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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
A Family Affair: My dad was Britain's 'most wanted'
Without realising it, Nick Reynolds had been living his childhood on the run
25 Dec 2023,40 mins
The Uruguayan conservationist and the great parrot heist
Juan Villalba-Macías has risked his life to rescue animals from the clutches of poachers
23 Dec 2023,26 mins
I cycled across Africa for a place at my dream university
A handwritten map is all Mamadou Barry had to guide him from Guinea to Egypt
21 Dec 2023,40 mins
Thorgy Thor: A pioneering drag queen and her violin
Thorgy Thor has spent her career trying to bring together drag and classical music
20 Dec 2023,40 mins
The pop rebel who rediscovered her voice
Vashti Bunyan had given up music for good – 30 years later she became an underground hit
19 Dec 2023,40 mins
A crime reporter and her own stalking story
Journalist Isla Traquair was stalked by her neighbour in the idyllic English countryside
18 Dec 2023,40 mins
The beatboxing cellist making music out of family history
How US cellist Gary Washington turned a painful history of slavery into a symphony
16 Dec 2023,26 mins
Harry Potter and the dynamic shadow – his stuntman
Gymnast David Holmes got his dream job when he became Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double
14 Dec 2023,40 mins
The Hollywood screenwriter born in a cult
Guinevere Turner spent her childhood in a cult as strange as any film
13 Dec 2023,40 mins
A life made beautiful by rubbish
Robi Walters finds solace in making art, after a childhood isolated by trauma
12 Dec 2023,40 mins
Why cutting my dreadlocks set me free
Feeling trapped in a strict Rastafari household, poetry helps Safiya Sinclair escape
11 Dec 2023,40 mins
Hiding in plain sight: My family's secret
Rafael Agustin's 'all-American' life fell apart when he discovered he was undocumented
09 Dec 2023,26 mins
How a Greek grandmother’s cooking helped us heal
When brothers Luke and Daniel moved in next to ‘yiayia’, her kindness changed their lives
07 Dec 2023,40 mins
A Chilean couple’s enduring love and a nation’s memory
A life spent exposing the truth of dictatorship and dementia
06 Dec 2023,40 mins
'The goalkeeper's terror'
Uruguayan Claudina Vidal became the first woman ever to join a professional men's team
05 Dec 2023,40 mins
The man who finds water in the desert
Why Alain Gachet quit a lucrative career in oil to search for water underground
04 Dec 2023,40 mins
'We sweat together': Risking it all to help North Korean defectors
Pastor Kim Seongeun has crossed icy rivers and dense jungle to rescue over 1,000 people
30 Nov 2023,40 mins
Patricia Cornwell: Writing the hero I needed as a child
As a child she faced cruelty, as an adult her crime-busting creation transformed her life
29 Nov 2023,40 mins
The Holocaust survivor who became my ‘adopted grandfather’
When journalist Chitra Ramaswamy met 99-year-old Henry Wuga, they fell in platonic love
28 Nov 2023,40 mins
The former boxer who helped avert a plane hijack
On a flight in 2018 Tarik Sahibeddine found himself at the centre of a drama in the sky
27 Nov 2023,40 mins
Agent Orange: A Vietnamese grandmother's last battle
Tran To Nga is fighting to get compensation for victims of the toxic herbicide
25 Nov 2023,26 mins
Becoming Gamal, part 2: Behind the badge
Gamal Turawa has lived many lives - but never fitted in
23 Nov 2023,40 mins
Becoming Gamal, part 1: Magic and misadventure
Gamal Turawa has lived many lives - but never fitted in
22 Nov 2023,40 mins
Meat Boy and other stories: My life in video games
Edmund McMillen’s childhood pain inspired poignant video games that captivated millions
21 Nov 2023,40 mins
Behind the lens: How two icons of film-making fell in love
When Martin Scorsese’s hero Michael Powell met his editor Thelma Schoonmaker, sparks flew
20 Nov 2023,40 mins
'A dream is a dream': the man who refused to give up
Solomon Lefakane longed to become a doctor, but apartheid South Africa tried to stop him
18 Nov 2023,26 mins
The wipeout that nearly killed me
Surfer Owen Wright was on track to become World Champion when he was hit by a giant wave
16 Nov 2023,40 mins