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From Our Own Correspondent: Weekend edition 6 Oct 2012

Weekend edition 6 Oct 2012

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Weekend edition 6 Oct 2012

Pascale Harter with stories from Russia, the US, France, Serbia, China and the Philippines

Pascale Harter with wit and insights from correspondents worldwide. Today, stories on Russian Orthodoxy and Chechen Islam; history in France, the US and Serbia; Chinese statistics and Filipino food.

Pascale Harter introduces personal stories, insights and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers all over the world.  In this edition:


LUCY ASH meets the monks of Valaam, spearheading a resurgent Russian Orthodoxy;

STEVE ROSENBERG is disorientated by the increasingly visible signs of Islamisation in Chechnya, and gets to talk it over with leader Ramzan Kadyrov;

HUGH SCHOFIELD delves into a possible archaeological fraud in France - probing possible state skullduggery over the site of the Battle of Alesia, where Julius Caesar fought the Gauls;

DANIEL NASAW joins a group of Civil War re-enactors another battlefield - that of Antietam in Maryland, 150 year on;

MARTIN BUCKLEY visits Belgrade, and finds Serbia ever prouder of its distant history, but ambivalent about more recent events and its own future;

MARTIN PATIENCE finds himself groaning under the sheer weight of statistics on offer in China;

and KATE McGEOWN learns to love Filipino cooking - well, some of it. (Not the duck-embryo eggs or dried blood cubes, though.)

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