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CBC Radio: Dispatches

Dispatches host Rick MacInnes-Rae knows what it is like to be an eyewitness to history. Go beyond the headlines with correspondents on assignment all over the globe. In repeats over the summer.

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Best of Dispatches, August 24, 2008 -- Kabul, Afghanistan, Islamabad, Pakistan, Fosu, Ghana, Turkmenistan, Leeds, England, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Date: 08/24/2008
Length: 00:59:09

The new 0pium Eaters of Afghanistan; the world's oldest narcotic is hooking the country's children. A Canadian journalist goes to Sierra Leone to teach young reporters, but gets schooled in the perils of being one. The unsung compassion of Sylvia Nortey. Ghana did away with school fees so teachers like her could help more kids learn. Now if only they had money for pencils. The long and winding road to Pakistan's National Art Gallery, from the architect who refused to veer from the path.

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