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World Service,11 Dec 2013,55 mins

Giving a Home to 32 Iraqi Orphans

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Baghdad orphanage founder Husham al-Thabe on how Mohamed al-Daradji's documentary, In My Mother's Arms, changed his fortunes. John Kani reads from Nelson Mandela's autobiography Long Walk To Freedom. In this extract, Mandela goes underground posing as a chauffeur. Nelson Mandela Mwova from Kenya and Nigerian-born Mandela Echefu on how bearing Mandela's name inspires them. Syrian artist Tammam Azzam uses digital photography to impose famous paintings onto scenes of destruction in his country. (Picture: Husham al-Thabe)

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