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Kate Adie introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents and writers.

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From Our Own Correspondent: 24/12/2011

24/12/2011

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, 24/12/2011

Kate Adie presents reports from South Africa, Nepal, France, Ukraine and Serbia.

Kate Adie compiles correspondents' stories from South Africa, Nepal, France, Ukraine and Serbia.

A dead man's suitcase in Cape Town transports Tim Butcher from today's Africa via World War Two Italy to Renaissance Tuscany. The most cosseted pets in the world: it's no dog's life, says Joanna Robertson, for the pampered pooches of Paris. High in the Himalayas Joanna Jolly goes searching for a little yellow idol which once wreaked terrible vengeance. Allan Little shares some of the jokes which have fuelled the big news stories in years gone by and Petroc Trelawny on the extraordinary history of Odessa and its enduring passion for music.

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