BBC World Service - Outlook

The Uruguayan conservationist and the great parrot heist

Juan Villalba-Macías has risked his life to rescue animals from the clutches of poachers

A handwritten map is all Mamadou Barry had to guide him from Guinea to Egypt

Thorgy Thor has spent her career trying to bring together drag and classical music

Vashti Bunyan had given up music for good – 30 years later she became an underground hit

Journalist Isla Traquair was stalked by her neighbour in the idyllic English countryside

How US cellist Gary Washington turned a painful history of slavery into a symphony

Gymnast David Holmes got his dream job when he became Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double

Guinevere Turner spent her childhood in a cult as strange as any film

Robi Walters finds solace in making art, after a childhood isolated by trauma

Feeling trapped in a strict Rastafari household, poetry helps Safiya Sinclair escape