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From Our Own Correspondent: Weekend edition: 10 Aug 2013:  France, Iraq, Italy & China

10/08/2013

Weekend edition: 10 Aug 2013:  France, Iraq, Italy & China

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Weekend edition: 10 Aug 2013:  France, Iraq, Italy & China

Cricket in China, France's lingerie economy, grocery bomb in Baghdad & Popes old and new

Emma Jane Kirby explores the economy of French underwear, Fred Dove discovers cricket in China, Mark Duff on Popes old & new & Prashant Rao laments the bombing of his Iraqi grocery

Owen Bennett-Jones introduces dispatches from around the world: Emma Jane Kirby travels to an underpants factory in Northern France shedding light on the faltering French economy; with increasing levels of sectarian violence in Iraq, Prashant Rao laments the bombing of his favourite Baghdad grocery store; Mark Duff goes to meet a 97 year old Archbishop, Loris Capovilla, who worked for the late Pope John XXIII and tells of how Pope Francis reminds him of his former boss and Fred Dove visits the women's cricket team in Shenyang and imagines the prospect of a Chinese Test match team in years to come

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