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From Our Own Correspondent: Weekend Edition

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07/06/2014

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Weekend Edition

With stories from Niger, Nigeria, China, Kashmir and southern France

Stories from around the world - including a Governor's office in Niger, a Chinese commune, a gypsy shrine in southern France, and open-air schoolrooms in northern Nigeria

Pascale Harter introduces highlights of recent dispatches from around the world. In this edition we visit some unusual places - and meet some unexpected people. Fergal Keane's sweating - and waiting, and waiting - in a Governor's office in the middle of the Sahara, in Agadez, Niger; Carrie Gracie visits the young Chinese idealists now living on a rural commune rather than trying to change life in the cities; Will Ross tours some open-air schoolrooms in Kano, northern Nigeria - and learns about the present continuous; Andrew Whitehead's back in Kashmir after a few years' absence, to find it full of Indian tourists; Tim Whewell delves into the literary and political myths of Odessa; and Tessa Dunlop finds that although a Roma pilgrimage has put the southern French town of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer on the tourist map, some of its residents don't embrace the visitors too warmly.

Producer: Bob Howard
Photo: Kashmiri boat operators take tourists on shikara rides on Dal lake in Srinagar on April 28,2012. (ROUF BHAT/AFP/GettyImages)

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