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World Service,25 Jul 2012,28 mins

25/07/2012

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Extraordinary personal stories from around the world: today, a Romanian man Aristide Ionescu talks to Outlook about his experience of a barbaric Communist prison experiment of the 1940s. Also: the Scotsman, Andrew Slorance, who fell out of a tree when he was a teenager and was paralysed. Frustrated by years of what he saw as substandard wheelchairs he decided to design his own. And Sahar al Hawary the referee's daughter who led the development of women's football in Egypt.

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