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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
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