Sex work in Sierra Leone: A street child’s story

Two weeks after yet another attempted coup, veteran Times war correspondent Anthony Loyd returns to Sierra Leone, the West African country he first visited 26 years ago amid civil war. 

There he encounters a young woman from the streets, who would have long been dead by now, were it not for her survival skills and the conversation she shared with the occupants of a car one night 15 years ago.

Guest: Anthony Loyd, special correspondent, The Times.

Host: Luke Jones.

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