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Radio 4,30 Nov 2022,45 mins

Fresh strikes announced in the run-up to Christmas

The World Tonight

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Ambulance workers are latest group to announce strike action in the run up to Christmas - will the disputes bring the country grinding to a halt? Also on the programme - how the Chinese communist party is using a combination of brute force and technology to suppress the recent protests. We remember the songwriter Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac who's died at the age of 79. And we celebrate the French baguette which has just been given UNESCO heritage status.

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