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World Service,4459 episodes

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21/02/2011
How the widow of the Challenger space shuttle's Commander was affected by the disaster
21 Feb 2011,25 mins
18/02/2011
A student leader in Prague's Velvet Revolution reflects on the Middle East protests
18 Feb 2011,25 mins
17/02/2011
The Egyptian mother whose son's death in police custody became an icon of the uprising
17 Feb 2011,25 mins
16/02/2011
The story of the young Bangladeshi girl who died after being punished by village elders
16 Feb 2011,25 mins
15/02/2011
The widow of a politician killed by Eta revisits the place where he was killed
15 Feb 2011,25 mins
14/02/2011
The doctor who braved sniper fire to tend to the injured in Cairo's Tahrir Square
14 Feb 2011,25 mins
11/02/2011
The British undercover cop who cracked under the strain of leading a double life
11 Feb 2011,25 mins
10/02/2011
The Indian woman who defied her religious elders to protect victims of domestic abuse
10 Feb 2011,25 mins
09/02/2011
The story of an ex-hostage and his kidnappers and how they found peace
09 Feb 2011,25 mins
08/02/2011
Gay in Uganda, a lesbian's life in the aftermath of David Kato's murder
08 Feb 2011,25 mins
07/02/2011
The woman who grew up with drug-addicted parents but ended up graduating from Harvard
07 Feb 2011,25 mins
04/02/2011
The famous Russian designer who spent 6 years as a child trying to get home from Siberia
04 Feb 2011,25 mins
03/02/2011
The daughter of Saddam Hussein's pilot on her work for women in conflict zones
03 Feb 2011,25 mins
02/02/2011
The son of a Ku Klux Klan member describes a childhood scarred by violence.
02 Feb 2011,25 mins
01/02/2011
The Egyptian film star Mahmoud Kabil on defending his Cairo home during the unrest
01 Feb 2011,25 mins
31/01/2011
The American peacekeeper who blew the whistle on human trafficking in Bosnia
31 Jan 2011,25 mins
28/01/2011
The British head teacher on overcoming a debilitating stammer.
28 Jan 2011,25 mins
27/01/2011
Wife of disappeared human rights lawyer tells why she fled China with her children.
27 Jan 2011,25 mins
26/01/2011
Scott Neeson's journey from jet-setting Hollywood executive to Cambodian rubbish dump
26 Jan 2011,25 mins
25/01/2011
The hunger-striking journalist freed from prison by Tunisia's new caretaker government
25 Jan 2011,25 mins
24/01/2011
Brazil's deadly mudslides: we hear about one boy's dramatic rescue
24 Jan 2011,25 mins
21/01/2011
The cosmetic surgeon who treats victims of war as well as the rich and famous
21 Jan 2011,25 mins
20/01/2011
Tim Coulson on the extraordinary choice he made in the aftermath of the 7/7 London bombs
20 Jan 2011,25 mins
19/01/2011
The Brazilian mothers who took the wrong babies home and had to swap them back
19 Jan 2011,25 mins
18/01/2011
Samia Bouazizi describes her brother - whose suicide sparked the Tunisian protests
18 Jan 2011,25 mins
17/01/2011
A young woman who survived the deadly bridge stampede in Cambodia
17 Jan 2011,25 mins
14/01/2011
Arturo Perez faces constant danger as a journalist in Mexico's most violent city
14 Jan 2011,25 mins
13/01/2011
One woman's remarkable fight to free her brother after his wrongful murder conviction
13 Jan 2011,25 mins
12/01/2011
The Chinese student elected village chief at eighteen talks about her work and dreams
12 Jan 2011,25 mins
One year on: Haiti earthquake
The manager of Haiti's most famous hotel remembers the earthquake
11 Jan 2011,25 mins