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From Our Own Correspondent: Don't Mention the War!

24/10/2013

Don't Mention the War!

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Don't Mention the War!

Meeting the young people building a new Vietnam, and other reporters' stories.

The latest from reporters in Vietnam, Myanmar, Greece, Nigeria and Russia, presented by Kate Adie.

As one of the last heroes of the Vietnam War is laid to rest, Rajan Datar hears young people there keen to move on from those years of conflict, to instead celebrate a land rich in culture and economic opportunity; Jonah Fisher talks of the debate in swiftly-changing Myanmar about what exactly makes a detainee a political prisoner; as Greece continues its punishing austerity programme, Alexa Dvorson has been finding out how they are coping out in the countryside, away from the main cities; 'let there be light' seems to be the message in Lagos: Neal Razzell has been to see a state government initiative in Nigeria's biggest city introduce street lighting to many formerly-dark and threatening streets and the BBC's bureau in Moscow has been celebrating fifty years of existence. Steve Rosenberg has been looking at news reporting there then and now.

The producer is Tony Grant.

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