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The Ordeal of the Boat People
Hundreds of thousands of Vietnam's Boat People risk their lives on the South China Seas, running a gauntlet of typhoons, pirates and shipwrecks in the biggest, most perilous escape story of our times.
Harold Williamson talks to survivors on the Malaysian refugee island of Bidong, where 42,000 await a resettlement which may take years. They face chronic overcrowding, malnutrition, epidemic, and yet already they have transformed Bidong into a place of hope as well as horror...
Producer CLEM VALLENCE

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Talks:
Harold Williamson
Producer:
Clem Vallence
Source: Radio Times

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