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Sagra in Salento
Hannah Murphy gives us a taste of Southern Italy… Italians may well be celebrating the 150th anniversary of Italian unification this year, and yet I see very little of the cosmopolitan North of Italy here in Salento, the baking heel of the boot. Tonight the streets of the small town of Otranto are teeming with ...
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From Ghana to Burkina Faso – Acoustic Africa
Gus Arrowsmith and Sophie Lythgoe travelled through Ghana and Burkina Faso with a battered acoustic guitar and a cheap camcorder. These beautiful acoustic songs are there offspring from Africa, accompanied by Sophie’s comments: This was filmed on May 5th on the Yepei Queen going down Lake Volta in Ghana amongst many yams! Excuse the dirty ...
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Postcards from Australia
Florence Spaven gives us glimpses of Australia… < The photo was taken in Redbank, just outside Brisbane in Australia, in the early months of 2011. The floods came up over night and were around five metres deep. Through the centre of this photo was the main road down which we’d driven the previous night. Overnight Redbank ...
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Indonesian forest fires
Susan M Cheyne gives an insight into Indonesia’s forest fire problem… The world‟s rainforests are under increasing threat from many areas. The most well known of these are logging (legal and illegal) and the clearing of pristine forest for biofuels. What is less well known is the threat to forests from fire. With much of ...
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Teaching in Malawi
Tom Woodward reflects on a Summer spent in Malawi… “Do you understand?” I would ask. “Oh yes sah,” the class would chant back in unison. “Are you sure? I won‟t be cross if you say no.” “Yes sah.” Eighty little black heads nodded together and then bent over their desks, laps, or onto the floor ...
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Postcard from Toulouse
David Wolf writes from Toulouse about developing a foreign language among strangers “We can’t have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.” The man who wrote this, St Thomas Aquinas, lies nine hundred metres away from the bar, in ...