BBC World Service - Outlook

The spies in my house

Ulrike Poppe was one of the most surveilled women in East Berlin

The Emerson brothers’ family funded their musical aspirations – they almost lost it all

Some old family letters led historian Karina Urbach to try and right an historic wrong

Jair Candor tracks down remote Amazonian tribes in order to protect them from outsiders

Singer Rubén Rada started performing in carnival groups when he was just 10 years old

Hassan Al Kontar had to live at Kuala Lumpur airport after he got stuck in a legal limbo

Reality TV producer Johnathan Walton found himself in a plot he couldn't have dreamt up

Kathryn Mannix was a pioneer in palliative care, then she became a ground-breaking author

The guerilla lovers who endured separation and torture to rule their country

The guerrilla lovers who became the leaders of Uruguay