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How Matteo Came to Change His Name By Betty Weiner. Venetian school boy Matteo Polio is bullied at school because of his surname, which means "chicken". So he changes it to that of his all-time hero, explorer Marco Polo. The reader is Sandy Walsh. Producer Gemma Jenkins

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Betty Weiner.
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Matteo Polio
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Marco Polo.
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Sandy Walsh.
Producer:
Gemma Jenkins
Source: Radio Times

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