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17/08/2011
Ayat al Ghormezi, the poet who became a symbol of the protests in Bahrain.
Extraordinary personal stories from around the world.
Today the student poet who became a symbol of the protests in Bahrain tells of her arrest and imprisonment.
Also on the programme we meet the chiropractor from the US who suffered a stroke and woke up a completely different character. He's now a successful artist.
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