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World Service,28 Feb 2017,49 mins

The dentist delivering babies in Syria

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Mohammed Darwish is running an underground clinic in Madaya, a town under siege in Syria. Alice Glenn from Melbourne started No Lights, No Lycra, the living room nightclub craze that's now sweeping the world. Mandy Harvey is a jazz singer from Colorado who lost her hearing as a teenager. Wang Yan owned a steel factory in Changchun, but when his pet dog went missing he was inspired to change his life. (Picture: The Syrian town of Madaya. Photo credit: Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images.)

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