Take 10: Inspirational tales from BBC World Service
From growing up in a toxic Soviet town to to a grizzly bear with a fondness for wine.
Why I love my toxic town
Why I love my toxic town
Beatboxing to save lemurs
The unlikely partnership between a beatbox musician and a professor who studies lemurs
"It's a strange kind of relationship .."
Angelica Lim programmes robots to be 'human' but was this one her servant or child?
We Lived with a Grizzly Bear
How a Scottish couple came to live with an 8ft tall, half-tonne grizzly named Hercules
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I nearly drowned inside my space suit
Luca Parmitano was on a space walk when water started leaking into his helmet
Sent to War Aged Six
Deng Adut was raised in war torn Sudan but has now rebuilt his life in Australia.
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An incredible Chinese tongue twister poem
The art of Chinese wordplay
Inter-racial Marriage in South Africa—Witness History
In June 1985 the ban on inter-racial marriage in South Africa was finally lifted.
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Iran's Cultural Revolution—Witness History
How Iran's Islamic hardliners shut down universities to drive out secular groups
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The search for the world's rarest bird
Birdwatcher Vernon Head on his hunt for the world's rarest bird, the Nechisar Nightjar
