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World Service,24 Jun 2013,11 mins

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After Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown in 1989, the world learned of the shocking conditions in which many children lived in the country's orphanages. Nearly a quarter of a century later, Tessa Dunlop has returned to an orphanage in a remote part of Romania to find out whether life has improved for those children who are now adults. And meet the Yuroks - Alastair Leithead travels to northern California to meet an ancient people reinvigorating their old ways in modern America.

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