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From Our Own Correspondent: 26/03/2011

26/03/2011

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, 26/03/2011

Kate Adie with insight and colour from correspondents around the world.

Correspondents' despatches from Saudi Arabia, Hungary, Belgium, the Netherlands and the Philippines are hosted by Kate Adie.

From Our Own Correspondent is in a small Gypsy town in eastern Hungary where right-wing vigilantes say crime is out of control. They plan to introduce their own style of security - the police and local authorities are concerned. The programme's in Amsterdam finding out why the Dutch monarchy is less relaxed - and more regal than it was. And visit the country where there's nothing peculiar in naming your baby: "Joker", "Honey-boy", or even "Peanut".

Sue Lloyd-Roberts has been to Saudi Arabia to see if the talk of reform sweeping through the Arab world has had any effect on the daily lives of women in the kingdom.

Chris Morris travels to Portugal for a close-up look at the crisis in the Eurozone.

Each of Europe's remaining royal houses has its own style. Here in Britain there's still a good deal of pomp and circumstance, and ancient tradition. But we've always thought of the Dutch as having a more relaxed approach to their monarchy - fewer carriages, more getting around on bicycles and so on. But it seems that's a rather outdated image - Gabriel Gatehouse says there's been a change of tone.

Most of us don't have a great deal of say over what we're called. Our parents give us a name and we carry it through life. So when you pick one for a baby, you might want to bear in mind that he or she won't always be a baby. They might become a president, or a paratrooper, or whatever. So you might go for a neutral kind of name that would feel right, whatever. But that sort of thinking would be considered way too boring in the Philippines. As Kate McGeown explains, Filipino names are a riot of invention.

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