BBC World Service - Outlook

'I Wrote a Whole Book on Toilet Paper'

Nawal El Saadawi describes how she managed to continue writing despite being imprisoned

Defying expectations: Burmese punks and a US addict whose lives have had surprising turns

The Kenyan woman who led a campaign to save her community from deadly pollution

Every Monday a group of Punks from Burma set out to help Yangon's less fortunate

Allan Haber is now a successful criminal lawyer but he once was a prolific drug dealer.

In Australia's Northern Territory Mick Pitman is known simply as Crocodile Mick

Alien worlds: From a cosmonaut stuck in space to a diver 250m below the Earth's surface

Don Shirley was 250 metres underwater cave diving when his equipment failed

Ramtin Ghazavi was overheard singing by an Italian tourist, who helped launch his career

Pardeep Kaleka's father was shot dead at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012