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Lost and Found: The lightning strike
Surviving 'the brightest light and the loudest noise'
23 Aug 2023,40 mins
Lost and Found: The ruby slippers
The hunt for the most famous shoes in film history
22 Aug 2023,40 mins
Lost and Found: The prime minister's gold tooth
A daughter's fight to reclaim the remains of her father, Patrice Lumumba
21 Aug 2023,40 mins
The daring prison escape of an Argentine footballer
Claudio Tamburrini used bed sheets and a metal bolt to escape imprisonment and torture
19 Aug 2023,26 mins
Mum’s recipe secured my place in MasterChef history
With chef's whites and a white cane Christine Hà is the only blind winner of the TV show
17 Aug 2023,40 mins
Students by day and hostage negotiators by night
Miles Hargrove asked his old school friend to negotiate with his dad’s kidnappers
16 Aug 2023,40 mins
Word search: The playwright who lost her language skills
Rabiah Hussain had a dream commission at a major theatre but had to face her biggest fear
15 Aug 2023,40 mins
Remembering Rodriguez, the musical legend who disappeared
One South African superfan's quest to unravel the truth about his favourite artist
14 Aug 2023,40 mins
The murder case that started a cyber sleuth revolution
Todd Matthews became obsessed with identifying 'Tent Girl,' a decades-old unsolved crime
12 Aug 2023,26 mins
The woman who fell from the sky, part 2
How a jump changed daring parachutist Tony Osornio's life forever
10 Aug 2023,40 mins
The woman who fell from the sky, part 1
Tony Osornio would go to dangerous extremes to keep jumping from planes
09 Aug 2023,40 mins
Peril in the Blue Hole: Why I almost stopped freediving
Kristof Coenen knew the risks but he was captivated by this extreme deep water sport
08 Aug 2023,40 mins
I set up a radio station for aliens
Electronics whizz John Shepherd spent years trying to contact alien life, with music
07 Aug 2023,40 mins
The priest leading the fight for LGBT rights in Poland
How Szymon Niemiec combined his faith and activism to found Poland's first Gay Pride
05 Aug 2023,26 mins
The pasta dish that saved a basketballer’s life
A chance meal gave Sebastien Bellin the fuel to fight when a bomb exploded next to him
03 Aug 2023,40 mins
How’d you get so rich? A dream to change my family’s fortune
Reggie Nelson knocked on the poshest doors in London and asked a million-dollar question
02 Aug 2023,40 mins
I ran away from slavery; now I help others escape
Analiza Guevara was exploited by her employer and then trafficked into Britain
01 Aug 2023,40 mins
Who is that kneeling man in the photograph?
My search for the truth about my father and Martin Luther King’s assassination
31 Jul 2023,40 mins,
The Nigerian farmer who sued an oil giant
Eric Barizaa Dooh took Shell to court over pollution in a case that stunned the world
29 Jul 2023,26 mins
Batonga! How a made-up word guided Angélique Kidjo’s life
Benin’s multi Grammy-winning diva on her fight for musical freedom and justice for women
27 Jul 2023,40 mins
Secret studies, glass beads and a beautiful brain scan
The Afghan scientist who fought to go to university after seeing an MRI scan
26 Jul 2023,40 mins
The US border guard who fought his own deportation
After refusing entry to thousands of people, Raul Rodriguez found himself in their shoes
25 Jul 2023,40 mins
A boy called Love: From street dance to world-class ballet
At 15 Love Kotiya first saw ballet through the window of a Delhi dance studio
24 Jul 2023,40 mins
'Love finds a way' - a bond that overcame decades of separation
Jeanne's family opposed her romance with Steve. They split, but she never forgot him
22 Jul 2023,26 mins
Sabira Merchant: A life lived head on
Sabira Merchant has been at the centre of Mumbai culture for 80 years
20 Jul 2023,40 mins
I saved chimpanzees and they've saved me
Stany Nyandwi's rescued chimps helped him through war and loneliness
19 Jul 2023,40 mins
The Mexican family band and the magic of the wooden monster
The Gama brothers’ lives changed when their dad brought a huge marimba through the door
18 Jul 2023,40 mins
The trailblazing nurse who began life in care
Starting life in care, Elizabeth Anionwu is Britain's first sickle cell nurse specialist
17 Jul 2023,40 mins,
Me, OCD and the baby bird in my hair
How nursing an abandoned finch helped Hannah Bourne-Taylor through a mental health crisis
15 Jul 2023,26 mins
Shot out of the sky: My photo exposed a US political scandal
Lou Dematteis' photo was a catalyst in the unravelling of a CIA cover-up
13 Jul 2023,40 mins