Election 2017: How can you pop your filter bubble?

It might be the defining feature of politics in the social media age. So how can you pop your own "filter bubble"?

Video journalist: Natalia Zuo, Written by: Mike Wendling

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The musician who taught three-year-olds to master the violin

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How my mother's death inspired a love of butterflies

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'My heart could have killed me'

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Thirty years helping the Met Office from my garden

For decades the UK's amateur weather watchers have played a pivotal part in accurate forecasting.

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Prepared to go to prison to save the trees

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How to deradicalise a Nazi

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Dog foster carers helping abuse victims keep their pets

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One woman's simple recipe for a happy street

How one woman championed a way to bring community spirit back to city streets and keep children fit.

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Sixties Soho's dancing nudes

In an era of censorship, the Windmill Theatre was one of the only places where UK audiences could watch naked women on stage.

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Starting a new life in a foreign country at 13

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It's tiny and is usually on the edge of the screen - but that's no excuse to cut out the country.

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Poor communities are often missing from maps. When disaster hits, it's hard to get them help.

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The dog that orbited the Earth

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‘Poetry touched the still alive part of me’

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Oscar Niemeyer's forgotten masterpiece

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