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World Service,06 Feb 2008,22 mins

Pain and Power, Part One

The Wednesday Documentary

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Andrew North takes a personal journey through his own experience of pain, and that of others. He finds out how power or lack of it shapes our experience of pain, from torture victims, to a sufferer of chronic pain, to a cyclist who seeks out pain.

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