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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
The Sami vocalist taking joik to a new generation
Singer Maxida Märak uses Sami traditional song, called joik, to reach new audiences
12 Jan 2022,40 mins
Looking for the Liberian sister I left behind
Civil war separated Helene Cooper from her sister. Years later she went back to find her
11 Jan 2022,40 mins
The factory worker who became Chile's first blind senator
How a tear gas cannister changed the course of Fabiola Campillai’s life
10 Jan 2022,40 mins
A mother's battle for her son's education
At risk of losing her son Virginia Walden Ford fought to change the US education system.
08 Jan 2022,26 mins
A quizmaster’s accidental route to fame
How quizmaster Jay Flynn started the UK's most in-demand pub quiz by accident
06 Jan 2022,40 mins
The tip-off and the 30-year treasure hunt
A story told over drinks in the 1980s set two metal detectorists on a very long hunt
05 Jan 2022,40 mins
The shocking truth about my three dads
DNA tests revealed that Eve Wiley's biological father was not the man she thought
04 Jan 2022,40 mins
Kidnapped by Nazis as a baby
Ingrid Von Oelhafen discovered she'd been part of an experiment during World War II
03 Jan 2022,40 mins
Hamilton: Overcoming hearing loss to make its music
Alex Lacamoire collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda to create the epic sound of Hamilton
30 Dec 2021,40 mins
The break-up that cost me my voice
The triumphant return of Shirley Collins, the 'first lady' of English folk
29 Dec 2021,40 mins
My soldier dad's goodbye tape
How Tricia Davies Nearn got to know a father lost in war
28 Dec 2021,40 mins