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Weekend Edition: Misfits

Standing out from the crowd: encounters with a Salvadoran forensic scientist, Muslims in CAR, an Iraqi metalhead, a pair of Romanian plotters and an enigmatic manuscript.

Stories of those who swim against the tide, from around the world. Tim Whewell meets some of the few Muslims still in Central African Republic, left stranded by violence; Will Grant wonders what's on the mind of the only forensic archaeologist in El Salvador, where there are plenty of bodies to be unearthed; Gabriel Gatehouse reflects on what "Operation Iraqi Freedom" really brought to Baghdad. Simon Worrall examines the Voynich Manuscript, an enigmatic text that seems almost otherworldly; Monica Whitlock hears how a couple of Romanian friends secretly plotted against Ceasescu - and Kieran Cooke sticks out like a sore thumb in a planters' club in Assam, northeast India.

Introduced by Pascale Harter.
Producer: Polly Hope

Photograph: A Muslim man with a head wound inflicted during an attack by "Anti-Balaka" militia on the village of Boda, Central African Republic, on 7 April, 2014. (MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images)

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25 minutes

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Sun 13 Apr 2014 08:06GMT

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  • Sat 12 Apr 2014 11:06GMT
  • Sun 13 Apr 2014 00:06GMT
  • Sun 13 Apr 2014 08:06GMT