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Monday, 3 April 2017

Turkey, with Simon Reeve, Part 2




Watch on BBC iPlayer, Taurus Mountains to Istanbul (available for 29 days only)



Related:

Svenska Dagblader, allegations - "Turkspionaget pågår över hela Europa"

Cyborgs at work: Swedish employees getting implanted with microchips, The Telegraph




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Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.
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