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The Swiss and Money

Reporters open windows on the world: Imogen Foulkes in Switzerland, Mike Thomson in Ghana, David Baillie in India and Graeme Fyfe in France. Presented by Pascale Harter.

What is it with the Swiss and money? In the wake of the FIFA investigations, Imogen Foulkes in Switzerland looks at what lies behind the country's secrecy about financial affairs. And Mike Thomson in Ghana reports on the church pastors who live a life of luxury on the back of their poor congregations, who pay for what they hope will be miracles.
David Baillie in India's Darjeeling tea-growing area finds that a local dilapidated train line is left in a poor state of repair, despite an offer of substantial investment, because of fear of privatisation. And Graeme Fyfe in the French Pyrenees joins shepherds as they start the summer transhumance - the tradition of walking the animals up the mountains to their summer pastures. Not something for the faint-hearted, as one shepherd has a garlic breath of the kind that would poleaxe Dracula.
Presenter: Pascale Harter
Photo of FIFA headquarters in Zurich by Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images

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Sun 7 Jun 2015 21:05GMT

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