The origin story of plastic beads: bombs are dropped on Iraq so oil companies can secure petroleum for plastic products made in Chinese sweatshops, so boys and girls can go wild for cheap merchandise. 

ROMEOs (retired old men eating out). Sol is Sick of Talking About Dresden. 

Does your pet have what it takes to make it in showbiz? 

How this one-man band came to be. Can one person make as much noise as three or four? 

ROMEOs: (Retired old men eating out). Paul Prefers the Discussion of the Post-American World. 

What would you be in your next life? Flightman wants to be a pilot. With 910,000 flight miles under his belt and visits to 57 countries, it’s easy to see why. 

Flynn the Yorkshire Terrier displays some strange behaviour. After taking him to the vet, his owners are advised that he should be put down. Will they be able to save him? 

A 65-pound actress who's the face of the NO-anorexia advertising campaign discusses her illness, exhibitionism and how she can help to make a difference.  

A mother waits for her son, who went missing in 1985, hoping he’ll come home. 

A 60-year-old women who felt she was too fat, too old and too ugly for sex found an unexpected way to get her self-confidence back. 

What you may consider to be old-fashioned junk is magic to this artist, who paints found objects from a market. 

African-Americans from a neglected part of Chicago speak out about politics and culture.

A profile of John Keehan, otherwise known as Count Dante, the deadliest man alive. Floyd Webb goes in search of the fighting legend.

Female golfing fans in Havertown, Pennsylvania, discuss politics and voting while enjoying a game.

Marie Roberts grew up on Coney Island, with family in the Dreamland Circus sideshow. She now paints circus-inspired art to decorate public spaces around the funfair.

Johannes Phokela subverts traditional allegorical paintings to satirise the way we live today.

The ROMEOs (retired old men eating out) are at it again. The guys discuss racism, politics and Obama.

Muralist Milton Reed is known as ‘The Artist’ of the projects. He paints individual artworks for his neighbours in Chicago.

Painter Isiah Zagar recounts the childhood moment that defined him as an artist.

Bob Fass is the voice of the night – a radio DJ who has been a late-night friend and advisor to New Yorkers for almost fifty years.