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World Service,22 Dec 2012,25 mins

Weekend Edition 22 December 2012

From Our Own Correspondent

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Pascale Harter with correspondents' tales from around the world, including: Stephen Sackur challenges Equatorial Guinea's ruler Teodoro Obiang about his collection of luxurious homes; Linda Pressly takes a trip behind bars to meet members of El Salvador's gangs in prison; Fuchsia Dunlop struggles to eat all the hairy crabs she's offered in Shanghai; Will Grant meets a Cuban hard man in Havana; Horatio Clare goes a very long way to meet the residents of St Helena and Allan Little explains how - and why - Europe's centre of gravity is moving eastward.

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