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Weekend: Italy prepares to vote in high stakes election

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Italy prepares to vote in high stakes election

24/09/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Italy prepares to vote in high stakes election

Italians head to the polls on Sunday in key election.

Italians will be voting on Sunday in a general election that might usher in the first far right leader since the end of second World war.

Plus, the story of a Netflix film presenting Syrian migrants in a different light.

And the award-winning musical - The Band's Visit - set for London premiere. It tells the story of what happened in a small Israeli town when Egyptian musicians made an unexpected visit.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other topical issues of the day are Lina Khatib the Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the foreign affairs thinktank, Chatham House and Silio Boccanera a London-based Brazilian journalist, who's spent almost 40 years as a foreign correspondent.

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