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World Service,4416 episodes

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My ancestors changed the lives of slaves in the US
Nettie Washington Douglass unites the bloodlines of two ex-slaves who became iconic names
06 Oct 2020,44 mins
Ice Prince: The making of a Nigerian hip hop star
How personal loss and violent conflict shaped the career of Panshak Zamani aka Ice Prince
05 Oct 2020,44 mins
I discovered my dad was a best-selling sex writer
Dying of Alzheimer's, Ira Alterman asked his daughter to help him write his final books
03 Oct 2020,26 mins
'This is what a barrister looks like'
Alexandra Wilson is a young black woman changing the face of Britain’s legal system
01 Oct 2020,44 mins
A star in her teens, a star in her seventies
How Bettye Lavette found and lost her music career five times
30 Sep 2020,40 mins
Surviving a chemical attack by a doomsday cult
How a bag leaking sarin in Tokyo led Atsushi Sakahara to seek answers from a cult member
29 Sep 2020,44 mins
My ancestors were both slaves and slave owners
How a black Victorian footballer led Malik Al Nasir to discover his own complex history
28 Sep 2020,44 mins
Vietnam's first family of rock‘n’roll
How a bunch of pre-teen kids became the biggest rock 'n' roll band in wartime Saigon
26 Sep 2020,26 mins
Life without parole: A call from the president
Would Brittany K. Barnett ever be able to free Sharanda Jones from her life sentence?
24 Sep 2020,44 mins
Life without parole: Our fight for freedom
A mother’s life sentence for a drug offence and the young lawyer who promised to free her
23 Sep 2020,40 mins
How the tigress of basketball fought back
Malebogo Molefhe rediscovered her love of basketball after being shot and paralysed
22 Sep 2020,44 mins
Documenting my cellmates' names in blood and rust
Mansour Omari risked his life to record the names of his cellmates in a Syrian prison
21 Sep 2020,44 mins
Sealed in a glass dome and running out of oxygen
Biosphere 2 was an audacious experiment to see if humans could live in space
19 Sep 2020,26 mins
My father and our time machine
Creating a play for my theatre obsessed father, before he lost his memory
17 Sep 2020,44 mins
I bought a ghost town - then got trapped there
Brent Underwood was snowed in at an abandoned California mining town with a haunting past
16 Sep 2020,40 mins
Becoming South Africa's first black rugby captain
Siya Kolisi's journey from a poor South African township to Rugby World Cup victory
15 Sep 2020,44 mins
My soldier dad's goodbye tape
How Tricia Davies Nearn got to know a father lost in war
14 Sep 2020,44 mins
Why 8 of us were sealed in a glass dome
Biosphere 2 was one of the most controversial human experiments of the 20th century
12 Sep 2020,26 mins
The trans boxer learning the many ways to be a man
Thomas Page McBee wanted to understand the relationship between masculinity and violence
10 Sep 2020,44 mins
A descendant of chiefs: my long journey home
How Jesse Thistle, a homeless Indigenous man, found his identity and his calling
09 Sep 2020,40 mins
The girl who cycled her father 1,200km to safety
When Covid hit, Jyoti Kumari and her injured dad had to return to their home village
08 Sep 2020,44 mins
Disco and drama: the story of Ride On Time
Worldwide fame came at a moral price for an Italian DJ who made a huge 1980s dance hit
07 Sep 2020,44 mins
Sewing to protest in a Chilean prison camp
Student Cristina Zamora found courage in creativity when she was taken from her baby
05 Sep 2020,26 mins
The 'bride and groom of the Syrian revolution’
Noura and Bassel's secret prison wedding and their struggle for freedom in Syria
03 Sep 2020,44 mins
The chess game that changed a homeless boy’s life
Tani Adewumi fled Nigeria and became a chess champion in New York at just eight years old
02 Sep 2020,40 mins
The rebel past of a Tibetan Lama
Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche reflects on a life of conflict, hedonism and disco dancing
01 Sep 2020,44 mins
The woman who woke up in the future
Naomi Jacobs went to bed aged 32 but woke up thinking she was 15, her adult memories gone
31 Aug 2020,44 mins
The Great Escape of Bonga
Bonga Kuenda, the man who sang – and sprinted – for Angolan independence
29 Aug 2020,26 mins
Surfing and sisterhood - making waves in Jamaica
How one of Jamaica’s top surfers Imani Wilmot empowers women to ride the tide
27 Aug 2020,44 mins
The man giving former extremists a second chance
Why do people become radicalised? Noor Huda Ismail was on a mission to find out
26 Aug 2020,40 mins