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Called to climb: Why I take photographs from skyscrapers
Isaac Wright was a depressed army veteran when he picked up a camera and started to climb
04 Oct 2023,40 mins
Writing poems, and waiting to be arrested
Tahir Izgil is a Uyghur poet who lived under Chinese state surveillance
03 Oct 2023,40 mins
The moment that made me love my face
Jono Lancaster was born with a rare condition which means he's always looked different
02 Oct 2023,40 mins
How a girl from Mexico fought to dance in the clouds
Irene García Hernández defied gender norms to take part in a high risk aerial tradition
30 Sep 2023,26 mins
The black child raised by white supremacists
How Shane McCrae took to poetry to make sense of his difficult and abusive upbringing
28 Sep 2023,40 mins
The godmother of Beirut's nightlife
Under the boot of the Syrian army, Nicole Moudaber brought raves to Lebanon
27 Sep 2023,40 mins
The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 2
From the page to the stage: William turns childhood fantasies into reality
26 Sep 2023,40 mins
The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 1
A bond between brothers, a coming-out story, and an international song contest
25 Sep 2023,40 mins
My life as a midwife on the frontline
Anna Kent’s work delivering babies in warzones shaped her own journey to motherhood
23 Sep 2023,26 mins
Chess saved me, now I use it to help others
Tunde Onakoya teaches chess to children in slum communities across Africa
21 Sep 2023,40 mins
The only fan: A football fairy tale from Brazil
Tiago Rech alone in the away stands became a viral image - how far would his loyalty go?
20 Sep 2023,40 mins
Songwriting, banjos and the bohemian city that cradled me
Canadian Allison Russell went from sleeping in cemeteries to being a Grammy nominee
19 Sep 2023,40 mins
Jail to gym: The prison workout that saved my life
Facing seven years in jail for drug dealing, Coss Marte is told he might die within five
18 Sep 2023,40 mins
The troubled life of an ice hockey hero
Former NHL star Clint Malarchuk nearly died three times, now he helps others
16 Sep 2023,26 mins
Mum, mamma and me: Writing the story of my two mothers
Author Sabrina Efionayi was raised by two women who barely knew each other
14 Sep 2023,40 mins
Women shouldn't fight pro? I'll show you
Lady Tyger fought the boxing establishment for her right to fight – and won
13 Sep 2023,40 mins
The deserted island and the lost graves
The deserted island and the lost graves of Vietnamese refugees
12 Sep 2023,40 mins
Camo, catwalks, and the birth of a nation
South Sudanese filmmaker Akuol de Mabior on a daughter's duty to a country and to herself
11 Sep 2023,40 mins
How I brought my jailer to justice
Chance brought Syrian journalist Amer Matar face-to-face with his former captor
09 Sep 2023,26 mins
Learning to live with the bullet in my brain
Mutlu Kaya has forgiven the bullet that took her voice, but not the man who fired it
07 Sep 2023,40 mins
Love, loss and selling everything to marry 22 times
Fleur Pierets and Julian Boom wanted to wed in every country that allowed gay marriage
06 Sep 2023,40 mins
I made civil rights history at six years old
Leona Tate was one of four little girls selected to desegregate schools in New Orleans
05 Sep 2023,40 mins
How a stranger silenced my music
Roger Lucey’s anti-Apartheid songs won him a powerful enemy who set about shutting him up
04 Sep 2023,40 mins
Becoming an elder in the community I was stolen from as a baby
How Australian Dianne O'Brien discovered her Indigenous heritage - and her calling
02 Sep 2023,26 mins
Lost and Found: The secret library
Literature hidden from destruction during Argentina’s Dirty War
31 Aug 2023,40 mins
Lost and Found: Trapped on the seabed
Harrison Okene spent three days in an air pocket on a sunken ship
30 Aug 2023,40 mins
Lost and Found: Girl on a Spacehopper
'The portrait you'd love to have of yourself as a child': but who is she?
29 Aug 2023,40 mins
Lost and Found: The heartbeat from outer space
A gold disc hurtling through the cosmos is waiting to be found
28 Aug 2023,40 mins
Lost and Found: Bubble money and other stories
What does it take to find something when it is lost?
26 Aug 2023,26 mins
Lost and Found: The voice box
A young girl's life is sent into a spiral when she finds her voice has gone
24 Aug 2023,40 mins