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    Rufus Wainwright: My music and my mother

    Born into folk music royalty Rufus took special inspiration from his mum Kate McGarrigle

  2. The trailblazing nurse who began life in care

    Extraordinary personal stories from around the world

  3. A girl on the run and a girl with no name

    To celebrate Outlook's birthday, we're hearing from listeners with stories of their own

  4. The mystery of Ecuador's lost mastertapes

    An Ecuadorian DJ's quest to unravel a decades-old family mystery

  5. Caring for my dying father made me a better doctor

    Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor. When her dad got ill her work became personal

  6. "Look after her" - the story of a hidden WW2 child

    Lien de Jong was a Jewish child who hid during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands

  7. The adventurer’s son who went missing in the jungle

    When Roman Dial's son disappeared in Costa Rica, he set out to find him

  8. I played violin during my brain surgery

    Dagmar Turner played to prevent any damage to her violin skills

  9. Husband for Hire

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  10. Ups and downs in a vertical world

    Ian Powell is a climbing hold designer who rebuilt his life after years of drug addiction

  11. Touched by magic

    Magicians who used their craft to overcome social awkwardness, sexism and bullying

  12. Fire and justice: my life after Grenfell

    Antonio Roncolato was one of the last survivors to escape London’s Grenfell Tower fire

  13. The deserted island and the lost graves

    Carina Hoang and her siblings ended up stranded on an island in the South China Sea

  14. Dynamo: turning illness into magic

    Crohn's disease has hampered the world-famous magician all his life

  15. We risked our lives to save my brother's heart

    Hamed Amiri’s family fled from Afghanistan to get a heart operation for his brother

  16. Hamilton: Overcoming hearing loss to make its music

    Alex Lacamoire collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda to create the epic sound of Hamilton

  17. We missed our baby’s birth because of Covid-19

    How one couple travelled across the world to meet their baby son

  18. The lawyer, the chemical giant, and the contaminated water

    Robert Bilott's case for a farmer became a fight for 70,000 people

  19. The teenager who survived the Manchester bombing

    Freya Lewis has rebuilt her life after the attack at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017

  20. Wrongfully convicted of murdering my parents

    After 17 years in prison Marty Tankleff has been sworn in as a lawyer.

  21. Voyage to the bitter deep

    Victor Vescovo and John Ramsay explored the deepest points of the world's five oceans.

  22. My powerful sideburns and other beard stories

    MJ Johnson has an award winning beard, but due to coronavirus its days might be numbered

  23. The forbidden marriage and the legal loophole

    The clerical error that allowed two women to make LGBT history in Costa Rica.

  24. Heavy metal's groundbreaking grandma

    Meet Inge Ginsberg: Holocaust survivor, Hollywood composer and heavy metal grandma

  25. How do you deal with coronavirus in a war zone?

    Thierry Durand set up the only dedicated covid-19 hospital in the city of Aden.

  26. The cookbook that became a lifeline

    How the eccentric but pioneering chef Julia Child became a role model for Julie Powell

  27. My part in a historic hostage rescue

    The Israeli commando who crossed continents on a high risk hostage rescue operation.

  28. Behind the doors of the lockdown museums

    A virtual tour of some the world’s best loved museums by the people who look after them.

  29. Waking from a coma speaking a foreign language

    Australian Ben McMahon whose native language is English was only able to speak Mandarin

  30. Students by day and hostage negotiators by night

    Miles Hargrove asked his old school friend to negotiate with his dad’s kidnappers.

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