political drama. Herman Cain is the choice of many Republicans to be the man to contest next year's presidential election. But his campaign's been sidelined by allegations of sexual harrassment. Mark Mardell's joined him on the campaign trail. There's a new rail line in Jerusalem. Matthew Teller says it provides interesting travel possibilities but it's also proving controversial. And Hugh Schofield's been to the south of France to talk to the iconic fashion designer Pierre Cardin and hear how he saw off all his rivals.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>America has the Wild West, Russia has its Wild East.  And Reggie Nadelson's there, in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>America has the Wild West, Russia has its Wild East. And Reggie Nadelson's there, in the port of Vladiovostok. The city, once closed to foreigners, is getting a big makeover. It'll be the new San Francisco, some claim. Paul Moss is in Athens where it's been a week of uncertainty and high political drama. Herman Cain is the choice of many Republicans to be the man to contest next year's presidential election. But his campaign's been sidelined by allegations of sexual harrassment. Mark Mardell's joined him on the campaign trail. There's a new rail line in Jerusalem. Matthew Teller says it provides interesting travel possibilities but it's also proving controversial. And Hugh Schofield's been to the south of France to talk to the iconic fashion designer Pierre Cardin and hear how he saw off all his rivals.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsmq.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsmq.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzsmq.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111105-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzsmm</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsmq.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzsmm</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Nov 03, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Silvio Berlusconi attends the G20 meeting in Cannes amid mounting alarm in Italy about the country's debt crisis -- Manuela Saragosa's been meeting some Italians who feel Mr.Berlusconi's become a liability and should resign. The G20 meeting is reported to be considering taking Chinese money to help bail out the beleaguered Eurozone. Much of the new Chinese wealth is in the hands of the private sector; Michael Bristow's been having lunch with an industrialist who's one of the country's new super-rich. Tamasin Ford's in Liberia ahead of next week's election runoff and hears concerns about intimidation of the media there. Damien McGuinness, our man in Tbilisi, has been examining the difficulties women in Georgia face in the workplace and in the home while Trish Flanagan has been sampling the wares at the celebrated English Market in the Irish city of Cork.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Silvio Berlusconi attends the G20 meeting in Cannes amid mounting alarm in Italy about...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Silvio Berlusconi attends the G20 meeting in Cannes amid mounting alarm in Italy about the country's debt crisis -- Manuela Saragosa's been meeting some Italians who feel Mr.Berlusconi's become a liability and should resign. The G20 meeting is reported to be considering taking Chinese money to help bail out the beleaguered Eurozone. Much of the new Chinese wealth is in the hands of the private sector; Michael Bristow's been having lunch with an industrialist who's one of the country's new super-rich. Tamasin Ford's in Liberia ahead of next week's election runoff and hears concerns about intimidation of the media there. Damien McGuinness, our man in Tbilisi, has been examining the difficulties women in Georgia face in the workplace and in the home while Trish Flanagan has been sampling the wares at the celebrated English Market in the Irish city of Cork.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzksb.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzksb.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzksb.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111103-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzks4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzksb.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzks4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Oct 29, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The appointment of a white vice president in Zambia indicates, according to Fergal Keane, that for Africa's whites, the long journey towards feeling they have a future as of right on the continent is finally underway. David Willey in Rome tells of Italian scepticism about their prime minister's ability to deliver on the promises he's made to EU-leaders about the implementation of austerity measures in Italy. Horatio Clare's aboard a vast container ship in the South China Sea finding out how economic hard times have been affecting life on the ocean wave. There's an incident in the High Pamir as John Pilkingon's dragged, feet first, into an icy river and much talk about the sort of food you can find in German canteens, and what it tells you about its eaters, from our own correspondent in the German capital, Steve Evans.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The appointment of a white vice president in Zambia indicates, according to Fergal for...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The appointment of a white vice president in Zambia indicates, according to Fergal Keane, that for Africa's whites, the long journey towards feeling they have a future as of right on the continent is finally underway. David Willey in Rome tells of Italian scepticism about their prime minister's ability to deliver on the promises he's made to EU-leaders about the implementation of austerity measures in Italy. Horatio Clare's aboard a vast container ship in the South China Sea finding out how economic hard times have been affecting life on the ocean wave. There's an incident in the High Pamir as John Pilkingon's dragged, feet first, into an icy river and much talk about the sort of food you can find in German canteens, and what it tells you about its eaters, from our own correspondent in the German capital, Steve Evans.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1691</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzqc7.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzqc7.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzqc7.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111029-1930.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzqc2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzqc7.mp3" fileSize="27056000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1691"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzqc2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Oct 27, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A dystopian vision of Venice - Rachel Harvey's words as she watches the flood waters approaching Bangkok's city centre. Allan Little, covering the historic first Arab Spring election in Tunisia, says there aren't many days in a life spent chasing news that are as unremittingly positive as this! Jennifer Pak's in Kuala Lumpur reporting on a controversy in Malaysia over a proposal to extend Islamic law. Garreth Armstrong visits the South African town of Mafeking -- once the scene of a British military triumph, today a peaceful place with more interest in the arts than in history. And Alex Kirby takes a boat trip in Ukraine and finds that when something as finite and crucial as water has to be shared between competing needs, there are inevitably losers. The programme's introduced by Kate Adie.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> A dystopian vision of Venice - Rachel Harvey's words as she watches the flood waters...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A dystopian vision of Venice - Rachel Harvey's words as she watches the flood waters approaching Bangkok's city centre. Allan Little, covering the historic first Arab Spring election in Tunisia, says there aren't many days in a life spent chasing news that are as unremittingly positive as this! Jennifer Pak's in Kuala Lumpur reporting on a controversy in Malaysia over a proposal to extend Islamic law. Garreth Armstrong visits the South African town of Mafeking -- once the scene of a British military triumph, today a peaceful place with more interest in the arts than in history. And Alex Kirby takes a boat trip in Ukraine and finds that when something as finite and crucial as water has to be shared between competing needs, there are inevitably losers. The programme's introduced by Kate Adie.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzrwx.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzrwx.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzrwx.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111027-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzrwq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzrwx.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzrwq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>22 Oct 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Gabriel Gatehouse describes the scenes at that infamous sewer pipe, where Colonel Gaddafi was found. Kevin Connolly wonders if Gaddafi will be the last of the "grotesque, blood-stained buffoon dictators." Peter Day is in Argentina, which famously defaulted on its massive foreign debts but now appears to be flourishing - could this be a lesson for Greece? Jamie Coomarasamy visits the campaign headquarters of Marine Le Pen, the head of France's far-right Front National; and Jon Silverman is with Africa's real Number One detectives, in Botswana.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Gabriel Gatehouse describes the scenes at that infamous sewer pipe, where Colonel was...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Gabriel Gatehouse describes the scenes at that infamous sewer pipe, where Colonel Gaddafi was found. Kevin Connolly wonders if Gaddafi will be the last of the "grotesque, blood-stained buffoon dictators." Peter Day is in Argentina, which famously defaulted on its massive foreign debts but now appears to be flourishing - could this be a lesson for Greece? Jamie Coomarasamy visits the campaign headquarters of Marine Le Pen, the head of France's far-right Front National; and Jon Silverman is with Africa's real Number One detectives, in Botswana.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1681</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzv9d.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzv9d.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzv9d.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111022-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzv98</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzv9d.mp3" fileSize="26896000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1681"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzv98</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>20 Oct 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces reports from around the world. Today Jonathan Head ask what keeps the fighters in Libya going, risking their lives, when perhaps they don't really have to? Sue Lloyd Roberts experiences life trapped in your own flat, with young children, in the middle of the Syrian revolution. The Arab Spring began with Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution, in January. Now they are preparing to vote and Celeste Hicks hears of the disappointments and hopes of young people, and the confusion as people grapple with the trappings of democracy. And Jonathan Barker tells us how the Asian Tsunami has had benefits for the Orang-utans of Sumatra - but watch out for your fingers!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie introduces reports from around the world.  Today Jonathan Head ask what keeps...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie introduces reports from around the world. Today Jonathan Head ask what keeps the fighters in Libya going, risking their lives, when perhaps they don't really have to? Sue Lloyd Roberts experiences life trapped in your own flat, with young children, in the middle of the Syrian revolution. The Arab Spring began with Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution, in January. Now they are preparing to vote and Celeste Hicks hears of the disappointments and hopes of young people, and the confusion as people grapple with the trappings of democracy. And Jonathan Barker tells us how the Asian Tsunami has had benefits for the Orang-utans of Sumatra - but watch out for your fingers!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:25:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1700</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvw3.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvw3.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzvw3.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111020-1125.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzvvx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvw3.mp3" fileSize="27200000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1700"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzvvx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>15 Oct 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is the name of Bahrain being dragged into the mire by a string of alleged human rights abuses? Frank Gardner gives his assessment after meeting the King and the Prime Minister - and joining the riot police on patrol. Yolande Knell in Cairo says that with every month that has passed since President Mubarak was overthrown, public frustration has mounted.  Katya Adler's investigating the scandal in Spain of the so-called 'ninos robados' or stolen children - sold off to 'more deserving' parents. A long way from Abidjan and a long way from Monrovia: John James is in that part of Ivory Coast close to Liberia and sometimes referred to as the 'Wild West.' It's a part of the country which was hard hit during the struggle, earlier this year, for the country's presidency. And Andrew Harding talks to Zargana, his friend the Burmese comedian, who's just been released from a 59-year prison sentence. Jeeves and Wooster, Andrew hears, were a great comfort in his cell.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Is the name of Bahrain being dragged into the mire by a string of alleged human rights...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Is the name of Bahrain being dragged into the mire by a string of alleged human rights abuses? Frank Gardner gives his assessment after meeting the King and the Prime Minister - and joining the riot police on patrol. Yolande Knell in Cairo says that with every month that has passed since President Mubarak was overthrown, public frustration has mounted.  Katya Adler's investigating the scandal in Spain of the so-called 'ninos robados' or stolen children - sold off to 'more deserving' parents. A long way from Abidjan and a long way from Monrovia: John James is in that part of Ivory Coast close to Liberia and sometimes referred to as the 'Wild West.' It's a part of the country which was hard hit during the struggle, earlier this year, for the country's presidency. And Andrew Harding talks to Zargana, his friend the Burmese comedian, who's just been released from a 59-year prison sentence. Jeeves and Wooster, Andrew hears, were a great comfort in his cell.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdfy.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdfy.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzdfy.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111015-1202.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzdft</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdfy.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzdft</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>13 Oct, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>'I'll Not Do It Again!' That's the verdict of some foreign businessmen, out of pocket after getting involved in the Indian market. Mark Dummett in Delhi examines whether this is really a difficult country in which to do business. Embarrassment for the French state: Chris Bockman on how it's having to pick up the hotel bills of radicals who were once convicted of trying to blow up the Eiffel Tower. Tamasin Ford visits the centre of the diamond trade in Sierra Leone while Michael Bristow meets the members of one of Shanghai's neighbourhood committees - the front line of Chinese government. And with two weeks to go until the Irish go to the polls, Kieran Cooke recalls early encounters with Martin McGuinness, the former IRA man who now wants to be Ireland's next president.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> 'I'll Not Do It Again!' That's the verdict of some foreign businessmen, out of pocket...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>'I'll Not Do It Again!' That's the verdict of some foreign businessmen, out of pocket after getting involved in the Indian market. Mark Dummett in Delhi examines whether this is really a difficult country in which to do business. Embarrassment for the French state: Chris Bockman on how it's having to pick up the hotel bills of radicals who were once convicted of trying to blow up the Eiffel Tower. Tamasin Ford visits the centre of the diamond trade in Sierra Leone while Michael Bristow meets the members of one of Shanghai's neighbourhood committees - the front line of Chinese government. And with two weeks to go until the Irish go to the polls, Kieran Cooke recalls early encounters with Martin McGuinness, the former IRA man who now wants to be Ireland's next president.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsns.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsns.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzsns.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111013-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzsnn</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsns.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzsnn</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>08 Oct 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Why two crumpled pieces of paper are among the most precious reminders Lyse Doucet has of her reporting trip to beleaguered Syria; Nick Danziger's been back to Kabul and wondered why the voices of Afghan women are too often ignored; Steve Evans in Berlin reflects on the row surrounding the return of twenty skulls to Namibia; building a new nation is never easy, but now Rosie Goldsmith tells us that South Sudan faces an additional challenge as it tries to introduce English as the official language; and Hugh Schofield in Paris on how new technology has breathed fresh life into the ghosts of Montparnasse cemetery.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Why two crumpled pieces of paper are among the most precious reminders Lyse Doucet has...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Why two crumpled pieces of paper are among the most precious reminders Lyse Doucet has of her reporting trip to beleaguered Syria; Nick Danziger's been back to Kabul and wondered why the voices of Afghan women are too often ignored; Steve Evans in Berlin reflects on the row surrounding the return of twenty skulls to Namibia; building a new nation is never easy, but now Rosie Goldsmith tells us that South Sudan faces an additional challenge as it tries to introduce English as the official language; and Hugh Schofield in Paris on how new technology has breathed fresh life into the ghosts of Montparnasse cemetery.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1700</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9f5.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9f5.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9f5.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111008-1201.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9f2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9f5.mp3" fileSize="27200000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1700"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9f2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Oct 6, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A time of shifting and unexpected new relationships in Libya is explored by Allan Little. He's been meeting the Islamists, determined not only to be a part of the post-Gaddafi government but also to forge a new working relationship with the West; Chris Morris talks of the crisis in the Eurozone after visiting Greece, the Netherlands and five other European countries; it's fifty years since the people of Tristan da Cunha were evacuated as a volcano erupted on their island in the South Atlantic -- today, Chris Carneghy says their lifestyle's being challenged by developments in the modern technological world; Dany Mitzman talks of an anti-Mafia television station in Sicily which is under threat from new Italian legislation while Rajesh Mirchandani chews over the complications of South Africa's diverse history.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A time of shifting and unexpected new relationships in Libya is explored by Allan Little.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A time of shifting and unexpected new relationships in Libya is explored by Allan Little. He's been meeting the Islamists, determined not only to be a part of the post-Gaddafi government but also to forge a new working relationship with the West; Chris Morris talks of the crisis in the Eurozone after visiting Greece, the Netherlands and five other European countries; it's fifty years since the people of Tristan da Cunha were evacuated as a volcano erupted on their island in the South Atlantic -- today, Chris Carneghy says their lifestyle's being challenged by developments in the modern technological world; Dany Mitzman talks of an anti-Mafia television station in Sicily which is under threat from new Italian legislation while Rajesh Mirchandani chews over the complications of South Africa's diverse history.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdnm.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdnm.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzdnm.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111006-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzdng</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdnm.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzdng</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Oct 1, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>An 18-hour train ride to the end of the line brings you to the very edge of Norway. Inside the Arctic Circle. But why is it that this place has such firm connections with Italy. Christine Finn has the answer. Justin Webb examines a Japanese conundrum: the country benefits from its cultural insularity and yet, if it doesn't open up to outsiders, it faces economic decline. Mark Lowen, charting the mood in Athens as international investigators assess the creditworthiness of Greece, talks of clouds of tear gas and despair closing over a troubled country. In the Pakistani city of Karachi, the American consulate moved to a new location. Mohammed Hanif says it has meant the reopening of an historic park and armed guards being replaced by youngsters playing cricket. And you used to have to go America's Great Plains for a glimpse of the mighty bison. Not any more. Rob Cameron tells us why it can now be seen wandering around a place that used to be a training ground for the Russian Red Army.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>An 18-hour train ride to the end of the line brings you to the very edge of Norway.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>An 18-hour train ride to the end of the line brings you to the very edge of Norway. Inside the Arctic Circle. But why is it that this place has such firm connections with Italy. Christine Finn has the answer. Justin Webb examines a Japanese conundrum: the country benefits from its cultural insularity and yet, if it doesn't open up to outsiders, it faces economic decline. Mark Lowen, charting the mood in Athens as international investigators assess the creditworthiness of Greece, talks of clouds of tear gas and despair closing over a troubled country. In the Pakistani city of Karachi, the American consulate moved to a new location. Mohammed Hanif says it has meant the reopening of an historic park and armed guards being replaced by youngsters playing cricket. And you used to have to go America's Great Plains for a glimpse of the mighty bison. Not any more. Rob Cameron tells us why it can now be seen wandering around a place that used to be a training ground for the Russian Red Army.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1698</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh5n.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh5n.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzh5n.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20111001-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzh5c</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzh5n.mp3" fileSize="27168000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1698"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzh5c</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>29 Sept, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>They came from all over: serious men from Seville and Madrid with their fine suits and Havana cigars to see the last bullfight in the historic stadium in Barcelona. Robert Elms was also there to witness the final show. Attempts to clamp down on the highly lucrative trade in mineral smuggling in eastern Congo have not proved successful, as Conor Woodman has been finding out. North Korea might not seem to be a country with the latest in communications technology but, as Lucy Williamson tells us, the leadership there are finding ways of making it work for them. Paul Adams goes to a country music show in the US and hears how the genre has embraced the anger of a generation poleaxed by economic hardship. And Trish Flanagan joins tens of thousands who arrived in a remote corner of the Republic of Ireland to watch a game of golf.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> They came from all over: serious men from Seville and Madrid with their fine suits and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>They came from all over: serious men from Seville and Madrid with their fine suits and Havana cigars to see the last bullfight in the historic stadium in Barcelona. Robert Elms was also there to witness the final show. Attempts to clamp down on the highly lucrative trade in mineral smuggling in eastern Congo have not proved successful, as Conor Woodman has been finding out. North Korea might not seem to be a country with the latest in communications technology but, as Lucy Williamson tells us, the leadership there are finding ways of making it work for them. Paul Adams goes to a country music show in the US and hears how the genre has embraced the anger of a generation poleaxed by economic hardship. And Trish Flanagan joins tens of thousands who arrived in a remote corner of the Republic of Ireland to watch a game of golf.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:59:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1695</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5mh.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5mh.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz5mh.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110929-1859.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz5mc</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5mh.mp3" fileSize="27120000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1695"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz5mc</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>24 September 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie shares stories behind the headlines with correspondents around the world. David Loyn is at the funeral of Burhanuddin Rabbani reflecting on the return to prominence of Afghanistan's warlords. Tim Mansel looks at the intimate relationship between football and politics in Turkey. Roland Buerk explains why the residents of Tokyo are cancelling the leases on their high rise apartments. Damien McGuiness is in the disputed territory of Abkhazia and Andrew Harding has the opportunity to check out a Libyan hospital .... as a patient.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Kate Adie shares stories behind the headlines with correspondents around the world....</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Kate Adie shares stories behind the headlines with correspondents around the world. David Loyn is at the funeral of Burhanuddin Rabbani reflecting on the return to prominence of Afghanistan's warlords. Tim Mansel looks at the intimate relationship between football and politics in Turkey. Roland Buerk explains why the residents of Tokyo are cancelling the leases on their high rise apartments. Damien McGuiness is in the disputed territory of Abkhazia and Andrew Harding has the opportunity to check out a Libyan hospital .... as a patient.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:08:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1700</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzch4.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzch4.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzch4.mp3" length="27200000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110924-1208.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzch0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzch4.mp3" fileSize="27200000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1700"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzch0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>22 Sept 11</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Katie Adie presents more despatches from foreign correspondents. As forces try to oust Gaddafi loyalists holding out in his home town of Sirte, our correspondent Alastair Leithead ponders the dilemmas of keeping the story in the news. In Pakistan, the monsoon season has left thousands homeless once again; Aleem Maqbool travels through Sindh, one of the worst-affected provinces, and find people feeling abandoned by their government and the world. We get up close and personal as Robin Irvine takes part in a wrestling match on the grasslands of Eastern Mongolia. In Beirut, appearances are everything, even when giving birth, as Georgia Paterson Dargham finds out. And in New England, Julian May discovers why lobster fishing is apparently helping to increase the crustacean's numbers.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Katie Adie presents more despatches from foreign correspondents.  As forces try to oust...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Katie Adie presents more despatches from foreign correspondents. As forces try to oust Gaddafi loyalists holding out in his home town of Sirte, our correspondent Alastair Leithead ponders the dilemmas of keeping the story in the news. In Pakistan, the monsoon season has left thousands homeless once again; Aleem Maqbool travels through Sindh, one of the worst-affected provinces, and find people feeling abandoned by their government and the world. We get up close and personal as Robin Irvine takes part in a wrestling match on the grasslands of Eastern Mongolia. In Beirut, appearances are everything, even when giving birth, as Georgia Paterson Dargham finds out. And in New England, Julian May discovers why lobster fishing is apparently helping to increase the crustacean's numbers.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1679</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzst7.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzst7.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzst7.mp3" length="26864000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110922-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzst3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzst7.mp3" fileSize="26864000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1679"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzst3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Sept 17, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Reprisals and revenge in a desert oasis as the battles continue against the final Gaddafi loyalists -- Justin Marozzi's been learning of the tensions in a small community in the far south of Libya. Katy Watson in Doha on how the Gulf state of Qatar was one of the first countries to declare its support for the Libyan rebels and how it is now reaping the benefits. Jonathan Head, who accompanied Turkish premier Erdogan on part of his North African tour, contends that a Turkish leader, elevated to the status of an Arab champion, is extraordinary. Claudia Hammond is in Costa Rica: tle elderly there reach a greater age than in any other nation in the Americas but the burden, she tells us, hangs heavily on the country's healthcare system. And Daniel Schweimler took some long bus trips and walked a great distance to visit a remote part of Argentina which is almost untouched by the modern world.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Reprisals and revenge in a desert oasis as the battles continue against the final -- a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Reprisals and revenge in a desert oasis as the battles continue against the final Gaddafi loyalists -- Justin Marozzi's been learning of the tensions in a small community in the far south of Libya. Katy Watson in Doha on how the Gulf state of Qatar was one of the first countries to declare its support for the Libyan rebels and how it is now reaping the benefits. Jonathan Head, who accompanied Turkish premier Erdogan on part of his North African tour, contends that a Turkish leader, elevated to the status of an Arab champion, is extraordinary. Claudia Hammond is in Costa Rica: tle elderly there reach a greater age than in any other nation in the Americas but the burden, she tells us, hangs heavily on the country's healthcare system. And Daniel Schweimler took some long bus trips and walked a great distance to visit a remote part of Argentina which is almost untouched by the modern world.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:05:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1692</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbc5.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbc5.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzbc5.mp3" length="27072000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110917-1205.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzbc0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzbc5.mp3" fileSize="27072000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1692"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzbc0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Sept 15, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>How did the lifeboat of the North Atlantic, as it's called, manage to cope with thousands of unexpected air passengers? Jo Fidgen is in Gander, Newfoundland, with a story of 9.11 kindness. In Sudan, there are fears of a new offensive by government troops once the rains have stopped -- Julie Flint's in the Nuba mountains in the south. Nick Thorpe's at a monastery overlooking the River Danube in Romania. There they've been celebrating a holy day when people come to have their ailments washed away by holy water. Thomas Dinham tells of a febrile atmosphere in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, in the days after a mob laid seige to the Israeli embassy there. And in the week when the president of the European Commission spoke of a fight for our political and economic future, Paul Henley argues that increasingly Europe is becoming a continent of extremes.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> How did the lifeboat of the North Atlantic, as it's called, manage to cope with of air...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>How did the lifeboat of the North Atlantic, as it's called, manage to cope with thousands of unexpected air passengers? Jo Fidgen is in Gander, Newfoundland, with a story of 9.11 kindness. In Sudan, there are fears of a new offensive by government troops once the rains have stopped -- Julie Flint's in the Nuba mountains in the south. Nick Thorpe's at a monastery overlooking the River Danube in Romania. There they've been celebrating a holy day when people come to have their ailments washed away by holy water. Thomas Dinham tells of a febrile atmosphere in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, in the days after a mob laid seige to the Israeli embassy there. And in the week when the president of the European Commission spoke of a fight for our political and economic future, Paul Henley argues that increasingly Europe is becoming a continent of extremes.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1667</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdpc.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdpc.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzdpc.mp3" length="26672000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110915-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzdp7</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdpc.mp3" fileSize="26672000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1667"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzdp7</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Sept 10, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Whatever happened to his notebooks? Jeremy Bowen, charting the demise of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, wonders why his precious notebooks keep going missing. Mishal Husain travels though five countries finding out about the role Twitter and Facebook have played in the Arab Spring. Thousands of Zimbabwean children have been making a long, risky and illegal journey south in search of a place in a South African schoolroom; Mukul Devichand's been metting some of them. Lesley Curwen's been to the US to find out how families are getting by during the economic downturn. And in Ireland, Fergal Keane sees signs of hope and optimism after the worst banking crisis and recession in the country's history.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Whatever happened to his notebooks? Jeremy Bowen, charting the demise of the Gaddafi...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Whatever happened to his notebooks? Jeremy Bowen, charting the demise of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, wonders why his precious notebooks keep going missing. Mishal Husain travels though five countries finding out about the role Twitter and Facebook have played in the Arab Spring. Thousands of Zimbabwean children have been making a long, risky and illegal journey south in search of a place in a South African schoolroom; Mukul Devichand's been metting some of them. Lesley Curwen's been to the US to find out how families are getting by during the economic downturn. And in Ireland, Fergal Keane sees signs of hope and optimism after the worst banking crisis and recession in the country's history.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd0v.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd0v.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzd0v.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110910-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzd0p</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd0v.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzd0p</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Sept 3, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The day after history was made in Libya Kevin Connolly was out shopping -- and tells a story of a capital city trying to return to normal. Few parts of the United States have escaped the economic downturn -- as Jonny Dymond's been finding out on a Main Street in North Carolina; Fiona Lloyd-Davies has been meeting a woman in the Democratic Republic of Congo who's been helping thousands of victims of rape. Summer may have been something of a damp squib in the UK but Huw Cordey's been to Death Valley in California where it's been scorchingly hot. And back to Tripoli in Libya where Andrew Hosken's been learning about the dangers of what they're calling 'celebratory gunfire.' What goes up, he's told, must always come down!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The day after history was made in Libya Kevin Connolly was out shopping -- and tells a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The day after history was made in Libya Kevin Connolly was out shopping -- and tells a story of a capital city trying to return to normal. Few parts of the United States have escaped the economic downturn -- as Jonny Dymond's been finding out on a Main Street in North Carolina; Fiona Lloyd-Davies has been meeting a woman in the Democratic Republic of Congo who's been helping thousands of victims of rape. Summer may have been something of a damp squib in the UK but Huw Cordey's been to Death Valley in California where it's been scorchingly hot. And back to Tripoli in Libya where Andrew Hosken's been learning about the dangers of what they're calling 'celebratory gunfire.' What goes up, he's told, must always come down!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc6c.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc6c.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzc6c.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110903-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzc68</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc6c.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzc68</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>July 27, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Arab-Israeli conflict seems to have been sidelined in this year of revolutions. But our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen tells us that it hasn't gone away, and the signs are not good. It was 37-degrees at the Italian air base where Jonathan Marcus has been to meet some of the pilots flying NATO missions over Libya -- but not too hot for them all to tuck into a full English breakfast while Jonathan inquired: how much have the pilots contributed to the rebels' success in and around Tripoli? They've been celebrating twenty years of independence in Estonia and, not surprisingly, we find they've been doing it in song. Kieran Cooke's been to Shangri-La. This town in western China is supposed to be as close as you can get to an earthly paradise, but Kieran's not entirely convinced. And call him a hypochondriac but our man in the Hollywood hills, David Willis, is more than a little scared when he opens up an email telling him if he's likely to get Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Arab-Israeli conflict seems to have been sidelined in this year of revolutions.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Arab-Israeli conflict seems to have been sidelined in this year of revolutions. But our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen tells us that it hasn't gone away, and the signs are not good. It was 37-degrees at the Italian air base where Jonathan Marcus has been to meet some of the pilots flying NATO missions over Libya -- but not too hot for them all to tuck into a full English breakfast while Jonathan inquired: how much have the pilots contributed to the rebels' success in and around Tripoli? They've been celebrating twenty years of independence in Estonia and, not surprisingly, we find they've been doing it in song. Kieran Cooke's been to Shangri-La. This town in western China is supposed to be as close as you can get to an earthly paradise, but Kieran's not entirely convinced. And call him a hypochondriac but our man in the Hollywood hills, David Willis, is more than a little scared when he opens up an email telling him if he's likely to get Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz63x.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz63x.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz63x.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110827-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz63q</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz63x.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz63q</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC Radio 4</title><description><![CDATA[<p>'Politics at its most brutal, its most basic, democracy as a demolition derby.' That's Mark Mardell's view as he contemplates months of Republican infighting ahead of next year's US presidential election. The Moscow coup of twenty years ago: Bridget Kendall, who was there during that eventful August back in 1991, says it could so easily have succeeded. The smiles seem to have faded somewhat in newly-independent South Sudan but Robin Denselow, just back from the capital Juba, says they still revere their cattle. David Hargreaves has been attending a spectacular riverside religious festival in central India and Karishma Vaswani's had to call in the Indonesian witch doctor after strange goings-on at her house in Djakarta.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>'Politics at its most brutal, its most basic, democracy as a demolition derby.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>'Politics at its most brutal, its most basic, democracy as a demolition derby.' That's Mark Mardell's view as he contemplates months of Republican infighting ahead of next year's US presidential election. The Moscow coup of twenty years ago: Bridget Kendall, who was there during that eventful August back in 1991, says it could so easily have succeeded. The smiles seem to have faded somewhat in newly-independent South Sudan but Robin Denselow, just back from the capital Juba, says they still revere their cattle. David Hargreaves has been attending a spectacular riverside religious festival in central India and Karishma Vaswani's had to call in the Indonesian witch doctor after strange goings-on at her house in Djakarta.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz468.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz468.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz468.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110820-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz462</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz468.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz462</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC Radio 4</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Aleem Maqbool reports on Karachi, where inter-ethnic violence between Urdu speakers and Pashtuns has killed hundreds in the last few months; as Sonia Gandhi receives medical treatment in the US, Mark Tully explores her enduring political power in India, despite the fact that she holds no government office; Orla Guerin is in Misrata, in Libya, where rockets still threaten civilians and little appears to have changed for the better; Sudan is now officially divided into two and Sudanese pride, especially in the north, has taken a battering - James Copnall describes how national hopes lay with a horse called Diktator at the Sudanese Derby; and despite their economic woes, Jake Wallis Simons sees how the Portuguese still found a way to celebrate, with trays full of bread.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Aleem Maqbool reports on Karachi, where inter-ethnic violence between Urdu speakers in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Aleem Maqbool reports on Karachi, where inter-ethnic violence between Urdu speakers and Pashtuns has killed hundreds in the last few months; as Sonia Gandhi receives medical treatment in the US, Mark Tully explores her enduring political power in India, despite the fact that she holds no government office; Orla Guerin is in Misrata, in Libya, where rockets still threaten civilians and little appears to have changed for the better; Sudan is now officially divided into two and Sudanese pride, especially in the north, has taken a battering - James Copnall describes how national hopes lay with a horse called Diktator at the Sudanese Derby; and despite their economic woes, Jake Wallis Simons sees how the Portuguese still found a way to celebrate, with trays full of bread.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1671</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rztn3.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rztn3.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rztn3.mp3" length="26736000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110813-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rztmv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rztn3.mp3" fileSize="26736000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1671"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rztmv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC Radio 4 August 6th 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Mexico's drug wars are notoriously violent and the killings have spread to neighbouring Guatemala. Linda Pressly has been to the scene of a gruesome massacre in northern Guatemala.
  2667. The "indignados" in Spain began their protests in May, angry at the banks and at the way the government has responded to the economic crisis with spending cutbacks, privatisations and redundancies. Sarah Rainsford recently joined some of the young indignants on the road.
  2668. Colombia's "Red Zone" is traditionally a no-go area for medics and journalists. But Imogen Foulkes has travelled upriver in this area - long fought over by drug cartels, FARC rebels and the Colombian military.
  2669. Government cutbacks across Europe, particularly spending cuts for social programmes, are sometimes hitting the most vulnerable hardest. Emma Jane Kirby has been spending time with those who have fallen onto hard times in Paris.
  2670. Why is it that Poles love to dress up as knights at the weekend? Adam Easton has been finding out.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Mexico's drug wars are notoriously violent and the killings have spread to Guatemala...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Mexico's drug wars are notoriously violent and the killings have spread to neighbouring Guatemala. Linda Pressly has been to the scene of a gruesome massacre in northern Guatemala.
  2671. The "indignados" in Spain began their protests in May, angry at the banks and at the way the government has responded to the economic crisis with spending cutbacks, privatisations and redundancies. Sarah Rainsford recently joined some of the young indignants on the road.
  2672. Colombia's "Red Zone" is traditionally a no-go area for medics and journalists. But Imogen Foulkes has travelled upriver in this area - long fought over by drug cartels, FARC rebels and the Colombian military.
  2673. Government cutbacks across Europe, particularly spending cuts for social programmes, are sometimes hitting the most vulnerable hardest. Emma Jane Kirby has been spending time with those who have fallen onto hard times in Paris.
  2674. Why is it that Poles love to dress up as knights at the weekend? Adam Easton has been finding out.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 10:40:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzqnl.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzqnl.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzqnl.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110806-1140.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzqnf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzqnl.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzqnf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>July 30th 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Today: Peter Svaar finds out that the man behind the killings in Norway was his class mate and friend. Charles Haviland visits northern Sri Lanka to see if life is returning to normal there. Justin Rowlatt examines if Iceland, which refused to pay off its debts, offers a solution to Europe's economic woes? Christine Finn gets a peek into the secretive world of bobbins, skeins and "metiers" with the lace makers of France. And we hear from Oliver Bullough why Russian officials, not known for their smiles, are now beaming at babies.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Today: Peter Svaar finds out that the man behind the killings in Norway was his class...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Today: Peter Svaar finds out that the man behind the killings in Norway was his class mate and friend. Charles Haviland visits northern Sri Lanka to see if life is returning to normal there. Justin Rowlatt examines if Iceland, which refused to pay off its debts, offers a solution to Europe's economic woes? Christine Finn gets a peek into the secretive world of bobbins, skeins and "metiers" with the lace makers of France. And we hear from Oliver Bullough why Russian officials, not known for their smiles, are now beaming at babies.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1651</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcbn.mp3" length="26416000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcbn.mp3" length="26416000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzcbn.mp3" length="26416000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110730-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzcbh</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcbn.mp3" fileSize="26416000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1651"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzcbh</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>July 23, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Will Thursday's eurozone agreement be enough to save the European single currency and the union of European nations? Chris Morris in Brussels considers the deal designed to prevent the debt crisis from spreading. Michael Buchanan was in Helmand province Afghanistan as the city of Lashkar Gah was returned to Afghan control. For the westerners leaving, he says, their job was far from done. Some Ethiopian girls are getting married at the age of five and Claudia Hammond has been finding out about the efforts being made to stamp out the practice of child marriage. Ever wondered what sound a post-coital baboon makes? Wonder no longer. Jake Wallis Simons imitates it as part his extraordinary story about the Australian much more at home in the real jungle than its urban equivalent. And Berlin's a city noted for its counterculture, its anti-establishment stance. Steve Evans is there exploring its more gentle side.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Will Thursday's eurozone agreement be enough to save the European single currency and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Will Thursday's eurozone agreement be enough to save the European single currency and the union of European nations? Chris Morris in Brussels considers the deal designed to prevent the debt crisis from spreading. Michael Buchanan was in Helmand province Afghanistan as the city of Lashkar Gah was returned to Afghan control. For the westerners leaving, he says, their job was far from done. Some Ethiopian girls are getting married at the age of five and Claudia Hammond has been finding out about the efforts being made to stamp out the practice of child marriage. Ever wondered what sound a post-coital baboon makes? Wonder no longer. Jake Wallis Simons imitates it as part his extraordinary story about the Australian much more at home in the real jungle than its urban equivalent. And Berlin's a city noted for its counterculture, its anti-establishment stance. Steve Evans is there exploring its more gentle side.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:35:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5h3.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5h3.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz5h3.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110723-1135.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz5gy</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz5h3.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz5gy</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>July 16, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Could the Libyan rebels be poised to march on the capital Tripoli? Gabriel Gatehouse, who's been spending time with them near the coastal city of Misrata, doubts they have the capability for military victory; Andrew Hosken's just returned from Somalia where the rains have failed again, drought has taken hold and many people are in danger of starving to death; a battle between modernity and an older way of doing things is underway in the Indian state of Orissa and Justin Rowlatt's been finding out that in this case, the modern world might be about to lose out; Chris Simpson's in the Gambia where the president has made it clear that he has a low opinion of journalists -- the media people, on the other hand, complain of harrassment and worse. And from the Seychelles out in the Indian Ocean, a tale from Tim Ecott about the extraordinary coco de mer; a coconut tree with erotic connotations.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Could the Libyan rebels be poised to march on the capital Tripoli? Gabriel Gatehouse,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Could the Libyan rebels be poised to march on the capital Tripoli? Gabriel Gatehouse, who's been spending time with them near the coastal city of Misrata, doubts they have the capability for military victory; Andrew Hosken's just returned from Somalia where the rains have failed again, drought has taken hold and many people are in danger of starving to death; a battle between modernity and an older way of doing things is underway in the Indian state of Orissa and Justin Rowlatt's been finding out that in this case, the modern world might be about to lose out; Chris Simpson's in the Gambia where the president has made it clear that he has a low opinion of journalists -- the media people, on the other hand, complain of harrassment and worse. And from the Seychelles out in the Indian Ocean, a tale from Tim Ecott about the extraordinary coco de mer; a coconut tree with erotic connotations.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1653</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlqt.mp3" length="26448000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlqt.mp3" length="26448000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzlqt.mp3" length="26448000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110716-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzlqq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlqt.mp3" fileSize="26448000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1653"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzlqq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>July 9, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>They are celebrating in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, the world's newest country. But Fergus Nicoll, who's there, says its leaders must address some of the lessons they've been handed down by history. Who's visiting the great archaeological sites in Libya as the conflict in that country continues? Justin Marozzi's just been to one of them and had little company there other than cows and goats. David Willey in Rome talks about the country's much respected President Giorgio Napoletano and explains how he's trying to rein in some of the activities of the controversial prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. India's caste system was supposed to have been done away with decades ago but Craig Jeffrey, in Uttar Pradesh, has found that in many areas of life, it simply has not gone away. And it's proving a sweltering summer in the city of Algiers and Chloe Arnold, who lives there, has been finding out how a Scottish firm is keen on securing a slice of the market in long, cool, fizzy drinks!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>They are celebrating in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, the world's newest country.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>They are celebrating in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, the world's newest country. But Fergus Nicoll, who's there, says its leaders must address some of the lessons they've been handed down by history. Who's visiting the great archaeological sites in Libya as the conflict in that country continues? Justin Marozzi's just been to one of them and had little company there other than cows and goats. David Willey in Rome talks about the country's much respected President Giorgio Napoletano and explains how he's trying to rein in some of the activities of the controversial prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. India's caste system was supposed to have been done away with decades ago but Craig Jeffrey, in Uttar Pradesh, has found that in many areas of life, it simply has not gone away. And it's proving a sweltering summer in the city of Algiers and Chloe Arnold, who lives there, has been finding out how a Scottish firm is keen on securing a slice of the market in long, cool, fizzy drinks!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1694</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgs5.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgs5.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzgs5.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110709-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzgs1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgs5.mp3" fileSize="27104000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1694"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzgs1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>July 7, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The end of the world is nigh! Well, it is according to one estimate. But Chris Bockman who's in the French Pyrenees says there's a village there where you might just be safe. Much joy's being reported in South Sudan. Peter Martell's in this region which has experienced generations of civil war but is now getting ready to usher in independence. Could the mighty US be about to default on its debts? Lesley Curwen says the government in Washington's been given a deadline by which time it must pay up. But before that can be achieved, Republicans and Democrats must sort out their differences. Alex Renton's been learning that these are tough times in Armenia but still there's pride in the country's fine brandy which was, so they say, a favourite of Winston Churchill's. And Emily Lethbridge has been finding out that a good place to research the mediaeval sagas of Iceland is a petrol station, not far from the capital Reykjavik.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The end of the world is nigh! Well, it is according to one estimate.  But Chris Bockman...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The end of the world is nigh! Well, it is according to one estimate. But Chris Bockman who's in the French Pyrenees says there's a village there where you might just be safe. Much joy's being reported in South Sudan. Peter Martell's in this region which has experienced generations of civil war but is now getting ready to usher in independence. Could the mighty US be about to default on its debts? Lesley Curwen says the government in Washington's been given a deadline by which time it must pay up. But before that can be achieved, Republicans and Democrats must sort out their differences. Alex Renton's been learning that these are tough times in Armenia but still there's pride in the country's fine brandy which was, so they say, a favourite of Winston Churchill's. And Emily Lethbridge has been finding out that a good place to research the mediaeval sagas of Iceland is a petrol station, not far from the capital Reykjavik.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1669</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcqd.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcqd.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzcqd.mp3" length="26704000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110707-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzcq9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcqd.mp3" fileSize="26704000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1669"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzcq9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>July 2, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Greek austerity bill may have been passed by the Athens parliament, but Justin Rowlatt's wondering if anyone expects it to be fully implemented. It may be one of the most polluted cities in the world but Delhi, as Anu Anand has been finding out, is home to an astonishing collection of bird life. The Libyan Mediterranean city of Misrata is still coming under rocket fire from troops loyal to Colonel Gaddafi, but Andrew Harding's been seeing that families still enjoy an afternoon at the beach there. Thaksin Shinawatra may be living in self-imposed exile in Dubai but Rachel Harvey, who's been there to meet the former Thai prime minister, says he's still dominating discussion about the upcoming Thai election. And is the Amazon a resource to be exploited or one simply to be protected - questions Robin Lustig's had in mind during his travels in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The Greek austerity bill may have been passed by the Athens parliament, but Justin if...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Greek austerity bill may have been passed by the Athens parliament, but Justin Rowlatt's wondering if anyone expects it to be fully implemented. It may be one of the most polluted cities in the world but Delhi, as Anu Anand has been finding out, is home to an astonishing collection of bird life. The Libyan Mediterranean city of Misrata is still coming under rocket fire from troops loyal to Colonel Gaddafi, but Andrew Harding's been seeing that families still enjoy an afternoon at the beach there. Thaksin Shinawatra may be living in self-imposed exile in Dubai but Rachel Harvey, who's been there to meet the former Thai prime minister, says he's still dominating discussion about the upcoming Thai election. And is the Amazon a resource to be exploited or one simply to be protected - questions Robin Lustig's had in mind during his travels in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvg8.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvg8.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzvg8.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110702-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzvg0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvg8.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzvg0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>June 30, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Now the Greek parliament's voted for austerity, large numbers of people working in the country's huge public sector are waiting to see where first the axe will fall -- Manuela Saragosa's in Athens. Saving cash is a theme throughout Europe and Mark Lobel's been to Strasbourg where some say the city should no longer be a base for the European Parliament, it's just too expensive. Venezuelan security forces are said to have been tunnelling INTO a jail to try to resolve a riot inside. Sarah Grainger in Caracas on the state of Venezuela's chaotic prison system. Chris Hogg's in Shanghai where, ninety years ago, the Chinese Communist Party was formed. He examines some of its founding principles and assesses how relevant they are today. And it's been a sad week for supporters of the Argentine football club River Plate. Their team has been relegated to a lower division. But isn't football just a game? Daniel Schweimler, who's in Buenos Aires, says that in Argentina, it's much more than that!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Now the Greek parliament's voted for austerity, large numbers of people working in the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Now the Greek parliament's voted for austerity, large numbers of people working in the country's huge public sector are waiting to see where first the axe will fall -- Manuela Saragosa's in Athens. Saving cash is a theme throughout Europe and Mark Lobel's been to Strasbourg where some say the city should no longer be a base for the European Parliament, it's just too expensive. Venezuelan security forces are said to have been tunnelling INTO a jail to try to resolve a riot inside. Sarah Grainger in Caracas on the state of Venezuela's chaotic prison system. Chris Hogg's in Shanghai where, ninety years ago, the Chinese Communist Party was formed. He examines some of its founding principles and assesses how relevant they are today. And it's been a sad week for supporters of the Argentine football club River Plate. Their team has been relegated to a lower division. But isn't football just a game? Daniel Schweimler, who's in Buenos Aires, says that in Argentina, it's much more than that!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1691</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9w0.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9w0.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9w0.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110630-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9vw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9w0.mp3" fileSize="27056000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1691"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9vw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>June 25, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The lights go out in the United States. It's only a simulation at present but Mark Mardell in Washington says it's evidence the US military is taking seriously the threat of war in cyberspace. Inside the walls of a prison in the Horn of Africa our correspondent Mary Harper is surprised by a demand for an interview ... from a Somali pirate! Misha Glenny reflects on the EU's decision to admit Croatia to full membership:proof, he believes, that a powder keg has finally been defused. Rupert Wingfield Hayes has an account from inside the Bahrain courtroom where a number of people were sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of trying to overthrow the country's royal family. And Andrew Martlew's been walking in the mountains of northern Italy tracking down some rarely visited British war graves.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The lights go out in the United States.  It's only a simulation at present but Mark in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The lights go out in the United States. It's only a simulation at present but Mark Mardell in Washington says it's evidence the US military is taking seriously the threat of war in cyberspace. Inside the walls of a prison in the Horn of Africa our correspondent Mary Harper is surprised by a demand for an interview ... from a Somali pirate! Misha Glenny reflects on the EU's decision to admit Croatia to full membership:proof, he believes, that a powder keg has finally been defused. Rupert Wingfield Hayes has an account from inside the Bahrain courtroom where a number of people were sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of trying to overthrow the country's royal family. And Andrew Martlew's been walking in the mountains of northern Italy tracking down some rarely visited British war graves.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzl1r.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzl1r.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzl1r.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110625-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzl1c</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzl1r.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzl1c</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>June 23, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A voice from Croatia's war-torn past is recalled by Allan Little in Zagreb as the EU prepares to admit this country to full membership of the Union. Chris Morris is in Athens as Greece faces fresh hurdles in its attempts to avoid defaulting on its debt repayments. Lobsters are big business but in Nicaragua, as Conor Woodman's been hearing, catching them can be dangerous. Reggie Nadelson tells us how the price of property's soaring in Harlem, a part of New York once associated with poverty and crime. But, she wonders, is the price of development the loss of the district's soul? It's all change on the buses in Malta. Jake Wallis Simons has been finding out that the island's getting rid of its fleet of characterful and individualistic buses and replacing them with something altogether more modern and efficient. But, it seems, not all the islanders welcome the change.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> A voice from Croatia's war-torn past is recalled by Allan Little in Zagreb as the EU...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A voice from Croatia's war-torn past is recalled by Allan Little in Zagreb as the EU prepares to admit this country to full membership of the Union. Chris Morris is in Athens as Greece faces fresh hurdles in its attempts to avoid defaulting on its debt repayments. Lobsters are big business but in Nicaragua, as Conor Woodman's been hearing, catching them can be dangerous. Reggie Nadelson tells us how the price of property's soaring in Harlem, a part of New York once associated with poverty and crime. But, she wonders, is the price of development the loss of the district's soul? It's all change on the buses in Malta. Jake Wallis Simons has been finding out that the island's getting rid of its fleet of characterful and individualistic buses and replacing them with something altogether more modern and efficient. But, it seems, not all the islanders welcome the change.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfjq.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfjq.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzfjq.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110623-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzfjj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzfjq.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzfjj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>June 18, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The ultimate failed state. That's what some call Somalia in the Horn of Africa. Peter Greste is in the capital Mogadishu, perhaps the most dangerous city in the world. He's finding out why thousands of Somalis are leaving homes in the countryside and flooding in to the city? Another mass migration's going on in China. But, as Juliana Liu tells us, difficulties can lie ahead for the country people heading for town in search of a better life. Paul Henley's been looking at an economic boom that's lifting parts of Poland; one port city's described as the future Sydney and Dubai of the Baltic. The worst drought in fifty years has hit Texas. Jonny Dymond finds one rancher whose fortunes are suffering -- but he says he's battling on: it's the American way. And she's called the Miss Marple of the Himalayas; Joanna Jolly meets the woman who keeps climbers in Nepal roped to the truth.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The ultimate failed state. That's what some call Somalia in the Horn of Africa.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The ultimate failed state. That's what some call Somalia in the Horn of Africa. Peter Greste is in the capital Mogadishu, perhaps the most dangerous city in the world. He's finding out why thousands of Somalis are leaving homes in the countryside and flooding in to the city? Another mass migration's going on in China. But, as Juliana Liu tells us, difficulties can lie ahead for the country people heading for town in search of a better life. Paul Henley's been looking at an economic boom that's lifting parts of Poland; one port city's described as the future Sydney and Dubai of the Baltic. The worst drought in fifty years has hit Texas. Jonny Dymond finds one rancher whose fortunes are suffering -- but he says he's battling on: it's the American way. And she's called the Miss Marple of the Himalayas; Joanna Jolly meets the woman who keeps climbers in Nepal roped to the truth.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1670</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzry1.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzry1.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzry1.mp3" length="26720000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110618-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzrxs</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzry1.mp3" fileSize="26720000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1670"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzrxs</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>June 16, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Tunisia's fragile revolution is under threat from the violent uprising in Libya. Pascale Harter, investigating in these borderlands, also reveals what a football commentary sounds like in Libya where the only name permissible is that of Gaddafi. The blockade on Gaza means that many people living in that territory never get to leave. Jon Donnison's been meeting two men, at the Erez crossing into Israel, who get nearer than most. Cheung Chau island, not far from Hong Kong, has become notorious as a place where people go to kill themselves. Claudia Hammond's been there finding out how the local community is trying to change all that. Need to cure a headache? Or impotence? A remedy can be found at a traditional medicine market in Johannesburg. Stewart Maclean's been there to see what's on offer. And Rajesh Mirchandani enjoyed what some would consider the perfect posting - as our man in California. And yet, he has some rather controversial views to share with us about the sunshine state.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Tunisia's fragile revolution is under threat from the violent uprising in Libya.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Tunisia's fragile revolution is under threat from the violent uprising in Libya. Pascale Harter, investigating in these borderlands, also reveals what a football commentary sounds like in Libya where the only name permissible is that of Gaddafi. The blockade on Gaza means that many people living in that territory never get to leave. Jon Donnison's been meeting two men, at the Erez crossing into Israel, who get nearer than most. Cheung Chau island, not far from Hong Kong, has become notorious as a place where people go to kill themselves. Claudia Hammond's been there finding out how the local community is trying to change all that. Need to cure a headache? Or impotence? A remedy can be found at a traditional medicine market in Johannesburg. Stewart Maclean's been there to see what's on offer. And Rajesh Mirchandani enjoyed what some would consider the perfect posting - as our man in California. And yet, he has some rather controversial views to share with us about the sunshine state.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1676</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzg0z.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzg0z.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzg0z.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110616-1300.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzg0s</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzg0z.mp3" fileSize="26816000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1676"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzg0s</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>June 11, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The bloody events in Syria are making the government in neighbouring Turkey uneasy, as Hugh Sykes has been finding out on the eve of the Turkish general election there; Chris Hogg's in Taiwan where, amid a thawing in relations with mainland China, there are businessmen who are prospering in the new climate of detente; corruption in India is now so pervasive, it reaches even the smallest country village but, as Craig Jeffrey's been hearing, it can still be a joking matter; there's a ban on divorce in the Philippines, but Kate McGeown tells us, there are ways around the ban, particularly if you have money; one of our most seasoned travellers, the reporter and presenter Robin Lustig's visited 75 countries without losing his luggage. Surely his luck can't last ...?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The bloody events in Syria are making the government in neighbouring Turkey uneasy, as...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The bloody events in Syria are making the government in neighbouring Turkey uneasy, as Hugh Sykes has been finding out on the eve of the Turkish general election there; Chris Hogg's in Taiwan where, amid a thawing in relations with mainland China, there are businessmen who are prospering in the new climate of detente; corruption in India is now so pervasive, it reaches even the smallest country village but, as Craig Jeffrey's been hearing, it can still be a joking matter; there's a ban on divorce in the Philippines, but Kate McGeown tells us, there are ways around the ban, particularly if you have money; one of our most seasoned travellers, the reporter and presenter Robin Lustig's visited 75 countries without losing his luggage. Surely his luck can't last ...?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzt2y.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzt2y.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzt2y.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110611-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzt2v</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzt2y.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzt2v</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>June 9, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Amid uproar in and around Syria, Kevin Connolly considers suggestions that there have been attempts by the authorities in Damascus to manipulate the news agenda to distract the world from events going on in their country. A year after violent disturbances in the Kyrgyz town of Osh Rayhan Demytrie, who covered those events, considers the difficult legacy they've left in their wake; Tracey Logan is in the Republic of Ireland examining how an EU directive, aimed at protecting Ireland's peat bogs, is being widely flouted. Tom Blass takes a walk in a Belgian village which has been swallowed up by the inexorable growth of Antwerp's docklands. And South Korea's a country which takes recycling very seriously -- it's causing our correspondent there, Lucy Williamson, some difficulty.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Amid uproar in and around Syria, Kevin Connolly considers suggestions that there have...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Amid uproar in and around Syria, Kevin Connolly considers suggestions that there have been attempts by the authorities in Damascus to manipulate the news agenda to distract the world from events going on in their country. A year after violent disturbances in the Kyrgyz town of Osh Rayhan Demytrie, who covered those events, considers the difficult legacy they've left in their wake; Tracey Logan is in the Republic of Ireland examining how an EU directive, aimed at protecting Ireland's peat bogs, is being widely flouted. Tom Blass takes a walk in a Belgian village which has been swallowed up by the inexorable growth of Antwerp's docklands. And South Korea's a country which takes recycling very seriously -- it's causing our correspondent there, Lucy Williamson, some difficulty.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1695</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzjyy.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzjyy.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzjyy.mp3" length="27120000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110609-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzjyr</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzjyy.mp3" fileSize="27120000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1695"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzjyr</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>June 4, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A mysterious encounter with the sinister Colonel Tariq, thought to be from Pakistani Intelligence, is described by Aamer Ahmed Khan. Tim Whewell's in the Sinai Desert finding a roaring trade in rifles. A guided tour of Benghazi with Andrew Hosken: he is told that Colonel Gaddafi couldn't make the railways run on time -- he couldn't make the railways either! An acute housing shortage in Beijing is described by Martin Patience - it's meant people living in air raid shelters, bunkers and tunnels. And there's joy and some plum brandy in the foothills of the Carpathians as Caroline Juler joins a cheerful crowd of farmers at their annual measuring of sheep's milk.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> A mysterious encounter with the sinister Colonel Tariq, thought to be from Pakistani...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A mysterious encounter with the sinister Colonel Tariq, thought to be from Pakistani Intelligence, is described by Aamer Ahmed Khan. Tim Whewell's in the Sinai Desert finding a roaring trade in rifles. A guided tour of Benghazi with Andrew Hosken: he is told that Colonel Gaddafi couldn't make the railways run on time -- he couldn't make the railways either! An acute housing shortage in Beijing is described by Martin Patience - it's meant people living in air raid shelters, bunkers and tunnels. And there's joy and some plum brandy in the foothills of the Carpathians as Caroline Juler joins a cheerful crowd of farmers at their annual measuring of sheep's milk.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1693</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz480.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz480.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz480.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110604-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz47v</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz480.mp3" fileSize="27088000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1693"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz47v</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>June 2, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The E.coli outbreak in Germany is the subject of a despatch from Steve Evans in Berlin who's been finding out how it's sending ripples throughout Europe, affecting sales of fruit and vegetables and altering families' eating habits. As General Mladic prepares to face war crimes charges in The Hague, Nick Thorpe's been touring Bosnia meeting family and supporters of the man who was the military leader of the Bosnian Serbs. It's crisis time for the pornographers of Los Angeles: Ed Butler's been discovering that their customers are no longer keen to pay for the product. Picturesque Street in Moscow isn't as lovely as it sounds, according to our man there Steve Rosenberg; but it does have a tale to tell about Russia itself. And why does the sight of a foreigner riding a bike make Cambodians laugh? Guy Delauney, a keen cyclist and resident of the capital Phnom Penh, is well placed to provide an answer to that one!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The E. coli outbreak in Germany is the subject of a despatch from Steve Evans in Berlin...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The E.coli outbreak in Germany is the subject of a despatch from Steve Evans in Berlin who's been finding out how it's sending ripples throughout Europe, affecting sales of fruit and vegetables and altering families' eating habits. As General Mladic prepares to face war crimes charges in The Hague, Nick Thorpe's been touring Bosnia meeting family and supporters of the man who was the military leader of the Bosnian Serbs. It's crisis time for the pornographers of Los Angeles: Ed Butler's been discovering that their customers are no longer keen to pay for the product. Picturesque Street in Moscow isn't as lovely as it sounds, according to our man there Steve Rosenberg; but it does have a tale to tell about Russia itself. And why does the sight of a foreigner riding a bike make Cambodians laugh? Guy Delauney, a keen cyclist and resident of the capital Phnom Penh, is well placed to provide an answer to that one!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1666</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s03s2.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s03s2.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s03s2.mp3" length="26656000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110602-1200.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s03rw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s03s2.mp3" fileSize="26656000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1666"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s03rw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>May 28, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Fin de Siecle Deauville hosts the G8 summit of world leaders where there have been clear signs of a different world order emerging -- Bridget Kendall's been taking note. Andrew Harding tells us what it's like in Misrata which endured a two month seige by Libyan forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi; Conor Woodman is in a town in Laos which has been taken over by Chinese investment; there's a picnic under the palms in Algiers for Chloe Arnold as she charts the decline of the city's Russian community and Tim Ecott paints a portrait of the Faroe Islands out in the north Atlantic, a place where men are hardy, the sheep hardier and where there might just be puffin on the lunch menu!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Fin de Siecle Deauville hosts the G8 summit of world leaders where there have been of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Fin de Siecle Deauville hosts the G8 summit of world leaders where there have been clear signs of a different world order emerging -- Bridget Kendall's been taking note. Andrew Harding tells us what it's like in Misrata which endured a two month seige by Libyan forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi; Conor Woodman is in a town in Laos which has been taken over by Chinese investment; there's a picnic under the palms in Algiers for Chloe Arnold as she charts the decline of the city's Russian community and Tim Ecott paints a portrait of the Faroe Islands out in the north Atlantic, a place where men are hardy, the sheep hardier and where there might just be puffin on the lunch menu!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1691</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs3l.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs3l.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzs3l.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110528-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzs3h</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzs3l.mp3" fileSize="27056000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1691"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzs3h</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>May 26, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Roman Catholic Church is accused of running a dirty campaign as the people of Malta prepare to vote in a referendum on divorce. Jake Wallis Simons has been gauging the mood in and around the capital, Valletta; Anna Cavell, who's in Kampala, Uganda, tells us how the continuing series of protests is heaping pressure on the long-standing president Yoweri Museveni; Bhutan, the Himalayan mountain kingdom, is a place said to be more interested in Gross National Happiness than Gross Domestic Product! Mark Tully's been talking to the prime minister there about whether this is the most profitable way for the country to move forward; the war in Sri Lanka may now finally be at an end but Peter Meanwell, who's been there making a music programme for Radio 3, says its legacy can still be seen throughout the north ... and as Europe prepares for its biggest football match of the year, Pascale Harter tells us why the fans of FC Barcelona believe it's a club with a difference!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The Roman Catholic Church is accused of running a dirty campaign as the people of to a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Roman Catholic Church is accused of running a dirty campaign as the people of Malta prepare to vote in a referendum on divorce. Jake Wallis Simons has been gauging the mood in and around the capital, Valletta; Anna Cavell, who's in Kampala, Uganda, tells us how the continuing series of protests is heaping pressure on the long-standing president Yoweri Museveni; Bhutan, the Himalayan mountain kingdom, is a place said to be more interested in Gross National Happiness than Gross Domestic Product! Mark Tully's been talking to the prime minister there about whether this is the most profitable way for the country to move forward; the war in Sri Lanka may now finally be at an end but Peter Meanwell, who's been there making a music programme for Radio 3, says its legacy can still be seen throughout the north ... and as Europe prepares for its biggest football match of the year, Pascale Harter tells us why the fans of FC Barcelona believe it's a club with a difference!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 10:45:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1694</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcmj.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcmj.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzcmj.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110526-1145.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzcmf</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzcmj.mp3" fileSize="27104000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1694"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzcmf</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>May 21, 2010</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The carrots and sticks which the authorities in Saudi Arabia hope will persuade their people that protest is not a sensible option -- Michael Buchanan is gauging opinion in the desert kingdom. Who'll be the next president of Russia - Putin, Medvedev or someone else? It's a question preoccupying correspondents in Russia, among them the BBC's man Steve Rosenberg. As nuclear power plants around the world check their safety procedures after the apparent meltdown in Japan in March, Nick Thorpe visits a power station on the River Danube in Romania. The American president's on his way to Ireland but Kieran Cooke's been finding out that thousands of Irish, prompted by a tottering economy, are preparing to emigrate. And Kevin Connolly visits the casbah in Algers walking, he assures us, in the footsteps of Tarzan of the Apes.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The carrots and sticks which the authorities in Saudi Arabia hope will persuade their...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The carrots and sticks which the authorities in Saudi Arabia hope will persuade their people that protest is not a sensible option -- Michael Buchanan is gauging opinion in the desert kingdom. Who'll be the next president of Russia - Putin, Medvedev or someone else? It's a question preoccupying correspondents in Russia, among them the BBC's man Steve Rosenberg. As nuclear power plants around the world check their safety procedures after the apparent meltdown in Japan in March, Nick Thorpe visits a power station on the River Danube in Romania. The American president's on his way to Ireland but Kieran Cooke's been finding out that thousands of Irish, prompted by a tottering economy, are preparing to emigrate. And Kevin Connolly visits the casbah in Algers walking, he assures us, in the footsteps of Tarzan of the Apes.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1677</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzmd9.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzmd9.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzmd9.mp3" length="26832000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110521-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzmd3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzmd9.mp3" fileSize="26832000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1677"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzmd3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>May 14, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Assisted suicide: as the people of Zurich in Switzerland prepare to vote on the issue, Imogen Foulkes tells a moving story about a couple who believed they had a right to decide on a date for death. Fergal Keane considers the historical significance of the forthcoming visit, by Queen Elizabeth 2, to the Republic of Ireland. Andrew Harding is in the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi where, he says, people are determined to continue their fight against Colonel Gaddafi and to emerge with their country still united. Matthew Teller visits the city of Taif in Saudi Arabia, a place where many Saudi people spend their holidays while James Painter's in Peru asking questions about the freshwater Amazon dolphin including: why is it pink?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Assisted suicide: as the people of Zurich in Switzerland prepare to vote on the issue,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Assisted suicide: as the people of Zurich in Switzerland prepare to vote on the issue, Imogen Foulkes tells a moving story about a couple who believed they had a right to decide on a date for death. Fergal Keane considers the historical significance of the forthcoming visit, by Queen Elizabeth 2, to the Republic of Ireland. Andrew Harding is in the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi where, he says, people are determined to continue their fight against Colonel Gaddafi and to emerge with their country still united. Matthew Teller visits the city of Taif in Saudi Arabia, a place where many Saudi people spend their holidays while James Painter's in Peru asking questions about the freshwater Amazon dolphin including: why is it pink?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rztzk.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rztzk.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rztzk.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110514-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rztzb</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rztzk.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rztzb</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>May 7, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Weeks of violent confrontation in Uganda: Will Ross is in Kampala where lawyers are the latest group to protest against the regime of President Museveni. Mishal Husain is in the Pakistani town of Abottabad, where the life of Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted man, was brought to an end last Sunday. Mishal talks of the new interest in this location which she remembers as a place her family went on holiday. President Obama was at Ground Zero this week and coincidentally, a little earlier, our correspondent Paul Adams was there with his two young sons who had awkward questions to ask about that day when the Twin Towers came crashing down. There's a new predator in the Caribbean -- the Lionfish. Tim Ecott's been to the Cayman Islands to get an idea of the scale of the problem it's brought with it. And Jonathan Fryer waits and waits for the night bus to Bolivia. But at least he has some company in the shape of a large, and affectionate, wild pig!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Weeks of violent confrontation in Uganda: Will Ross is in Kampala where lawyers are to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Weeks of violent confrontation in Uganda: Will Ross is in Kampala where lawyers are the latest group to protest against the regime of President Museveni. Mishal Husain is in the Pakistani town of Abottabad, where the life of Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted man, was brought to an end last Sunday. Mishal talks of the new interest in this location which she remembers as a place her family went on holiday. President Obama was at Ground Zero this week and coincidentally, a little earlier, our correspondent Paul Adams was there with his two young sons who had awkward questions to ask about that day when the Twin Towers came crashing down. There's a new predator in the Caribbean -- the Lionfish. Tim Ecott's been to the Cayman Islands to get an idea of the scale of the problem it's brought with it. And Jonathan Fryer waits and waits for the night bus to Bolivia. But at least he has some company in the shape of a large, and affectionate, wild pig!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1655</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzrlt.mp3" length="26480000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzrlt.mp3" length="26480000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzrlt.mp3" length="26480000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110507-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzrl4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzrlt.mp3" fileSize="26480000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1655"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzrl4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>April 30, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A very French murder story: Hugh Schofield tells how France has been transfixed by an appalling human drama -- the killing of a mother, three sons and a daughter. Owen Bennett Jones questions whether depicting the news from Syria as 'brutal suppression of peaceful protestors' might be, to some extent, misleading. A climate of fear is stifling discussion about Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws -- that's the contention of the BBC's Jill McGivering who's been touring the country investigating. Richard Wilson makes a return trip to Antarctica and is shocked at how the continent's changing. Gareth Armstrong visits an Indian classroom and hears the students voice outrage at how the British regard the work of the children's author Enid Blyton.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> A very French murder story: Hugh Schofield tells how France has been transfixed by an...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A very French murder story: Hugh Schofield tells how France has been transfixed by an appalling human drama -- the killing of a mother, three sons and a daughter. Owen Bennett Jones questions whether depicting the news from Syria as 'brutal suppression of peaceful protestors' might be, to some extent, misleading. A climate of fear is stifling discussion about Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws -- that's the contention of the BBC's Jill McGivering who's been touring the country investigating. Richard Wilson makes a return trip to Antarctica and is shocked at how the continent's changing. Gareth Armstrong visits an Indian classroom and hears the students voice outrage at how the British regard the work of the children's author Enid Blyton.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1674</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdf7.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdf7.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzdf7.mp3" length="26784000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110430-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzdf4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdf7.mp3" fileSize="26784000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1674"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzdf4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>April 23, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Students aren't revolting in Qatar and Oman -- Robin Lustig's been to the Gulf states to see what effect the uprisings in parts of the Arab world are having there. Justin Marozzi's in Libya as questions are being asked about who will run the country in the future. More journalists lost their lives this week in the fighting in Libya. Stuart Hughes reflects on the dangers a reporter can face covering conflict. Ethiopia is one of the least urbanised countries in the world; it's also a place which is losing its doctors - many of them are leave the country to work elsewhere. Claudia Hammond's been talking to some of the young people there who've now been charged with taking healthcare out into the wideopen spaces of the Ethiopian countryside. And why is it city dwellers in France are happy to live in apartments while their counterparts in the UK opt, where possible, for houses? Hugh Schofield in France wonders what this division tells us about the development of two neighbouring peoples.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Students aren't revolting in Qatar and Oman -- Robin Lustig's been to the Gulf states...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Students aren't revolting in Qatar and Oman -- Robin Lustig's been to the Gulf states to see what effect the uprisings in parts of the Arab world are having there. Justin Marozzi's in Libya as questions are being asked about who will run the country in the future. More journalists lost their lives this week in the fighting in Libya. Stuart Hughes reflects on the dangers a reporter can face covering conflict. Ethiopia is one of the least urbanised countries in the world; it's also a place which is losing its doctors - many of them are leave the country to work elsewhere. Claudia Hammond's been talking to some of the young people there who've now been charged with taking healthcare out into the wideopen spaces of the Ethiopian countryside. And why is it city dwellers in France are happy to live in apartments while their counterparts in the UK opt, where possible, for houses? Hugh Schofield in France wonders what this division tells us about the development of two neighbouring peoples.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1681</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgcq.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgcq.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzgcq.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110423-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzgcl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzgcq.mp3" fileSize="26896000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1681"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzgcl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>April 16, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>'The Bahrain I had known wasn't there' - Frank Gardner, who used to live on the Gulf island, reports on life there under a state of emergency. The 7/7 bombings in London claimed victims of many nationalities; Nick Beake has travelled to Poland to hear more about one of them: a young woman who was a keen student and a member of the local choir. India's huge population has come under scrutiny in the recent census and Mark Tully has been wondering if the country's relatively youthful population will ultimately prove a boon for the economy -- or a drain on it. A long running strike at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra has finally come to an end and Petroc Trelawny's been hearing that it could be a long time before the wounds are healed. And Kathy Flower finds that chemists' shops in the French Pyrenees offer much more than just aspirins - they're places you can visit for advice on wild mushrooms: will they kill you or prove a tasty topping on your omelette?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> 'The Bahrain I had known wasn't there' - Frank Gardner, who used to live on the Gulf a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>'The Bahrain I had known wasn't there' - Frank Gardner, who used to live on the Gulf island, reports on life there under a state of emergency. The 7/7 bombings in London claimed victims of many nationalities; Nick Beake has travelled to Poland to hear more about one of them: a young woman who was a keen student and a member of the local choir. India's huge population has come under scrutiny in the recent census and Mark Tully has been wondering if the country's relatively youthful population will ultimately prove a boon for the economy -- or a drain on it. A long running strike at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra has finally come to an end and Petroc Trelawny's been hearing that it could be a long time before the wounds are healed. And Kathy Flower finds that chemists' shops in the French Pyrenees offer much more than just aspirins - they're places you can visit for advice on wild mushrooms: will they kill you or prove a tasty topping on your omelette?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:09:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz622.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz622.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz622.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110416-1209.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz61v</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz622.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz61v</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>April 09, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>'Even the winners are losers'-- Andrew Harding goes on a road journey through devastated, terrified Ivory Coast; Robert Hodierne on the homes being built for limbless former combat troops in the United States; Stephen Sackur's in the Australian outback hearing how the Chinese are getting iron ore there; the dangers of childbirth in Afghanistan and the efforts being made to improve the situation are explained  by Nadene Ghouri in Kabul while Nick Thorpe hears tales about the ancient sturgeon and how it's facing extinction on the River Danube.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> 'Even the winners are losers'-- Andrew Harding goes on a road journey through Ivory on...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>'Even the winners are losers'-- Andrew Harding goes on a road journey through devastated, terrified Ivory Coast; Robert Hodierne on the homes being built for limbless former combat troops in the United States; Stephen Sackur's in the Australian outback hearing how the Chinese are getting iron ore there; the dangers of childbirth in Afghanistan and the efforts being made to improve the situation are explained  by Nadene Ghouri in Kabul while Nick Thorpe hears tales about the ancient sturgeon and how it's facing extinction on the River Danube.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4y2.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4y2.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz4y2.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110409-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz4xv</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz4y2.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz4xv</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>April 2, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Visiting time at Yemen's jail for political prisoners: Genevieve Bicknell meets the families of some of those detained who tell her why they feel it's time for the country's president to step down. Mark Urban, just back from Afghanistan, talks of a new attempt to improve the tarnished image of Afghanistan's police force. How the Lost Boys, who fled the civil war in Sudan, are finding out details of their past thanks to an archive which had been gathering dust in Addis Ababa -- that's from Paul Adams. Linda Pressley travels deep into the forests of Ecuador to find out how oil exploration is threatening a way of life. Anu Anand is in Delhi where traditional story-tellers have been tempting people away from their flatscreen TVs. And Owen Bennett Jones is in Cairo wondering if he's just been ripped off by a canny taxi driver.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Visiting time at Yemen's jail for political prisoners: Genevieve Bicknell meets the of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Visiting time at Yemen's jail for political prisoners: Genevieve Bicknell meets the families of some of those detained who tell her why they feel it's time for the country's president to step down. Mark Urban, just back from Afghanistan, talks of a new attempt to improve the tarnished image of Afghanistan's police force. How the Lost Boys, who fled the civil war in Sudan, are finding out details of their past thanks to an archive which had been gathering dust in Addis Ababa -- that's from Paul Adams. Linda Pressley travels deep into the forests of Ecuador to find out how oil exploration is threatening a way of life. Anu Anand is in Delhi where traditional story-tellers have been tempting people away from their flatscreen TVs. And Owen Bennett Jones is in Cairo wondering if he's just been ripped off by a canny taxi driver.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlq7.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlq7.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzlq7.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110402-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzlq5</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzlq7.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzlq5</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>March 26, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Crisis in the Eurozone -- Chris Morris in Brussels says we're ignoring it at our peril. Sue Lloyd Roberts hears two opinions about Saudi Arabia: do its women live pampered lives or are they kept prisoners? Nick Thorpe's in a village in eastern Hungary where vigilantes say Roma crime is raging out of control. Crazy names for serious people in the Philippines, Kate McGeown investigates. And Gabriel Gatehouse is in The Netherlands trying to ask the Royal Family if they still ride about on bicycles.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Crisis in the Eurozone -- Chris Morris in Brussels says we're ignoring it at our peril.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Crisis in the Eurozone -- Chris Morris in Brussels says we're ignoring it at our peril. Sue Lloyd Roberts hears two opinions about Saudi Arabia: do its women live pampered lives or are they kept prisoners? Nick Thorpe's in a village in eastern Hungary where vigilantes say Roma crime is raging out of control. Crazy names for serious people in the Philippines, Kate McGeown investigates. And Gabriel Gatehouse is in The Netherlands trying to ask the Royal Family if they still ride about on bicycles.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzt2l.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzt2l.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzt2l.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110326-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzt2g</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzt2l.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzt2g</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>March 19, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Explosions and gunfire in Benghazi -- Kevin Connolly on the struggle for power in eastern Libya; Rupert Wingfield Hayes is in Tokyo where there's growing fear at the prospect of nuclear meltdown. Hannah Barnes has been talking to lovers of Hebrew who are determined to ensure that the language remains as up to date as it can possibly be. Two months after a Congresswoman was shot in Tucson, Arizona, David Willis looks at the impact the incident had had on America's attitude towards guns. And Monhammed Hanif has been touched by the miseries of a splendid snow leopard which has been removed from its home among the craggy peaks of Pakistan.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Explosions and gunfire in Benghazi -- Kevin Connolly on the struggle for power in is...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Explosions and gunfire in Benghazi -- Kevin Connolly on the struggle for power in eastern Libya; Rupert Wingfield Hayes is in Tokyo where there's growing fear at the prospect of nuclear meltdown. Hannah Barnes has been talking to lovers of Hebrew who are determined to ensure that the language remains as up to date as it can possibly be. Two months after a Congresswoman was shot in Tucson, Arizona, David Willis looks at the impact the incident had had on America's attitude towards guns. And Monhammed Hanif has been touched by the miseries of a splendid snow leopard which has been removed from its home among the craggy peaks of Pakistan.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1698</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s046f.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s046f.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s046f.mp3" length="27168000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110319-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s0460</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s046f.mp3" fileSize="27168000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1698"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s0460</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>March 17, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Colossal forces of nature have devastated Japan and the country faces the possibility of a nuclear disaster; but in the teeth of catastrophe Rachel Harvey discovers an extraordinary resilience on the part of the Japanese people. Egypt is undergoing massive political upheaval; and while the country is struggling to shape its future, Christine Finn hears that looters are increasingly plundering its past. Southern Sudan is just a few months away from independence; Hugh Sykes gets a feel for life in what will be Africa's newest capital city. On the anniversary of Italy's unification, David Willey meets the Italians who would rather dismantle the state than celebrate its foundation. And, enjoying a rare glimpse of Russia's pioneering spacecraft, Richard Hollingham wonders whether Russia might prove to be the real winner of the space race.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Colossal forces of nature have devastated Japan and the country faces the possibility...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Colossal forces of nature have devastated Japan and the country faces the possibility of a nuclear disaster; but in the teeth of catastrophe Rachel Harvey discovers an extraordinary resilience on the part of the Japanese people. Egypt is undergoing massive political upheaval; and while the country is struggling to shape its future, Christine Finn hears that looters are increasingly plundering its past. Southern Sudan is just a few months away from independence; Hugh Sykes gets a feel for life in what will be Africa's newest capital city. On the anniversary of Italy's unification, David Willey meets the Italians who would rather dismantle the state than celebrate its foundation. And, enjoying a rare glimpse of Russia's pioneering spacecraft, Richard Hollingham wonders whether Russia might prove to be the real winner of the space race.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:37:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzr7y.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzr7y.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzr7y.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110317-1037.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzr7r</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzr7y.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzr7r</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>March 12, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Earthquake in Japan: Hugh Levinson on how fear of catastrophe has helped shape the country's psyche; menace and bloodshed in Ivory Coast's largest city - Andrew Harding on the violence triggered by a dispute over the presidency. What impact has the foreign media had on the course of the uprisings in north Africa and the Middle East? It's a question confronted here by the BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson. In north-east India, Rupa Jha meets some of the women who've lost their husbands in a series of under-reported insurgencies and Martin Patience spends a morning being amazed at Mr Wu's robot factory in China.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Earthquake in Japan: Hugh Levinson on how fear of catastrophe has helped shape the and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Earthquake in Japan: Hugh Levinson on how fear of catastrophe has helped shape the country's psyche; menace and bloodshed in Ivory Coast's largest city - Andrew Harding on the violence triggered by a dispute over the presidency. What impact has the foreign media had on the course of the uprisings in north Africa and the Middle East? It's a question confronted here by the BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson. In north-east India, Rupa Jha meets some of the women who've lost their husbands in a series of under-reported insurgencies and Martin Patience spends a morning being amazed at Mr Wu's robot factory in China.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1699</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzv02.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzv02.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzv02.mp3" length="27184000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110312-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rztzx</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzv02.mp3" fileSize="27184000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1699"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rztzx</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mar 10, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Michael Buchanan goes behind the front lines in the rebel city of Benghazi in Libya and finds many are still giddy with delight at their new found freedom. John James has been watching the West African State of Ivory Coast descend into chaos over the bitterly disputed election. In Cuba, Polly Hope finds people are plunging into the once forbidden world of commerce with huge enthusiasm. Daniel Sandford gets to the heart of the matter in Ukraine, listening to the tales of a former government driver battling against corruption. And Jonny Hogg spends time with a group of musicians who are attempting to play their way out of poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Michael Buchanan goes behind the front lines in the rebel city of Benghazi in Libya at...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Michael Buchanan goes behind the front lines in the rebel city of Benghazi in Libya and finds many are still giddy with delight at their new found freedom. John James has been watching the West African State of Ivory Coast descend into chaos over the bitterly disputed election. In Cuba, Polly Hope finds people are plunging into the once forbidden world of commerce with huge enthusiasm. Daniel Sandford gets to the heart of the matter in Ukraine, listening to the tales of a former government driver battling against corruption. And Jonny Hogg spends time with a group of musicians who are attempting to play their way out of poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:44:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1697</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwgy.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwgy.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzwgy.mp3" length="27152000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110310-1144.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzwgw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwgy.mp3" fileSize="27152000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1697"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzwgw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>March 5, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Dreams of a new Libya in the revolutionary city of Benghazi but, as Kevin Connolly's been discovering, there's fear too. Could Saudi Arabia be touched by this season of revolt in the Middle East? It's a question answered by a correspondent who knows the kingdom better than most, Frank Gardner. In a court in Belarus, David Stern looks on as KGB evidence condemns a pro-democracy activist. Judy Swallow chronicles the life of a hand-rickshaw puller in the Indian city of Kolkata and on a hunting trip in the Amazon, Justin Rowlatt finds himself wearing not much more than a string of feathers....and a smile.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Dreams of a new Libya in the revolutionary city of Benghazi but, as Kevin Connolly's...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Dreams of a new Libya in the revolutionary city of Benghazi but, as Kevin Connolly's been discovering, there's fear too. Could Saudi Arabia be touched by this season of revolt in the Middle East? It's a question answered by a correspondent who knows the kingdom better than most, Frank Gardner. In a court in Belarus, David Stern looks on as KGB evidence condemns a pro-democracy activist. Judy Swallow chronicles the life of a hand-rickshaw puller in the Indian city of Kolkata and on a hunting trip in the Amazon, Justin Rowlatt finds himself wearing not much more than a string of feathers....and a smile.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1681</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rztp9.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rztp9.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rztp9.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110305-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rztp6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rztp9.mp3" fileSize="26896000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1681"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rztp6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Mar 03, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A restaurant date with Colonel Gaddafi: Jeremy Bowen talks revolution and politics with the Libyan leader. Chris Hogg in Shanghai -- is an Arab-style political spring likely to blossom in China? Steve Evans is in Berlin explaining the fall from grace of the government minister they're calling Dr Cut and Paste. Ethiopia's Christians celebrate their ancient sacred heritage, as Michael Kaye looks on. And flip flops - but not as we know them: Jane Beresford on another correspondent's dilemma.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> A restaurant date with Colonel Gaddafi: Jeremy Bowen talks revolution and politics the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A restaurant date with Colonel Gaddafi: Jeremy Bowen talks revolution and politics with the Libyan leader. Chris Hogg in Shanghai -- is an Arab-style political spring likely to blossom in China? Steve Evans is in Berlin explaining the fall from grace of the government minister they're calling Dr Cut and Paste. Ethiopia's Christians celebrate their ancient sacred heritage, as Michael Kaye looks on. And flip flops - but not as we know them: Jane Beresford on another correspondent's dilemma.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1702</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzm7y.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzm7y.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzm7y.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110303-1230.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzm7s</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzm7y.mp3" fileSize="27232000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1702"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzm7s</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Feb 26, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Our correspondent - who can't be named - describes life in Tripoli with its empty streets, boarded up shops and burnt out buildings.
  2675. Barbara Plett describes the strange goings on at the United Nations with Libya's diplomats divided over support for Colonel Gaddaffi's regime.
  2676. Mark Mardell witnesses the conflicting emotions in Washington over the upheaval in the Middle East and asks why it seems that the United States so often backs the bad guys?
  2677. Jonty Bloom explores the linguistic divide behind the political impass in Belgium.
  2678. And Mark Lowen reports on the end of the BBC's Serbian Service after more than seventy years of broadcasting.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Our correspondent - who can't be named - describes life in Tripoli with its empty up...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Our correspondent - who can't be named - describes life in Tripoli with its empty streets, boarded up shops and burnt out buildings.
  2679. Barbara Plett describes the strange goings on at the United Nations with Libya's diplomats divided over support for Colonel Gaddaffi's regime.
  2680. Mark Mardell witnesses the conflicting emotions in Washington over the upheaval in the Middle East and asks why it seems that the United States so often backs the bad guys?
  2681. Jonty Bloom explores the linguistic divide behind the political impass in Belgium.
  2682. And Mark Lowen reports on the end of the BBC's Serbian Service after more than seventy years of broadcasting.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:59:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1681</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00dc.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00dc.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s00dc.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110226-1159.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s00cz</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00dc.mp3" fileSize="26896000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1681"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s00cz</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Feb 24, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Black Sea resort of Sochi is preparing to host the next Winter Olympics. But following an attack on tourists at a Russian ski resort, Stephen Rosenberg hears concerns that Sochi could become a target for terrorism. As the people of Dresden commemorate the anniversary of the city's bombing during World War Two, Stephen Evans meets the neo-Nazi's demonstrating there. Petroc Trelawney is treated to a day out in the Zimbabwean countryside and a history lesson from the daughter of the country's former Prime Minister. Jonathan Fryer meets the Mennonites of Paraguay, members of a Christian religious sect that set up home in the vast "green desert" of the Paraguayan Chaco. And Paul Miles takes part in the World Kick-sledge Championships where the sledges are propelled by people.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>The Black Sea resort of Sochi is preparing to host the next Winter Olympics.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Black Sea resort of Sochi is preparing to host the next Winter Olympics. But following an attack on tourists at a Russian ski resort, Stephen Rosenberg hears concerns that Sochi could become a target for terrorism. As the people of Dresden commemorate the anniversary of the city's bombing during World War Two, Stephen Evans meets the neo-Nazi's demonstrating there. Petroc Trelawney is treated to a day out in the Zimbabwean countryside and a history lesson from the daughter of the country's former Prime Minister. Jonathan Fryer meets the Mennonites of Paraguay, members of a Christian religious sect that set up home in the vast "green desert" of the Paraguayan Chaco. And Paul Miles takes part in the World Kick-sledge Championships where the sledges are propelled by people.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:10:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1678</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd5m.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd5m.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzd5m.mp3" length="26848000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110224-1310.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzd5k</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd5m.mp3" fileSize="26848000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1678"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzd5k</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Feb 19, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The unrest sweeping north Africa and the Middle East reaches Bahrain and Bill Law explains some of the tension in this island kingdom. Paul Adams travels through Egypt to see if calm is returning after the recent disturbances. As a momentous election approaches in Ireland, Fergal Keane says there's a sense of betrayal among the electorate. Robin Lustig travels through Italy in the week its prime minister is told he's facing serious criminal charges and Martin Plaut is in Sudan as the country prepares to split in two. There's a large unresolved question: what will happen to the cattle?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The unrest sweeping north Africa and the Middle East reaches Bahrain and Bill Law some...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The unrest sweeping north Africa and the Middle East reaches Bahrain and Bill Law explains some of the tension in this island kingdom. Paul Adams travels through Egypt to see if calm is returning after the recent disturbances. As a momentous election approaches in Ireland, Fergal Keane says there's a sense of betrayal among the electorate. Robin Lustig travels through Italy in the week its prime minister is told he's facing serious criminal charges and Martin Plaut is in Sudan as the country prepares to split in two. There's a large unresolved question: what will happen to the cattle?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s031l.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s031l.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s031l.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110219-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s031d</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s031l.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s031d</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Feb 17, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The wind of change sweeps across parts of the Middle East and North Africa -- an assessment from Jeremy Bowen. Basque separatist group ETA announced last year they would no longer use violence to campaign for the region's independence; Sarah Rainsford watches a new political party launch in Spain. Will Ross follows the first elections in Uganda since the end of war in the north of the country. Indonesia hopes to ride the wave of economic growth in the developing world and become the next big emerging market; Peter Day meets the Indonesians hoping for economic change; that their country might become the next Asian Tiger. And Trish Flanagan takes a trip along Ireland's rural roads to see the sport that stops the traffic.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The wind of change sweeps across parts of the Middle East and North Africa -- an from...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The wind of change sweeps across parts of the Middle East and North Africa -- an assessment from Jeremy Bowen. Basque separatist group ETA announced last year they would no longer use violence to campaign for the region's independence; Sarah Rainsford watches a new political party launch in Spain. Will Ross follows the first elections in Uganda since the end of war in the north of the country. Indonesia hopes to ride the wave of economic growth in the developing world and become the next big emerging market; Peter Day meets the Indonesians hoping for economic change; that their country might become the next Asian Tiger. And Trish Flanagan takes a trip along Ireland's rural roads to see the sport that stops the traffic.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:42:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1676</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvv6.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvv6.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzvv6.mp3" length="26816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110217-1042.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzvv2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvv6.mp3" fileSize="26816000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1676"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzvv2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Feb 12, 2010</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Weeks of drama in Egypt reach a climax with the resignation of President Mubarak. Hugh Sykes tells of the joy in Cairo's Tahrir Square; Rupert Wingfield Hayes examines what will happen to the army of police, thugs and torturers who enforced Mubarak's police state;  Jonathan Marcus explains how western diplomats were left floundering by this very Egyptian revolution; Sarah Monaghan's in Oman, a distant outpost of the Arab world waiting to see if the winds of change will blow through there as well and Justin Webb muses on the effect the changing shape of the Middle East might be having on American foreign policy.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>Weeks of drama in Egypt reach a climax with the resignation of President Mubarak.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Weeks of drama in Egypt reach a climax with the resignation of President Mubarak. Hugh Sykes tells of the joy in Cairo's Tahrir Square; Rupert Wingfield Hayes examines what will happen to the army of police, thugs and torturers who enforced Mubarak's police state;  Jonathan Marcus explains how western diplomats were left floundering by this very Egyptian revolution; Sarah Monaghan's in Oman, a distant outpost of the Arab world waiting to see if the winds of change will blow through there as well and Justin Webb muses on the effect the changing shape of the Middle East might be having on American foreign policy.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1681</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz65s.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz65s.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz65s.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110212-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz65n</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz65s.mp3" fileSize="26896000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1681"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz65n</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Feb 10 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The generals in Cairo watch and wait as the demonstrations continue: Jon Leyne considers their possible role in the days and weeks ahead. Bethany Bell attends a spectacular Viennese ball and finds that the possible succession in Egypt is the talk of the town. Across Europe there is growing anxiety about the cultural impact of immigration, fuelling the growth of populist political parties who say Europe's Christian heritage is under threat. Chris Bowlby reflects on the religious symbolism of the immigration debate. A group of prominent Indians recently praised the country's media for exposing corruption. Mark Tully considers whether India's media is itself a part of the problem. And the Russian woman whose baby workout shocked the blogosphere has some advice for her critics.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The generals in Cairo watch and wait as the demonstrations continue: Jon Leyne their...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The generals in Cairo watch and wait as the demonstrations continue: Jon Leyne considers their possible role in the days and weeks ahead. Bethany Bell attends a spectacular Viennese ball and finds that the possible succession in Egypt is the talk of the town. Across Europe there is growing anxiety about the cultural impact of immigration, fuelling the growth of populist political parties who say Europe's Christian heritage is under threat. Chris Bowlby reflects on the religious symbolism of the immigration debate. A group of prominent Indians recently praised the country's media for exposing corruption. Mark Tully considers whether India's media is itself a part of the problem. And the Russian woman whose baby workout shocked the blogosphere has some advice for her critics.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:45:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1702</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzm6b.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzm6b.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzm6b.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110210-1145.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzm65</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzm6b.mp3" fileSize="27232000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1702"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzm65</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Feb 5, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>With Egypt in turmoil Kevin Connolly discovers what Hosni Mubarak's sense of timing says about his character. Malcolm Brabant has been finding out how the dreams of migrants die on the streets of Athens. Why a Chinese chicken farmer is ruffling feathers in a Zambian market -- Justin Rowlatt's been investigating. In the southwest of France Chris Bockman's unearthed skullduggery among truffle hunters and their dogs. And Hamilton Wende's been to meet the bare-knuckle brawlers who fight for honour and glory in rural South Africa.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> With Egypt in turmoil Kevin Connolly discovers what Hosni Mubarak's sense of timing...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>With Egypt in turmoil Kevin Connolly discovers what Hosni Mubarak's sense of timing says about his character. Malcolm Brabant has been finding out how the dreams of migrants die on the streets of Athens. Why a Chinese chicken farmer is ruffling feathers in a Zambian market -- Justin Rowlatt's been investigating. In the southwest of France Chris Bockman's unearthed skullduggery among truffle hunters and their dogs. And Hamilton Wende's been to meet the bare-knuckle brawlers who fight for honour and glory in rural South Africa.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:19:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1675</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzly5.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzly5.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzly5.mp3" length="26800000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110205-1219.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzly2</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzly5.mp3" fileSize="26800000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1675"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzly2</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>03 Feb 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>President Mubarak of Egypt is desperate to leave office with a degree of dignity, but Lyse Doucet meets people in Cairo who think the time for change is now. US-led forces in Afghanistan feel they are making progress; Robert Fox considers whether this might be the beginning of the end for the Taliban or just another lull in the fighting. Few countries are as homophobic as Uganda; homosexual acts can be punished with years in prison. But following the death of gay rights activist David Kato, Anna Cavell finds Kampala's gay community in defiant mood. Pripyat in the Ukraine is a ghost town, abandoned within hours of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power-plant in 1986; Richard Hollingham explores the ruins of a model Soviet settlement frozen in time. Tea is a popular brew in both Britain and India but it's really not the same drink at all. Indian chai is something of a surprise to taste buds accustomed to the less spicy English preparation, but Judy Swallow soon fell in love with it.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> President Mubarak of Egypt is desperate to leave office with a degree of dignity, but...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>President Mubarak of Egypt is desperate to leave office with a degree of dignity, but Lyse Doucet meets people in Cairo who think the time for change is now. US-led forces in Afghanistan feel they are making progress; Robert Fox considers whether this might be the beginning of the end for the Taliban or just another lull in the fighting. Few countries are as homophobic as Uganda; homosexual acts can be punished with years in prison. But following the death of gay rights activist David Kato, Anna Cavell finds Kampala's gay community in defiant mood. Pripyat in the Ukraine is a ghost town, abandoned within hours of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power-plant in 1986; Richard Hollingham explores the ruins of a model Soviet settlement frozen in time. Tea is a popular brew in both Britain and India but it's really not the same drink at all. Indian chai is something of a surprise to taste buds accustomed to the less spicy English preparation, but Judy Swallow soon fell in love with it.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzw3j.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzw3j.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzw3j.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110203-1202.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzw3b</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzw3j.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzw3b</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Jan 29, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Spectacular political developments across the Arab world as viewed from the Corniche in Beirut by Kevin Connolly; Quentin Somerville in Kabul views shocking evidence of what the Taleban call justice; Madeleine Morris is in the Indian state of Andrha Pradesh finding out why microcredit, once hailed as the answer to world poverty, has been getting a bad name; James Coomarasamy explores a town in Belarus where the spirit of Lenin still marches on and David Goldblatt is in Dakar getting a crash course in how to get streetwise in Senegal.
  2683. And a correspondent goes in the footsteps of a master as he learns how to survive on the streets of Dakar....</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Spectacular political developments across the Arab world as viewed from the Corniche a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Spectacular political developments across the Arab world as viewed from the Corniche in Beirut by Kevin Connolly; Quentin Somerville in Kabul views shocking evidence of what the Taleban call justice; Madeleine Morris is in the Indian state of Andrha Pradesh finding out why microcredit, once hailed as the answer to world poverty, has been getting a bad name; James Coomarasamy explores a town in Belarus where the spirit of Lenin still marches on and David Goldblatt is in Dakar getting a crash course in how to get streetwise in Senegal.
  2684. And a correspondent goes in the footsteps of a master as he learns how to survive on the streets of Dakar....</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:13:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1693</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsp7.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsp7.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzsp7.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110129-1213.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzsp4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzsp7.mp3" fileSize="27088000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1693"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzsp4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Jan 27, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The rampant corruption that blights India's dreams of a brighter future is chronicled by Chris Morris. Justin Marozzi is on the frontline of one of the most dangerous cities on earth. Sarah Monaghan is in once-thriving Dubai, the emirate learning to live with much harder economic times. David Willis has been hearing about the debt Las Vegas owes to the mafia.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The rampant corruption that blights India's dreams of a brighter future is chronicled...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The rampant corruption that blights India's dreams of a brighter future is chronicled by Chris Morris. Justin Marozzi is on the frontline of one of the most dangerous cities on earth. Sarah Monaghan is in once-thriving Dubai, the emirate learning to live with much harder economic times. David Willis has been hearing about the debt Las Vegas owes to the mafia.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1690</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzrz1.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzrz1.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzrz1.mp3" length="27040000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110127-1132.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzryw</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzrz1.mp3" fileSize="27040000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1690"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzryw</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Jan 22, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is China's economic muscle crushing the heart out of blue-collar America? Justin Rowlatt's been to Ohio to find out. But while America's industrial heartland's feeling the pinch, Mike Wendling finds that, in the social networking industry, Americans lead the field; Mary Harper tells us about the  city in the Horn of Africa which has risen from the ruins of war; the story of an extraordinary Englishman who's immersed himself in Afghan tribal life is told by Nadene Ghouri; while Christian Parkinson makes a very important purchase in South Africa -- with a herd of cows!</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Is China's economic muscle crushing the heart out of blue-collar America? Justin been...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Is China's economic muscle crushing the heart out of blue-collar America? Justin Rowlatt's been to Ohio to find out. But while America's industrial heartland's feeling the pinch, Mike Wendling finds that, in the social networking industry, Americans lead the field; Mary Harper tells us about the  city in the Horn of Africa which has risen from the ruins of war; the story of an extraordinary Englishman who's immersed himself in Afghan tribal life is told by Nadene Ghouri; while Christian Parkinson makes a very important purchase in South Africa -- with a herd of cows!</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzqlr.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzqlr.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzqlr.mp3" length="26992000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110122-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzqlg</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzqlr.mp3" fileSize="26992000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1687"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzqlg</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Jan 20, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>As the political crisis in Lebanon deepens, Jeremy Bowen explores the country's tangled politics and finds out why intrigue surrounding the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri five years ago is driving events today. Adam Mynott was in Tunisia as President Ben Ali surrendered power. He assesses the mood on the streets and reflects on the difficulty of reporting a revolution. In Vietnam, Alastair Leithead finds a booming economy and an appetite for western goods challenging the country's communist traditions. Christian Fraser visits the school outside Paris that has opened in the former barracks of the Hussars; with fencing and horse-riding on the curriculum, can a traditional education offer something new to France's frustrated teens? And in Moscow, Steve Rosenberg hears a history of modern Russia from a cleaning lady who has lived through it all.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> As the political crisis in Lebanon deepens, Jeremy Bowen explores the country's and of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>As the political crisis in Lebanon deepens, Jeremy Bowen explores the country's tangled politics and finds out why intrigue surrounding the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri five years ago is driving events today. Adam Mynott was in Tunisia as President Ben Ali surrendered power. He assesses the mood on the streets and reflects on the difficulty of reporting a revolution. In Vietnam, Alastair Leithead finds a booming economy and an appetite for western goods challenging the country's communist traditions. Christian Fraser visits the school outside Paris that has opened in the former barracks of the Hussars; with fencing and horse-riding on the curriculum, can a traditional education offer something new to France's frustrated teens? And in Moscow, Steve Rosenberg hears a history of modern Russia from a cleaning lady who has lived through it all.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1696</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb5c.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb5c.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzb5c.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110120-1132.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzb58</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzb5c.mp3" fileSize="27136000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1696"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzb58</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Jan 15, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Violence on the streets of north Africa -- Chloe Arnold in Algeria says it's not only been a problem for the authorities in Tunisia. Southern Sudan's farmers have been talking to Will Ross about their dreams of peace in a new nation; the Communists of Laos begin a journey down the path to capitalism - Claudia Hammond had time to give an elephant a wash and brush up as she learned more; why some Americans are captivated by the British royal family -- Laura Trevelyan travelled to Grand Rapids, Michigan, in search of an answer; and Clive Lawton was soaking up the atmosphere on a holy day in an ancient centre of Jewish mysticism.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Violence on the streets of north Africa -- Chloe Arnold in Algeria says it's not only...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Violence on the streets of north Africa -- Chloe Arnold in Algeria says it's not only been a problem for the authorities in Tunisia. Southern Sudan's farmers have been talking to Will Ross about their dreams of peace in a new nation; the Communists of Laos begin a journey down the path to capitalism - Claudia Hammond had time to give an elephant a wash and brush up as she learned more; why some Americans are captivated by the British royal family -- Laura Trevelyan travelled to Grand Rapids, Michigan, in search of an answer; and Clive Lawton was soaking up the atmosphere on a holy day in an ancient centre of Jewish mysticism.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1709</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj5p.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj5p.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzj5p.mp3" length="27344000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110115-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzj5h</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj5p.mp3" fileSize="27344000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1709"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzj5h</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Jan 8, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The assassin who was garlanded: Orla Guerin on murder on the streets of Islamabad and the extent of extremism in Pakistan. Mark Doyle returns to his old stamping ground in Ivory Coast and visits the hotel that once gave pony rides to his son and now is a sanctuary and a presidential office at the same. Jonathan Fryer is in Azerbaijan looking at the city of Baku: crossroads between east and west; Justin Rowlatt is investigating Chinese economic activity in Brazil while Tim Ecott’s at the remote Indian Ocean island that brings together some scientists, a hundred thousand turtles and the occasional stranded Somali pirate.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The assassin who was garlanded: Orla Guerin on murder on the streets of Islamabad and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The assassin who was garlanded: Orla Guerin on murder on the streets of Islamabad and the extent of extremism in Pakistan. Mark Doyle returns to his old stamping ground in Ivory Coast and visits the hotel that once gave pony rides to his son and now is a sanctuary and a presidential office at the same. Jonathan Fryer is in Azerbaijan looking at the city of Baku: crossroads between east and west; Justin Rowlatt is investigating Chinese economic activity in Brazil while Tim Ecott’s at the remote Indian Ocean island that brings together some scientists, a hundred thousand turtles and the occasional stranded Somali pirate.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1693</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj4y.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj4y.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzj4y.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110108-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzj4w</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj4y.mp3" fileSize="27088000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1693"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzj4w</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Jan 1, 2011</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Nineteen correspondents from around the world join Kate Adie in this special New Year edition of the programme. They consider such matters as the 'park and pray' facilities on German's motorways, a reporter's dilemma on encountering a baby close to death in Pakistan; a cinema in Kabul where people gather to try to forget their troubles, a club in Baghdad where time seems to stand still, a school in Kenya where the alphabet is spelled out in goat droppings, several harrowing episodes at our correspondents' dining tables, an eventful rail journey in Zimbabwe and another on an Indian train with a strange choice of name, buying a drink in an iconic Irish pub and whether French can ever be the language of rock.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Nineteen correspondents from around the world join Kate Adie in this special New Year...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Nineteen correspondents from around the world join Kate Adie in this special New Year edition of the programme. They consider such matters as the 'park and pray' facilities on German's motorways, a reporter's dilemma on encountering a baby close to death in Pakistan; a cinema in Kabul where people gather to try to forget their troubles, a club in Baghdad where time seems to stand still, a school in Kenya where the alphabet is spelled out in goat droppings, several harrowing episodes at our correspondents' dining tables, an eventful rail journey in Zimbabwe and another on an Indian train with a strange choice of name, buying a drink in an iconic Irish pub and whether French can ever be the language of rock.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1681</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd6m.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd6m.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzd6m.mp3" length="26896000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20110101-1201.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzd6f</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzd6m.mp3" fileSize="26896000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1681"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzd6f</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Dec 18, 2010</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Three years in America: Kevin Connolly has time to reflect as he prepares to leave an eventful posting in the United States. A cocaine factory is blown to pieces in a Colombian jungle clearing -- Frank Gardner was there watching as the security forces took their battle against the cocaine barons into the jungle. Gideon Long, our man in Santiago, on Chile's extraordinary, rollercoaster year. The Roman Catholic Cathedral in Algiers has just re-opened -- Chloe Arnold was at the inauguration where she she saw Muslims and Christians praying alongside each other.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Three years in America: Kevin Connolly has time to reflect as he prepares to leave an...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Three years in America: Kevin Connolly has time to reflect as he prepares to leave an eventful posting in the United States. A cocaine factory is blown to pieces in a Colombian jungle clearing -- Frank Gardner was there watching as the security forces took their battle against the cocaine barons into the jungle. Gideon Long, our man in Santiago, on Chile's extraordinary, rollercoaster year. The Roman Catholic Cathedral in Algiers has just re-opened -- Chloe Arnold was at the inauguration where she she saw Muslims and Christians praying alongside each other.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00zq.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00zq.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s00zq.mp3" length="27024000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20101218-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s00zk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00zq.mp3" fileSize="27024000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1689"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s00zk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Dec 11, 2010</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Can America's dollars buy hearts and minds in southern Afghanistan? It's a subject Michael Buchanan has been examining in Helmand province; Hugh Sykes has been finding out how some Palestinians and Israelis have been forging connections across their deep divide. In Chennai, formerly Madras, Peter Curran has been listening in to an argument about the use of the English language; the best and the worst of life in one of South Africa's toughest townships -- Karen Allen's been visiting Gugulethu and Hugh Schofield has been on the hunt for the wild raiders who've been tormenting farmers in France.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Can America's dollars buy hearts and minds in southern Afghanistan? It's a subject has...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Can America's dollars buy hearts and minds in southern Afghanistan? It's a subject Michael Buchanan has been examining in Helmand province; Hugh Sykes has been finding out how some Palestinians and Israelis have been forging connections across their deep divide. In Chennai, formerly Madras, Peter Curran has been listening in to an argument about the use of the English language; the best and the worst of life in one of South Africa's toughest townships -- Karen Allen's been visiting Gugulethu and Hugh Schofield has been on the hunt for the wild raiders who've been tormenting farmers in France.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:51:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1696</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzt3g.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzt3g.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzt3g.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20101211-1051.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzt3d</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzt3g.mp3" fileSize="27136000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1696"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzt3d</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Dec 4, 2010</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The great silence that is the legacy of genocide -- Neil Trevithick considers the legacy of brutality in Cambodia; Andrew Harding manages to relax on the beach in war-weary Mogadishu and finds some Somalians optimistic about the future; Paul Adams eats oysters for breakfast and talks to some of those living with the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico's oil spill disaster. With much of the opposition boycotting the second round of general election voting, Jon Leyne considers the nature of politics Egyptian-style and Pascale Harter's learning how to endure endless thirst in one of the hottest places on the planet.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The great silence that is the legacy of genocide -- Neil Trevithick considers the of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The great silence that is the legacy of genocide -- Neil Trevithick considers the legacy of brutality in Cambodia; Andrew Harding manages to relax on the beach in war-weary Mogadishu and finds some Somalians optimistic about the future; Paul Adams eats oysters for breakfast and talks to some of those living with the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico's oil spill disaster. With much of the opposition boycotting the second round of general election voting, Jon Leyne considers the nature of politics Egyptian-style and Pascale Harter's learning how to endure endless thirst in one of the hottest places on the planet.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 10:50:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1694</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8v7.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8v7.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz8v7.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20101204-1050.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz8v3</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz8v7.mp3" fileSize="27104000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1694"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz8v3</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Nov 27, 2010</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Why Pakistan's flood victims feel they've been let down by their rulers – Jill McGivering’s been investigating; Peter Day’s just back from China with the story of a victim of the Cultural Revolution who emerged from prison and made a fortune. Russia's policemen fail to see the funny side of a campaign of ridicule as we discover from a despatch by Lucy Ash. Justin Marozzi mingles with the crowds at a football tournament being held, controversially, in Yemen while Barbara Plett is in New York with a tale of shame and horror at a BBC office there.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Why Pakistan's flood victims feel they've been let down by their rulers – Jill been...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Why Pakistan's flood victims feel they've been let down by their rulers – Jill McGivering’s been investigating; Peter Day’s just back from China with the story of a victim of the Cultural Revolution who emerged from prison and made a fortune. Russia's policemen fail to see the funny side of a campaign of ridicule as we discover from a despatch by Lucy Ash. Justin Marozzi mingles with the crowds at a football tournament being held, controversially, in Yemen while Barbara Plett is in New York with a tale of shame and horror at a BBC office there.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:24:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1658</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6s3.mp3" length="26528000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6s3.mp3" length="26528000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz6s3.mp3" length="26528000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20101127-1124.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz6s1</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz6s3.mp3" fileSize="26528000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1658"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz6s1</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Nov 20 2010</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ireland prepares to say goodbye to the best and brightest of its youth – Gavin Hewitt’s been finding out how the economic crisis there has forced thousands to consider emigration; Mark Urban’s at the NATO summit in Lisbon and points out that while some of the delegates question the continuing role of the alliance others believe fervently it has a role to play in the 21st century; in Rome David Willey says the rising tide of scandal may finally engulf Italy’s embattled prime minister; Paul Moss goes on patrol with the peacekeepers who have the challenging task of trying to maintain order in the Democratic Republic of Congo; while deep in the Amazon jungle, Justin Rowlatt finds himself confronting the jungle snack he’ll never forget …</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Ireland prepares to say goodbye to the best and brightest of its youth – Gavin been...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Ireland prepares to say goodbye to the best and brightest of its youth – Gavin Hewitt’s been finding out how the economic crisis there has forced thousands to consider emigration; Mark Urban’s at the NATO summit in Lisbon and points out that while some of the delegates question the continuing role of the alliance others believe fervently it has a role to play in the 21st century; in Rome David Willey says the rising tide of scandal may finally engulf Italy’s embattled prime minister; Paul Moss goes on patrol with the peacekeepers who have the challenging task of trying to maintain order in the Democratic Republic of Congo; while deep in the Amazon jungle, Justin Rowlatt finds himself confronting the jungle snack he’ll never forget …</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:05:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1693</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzknr.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzknr.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzknr.mp3" length="27088000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20101120-1205.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzknl</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzknr.mp3" fileSize="27088000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1693"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzknl</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>November 13, 2010</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A dark portrait is painted by our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes of millions of Russian lives lost in alcohol and despair; there are reflections on the death of a deeply troubled German hero from Eleanor Oldroyd; Will Ross explores the divisions that may be just about to split Sudan in half; A Chinese gourmet is introduced to fine Italian food by Fuchsia Dunlop in Turin and we know that the super spy, James Bond didn't like the Cold War Russians....but what, Kevin Connolly wonders, did he make of the Americans?</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> A dark portrait is painted by our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes of millions of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A dark portrait is painted by our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes of millions of Russian lives lost in alcohol and despair; there are reflections on the death of a deeply troubled German hero from Eleanor Oldroyd; Will Ross explores the divisions that may be just about to split Sudan in half; A Chinese gourmet is introduced to fine Italian food by Fuchsia Dunlop in Turin and we know that the super spy, James Bond didn't like the Cold War Russians....but what, Kevin Connolly wonders, did he make of the Americans?</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:12:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rztsc.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rztsc.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rztsc.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20101113-1212.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rztry</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rztsc.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rztry</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC Radio 4</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Christian families are leaving Iraq in large numbers amid continuing sectarian violence, Jim Muir has the latest developments. John Humphrys travels to China and finds political perils threaten the country's booming economy. In South Africa, Hamilton Wende hears tales of horror and victory from a veteran of the Battle of El Alamein. Lina Sinjab finds youngsters in Yemen disturbed by the way the world views their country. And in the Maldives, Tim Ecott witnesses the massing of the manta rays.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Christian families are leaving Iraq in large numbers amid continuing sectarian Jim has...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Christian families are leaving Iraq in large numbers amid continuing sectarian violence, Jim Muir has the latest developments. John Humphrys travels to China and finds political perils threaten the country's booming economy. In South Africa, Hamilton Wende hears tales of horror and victory from a veteran of the Battle of El Alamein. Lina Sinjab finds youngsters in Yemen disturbed by the way the world views their country. And in the Maldives, Tim Ecott witnesses the massing of the manta rays.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:40:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1576</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9pq.mp3" length="25216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9pq.mp3" length="25216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9pq.mp3" length="25216000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20101111-1040.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9pm</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9pq.mp3" fileSize="25216000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1576"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9pm</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Nov 4, 2010</title><description><![CDATA[<p>An undercover exploration of the glittering new capital city built by Burma's generals is carried out by Sue Lloyd-Roberts; Damian Grammaticas looks at the population count in China that will shed light on more than a billion lives; Daniel Schweimler finds a vacuum in Argentina after the death of former president Nestor Kirchner; anger and fear in Indonesia's restless province of Papua is reported by Rachel Harvey; while in a forest in the Czech Republic, Mike Wendling taps into the local passion for sausages, cold beer and a game that you may well have never heard of.....</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> An undercover exploration of the glittering new capital city built by Burma's generals...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>An undercover exploration of the glittering new capital city built by Burma's generals is carried out by Sue Lloyd-Roberts; Damian Grammaticas looks at the population count in China that will shed light on more than a billion lives; Daniel Schweimler finds a vacuum in Argentina after the death of former president Nestor Kirchner; anger and fear in Indonesia's restless province of Papua is reported by Rachel Harvey; while in a forest in the Czech Republic, Mike Wendling taps into the local passion for sausages, cold beer and a game that you may well have never heard of.....</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz45f.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz45f.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz45f.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20101104-1202.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz456</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz45f.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz456</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>30 Oct 2010</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The ruined heart of an American city, laid waste by economic collapse, is explored by Paul Mason; Mary Harper visits a hotel in Nairobi that's become a little piece of Somalia; from a South African prison, Hamilton Wende tells an inspiring tale of guilt and redemption; there's an explosion in modern art in the Turkish city of Istanbul, but Rosie Goldsmith's been finding out that not everyone's happy with that. And our correspondent David Willis struggles to embrace America's passion for Halloween.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The ruined heart of an American city, laid waste by economic collapse, is explored by...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The ruined heart of an American city, laid waste by economic collapse, is explored by Paul Mason; Mary Harper visits a hotel in Nairobi that's become a little piece of Somalia; from a South African prison, Hamilton Wende tells an inspiring tale of guilt and redemption; there's an explosion in modern art in the Turkish city of Istanbul, but Rosie Goldsmith's been finding out that not everyone's happy with that. And our correspondent David Willis struggles to embrace America's passion for Halloween.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:19:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1688</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s01qf.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s01qf.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s01qf.mp3" length="27008000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20101030-1219.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s01q9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s01qf.mp3" fileSize="27008000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1688"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s01q9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>Oct 28 2010</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Extra police have been drafted in to the Swedish city of Malmo -- Tim Mansel, who's there, says a gunman is on the loose who seems to have immigrants in his sights. The Chinese villages condemned to drown beneath the rising waters of the Yangtze - Peter Day's been to investigate. In the US, Andy Gallacher has a story of blood and guts at a rodeo in one of the country's toughest prisons. And Hugh Schfield tells us that while French may be the language of love and cuisine....it may not be right for rock and roll.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Extra police have been drafted in to the Swedish city of Malmo -- Tim Mansel, who's a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Extra police have been drafted in to the Swedish city of Malmo -- Tim Mansel, who's there, says a gunman is on the loose who seems to have immigrants in his sights. The Chinese villages condemned to drown beneath the rising waters of the Yangtze - Peter Day's been to investigate. In the US, Andy Gallacher has a story of blood and guts at a rodeo in one of the country's toughest prisons. And Hugh Schfield tells us that while French may be the language of love and cuisine....it may not be right for rock and roll.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1702</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvsh.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvsh.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzvsh.mp3" length="27232000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20101028-1230.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzvs6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzvsh.mp3" fileSize="27232000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1702"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzvs6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC Radio 4</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Today: We hear French lessons for an American truck driver; the surprising story of why some schools in Japan are funded by the North Koreans; there are the explicit stories told to get the Aids message across to Ugandan children; and we learn how a 21st Century St. Patrick could help out with Ireland's economic woes.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Today: We hear French lessons for an American truck driver; the surprising story of in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Today: We hear French lessons for an American truck driver; the surprising story of why some schools in Japan are funded by the North Koreans; there are the explicit stories told to get the Aids message across to Ugandan children; and we learn how a 21st Century St. Patrick could help out with Ireland's economic woes.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:59:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1691</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9cn.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9cn.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9cn.mp3" length="27056000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20101023-1159.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9cj</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9cn.mp3" fileSize="27056000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1691"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9cj</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC Radio 4</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Today: we hear from Aleem Maqbool in Pakistan where it's easier to blame others for your troubles than to really face up to them; we're in Berber country, in Algeria, with Jonathan Fryer, where until recently  kidnappings and killings were commonplace; we visit the Liberian countryside with Chris Simpson where they are dreaming  of the good ol' days when some people had a monthly salary; in Okinawa Philippa Fogarty explains how some people are determined to preserve their culture, as distinct from the Japanese one; and our correspondent Jonah Fisher is in the burning Kalahari, with his charcoal pickles.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Today: we hear from Aleem Maqbool in Pakistan where it's easier to blame others for to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Today: we hear from Aleem Maqbool in Pakistan where it's easier to blame others for your troubles than to really face up to them; we're in Berber country, in Algeria, with Jonathan Fryer, where until recently  kidnappings and killings were commonplace; we visit the Liberian countryside with Chris Simpson where they are dreaming  of the good ol' days when some people had a monthly salary; in Okinawa Philippa Fogarty explains how some people are determined to preserve their culture, as distinct from the Japanese one; and our correspondent Jonah Fisher is in the burning Kalahari, with his charcoal pickles.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1704</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj6j.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj6j.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzj6j.mp3" length="27264000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20101021-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzj6b</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzj6j.mp3" fileSize="27264000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1704"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzj6b</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>16 Oct 2010</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A huge welcome --  from some at least --as the President of Iran comes to southern Lebanon, Jeremy Bowen was there watching. Humphrey Hawksley's in Kiev as Ukrainians look nostalgically back to the days when they were part of the Soviet empire; a mixed press for the Commonwealth Games but Sam Miller finds there are technological reasons to be cheerful; Joanna Jolly's in Nepal where the world's tiniest man reckons his height is a passport to financial security. And Nick Thorpe tells tales of tragedy and hope after a week spent on the road covering the story of toxic sludge leak in Hungary.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> A huge welcome -- from some at least --as the President of Iran comes to southern was...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A huge welcome --  from some at least --as the President of Iran comes to southern Lebanon, Jeremy Bowen was there watching. Humphrey Hawksley's in Kiev as Ukrainians look nostalgically back to the days when they were part of the Soviet empire; a mixed press for the Commonwealth Games but Sam Miller finds there are technological reasons to be cheerful; Joanna Jolly's in Nepal where the world's tiniest man reckons his height is a passport to financial security. And Nick Thorpe tells tales of tragedy and hope after a week spent on the road covering the story of toxic sludge leak in Hungary.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:05:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1683</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhfb.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhfb.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzhfb.mp3" length="26928000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20101016-1205.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzhf4</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzhfb.mp3" fileSize="26928000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1683"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzhf4</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC Radio 4</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Colombian fighters who've given up the struggle, opting for education instead -- Robin Lustig has been to meet them; Gideon Long in Chile on what the rescue at the Copiapo mine tells us about the Chilean character; a flowering of democracy in Kyrgyzstan, but Rayhan Demytrie finds it's all too complicated for some; Chris Hogg's in Pyongyang as President Kim Jong Il annoints his son as successor and Jennifer Pak discovers even the heat can't melt the enthusiasm for ice hockey in Malaysia.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> The Colombian fighters who've given up the struggle, opting for education instead -- a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>The Colombian fighters who've given up the struggle, opting for education instead -- Robin Lustig has been to meet them; Gideon Long in Chile on what the rescue at the Copiapo mine tells us about the Chilean character; a flowering of democracy in Kyrgyzstan, but Rayhan Demytrie finds it's all too complicated for some; Chris Hogg's in Pyongyang as President Kim Jong Il annoints his son as successor and Jennifer Pak discovers even the heat can't melt the enthusiasm for ice hockey in Malaysia.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1694</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc2z.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc2z.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzc2z.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20101014-1132.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzc2w</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzc2z.mp3" fileSize="27104000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1694"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzc2w</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC Radio 4</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A mesmerising speech from a great South African churchman: the retirement of Archbishop Tutu is marked by Allan Little; Ian Pannell on the increasingly unsafe roads of Afghanistan; Farhana Dawood is in Leipzig noting the continuing divisions between Germans from the east and west of the country; Martin Patience tells us how the Chinese government is having to consider the implications of an ever-older population while Christine Finn is in the Northern Irish fishing village of Ardglass tasting one of the "silver darlings" on which the port has built its reputation.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> A mesmerising speech from a great South African churchman: the retirement of Tutu is...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A mesmerising speech from a great South African churchman: the retirement of Archbishop Tutu is marked by Allan Little; Ian Pannell on the increasingly unsafe roads of Afghanistan; Farhana Dawood is in Leipzig noting the continuing divisions between Germans from the east and west of the country; Martin Patience tells us how the Chinese government is having to consider the implications of an ever-older population while Christine Finn is in the Northern Irish fishing village of Ardglass tasting one of the "silver darlings" on which the port has built its reputation.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:47:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1682</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3lh.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3lh.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz3lh.mp3" length="26912000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc//radio4/fooc/fooc_20101012-0947.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz3l6</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz3lh.mp3" fileSize="26912000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1682"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz3l6</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC Radio 4</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Why some pro-democracy candidates in Burma won't be contesting the forthcoming elections; Pascale Harter's in Spain examining worries about the economy and the changes which a wave of immigration has brought to Spanish culture; In Srinagar, Kashmir, Chris Morris finds that local journalists, trying to report on a wave of unrest, have become targets themselves; Mark Mardell's in Nevada examining the reasons for the electorate's febrile mood ahead of November's midterm elections and a story about grandmother's chest of drawers and a mountain of red tape. That one's told by Chloe Arnold in Algiers.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Why some pro-democracy candidates in Burma won't be contesting the forthcoming Pascale...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Why some pro-democracy candidates in Burma won't be contesting the forthcoming elections; Pascale Harter's in Spain examining worries about the economy and the changes which a wave of immigration has brought to Spanish culture; In Srinagar, Kashmir, Chris Morris finds that local journalists, trying to report on a wave of unrest, have become targets themselves; Mark Mardell's in Nevada examining the reasons for the electorate's febrile mood ahead of November's midterm elections and a story about grandmother's chest of drawers and a mountain of red tape. That one's told by Chloe Arnold in Algiers.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:04:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1694</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzglc.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzglc.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzglc.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20101009-1204.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzgl9</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzglc.mp3" fileSize="27104000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1694"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzgl9</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC Radio 4</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Who says the Germans don't have a sense of humour? Steve Evans is in the east of the country as the anniversary of reunification approaches. Baghdad once had dozens of cinemas playing to full houses and even hosting glittering premieres. Gabriel Gatehouse discovers why the cinema in Iraq is dying. Hamilton Wende in Johannesburg explores one consequence of the biggest influx of immigrants since the gold rush: a babble of new languages on the streets of this South African city. Kevin Connolly looks at the challenges facing President Obama in the run-up to the Midterm elections while Justin Rowlatt finds that a song from our own correspondent can break the ice in Angola.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Who says the Germans don't have a sense of humour? Steve Evans is in the east of the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Who says the Germans don't have a sense of humour? Steve Evans is in the east of the country as the anniversary of reunification approaches. Baghdad once had dozens of cinemas playing to full houses and even hosting glittering premieres. Gabriel Gatehouse discovers why the cinema in Iraq is dying. Hamilton Wende in Johannesburg explores one consequence of the biggest influx of immigrants since the gold rush: a babble of new languages on the streets of this South African city. Kevin Connolly looks at the challenges facing President Obama in the run-up to the Midterm elections while Justin Rowlatt finds that a song from our own correspondent can break the ice in Angola.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00qf.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00qf.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02s00qf.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20101002-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s00q8</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02s00qf.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02s00q8</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC Radio 4</title><description><![CDATA[<p>After years of conflict in Uganda, the people of Acholiland are returning home; but Richard Dowden finds memories of war are straining the Acholi tradition of forgiveness. Peter Marshall meets the British woman on death row in Texas, and considers whether she should be there. Martin Patience goes for a drive with the young people of China in search of new friends on the open road. Charles Haviland is in Sri Lanka, where people are sharing their memories of the long civil war. And a man with a shopping trolley attracts the attention of our man in Johannesburg, Andrew Harding.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> After years of conflict in Uganda, the people of Acholiland are returning home; but of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>After years of conflict in Uganda, the people of Acholiland are returning home; but Richard Dowden finds memories of war are straining the Acholi tradition of forgiveness. Peter Marshall meets the British woman on death row in Texas, and considers whether she should be there. Martin Patience goes for a drive with the young people of China in search of new friends on the open road. Charles Haviland is in Sri Lanka, where people are sharing their memories of the long civil war. And a man with a shopping trolley attracts the attention of our man in Johannesburg, Andrew Harding.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:38:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1680</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwg5.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwg5.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzwg5.mp3" length="26880000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20100930-1038.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzwg0</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzwg5.mp3" fileSize="26880000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1680"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzwg0</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC Radio 4</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A corner of old Germany is unearthed in Latin America as Will Grant follows Venezuelans preparing for a crucial vote. Jonathan Head travels to the east of Turkey where there’s been, according to the government, a gesture of reconciliation towards an Armenian minority, subjected to mass killing during the First World War. Fifty years on from independence in Nigeria, Anna Horsbrugh-Porter meets up with two men working there back in 1960. Paul Harper’s in a Yemeni town which comes to a standstill after lunch as its men grow euphoric, chewing the leaves of the qat plant. And why are numbers so sharply down at the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas? Kevin Connolly muses on the attractions of conspicuous consumption in a time of recession and the transience of fame.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> A corner of old Germany is unearthed in Latin America as Will Grant follows preparing...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A corner of old Germany is unearthed in Latin America as Will Grant follows Venezuelans preparing for a crucial vote. Jonathan Head travels to the east of Turkey where there’s been, according to the government, a gesture of reconciliation towards an Armenian minority, subjected to mass killing during the First World War. Fifty years on from independence in Nigeria, Anna Horsbrugh-Porter meets up with two men working there back in 1960. Paul Harper’s in a Yemeni town which comes to a standstill after lunch as its men grow euphoric, chewing the leaves of the qat plant. And why are numbers so sharply down at the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas? Kevin Connolly muses on the attractions of conspicuous consumption in a time of recession and the transience of fame.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:09:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1686</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzt47.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzt47.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzt47.mp3" length="26976000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20100925-1209.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzt40</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzt47.mp3" fileSize="26976000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1686"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzt40</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC Radio 4</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Why is China restoring a British railway in Angola? Justin Rowlatt boards the Benguela Railway. A new generation is shaping the future of Afghanistan: Lyse Doucet finds out how. Just back in Russia, Steve Rosenberg considers the country's future. Annie Caulfield visits a Kenyan reptile sanctuary and discovers the role snakes play in the environment. And Christopher Landau explains why he's giving up journalism to pursue a more spiritual vocation.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Why is China restoring a British railway in Angola? Justin Rowlatt boards the Benguela...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Why is China restoring a British railway in Angola? Justin Rowlatt boards the Benguela Railway. A new generation is shaping the future of Afghanistan: Lyse Doucet finds out how. Just back in Russia, Steve Rosenberg considers the country's future. Annie Caulfield visits a Kenyan reptile sanctuary and discovers the role snakes play in the environment. And Christopher Landau explains why he's giving up journalism to pursue a more spiritual vocation.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1684</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdbq.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdbq.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzdbq.mp3" length="26944000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20100923-1130.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzdbk</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzdbq.mp3" fileSize="26944000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1684"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzdbk</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC Radio 4</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Why are America's new breed of soldiers studying philosophy? David Edmonds is in New York state finding out. Jon Leyne has been monitoring speculation in Cairo about who will succeed President Mubarak. There's a significant diplomatic development, Mark Lowen tells us from Belgrade, in Serbia's stance towards its breakaway province of Kosovo. Which are the countries who'll be having their say on world affairs in ten years'time? It's a question Bridget Kendall poses ahead of the UN General Assembly in New York. And some say it was Africa's biggest market. But Louise Redvers says the site, in Angola's capital, Luanda has been closed down and its traders moved on.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Why are America's new breed of soldiers studying philosophy? David Edmonds is in New...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Why are America's new breed of soldiers studying philosophy? David Edmonds is in New York state finding out. Jon Leyne has been monitoring speculation in Cairo about who will succeed President Mubarak. There's a significant diplomatic development, Mark Lowen tells us from Belgrade, in Serbia's stance towards its breakaway province of Kosovo. Which are the countries who'll be having their say on world affairs in ten years'time? It's a question Bridget Kendall poses ahead of the UN General Assembly in New York. And some say it was Africa's biggest market. But Louise Redvers says the site, in Angola's capital, Luanda has been closed down and its traders moved on.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1694</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzk6n.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzk6n.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzk6n.mp3" length="27104000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20100918-1215.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzk6d</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzk6n.mp3" fileSize="27104000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1694"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzk6d</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC Radio 4</title><description><![CDATA[<p>A big week for the Turkish Prime Minister. Jonathan Head gauges reaction to his growing power. Jennifer Pak finds out what sex education is like for teenagers in Malaysia. Angus Crawford meets the children of Senegal made to beg for money by their teachers. Lorraine Mallinder is in Mauritius finding out what happened to the Chagos Islanders exiled there. And Zeb Soanes goes to Hollywood and gets a shave from the barber to the stars.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle>A big week for the Turkish Prime Minister.  Jonathan Head gauges reaction to his power...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>A big week for the Turkish Prime Minister. Jonathan Head gauges reaction to his growing power. Jennifer Pak finds out what sex education is like for teenagers in Malaysia. Angus Crawford meets the children of Senegal made to beg for money by their teachers. Lorraine Mallinder is in Mauritius finding out what happened to the Chagos Islanders exiled there. 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It's a question Christian Fraser in Paris answers in the week a million French people took to the streets to protest at the government's plans to raise the retirement age. On the anniversary of 9/11 Laura Trevelyan in New York's been talking to the Manhattan Muslims about the furore surrounding plans to build an Islamic cultural centre and mosque close to Ground Zero. Mark Tully visits a hill station -- it's the sort of place the British, back in colonial days, would go to escape the heat of summer. Today, it seems, they have a rather different character. Jane Beresford's in the fields of Sierra Leone finding out why women there welcome the sight of new tractors at their farms and Ella Fitzgerald sang of eating baloney at Coney. Today, as Antonia Quirke has discovered, the city has plans for the amusement district of Coney Island ... and not everyone's happy.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> Will economics force the French to rethink their lifestyles? 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Today, as Antonia Quirke has discovered, the city has plans for the amusement district of Coney Island ... and not everyone's happy.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1685</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9jv.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9jv.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rz9jv.mp3" length="26960000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20100911-1201.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rz9jq</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rz9jv.mp3" fileSize="26960000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1685"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rz9jq</ppg:canonical></item><item><title>BBC Radio 4</title><description><![CDATA[<p>There's a dilemma for Jill McGivering, covering the floods in Pakistan; Gabriel Gatehouse in Baghdad on the changing lexicon as America redefines its mission in Iraq; Wyre Davies is in Jerusalem and detects little optimism for the Middle East peace talks which have restarted in Washington; James Reynolds is at the mine in the Atacama Desert where 33 miners are trapped far undergound and Andy Kershaw visits the arena in Kinshasa which was the site of the world's greatest boxing encounter.</p>]]></description><itunes:subtitle> There's a dilemma for Jill McGivering, covering the floods in Pakistan; Gabriel in on...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>There's a dilemma for Jill McGivering, covering the floods in Pakistan; Gabriel Gatehouse in Baghdad on the changing lexicon as America redefines its mission in Iraq; Wyre Davies is in Jerusalem and detects little optimism for the Middle East peace talks which have restarted in Washington; James Reynolds is at the mine in the Atacama Desert where 33 miners are trapped far undergound and Andy Kershaw visits the arena in Kinshasa which was the site of the world's greatest boxing encounter.</p>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0h940l2.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:16:00 +0000</pubDate><itunes:duration>1696</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzl77.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureLegacy url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzl77.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><ppg:enclosureSecure url="https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02rzl77.mp3" length="27136000" type="audio/mpeg"/><guid isPermaLink="false">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20100904-1216.mp3</guid><link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rzl6s</link><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02rzl77.mp3" fileSize="27136000" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1696"/><itunes:author>BBC Radio 4</itunes:author><ppg:canonical>/programmes/p02rzl6s</ppg:canonical></item></channel></rss>

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