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World Service,25 Mar 2017,23 mins

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Wit, erudition and insight from around the world. Carrie Gracie looks at China’s war on terror, Lucy Ash visits ‘forgotten France’, Olivia Acland samples Sierra Leonean palm wine … and John Mervin saves a life on the New York Subway. (Image: A #6 train stops in the Brooklyn Bridge station. Credit: Getty)

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