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Crossing Continents
Page last updated at 11:25 GMT, Thursday, 24 December 2009
THURSDAY, 24 DECEMBER 2009

Swedish river
Sweden
In a personal programme, the writer Andrew Brown tries to see whether the rural essential heart of Sweden still lives on in the modern age.

THURSDAY, 17 DECEMBER 2009

THURSDAY, 10 DECEMBER 2009

Young men in a Brazilian police lock-up Rio Law
Lucy Ash investigates the topsy-turvy world of Rio crime. Where many see the police as just one more faction in the city's brutal turf war.
Beauty contests in Rio's ugly prisons
Alan Johnston recording a link in Nablus Nablus
Alan Johnston returns to the Middle East for Crossing Continents and travels back to Nablus to find out how life has changed since he was there 2 years ago.
'Good to go back' to West Bank
Divided loyalties in Nablus

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM SPRING 2009

Bahrain Protest Police 'use guns' at Bahrain protests
A human rights organisation in Bahrain accuses police of opening fire on protesters campaigning against brutality.
Sayed Kashua Israel's Goodness Gracious Me
Mukul Devichand met the creators and cast of prime time Israeli comedy programme 'Arab Labour'.
Ploy at Udon Lovers party Seeing red in rural Thailand
Lucy Ash met the supporters of the former Prime Minister Thaksin to find out why they want him back in power.

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