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World Service,24 Aug 2016,49 mins

Reuniting Families with Lost War Medals

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Major Zachariah Fike is on a mission to reunite lost war medals with their owners. Pilot Geoff Cobden of Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Service landed a plane at night, on a dusty airstrip with no lights, thanks to an ingenious solution - a row of flaming toilet rolls. Geeta Pandey has visited an office in Chennai where a dog called Goofy is the boss. Hugo Suarez Fiat collects old film projectors and founded a cinematography museum in Colombia. Saudi writer Raja Alem is the first woman to have won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. (Photo: Purple Hearts Reunited INC)

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