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• 2004 Tsunami: Living with my loss

  Wed, 19 Jun 13

  Duration:
  50 mins
  
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  Sonali Deraniyagala describes how she was the only survivor of a family holiday in Sri Lanka when the 2004 tsunami struck. Indian journalist Sujata Anandan shares her memories of using telegrams. From Delhi, two young Afghans describe the life-changing experience of studying in India. Also, the real story behind the award-winning South African film Otelo Burning. And Witness relives the first night of a musical which became a cult phenomenon - The Rocky Horror Show.

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• Fighting for human rights in Zimbabwe

  Tue, 18 Jun 13

  Duration:
  56 mins
  
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  Human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa on how she became a fighter in her childhood and went on to represent Zimbabweans whose rights have been sidelined by the regime. Afghan Novelist Khaled Hosseini on exile from Afghanistan and how his people and country inspired his latest book, 'And The Mountains Echoed'. German hairdresser Davide Martello describes playing his travelling piano in Istanbul's Taksim Square. And a different perspective on Afghanistan with two returnees, one from France and one from Germany, who've come home and started businesses. In Witness, the execution of Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were accused of spying, is remembered by their son Robert.

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• Afghan woman driver

  Mon, 17 Jun 13

  Duration:
  50 mins
  
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  Afghan woman driver Farida Akbar takes us on an exciting trip through Kabul. Also, stand-up comedian Deborah Frances-White on how she's made a show about her search for her birth family. Exiled Sudanese bishop Andudu Elnail on his work to help victims of the conflict in South Kordofan. The story of soul singer Charles Bradley, who made his debut album aged 62. And Witness goes back to the first gay marriage in America in 1971.

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• Why I love Carlos the Jackal

  Thu, 13 Jun 13

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  50 mins
  
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  Matthew Bannister speaks to french lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre who fell in love with and married her client, Carlos the Jackal in a muslim ceremony in prison. Also in the programme, Professor of Cybernetics Kevin Warwick tells Matthew why he has spent the last ten years implanting computer chips in his body and why he even plans to put a chip in his brain. Also we visit an ice cream parlour in Jordan that's bringing joy to Syrian refugees, and we hear from the curator of the Iraqi Pavilion at the Venice Biennale - one of the world's most prestigious art events - plus the Iraqi shepherd turned photographer whose work has been exhibited there.

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• Lindy Chamberlain - 32 years of torment

  Wed, 12 Jun 13

  Duration:
  50 mins
  
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  The woman at the heart of the dingo baby case in Australia on her battle to clear her name; the film maker who went undercover with defectors fleeing from North Korea; the twin sisters who have just retired after working for 50 years in Amsterdam's red light district; a Nigerian woman who has made a successful career as a polo player; the voice behind a 52 foot mechanical cowboy that became a Texas icon; and on Witness, Alex Last recalls Nigeria's controversial 1993 election, which was supposed to end military rule and restore democracy.

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• A new face in Italian politics

  Tue, 11 Jun 13

  Duration:
  50 mins
  
  Available:
  22 days remaining

  Matthew Bannister speaks to former UNHCR spokeswoman Laura Boldrini, who recently became Speaker of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Jigme Wangmo from Bhutan tells us how her own son inspired her to change attitudes towards disabled children. Filming undercover in Tehran - Iranian director Tina Ghavari describes the risks she took to make her new movie, and child psychiatrist John Woodhall who's helped traumatised children all over the world describes suddenly having to deal with a school shooting in his own back yard.

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• Soprano who had two lung transplants 10 June '13

  Mon, 10 Jun 13

  Duration:
  50 mins
  
  Available:
  21 days remaining

  The American opera singer who has survived two double lung transplants; the Colombian man who fishes the bodies of people killed in the drug wars out of his local river to give them a decent burial; the secret of the high flying Emanuel brothers; the disabled man who set out to lose his virginity in Spain and made a film about it. And in Witness: as the British government agrees to pay compensation to Kenyans tortured under colonial rule, we recall the days of the Mau Mau rebellion.

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• The Queen at Broadcasting House

  Fri, 7 Jun 13

  Duration:
  54 mins
  
  Available:
  18 days remaining

  Matthew Bannister presents a special edition of Outlook, live from Broadcasting House to mark Queen Elizabeth's official opening of the building.

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• Mary Williams - My "mom" Jane Fonda.

  Thu, 6 Jun 13

  Duration:
  50 mins
  
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  Mary Williams: My "mom" Jane Fonda. Manny Ansar the organiser of Mali's world famous Festival in the Desert.

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• Acid attack survivor wins game show 05 June '13

  Wed, 5 Jun 13

  Duration:
  51 mins
  
  Available:
  16 days remaining

  Outlook with Matthew Bannister: acid attack victim Sonali Mukherjee won a gameshow to pay for her surgery; Soprano Pretty Yende - from church singer in rural South Africa to the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera; the former tailor to Colombia's FARC guerillas; the young woman who set up Nigeria's Flying Doctors. In Witness: meeting the Oklahoma Bomber.

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