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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
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