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From Our Own Correspondent: Weekend Edition 9 March 2013: The Hard Numbers

09/03/2013

Weekend Edition 9 March 2013: The Hard Numbers

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Weekend Edition 9 March 2013: The Hard Numbers

Personal stories from Uganda, Guatemala, Mexico, India, Georgia and Western Australia.

Including: inflation in Uganda, Guatemala's rural dilemmas, educational corruption in Mexico and in India, Georgian views of Stalin and Western Australia's minerals and memories.

Pascale Harter introduces personal stories, insight and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers around the world. In this edition: Paul Lewis tots up the price of food in Uganda; Humphrey Hawksley on the rural Guatemalan workers happy to keep their kids in the fields and out of trouble with Mexican cartels; Will Grant misses a timely interview with Mexico's notorious teachers' union leader Elba Esther Gordillo, while Craig Jeffrey investigates different kinds of educational corruption in Meerut, northen India; Damien McGuinness explains why Georgian opinions about Stalin can be so ambivalent these days; and Neil Trevithick digs deep into the history of Western Australia, uncovering the cultural meanings and memories embedded in Aboriginal lands there, along with some extremely valuable minerals.

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