http://speechification.com Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:17:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://speechification.com/2009/04/30/rehearsing-for-war/ http://speechification.com/2009/04/30/rehearsing-for-war/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:44:25 +0000 russell http://speechification.com/?p=431 It's always worth having a dig around on the BBC World Service site. There are some excellent documentaries there, and they tend not to expire. So I can just point to their MP3 here. This is a show from August 2008 about Medina Wasl - a large scale recreation of a set of Middle Eastern villages, built by the US military in California, for practising fighting and peace-keeping amongst civilian populations.

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