Hi there, you've downloaded the BBC Radio programme from our own correspondent. We make two versions,

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This, though, is the edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It's presented by Kate Ady.

Today, the campaigners for democracy in Burma, who won't be taking part in the first elections in 20 years.

Police in Kashmir turn on the journalists trying to tell the story of anti-Indian unrest.

We discover the pain is worse for immigrants as Spain continues to struggle in the economic downturn.

And some helpful hints for anyone planning to

ship grandmother's chest of drawers to Algeria.

Burma is preparing to hold elections on November the 7th, amid criticism from pro-democracy

activists and Western governments that the poll will not be free, fair or inclusive.

The best-known opposition figure, Ong San Suu Kyi, whose party, the NLD, won the last election

back in 1990, is not allowed to stand this time because she's under house arrest.

The Burmese authorities rarely allow in working BBC journalists,

so we're not naming our correspondent who's gone in undercover. She's discovered that there are

bitter divisions within opposition circles over how best to approach the coming pole.

Nian Wyn is a remarkably jovial, cheery man.

But every now and then, his outer armour of determined optimism slips.

Nian Wyn is the spokesman for the National League for Democracy, or NLD, the political party

led by Aung San Suu Kyi.

He's also Miss Suu Kyi's lawyer.

For years, he's been the conduit through which Burma's most famous political prisoner has delivered her messages to the outside world.

And for years, he's been a key contact for journalists trying to find out what's going on in a country where information is strictly controlled and where reporters in general and BBC reporters in particular are not welcome. Reporters like me. But now here I was,

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