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Haiti, China and Gerald of Wales

Last updated: 09 January 2011

A year ago this week a quarter of a million people died when an earthquake devastated Haiti. Nearly a million people remain homeless, and despite a huge international relief effort the country remains in crisis.

On All Things Considred this week (Sunday 9 January at 9am repeated on Thursday 13 January at 5.30am), Roy Jenkins is joined by two people who've seen the situation at first hand while working for the Christian relief agency Samaritan's Purse;

The Archbishop of Wales throws light on the controversial and colourful 12th century figure, Gerald of Wales, whose struggles with the political and ecclesiastical establishments of England make him, for some, a contemporary hero.

And we hear from the Caerphilly grandmother whose parents and grandparents were missionaries in China, and who's just back after four months teaching there herself.

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