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Job fatigue? Try your hand at five extraordinary careers

Follow five people going about their daily business in slightly more unusual workplaces. Step inside the worlds of five compelling people and experience first-hand what it's like to work in their careers, from being the UK's number one paparazzi, to training a boxer on fight night.

In the series In My Head, each person wears a small microphone in each ear, picking up sounds just like the human ear. Whatever they hear on their day, we hear - how they hear it. In My Head is best listened to on headphones.

1. Paparazzi

Inhabit the world of paparazzi photographer George Bamby as he travels to Padstow in Cornwall in search of some lucrative shots of TV personality Fern Britton and ex-Prime Minister David Cameron. While the beaches are packed with holiday-makers enjoying the hot summer, Bamby has his binoculars out, scanning the sun seekers for famous faces. Bamby starts the day bullish, confident he'll get his shots - but things don't quite go to plan...

Paparazzo George Bamby chases some lucrative shots

George Bamby goes in search of lucrative shots of Fern Britton and David Cameron.

2. Bomb Disposal Officer

Enter the world of Bosnian explosive ordnance technician Sead Vrana as he searches for an anti tank weapon. Vrana defused his first landmine at the age of just seventeen as a young soldier in the Bosnian Army, in the early days of the Bosnian War. Over two decades later, we're with him every step of the way as he executes the dangerous task of detecting and disposing of a warhead that could rip through 40cm of steel.

Bomb disposal officer Sead Vrana at work

Bosnian bomb disposal officer Sead Vrana must dispose of a deadly anti-tank warhead.

3. Circus Manager

Backstage, the company manager of Giffords Circus Roxana Icu pulls out all the stops to ensure that everything goes to plan out front and the audiences are kept entertained. Highly skilled circus artists performing dangerous acts must be kept happy, the ponies and sausage dogs must make their entrances on cue - and wardrobe malfunctions remain an ever present danger.

Circus manager Roxana Icu keeps the show on the road

Step into the world of circus manager Roxana Icu as she works frantically backstage.

4. Boxing Trainer

It's the build-up for fight night as boxing trainer Peter Stanley prepares his protégé Simon Corcoran for his professional debut. Recorded at the legendary York Hall in London's East End, experience the night as they did - backstage and in the ring - where the stakes are high for Simon.

Trainer Peter Stanley prepares a boxer for fight night

It's the build-up for fight night as boxing trainer Peter Stanley prepares his protΓ©gΓ©.

5. Deer Stalker

Gamekeeper Mike Holliday stalks an elusive stag on the Glenample Estate in Scotland. The number of deer on the estate have to be managed, but culling them is by no means straightforward. Mike has to deploy the cunning of a hunter as he stalks his quarry on the glen.

Gamekeeper Mike Holliday stalks an elusive deer

Gamekeeper Mike Holliday stalks an elusive stag on the Glenample Estate in Scotland.