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But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Adi.

Today we have a special seasonal offering, some of the highlights and lighter moments from this year's dispatches from our correspondence

around the world and what a feast it is. Bitter leaves, mushrooms,

nuts, berries and moss. Chocolate-covered marshmallow teddy bears.

Beer, whiskey, roasted quail cigarettes.

Two crispy corn tortillas covered in a rich source of green tomatoes and topped off with

two fried eggs of perfect consistency

slices of candied orange half coated in bitter chocolate

and that's just for breakfast.

As an appetizer we join fuchsia Dunlop to dance with China's past.

Earlier in the year, she visited Shanghai,

where after two decades of frenzied demolition,

many of the city's remaining art deco buildings have been revamped and restored.

The former French concession has become a manicured district of designer boutiques and anonymous

bars, but there's one place that stands out as a symbol of the city's polyglot glamour in the 1930s between the two world wars.

Dau by Lehrmann, take me to the gate of a hundred pleasures, I ordered the taxi driver, and we sped

off through the cool Shanghai night. At a crossroads near the Jingan temple, coloured lights

pulsed up the facade of a grand art deco building.

The name of the Paramount Dance Hall by Lermann, or Gate of a Hundred Pleasures in Chinese, blazed

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