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My long-distance race to making an Oscar-nominated film
The triathlete behind 'All Quiet on the Western Front'
08 Mar 2023,40 mins
Eyes on the prize: Pakistan’s first trans film star
Rejected by family and society, Alina Khan carved her own path to big screen fame
07 Mar 2023,40 mins
Italy’s revolutionary basketball team
Massimo Antonelli set up team Tam Tam, and blazed a trail for 'foreign' kids in sport
06 Mar 2023,40 mins
How the girl who was denied an education founded her own school
As a child Ashwini Angadi was turned away from school because of her visual impairment
04 Mar 2023,26 mins
Falling in love with the Tinder Swindler
Norwegian Cecilie Fjellhøy on the fateful Tinder match that led her to bankruptcy
02 Mar 2023,40 mins
Terror below deck: How I survived a pirate hijack
The marine engineer held hostage by pirates for eight gruelling months
01 Mar 2023,40 mins
How a camera lens helped us rediscover our love
Yemeni couple Mariam and Mohammed experienced war and loss but found solace in filmmaking
28 Feb 2023,40 mins
An SMS changed our lives: 'Brother. do. you. love. me.'
Brothers Manni and Reuben Coe, and the text that prompted a lockdown rescue mission
27 Feb 2023,40 mins
The sport I love damaged my brain
Former rugby player Alix Popham can't remember some of his finest moments on the pitch
25 Feb 2023,26 mins
How a kids’ TV star ended up on China’s most wanted list
Uyghur Gulchehra Hoja’s heavy price for leaving China and becoming a dissident reporter
23 Feb 2023,40 mins
We left as kayakers and came back as dissidents
Andrzej and Jacek escaped Communist Poland on an adventure. Life would never be the same
22 Feb 2023,40 mins
Cockroaches, mice and mouldy walls: Why I fight for better homes
Kwajo Tweneboa’s own experience inspired him to stand up for Britain's poorest tenants
21 Feb 2023,40 mins
The chicken who sailed the world
Guirec Soudée sailed around the world with just his chicken Monique for company
20 Feb 2023,40 mins
From teen single mother to top gourmet chef
Claudette Zepeda overcame huge hurdles to wow the culinary world with her Mexican food
18 Feb 2023,26 mins
I didn’t know I was part of an experiment
When Greenlander Helene Thiesen was just seven, two Danish men came to take her away
16 Feb 2023,40 mins
Breaking my addiction to war
Fergal Keane's work as a war correspondent was destroying him, but he couldn't stop
15 Feb 2023,40 mins
Bringing the beat back: The accidental heroes of hip hop
The self-taught teen funk musicians who unknowingly shaped the golden age of hip hop
14 Feb 2023,40 mins
The fearless former nun fighting for India's seamstresses
From convent to marriage to factory floor, Thivya will stand up for herself, and you
13 Feb 2023,40 mins
Revelations from El Salvador that healed my family
Roberto Lovato didn't understand his dad until he discovered the history of his homeland
11 Feb 2023,26 mins
A map and a mission: On the trail of my family's buried silver
A hand-drawn treasure map took Jan Glazewski from South Africa to a forest in Ukraine
09 Feb 2023,40 mins
Bringing the Muppets to Moscow
Natasha Lance Rogoff’s daunting challenge of making Sesame Street in post-Soviet Russia
08 Feb 2023,40 mins
Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies
Pilot Firoz Khimji witnessed his country's wars from above. Then conflict came for him.
07 Feb 2023,40 mins
The headteacher changing young boys' lives with philosophy
Kevin McArevey uses Plato to help his students overcome the lasting legacy of conflict
06 Feb 2023,40 mins
The Syrian artist bringing beauty to a desert refugee camp
When Malak fled Syria she packed the essentials: her sketchbook and pencils
04 Feb 2023,26 mins
Debt and oil: My two years as a migrant worker
Kate Beaton took a job in a Canadian oil facility and was cut off from the outside world
02 Feb 2023,40 mins
Surviving 'Doomsday' and learning to live again
Claire Ashman spent nearly a decade in a doomsday cult with her eight children
01 Feb 2023,40 mins
Grandma and the great gold rush of Suriname
Hennah Draaibaar is on the trail of her family’s legendary lost gold
31 Jan 2023,40 mins
Walking away from the crash that killed my friends
Lech Blaine on guilt, grief and accepting his luck after surviving a fatal car accident
30 Jan 2023,40 mins
Hugh Bonneville: From dress-up to Downton
Actor Hugh Bonneville on catching the acting bug as a child and dealing with rejection
28 Jan 2023,26 mins
I was there the night Emmett Till was taken
Wheeler Parker is Emmett Till's cousin and the last surviving witness to his abduction
26 Jan 2023,40 mins