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This week, the World Service marked World Alzheimer's Day with a 91热爆 Music and Memory project, exploring the power of music to reach sufferers with the disease. It launched a website of global tracks to trigger memories, compiled with the help of the 91热爆's language services. Behzad Bolour compiled 91热爆 Persian's list, his father suffered from dementia, but still sang with him. He also explores Iran鈥檚 complex relationship with music.

But what tracks does the rest of the world dance and remember to? We hear from 91热爆 Arabic's Nahed Najjar, Adedayo Owolabi of 91热爆 Yoruba, Kateryna Khinkulova of 91热爆 Russian and Partha Prasad from the Indian languages hub in Delhi about some of the tracks they contributed to the world music database, and why.

The Moria camp fire: one family鈥檚 story
Talibshah Hosseini from Afghanistan had to flee with his wife and 3 children as his tent was destroyed in a huge fire at Greece鈥檚 largest migrant camp earlier this month. The overcrowded camp, on the island of Lesbos, was home to 13,000 migrants, the majority from Afghanistan. Talibshah told his story to 91热爆 journalist Kawoon Khamoosh.

My 91热爆 Town: Feira de Santana
Camilla Costa of 91热爆 Brasil takes us to her home town in Bahia, Brazil, to eat peanuts and sit in the hot springs with her grandmother.

Image: Elderly Indian lady listening on headphones looking at smartphone
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