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From Our Own Correspondent: Weekend Edition 27 Oct 2012

Weekend Edition 27 Oct 2012

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Weekend Edition 27 Oct 2012

Pascale Harter has the week's stories from India, Austria, Cuba, Spain and the Philippines

Pascale Harter with reports on gold fever and the business buzzword 'jugaad' in India; Cuban reforms; why lederhosen are hip again in Austria; a rebel truce in the Philippines and Catalan nationalism.

Pascale Harter introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. In this edition:

- Kate McGeown meets a much-feared rebel group in the Philippines, in a place which "looks more like a village fete than the HQ of an insurgency";

- Niall O Gallagher, one of few people alive fluent in both Gaelic and Catalan, gauges the appetite for Catalan independence in Barcelona;

- Craig Jeffrey wonders whether 'jugaad' or 'creative innovation' - a new business-world buzzword in India - can really offer development for the country's poor;

- Rahul Tandon, ever the dutiful Indian son, takes family advice on why gold is good - for almost every rite of passage;

- Will Grant learns about Cuba's macro-economics, from his perch in a barber's chair;

- and Bethany Bell, Anglo-American transplant in Austria, takes the plunge - or at least the plunging neckline - and is laced into a dirndl. Is traditional Austrian dress or Tracht really hip again - and is it ever OK to wear lederhosen with a T shirt?

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