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How to Make the UK Election Interesting to the World

Political correspondent Rob Watson, answer listeners鈥� questions around making UK election coverage interesting to the rest of the world.

When reporting on the UK General Elections, Rob Watson, the 大象传媒 World Service鈥檚 UK political correspondent is always wearing his global hat, but it is not always easy to make one country鈥檚 interests relevant to all. This week, Rajan Datar asks Rob how he keeps his coverage interesting and listeners from Spain and Brazil have queries around how political language and colloquial expressions translate across the world.

Also, Strangers for Hire is a documentary about people in Japan who rent friends for a variety of different reasons. Nina Robinson鈥檚 insight into this new trend has listeners from America, Singapore and New Zealand getting in touch.

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Mon 15 May 2017 04:50GMT
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