Fasting Under Fire
Despatches from Gaza and others, including two months to go until the Scottish referendum - but can countries break away from their neighbours and still remain friends?
Stories from correspondents including: how Gaza families have been coping amid the fighting between the Israeli military and Palestinian militants. As the Scots prepare to vote on independence, are there lessons to be learned from the break-up of Czechoslovakia 21-years ago? It's left both Czechs and Slovaks saying: we get on better now than we ever did. In Japan, can a talk on growing vegetables save a valuable slice of the planet's DNA? More than twenty thousand murders in 12-months -- the problems facing Venezuela's police force are clear to see when we follow officers out on patrol in the capital, Caracas. And thousands are preparing to take summer holidays in Greece -- yet few of them, and no women at all, will visit the spectacular peninsular known as the Holy Mountain.
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Yolande Knell – Fasting under Fire
Gazans try to celebrate Ramadan while under siege
Duration: 05:21
Mike Thomson – Caracas, No ordinary city
Kidnappings, murders and destitution – Venezuela’s meltdown
Duration: 05:49
Mark Whitaker – Shiraishi Jima Island
A way of life threatened as locals leave for the big city
Duration: 05:23
Malcolm Billings – The monasteries of Mount Athos
Spectacular monastic surroundings – and no women allowed
Duration: 05:30
Angus Roxburgh – Still the Best of Friends
How once-united nations can split apart yet still remain friends
Duration: 05:13
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- Thu 17 Jul 2014 11:00Â鶹Éç Radio 4 FM
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