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Kate Adie introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents and writers.

Kate Adie introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers telling stories from around the world.

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From Our Own Correspondent: 17/01/2015

17/01/2015

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, 17/01/2015

Correspondents around the world tell their stories and examine news in their region.

Correspondents around the world tell their stories and examine news developments in their region. Presented by Kate Adie.

Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world: Shaimaa Khalil in Pakistan meets relatives and survivors of the army school massacre in Peshawar, on the day the school reopens. Ruth Sherlock in Lebanon finds that while the Syrian refugees struggle in the snow, their Lebanese hosts struggle economically. Caroline Wyatt enjoys life as a VAMP (Vatican Accredited Media Personnel) as she flies on the Papal plane to Sri Lanka. Martin Fletcher joins a Vietnamese conservationist who is trying to save the world's only scaly mammal from extinction: the loveable but endangered pangolin. And Aidan O'Donnell meets the cash-strapped Burundian national cycling team as they prepare to cycle home - from Rwanda. 

Presenter: Kate Adie
Producer: Ben Crighton.

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