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It's introduced by Kate Adi.

Did our correspondent really draw his final conclusions about the United States three minutes after first arriving there?

It's Kevin Connolly's valedictory dispatch today.

He also reveals why he knows every word of the song,

If I knew you were coming out of Bake to Cake.

After that, the Roman Catholic Cathedral in North Africa,

where Muslims go to pray.

And bumping through the rain clouds over the jungles of

Columbia, Frank Gardner on the most uncomfortable flight of his life.

You've heard him in this program from Poland and Paris, Moscow and Minsk, Grozny and Guyana, Libya and Lithuania,

and now Kevin Connolly is packing his bags again.

In the new year he'll be setting up in Jerusalem, an opportunity to come to grips with that never straightforward subject, Middle East politics. During three years based in Washington, he's visited 46 of America's 50 states and covered the election of its first black president.

But what about its language and its people?

Might there be more to say about its food and the portions?

What about guns and religion, music, politics?

All subjects you'll hear which he touches on,

in this is Farewell dispatch from Washington.

Sometime around the middle of the 1830s. his farewell dispatch from Washington.

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