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Radio 4,17 Jul 2014,30 mins

Fasting Under Fire

From Our Own Correspondent

Available for over a year

Stories from correspondents including: how Gaza families have been coping amid the fighting between the Israeli military and Palestinian militants. As the Scots prepare to vote on independence, are there lessons to be learned from the break-up of Czechoslovakia 21-years ago? It's left both Czechs and Slovaks saying: we get on better now than we ever did. In Japan, can a talk on growing vegetables save a valuable slice of the planet's DNA? More than twenty thousand murders in 12-months -- the problems facing Venezuela's police force are clear to see when we follow officers out on patrol in the capital, Caracas. And thousands are preparing to take summer holidays in Greece -- yet few of them, and no women at all, will visit the spectacular peninsular known as the Holy Mountain.

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