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S16, Ep3 How To Fail: Yusra Mardini - how a teenage Syrian refugee became an Olympic swimmer against unimaginable odds
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
What Did You Take With You?
I think the thing that I really want to get across and you do such a beautiful job of is that every single one of those statistics is a life. Of course it does. And also there's a sense that they just want to get to that question, have the answer straight away and then move on. It goes back to what we were talking about earlier about. Ignorance and yes. And your story and the story of all these millions of refugees that you represent are real. They're lived with complexities and love of theirs and friendships and homes that they've had to leave behind. So yeah, I did really have to abandon everything. But it wasn't really that hard for me
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