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My hunt for Rodriguez, a missing music legend
One South African superfan's quest to unravel the truth about his favourite artist
01 Sep 2022,40 mins
Space and self-doubt: An astronomer's unusual route to the stars
Poonam Chandra studied in secret to become one of India’s leading young astrophysicists
31 Aug 2022,40 mins
Sacheen Littlefeather: Protest at the Oscars
The Native American activist who rejected Marlon Brando’s award on his behalf
30 Aug 2022,40 mins
The mystery of the lost mastertapes and my strange grandfather
How a grimy suitcase led Daniel Lofredo Rota on a quest to solve a decades-old mystery
29 Aug 2022,40 mins
My ex-partner killed our baby
Hera McLeod has used her grief and anger to become an advocate for child protection
27 Aug 2022,26 mins
Lady in Red: The plasterer making violent homes beautiful
Naima Ben-Moussa overcame her difficult past repairing houses damaged by domestic abuse
25 Aug 2022,40 mins
The family that went to war with a military dictatorship
Hafsat Abiola Costello's dad was nearly Nigeria's president - but he had powerful enemies
24 Aug 2022,40 mins
My history-making solo flight around the world
Ademilola “Lola” Odujinrin became the first African pilot to fly solo around the world
23 Aug 2022,40 mins
Finding a life in the sunshine: Being Roy Ayers’ son
Nabil Ayers unearthed an unexpected family history through his famous father Roy Ayers
22 Aug 2022,40 mins
Hiding the truth behind my NFL stardom
New England Patriots star Ryan O'Callaghan used football as a cover for his sexuality.
20 Aug 2022,26 mins
How I fell in love with blindness
Itto Outini lost her sight but gained her freedom
18 Aug 2022,40 mins
Cracking a $30m case of wine fraud
How wine detective Maureen Downey uncovered a huge counterfeiting operation
17 Aug 2022,40 mins
Beautiful things help me deal with my ugly past
Antiques expert Ronnie Archer-Morgan was abused as a child but he found joy in museums
16 Aug 2022,40 mins
The classical concert pianist - who has only one hand
Nicholas McCarthy built a career in music by playing with just his left hand
15 Aug 2022,40 mins
Tarantulas, Gandalf and my dying brother's bucket list
Royd Tolkien’s brother Mike left him a daring list of tasks to complete after he died
13 Aug 2022,26 mins
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