Lawyer and author David Gillespie has been on a mission to understanding psychopaths after realising he might have worked with one

The psychopaths among us

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Archaeologist David Wengrow is up-ending how we think about human history, from the origins of farming, cities, democracy and slavery to civilisation itself

David Wengrow: a new way to think about the human story

Matt Hall made his first solo flight at 15 years old and has been addicted to life in the air ever since. He became a top gun fighter pilot and after serving for more than 20 years, he still hasn't come down to earth (R)

Matt Hall's life at supersonic speed

Archaeologist Julien Cooper digs up the remote deserts of Sudan and Egypt, finding forgotten artefacts, which tell the uninterrupted, thousands-year-old story of the nomadic peoples of Northeast Africa

The forgotten treasures of desert dwellers

Billy Bragg grew up in working-class Barking, east of London. The expected path was to go from school to the local car factory, but Billy his sights set further, and even a brief stint in the army couldn’t keep him away from a life in music (R)

Billy Bragg — the boy from Barking

At the make or break moment of his choreography career, the last person Rafael expected to hear from was Australia’s pop princess — Kylie Minogue

The psychopaths among us

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