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Watergate’s 'lady lawyer' facing sexism and scandal
Jill Wine-Banks’ historic role as the only woman investigating the Watergate cover-up
14 Dec 2022,40 mins
The Palestinian tapes, part 2
Disco, protest and poetry – Hanan and Riad’s story of making the Intifada album
13 Dec 2022,40 mins
The Palestinian tapes, part 1
Mo’min Swaitat’s magical discovery of lost family music and a mysterious yellow cassette
12 Dec 2022,40 mins
England's secret cowboy town
The town of Laredo is filled with cowboys and saloons in the style of the Wild West
11 Dec 2022,26 mins
Birdsong, blindness and my ‘super brain’
Juan Pablo Culasso’s rare avian sound skills led to a life-altering moment on national TV
08 Dec 2022,40 mins
Murder in the heart of the Amazon
When her brother was brutally murdered, Claudelice Silva dos Santos took up his fight
07 Dec 2022,40 mins
Out of the swamp: Uncovering a hidden US slave ship
Ben Raines set out to expose a 160-year-old secret and found himself in murky waters
06 Dec 2022,40 mins
The sketchpad that saved my life
How painting gave Muniba Mazari hope after being paralysed in a car crash in Pakistan
05 Dec 2022,40 mins
My teacher became my torturer
Mirsad Solakovic was just 13 when his teacher came to school and pointed a gun at him
03 Dec 2022,26 mins
Fighting for peace in a violent city
Fartuun Adan and her daughter Ilwad Elman risked everything to help rebuild Mogadishu
01 Dec 2022,40 mins
'I could've been her and she could've been me'
For journalist Brandi Morin exposing the harrowing stories of her community is personal
30 Nov 2022,40 mins
My body has given me everything
Bonita Norris overcame an eating disorder to make history climbing Everest
29 Nov 2022,40 mins
The bombshell revelations that turned my family on its head
Carmen Rita Wong on coming to terms with a lifetime of family secrets and hidden pasts
28 Nov 2022,40 mins
I created a mass Marilyn Monroe swim for my mother
How dressing up as the Hollywood icon helped Sarah Tinney cope after her mother’s death
27 Nov 2022,26 mins
The truffle in my pocket that changed my life
Guy Debbas from Lebanon survived being held hostage to run a sucessful chocolate business
24 Nov 2022,40 mins
Why did my mum give me away? An adoptee's quest for answers
Korean-Danish adoptee Sun Hee Engelstoft, flew over 5000 miles in search of her mum
23 Nov 2022,40 mins
Michael Johnson: How the world's fastest man learned to walk again
US Olympic champion Michael Johnson had to learn to walk again following a stroke
22 Nov 2022,40 mins
He knocked on my door and said: 'I believe you'
How the friendship of a stranger helped Betsy when she needed it most
21 Nov 2022,40 mins
I went through puberty at two years old
Patrick Burleigh was born with precocious puberty, meaning his body developed very early
19 Nov 2022,26 mins
The argument that led a singer to the truth about her family
Gina Williams believed she was an only child until a major revleation, aged 18
17 Nov 2022,40 mins
The private eye bringing psychic fraudsters to justice
Bob Nygaard enters a dark underworld of soothsayers exploiting the vulnerable for money
16 Nov 2022,40 mins
Hugh Bonneville: From dress-up to Downton
Actor Hugh Bonneville on catching the acting bug as a child and dealing with rejection
15 Nov 2022,40 mins
My father’s hidden crimes
Analía’s dad was accused of being a government torturer - he said it was a lie
14 Nov 2022,40 mins
The cookbook that became a lifeline
How eccentric but pioneering chef Julia Child became a role model for Julie Powell
12 Nov 2022,26 mins
Painfully honest: A brain surgeon looks back on his mistakes
Living with cancer had made Henry Marsh reflect on the people he could not save
10 Nov 2022,40 mins
Cracking Germany’s 'biggest' art theft case
The mayor and the top art theft detective who unravelled a 40-year-old German crime
09 Nov 2022,40 mins
I was interviewed on live TV by accident
Four stories of mistaken identity
08 Nov 2022,40 mins
The battlefield of the mind
Toby Gutteridge was one of the best soldiers in the world when he was shot in the neck
07 Nov 2022,40 mins
The drag queen who ran for president of the United States
Joan Jett Blakk ran for office in 1992 to raise awareness about the Aids crisis
05 Nov 2022,26 mins
How the kindness of strangers stopped my terror attack
Ex-US Marine Mac McKinney planned to bomb a mosque but ended up converting to Islam
03 Nov 2022,40 mins