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Last updated: 14 october, 2009 - 12:33 GMT

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Murder at Sea

click The yachting dream turned nightmare - the British grandmother who escaped after pirates killed her husband...

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'The Greatest Job in the World'

click The British man who beat 34, 000 other applicants for 'the greatest job in the world' - the caretaker of Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia...

Ben Southall

Your Best Listener

click Our montage of your photos is growing and growing...

Your Best Listener

China's Growing Sands

click The people struggling to survive as their land and livelihoods are swallowed up by desert...

Photo: Sean Gallagher

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Living With Pirates

click The crew of a hijacked ship tell the story of their long captivity...

former captives of pirates

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Farming Today, USA

click A year in the life of the Hager family who run a dairy farm in the USA…

Modern Farming in the USA

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Outlook: the best of 2009

click A round up of just some of the most memorable personal stories broadcast on Outlook across the last 12 months...

best of Outlook

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Reconciliation and Forgiveness

...click as seen through the eyes of three remarkable pairs of people

Barry Magee

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From Prison to Poetry

click Donato Francisco Mattera: the one time gang leader who turned to poetry & activism to become a celebrated figure in South Africa...

don mattera

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Email Friends of War and Peace

click The unlikely email friendship between two women - one in war torn Baghdad and the other in a quiet London suburb...

email friends

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Still Dancing

click 71 year old David Drew describes a dancing career spanning five decades with Britain's Royal Ballet...

David Drew, dancer

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Christmas Carols at King's College Cambridge

click Behind the scenes at the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College Cambridge...

Minister and Matthew Bannister

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  • Sorcery and SaudiA Saudi policeman keeps watch over Muslim pilgrims near Mecca

    The story of a Lebanese pilgrim facing a death sentence in Saudi Arabia after being charged with witchcraft

  • Recovering from GenocideAn outdoor 'gacaca' court in Rwanda

    Life in a Rwandan community - where killers live with survivors and are tried in open-air courts

  • Surviving the TsunamiPhotojournalist Arko Datta's iconic image

    The photojournalist who made an emotional journey to track down the Indian tsunami survivor he photographed five years ago

  • Radio GibbonChanee Brulee & gibbon. Credit: Nick Lyon

    Chanee Brulee, the DJ on Radio Gibbon who's devoted his life to matchmaking gibbons

  • Cycling the AmericasMark Beaumont in Peru

    The man who's cycling 15000 miles from farthest North to deepest South America - and climbing mountains on the way

  • "Death is part of the job" Olaf Schmid (left), Christina Schmid (right)

    Christina Schmid - the widow of a British soldier killed defusing a bomb in Afghanistan - describes her terrible loss

  • A Life Full CircleGautam Lewis

    Gautam Lewis describes his life now he's back in India to fight polio...

  • Gay Fear in UgandaSexual Minorities Uganda and a coalition of groups protest against the proposed anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda in front of the Ugandan Mission to the United Nations in New York. Photo credit: STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images

    Uganda cracks down on homosexuality as gay people live in constant fear

  • Puppets riskIndian puppets

    Delhi slum clearance threatens puppeteers colony

  • After MumbaiSadashiv Chandrakant Kolke

    The man forced to become a tea seller after being injured in the attacks

  • A True ContenderEsther Phiri. Photo: Kieron Humphrey

    The female boxer who fought her way from the Zambian slums to a life of riches as a world champion contender

  • No Way BackMonica - returned to her community in Uganda after being abused by Lords Resistance Army rebels

    The Ugandan girls rejected by their families after being abducted and abused by insurgents

  • Rainforest Roadwaychildren of the Amazon rainforest

    How life in the Amazon rainforest changed forever when a road was built through its heart

  • "My Hero"

    The surgeon who rebuilt model Katie Piper's face after an horrific acid attack

  • The Veil MartyrDr Marwa El Sherbini

    The Egyptian woman stabbed to death in a German courtroom.

  • Oriental AngelLou Jing

    The mixed-race contestant on Chinese talent show abused for the colour of her skin

  • Fire AlarmSouth Australia - devastated by bushfires

    As Australians recover from devastating bush fires, temperatures are steadily rising...

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