12/06/2010
大象传媒 foreign correspondents with the stories behind the world's headlines. Including despatches from Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Gambia, Rome and the United States. Introduced by Kate Adie.
De-railed by buffalo!! An interrupted night's sleep on the express train to Victoria Falls.
If you're looking for a real travel experience, it can be hard to beat a great train journey. There's something about the pace and the rhythm.. You get time to take in the gradually changing landscape as it glides by. And you get glimpses of the lives of local people..farmers, and labourers, and lawyers..as they come and go from the seats around you. Petroc Trelawney in Zimbabwe is one of those who can see the romance in taking to the tracks..
The attackers struck during Friday prayers. They targeted two mosques in the Pakistani city of Lahore....blazing away wildly with Kalashnikovs and shotguns, and hurling grenades. When it was over, more than eighty people were dead.... The worshippers were members of the Ahmedi ( Aamadi ) sect. They've long been persecuted and discriminated against. And Mohammad Hanif says the horror in Lahore left some Pakistanis asking themselves painful questions....
The illegal drugs sold here in Europe have often come from far away. Much of the cocaine is produced in Latin America. And its journey from the foothills of the Andes to the streets of London can be long and winding. Sometimes the drugs barons send their Europe-bound shipments via West Africa. There, in the tiny state of Gambia, Mark Doyle has been seeing how much damage the trade is doing, and what's being done to stop the smugglers..
Rome has just played host to an army of priests. Fifteen-thousand of them came from more than ninety countries. They were marking the end of the Vatican's "International Year of the Priest". The Pope told them they'd been chosen by Christ to be, "the salt of the earth, and the light of the world". But with Church having been rocked by sex abuse scandals, David Willey watched the priests gather in Rome under a dark cloud...
And so it begins.! At last, the World Cup gets underway. For weeks, many of us will be transfixed by the sporting drama of it all.... But not everyone is football crazy. Half a world away from South Africa, it's baseball that will still dominate the American summer. And as Kevin Connolly knows, for fans of one rather luckless team, everything...on their field of dreams....will depend on a rooky called Strasburg.
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Introduction
Duration: 00:26
Aboard the Victoria Falls Express
Petroc Trelawney goes on a 17-hour journey through the heart of Zimbabwe and sees a country very different from the one shown in photographs hanging on carriage walls.
Duration: 05:24
Attack leaves Pakistanis asking painful questions
A raid on two mosques in Lahore, which killed more than 80 people, leads to reflections on religious prejudice in Pakistan. Mohammed Hanif reports.
Duration: 05:58
Gambia's battle with drug smuggling
Mark Doyle learns how a $1bn (拢686m) drugs bust sheds light on international narcotics trafficking through West Africa.
Duration: 04:58
'Holy Father, what shall we do?'
As a week of rallies and vigil for Catholic priests draws to a close, David Willey reflects on the problems the Church faces in a changing world.
Duration: 05:14
The man who fills baseball stadiums
In Washington, Kevin Connolly considers how when it comes to baseball, the fate and fortunes of a whole team can rest on one man
Duration: 05:39
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- Sat 12 Jun 2010 11:30大象传媒 Radio 4
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