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The bullet that ended our friendship

12/16/2024 • 40 min

Paul Rousseau was accidentally shot in the head by his best friend and flatmate. When Paul met Mark in the first year of university in the US, they quickly became close. They moved in together, and spent most of the next four years in each other's company. But Paul did not know that Mark had been keeping a collection of guns in his bedroom. In April 2017 one of… Play episode

After doomsday: I outgrew a cult and became a professor
Naked and alone: the comedian trapped in a reality TV show
How my mysterious childhood became a best-selling novel
The sports scandal scoop that almost destroyed me
Saved by goats after my fall from the sacred mountain
Looking for my son for 58 years, part 2
Looking for my son for 58 years, part 1
The Wicker Man: Learning to love the film that broke us
"He counted 3, 2, 1 – then stabbed me in the heart"
The US’s first black astronaut trainee reaches space at 90
Love, grief, and an AI chatbot
A love story and a battle cry in the Ecuadorian rainforest
The boy who hid from Nazis in the woods, part 2
The boy who hid from Nazis in the woods, part 1
Never ever give up: how Diana Nyad swam from Cuba to Florida
The hungry boy who devoted his life to muscle
Buddhist chants and Ibiza trance: A Spanish boy’s odyssey
The Lost Boy: A never-ending journey, part 2
The Lost Boy: A never-ending journey, part 1
Britain’s infected blood scandal, my quest for the truth
The family hiding in the bush after leaking Russian secrets
'It's much easier for them to create a spy than catch a spy'
Dead Man Walking: The US nun who took on the death penalty
My father Faiz: Pakistan’s revolutionary poet, part 2
My father Faiz: Pakistan’s revolutionary poet, part 1
The man who finds water in the desert
Kill or be killed: a climber’s dilemma, part 2
Kill or be killed: A climber’s dilemma, part 1
The Hiroshima survivor who's still shouting for peace
Lost in lion country and saved by Spam
Painting, prison and two decades in Guantanamo
How I convinced police my dad was a murderer
Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 2
Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 1
Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud
My grandmother walked the rabbit-proof fence
How to talk to guerillas
Behind the locked door
I cycled across Africa for a place at my dream university
Going cold turkey in a Bangkok prison
The Pacific odyssey of a runaway rebel
Fugees Family: the football team who became my life
My dad was Britain's 'most wanted'
Trapped in an icy hell: my 72 day mountain escape
A Libyan kidnapping and the words that brought us together
Discovering my mother was a Vietnamese rock'n'roll star
Searching for the last man in the forest
Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 2
Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 1

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