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John Waters, the American film director behind cult films Cry Baby, Serial Mom, Pink Flamingos and Hairspray talks about his latest adventures. Now in his late 60s, he has hitchhiked over 2500 miles from his home in Baltimore on the east coast of the United States to San Francisco on the west. He tells the story in his book Carsick.

Academy Award-winning film star Sophia Loren has a career spanning seven decades. Now 80 years old she has published her memoirs Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life. Born out of wedlock in war torn Naples, she recalls her impoverished childhood through to her rise to global fame and screen legend.

Native Canadian artist Adrian Stimson is a member of the First Nation Sik Sika Black Foot tribe in northern Canada. He served as a war artist in Afghanistan with the Canadian military. Adrian now uses art to draw attention to the history and treatment of First Nation people, including the practice of forcing indigenous children into residential boarding schools.

Sales of George Orwell's novel 1984 have soared in Egypt over the past week, after a student was arrested in Cairo. Why is the book so powerful, after all these years? 麻豆官网首页入口 language service editors Mohamed Yehia and Olexiy Solohubenkho discuss.

The iconic images of Africa are often poverty, disease and war. A new group of photographers, known as the Everyday Africa collective, is now working to reframe the picture of Africa in the eyes of Africans and the wider world. One of its members is the award winning Nigerian photographer, Andrew Esiebo.

Chris Watson has spent more than 30 years travelling the globe recording wildlife for radio and TV. He now turns his work into art, creating sound installations in different locations from art galleries to opera houses. His most recent project has taken him back to nature, to the Kielder Forest in Northumberland on the border of England and Scotland.

(Photo: Left to right - Sophia Loren, Getty Images; John Waters, Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images; Adrian Stimson)