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World Service,09 Jun 2012,25 mins

Weekend Edition 9 June 2012

From Our Own Correspondent

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Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. Presented by Pascale Harter. In today's programme: As Pakistan's next monsoon season draws near, Aleem Maqbool finds farmers in Sindh still suffering from last year's flooding; Gabriel Gatehouse reflects on how man and nature seem to conspire to make life ever more dangerous in eastern DR Congo; Fergal Keane listens to the poetry of Syrian exiles in Istanbul; Bethany Bell explains why it's almost rude NOT to grumble in the Vienna; Vincent Dowd hunts for the traces of Shakespeare's era still to be seen on the streets of London; and Dany Mitzman samples the famed wild mussels of Portonovo in Italy - but can't taste a thing.

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