Weekend edition 10 Nov 2012
Correespondents' insights into Afghan anxieties and Malian fears; the Cold War ghosts of a Moscow flat; India's power failures; the Libyan rumour mill and Mexico's Day of the Dead.
Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world, presented by Pascale Harter. In this edition:
ANDREW NORTH gauges Afghans' anxiety and cynicism about 2014;
AFUA HIRSCH is in Mopti hearing Malian fears about fighting back rebels in the north of the country;
ANU ANAND bemoans India's status as an economic powerhouse with dangerously fluctuating electricity;
RANA JAWAD takes us for a wild spin on Libya's rumour mill;
DANIEL SANDFORD uncovers the tragic hidden history of one former resident of his Moscow flat, the statistician who worked for Stalin and fell victim to one of his purges;
and WILL GRANT honours his - and everyone else's - deceased relatives in good company on Mexico's Day of the Dead.
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