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I played violin during my brain surgery
Dagmar Turner played to prevent any damage to her violin skills
The adventurer鈥檚 son who went missing in the jungle
When Roman Dial's son disappeared in Costa Rica, he set out to find him
"Look after her" - the story of a hidden WW2 child
Lien de Jong was a Jewish child who hid during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands
Caring for my dying father made me a better doctor
Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor. When her dad got ill her work became personal
The mystery of Ecuador's lost mastertapes
An Ecuadorian DJ's quest to unravel a decades-old family mystery
A girl on the run and a girl with no name
To celebrate Outlook's birthday, we're hearing from listeners with stories of their own
The trailblazing nurse who began life in care
Extraordinary personal stories from around the world
Rufus Wainwright: My music and my mother
Born into folk music royalty Rufus took special inspiration from his mum Kate McGarrigle
The literary heroes that helped me cope as a carer
When Sam Mills became a carer for her schizophrenic father, fiction became her lifeline
Greg Louganis: the Death-Defying Diver
Blood, gold and secrets at the Olympic pool
The unmaking of a boy soldier
As a boy, Ishmael Beah was forced to kill. How do you turn a soldier back into a child?
Chimps taught me how to be a mother
Dr Jane Goodall's work with chimps has revolutionalised our understanding of primates
The day the music stopped
Violinist Min Kym was at the height of her career when her priceless violin was stolen
Why I talk to warlords
Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda negotiates with warlords for the release of child soldiers
My Dad, Muhammad Ali
What is it like to be the daughter of a man who called himself The Greatest?
The secret surrogate
A surrogate mother describes what it's like to carry another couple's baby
Mean streets to sporting elite: the build up
Racism, gang life and the quest to build America's first black high school rowing team
Mean streets to sporting elite: the finale
Making movies helped me heal after my dad's murder
Rwandan director Jo毛l Karekezi explores the trauma he experienced during the 1994 genocide
Attila the Nun
Arlene Violet, the American nun who took on the mob
The coral crusaders: finding beauty in a murky world
How two punk rocker best friends created the world's first urban reef webcam
Name, shame and jail: Ghana's undercover journalist
Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas uses some impressive disguises to go undercover
23 years听longing to find my mum
Omar and Hassan Mohamed are two Somali brothers who never stopped looking for their mum
The stolen Picasso and the forest quest
Why writer Mira Feticu looked for a stolen Picasso in a Romanian forest
Discovering my grandfather's secret Nazi past
Growing up Julie Lindahl had been forbidden from looking into her family history
The 25 day sit-in that changed history
Judy Heumann on the longest ever occupation of a federal building in US history
The tycoon who became 'Mr Toilet'
Jack Sim is a Singaporean multi-millionaire who grew up without a working toilet
I found my son 32 years after he was kidnapped
Li Jingzhi's child was abducted in 1988. They鈥檝e finally been reunited 32 years later
Fosse and Verdon: The legacy of a dancing family
Two superstars of dance, Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, remembered by their daughter Nicole
When trash met thrash: Paraguay's landfill musicians
How a youth orchestra of tin-can violins and X-ray drums got the attention of Megadeth