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World Service,19 May 2012,25 mins

Weekend Edition 19/05/2012

From Our Own Correspondent

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Pascale Harter introduces wit and insight from BBC correspondents, writers and travellers around the world. In this edition: Humphrey Hawksley digs up the truth about D R Congo's illicit gold mines; Portia Walker joins the Syrians living in limbo over the Turkish border; Hugh Sykes ponders Pakistan's political future; Nick Redmayne hears nostalgia for the days of the USSR in Tajikistan; Javier Lizarzaburu reveals how residents of Lima are rethinking their city's past; and Steve Evans explores some sensitive areas as he asks: why ARE many Germans so at ease with taking their clothes off?

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