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World Service,29 Oct 2009,28 mins

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Alan Johnston introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines. This week, Orla Guerin on the mental body armour donned amid an upsurge of violence in Pakistan; Allan Little reflects on two very different revolutions; Dan Collyns on the hard task of reconciliation in Peru; Simon Pipe visits the remote island of St. Helena and Kieran Cooke toasts the Irish pub as more and more of them are closing down.

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