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The First Alzheimer's Patient

The discovery of Alzheimer's disease, Nigeria’s first coup, a mass shooting in Pennsylvania, the story of the Freedom Tower in Tehran; plus, forbidden art in the Soviet Union.

The tragic case that led to the discovery of Alzheimer's disease, Nigeria’s first coup, a mother's account of a mass shooting in Pennsylvania, the story of the Freedom Tower in Tehran; plus, a forbidden art collection in the Soviet Union.

Photo: Auguste Deter photographed in the psychiatric hospital in Frankfurt where Dr Alzheimer worked, c.1901

50 minutes

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Mon 18 Jan 201604:06GMT
BBC World Service Australasia

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