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Lauren LeVernier, we're taking our Easter break, so until we're back on air, we're showcasing

a few programs from our archive, as usual the music's been shortened for rights reasons.

This week's guest is the activist, Malala Yusufzai.

I cast her away in 2021.

My cast away this week is the activist Malala Yusufzai.

Her status is such that she requires no surname, let alone an introduction, but for tradition's

sake, here goes.

She's the youngest Nobel Prize winner in history, and she jokes the only recipient of the

peace prize who still fights with our younger brothers.

She was already a prominent campaigner for girls education in her home country of Pakistan

when, nine years ago, a Taliban gunman boarded her school bus and shot her.

She was 15.

Who is Malala, he asked before he opened fire.

At 23, she's still standing up and telling the world who she is, and how that's changing.

Today, she's an Oxford graduate as well as a Nobel laureate, a best-selling author and

co-founder, along with her father, of the Malala Fund, which campaigns for girls education

around the world.

In 2017, the UN designated April 10th Malala Day in honour of her birthday.

She says, since I was 10 years old, the principle of my life has been to stand on the right

side of history and to ensure that we fulfill our responsibility to make this world a better

place.

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