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World Service,01 Sep 2012,25 mins

Weekend Edition 1 Sep 2012

From Our Own Correspondent

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Pascale Harter introduces the pick of the last week's insight, wit and analysis from correspondents. In this edition: MIKE THOMSON meets the Malian Army's special forces, tasked with crushing rebellion and Islamists in the country's north; PAUL MOSS scratches his head at the challenges of calculating economic data in Argentina; BOB DORAN finds out why too much lobster is definitely NOT a good thing for the coast of Maine, USA; DAVID WILLEY remembers an extraordinary reporting trip to Mao's China in 1965: "the most exciting time of my life"; and DANY MITZMAN must use her wiles to escape the hordes of Italian holidaymakers on the sands of the Riviera Romagnola.

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