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From Our Own Correspondent: Kashmir, Bulgaria, China, and London Wine

Winemaking in London

18/10/2014

Kashmir, Bulgaria, China, and London Wine

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Kashmir, Bulgaria, China, and London Wine

The aftermath of fighting in Kashmir, a patriot in Bulgaria, and London winemaking

The aftermath of fighting in Kashmir, a Bulgarian politician looking eastward, and making wine – and friends – in a gritty London neighbourhood.

Kashmir is one of the world’s most intractable problems. Both India and Pakistan think they should have it. As it stands India has two thirds, Pakistan one third. Both sides complain that the artillery duels that happen across the line from time to time are started by the other. After some years of relative quiet there have been some heavy exchanges in recent days, and our correspondent Shaimaa Khalil has seen the aftermath.
 
Also in the programme, Nick Thorpe meets a politician in Bulgaria who dreams of friendship with Russia, and Sam Piranty finds out that hair extensions in China do not always come from human heads. 

We hear from Carlie Ester at a young offenders institute in Barbados. And, a sports injury forces journalist Leo Johnson to meet his neighbours – with surprisingly liquid results – in a gritty neighbourhood in north-west London.

Producer: Mike Wendling

(Photo: Winemaker in north-west London, courtesy Leo Johnson)

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