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I'm Helena Merriman and in a new BBC series,
I'm talking to the reporters who first covered this story.
What did they miss the first time?
The History Bureau, Putin and the apartment bombs.
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Amazing sports stories from the BBC World Service presents Bill Walton's The Grateful Team.
What's going on here?
It's a story of global politics.
Lithuania has broken away from the Soviet Union and declared itself a fully independent sovereign state.
Basketball.
During the 53-year Soviet rule, Lithuania still kept a steady stream of talent in basketball.
And rock music.
Basketball and The Grateful Dead.
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This program contains descriptions of body mutilation.
What you are hearing are the funeral prayers of monks sitting in the home of my deceased cousin,
here in Nepal.