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    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

  2. Me, OCD and the baby bird in my hair

    How nursing an abandoned finch helped Hannah Bourne-Taylor through a mental health crisis

  3. Crossing continents to find my parents

    Tuy Buckner’s epic search to find his birth family in Vietnam

  4. A musician embraces life after recording through grief

    Phil Elverum worried people would be "mad at him" for the raw grief he expressed

  5. A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 2

    JP Bimeni is a writer turned soul singer who walked through a massacre unscathed

  6. A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 1

    JP Bimeni risked his life to save a book of his verse

  7. The life and loves of the world's oldest drag queen

    Walter Cole, 91, has been dazzling audiences in Oregon as Darcelle XV since 1969

  8. The figure-skating star who fell to earth

    Heroin and jail threw Keri Blakinger off course. She’s now a criminal justice reporter

  9. My mother, India’s forgotten disco diva

    Rupa Biswas Sen’s long-lost Indian disco record became an underground hit after 30 years

  10. The maid-turned-rapper taking on racism in Brazil

    When Preta-Rara wrote about her time as a domestic worker her post caused a storm

  11. Bringing my 10,000 kites from Kabul to England

    Sanjar Qiam continued to make and fly kites through three decades of war in Afghanistan

  12. A 'dreamer', a Nasa contest and a robot called Stinky

    Oscar Vazquez's robot brought him acclaim, but also highlighted his undocumented status

  13. Swimming with polar bears – a photographer’s 'crazy' dream

    Israeli photographer Amos Nachoum is known for his close-up encounters with predators

  14. How the tigress of basketball fought back

    Malebogo Molefhe rediscovered her love of basketball after being shot and paralysed

  15. The teenage mum who became a soul star

    Aged 17 and unhappily married, PP Arnold found herself auditioning for Tina Turner

  16. From a burnt-out refugee camp to dining with the President

    Mondiant Dogon's family had to flee their home in DR Congo because of ethnic violence

  17. My husband thought I was an imposter

    Abi Morgan’s husband woke from a coma and didn’t recognise her

  18. Cleopatra: Uganda's history-making trans activist

    Forced to strip to 'prove' her gender, Cleo took a stand and gained official recognition

  19. The space genius who needed a guide to life on earth

    How a bereaved astrophysicist was helped by notes from her late husband

  20. Why I stopped talking for 17 years

    It started out as an experiment for a day but John Francis didn’t speak for 17 years

  21. Adventures in sound: The soundscape ecologist

    Musician Bernie Krause overcame a fear of animals to capture natural sounds of the wild

  22. The 'metal bird' that sparked a dream

    His first sighting of a plane in the sky would lead Ousman Umar on a treacherous journey

  23. Facing the ghosts of a freak mountain storm

    How one man’s life was upended when a gentle hike up a mountain turned into an icy hell

  24. London’s revolutionary kiss-in

    Ted Brown is a black LGBT rights pioneer who helped organise the UK’s first Gay Pride

  25. Book lovers unite: The bookish boy who became a boxing champion

    The bookish boxing champion, the bin man who built a library and the secret German author

  26. A family lost at sea

    Fleeing Vietnam Lauren’s family almost died. Her 30-year dream was to find their rescuers

  27. The schoolgirl who fought an oil company and won

    When Nalleli Cobo fell ill, fingers pointed to an oil well next to her home in LA

  28. The casino cheat who stopped his own million dollar scam

    Former swindler Richard Marcus now works for the same casinos that he once robbed

  29. Giving birth during a genocide

    The Rwandan woman whose waters broke as militia were attacking her family home

  30. Kidnapped as I lay sleeping

    Pirates attacked us on a remote island

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