Stamina of the Strongmen
Controversial votes in Turkey and Kashmir, a university challenged in Hungary, Cuba鈥檚 scientific revolutionaries and living with death in Indonesia. Presented by Kate Adie.
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鈥檚 referendum.
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鈥檛 always mean goodbye. And in Hungary Nick Thorpe dips his toe into the stream of controversy that surrounds the government鈥檚 ongoing war against liberalism.
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