The History Hour
The History Hour
BBC World Service
The Boy in the Bubble
49 minutes Posted Feb 24, 2018 at 2:00 pm.
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How a young boy lived with a rare genetic disorder; plus "Ghana Must Go" - when 1 million Africans were expelled from Nigeria, battling the last major smallpox epidemic in India, reporting the Jimmy Swaggart scandal and the story behind the acclaimed novel "Infinite Jest"

(Photo: David Vetter and his mother Carol-Ann Demaret Credit: Carol-Ann Demaret)