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The Jihadi Vegetable Patch

Marching through the Mali desert with the French Foreign Legion, and other despatches from ±«Óãtv foreign correspondents, presented by Kate Adie.

Correspondents' despatches from around the world. In this edition: Thomas Fessy marches through Mali with the French Foreign Legion looking for insurgents; Jonathan Fryer's in the Angolan capital, Luanda, where people have much to look at but, in most cases, little money to spend. What's the point of the Swiss army? Imogen Foulkes says some there believe there's no further need for compulsory military service. Alan Johnston chronicles a sad, final day at a 'trotting' track in Italy which is closing down, another victim of the recession there. And the Germans may have a reputation for businesslike efficiency but Steve Evans in Berlin has been learning that they don't always get it right! The producer: Tony Grant.

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30 minutes

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Sat 30 Mar 2013 11:30

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  • Sat 30 Mar 2013 11:30