Original version

BBC World Service Online

From Our Own Correspondent

News

Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers.

Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world.

From Our Own Correspondent: The Swiss and Money

The Swiss and Money

06/06/2015

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, The Swiss and Money

Windows on the world: correspondents report from Switzerland, Ghana, India and France.

Reporters open windows on the world: Imogen Foulkes in Switzerland, Mike Thomson in Ghana, David Baillie in India and Graeme Fyfe in France. Presented by Pascale Harter.

What is it with the Swiss and money? In the wake of the FIFA investigations, Imogen Foulkes in Switzerland looks at what lies behind the country's secrecy about financial affairs. And Mike Thomson in Ghana reports on the church pastors who live a life of luxury on the back of their poor congregations, who pay for what they hope will be miracles. 
David Baillie in India's Darjeeling tea-growing area finds that a local dilapidated train line is left in a poor state of repair, despite an offer of substantial investment, because of fear of privatisation. And Graeme Fyfe in the French Pyrenees joins shepherds as they start the summer transhumance - the tradition of walking the animals up the mountains to their summer pastures. Not something for the faint-hearted, as one shepherd has a garlic breath of the kind that would poleaxe Dracula. 
Presenter:  Pascale Harter
Photo of FIFA headquarters in Zurich by Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images

Accessibility links

Programme Index

From Our Own Correspondent

The Swiss and Money

Genres

Brand

BBC World Service Online

About BBC World Service