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From Our Own Correspondent: Battles Over Books and Statues

11/04/2015

Battles Over Books and Statues

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Battles Over Books and Statues

Nations caught up in arguments over history. Reports from around the world.

Whose history is the right history? Correspondents' reports from South Korea, Russia, South Africa, Cuba and Thailand, presented by Kate Adie.

History rears its head, not for the first time, in this edition of From Our Own Correspondent. Attacks on colonial-era statues in South Africa mean people there are making a fresh assessment of their country's historical legacy; while in the Far East, what's written in the text books is the subject of a fierce row between South Korea and Japan. A farewell may be bid to decades of hostility between the US and Cuba - their leaders are in Panama and historic developments are anticipated. Why do HIV rates remain so high in Russia? We're out with health workers whose efforts seem stymied by ideology and a sense that if it works in the West, then it must be bad for Russia. And a correspondent in Thailand tries to bid a temporary farewell to the torrid world of journalism and goes to a monastery to hunt instead for inner peace. He wasn't entirely successful.

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