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World Service,29 Feb 2020,53 mins

Freeing American prisoners from Iran

The History Hour

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How a former prisoner in Iran fought to free her friends, a 200-year-old Antarctic mystery, eradicating small pox, the first mobile phone and rebel nuns in the US. PHOTO: Sarah Shourd in 2010 (Getty Images)

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