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16/09/2009

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Mentally ill in India; Desperate Dreams; Tree frogs in Hawaii.

MENTALLY ILL IN INDIA
In what's believed to be a first - one of India's leading mental health institutes, in the city of Ranchi, has published a list of patients who are now well enough to be discharged, but can't leave because their families have abandoned them.  The BBC's Geeta Pandey goes to visit the institute to meet some of the patients left there.

DESPERATE DREAMS
BBC reporter Jenny Cuffe tells presenter Matthew Bannister about her forthcoming two part documentary series "desperate dreams" about the experiences of people trying to migrate from Africa to Europe. The series can be heard from next week in the Wednesday documentary on BBC World Service radio. 

TREE FROGS IN HAWAII
The coqui is the national symbol of Puerto Rico and is well known for lulling people to sleep at night with the male's lusty "croak", but it has somehow made its way to the Big Island of Hawaii where it has become something of a nuisance.  Because the frog has no natural predator on the island, they've been proliferating like a "plague of locusts" - competing with native birds and animals for food, and leaving many angry Hawaiians sleepless in paradise.  American radio producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister went to ask residents why Hawaii's the only place in the world that's trying to kill as many frogs as possible.

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