The Boy in the Bubble - a podcast by BBC World Service

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)

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