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Radio 4,02 Feb 2014,60 mins

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We'll report live from the banks of the River Severn as the bore makes its way up upstream. We're in Somerset where residents have been living with floods for a month. Hugh Sykes looks at French and German poetry from World War I. Reviewing the Sunday papers: Broadcaster and political blogger Iain Dale, novelist Val McDermid and historian Kate Williams.

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