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Owen Bennett Jones introduces the pick of this week's despatches from correspondents around the world. This programme includes: Mark Mardell on how Iowa's caucuses can sway the US Presidential race; Will Ross on a classical orchestra in Kinshasa who play Handel on the banks of the River Congo; Craig Jeffrey on the Indian activists bringing wit and ridicule to their war on corruption; Sara Sheridan on a book fair and a beating in the United Arab Emirates; Martin Plaut on finding unexpected optimisim in the farmlands of Zimbabwe; Kate McGeown on meeting the families of Filipino sailors kidnapped at sea; Alan Johnston on how Italians are having to adjust to austerity... ... and Dany Mitzman on how they may also some of Europe's worst-afflicted hypochondriacs.
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