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Jun 2021
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Trash Island: The mountain of plastic bl...

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In the middle of one of the world's most beautiful rivers, the Drina, there now floats an island of rubbish – with no one taking responsibility. How did a landscape already ravaged by war become blighted by the peace that followed?


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Guest: Hannah Lucinda Smith, correspondent for The Times covering Turkey and the Balkans.


Host: Manveen Rana.


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