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    My father Faiz: Pakistan’s revolutionary poet, part 2

    How Salima Hashmi and Faiz defied a dictatorship through satire and poetry

  2. My father Faiz: Pakistan’s revolutionary poet, part 1

    Salima Hashmi grew up with puppets and poetry, inspiring her own career in performance

  3. Vampires in Lollywood: The 40-year hunt for the desi Dracula

    Zinda Laash was Pakistan’s first ever horror film – but then it just disappeared

  4. The secret life of Eva B: Pakistan’s first woman of hip-hop

    Eva B learned to rap as a teenager in Karachi, doing it undercover from her bedroom

  5. The voyage of Meg and Elena

    The couple met online then had to battle the human and natural worlds to be together

  6. The mother and son whistleblowers who exposed a billion-euro fraud

    Pav Gill helped expose a scandal at Wirecard, with a little nudge from his mum

  7. The teenager who befriended a superstar DJ

    Fergie was taken under Tony De Vit's wing and was soon playing the UK’s biggest clubs

  8. Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 2

    Tasoula Hadjitofi tricked a notorious art smuggler to recover Cyprus' holiest relics

  9. Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 1

    Tasoula Hadjitofi uncovered a shady network looting her country's most sacred relics

  10. The spies in my house

    Ulrike Poppe was one of the most surveilled women in East Berlin

  11. Betting the family farm on rockstar dreams

    The Emerson brothers’ family funded their musical aspirations – they almost lost it all

  12. Nazis stole my grandmother's cookbook

    Some old family letters led historian Karina Urbach to try and right an historic wrong

  13. Searching for the last man in the forest

    Jair Candor tracks down remote Amazonian tribes in order to protect them from outsiders

  14. Drums like a heartbeat: The boy who took Afro-Uruguayan music to the world

    Singer Rubén Rada started performing in carnival groups when he was just 10 years old

  15. Seven months trapped in an airport

    Hassan Al Kontar had to live at Kuala Lumpur airport after he got stuck in a legal limbo

  16. Unmasking my best friend

    Reality TV producer Johnathan Walton found himself in a plot he couldn't have dreamt up

  17. Stories from a hospice: The people I carry with me

    Kathryn Mannix was a pioneer in palliative care, then she became a ground-breaking author

  18. Love in the time of revolution, part 2

    The guerilla lovers who endured separation and torture to rule their country

  19. Love in the time of revolution, part 1

    The guerrilla lovers who became the leaders of Uruguay

  20. My escape, thanks to a Russian mail-order bride

    Wes Hurley’s story of family secrets, pirated films and an unexpected transformation

  21. A Family Affair: A hand-me-down recipe made me a cookery star

    Elizabeth Chong popularised Chinese food in Australia with her father's family recipes

  22. A Family Affair: Scars and silences

    Carol Benjamin’s quest to understand her family history after Brazil’s military coup.

  23. A Family Affair: Spiders, Gandalf – a brother's bucket list

    Royd Tolkien’s brother Mike left him a daring list of tasks to complete after he died

  24. A Family Affair: My uncanny resemblance to Jackie Wilson

    One night singer Bobby Brooks was told news that explained the talent he took for granted

  25. A Family Affair: Dad was a best-selling sex writer

    Dying of Alzheimer's, Ira Alterman asked his daughter to help him write his final books

  26. A Family Affair: Remembering my dancing parents, Fosse and Verdon

    Nicole Fosse’s life wasn't always as smooth as her parents’ celebrated choreography

  27. A Family Affair: A buried photo collection brought our town together

    Javier Mazzuca took on the task of developing his dad's mammoth archive of negatives

  28. A Family Affair: Sly and Cynthia, funk royalty

    Phunne Stone is the daughter of funk legends Sly Stone and Cynthia Robinson

  29. A Family Affair: My dad was Britain's 'most wanted'

    Without realising it, Nick Reynolds had been living his childhood on the run

  30. The Uruguayan conservationist and the great parrot heist

    Juan Villalba-Macías has risked his life to rescue animals from the clutches of poachers

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