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World Service,29 Aug 2015,23 mins

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Crossing between worlds - in communities across the globe - with dispatches presented by Pascale Harter. Carrie Gracie analyses how China's top echelons responded to the stock-market tumble - or rather, how they didn't; Humphrey Hawksley visits Little Diomede Island in Alaska, just one of many native communities divided by the US / Russian border in the Bering Strait; Hannah McNeish meets a sorcerer who claims he can work electoral magic in Tanzania, and already has several MPs as clients; and David Sillito explores why Sri Lanka's 'coconut gap' - an annual deficit in its most beloved crop - might threaten the taste of home. Photo: An investor gestures as he checks share prices at a securities firm in Shanghai on August 26, 2015. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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