Weekend Edition 04/08/2012

Personal stories, insight and wit from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. Presented by Owen Bennett Jones. In this edition:

IAN PANNELL reports from Aleppo on the ruthlessness of a conflict where schools have become morgues and offices prisons;

JAMES HARKIN meets a new-media prankster trying to mock the Assad regime from power, and asks whether the phone is now really more powerful than the sword;

JOHN SWEENEY goes undercover in Belarus, to find out how and why its secret police tortures opponents of President Lukashenko;

SUSIE EMMETT joins an energetic celebration of Senegal's new export trade in melons;

RAJINI VAIDYANATHAN talks to some shy young Indian couples who just want to be left alone;

and LAURA TREVELYAN reflects on just what makes America so keen on summer camp for children.