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

Today we're in the eye of the storm with Isaac, the hurricane that fortunately never turned into a Katrina, a chilling meeting with some of Russia's ultra-nationalists.

Where did Julius Caesar really defeat the Gauls, a tale of archaeological scull duggery in Burgundy, and our correspondent

takes a sentimental journey to a campsite in South Bohemia.

The images of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005

shame the United States.

Bloated bodies left unrecovered for days,

frail and elderly people waving desperately from their rooftops, begging to be

airlifted. Families huddled in the superdome the only refuge they could find. Lives lost,

neighborhoods destroyed.

Three days ago, seven years after that catastrophe, a hurricane threatened the Mississippi

Delta once more, and again the world's media made its way towards New Orleans, this time to see

what Hurricane Isaac would do. Alistelithad was amongst them.

There's a familiar feeling arriving in a city when there's a hurricane on the horizon.

I'd been to this city before, seven years to the day, in the same circumstances,

and there are things you notice which are peculiar to impending storms and events like Christmas.

There's a deadline, an unmovable, inevitable deadline.

Every television station shows brightly colored real-time swirling maps, current

rain radar, wind speed, and most importantly track.

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