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The blind skateboarder going for gold
When skateboarder Justin Bishop went blind he worried he’d lost the sport he loved
23 Feb 2022,40 mins
Inventing a surgery to cure myself
Doug Lindsay’s mystery illness baffled doctors, so he had to cure himself
22 Feb 2022,40 mins
My symphony to a soccer ‘bad-boy’
How a Finnish composer’s muse would steal the show on the biggest night of his career
21 Feb 2022,40 mins
Exposing Nigeria’s cough syrup crisis for my brother
Why Ruona Meyer joined the frontline in the war against codeine cough syrup
19 Feb 2022,26 mins
The forgotten story of a pioneering Olympic Champion
Wyomia Tyus was the first person to win gold in the 100m in two consecutive Olympic Games
17 Feb 2022,40 mins
Attacked and accused of lying – my long fight for the truth
In 1993 Donna Palomba was assaulted in her home, then police accused her of making it up
16 Feb 2022,40 mins
A descendant of chiefs: My long journey home
How Jesse Thistle, a homeless Indigenous man, found his identity and his calling
15 Feb 2022,40 mins
The dramatic journey of Jamaica’s first Olympic bobsleigh
Dudley Stokes drove Jamaica’s first Olympic bobsleigh and inspired the film Cool Runnings
14 Feb 2022,40 mins
Modern birth: The man who had a baby
Freddy McConnell is a trans man who decided to have a baby
12 Feb 2022,26 mins
The artist who started out drawing war as a child refugee
Petrit Halilaj was just 13 years old when his drawings were beamed all over the world
10 Feb 2022,40 mins
Gaming with Tourette’s: Sweet Anita’s success story
Sweet Anita overcame loneliness and isolation to become a famous gamer online
09 Feb 2022,40 mins
The refugee pilot who helped Afghans flee the Taliban
Zak Khogyani was forced to flee his home. Now he's helping others in the same position
08 Feb 2022,40 mins
The first African in Greenland
It took Tété-Michel Kpomassie eight years to reach the Arctic from his home in Togo
07 Feb 2022,40 mins
The Cuban aristocrat with a revolutionary secret
Natalia Bolivar, a rich socialite, used her high class status to help topple a dictator
05 Feb 2022,26 mins
How books helped me bond with my captors
María Antonia Garcés was a hostage in Colombia. Her love of literature helped her survive
03 Feb 2022,40 mins
Mafia, a murder cover-up and a sister’s battle for justice
Who was behind Perween Rahman’s murder? Her sister was determined to uncover the truth
02 Feb 2022,40 mins
The crumbling old house that hid a treasure trove of art
It was a tiny, dilapidated cottage but inside the garage was something truly remarkable
01 Feb 2022,40 mins
My love affair with the instrument that reminds me of home
Syrian virtuoso musician Maya Youssef fell in love with the qanun as a child
31 Jan 2022,40 mins
Dynamo: Turning illness into magic
Crohn's disease has hampered the world-famous magician all his life
29 Jan 2022,26 mins
Anne Frank’s stepsister: How I survived Auschwitz, part 2
How Anne Frank’s diary led Eva Schloss to find her brother’s hidden Holocaust paintings
27 Jan 2022,40 mins,
Anne Frank’s stepsister: How I survived Auschwitz, part 1
The extraordinary Holocaust testimony of Eva Schloss and her memories of Anne Frank
26 Jan 2022,40 mins,
Solving the puzzle: Crosswords, anorexia, and me
How Anna Shechtman recovered from anorexia and changed the world of crosswords
25 Jan 2022,40 mins
The girl who acted before Rosa Parks
Claudette Colvin, for decades an unsung hero of the US civil rights movement
24 Jan 2022,40 mins
How Superman saved my life
Screenwriter Joe Straczynski wished for a hero to rescue him from his abusive childhood
22 Jan 2022,26 mins
The freediver who found salvation underwater
Alenka Artnik overcame grief and pain to become a world champion freediver
20 Jan 2022,40 mins
Caring for my mum and the secrets of her sickness
After a lifetime of caring for her ill mother Helen Naylor began to ask was it all a lie?
19 Jan 2022,40 mins
Love on the dance floor: The refugees reunited in ballroom
Paul & Millie Cao first danced together in 1970s Vietnam, now they're competing in the US
18 Jan 2022,40 mins
Family and forgiveness, the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Celebrating the life of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu with an interview he did in 2014
17 Jan 2022,40 mins
The twists and turns of the Rubik's Cube
Meet champion cuber Feliks Zemdegs, and the inventor behind the puzzle Erno Rubik
15 Jan 2022,26 mins
I sailed the oceans in a Scientology jazz band
Neil Sarfati toured on board a ship with Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard
13 Jan 2022,40 mins