Max Pearson
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Florence asked the Aga Khan to tea again that summer and they picked up where they left off.
I've heard it said that she was brusque and overbearing.
But on each occasion that I went to see her, I found a charming host
The Aga Khan's conversations with Florence encouraged him to concentrate on the welfare of expectant mothers and babies amongst his followers in Africa and Asia in the following years.
In the late 19th century, a bubonic plague epidemic hit the city of Bombay in British India, now Mumbai in India.
It killed thousands and many fled the city.
The Aga Khan was inoculated by his friend, Russian professor Valdemar Hafkin, who developed the first vaccine for the plague to set an example to the general public.
Florence Nightingale died in 1910.
Aga Khan III died in 1957.
Rachel Naylor, and that revealing interview with Aga Khan III, Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah, was from the BBC archives.
This week's sporting witness next.
In the summer of 1952, the first Olympics of the Cold War era took place in Finland's capital city, Helsinki.
It was in these games that a Czechoslovakian army officer called Emil Zatopek achieved a unique feat in the athletics events.
Simon Watts first told this story in 2016 with help from archive recordings.
In this Soviet camp, there lived the man who was to win the Olympic Games almost by himself, Emil Zatopek, the incredible Czech.
Every step looked like his last, yet it was Zatopek's 5,000 metres, Zatopek's 10,000 metres, and even Zatopek's marathon, all Olympic records.
Not only did he achieve this extraordinary thing, but he did it all with such grace and charm and friendship and generosity.
He loved to talk.
He spoke eight languages well.
To him, running wasn't just about joylessly grinding out victories.
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