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World Service,18 Jan 2012,28 mins

18/01/2012

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Extraordinary personal stories from around the world. Today, Matthew Bannister meets Rajkumar and Sweta Sharma - the Indian couple who revealed on television that they were HIV positive. They describe the discrimination they had to endure. We also hear from British photographer Guy Martin who was seriously wounded in a rocket attack which killed his two colleagues during the battle for Misrata in Libya last year. And, Ed Mickolus a retired CIA agent who happens to be a stand-up comedian as well. While on duty, he managed to set up a lunchtime comedy club at the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

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