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Buddhist on Death Row

How US prison inmates turned to Buddhism to face execution, and the truth of a space "strike". Plus, decoding the Ebola virus and we hear the world's oldest song.

How US inmates turned to Buddhism to face execution in 1990s Arkansas, and we look at the history of the death penalty in the US with Prof Vivien Miller. Plus, the truth of a space "strike", the 70s book that predicted global decline in 2020, sequencing the Ebola virus and we hear the world's oldest song.

Photo: Anna Cox and inmate Frankie Parker.

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Tue 12 Jan 202100:06GMT
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