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Outlook: Outlook Mixtape: A sting, a jail cell and embracing failure

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21/06/2024 GMT

Outlook Mixtape: A sting, a jail cell and embracing failure

BBC World Service - Outlook, Outlook Mixtape: A sting, a jail cell and embracing failure

Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week

An undercover operation to seize an ancient artefact, a photographer’s peace in the forest, swimming from Cuba to Florida, and being jailed for a crime someone else committed.

When German archaeologist Harald Meller heard about a unique ancient artefact depicting the sky, he knew it could change the way we thought about prehistoric people. But first he had to recover it from the black market, becoming the frontman in a police operation to seize it. This interview was first broadcast in April 2022.

Decades spent photographing human suffering around the world left Sebastião Salgado a broken man. So he retreated to his family farm in Brazil and planted two million trees to heal himself and the land. 

American endurance swimmer Diana Nyad faced down sharks and box jellyfish to swim from Cuba to Florida in 2013, more than three decades and five tries after her first attempt. 

Kenyan Teresa Njoroge was a high-flying banker when she was convicted of a crime she didn't commit and imprisoned with her infant daughter. But being with other mothers and their children in jail gave Teresa Njoroge a new mission in life. 

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