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Creating a Puerto Rican superhero to save the world
Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez has invented a comic book crusader called La Borinqueña
11 Aug 2022,40 mins
The legendary goalkeeper forced to pawn her gold medals
Briana Scurry knew she was destined to win Olympic gold then one game changed everything
10 Aug 2022,40 mins
When we were kings: the truth about my father
David Wright Faladé unearths a shocking secret about his family’s past
09 Aug 2022,40 mins
I was the voice of Bambi – and kept it secret for years
Donnie Dunagan was a child star in the 1930s before becoming a US Marine
08 Aug 2022,40 mins
Waking from a coma speaking a foreign language
Ben McMahon woke from a coma only able to speak Chinese Mandarin
06 Aug 2022,26 mins
From teen single mother to top gourmet chef
Claudette Zepeda overcame huge hurdles to wow the culinary world with her Mexican food
04 Aug 2022,40 mins
The forbidden lovers who plotted a daring escape
Karl-Heinz and Hedi were kept apart by the Iron Curtain and the East German secret police
03 Aug 2022,40 mins
Me, OCD and the baby bird in my hair
How nursing an abandoned finch helped Hannah Bourne-Taylor through a mental health crisis
02 Aug 2022,40 mins
Crossing continents to find my parents
Tuy Buckner’s epic search to find his birth family in Vietnam
01 Aug 2022,40 mins
A musician embraces life after recording through grief
Phil Elverum worried people would be "mad at him" for the raw grief he expressed
30 Jul 2022,26 mins
A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 2
JP Bimeni is a writer turned soul singer who walked through a massacre unscathed
28 Jul 2022,40 mins
A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 1
JP Bimeni risked his life to save a book of his verse
27 Jul 2022,40 mins
The life and loves of the world's oldest drag queen
Walter Cole, 91, has been dazzling audiences in Oregon as Darcelle XV since 1969
26 Jul 2022,40 mins
The figure-skating star who fell to earth
Heroin and jail threw Keri Blakinger off course. She’s now a criminal justice reporter
25 Jul 2022,40 mins
My mother, India’s forgotten disco diva
Rupa Biswas Sen’s long-lost Indian disco record became an underground hit after 30 years
23 Jul 2022,26 mins
The maid-turned-rapper taking on racism in Brazil
When Preta-Rara wrote about her time as a domestic worker her post caused a storm
21 Jul 2022,40 mins
Bringing my 10,000 kites from Kabul to England
Sanjar Qiam continued to make and fly kites through three decades of war in Afghanistan
20 Jul 2022,40 mins
A 'dreamer', a Nasa contest and a robot called Stinky
Oscar Vazquez's robot brought him acclaim, but also highlighted his undocumented status
19 Jul 2022,40 mins
Swimming with polar bears – a photographer’s 'crazy' dream
Israeli photographer Amos Nachoum is known for his close-up encounters with predators
18 Jul 2022,40 mins
How the tigress of basketball fought back
Malebogo Molefhe rediscovered her love of basketball after being shot and paralysed
16 Jul 2022,26 mins
The teenage mum who became a soul star
Aged 17 and unhappily married, PP Arnold found herself auditioning for Tina Turner
14 Jul 2022,40 mins
From a burnt-out refugee camp to dining with the President
Mondiant Dogon's family had to flee their home in DR Congo because of ethnic violence
13 Jul 2022,40 mins
My husband thought I was an imposter
Abi Morgan’s husband woke from a coma and didn’t recognise her
12 Jul 2022,40 mins
Cleopatra: Uganda's history-making trans activist
Forced to strip to 'prove' her gender, Cleo took a stand and gained official recognition
11 Jul 2022,40 mins
The space genius who needed a guide to life on earth
How a bereaved astrophysicist was helped by notes from her late husband
09 Jul 2022,26 mins
Why I stopped talking for 17 years
It started out as an experiment for a day but John Francis didn’t speak for 17 years
07 Jul 2022,40 mins
Adventures in sound: The soundscape ecologist
Musician Bernie Krause overcame a fear of animals to capture natural sounds of the wild
06 Jul 2022,40 mins
The 'metal bird' that sparked a dream
His first sighting of a plane in the sky would lead Ousman Umar on a treacherous journey
05 Jul 2022,40 mins
Facing the ghosts of a freak mountain storm
How one man’s life was upended when a gentle hike up a mountain turned into an icy hell
04 Jul 2022,40 mins
London’s revolutionary kiss-in
Ted Brown is a black LGBT rights pioneer who helped organise the UK’s first Gay Pride
02 Jul 2022,26 mins