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World Service,04 Mar 2017,50 mins

Mother Teresa - The Nun Who Became A Saint

The History Hour

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Life with Mother Teresa among the poorest of the poor in Calcutta, how the World Health Organisation came to realise that obesity was a global problem and Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House. Plus the immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks - a remarkable story of one woman's impact on medical research. (PHOTO: AP Mother Teresa holds a child in 1978)

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