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From Our Own Correspondent: Cities on Edge

02/11/2013

Cities on Edge

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Cities on Edge

Tension in Egypt and Khartoum, plus other reporters' despatches from around the world.

Reporters with stories from Egypt, Melilla, Tonga, Khartoum and Moscow. Presented by Kate Adie.

Correspondents' stories: Jeremy Bowen on the effect in Egypt of the upcoming trials of senior figures from the Muslim Brotherhood; you could write the history of the South Pacific as a succession of arrivals of powerful, foreign vessels in palm-fringed lagoons, according to John Pickford in Tonga; the Sudanese capital Khartoum 'changed forever' after the recent riots in the capital - that is what James Copnall has been hearing in Khartoum; Linda Pressly has been to the Spanish city of Melilla, on the north coast of Morocco, to meet the so-called 'mule women' and find out why they are prepared to shoulder such heavy loads; and Russians have never been famous for their smiles, but Jamie Coomarasamy is wondering if times have changed and they are now no longer trying to keep a straight face!

The programme is produced by Tony Grant.

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