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World Service,10 Nov 2012,25 mins

Weekend edition 10 Nov 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 this edition: ANDREW NORTH gauges Afghans' anxiety and cynicism about 2014; AFUA HIRSCH is in Mopti hearing Malian fears about fighting back rebels in the north of the country; ANU ANAND bemoans India's status as an economic powerhouse with dangerously fluctuating electricity; RANA JAWAD takes us for a wild spin on Libya's rumour mill; DANIEL SANDFORD uncovers the tragic hidden history of one former resident of his Moscow flat, the statistician who worked for Stalin and fell victim to one of his purges; and WILL GRANT honours his - and everyone else's - deceased relatives in good company on Mexico's Day of the Dead.

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