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Last broadcast on Tue, 24 Jan 2012, 13:05 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Extraordinary personal stories from around the world.
Today, Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler thought his life was over when he was kidnapped by the North African wing of al-Qaeda in Niger. He's the highest ranked UN official ever to be held captive and he tells Matthew Bannister how he survived being held for almost five months - and how he was eventually released.
Also, a young Egyptian woman on her struggle to escape violence and poverty thanks to a home for unmarried teenage mothers in Cairo.
And a colour blind artist from Spain on how a cybernetic "third eye" attached to his head allows him to "hear" colour.
'Leak' led to UN kidnap in Niger
"Who could it be? It could be be the government of Niger. Could have been an al-Qaeda sympathiser in the UN office in Niger. In the UN office in West Africa. In the secretariat building in New York"
Colour blindness
Colour blindness explained: what is it, why does it happen and can it be prevented?
The man who hears colour
Artist Neil Harbisson is completely colour-blind. Here, he explains how a camera attached to his head allows him to hear colour
Broadcasts
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Mon 23 Jan 201215:32
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Mon 23 Jan 201220:32
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Tue 24 Jan 201200:32
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Tue 24 Jan 201203:32
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Tue 24 Jan 201213:05
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