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The Wicker Man: Learning to love the film that broke us
The director's obsessive quest to make this iconic horror film would devastate his family

"He counted 3, 2, 1 – then stabbed me in the heart"
Kieran Quinlan was on his way to a party when a man with a knife attacked him

The US’s first black astronaut trainee reaches space at 90
In May 2024 Ed Dwight became the oldest person to travel to the edge of space

Love, grief, and an AI chatbot
Joshua created an AI simulation of his deceased fiancée to help him deal with his loss

A love story and a battle cry in the Ecuadorian rainforest
Nemonte Nenquimo is an indigenous leader who fought back against the oil giants

The boy who hid from Nazis in the woods, part 2
Maxwell Smart survived the Holocaust by living in a makeshift bunker on the forest floor

The boy who hid from Nazis in the woods, part 1
Maxwell Smart survived the Holocaust by living in a makeshift bunker on the forest floor

Never ever give up: how Diana Nyad swam from Cuba to Florida
American endurance swimmer Diana Nyad's thirty-year dream to swim from Cuba to Florida

The hungry boy who devoted his life to muscle
Gilbert Alaskadi was sick of being bullied; he wanted to be invincible.

Buddhist chants and Ibiza trance: A Spanish boy’s odyssey
Osel Hita Torres was a baby when he was recognised as a reincarnated spiritual leader