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    A descendant of chiefs: My long journey home

    How Jesse Thistle, a homeless Indigenous man, found his identity and his calling

  2. The dramatic journey of Jamaica’s first Olympic bobsleigh

    Dudley Stokes drove Jamaica’s first Olympic bobsleigh and inspired the film Cool Runnings

  3. Modern birth: The man who had a baby

    Freddy McConnell is a trans man who decided to have a baby

  4. The artist who started out drawing war as a child refugee

    Petrit Halilaj was just 13 years old when his drawings were beamed all over the world

  5. Gaming with Tourette’s: Sweet Anita’s success story

    Sweet Anita overcame loneliness and isolation to become a famous gamer online

  6. The refugee pilot who helped Afghans flee the Taliban

    Zak Khogyani was forced to flee his home. Now he's helping others in the same position

  7. The first African in Greenland

    It took Tété-Michel Kpomassie eight years to reach the Arctic from his home in Togo

  8. The Cuban aristocrat with a revolutionary secret

    Natalia Bolivar, a rich socialite, used her high class status to help topple a dictator

  9. How books helped me bond with my captors

    María Antonia Garcés was a hostage in Colombia. Her love of literature helped her survive

  10. Mafia, a murder cover-up and a sister’s battle for justice

    Who was behind Perween Rahman’s murder? Her sister was determined to uncover the truth

  11. The crumbling old house that hid a treasure trove of art

    It was a tiny, dilapidated cottage but inside the garage was something truly remarkable

  12. My love affair with the instrument that reminds me of home

    Syrian virtuoso musician Maya Youssef fell in love with the qanun as a child

  13. Dynamo: Turning illness into magic

    Crohn's disease has hampered the world-famous magician all his life

  14. Anne Frank’s stepsister: How I survived Auschwitz, part 2

    How Anne Frank’s diary led Eva Schloss to find her brother’s hidden Holocaust paintings

  15. Anne Frank’s stepsister: How I survived Auschwitz, part 1

    The extraordinary Holocaust testimony of Eva Schloss and her memories of Anne Frank

  16. Solving the puzzle: Crosswords, anorexia, and me

    How Anna Shechtman recovered from anorexia and changed the world of crosswords

  17. The girl who acted before Rosa Parks

    Claudette Colvin, for decades an unsung hero of the US civil rights movement

  18. How Superman saved my life

    Screenwriter Joe Straczynski wished for a hero to rescue him from his abusive childhood

  19. The freediver who found salvation underwater

    Alenka Artnik overcame grief and pain to become a world champion freediver

  20. Caring for my mum and the secrets of her sickness

    After a lifetime of caring for her ill mother Helen Naylor began to ask was it all a lie?

  21. Love on the dance floor: The refugees reunited in ballroom

    Paul & Millie Cao first danced together in 1970s Vietnam, now they're competing in the US

  22. Family and forgiveness, the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu

    Celebrating the life of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu with an interview he did in 2014

  23. The twists and turns of the Rubik's Cube

    Meet champion cuber Feliks Zemdegs, and the inventor behind the puzzle Erno Rubik

  24. I sailed the oceans in a Scientology jazz band

    Neil Sarfati toured on board a ship with Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard

  25. The Sami vocalist taking joik to a new generation

    Singer Maxida Märak uses Sami traditional song, called joik, to reach new audiences

  26. Looking for the Liberian sister I left behind

    Civil war separated Helene Cooper from her sister. Years later she went back to find her

  27. The factory worker who became Chile's first blind senator

    How a tear gas cannister changed the course of Fabiola Campillai’s life

  28. A mother's battle for her son's education

    At risk of losing her son Virginia Walden Ford fought to change the US education system.

  29. A quizmaster’s accidental route to fame

    How quizmaster Jay Flynn started the UK's most in-demand pub quiz by accident

  30. The tip-off and the 30-year treasure hunt

    A story told over drinks in the 1980s set two metal detectorists on a very long hunt

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