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World Service,28 Mar 2015,26 mins

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We talk with the playwright George Brant about his international hit Grounded - a one-woman show about a military fighter pilot sidelined by pregnancy and reassigned to duty as a drone operator. Plus, the story of Kenneth Rowe, a Florida man who in 1953 fled Communist North Korea in a MiG-15 fighter jet. And, why a former US undersecretary of defence and an Afghan doctor are both optimistic about Afghanistan’s future. Also, we visit America’s first all-female mosque. And we ponder a challenge for young devout Muslims - if dating is not allowed, how are you to find love? (Photo: Celeste Oliva starred in The Nora Theatre Company's production of Grounded. Courtesy of A.R. Sinclair Photography)

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