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LINDA MARTEL

BBC Radio 4
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Mystery Child? Miracle Child?
Linda Martel , a severely handicapped child born in Guernsey, lived only five short years. Yet during that time a remarkable series of events happened, resulting in a daily stream of visitors to Linda asking for and believing in her power to help and cure them. True? Did Linda possess a special power, or was it just another case of infectious hysteria?
NANCY WISE went to Guernsey and talked with Linda's parents. her brother, friends, observers, to try to discover the mystery of Linda's personality, the miracle of her cures
Broadcast on August 1

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