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World Service,12 Feb 2013,28 mins

Survivor of the Magdalene Laundries

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Jo Fidgen talks to Maureen Sullivan who was sent to work in one of Ireland's notorious Magdalene laundries at the age of twelve. We also hear from an earthquake-struck town in Italy where residents are are celebrating a new beginning. And we meet a Catalan man known as the ultimate mountain runner, Kilian Jornet joins us from the ski mountaineering World Championship in the high Alps. (Photo: L-R Marina Gambold, Mary Smyth, Steven ORiordan, Maureen Sullivan and Diane Croghan of Magdalene Survivors Together hold copies of a Government Report. Credit: Niall Carson/PA Wire)

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