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Drawing is my language: the artist who recreates cities from memory
Austistic savant Stephen Wiltshire has a gift for drawing the world in perfect detail
07 Apr 2022,40 mins
How my father’s stories shielded me from civil war
When war came to Liberia, Wayètu Moore’s dad was determined to protect her from reality
06 Apr 2022,40 mins
Escaping a life on a dumpsite with classical music
Simon Karuiki Ndungu grew up in a slum scavenging for rubbish. Music was his ticket
05 Apr 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
04 Apr 2022,40 mins
How did this man find two lost Rembrandts?
Jan Six is an art dealer whose ancestor was painted by the Dutch Master Rembrandt
02 Apr 2022,26 mins
Dressing Beyoncé: It started with a Barbie outfit
Artist Osman Yousefzada's love of clothes came from watching his mum sew for neighbours
31 Mar 2022,40 mins
The sisters reuniting separated siblings at camp
Lynn Price and Andi Andree didn't find out they were sisters until the ages of 8 and 9
30 Mar 2022,40 mins
I’m a disaster expert – and it helped me get through my own
Disaster recovery expert Lucy Easthope used her skills to cope with personal tragedy
29 Mar 2022,40 mins
My mum Poly Styrene, a punk icon
Poly Styrene brought her distinctive voice and neon outfits to the 1970s punk scene
28 Mar 2022,40 mins
Surviving gay conversion therapy
Raised in a religious family, Garrard Conley was forced into ‘therapy’ to turn straight
26 Mar 2022,26 mins
Punk against apartheid
National Wake were South Africa's first multi-racial punk band
24 Mar 2022,40 mins
The boy band heartthrob who dreamed of writing Viking novels
Giles Kristian competed with thousands to become the frontman of 90s boy band Upside Down
23 Mar 2022,40 mins
Rohan Marley: Bob’s rebel son
Bob Marley's son Rohan on his famous dad, playing American football, and Rastafarianism
22 Mar 2022,40 mins
I survived an avalanche, but the real challenge came after
Joe Yelverton's life changed in an instant when he was hit by an avalanche in Alaska
21 Mar 2022,40 mins
How the Donut King lost his crown
Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy once presided over an empire of donut shops across California
19 Mar 2022,26 mins
The child preacher who exposed a con
Marjoe Gortner's life as an evangelical conman and his Oscar-winning undercover act
17 Mar 2022,40 mins
Running an underground newspaper during the Syrian uprising
Kholoud Helmi paid a high price to start one of Syria's only independent newspapers
16 Mar 2022,40 mins
Mountains took my family - but I love them
Kate Ballard lost her mum and brother to the Himalayas but finds joy on the slopes
15 Mar 2022,40 mins
Driven by jealousy: The Chippendales murder plot
Co-founder Bruce Nahin gives the inside story on the male strip club's troubled past
14 Mar 2022,40 mins
The Canadian cop who uncovered a police scandal
When a First Nations teenager was found frozen to death Ernie Louttit wanted answers
12 Mar 2022,26 mins
Why I’m singing songs for my transgender dad
Musician Frank Turner was estranged from his father for years; now they’re finally close
10 Mar 2022,40 mins
The priest leading the fight for LGBT rights in Poland
How Szymon Niemiec combined his faith and activism to found Poland's first Gay Pride
09 Mar 2022,40 mins
My long-lost sister was a surrogate mother to my twins
When adoptee Mark found his long-lost sister Rachel, it led to a remarkable offer
08 Mar 2022,40 mins
The giant window and the race against time
Artists Tim Carey and Narcissus Quagliata built the world's biggest stained glass window
07 Mar 2022,40 mins
The false confessions of a serial killer
Thomas Quick was Sweden’s most notorious serial killer. Then he retracted his confessions
05 Mar 2022,26 mins
Becoming an elder in the community I was stolen from as a baby
How Australian Dianne O'Brien discovered her Indigenous heritage - and her calling
03 Mar 2022,40 mins
The Texan princess and the priceless villa
Rita Boncompagni's unexpected life led her from the US to an historic Italian home.
02 Mar 2022,40 mins
The violin that saved a Jewish family
Natalie Cumming's violin helped her family survive starvation, persecution, and torture.
01 Mar 2022,40 mins
My stolen ‘magic’ guitar, found after 45 years
Solving the mystery of rock star Randy Bachman’s beloved guitar which disappeared in 1976
28 Feb 2022,40 mins
Soweto Uprising: What happened to my dad?
Janet Goldblatt's father was murdered, but the full story would take decades to emerge
26 Feb 2022,26 mins