Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,19 Jun 2014,55 mins

I Didn't Know Who or Where I Was

Outlook

Available for over a year

American writer, David Stuart MacLean, became psychotic after a bad reaction to an anti-malarial drug. Even now, 10 years on, his mind is not back to how it was before. He has written a book about losing his memory, called The Answer to the Riddle is Me. The Spanish tenor, Placido Domingo, talks about preparing to sing at the football World Cup in Brazil. Shorah Qadiry came top in Afghanistan's national university entrance exam, the Kankor. She tells us of her plans to help rebuild her country and her ambitions to become a doctor. (Photo: David Stuart MacLean. Credit: Heather Eidson)

Programme Website
More episodes