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From Our Own Correspondent: Weekend Edition: Drawing the Line

Iraqi Kurdistan - and Europe's Roma

16/08/2014

Weekend Edition: Drawing the Line

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Weekend Edition: Drawing the Line

Stories of borders and frontiers from Iraq, the UK, Greece and Pakistan

Border stories: young Kurds' opinions on Iraq and IS; global lessons for Scotland; music tours in Northern Ireland; a Greek monastic mini-state - and cinematic scandal in Pakistan

Owen Bennett Jones introduces highlights of recent dispatches from around the world, focusing on international borders and how they affect people's lives. In Sulaimaniya, in the territory of Iraqi Kurdistan, Shaimaa Khalil asks young people's opinions on the future for them and their nation. Nearby in Kirkuk, Hannah Lucinda Smith sees a "border" take shape between two entities which aren't yet countries - Iraqi Kurdistan and the Islamic State. Angus Roxburgh's seen his share of secessions and independence struggles around the world, from Czechoslovakia's velvet divorce to the chaos of Chechnya: what do they have to teach Scotland in the run-up to its own independence referendum? Kathy Clugston hops onto a bus which crosses all the sectarian barriers in Belfast, by concentrating on Northern Ireland's rich musical heritage. Malcolm Billings has to seek a visa to set foot in a Greek monastic mini-state - and finds a world apart. And Fifi Haroon explains just why it's a cinematic scandal for a Pakistani actress to work in Bollywood - and kiss an Indian actor onscreen.

Producer: Polly Hope
Image: A Peshmerga fighter carries the Kurdish flag near the frontline with Islamic State territory, Iraq, August 2014.

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