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Pavarotti, Climate, Zimbabwe

Ros Atkins Ros Atkins | 19:00 UK time, Thursday, 6 September 2007

We're off air now, but you can listen again here

FAREWELL PAVAROTTI
So, the big man and we'll be hearing your tributes. We'd especially like to hear from you if you ever saw him perform. I keep reading about this one performance at the New York Met in 1972 - if you were there, I'd love to hear what it was like. And do you think he's moves in the 90s to take opera into the mainstream helped or hindered opera?

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ARE THERE SOME THINGS PEOPLE JUST SHOULDN'T WEAR?
Various towns and cities in the States want to stop youngsters wearing baggy trousers (pants to those of you in America). Liberia is trying to the same and Iran is trying to clamp down on certain types of hair braiding. Do you agree that there are some fashions which don't belong on public view?

GETTING FOOD IN ZIMBABWE
Zimbabwe's main bread producer says it only has - and that was yesterday. We're going to try and speak some WHYS regulars in Zimbabwe to see if the bread crisis is affecting them. A UN agency calls the situation 'acutely serious'.
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STORIES FOR THE NEXT WEEK...

DO YOU HAVE 9/11 FATIGUE? Read James' post.

DO YOU KNOW THE LAWS OF ATTRACTION?
Michael J. Losier thinks he does and will be on the show next week. If you've no idea what I'm talking about, Leo from WHYS will explain.

Right after the show I'm off home to Cornwall for a long weekend. Anu will be keeping you company tomorrow, as well as during Monday's show which is sure to be about the Petraeus Report. Speak to you later.

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