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From Our Own Correspondent: Highlights of the year: Europe

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28/12/2012

Highlights of the year: Europe

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Highlights of the year: Europe

A year-end tour of the world concludes with stories from Europe.

A year-end tour of the world concludes with highlights of the year from Germany, Italy, France and Austria. Presented by Pascale Harter.

In the conclusion of the programme’s year-end tour of the world, Steve Evans confronts full-frontal attitudes to nudity in Germany and Alan Johnston visits a place associated with mafia violence in Italy.
Hugh Schofield wonders why everyone runs in the same direction in France, and Joanna Robertson wanders around a Paris deserted by residents for the summer.
Plus, Bethany Bell wonders why the Viennese have a particular word that means ‘to grumble’.

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