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World Service,17 May 2013,55 mins
BP cries foul over spill claims and the Pope on economic 'dictatorship'
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Oil giant BP is getting increasingly concerned at the growing cost of compensation linked to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. It says it is being forced to pay out claims for what it calls 'fictitious and inflated losses'. Also the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones scopes out Google Glass, the spectacles you can talk to. But are they cool or creepy? Pope Francis, meanwhile, calls the global financial crisis a symptom of the 'cult of money'. And finally does pink stink? The new Barbie house in Berlin is subject to protests. We talk about all this and more with guests Eduardo Porter, the author of 'The Price of Everything', who also writes the Economic Scene column in the New York Times and Jeremy Grant, correspondent for the Financial Times in Singapore.
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