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Why I came out as trans to the world on America's Got Talent
Comedian Julia Scotti outed herself as a trans woman in front of an audience of millions
05 Feb 2024,40 mins
Mateo the memory keeper
How one man stopped the stories and songs of his people from being lost forever
03 Feb 2024,26 mins
My father Faiz: Pakistan’s revolutionary poet, part 2
How Salima Hashmi and Faiz defied a dictatorship through satire and poetry
01 Feb 2024,40 mins
My father Faiz: Pakistan’s revolutionary poet, part 1
Salima Hashmi grew up with puppets and poetry, inspiring her own career in performance
31 Jan 2024,40 mins
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
30 Jan 2024,40 mins
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
29 Jan 2024,40 mins
The voyage of Meg and Elena
The couple met online then had to battle the human and natural worlds to be together
27 Jan 2024,26 mins
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
25 Jan 2024,40 mins
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
24 Jan 2024,40 mins
Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 2
Tasoula Hadjitofi tricked a notorious art smuggler to recover Cyprus' holiest relics
23 Jan 2024,40 mins
Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 1
Tasoula Hadjitofi uncovered a shady network looting her country's most sacred relics
22 Jan 2024,40 mins
The spies in my house
Ulrike Poppe was one of the most surveilled women in East Berlin
20 Jan 2024,26 mins
Betting the family farm on rockstar dreams
The Emerson brothers’ family funded their musical aspirations – they almost lost it all
18 Jan 2024,40 mins
Nazis stole my grandmother's cookbook
Some old family letters led historian Karina Urbach to try and right an historic wrong
17 Jan 2024,40 mins
Searching for the last man in the forest
Jair Candor tracks down remote Amazonian tribes in order to protect them from outsiders
16 Jan 2024,40 mins
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 Jan 2024,40 mins
Seven months trapped in an airport
Hassan Al Kontar had to live at Kuala Lumpur airport after he got stuck in a legal limbo
13 Jan 2024,26 mins
Unmasking my best friend
Reality TV producer Johnathan Walton found himself in a plot he couldn't have dreamt up
11 Jan 2024,40 mins
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
10 Jan 2024,40 mins
Love in the time of revolution, part 2
The guerilla lovers who endured separation and torture to rule their country
09 Jan 2024,40 mins
Love in the time of revolution, part 1
The guerrilla lovers who became the leaders of Uruguay
08 Jan 2024,40 mins
My escape, thanks to a Russian mail-order bride
Wes Hurley’s story of family secrets, pirated films and an unexpected transformation
06 Jan 2024,26 mins
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
04 Jan 2024,40 mins
A Family Affair: Scars and silences
Carol Benjamin’s quest to understand her family history after Brazil’s military coup.
03 Jan 2024,40 mins
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
02 Jan 2024,40 mins
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
01 Jan 2024,40 mins
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
30 Dec 2023,26 mins
A Family Affair: Remembering my dancing parents, Fosse and Verdon
Nicole Fosse’s life wasn't always as smooth as her parents’ celebrated choreography
28 Dec 2023,40 mins
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
27 Dec 2023,40 mins
A Family Affair: Sly and Cynthia, funk royalty
Phunne Stone is the daughter of funk legends Sly Stone and Cynthia Robinson
26 Dec 2023,40 mins