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Jalalabad university bombing hits 'imam of peace'
Nadene Ghouri
Editor's note: Nadene Ghouri's Radio 4 programme about John Butt from a couple of weeks ago now has a melancholy postscript. On Tuesday, bombers struck the university he founded in Jalalabad. The programme is no longer available on the iPlayer so I've republished it here, in full. In this blog p...
Crossing Continents is back
Hugh Levinson
edits BBC Radio current affairs programmes, including Crossing Continents and From Our Own Correspondent
The message on my voicemail was garbled. Not surprising perhaps, as the producer was speaking over a dodgy satellite phone connection and was not in the calmest of moods. Something about the Taleban, risky flights, the Pakistani intelligence services and an 18-hour road trip through the notoriou...

