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Weekend Edition 13 March 2013: Risky business

What we never knew about Japan's Fukishima disaster, a Ukrainian needle exchange, the simple life in Yemen, a new start for Bangladeshi street vendors and France's unlikely hero.

Pascale Harter introduces stories from 麻豆社 correspondents and writers around the world. In this edition; we hear how Tokyo narrowly escaped being evacuated during the Fukishima nuclear disaster; Lucy Ash enters the surreal world of a Ukrainian needle exchange; the price of fish is the main concern for many in troubled Yemen; some of Bangladesh's poorest people have their lives transformed by a simple mobile cart, and why a rather ordinary man has become an extraordinary hit in France.

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25 minutes

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Sun 14 Apr 2013 22:05GMT

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  • Sat 13 Apr 2013 08:05GMT
  • Sun 14 Apr 2013 02:05GMT
  • Sun 14 Apr 2013 22:05GMT