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I escaped my abusive boss and found a sisterhood
Mariam was mistreated while working as a cleaner in Lebanon and now campaigns for others
25 Jan 2023,40 mins
The man who calls a river his 'family'
Salman Khairalla risked his life to protect Iraq's historic wetlands
24 Jan 2023,40 mins
Learning to live with the voices in my head
Debra started hearing voices aged five. Comforting at first, they soon took control
23 Jan 2023,40 mins
Trying to get my penpal out of prison
A letter, a murder, and a boxer’s dying wish turned a teenager’s life around
21 Jan 2023,26 mins
Connecting with Dad: a Pacific voyage and never-heard tape
A Pacific row gave Louis Bird courage to listen to a tape his dad had left him
19 Jan 2023,40 mins
The political poster child who became a million dollar model
Paulina Porizkova's face was used to show the hardships of Communist Czechoslovakia
18 Jan 2023,40 mins
‘No one can take my smile from me’
Burn survivor Sneha Jawale reclaimed her face and found a new identity in tarot reading
17 Jan 2023,40 mins
They said my brain was ‘on fire’
Consumed by a mystery illness, Susannah Cahalan almost lost her life and sanity
16 Jan 2023,40 mins
Wrongfully convicted of murdering my parents
Murder, a false confession and Marty Tankleff's 17-year fight for justice
14 Jan 2023,26 mins
Saving lives in Pinochet’s Chile with Superman’s help
Christopher Reeve and Angélica Malinarich-Dorfman helped actors facing death threats
12 Jan 2023,40 mins
The Nazis killed my family but I decided not to hate
As a boy Peter Lantos survived Bergen-Belsen, then devoted his life to helping others
11 Jan 2023,40 mins
Making memories before our children go blind
The diagnosis that led a family on a global adventure
10 Jan 2023,40 mins
Duty-bound: My secret life as Officer Clemmons
Becoming one of the first African American actors on children's TV came with an ultimatum
09 Jan 2023,40 mins
'A little bit Indiana Jones'
The archaeologist who risked his life for a mysterious prehistoric artefact
07 Jan 2023,26 mins
Victim and perpetrator: The two gunshots that changed my life
Mexican American Obed Silva is an English professor with a tangled past
05 Jan 2023,40 mins
How the Spice Girls saved my life
Isolated and rejected as a gay teen, a pop band showed David Montgomery how to live again
04 Jan 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
03 Jan 2023,40 mins
Did my birth mother fake her own death?
How a failed insurance scam saw Donna Freed put up for adoption in the US
02 Jan 2023,40 mins
Discovering Stalin's million-dollar wine cellar
Wine merchant John Baker on trying to buy Josef Stalin's secret wine collection
31 Dec 2022,26 mins
Young hearts run free: The life and soul of Candi Staton
Candi Staton’s dance anthem revealed her heartbreak behind the scenes
29 Dec 2022,40 mins
Anick and Destin, the miracle conjoined twins of DR Congo
The remarkable story of DR Congo's first successful separation of conjoined twins
28 Dec 2022,40 mins
The famous love songs written about me
Something about Pattie Boyd inspired two rock stars to compose hits about her
27 Dec 2022,40 mins
I was 71 when I first heard my father’s voice
Margaret Ann Harris got a life-changing Christmas gift when she heard a wartime radio show
26 Dec 2022,40 mins
The tip-off and the 30-year treasure hunt
A story told over drinks in the 1980s set two metal detectorists on a very long hunt
24 Dec 2022,26 mins
Unrepeated: Damo Suzuki's improvisations in music and life
The iconic Can vocalist on walking away from fame to follow a life of improvisation
22 Dec 2022,40 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 Dec 2022,40 mins
Guns, guards, snarling dogs: A child migrant’s story
Javier Zamora travelled alone from El Salvador to the US when he was just nine years old
20 Dec 2022,40 mins
My friend was a serial killer and I had to stop him
Nurse Amy Loughren discovered that her colleague and confidant was murdering patients
19 Dec 2022,40 mins
Surviving apartheid to make maritime history
Captain Knowledge Bengu led the voyage to discover Shackleton's lost ship Endurance
17 Dec 2022,26 mins
The illegal nude that made me a security expert
After a photo of Mia Landsem was leaked online, she fought to change the law
15 Dec 2022,40 mins