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Bunga-Bunga and Wonga-Wonga

Why it is that wonga-wonga not bunga-bunga, is upsetting Italians. Also, why the gangs of heavily armed kidnappers shouldn't worry holidaymakers in Kenya.

Forget the bunga-bunga sex scandal, it is the wonga-wonga that is worrying most ordinary Italians - the country's vast government debt.

So why aren't the Italians taking to the streets as the Greeks are?

A question Justin Rowlatt puts to Professor Fiorella Kostoris, an economist at Rome University.

Also, why the gangs of heavily armed kidnappers shouldn't worry holidaymakers in Kenya

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18 minutes

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Thu 20 Oct 2011 11:32GMT

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