30/04/2012

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Extraordinary personal stories from around the world. Today, Amara Bangura, who was inspired to become a journalist after being captured by rebels and witnessing atrocities during the civil war in Sierra Leone - and ended up reporting on the trial of Charles Taylor in The Hague. Also, the inspiring story of a man who's managed to recover from not one, but two cruel blows of fate. Mark Pollock was blinded at 22 and took up extreme adventuring - only to be paralysed from the waist down in a freak accident.