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Radio 4,12 Oct 2009,45 mins

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National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. MPs receive their expenses letters - will they agree to repay? Why an Afghan official examining election fraud has resigned. Chessboxing: why the new hybrid sport is becoming more popular. Will economic growth be the answer to government debt? Life sentences for those involved in ethnic riots in China. Bangladeshis get lessons from Australian lifeguards.

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