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World Service,11 Dec 2017,53 mins

The Execution that Made Me a Lawyer

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The death of a teenage girl inspired Iranian-born Payam Akhavan to become a human rights lawyer. South African Romain Pizzi is the first person to have performed brain surgery on a bear. His day job, however, is filled with hedgehogs and seals in Scotland. Outlook's Joel Cox went to meet him. Dean Shostak from the US spent a large sum of money on a glass armonica - an instrument he couldn't play. He's now mastered it and has moved on to other glass instruments. Image: Human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan Credit: Peter Bregg

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