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World Service,24 Oct 2011,28 mins

24/10/2011

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Extraordinary personal stories from around the world. Today, Mohamed Al-Murabit, the Libyan doctor who treated rebel fighters who were being refused care in hospitals taken over by Colonel Gaddafi's troops. Now he wants to set up a political party. Plus, a Sierra Leonean teacher who fled Libya during the battle to oust Colonel Gaddafi. Also, a Japanese woman who defied her family's wishes to help tsunami victims. And, the British grandmother who survived her own 'James Bond moment'.

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