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FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 4 Sept 2010
There's a dilemma for Jill McGivering, covering the floods in Pakistan; Gabriel Gatehouse in Baghdad on the changing lexicon as America redefines its mission in Iraq; Wyre Davies is in Jerusalem and detects little optimism for the Middle East peace talks which have restarted in Washington; James Reynolds is at the mine in the Atacama Desert where 33 miners are trapped far undergound and Andy Kershaw visits the arena in Kinshasa which was the site of the world's greatest boxing encounter.
FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 28 August 2010
America sheds painful memories of Vietnam, and salutes its veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan ... Washington correspondent Mark Mardell talks of the high regard in which America’s fighting men and women are now held. Martin Bell has been to Yemen and finds out that war is taking its toll on the nation's children. Moscow and Washington are engaged in a tug of war with a man detained in Bangkok – Alastair Leithead tells us he has a reputation as a notorious international arms dealer. Chloe Arnold’s in Algiers monitoring a revolution in shopping habits. And Kevin Connolly, in what used to be the Wild West, considers how it’s America’s bad boys who’re remembered the longest.