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World Service,03 Apr 2012,28 mins

03/04/2012

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Extraordinary personal stories from around the world. Today, Christina Schmid the widow of a British bomb disposal expert tells us how she coped with her grief by going public. She has written a book about her life with her husband entitled Always By My Side. And we also hear from the Afghan family who respond to the pressure to have a son by dressing their youngest daughter as a boy. And Evan Atar, the doctor in Sudan who risked his life to treat victims of cross-border fighting.

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