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16/06/2009

Human stories from behind the global headlines with Valerie Sanderson.

On today's programme: Slums in Zimbabwe; being a tall woman; horse hooves in Kyrgystan.

Human stories from behind the global headlines with Valerie Sanderson.

On today's programme: Slums in Zimbabwe; being a tall woman; horse hooves in Kyrgystan.

Zimbabwe
In the last of his undercover reports from the country, Mike Thomson visits the slums in Harare. Four years after a massive slum clearance programme, how are those who lost everything surviving? Mike also tells Valerie Sanderson what it was like to go back to the country of his childhood.

Save Our Sounds
We hear the clatter of hooves of the horsemen of Kyrgyzstan.

Tall Stories
The advantages and disadvantages of being a woman who stands six foot three inches tall in her bare feet. The Tall Book by Arianne Cohen is published by Bloomsbury.

28 minutes

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Tue 16 Jun 2009 12:32GMT

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