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From their base in Albania, some 3000 Iranian exiles are committed to overthrowing the government of Iran but how are the M.E.K, the Mujahedin-e Khalq, adapting to life in Europe?

From their base in Albania, some 3,000 Iranian exiles are committed to overthrowing the government of Iran. Linda Pressly finds out how some members of the M.E.K - the Mujahedin-e Khalq – are adapting to life in Europe.

Kate Adie introduces this and other stories:

It's thirty years since the fall of Czechoslovakia's communist regime, but Chris Bowlby finds the ghostly remains of its past still looming large in one former steel town.

Long-sleeved shirt, trousers tucked into her socks and copious amounts of insect repellent – Sian Griffiths reports from Canada where tiny black legged ticks are migrating north and spreading disease.

“We Kenyan journalists joke that reporting on famine is easy: you just find your old script from a previous one - and repeat it” says Anna Mawathe as she considers one possible solution to hunger in her homeland.

And what happens when you get locked out of a motorhome in rural AndalucĂ­a, in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, with no wallet and no shoes. Tim Smith reports from Spain.

Producer: Joe Kent

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28 minutes

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Thu 7 Nov 2019 11:00

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  • Thu 7 Nov 2019 11:00