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World Service,12 May 2012,25 mins

Weekend Edition 12/05/2012

From Our Own Correspondent

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The pick of this week's insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. Introduced by Pascale Harter. Items include: Lucy Ash tries, with difficulty, to observe the 'laws of the tundra' while living with the Nenets people of the Russian Arctic; Justin Rowlatt detects a 'great convergence' of the global middle class from his sun lounger in Mombasa; Claudia Hammond races some of the world's fastest schoolchildren to lessons in Kenya; Remembering murdered Cambodian eco-activist Chut Wutty, Guy De Launey recalls his own close brush with illegal loggers; and Lorraine Mallinder spends the night in a barn with Canadian protesters hoping to protect Innu reservations.

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