Forced to Marry Joseph Kony at 13

When she was just a child Evelyn Amony was forced to marry one of the world's most notorious rebel leaders, Joseph Kony of the Lord's Resistance Army. She tells the BBC's Mike Thomson about her abduction, what life was like with Kony and how she managed to escape 11 years later.

When Ed Thorp was a young maths professor at MIT he devised a formula for beating casinos at their own game. His technique came to be known as card counting and after he published a book revealing the secret, he became so famous that some casinos barred him from playing. He even claims that one of them resorted to drugging him.

Gaël Kamilindi is an actor with one of the most famous theatre companies, the Comédie-Française. Gaël was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo to a Rwandan mother and an Israeli father and his own life story is as dramatic as any of the plays he appears in.

Around the world there are a lot of folk stories that associate whistling with bad luck, vice and criminality. Thea Stallwood from London is challenging its rough reputation with her women's whistling choir.

Image: Evelyn Amony
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