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• "Cut off my hand and save my life"

  Thu, 23 May 13

  Duration:
  46 mins
  
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  28 days remaining

  Aanna Akhter, a 16 year old Dhaka garment factory worker was trapped in the wreckage of the Rana Plaza. She explains how she could only be freed after her rescuer amputated her hand / Argentinian writer and theatre director Lola Arias discusses her new work Mi Vida Despues, or "my Life After", which features victims of the country's brutal military government of the 1970s and 80s / Last week history was made in Hong Kong when a transsexual woman, known only as "W" won the right to marry her boyfriend. "W" details her journey to becoming a woman / Lenin Moreno, the outgoing Vice President of Ecuador, describes the incident that left him paralysed and how he has campaigned to transform the lives of other disabled people in South America.

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• Kept in a hole by the Taliban 22 May '13

  Wed, 22 May 13

  Duration:
  50 mins
  
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  Kept in a hole by the Taliban 22 May '13 Pierre Borghi, a French photographer and aid worker, was kidnapped by the Taliban last November. He spent most of the next five months chained up in holes in the ground. News of his captivity was deliberately kept quiet by the French government who in private were refusing to meet the kidnappers' demands. Pierre managed to escape in April. Also in the programme, Romanian composer Rodion was an electronic music pioneer in the 1980s. But after his mother's death, Rodion retired from music making. Now, lost tapes of his compositions are being released for the first time. Ballet dancers are known for their slim, muscular bodies. But what happens if you love dancing and you don't fit that shape? In Cuba there is a dance troupe trying to change our preconceptions. Sarah Rainsford reports from Havana. And Selahattin Tulunay is a plastic surgeon from Istanbul doing a roaring trade in… moustache transplants.

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• I forgave my mother's killer 21 May '13

  Tue, 21 May 13

  Duration:
  50 mins
  
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  I forgave my mother's killer 21 May '13 In this edition of Outlook, Matthew Bannister hears the story of the Rwandan genocide survivor who came face to face with his mother's killer and was able to forgive him. Also today, Walid Hammad, the Egyptian actor who dressed as a woman to gauge sexual harassment on the streets of Cairo. We meet the Senegalese wine maker who, as a Muslim, isn't allowed to taste the wine he's made - and the British artist who was inspired by his family's history of disability to capture disabled people in motion.

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• Yunus: banker to the poor 20 May '13

  Mon, 20 May 13

  Duration:
  50 mins
  
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  Matthew Bannister meets Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Prize winner and microcredit pioneer. Also, one woman's quest to discover the fate of her cousin accused of being a witch in Congo, and our reporter visits a new exhibition at Berlin's Jewish Museum which tackles anti-semitism with controversial, interactive and even live displays.

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• Finding hope in son's murder 16 May 13

  Thu, 16 May 13

  Duration:
  50 mins
  
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  Jimmy Mizen was murdered in a senseless violent act in his local bakery in South London five years ago. He was only 16-years-old, and bled to death in his brother's arms. His parents Margaret and Barry Mizen were devastated by his death, but turned their tragedy into a campaign to help stop violence against other young people. And, from airline pilot to music maker - Armand Diangienda tells us how he set up the world's first black symphony orchestra in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Also on the programme, Irish journalist Declan Walsh who has devoted much of his life to reporting from Pakistan, tells us how he was suddenly ordered to leave the country on the eve of the General Election. The son of the tweeting and singing astronaut Chris Hadfield talks about his dad's big comedown from outer space. And in Witness we meet Peter Riva, the grandson of film star Marlene Dietrich.

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• Facing Khmer Rouge killer 15 May 13

  Wed, 15 May 13

  Duration:
  50 mins
  
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  Outlook with Matthew Bannister. Documentary maker Rithy Panh, who witnessed some of the worst atrocities of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime, spent 300 hours interviewing Comrade Duch, as he awaited trial; Vicky Araico Casas is a Mexican playwright who turned her own experience of low paid work and sharing the lives of illegal migrants in the US into a new play; John Pickup lost his arm when he was 17, and has now set up an agency supplying amputee actors for the movie business; husband and wife Yuri Savenko and Liubov Vinogradova are two prominent Russian psychiatrists, who have been campaigning to improve conditions in Russian psychiatric hospitals.

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• African diva Angelique Kidjo 14 May 13

  Tue, 14 May 13

  Duration:
  50 mins
  
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  19 days remaining

  On Outlook Matthew Bannister speaks to the great African singer Angelique Kidjo about her musical childhood in Benin, conquering stage fright and educating Africa's women. As Guatemala's former leader is sentenced to 80 years in prison for crimes against humanity, we meet Edwin Canil, a lawyer who witnessed the massacre of his own family. And we're in Alaska with Buck Wilde and Chris Morgan, two men who've devoted their lives to studying grizzly bears.

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• Raising a Child Genius 13 May 13

  Mon, 13 May 13

  Duration:
  50 mins
  
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  Matthew Bannister speaks to extraordinary people: Kristine Barnett and her son Jacob, who was diagnosed with autism aged two - he is now fourteen and studying for a Masters degree in quantum physics; Dr Ahmad Sarmast on his work reviving Afghan's musical heritage; Ang Jangbu Sherpa used to be a professional mountain guide, but is now an airline pilot living in Germany; and honouring the dead in Georgia.

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• ABBA's Bjorn: We Turned Down $1b 08 May 13

  Thu, 9 May 13

  Duration:
  50 mins
  
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  Jo Fidgen went to Stockholm to meet Bjorn Ulvaeus and to hear the story of ABBA, made up of 4 people, who were two couples. He explains how they they lived and worked together.

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• Boston bomb dancer 8 May '13

  Wed, 8 May 13

  Duration:
  50 mins
  
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  Adrianne Haslet-Davis, a ballroom dancer, who lost a leg during the Boston bombings, gets advice and support from a British dancer. Welly O'Brien had a similar experience twenty years ago. But she is a successful performer now. Adrianne has just returned home, she still gets around in a wheelchair… and she is determined to dance again. The award winning author, Lionel Shriver, speaks about her new novel. Big Brother, is the story of a previously tall, slim and good looking brother, who turns up to stay with his sister after putting on an enormous amount of weight. The author of We Need To Talk About Kevin shares her views on dysfunctional attitudes to food and the issues surrounding obesity.

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