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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud.

Each week we choose three pieces from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud.

I'm Osredminson and on the podcast this week.

Jay Marion Thomas reads us the story of the politician,

the street trader and the foiled kidney transplant plot. Tom Goodenough talks about the blurred lines between sport and entertainment and Adam Sweeting talks to the documentary maker Nick Broomfield

about the forgotten Rolling Stone. Up first, Jay Merion Thomas.

Here is your dilemma. Imagine you have a university-aged daughter who has developed kidney

failure. She needs a transplant. You know that the best results are obtained when the operation

is performed at a transplant unit with access to the

best immunosuppressive drugs, when the kidney is taken from a living donor, and especially when

that donor is young and from a similar ethnic background to the recipient. Like most parents,

you will do almost anything to help your child.

But would you break the law?

Ike Equerimardu thought that the risks of breaking the law in UK were worth taking

to gain the best outcome for his daughter.

His plan failed.

And on 23rd of March, he, his wife Beatrice, and their middleman, Dr.

Obina Obeta, a Nigerian doctor living in Suburk, were found guilty of transporting a young

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