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Grieving and determination in Peshawar after the Taliban attack on a school.

The mourning continues in north-west Pakistan after the attack on a school in which more than a hundred children died. Plus, despatches from Iraq, Turkey, France and Cuba.

Story-telling from the world of news and current affairs. In this edition Shaimaa Khalil on the mood in Peshawar after the Taliban attack on a school in which more than a hundred children were killed, Barbara Plett-Usher smokes cigars and downs a rum or two with the Ladies Smoking Club of Havana as she learns how Cubans are reacting to the prospect of improved relations with the United States, Quentin Sommerville is on the Iraqi army frontline as it tries to stop the militants from Islamic State seizing strategic Anbar province, Malcolm Billings visits a little-known Anglican place of worship hidden away in a web of cobbled streets in Istanbul and Hugh Schofield's doing some seasonal research involving whisky and chocolate biscuits in a remote corner of central France.

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