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The Great Fall of China

Reports from writers and journalists around the world. Presented by Kate Adie. Correspondents with stories from Beijing, Alaska, Greece, the West Bank and Jamaica.

The news behind the news. In this edition: severe turbulence in the financial markets in China: why the country's leadership makes no mention of it and the mainstream media avoids the subject; what's it like living on Little Diomede, the American island in the Bering Strait, just a few miles from Russia? Our correspondent has been talking to fishermen trying to pursue their livelihoods amid mounting tension between the two superpowers; hundreds of migrants have been arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos. Some there, we find, are treating the new arrivals as business opportunities; we've been meeting some of the hermits and holy men still living in caves amid the sandy wastes and rocky mountains of the West Bank and have been touring Jamaica in search of a moonshine rum with a particularly notorious reputation.

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Sat 29 Aug 2015 11:30

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  • Sat 29 Aug 2015 11:30