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World Service,13 Apr 2013,25 mins

Weekend Edition 13 March 2013: Risky business

From Our Own Correspondent

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Pascale Harter introduces stories from BBC correspondents and writers around the world. In this edition; we hear how Tokyo narrowly escaped being evacuated during the Fukishima nuclear disaster; Lucy Ash enters the surreal world of a Ukrainian needle exchange; the price of fish is the main concern for many in troubled Yemen; some of Bangladesh's poorest people have their lives transformed by a simple mobile cart, and why a rather ordinary man has become an extraordinary hit in France.

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