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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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