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From Our Own Correspondent: Romania and US

24/06/2013

Romania and US

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Life for Romania's orphans, two decades on. And, the Yurok tribe of northern California

How life has improved for the orphans of Romania in the last twenty years. Plus, Alastair Leithead meets the ancient Yurock tribe in northern California.

After Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown in 1989, the world learned of the shocking conditions in which many children lived in the country's orphanages. Nearly a quarter of a century later, Tessa Dunlop has returned to an orphanage in a remote part of Romania to find out whether life has improved for those children who are now adults. And meet the Yuroks - Alastair Leithead travels to northern California to meet an ancient people reinvigorating their old ways in modern America.

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