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Children in conflict zones missing out on education

Almost 3 million children out of school in West and Central Africa

New data from the Norwegian Refugee Council shows a staggering rise in the number of school closures in West and Central Africa due to fighting.

Also in this hour: Are we living in the age of the Asian century?, and over 40 years on from the siege of the Iranian embassy in London - Ben Macintyre - the author a new book has carried out exclusive interviews with the SAS members involved.

Paul Henley is joined by Georgina Godwin, a broadcast journalist and honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Michael Keating, the Executive Director at the European Institute of Peace, and the former Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia.

(Photo: Sudanese people who fled the conflict in Geneina in Sudan's Darfur region, sit on a truck that will relocate them from a school where they were temporarily accommodated to a refugee camp in Adre, Chad on 23 July 2023. Credit: Reuters/Zohra Bensemra)

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The Man Booker International 2018

The Man Booker International 2018

The books, the authors and the translators