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The boy with red hair: 26 years searching for my stolen son

Sara Méndez’s desperate hunt for her baby boy, vanished during Uruguay’s military regime

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We turned our experience of neurodiversity into a manga

When Eri Nanato was diagnosed with autism and ADHD, she and her husband turned to manga

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'Girls don't play guitars!' The Liverbirds' story

How four teenagers from Liverpool became the UK's first all-female rock'n'roll band

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The plant-hunter who risked death for an orchid

On a mission to find a new type of orchid for his granny, Tom Hart Dyke was kidnapped

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Outlook Mixtape: Rare orchids, manga love and Liverbirds

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Did a lightning strike make me a trombonist?

After being struck by lightning in 2005, Laura was consumed by a hunger to play music

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Cristina Rivera Garza: ‘Grief becomes a forced silencing’

The Mexican author whose younger sister Liliana was murdered at the age of 20 in 1990

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Finding freedom in the water: Gaza’s swimming teacher

Amjed Tantesh’s enduring mission to teach Gazan children to swim

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The singer with her back to the audience

How Indian jazz vocalist Asha Puthli challenged musical stereotypes

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Outlook Mixtape: Lightning; a sister found; swimming dreams

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The Wicker Man: Learning to love the film that broke us

Robin Hardy’s obsessive quest to make this iconic horror movie would devastate his family

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Fighting my family to fight for others

Rebel child turned rebel lawyer, Moniza Kakar is challenging authority wherever she goes

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'Becoming' Elton John saved my life

Elton John tribute act Tom Cridland says his hero helped him overcome alcohol addiction

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The sisterhood of the sea shanty singers

The all-female sea shanty group that made a miracle

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Outlook Mixtape: Rebel lawyer; The Wicker Man; sea shanties

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‘The Brooklyn Cowgirl’ – return of a country music star

For decades Mimi Roman was silent about her musical past; now aged 90 she's back on stage

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African beauty: How photography changed my way of seeing

Thandiwe Muriu wanted to leave Kenya until a camera helped her see beauty in her culture

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Secrets, lies and a child lost in Lollywood

Deeba was a child star of Pakistani cinema, but behind the success was a cruel deception

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Through a lens, darkly: capturing war, drugs and neo Nazis

Leo Regan discovered the camera and became determined to capture beauty in extreme places

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My fight for the reburial of enslaved Africans on St Helena

Annina van Neel led a campaign for the reburial of the remains of enslaved Africans

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I discovered I was indigenous and made history in Argentina

Moira is a famous Mapuche activist, but as a child she had no idea of her ancestral roots

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How I convinced police my dad was a murderer

On the day his mother disappeared, 11-year-old Collier started looking for evidence

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Outlook Mixtape: Hidden roots; island reburial; boy witness

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Lost in lion country and saved by Spam

Two friends stranded in the desert, only a discarded tin held the key to their escape

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The reluctant fighter who made boxing history

How champion boxer Maurice Hope faced his battles, in and out of the ring

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Britain’s infected blood scandal, my quest for the truth

When he was 4, Jason Evans’ dad died from AIDS contracted from contaminated blood

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Blue gold: Searching for the world's rarest denim

Viktor sacrificed time, money, and relationships to build his beloved denim collection

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Outlook Mixtape: Saved by Spam, 'soft' boxer, infected blood

The friends saved by a tin of Spam, the boxer who impressed the Queen and infected blood

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The Hiroshima survivor who is still shouting for peace: Part 1

Setsuko Thurlow survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. She now fights for disarmament

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The Hiroshima survivor who is still shouting for peace: Part 2

Setsuko Thurlow survived the nuclear bomb in Hiroshima. She now fights for disarmament

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