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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
Saving the lost tapes of a musical genius
A grieving lover’s mission to share his partner’s unknown music with the world
02 Nov 2022,40 mins
Glitter, high kicks and finding freedom
The joy that dance brings us in extraordinary and sometimes surprising ways
01 Nov 2022,40 mins
Witness to a gangland murder: a mediator’s dilemma
Roegchanda Pascoe put her own safety and freedom on the line to take on Cape Town’s gangs
31 Oct 2022,40 mins
‘My heart goes out to the mums’
The mum who’s found compassion for the mothers of murderers after her own family tragedy
29 Oct 2022,26 mins
The playwright, the school teacher and the lost Xhosa king
How South Africa’s first published black female playwright restored her people’s history
27 Oct 2022,40 mins
A fake billionaire in North Korea
Jim Latrache-Qvortrup posed as a weapons dealer to expose a North Korean criminal network
26 Oct 2022,40 mins
The student journalist who risked it all to report in Russia
Armen Aramyan's student paper became one of Russia's last independent news outlets
25 Oct 2022,40 mins
Rickie Lee Jones: From life on the breadline to stardom
The US singer hit the big time in her early 20s, winning a Grammy for her first album
24 Oct 2022,40 mins
Steve Van Zandt on bands, bandanas and Bruce Springsteen
Guitarist Steve Van Zandt tells us why he's been happy being the man behind the boss
22 Oct 2022,26 mins
My life, painting Iran’s rebellious women
Soheila Sokhanvari grew up in a very fashionable home in Iran but, in 1978 it all changed
20 Oct 2022,40 mins
The marathon runner and Gobi the stray dog
Dion Leonard found an unlikely running partner during a race in China
19 Oct 2022,40 mins
Black, Korean, stateless: A 'slickyboy’s' American dream, part 2
An outcast from birth and a petty thief by seven, all Milton wanted was to find his dad
18 Oct 2022,40 mins
Black, Korean, stateless: A 'slickyboy’s' American dream, part 1
An outcast from birth and a petty thief by seven, all Milton wanted was to find his dad
17 Oct 2022,40 mins
My unknown song became a political anthem in Hong Kong
How Matthew Keegan found out he had become an overnight pop star 5,000 miles away
15 Oct 2022,26 mins
How the girl who was denied an education created a school
As a girl Ashwini Angadi was turned away from school because of her visual impairment
13 Oct 2022,40 mins
I found my 'sister-in-arms' through a newspaper cutting
Canadians Leslie McBain and Petra Schulz united in grief after losing their sons to drugs
12 Oct 2022,40 mins
Hip-hop, lies, and the ultimate prize, part 2
Silibil N’ Brains found fame as fake American rappers - but how long can you live a lie?
11 Oct 2022,40 mins
Hip-hop, lies, and the ultimate prize, part 1
The Scottish rappers who fooled the music industry
10 Oct 2022,40 mins
Who was the stranger who saved my life?
Sonia Solorzano spent years seeking the unknown man who rescued her from a destroyed bus
08 Oct 2022,26 mins
The backing singer who stepped out from the shadows
Merry Clayton, the voice behind Gimme Shelter, reveals why she was haunted by the song
06 Oct 2022,40 mins
I see my son in the Northern Lights
Hugo Sanchez photographs the mesmerising Aurora Borealis to grieve the loss of his son
05 Oct 2022,40 mins
How The Beatles inspired me to rock against Cuba’s regime
Inspired by The Fab Four, Nilo Nuñez set up a secret rock band in Communist Cuba
04 Oct 2022,40 mins
My Lego invention that silenced the bullies
Aged 17, David Aguilar built a record-breaking prosthetic that brought global recognition
03 Oct 2022,40 mins
The sailor and the pirate king
Indian sailor Sudeep Choudhury was kidnapped at gunpoint by pirates in the Niger Delta
01 Oct 2022,26 mins
Uncle Jack Charles, the story of an Indigenous film star
'Uncle Jack' was a pioneering actor, elder and champion of Aboriginal Australians
29 Sep 2022,40 mins
The girl who heckled the President
At 11 Zarifa heckled Hamid Karzai, by 24 she was Afghanistan's youngest female Mayor
28 Sep 2022,40 mins
Fate and faces: The artist who ‘sold stars’ to make a living
Lita Cabellut is successful Spanish painter but grew up on the streets of Barcelona
27 Sep 2022,40 mins
New York to Vietnam: The greatest beer run ever?
'Chickie' Donohue took beers across the world to boost his friends serving in Vietnam
26 Sep 2022,40 mins
The Oscar joke that turned into a real life drama
How a triumphant moment in Colin Gibson’s career inadvertently led to a false bomb scare
24 Sep 2022,26 mins