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Guitarist and singer @CCHELSEAWWOLFE's playlist celebrates everything from spells to fairy tales - with tunes from Eartheater, @KnowleWestboy, and @ioannagika https://bbc.in/3yMUHJk  #bbcmusiclife

"Fear was a buoy and anchor, alibi and excuse." Award-winning author Tara June Winch shares how the coronavirus pandemic impacted her creative practicehttps://bbc.in/3CKEt5U 

"One of the things that makes their organisation so elastic is their decentralisation." @Chris_Kolenda explains the Taliban structurehttps://bbc.in/3iHCh7d 

Cow burps and beef farming produce methane - a gas 28 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the Earth. Cutting meat and dairy consumption is one thing you can do to reduce greenhouse emissions says Drew Shindell, a professor of Earth Sciencehttps://bbc.in/3m70lmp 

There were rumours in 2019 that the Taliban had $1.6 billion. So where does their money come from?https://bbc.in/3lYJd1R 

“We jumped up and down, screaming and yelling... then we realised how inappropriate it was … we had finally found those lost souls.” For 70 years nobody could find the wreck of the Titanic. Robert Ballard describes the moment that changedhttps://bbc.in/37AO01g 

"I asked myself what were they trying to escape from?" A boat carrying 15 bodies floated up to Tobago's coastline in May. The police investigation revealed a tragic story of immigrants blown thousands of miles off-course in an unseaworthy vesselhttps://bbc.in/2VRDj8c 

Are businesses embracing the potential of people with neurodiverse conditions like dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD and autism? Hear from @DonBiswascomedy, @BooksandChokers, Yemi Gbadebo, @profamandakirby, Paul Graham @Britvic and Robert Austin @iveybusinesshttps://bbc.in/2VNi9HO 

"He was infuriating... but I wish Silicon Valley billionaires were all like Tony Hsieh." How do you build a happy company? This is the story of the late Tony Hsieh, a visionary entrepreneur who abandoned hierarchy in his Las Vegas-based shoe companyhttps://bbc.in/3sdnLXY 

The conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region has forced over two million people to flee their homes, with hundreds of thousands pushed into famine conditions. @BBCHARDtalk speaks to Getachew Reda, a spokesperson for the Tigray People’s Liberation Fronthttps://bbc.in/2VS6jw1 

Britney Spears' father has agreed to step down as the singer's conservator following a legal battle over his control of her financial affairs. @EWagmeister tells us, "she believes her father has abused his role... it's a big, big moment for Britney."https://bbc.in/3CIY8TY 

"You'd see your director, or university professor sitting behind you. People were equal. It was very democratic." In the 1950s, growing numbers of East Germans started going naked on the beach, despite the initial disapproval of the communist authoritieshttps://bbc.in/3fUVmB2 

Got any plans for 24 September 2182? Scientists say there's a one in 1,750 (or 0.057%) chance of the Bennu asteroid hitting the earth by 2300 - with September 2182 being the most likely date of impacthttps://bbc.in/2Ugwso4 

Israel's Arab minority accounts for about one-fifth of the population, but in recent years it has experienced the vast majority of the country's murdershttps://bbc.in/3jLxYax 

"People are thinking about extracting their families within the coming days." As the Taliban take Afghanistan's second largest city, Kabul-based lecturer @ObaidullaBaheer says people there are distraught at the speed of developmentshttps://bbc.in/2VSUCVS