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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
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