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The History Hour: Mother Teresa - The Nun Who Became A Saint

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Mother Teresa - The Nun Who Became A Saint

04/03/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - The History Hour, Mother Teresa - The Nun Who Became A Saint

Life with Mother Teresa, the birth of Nollywood and Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House.

Life with Mother Teresa, how the cells taken from an African American woman revolutionised medical science and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Life with Mother Teresa among the poorest of the poor in Calcutta, how the World Health Organisation came to realise that obesity was a global problem and Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House.  Plus the immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks  -  a remarkable story of one woman's impact on medical research.

(PHOTO: AP Mother Teresa holds a child in 1978)

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