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From Our Own Correspondent: Weekend Edition 22 December 2012

22/12/2012

Weekend Edition 22 December 2012

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Weekend Edition 22 December 2012

With stories from Equatorial Guinea, Poland, El Salvador, Cuba, China and Saint Helena.

Wild stories: from braving a trip behind bars in El Salvador to facing platefuls of hairy crab in Shanghai - Pascale Harter has correspondents' tales from around the world.

Pascale Harter with correspondents' tales from around the world, including: Stephen Sackur challenges Equatorial Guinea's ruler Teodoro Obiang about his collection of luxurious homes; Linda Pressly takes a trip behind bars to meet members of El Salvador's gangs in prison; Fuchsia Dunlop struggles to eat all the hairy crabs she's offered in Shanghai; Will Grant meets a Cuban hard man in Havana; Horatio Clare goes a very long way to meet the residents of St Helena and Allan Little explains how - and why - Europe's centre of gravity is moving eastward.

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