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Factual: Life Stories

True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.

Outlook: 28/11/11

28/11/11

BBC World Service - Outlook, 28/11/11

The Jewish teacher who taught a blind autistic Palestinian girl to be a concert pianist.

The Orthodox Jewish pianist who taught a musically-gifted autistic Palestinian girl to be a concert pianist.

Extraordinary personal stories from around the world.  

We hear from Aurelia Paccohuanca who is seeking compensation from the newly elected Peruvian government, after she was forcibly sterilised along with 300,000 other women in an programme carried out in the 1990s designed to reduce the country's birth rate.   

Also, Orthodox Jewish pianist and composer Devorah Schramm talks about teaching a blind, musically-gifted autistic Palestinian girl to be a concert pianist. 

And 25-year-old Pakistani Moin Khan, tells of his 19,000 mile motorbike ride from San Francisco to his home city of Lahore.

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