We hear from a mother and her son. By age seven, he'd had heart failure and been diagnosed as bipolar. And then — after a period as the world's youngest Stephen Hawking fan — he got better. (15 minutes)
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Act V
A group of inmates at a high-security prison stage a production of the last act of Hamlet.