BBC World Service - Outlook

The Oscar joke that turned into a real life drama

How a triumphant moment in Colin Gibson’s career inadvertently led to a false bomb scare

How writer Delia Ephron found herself in a love story like her hit film You’ve Got Mail

A baby left in a car, the other in a phonebox. David and Helen’s quest to find out why

I was betrayed to the East German secret police

The temping job that took a young African American woman into the home of a KKK member

Howie Truong was fleeing Vietnam with his family when pirates intercepted their boat

Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr remembers her mother Dora Akunyili’s fearless work

Charles sues his country’s richest companies on behalf of black gold miners

Apartheid taught Charles to know his place, so how did he end up suing the gold industry?

How one man stopped the stories and songs of his people from being lost forever