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From Our Own Correspondent: Algeria and Spain

Algeria and Spain

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Algeria and Spain

Pascale Harter presents personal insight and analysis from Chloe Arnold and Chris Carnegy.

Pascale Harter presents insights from around the world. Chloe Arnold meets an Algerian independence fighter with no regrets; Chris Carnegy detects undercurrents of the Spanish crisis in San Sebastian.

Personal insights, analysis and wit from BBC correspondents around the world. Presented by Pascale Harter. In this edition:

Fifty years on, the losses that don't go away
On the 5 of July it'll be 50 years since Algeria won its independence from France. The war that achieved it is still, even today, a live, divisive issue for both sides. Some 30,000 French troops and European civilians were killed; among the survivors are those who believe France should have fought on even harder to keep the colony. 

Algeria for its part, says its war for independence cost the lives of up to a million of its people. But in the capital Chloe Arnold finds one Algerian woman who took part in the fighting - and has no regrets about what she lost.

Resilient rhythm
Chris Carnegy has recently been to Spain, and was struck by the beauty and solid infrastructure of apparently prosperous towns like San Sebastian. With its current economic woes, and the kind of forecasts for its future no citizen would want to hear, Chris wasn't expecting to find much of an upbeat tempo in the town squares - but an evening stroll brought signs of solidarity and a working society, not just intimations of crisis.

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