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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
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