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Weekend Edition 12/05/2012

Pascale Harter with the pick of this week's despatches from around the world - from Kenya's speedy schoolchildren to the illegal loggers levelling Cambodia's forests, as far as Russia's frozen tundra.

The pick of this week's insight, wit and analysis from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. Introduced by Pascale Harter. Items include:

Lucy Ash tries, with difficulty, to observe the 'laws of the tundra' while living with the Nenets people of the Russian Arctic;

Justin Rowlatt detects a 'great convergence' of the global middle class from his sun lounger in Mombasa;

Claudia Hammond races some of the world's fastest schoolchildren to lessons in Kenya;

Remembering murdered Cambodian eco-activist Chut Wutty, Guy De Launey recalls his own close brush with illegal loggers;

and Lorraine Mallinder spends the night in a barn with Canadian protesters hoping to protect Innu reservations.

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25 minutes

Last on

Sun 13 May 2012 19:05GMT

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  • Sat 12 May 2012 08:05GMT
  • Sun 13 May 2012 03:05GMT
  • Sun 13 May 2012 13:05GMT
  • Sun 13 May 2012 19:05GMT