05/03/2009
The coach driver attacked with the Sri Lankan cricket team; Martin Luther King's son - retracing his father's footsteps; and the writer who took his autistic son to healers in Mongolia.
Human stories from behind the global headlines. With Matthew Bannister.
On today's programme: The coach driver attacked with the Sri Lankan cricket team; Martin Luther King's son - retracing his father's footsteps; and the writer who took his autistic son to healers in Mongolia.
ATTACKED IN LAHORE
Mehar Mohammed Khalil was driving the Sri Lankan cricket team to the stadium when his bus was attacked in Lahore. He tells Matthew how he managed to get the players to safety.
MARTIN LUTHER KING
Matthew Bannister talks to Martin Luther King III. The civil rights leader's eldest son has just returned from retracing his father's footsteps in India.
HORSE, AUTISM AND SHAMANS
Rupert Isaacson travelled with his autistic son to Mongolia to see if traditional healers or shamans could offer any help to Rowan. He tells Matthew about the effect that that journey, and horses, have had on his son.
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