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Radio 4,24 Oct 2007,30 mins

China and the Markets - UFO

Thinking Allowed

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CHINA AND THE MARKETS Laurie Taylor talks to Howard Davies, Director of the London School of Economics about China’s past and present financial systems. UFO RELIGION Weird lights in the night sky…grey humanoid figures with enormous eyes…a strange and unexpectedly thorough medical examination...These are the reported experiences from people who claim to have been abducted by aliens. Reports of abductions have increased steadily since the late 1940s, concentrated mostly in North America. Gregory Reece is the author of a new book entitled UFO: Religion in which he considers what belief in contact with aliens tell us about religious belief and the nature of faith.

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