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

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StoryCorps & Your Best Listener

click Who is Your Best Listener? Dave Isay from StoryCorps on why recording a conversation with your loved one could change your life... Send us photos of you and Your Best Listener...

My Best Listener: Matthew Bannister and wife Katherine; Dave Isay and his wife Jen Gonnerman

My Best Listener: Matthew Bannister and wife Katherine; Dave Isay and his wife Jen Gonnerman

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After Mumbai

click One year on, the Indian man forced to become a tea seller after being injured in the Mumbai attacks…

Mumbai chai wallah

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After Mumbai: Survivor Turned Campaigner

click The young British man campaigning for compensation after he was paralysed trying to escape the Mumbai attacks...

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A True Contender

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

Esther Phiri. Photo: Kieron Humphrey

Esther Phiri. Photo: Kieron Humphrey

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Commonwealth Capers

click The adventures of young British people in the 1960s and 70s travelling overland to India...

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Uganda's Children of War: A Clean Start

click The former Ugandan child soldiers and the cleansing ceremonies which wash away their bad deeds…

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Uganda's Children of War: No Way Back

click Abducted, abused, returned... and rejected. The Ugandan girls rejected by their families after being taken and abused by the Lords Resistance Army…

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Global Addiction, Personal Affliction

click A problem shared: heroin addicts in Afghanistan and Zanzibar share the personal but global problem of recovery without modern facilities...

Poppy farmer in Afghanistan

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Rainforest Roadway

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

Children of the Amazon rainforest

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Downtown Cowboys

click Saddle up and ride downtown with New York's black urban cowboys...

New York's black urban cowboys

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Looking for Disaster

click How China's leading search and rescue expert broke down in tears in the rubble of the Sichuan earthquake...

Wang Zhiqui - Director of China's International Search and Rescue Team

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WLTM: A Jewish Princess

click The man who Would Like To Meet a 'Jewish princess': looking for love in the New York dating scene...

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Black Mamba, White Witch

click The 'White Witch' on the trail of the kiss of death: the snake catcher and the black mamba snake, known as the kiss of death…

Black Mamba, White Witch

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"My Hero"

click The surgeon who rebuilt model Katie Piper's face after an horrific acid attack describes his heroic face saving work...

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The Veil Martyr

click The Egyptian woman stabbed to death in a German courtroom for wearing the Islamic headscarf...

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Bullfighting: A Red Rag to a Boy

click Bolivia's Juan Mauricio Copa, the 11 year old bullfighter who says it runs in his veins...

Juan Mauricio Copa, Bolivia's 11 year old bullfighter

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Oriental Angel

click The mixed-race contestant on Chinese talent show Go Oriental Angel abused for the colour of her skin...

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Chasing The Sun

click Flying round the world in a solar powered plane...

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Fire Alarm

click click Return of Black Saturday: as Australians recover from devastating bush fires, the danger returns with increasing temperatures and the threat of arson attacks...

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Brutal Scars of War

click Left an amputee by child soldiers: Mariatu Kamara - one of the many victims of Sierra Leone's civil war...

Mariatu Kamara

Mariatu Kamara

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Brother to Barack

click Barack Obama's half brother on his abusive childhood and why he's made a new life in China...

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'89 Squares

click In 1989 people gathered in public squares all across Eastern Europe to join in peaceful protest and bring about change...

Budapest Democracy rally, March 1989

Budapest Democracy rally, March 1989

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Annie Lennox: Peace Award

click As Nobel Peace Laureates present the singer with a Peace Award, Annie Lennox talks about her work raising AIDS awareness...

Annie Lennox

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A Cultural Reawakening

click Pakistan's Swat Valley: cultural life re-emerges after the Taleban, violence and fear...

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Pirate Attack!

click Attacked by modern day pirates - the ship's captain who fought grenades and AK 47s with old-fashioned traps and tricks...

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Queen Of Mantas

click The marine biologist who sold all her possessions to go swimming with giant manta rays...

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  • The Palestinian youngsters claiming wrongful arrest and abuse at the hands of Israeli authorities

  • The amazing courage of the model and TV presenter who suffered an horrific acid attack...

  • The man who devoted his life to dolphins & risked it to expose a secret dolphin slaughter

  • The innocent man who survived seven execution dates on death row

  • Space, the final frontier: Jose Hernandez & his journey from Mexican crop picker to the furthest reaches of space

  • From Capitol Hill to Copenhagen: Al Gore's journey to centre stage as climate change crusader

  • The Filippino mother in search of her 'disappeared' activist son...

  • The Vietnamese refugee who left on a fishing boat and returned on a battleship - as an American Navy Commander

  • Perfect landing: the pilot who safely landed in New York's River Hudson

  • One man's search for the remains of his family killed in Srebrenica


  • Rising sea levels: island problems in the Maldives & Papua New Guinea

  • A survivor of a Thames boating disaster describes the pain of losing his friends...

  • The retired teacher turned aviation archaeologist leading the hunt to find America's lost WASP.

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