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World Service,18 May 2016,49 mins

The Dictator Hunter

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Reed Brody is a lawyer from New York who has dedicated his career to bringing dictators around the world to justice. His latest catch is Chad's former leader Hissene Habre. Ella al-Shamahi is a palaeoanthropologist who specialises in cave digs in hostile environments. She is also a stand-up comedian. Chen Yang - known as Ms Chen - is an elite bodyguard from Beijing. Female bodyguards are highly valued by China's wealthy for their stealth and discretion. Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist whose work has vowed crowds in New York with his huge man-made waterfalls and in London's Tate Modern gallery with an enormous glowing sun. (Photo: Reed Brody. Credit: Seyllou/AFP/Getty Images)

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