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World Service,14 Jun 2019,53 mins

Why a women flies 10,000 miles to help a retired doctor

Newsday

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We speak to Catherine Conteh who travels all the way from Australian to help a British doctor who helped save life and her baby’s more than two decades ago. The US military has released a video which it says shows Iranian forces removing an unexploded mine from the side of an oil tanker attacked in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday. And we hear from an American DJ who’s set up a fund to fight cancer after his younger brother defeated the disease.

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