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Weekend Edition 12/05/2012

Pascale Harter with the pick of this week's despatches from around the world - from Kenya's speedy schoolchildren to the illegal loggers levelling Cambodia's forests, as far as Russia's frozen tundra.

The pick of this week's insight, wit and analysis from 麻豆社 correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. Introduced by Pascale Harter. Items include:

Lucy Ash tries, with difficulty, to observe the 'laws of the tundra' while living with the Nenets people of the Russian Arctic;

Justin Rowlatt detects a 'great convergence' of the global middle class from his sun lounger in Mombasa;

Claudia Hammond races some of the world's fastest schoolchildren to lessons in Kenya;

Remembering murdered Cambodian eco-activist Chut Wutty, Guy De Launey recalls his own close brush with illegal loggers;

and Lorraine Mallinder spends the night in a barn with Canadian protesters hoping to protect Innu reservations.

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25 minutes

Last on

Sun 13 May 2012 19:05GMT

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  • Sat 12 May 2012 08:05GMT
  • Sun 13 May 2012 03:05GMT
  • Sun 13 May 2012 13:05GMT
  • Sun 13 May 2012 19:05GMT