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Sound dreams: The making of a world-class composer

Errollyn Wallen was told she was nothing special, but her music proved them wrong

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Digital love: Why I 'married' a cartoon popstar

At his lowest ebb Akihiko Kondo found sanctuary with an AI popstar, but faced a backlash

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From suburbia to stardom: I created Ziggy Stardust's hair

The chance encounter that led Suzi Ronson to style David Bowie's iconic look

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Outlook Mixtape: Peace, love and iconic hair

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Helping the children of incarcerated parents get to college

Yasmine Arrington has set up a scholarship fund for the children of incarcerated parents

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A mother’s quest to uncover why her neighbours kept dying

Sofía Gatica was set on finding out the cause of sickness in her area, no matter the cost

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The surfer who found the world’s biggest wave

Garrett McNamara made history when he surfed a 78-foot wave in Nazaré, Portugal

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The yellow house and the doctor who experimented on me

Evy Mages learns the truth about her time in an Austrian ‘child-observation station'

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Outlook Mixtape: Big waves, blue birds and a band of mothers

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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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