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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
Book lovers unite: The bookish boy who became a boxing champion
The bookish boxing champion, the bin man who built a library and the secret German author
30 Jun 2022,40 mins
A family lost at sea
Fleeing Vietnam Lauren’s family almost died. Her 30-year dream was to find their rescuers
29 Jun 2022,40 mins
The schoolgirl who fought an oil company and won
When Nalleli Cobo fell ill, fingers pointed to an oil well next to her home in LA
28 Jun 2022,40 mins
The casino cheat who stopped his own million dollar scam
Former swindler Richard Marcus now works for the same casinos that he once robbed
27 Jun 2022,40 mins
Giving birth during a genocide
The Rwandan woman whose waters broke as militia were attacking her family home
25 Jun 2022,26 mins
Kidnapped as I lay sleeping
Pirates attacked us on a remote island
23 Jun 2022,40 mins
Glad to be gay: The surprise hit that became a pride anthem
Tom Robinson became a Pride icon with his top 20 hit Glad to be Gay
22 Jun 2022,40 mins
Taking on the witch hunters
Wrongly blamed for killing her father, Monica fought to save others accused of witchcraft
21 Jun 2022,40 mins
Why my birth parents tried to keep me a secret
It took Brendan Watkins decades to find out the true identity of his birth parents
20 Jun 2022,40 mins
The British commune and the Colombian guerilla group
Atlantis was a psychotherapy commune who moved to Farc controlled territory
18 Jun 2022,26 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
16 Jun 2022,40 mins
Delia Ephron: ‘I fell into my own romantic comedy'
How writer Delia Ephron found herself in a love story like her hit film You’ve Got Mail
15 Jun 2022,40 mins
Abandoned at birth: 50 years searching for our families
A baby left in a car, the other in a phonebox. David and Helen’s quest to find out why
14 Jun 2022,40 mins
A spy in the family
I was betrayed to the East German secret police
13 Jun 2022,40 mins
The black woman who cared for a Klansman
The temping job that took a young African American woman into the home of a KKK member
11 Jun 2022,26 mins