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From Our Own Correspondent: Hanging On for Dear Life

09/05/2015

Hanging On for Dear Life

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Hanging On for Dear Life

Stories of bravery, guile (and foolhardiness) from Italy, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Aruba

Stories from the migrant-ship graveyards of south Italy; Saudi Arabia's luxurious jails for militants; a Japanese brain-training laboratory, and the boa-infested island of Aruba

Pascale Harter introduces tales of bravery, guile and foolhardiness from reporters and writers around the world. 

Daniel Gordon visits the migrant-ship graveyard in the Sicilian ports of Pozzalo, and hears how Italy and Italians are dealing with this summer's influx of people arriving via the Mediterranean Sea; Barbara Plett Usher visits some surprisingly well-appointed prison cells in Saudi Arabia, destined to house those associated with Islamic State and other jihadi groups; Adam Shaw racks his brain (but still loses against an eightysomething veteran) in a maths-game contest at a Japanese neuroscience laboratory; and Rob Crossan braves the scrubby expanses of Arikok National Park in Aruba, now full of feral boa constrictors which have learned how to hitch-hike their way around the island.

Photo: A rescued migrant is identified with a number after disembarking at the Sicilian harbour of Catania on April 24, 2015. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images)

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