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    An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning

    How a book-loving prisoner showed a young Alex Wheatle the path to self-belief

  2. Reconnecting with the boy in the picture - me

    When Edel Rodriguez left Cuba he had no idea he was becoming part of history

  3. Plans and dreams: The adventures of a wandering guitarist

    Growing up poor in Uganda, musician Jon Muq was short on plans, but always big on dreams

  4. Ghana's first photojournalist who found fame in his 90s

    James Barnor's work had fallen into obscurity but then came a surprise revival.

  5. The lost hiker who said goodbye with his hat

    Ed Rosenthal got lost in the desert in the middle of a heatwave

  6. Milli Vanilli: Story of a pop Scandal

    Fab Morvan was part of Milli Vanilli when the pop band's secret came to light

  7. Fighting for my brother, Egypt’s most famous political prisoner, part 2

    A family bond unbroken by prison, Sanaa won’t give up until her brother Alaa is free

  8. Fighting for my brother, Egypt’s most famous political prisoner, part 1

    Alaa and Sanaa became icons of Egypt’s revolution, but their biggest battle was to come

  9. Memory isn't black and white: Girl on a Spacehopper

    'The portrait you'd love to have of yourself as a child' – but who is she?

  10. The ballet secret that got father and son grooving again

    When artist Jamie Ross discovered his dad’s hidden dance career, their bond was revived

  11. The 'five careers' of Bettye Lavette

    The rocky road from her first hit at age 16 to global recognition at 63

  12. 'Russia formed me' - The odyssey of a people-trafficked poet

    Eric Ngalle Charles was just a teenager when he was taken from Cameroon to Moscow

  13. Lessons of an Afghan girl disguised as a boy for ten years

    Nilofar says the freedoms of her ‘boyhood’ still define her as an Afghan woman

  14. My life as rock's first female roadie

    Tana Douglas was rock's first female roadie but hid a monumental secret to fit in

  15. Finding a rare portrait, and the boy hidden in its paint

    Art collector Jeremy Simien’s quest to find a lost portrait and a vanished, enslaved boy

  16. The forbidden lovers who plotted a daring escape

    Karl-Heinz and Hedi were kept apart by the Iron Curtain and the East German secret police

  17. Going undercover in a cartel’s wild prison-HQ

    Venezuelan journalist Ronna Rísquez found a playground, a nightclub and a zoo inside

  18. I was a surrogate mum to a parrot chick to save it from extinction

    Argentinian Marianela Masat made history when red-and-green macaws were born in the wild

  19. Olympic gymnast and representative of life on Earth

    An image of Cathy Rigby is on board a Voyager space probe to teach aliens about humans

  20. Vet at the end of the Earth

    Joe Hollins escaped childhood restriction to find freedom looking after animals

  21. A rebel with an oud: Inventing a future for Lebanon

    Bassam Jalgha’s love of music and engineering made him a TV star and gave him hope

  22. Discovering my mother was a Vietnamese rock 'n' roll star

    A chance email led Hannah Ha to uncover her mother Tam’s forgotten musical legacy

  23. Thirty-eight days: A family adrift in the Pacific

    The Robertsons' boat was attacked by killer whales and started to sink fast

  24. Cooking for my mother helped her share a hidden history

    Grace M. Cho learned to cook traditional Korean food to comfort her traumatised mother

  25. The ‘King of Beer’ dismantling racism

    Sir Geoff Palmer revolutionised brewing and became Scotland’s first black professor

  26. How almost dying on a migrant boat gave me a new purpose

    After a perilous journey from Senegal, Baye Seyni Sène set up a school to stop migration

  27. Latifa and Mohamed: A reunion through dance

    A mother, a son, and the discovery of a shared dream

  28. Love, loss and my unlikely romance with Oliver Sacks

    After losing his partner, Bill Hayes found love again with neurologist Oliver Sacks

  29. Why this doctor hid his homeless past

    Emmanuel Taban, a former street kid now recognised for his life-saving medical work

  30. The prison escape and the wooden keys

    Anti-apartheid activist Tim Jenkin's remarkable escape from a South African prison

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