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Why I stopped talking for 17 years
It started out as an experiment for a day but John Francis didn’t speak for 17 years

Adventures in sound: The soundscape ecologist
Musician Bernie Krause overcame a fear of animals to capture natural sounds of the wild

The 'metal bird' that sparked a dream
His first sighting of a plane in the sky would lead Ousman Umar on a treacherous journey

Facing the ghosts of a freak mountain storm
How one man’s life was upended when a gentle hike up a mountain turned into an icy hell

London’s revolutionary kiss-in
Ted Brown is a black LGBT rights pioneer who helped organise the UK’s first Gay Pride

Book lovers unite: The bookish boy who became a boxing champion
The bookish boxing champion, the bin man who built a library and the secret German author

A family lost at sea
Fleeing Vietnam Lauren’s family almost died. Her 30-year dream was to find their rescuers

The schoolgirl who fought an oil company and won
When Nalleli Cobo fell ill, fingers pointed to an oil well next to her home in LA

The casino cheat who stopped his own million dollar scam
Former swindler Richard Marcus now works for the same casinos that he once robbed

Giving birth during a genocide
The Rwandan woman whose waters broke as militia were attacking her family home