10/03/2012
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the stories behind the headlines. Kate Adie hosts reporters' tales from Somalia, Japan, Russia, Dubai and Rome.
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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ'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.
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Duration: 00:37
Moral dilemmas
In Syria, Owen Bennett Jones says the rebellion is raising difficult questions for activists - such as whether to put country before friends and family.
Duration: 05:00
The cult of Catherine the Great
Tim Whewell visits the Russian city of Krasnodar to see if there are lessons to be learned from what is known as the Golden Age of the Russian Empire, back in the18th Century.
Duration: 05:47
A show of success
Will Ross is invited on a visit to Somalia with the army of neighbouring Ethiopia, which has been helping to oust the Islamist group al-Shabab from Somalia’s third-largest city.
Duration: 04:58
Tsunami stories
In Japan, Julian May meets some of the people whose lives were altered forever by the disaster of March 2011.
Duration: 05:50
Memories of Bush House
As the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s World Service says goodbye to the building that’s been its home since 1941, Alan Johnston in Rome explains why, for him, it was 'very much more than just an office'.
Duration: 05:48
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- Sat 10 Mar 2012 11:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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