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  1. Episode 5

    Edna Ismail escalates her lifetime campaign against FGM.

  2. Episode 4

    Edna Ismail describes the pain of her wedding night as a circumcised woman.

  3. Episode 3

    Edna Ismail’s memoir of life as a midwife in Somaliland with little equipment and no pay.

  4. Episode 2

    Edna Ismail’s memoir of nursing training in London, a long way from her Somaliland home.

  5. Episode 1

    Edna Ismail’s memoir of her Somali childhood devastated by the trauma of FGM.