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An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning
How a book-loving prisoner showed a young Alex Wheatle the path to self-belief
15 Nov 2023,40 mins
Reconnecting with the boy in the picture - me
When Edel Rodriguez left Cuba he had no idea he was becoming part of history
14 Nov 2023,40 mins
Plans and dreams: The adventures of a wandering guitarist
Growing up poor in Uganda, musician Jon Muq was short on plans, but always big on dreams
13 Nov 2023,40 mins
Ghana's first photojournalist who found fame in his 90s
James Barnor's work had fallen into obscurity but then came a surprise revival.
11 Nov 2023,26 mins
The lost hiker who said goodbye with his hat
Ed Rosenthal got lost in the desert in the middle of a heatwave
09 Nov 2023,40 mins
Milli Vanilli: Story of a pop Scandal
Fab Morvan was part of Milli Vanilli when the pop band's secret came to light
08 Nov 2023,40 mins
Fighting for my brother, Egypt’s most famous political prisoner, part 2
A family bond unbroken by prison, Sanaa won’t give up until her brother Alaa is free
07 Nov 2023,40 mins
Fighting for my brother, Egypt’s most famous political prisoner, part 1
Alaa and Sanaa became icons of Egypt’s revolution, but their biggest battle was to come
06 Nov 2023,40 mins
Memory isn't black and white: Girl on a Spacehopper
'The portrait you'd love to have of yourself as a child' – but who is she?
04 Nov 2023,26 mins
The ballet secret that got father and son grooving again
When artist Jamie Ross discovered his dad’s hidden dance career, their bond was revived
02 Nov 2023,40 mins
The 'five careers' of Bettye Lavette
The rocky road from her first hit at age 16 to global recognition at 63
01 Nov 2023,40 mins
'Russia formed me' - The odyssey of a people-trafficked poet
Eric Ngalle Charles was just a teenager when he was taken from Cameroon to Moscow
31 Oct 2023,40 mins,
Lessons of an Afghan girl disguised as a boy for ten years
Nilofar says the freedoms of her ‘boyhood’ still define her as an Afghan woman
30 Oct 2023,40 mins
My life as rock's first female roadie
Tana Douglas was rock's first female roadie but hid a monumental secret to fit in
28 Oct 2023,26 mins
Finding a rare portrait, and the boy hidden in its paint
Art collector Jeremy Simien’s quest to find a lost portrait and a vanished, enslaved boy
26 Oct 2023,40 mins,
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
25 Oct 2023,40 mins
Going undercover in a cartel’s wild prison-HQ
Venezuelan journalist Ronna Rísquez found a playground, a nightclub and a zoo inside
24 Oct 2023,40 mins
I was a surrogate mum to a parrot chick to save it from extinction
Argentinian Marianela Masat made history when red-and-green macaws were born in the wild
23 Oct 2023,40 mins
Olympic gymnast and representative of life on Earth
An image of Cathy Rigby is on board a Voyager space probe to teach aliens about humans
21 Oct 2023,26 mins
Vet at the end of the Earth
Joe Hollins escaped childhood restriction to find freedom looking after animals
19 Oct 2023,40 mins
A rebel with an oud: Inventing a future for Lebanon
Bassam Jalgha’s love of music and engineering made him a TV star and gave him hope
18 Oct 2023,40 mins
Discovering my mother was a Vietnamese rock 'n' roll star
A chance email led Hannah Ha to uncover her mother Tam’s forgotten musical legacy
17 Oct 2023,40 mins
Thirty-eight days: A family adrift in the Pacific
The Robertsons' boat was attacked by killer whales and started to sink fast
16 Oct 2023,40 mins
Cooking for my mother helped her share a hidden history
Grace M. Cho learned to cook traditional Korean food to comfort her traumatised mother
14 Oct 2023,26 mins
The ‘King of Beer’ dismantling racism
Sir Geoff Palmer revolutionised brewing and became Scotland’s first black professor
12 Oct 2023,40 mins,
How almost dying on a migrant boat gave me a new purpose
After a perilous journey from Senegal, Baye Seyni Sène set up a school to stop migration
11 Oct 2023,40 mins
Latifa and Mohamed: A reunion through dance
A mother, a son, and the discovery of a shared dream
10 Oct 2023,40 mins
Love, loss and my unlikely romance with Oliver Sacks
After losing his partner, Bill Hayes found love again with neurologist Oliver Sacks
09 Oct 2023,40 mins
Why this doctor hid his homeless past
Emmanuel Taban, a former street kid now recognised for his life-saving medical work
07 Oct 2023,26 mins
The prison escape and the wooden keys
Anti-apartheid activist Tim Jenkin's remarkable escape from a South African prison
05 Oct 2023,40 mins