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Is Anybody Out There? Secrets for surviving solitary

How a pair of pink trousers were used to pass messages in an Iranian jail

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Is Anybody Out There? Love, stars and a travelling telescope

How Susan Murabana travelled to Kenya to see a solar eclipse and met the love of her life

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Is Anybody Out There? Learning to love after leaving a cult

Werner and Katharina grew up in a German commune sealed off from the outside world

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Is Anybody Out There? My journey to meet my birth parents

Darragh decided to trace his birth dad – who didn’t even know he existed – in Trinidad

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Outlook Mixtape: Love under the stars, finding dad and surviving solitary

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Is Anybody Out There? Why I advertised for a dad

Georgie Codd never had a dad, so she started a search for the ideal father figure

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Is Anybody Out There? Rebel radio, part 1

Carlos’ mission is to create a clandestine radio station during El Salvador’s civil war

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Is Anybody Out There? Rebel radio, part 2

Carlos has become El Salvador’s voice of resistance after launching Radio Venceremos

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Is Anybody Out There? I feared rejection and found an ally

‘Ellen’ discovered a secret bond with her mother after a bombshell revelation

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Outlook Mixtape: Rebel radio, the ‘dadvert’ and a kitchen revelation

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Secret superstar: the making of drag queen Yvie Oddly

Yvie’s journey from pain and shame to stardom on Ru Paul’s Drag Race

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Nemonte Nenquimo: Love and battle in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Nemonte Nenquimo is an indigenous leader from Ecuador fighting to protect the rainforest

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Teenage girls 1, 'old men' 0

How Copa 71, the first women’s World Cup, took on football’s 'old men'

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Mum said I was mad for joining the police – was she right?

Nusrit Mehtab became one of the few brown, Muslim women in the Metropolitan Police

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Outlook Mixtape: Jungle love, undercover cop, queen of drag

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The hungry boy who devoted his life to muscle

Gilbert Alaskadi was sick of being bullied; he wanted to be invincible

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John Chiti: 'It was a shock - they'd never seen a person with albinism in the limelight'

How Zambian singer John Chiti is changing perspectives on albinism

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I became a millionaire but felt empty inside

Gary Stevenson on why he became a campaigner against wealth inequality

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The singer from the Ural Mountains who became an opera star

How the 'singer in the village' became the world's 'go-to Carmen'

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Outlook Mixtape: Big money, land of honey, and tiny pants

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The pianist who plays classical music for retired elephants

How a 50th birthday wish led Paul Barton to play classical music for retired elephants

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'That's the stupid girl' The scoop that almost destroyed me

In 1998 Finnish journalist Johanna Aatsalo published a story that made her a hate figure

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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

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The Norwegian fisherman and the 'Russian spy whale'

The story of ‘Hvaldimir’ the beluga, found dead this week, and his bond with Joar Hesten

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A ride to space, a marathon swim and piano for elephants

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What my uncle’s death taught me about life

A reluctant carer celebrates the life and death of his charismatic Uncle David

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Looking for my son for 58 years

Bestselling writer Lesley Pearse searched for her son for 58 years

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How two friends tried to make ecocide an international crime

When Jojo Mehta met Polly Higgins, they decided to try and change the world

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Ending ecocide; the reluctant carer; meeting a 'spy whale'

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Overcoming nerves and politics to sing on the top stages

South African soprano Golda Schultz had an unlikely start to her career

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