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World Service,08 Sep 2012,25 mins

Weekend Edition 9 Sept 2012

From Our Own Correspondent

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The pick of recent dispatches from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world, presented by Pascale Harter. In this edition: TOM ESSLEMONT meets the Russian skinheads so nationalist they despise Putin - for being "soft on multiculturalism" RAHUL TANDON hears why people from the "Seven Sisters" states in the Northeast feel they suffer racism from other Indians; CINDY SUI reflects on the differing family fortunes of relatives who emigrated to the US and those who stayed on in China; RAJINI VAIDYANATHAN explores the sometimes fraught relationship between India's domestic workers and their employers; MATTIA CABITZA learns how to spot a fake banknote in Peru; NICK DAVIS jumps on the last Jamaican passenger train ever to ply between Spanish Town and Kingston; and STEVE EVANS muses on a very special German invention: the strandkorb, the ultimate accessory for a day at the beach.

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