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This edition was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday the 26th of August 2017.

It's introduced by Kate Adi.

Hello, today devastating mudslide. by Kate Adi. Hello.

Today, devastating mudslides in Sierra Leone

are not much sign of anyone getting to grips with a problem.

We have a glimpse of a vibrant industrialized future in Ethiopia, or is it a raft of poorly paid

jobs in factories built by foreigners?

Much of Soviet-era monumental architecture is the object of modern disdain, but we stop and stare

at wondrous bus stops in the eastern stands.

And our correspondent ponders the pros and cons of today's EU in a nail bar in Macedonia.

The terrorist attack in Barcelona has had many repercussions, not least for the Catalans who desire independence from Spain.

The region had hitherto been spared such violence from ISIS, al-Qaeda and Aetah, but James Reynolds has found that the Catalans now face difficult

questions.

A while back I spent a year living in Catalonia.

I worked as an English teacher in a small town. The Catalans I met would always

tell me two things. We are separate from Spain and we have the greatest sense of humour in the world.

This second claim was always delivered with the utmost seriousness. They assured me that Catalonia, with

its access to the Mediterranean and the Pyrenees, was a perfect place in which to live.

They were mildly surprised and possibly marginally offended when I left at the end of my

assignment.

Why would anyone want to abandon such an idyllic place?

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