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The Madness of Markets?

In The Balance There seems to be a chasm between markets and the real economy. How much does it matter?

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From Our Own Correspondent

From Our Own Correspondent Episode guide

  1. Preventing a deadly disease and a vegetarian visits a slaughterhouse

    Efforts to prevent sickle-cell disease and a visit to a Romanian slaughterhouse.

    First broadcast: 21 Feb 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  2. The baton wavers of Japan and a return to Kenya

    Stories on the strange jobs that prop up Japan’s economy and a reporter returns to Kenya.

    First broadcast: 20 Feb 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  3. America - fighting in the Philippines and welcoming immigrants at home

    Joining US forces in the Philippines plus the story of a poignant reunion in New York

    First broadcast: 19 Feb 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  4. Stories of railways in Switzerland and Nigeria

    From Swiss trains that run like clockwork, to Nigerian trains on a more leisurely pace

    First broadcast: 18 Feb 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  5. The life and death of a Syrian rebel, a trip through Bangladesh, and more

    Stories on a rebel in Syria, a trip through Bangladesh’s richest region, and more.

    First broadcast: 16 Feb 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  6. Bread in Aleppo and tunnelling through the mountains in Italy

    Winning over the people with food in Syria, while Italian protesters object to a tunnel.

    First broadcast: 15 Feb 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  7. Tunis losing the Paris feel while women swap lipsticks for knives in India

    Is the shine coming off Tunisia's revolution? Plus the party arming women in India.

    First broadcast: 14 Feb 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  8. Murder in Corsica and home-made rockets in Syria

    Crime isn't putting off the tourists in Corsica; while the death toll rises in Syria.

    First broadcast: 13 Feb 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  9. A Romanian palace and a fear of flying

    The building with the biggest carpet in Europe; and a reporter's crippling fear of flying

    First broadcast: 12 Feb 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  10. A French bistro and the British pub

    How microbreweries run by women is a new trend breathing life into Britain's pubs

    First broadcast: 11 Feb 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  11. Digging up beer in Mali; and staging Shakespeare in Hungary

    Stories about Mali, Hungary, Lebanon and more.

    First broadcast: 09 Feb 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  12. Covering Mali, and an Afghan governor takes aim

    Stories on an Afghan governor who’s a crack shot, and journalists descend on Timbuktu.

    First broadcast: 08 Feb 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  13. Guns in America and the battle to save Kenyan rhinos

    Why Americans are so divided over guns and the fight to save rare rhinos in Kenya

    First broadcast: 07 Feb 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  14. Dark clouds in Mali and wandering through Bangladesh

    Stories about divisions in Mali and a trip through one of Bangladesh’s richest regions.

    First broadcast: 06 Feb 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  15. A change of heart in Lebanon

    Darius Bazagan reports on a militia leader’s change of heart in Lebanon.

    First broadcast: 05 Feb 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  16. South African bling and American stardust

    Meet the extravagant subculture scandalising South Africa and tour Harlem's Apollo Theater

    First broadcast: 04 Feb 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  17. Amazon farmers, Iranian journalists, and the Frenchmen learning the art of love

    Stories about Amazon farmers, Iranian journalists, and Frenchmen learning the art of love.

    First broadcast: 02 Feb 2013

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  18. Egypt's democracy deficit; culture wars in Hungary

    Why are Egyptians still protesting against an elected government? Aleem Maqbool listens in

    First broadcast: 01 Feb 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  19. Iran and Sweden

    What working for the BBC means for an Iranian; why Swedes know so much about each other

    First broadcast: 31 Jan 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  20. Brazil's shrinking Amazon forest + scrum at 35,000 feet

    Logging still despoiling the rainforest in Uruara; deft diplomacy on a flight to Tel Aviv

    First broadcast: 30 Jan 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  21. Israel and Romania

    What do the results of the Israeli elections mean for Benjamin Netanyahu's party?

    First broadcast: 29 Jan 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  22. Chinese pollution, and seduction in France

    Stories on pollution in China and a seduction coach for French men.

    First broadcast: 28 Jan 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  23. Syria, Georgia, Italy, Sweden, Australia and Lithuania

    From wombats in Australia to a prisoner release in Georgia, Pascale Harter presents.

    First broadcast: 26 Jan 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  24. Elections in Italy and crime in Georgia

    Stories on the personalities running for office in Italy, and fear of crime in Georgia.

    First broadcast: 25 Jan 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  25. Chaos in Pakistan and Burns Night in Jamaica

    Dispatches on the uncertain security situation in Pakistan and on Burns Night in Jamaica.

    First broadcast: 24 Jan 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  26. Syria crisis

    In Syria, the effects of war rages and people are shocked at the lack of international aid

    First broadcast: 23 Jan 2013

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  27. Mali, present and past

    Stories on an unlikely alliance in Mali, and remembering a trip through the desert.

    First broadcast: 22 Jan 2013

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  28. Sweden and Hungary

    Reindeer: the far-north survival kit for Saami nomads; plus Budapest's Ecseri flea market

    First broadcast: 21 Jan 2013

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  29. Presidential questions in Venezuela, and learning English in India

    The president who’s everywhere and nowhere, plus dispatches from Italy and India.

    First broadcast: 19 Jan 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  30. 18/01/2013

    Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around ...

    First broadcast: 18 Jan 2013

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