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1 videodisc (DVD) (40 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in |
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Foreign correspondent (Television program)
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Borneo - orangutans. Deep in the jungle of Borneo is not the place one would expect to find a child care centre - but that's just what Eric Campbell discovered . The sounds of laughter and the tantrums are familiar - but the babies being cared for are hairier than usual - not surprising, given that they are baby orang-utans. Most are orphans , their mothers killed by local farmers, but they are also the lucky ones - rescued by Lone Droescher-Neilsen - a former flight attendant from Denmark who fell in love with these vulnerable forest dwellers 13 years ago. -- Lithuania - Hill of crosses. In France it's the Eiffel Tower, in India the Taj Mahal, in Egypt the Pyramids - in Lithuania it?s the Hill of Crosses. A couple of hours drive from the capital Vilnius, the Hill of Crosses rises in the midst of the Lithuanian countryside - a symbol of the nation's struggle and spirituality. Boasting a remarkable if somewhat troubling history, it's been a place associated with pagan rituals, peasant uprisings and Christian crusades. According to historian Professor Vitanus Rimkis the first cross appeared there in the mid 19th century - today it's estimated there are more than a hundred thousand. For fifty years of Soviet occupation religion in largely Catholic Lithuania was banned and the Hill of Crosses was deemed anti-state and the crosses destroyed. Yet Lithuanians defiantly returned to plant more crosses in their place.One of those defying the Soviets was a young Vitanis Rimkis, who along with his family and a quarter of a million Lithuanians had been exiled to Siberia where he was sentenced to death. But he survived and when he returned to his homeland he returned to the hill. To mark the homecoming people set up crosses on the hill, many new crosses appeared. "It was like the cross became a weapon that was invincible" Rimkis recalls. These days the Hill attracts the curious and the devoted from around the world - its forest of crosses continues to grow |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of ABC-TV broadcast September 12, 2006. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
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Reporters: Eric Campbell, Emma Griffiths |
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DVD |
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No rating given |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
| Subject |
Bornean orangutan -- Borneo
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Lithuania
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| Author |
Campbell, Eric
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Griffiths, Emma
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ABC-TV (Australia)
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