BBC World Service - Outlook

Amazing Love Stories: The forbidden lovers' daring escape

Karl-Heinz and Hedi were kept apart by the Iron Curtain and the East German secret police

Jessica Share met her boyfriend, Aaron Long, 12 years after she gave birth to his child

How the 'Polish Shirley Temple' and her sister's secret diary survived the holocaust

Fleur Pierets and Julian Boom wanted to wed in every country that allowed gay marriage

Kevin & Debi were high school sweethearts until life, war and a pregnancy tore them apart

Stories of people with tools for transformation, making a mark on the world around them

Joseline Umulisa lost almost all her family in the genocide - tennis helped her heal

Linwood Barclay turned childhood dysfunction into best-selling books

After acting out a robbery during a manic episode, Scout Tzofia Bolton ended up in prison

The incredible story of how Brian Clough’s kindness changed a young kid’s life forever