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Outlook: I Was Shot in the Charlie Hebdo Attack

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Philippe Lancon

07/01/2016 GMT

I Was Shot in the Charlie Hebdo Attack

BBC World Service - Outlook, I Was Shot in the Charlie Hebdo Attack

Journalist Philippe Lancon on the day Islamist gunmen attacked the Charlie Hebdo offices

A year ago today, Islamist gunmen stormed into French magazine Charlie Hebdo and shot 11 people dead. Journalist Philippe Lancon was hit in the face, hands and arm but survived.

A year ago today, two Islamist gunmen stormed into the editorial meeting of the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo and shot 11 people dead. They also killed a policeman in the street.  Journalist Philippe Lancon was hit in the face, hands and arm  - but somehow survived. He's been re-living his terrifying experience for Outlook. 

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When the financial crisis hit Greece in 2009, many people lost their jobs and had their savings wiped out. Some lost their homes and ended up on the streets. One of those affected was Konstantinos Polychronopoulos who lives in Athens. But now, he's found a new way of helping those in need and restoring his own self respect. 

Jyotsna Srikanth is an acclaimed Indian violinist. But she originally trained as a pathologist - and only felt able to give up her day job in 2007 when she was invited to play at the prestigious BBC Proms music festival in London.  She plays in the Carnatic classical tradition - a system of music usually associated with the southern part of the Indian subcontinent. Recently she performed before thousands of people at Wembley football stadium in honour of the visit to London of the Indian Prime Minister. 

(Photo: Philippe Lancon. Credit: Hannah Assouline/Opale/Leemage)

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