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The Arctic Defined

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Last broadcast on Tue, 10 Nov 2009, 00:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

Adjoa Andoh reads from Sara Wheeler's account of her journey to the lands that border the Arctic Ocean.

Wheeler considers what the Arctic means to the rest of the world and begins her travels in the semi-inhabited fringes of Asian Russia, nine time zones from Moscow.

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  1. Mon 9 Nov 2009
    09:45
  2. Tue 10 Nov 2009
    00:30

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