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World Service,28 Dec 2012,10 mins

Highlights of the year: Europe

From Our Own Correspondent

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In the conclusion of the programme’s year-end tour of the world, Steve Evans confronts full-frontal attitudes to nudity in Germany and Alan Johnston visits a place associated with mafia violence in Italy. Hugh Schofield wonders why everyone runs in the same direction in France, and Joanna Robertson wanders around a Paris deserted by residents for the summer. Plus, Bethany Bell wonders why the Viennese have a particular word that means ‘to grumble’.

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