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Radio 4,22 Aug 2009,30 mins

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Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines. Including a rare visit to a Catholic shrine in Northern Sri Lanka, why Uganda and Kenya are threatening to go to war over a tiny speck of land, and an Arabic lesson in Damascus.

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