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04/08/2011

The same sex couple who became one of the first to tie the knot in New York.

Extraordinary personal stories from around the world.

Today, Yolanda Potasinski and Nancy Mertzel were one of the first same sex couples to tie the knot in New York. They waited from before dawn to exchange their vows.

Also the Taiwanese prison boss who is hoping to set a world record for having the largest number of inmates dancing at one time.

And the Queen of British Ska, Pauline Black, tells us what it was like growing up as a young black girl in a white working class family in the 1950s.

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28 minutes

Last on

Mon 8 Aug 201110:05GMT

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  • Thu 4 Aug 201114:32GMT
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