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European Breaking News: Episode 2: Steve Crawshaw

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Episode 2: Steve Crawshaw

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Colin Blane hears the story of Steve Crawshaw, who smuggled himself into Serbia.

Colin Blane hears the story of journalist Steve Crawshaw, who smuggled himself into Serbia on a fake visa in order to witness the fall of Slobodan Milosevic.

Journalists regularly smuggle themselves across borders to get a story. When Steve Crawshaw handed his passport to a stranger in Montenegro to get a fake Serbian visa it was the culmination of a story that had savaged the former Yugoslavia. Colin Blane hears how Steve witnessed the rise of Slobodan Milosevic and was there to see him fall again.

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