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From Our Own Correspondent: Courthouses and codpieces

08/03/2014

Courthouses and codpieces

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Courthouses and codpieces

Trying on the height of Renaissance fashion, and other stories from around the globe.

Our fearless reporter dons the height of Renaissance fashion, plus other correspondents' stories from Afghanistan, Egypt, Uruguay and India, all introduced by Kate Adie.

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world. This week, with American and British combat troops soon to leave, the author and historian William Dalrymple gives his assessment of where the latest military intervention in Afghanistan fits into the country's troubled history. Quentin Sommerville attends the court hearing of some Al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt and finds the prosecution case less than convincing. Linda Pressly is in Uruguay to see if legalising marijuana will help tackle the problem of hard drugs. In India, Ed Butler spends time with sleuths of a special kind - the wedding detectives. And Stephen Smith re-visits Italy's Renaissance with its ruffs, doublets and, of course, codpieces.

Producer: John Murphy.

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