'Prison Break' and my escape from Manus Island
Lives Less Ordinary
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Escape From Manus Prison
Lives Less Ordinary is a weekly documentary from the BBC World Service. This week Joe Fijian talks to Jevit Aelom about his time in Papua New Guinea as an asylum seeker. He says he would not have been able to be who he is today if he hadn't left home aged 21. Next we hear how two brothers fell in love after one became isolated and deeply depressed during the Spanish flu pandemic.
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