蜜芽传媒 World Service - Outlook

Outlook Mixtape: The romance playbook

From meet-cutes to happily ever afters, the essential elements of a classic romance

Cheryl was married to Bobby Love for 30 years without realising he was an escaped convict

Cuban ballet stars finding love in exile and the Guatemalan grandparents ruling the disco

US Army interpreter Nayyef Hrebid met Iraqi soldier Btoo Allami during the Iraq War

Sammi and Safi met and fell in love whilst rescuing people - then Safi was taken prisoner

Karl-Heinz and Hedi were kept apart by the Iron Curtain and the East German secret police

Jessica Share met her boyfriend, Aaron Long, 12 years after she gave birth to his child

How the 'Polish Shirley Temple' and her sister's secret diary survived the holocaust

Fleur Pierets and Julian Boom wanted to wed in every country that allowed gay marriage

Kevin & Debi were high school sweethearts until life, war and a pregnancy tore them apart