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My father Faiz: Pakistan鈥檚 revolutionary poet, part 2
How Salima Hashmi and Faiz defied a dictatorship through satire and poetry

My father Faiz: Pakistan鈥檚 revolutionary poet, part 1
Salima Hashmi grew up with puppets and poetry, inspiring her own career in performance

The man who finds water in the desert
Why Alain Gachet quit a lucrative career in oil to search for water underground

Kill or be killed: a climber鈥檚 dilemma, part 2
Beth Rodden escaped her kidnappers, but the moment would haunt her in the years to follow

Kill or be killed: A climber鈥檚 dilemma, part 1
Beth Rodden was on the expedition of her dreams in Kyrgyzstan when she was kidnapped

The Hiroshima survivor who's still shouting for peace
Setsuko Thurlow knows what nuclear war looks like

Lost in lion country and saved by Spam
Two friends stranded in the desert, only a discarded tin held the key to their escape

Painting, prison and two decades in Guantanamo
Mistaken for a terrorist, Ahmed Rabbani was detained without trial. Art became his refuge

How I convinced police my dad was a murderer
On the day his mother disappeared, 11-year-old Collier started looking for evidence

Balochistan鈥檚 mystery benjo man, part 2
How Ustad Noor Bakhsh, a Pakistani shepherd in his 70s, became a folk music star