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Radio 4,07 Sep 2013,30 mins

Australia's wild ride

From Our Own Correspondent

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Kate Adie presents correspondents' stories from Syria, the US, Australia, South Africa and Italy. Lyse Doucet hears how Syria's mosaic of cultures is being shattered; Humphrey Hawksley visits the big brains of America's Ivy League who have been thinking about how to put a country back together again; James Fletcher listens to the roar of Harley Davidsons and rides the Australian economic engine; Mark Lowen discovers the anti-apartheid pedigree of his grandfather; while Tom Carver is in Italy, celebrating his father's escape from a POW camp in 1943 and the brave family who helped him. Producer: John Murphy.

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