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Weak - the International Monetary Fund gives its latest verdict on the global recovery.

Also in the programme, noted British economist Roger Bootle gives his verdict on France, one country desperately trying to engineer some sort of recovery and failing.

We hear about the problems facing the olive oil growers of Italy and Spain from James Robinson, an importer of Spanish foods.

Plus our correspondent Mark Lobel visits an eco-friendly mosque in Dubai, and we talk to Byron Bullock, senior sound designer for the new computer game Alien Abduction, about the challenge of creating a world of horror, in sound.