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Dementia Diaries: 'It's like trying to go through a brick wall'
Dementia Diaries is an audio diary project that captures people’s diverse experiences of living with dementia, now the leading cause of death in the UK. While the origin of the disease is still unclear and symptoms can vary greatly,...
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David Bowie remembered by two of his biggest fans
David Bowie’s death stunned the world. Musician and actor Gary Kemp, a lifelong fan, and Nicholas Pegg, author of Bowie bible The Complete David Bowie, reflect on life without the Starman as they take a tour of some of Bowie’s London...
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Searching for our missing children: ‘It’s been six years. It feels like yesterday’
Almost a thousand people enter Mexico daily, heading for the US. Some never make it – they are kidnapped, imprisoned or killed along the way. Each year, in a bid to find their lost loved ones, a group of women from Central America travel...
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Toronto: a guide to the music scene of Drake's home city
DJ and travel writer Woody Anderson touches down in Canada’s hip-hop capital of Toronto. Home to Drake and the Weeknd, the city has a renewed energy about it. Music journalist Anupa Mistry and rapper and DJ Cadence Weapon give Woody the...
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I'll write as if I'm trying to get sacked': Stewart Lee in conversation with Alan Moore
Writers Stewart Lee and Alan Moore discuss the term ‘content provider’ the title of Lee’s new book, as well as how to dismantle genres, balance different voices, and play with the parameters of writing a newspaper column or a graphic novel
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The forgotten children of China's prisoners
In a government building in Nanzhao, the Zhang children’s father awaits his fate. He accidentally killed a child and will probably be executed. The Chinese state makes no provision for prisoners’ children. The Sun Village orphanage takes...
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How we cloned our dead boxer dog Dylan
Distraught after the death last summer of her much-loved eight-year-old boxer dog Dylan, Laura Jacques and her partner Richard Remde tell how they found a way to keep their pet’s memory alive. Dylan has been successfully cloned by South...
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The last kamikaze: two Japanese pilots tell how they cheated death
‘It sounds strange, but we were congratulating each other for being selected’ for the special suicide attack unit. ‘When I knew we had lost the war ... the thought going through my mind was I had missed my chance to die ... and be...
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Autism rocks: meet the boys from The AutistiX
Jack, Luke and Saul are The AutistiX, the UK’s premier autistic rock group. The boys are a tight-knit friendship group, expressing themselves through rock and roll in a way that they struggle to off the stage. Can they impress the crowds...
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The teenager left paralysed by 'one tiny mistake
Anna White was 15 when she had her appendix removed at the Royal Albert Edward infirmary in Wigan, Greater Manchester. The surgery appeared to go well, but in recovery she suffered a cardiac arrest and stopped breathing. The lack of...
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In troubled waters: the rescue crew saving migrants in the Mediterranean
The Guardian spends five days with the Migrants Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) meetings its crew and the migrants it saved. MOAS, a privately funded search-and-rescue vessel, was founded in 2013 and is made up of international humanitarian...
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From California gang to Mexican vigilante: the family man fighting the drug cartels in Mexico
Antonio Guiterrez - AKA Lonely - grew up in the USA but agreed to leave to avoid heavy punishment for his gang violence. He joined the notorious 'Autodefensas' in Michoacan, Western Mexico, the vigilante group who expelled drug cartels...
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Getting rid of the beard is a challenge': the secret world of Asian drag queens
Meet Ali, a gay Pakistani asylum-seeker preparing for his first performance as a drag queen. Ali fled Pakistan, where he was persecuted for being gay, but now faces abuse from his neighbours in London. Mentored by Asifa Lahore, the UK's...
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Then the shooting started': Afghan asylum seekers on the moment they lost their family
Said fled Afghanistan with his wife and seven children. Only he and his nine-year-old son Wali Khan made it to Britain. Their life in Derby is precarious and for Said, who is struggling to learn English, lonely. We will follow this...
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‘I care, but I don't care’: What people in the UK really think about life after the Queen
Far away from pomp and ritual, John Harris and John Domokos spend time in three places where the themes of the Elizabethan age played out: Milton Keynes, inner-city Birmingham, and a former Yorkshire pit village. What emerges is a much...
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Why your memories can't be trusted
Memory does not work like a video tape – it is not stored like a file just waiting to be retrieved. Instead, memories are formed in networks across the brain and every time they are recalled they can be subtly changed. So if these...
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The veiled rapper breaking taboos for women in Senegal
Mina La Voilée is a female rapper from Parcelles, Dakar, who is breaking taboos by rapping about women's rights. As a woman who chooses to wear a veil, she explains how criticism from industry professionals who told her "the veil and hip...
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The Vulva
Think you know about vaginas? Think again. In the four-part series running from now through November, we find out that even the most basic of body knowledge is lacking – people still don’t understand what vaginas look like or how they...
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’Humans are all the same’: the Hungarian border village helping Ukraine's refugee families
In the village of Beregsurány, on the Hungary-Ukraine border, a crowd of volunteers are tending to refugees flooding in, cooking them pancakes, and helping them to continue their journeys. In contrast to the refugee crisis of 2015, the...
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Trotsky's assassination remembered by his grandson
Esteban Volkov is the 86-year-old grandson of Leon Trotsky, the Russian Marxist revolutionary and founder of the Red Army. Volkov, who followed Trotsky to Mexico when he sought exile there in 1937, recalls the two assassination attempts...
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The UK's first professional trans choir: 'It's a joyful act of resistance'
Anil Sebastian and Coda Galabov are the creators of a new choir called Trans Voices, which offers a space for trans and non-binary people who have felt unable to sing with their true voices in traditional choirs. We follow the group as...
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Rebranded: how Survivors Ink is erasing the marks of the US sex trafficking industry
Pimp-led prostitution is one of the most violent and prolific forms of trafficking found in the US, with hundreds of thousands of women sold annually for commercial gain. Many are branded with tattoos by their traffickers as a sign of...
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The 'Spider-Man' of Sudan: the real-life superhero of the protest movement
In Sudan's capital, Khartoum, an anonymous protester dressed as Spider-Man joins the hundreds of thousands of protesters desperate to protect their fragile civilian government after the military coup in October 2021. 'Spidey' has become...
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From dealing drugs to delivering food: Pastor Mick on Burnley's Covid crisis
Pastor Mick Fleming has devoted all of his time in this lockdown to supporting the poorest communities in Burnley. But his life hasn’t always been this way. He tells us how he swapped a life of crime for delivering food parcels seven...