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Andy Cole: Goals, glory and the battle for his life
Manchester United star Andy Cole went from top scorer to transplant survivor
14 Jun 2021,40 mins,
The spies in my house
Confronting the Stasi agent who watched me for fifteen years
12 Jun 2021,26 mins
‘Aids Angel’ – I gave love in a time of prejudice and fear
Ruth Coker Burks cared for hundreds of HIV+ gay men abandoned by their families
10 Jun 2021,40 mins
The doctor treating children 8000 miles away
Afghan refugee Meena Said is saving the lives of children in her homeland
09 Jun 2021,40 mins
Saving the songs of the Sahara
The defiant life of desert music pioneer Fadimata Walet Oumar
08 Jun 2021,44 mins
Keeping up with Australia's rebellious Buddhist nun
Robina Courtin went from being a radical feminist to martial arts expert to Buddhist nun
07 Jun 2021,44 mins
How I sang for my freedom
Banned songs and fake identities: the Kurdish performer on the run
05 Jun 2021,26 mins
The perilous world of a ‘cult deprogrammer’ – part two
Rick Alan Ross’ work as an anti-cult activist has led to jail, bankruptcy and harassment
03 Jun 2021,40 mins
The perilous world of a ‘cult deprogrammer’ – part one
Rick Alan Ross went from selling cars to trying to rescue people from cults
02 Jun 2021,40 mins
Nxivm 'sex cult' part two: The fight to free my daughter
How Catherine Oxenberg rescued her daughter India and defeated Nxivm’s cult leader
01 Jun 2021,44 mins
Nxivm ‘sex cult’ part one: How my daughter became trapped
Catherine Oxenberg discovered her daughter India’s self-help group was a dangerous cult
31 May 2021,44 mins
My big fake wedding: uncovering an outlandish deception
Benita and Paolo's was a whirlwind romance that turned into a nightmare.
29 May 2021,26 mins
The nightclub fire that rocked Romania
Following a blaze in a Bucharest club, a sports newspaper uncovered deadly corruption
27 May 2021,44 mins
I was a teenager at Auschwitz
Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus, now 91, was 14 when she was taken to a Nazi death camp.
26 May 2021,44 mins
London’s revolutionary kiss-in
Ted Brown is a black LGBT rights pioneer who helped organise the UK’s first Gay Pride
25 May 2021,44 mins
Rickie Lee Jones: Why music became my bridge to the world
The US singer hit the big time in her early 20s, winning a Grammy for her first album
24 May 2021,44 mins
The diplomat turned detective: Hunting 'The Serpent'
An unlikely investigator on the trail of serial killer Charles Sobhraj
22 May 2021,26 mins
Going to sea to honour my son
Yayi Bayam Diouf's son was a fisherman who lost his life trying to get to Europe
20 May 2021,44 mins
My forbidden love for a US soldier
What happens when an Iraqi student and a soldier from the invading US army fall in love?
19 May 2021,44 mins
Dancing behind bars in Burkina Faso
After dance helped Bougobali resist the urge to murder, he decided to teach prisoners too
18 May 2021,44 mins
What my father wouldn’t tell me
Carol Benjamin’s quest to understand the scars and silences of her revolutionary family
17 May 2021,44 mins
The black ballerina who didn't give up
Julie Felix says she was told she was the wrong colour to be a swan
15 May 2021,26 mins
What really happened on the 'Sex Raft'
The true story behind an infamous social experiment
13 May 2021,44 mins
How did this man find two lost Rembrandts?
Jan Six is an art dealer whose ancestor was painted by the Dutch Master Rembrandt
12 May 2021,44 mins
Secrets of my family's lost café
Old photos of her grandfather's café led Meriel Schindler to some shocking family truths
11 May 2021,44 mins
The music star who was born into a cult
Musician Mikel Jollett grew up in Synanon, a drug rehabilitation programme-turned-cult
10 May 2021,44 mins
A plane crash survivor’s search for answers
Sole survivor Norman Ollestad returns to the crash site 27 years later
08 May 2021,26 mins
How I sang for my freedom
Banned songs and fake identities: the Kurdish performer on the run
06 May 2021,44 mins
The surfer who fought apartheid to become a world champion
Cass Collier learnt to surf on segregated beaches – now he's fighting apartheid's legacy
05 May 2021,44 mins
Hunting for my past in a Hong Kong stairwell
Claire Martin was abandoned at two days old. For years she searched for blood relatives
04 May 2021,44 mins