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Personal stories, insight and wit from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. Presented by Owen Bennett Jones. In this edition: IAN PANNELL reports from Aleppo on the ruthlessness of a conflict where schools have become morgues and offices prisons; JAMES HARKIN meets a new-media prankster trying to mock the Assad regime from power, and asks whether the phone is now really more powerful than the sword; JOHN SWEENEY goes undercover in Belarus, to find out how and why its secret police tortures opponents of President Lukashenko; SUSIE EMMETT joins an energetic celebration of Senegal's new export trade in melons; RAJINI VAIDYANATHAN talks to some shy young Indian couples who just want to be left alone; and LAURA TREVELYAN reflects on just what makes America so keen on summer camp for children.
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