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Spectres of Afghanistan

The ghosts of the past looming over the new president of Afghanistan, plus despatches from Paris, Libya, Iran and Corsica presented by Kate Adie.

The past looms large over Afghanistan's new leader -- Fergal Keane says the scale of the task he faces is immense; as civil war rages in Libya, Tim Whewell finds a corner of calm and tolerance amid a country full of discord and violence. Do institutions like the European Union make nationhood increasingly irrelevant? That was on Martin Buckley's mind in Corsica where an armed struggle for independence seems to be losing support. As Tehran and the West sit down to talk about Iran's nuclear ambitions, Diana Darke's been finding out how Iranians revel in the words of a poet who's been dead for six hundred years. And Hugh Schofield knows how to unearth the secrets of a stately home with a history -- he asked the butler!!

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30 minutes

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Sat 18 Oct 2014 11:30

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  • Sat 18 Oct 2014 11:30