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28/11/11

The Orthodox Jewish pianist who taught a musically-gifted autistic Palestinian girl to be a concert pianist.

Extraordinary personal stories from around the world.

We hear from Aurelia Paccohuanca who is seeking compensation from the newly elected Peruvian government, after she was forcibly sterilised along with 300,000 other women in an programme carried out in the 1990s designed to reduce the country's birth rate.

Also, Orthodox Jewish pianist and composer Devorah Schramm talks about teaching a blind, musically-gifted autistic Palestinian girl to be a concert pianist.

And 25-year-old Pakistani Moin Khan, tells of his 19,000 mile motorbike ride from San Francisco to his home city of Lahore.

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28 minutes

Last on

Tue 29 Nov 201113:05GMT

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  • Mon 28 Nov 201115:32GMT
  • Mon 28 Nov 201120:32GMT
  • Tue 29 Nov 201100:32GMT
  • Tue 29 Nov 201103:32GMT
  • Tue 29 Nov 201113:05GMT

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