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    Terror below deck: How I survived a pirate hijack

    The marine engineer held hostage by pirates for eight gruelling months

  2. How a camera lens helped us rediscover our love

    Yemeni couple Mariam and Mohammed experienced war and loss but found solace in filmmaking

  3. An SMS changed our lives: 'Brother. do. you. love. me.'

    Brothers Manni and Reuben Coe, and the text that prompted a lockdown rescue mission

  4. The sport I love damaged my brain

    Former rugby player Alix Popham can't remember some of his finest moments on the pitch

  5. How a kids’ TV star ended up on China’s most wanted list

    Uyghur Gulchehra Hoja’s heavy price for leaving China and becoming a dissident reporter

  6. We left as kayakers and came back as dissidents

    Andrzej and Jacek escaped Communist Poland on an adventure. Life would never be the same

  7. Cockroaches, mice and mouldy walls: Why I fight for better homes

    Kwajo Tweneboa’s own experience inspired him to stand up for Britain's poorest tenants

  8. The chicken who sailed the world

    Guirec Soudée sailed around the world with just his chicken Monique for company

  9. From teen single mother to top gourmet chef

    Claudette Zepeda overcame huge hurdles to wow the culinary world with her Mexican food

  10. I didn’t know I was part of an experiment

    When Greenlander Helene Thiesen was just seven, two Danish men came to take her away

  11. Breaking my addiction to war

    Fergal Keane's work as a war correspondent was destroying him, but he couldn't stop

  12. Bringing the beat back: The accidental heroes of hip hop

    The self-taught teen funk musicians who unknowingly shaped the golden age of hip hop

  13. The fearless former nun fighting for India's seamstresses

    From convent to marriage to factory floor, Thivya will stand up for herself, and you

  14. Revelations from El Salvador that healed my family

    Roberto Lovato didn't understand his dad until he discovered the history of his homeland

  15. A map and a mission: On the trail of my family's buried silver

    A hand-drawn treasure map took Jan Glazewski from South Africa to a forest in Ukraine

  16. Bringing the Muppets to Moscow

    Natasha Lance Rogoff’s daunting challenge of making Sesame Street in post-Soviet Russia

  17. Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies

    Pilot Firoz Khimji witnessed his country's wars from above. Then conflict came for him.

  18. The headteacher changing young boys' lives with philosophy

    Kevin McArevey uses Plato to help his students overcome the lasting legacy of conflict

  19. The Syrian artist bringing beauty to a desert refugee camp

    When Malak fled Syria she packed the essentials: her sketchbook and pencils

  20. Debt and oil: My two years as a migrant worker

    Kate Beaton took a job in a Canadian oil facility and was cut off from the outside world

  21. Surviving 'Doomsday' and learning to live again

    Claire Ashman spent nearly a decade in a doomsday cult with her eight children

  22. Grandma and the great gold rush of Suriname

    Hennah Draaibaar is on the trail of her family’s legendary lost gold

  23. Walking away from the crash that killed my friends

    Lech Blaine on guilt, grief and accepting his luck after surviving a fatal car accident

  24. Hugh Bonneville: From dress-up to Downton

    Actor Hugh Bonneville on catching the acting bug as a child and dealing with rejection

  25. I was there the night Emmett Till was taken

    Wheeler Parker is Emmett Till's cousin and the last surviving witness to his abduction

  26. I escaped my abusive boss and found a sisterhood

    Mariam was mistreated while working as a cleaner in Lebanon and now campaigns for others

  27. The man who calls a river his 'family'

    Salman Khairalla risked his life to protect Iraq's historic wetlands

  28. Learning to live with the voices in my head

    Debra started hearing voices aged five. Comforting at first, they soon took control

  29. Trying to get my penpal out of prison

    A letter, a murder, and a boxer’s dying wish turned a teenager’s life around

  30. Connecting with Dad: a Pacific voyage and never-heard tape

    A Pacific row gave Louis Bird courage to listen to a tape his dad had left him

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