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World Service,03 May 2004,3 mins

Negar Roshanzamir

Listeners' Tales

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Iranian Negar Roshanzamir talks about listening to the BBC World Service during the Iran-Iraq war and first hearing news of the ceasefire. "It was unbelievable, it meant that eight years of war was over...Later on a programme on classical music played Vivaldi's Four Seasons. I'd never heard Vivaldi before and suddenly I started crying because the piece was so beautiful"

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