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World Service,29 Mar 2012,10 mins

Cambodia and the Spice Islands

From Our Own Correspondent

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Stories from Max Shapira in Cambodia and Simon Worrall in the Spice Islands, presented by Owen Bennett Jones. Many thousands of Cambodians came to the USA during the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. Now some are being deported after committing crimes. Max Shapira speaks to Sam, who grew up in the USA, but has been forced to leave his family behind. Alfred Russell Wallace worked on the theory of natural selection in the 19th Century around the same time Charles Darwin was working on it. Now Simon Worrall follows the route Wallace took exploring the Spice Islands.

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