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Hello. Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud. Each week we pick some of our favourite articles from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud. I'm Petra Gibbons and on this week's podcast, Colin Freeman explains how Islamic State tightened its grip on the Congo.

Harry Ritchie draws attention to the thousands of languages facing extinction this century as he reviews rare tongues, the secret stories of hidden languages by Lorna Gibb.

Of the estimated 7,000 spoken currently, only 500 are expected to survive.

With thanks to the Endangered Language Alliance, we also include a clip of the Central American language Garifuna being sung.

In the first of our pieces included from our school supplement, Max Jeffrey highlights

the Boxing Academy Changing Young Lives. And in the second, the Spectators' editor Michael

Gove reflects on lessons learned during his time as Education Secretary. And in the second, the spectator's editor Michael Gove reflects on lessons learned during his

time as education secretary. And finally, Catriona Olding takes us through the cast of characters

that make up her new Provence-based memoir club. Up first, Colin Freeman.

Last month, they beheaded 70 Christians in Mabur in the Eastern Congo,

according to the Catholic charity aid to the church in need,

which campaigns on behalf of persecuted Christians worldwide.

The charity said the corpses of the victims, including women, children and the elderly,

were dumped in a nearby evangelical church.

Even in a world accustomed to Islamic State's atrocities, such horrors would normally make

headlines, as they used to in Islamic State's old killing fields in Syria and Iraq.

Not so when they happen in the Congo, where violence has long been the norm.

There are so many different armed groups here that even the most diligent foreign editor

struggles to make sense of it.

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