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- A good man in Rwanda
- The faceless men
- The sanitary pad revolutionary
- Arms wide open
- 'I played basketball for Gaddafi'
- Digging for their lives: Russia's body hunters
- Island at the end of the earth
- Michael Adebolajo: A journey towards violence
- The secret double life of a gay neo-Nazi
- A world without shops or factories
- My mother the Amazonian tribeswoman
- What was behind the Bristol bus boycott?
- Swimming back to life
- The incurable illness in the valley dust
- How Israel keeps Holocaust memories alive
- The story of how the tin can nearly wasn't
- Marwa's story: 10 years since the bomb fell
- When Ian Fleming picked my grandfather to steal Nazi secrets
- The ex-POW teaching Vietnam to swim
- How a good police officer went rogue
- Hillary Clinton's long journey
- Did Operation Ore change British society?
- Mitt Romney's English Mormon roots
- The Cold War rival to Eurovision
- Thankful villages where everyone came back from the wars
- Inside story of the UK's secret mission to beat Gaddafi
- A forgotten hero of World War II
- Charles Tegart and the forts that tower over Israel
- The 73 minutes that changed my life
- On the trail of Orwell’s outcasts
- In Steinbeck's footsteps across US
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- Why capitalism hasn't triumphed (JG)
- Four types of anxiety and their cures (Adam Gopnik)
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- The long shadows of war (LJ)
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