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From Our Own Correspondent: Enough to Make You Cry

Enough to Make You Cry

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Enough to Make You Cry

Tears over Brexit, a lost passport and a party for a  bunch of Russian spies.

'I’ve waited so long for this, I think I might cry,' says the BBC's Brussels correspondent of the  EU Withdrawal Bill. Kate Adie introduces stories from around the world.

The Brexit Withdrawal Agreement has prompted some very different and very passionate reactions. Adam Fleming reveals how, after an agonising wait which included taking the draft agreement on holiday with him - twice, its publication this week almost brought him to tears. 

Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world. 

Linda Pressly reports from Nigeria, where inpatients can end up as inmates if they fail to pay their hospital bills. 

Steve Rosenberg gate-crashes a party for Russian spies; it is 100 years since Trotsky created the GRU. 

Dave Lee is in California where the town of Paradise has been all but lost. 

And Caroline Eden loses her passport and tucks into a healthy slice of humble pie in an ancient Turkish city.

Producer: Lizzy McNeil

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