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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
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