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The life and crimes of a bearded lady: part two
From prisoner to recording artist – how BL Shirelle found love, happiness and success
25 Aug 2020,44 mins
The life and crimes of a bearded lady: part one
Selling crack and writing poetry – BL Shirelle’s turbulent childhood in Philadelphia
24 Aug 2020,44 mins
A nightmare in Joshua Tree
Claire Nelson was hiking in the US wilderness when she slipped and fell into a canyon
22 Aug 2020,26 mins
My life in the eye of the storm
Russel Honoré was the black army general who led the Hurricane Katrina relief effort
20 Aug 2020,44 mins
The war story that led to our love story
Eva and Sami’s love for each other grew as he shared his experiences of the war in Syria
19 Aug 2020,40 mins
The detective and the diamond heist
Belgian detective Patrick Peys had to solve the biggest diamond robbery in history
18 Aug 2020,44 mins
The first date that led to a dramatic mountain rescue
Rachel Colenso and her partner were stranded on a Swiss mountain in a fierce blizzard
17 Aug 2020,44 mins
The boy, the wish and the nuclear weapons
Why a terminally-ill teenager went to the Soviet Union to broker a nuclear peace deal
15 Aug 2020,26 mins
The narcotics cop and a daughter hooked on heroin
The drug cop who lost his daughter to addiction on opening a rehab facility in her memory
13 Aug 2020,44 mins
The barber saving lives one haircut at a time
British hairdresser Tom Chapman gets men to share their problems in his barber's chair
12 Aug 2020,40 mins
Conjoined twins can now look into each other’s eyes
It took almost two years to separate two sisters conjoined at the back of their heads.
11 Aug 2020,44 mins
The supermodel who escaped a cult
Hoyt Richards was a jet-setting supermodel, but he became enthralled by a doomsday cult
10 Aug 2020,44 mins
When trash met thrash: Paraguay's landfill musicians
How a youth orchestra of tin-can violins and X-ray drums got the attention of Megadeth
08 Aug 2020,26 mins
Fosse and Verdon: The legacy of a dancing family
Two superstars of dance, Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, remembered by their daughter Nicole
06 Aug 2020,44 mins
I found my son 32 years after he was kidnapped
Li Jingzhi's child was abducted in 1988. They’ve finally been reunited 32 years later
05 Aug 2020,40 mins
The tycoon who became 'Mr Toilet'
Jack Sim is a Singaporean multi-millionaire who grew up without a working toilet
04 Aug 2020,44 mins
The 25 day sit-in that changed history
Judy Heumann on the longest ever occupation of a federal building in US history
03 Aug 2020,44 mins
Discovering my grandfather's secret Nazi past
Growing up Julie Lindahl had been forbidden from looking into her family history
01 Aug 2020,26 mins
The stolen Picasso and the forest quest
Why writer Mira Feticu looked for a stolen Picasso in a Romanian forest
30 Jul 2020,44 mins
23 years longing to find my mum
Omar and Hassan Mohamed are two Somali brothers who never stopped looking for their mum
29 Jul 2020,40 mins
Name, shame and jail: Ghana's undercover journalist
Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas uses some impressive disguises to go undercover
28 Jul 2020,44 mins
The coral crusaders: finding beauty in a murky world
How two punk rocker best friends created the world's first urban reef webcam
27 Jul 2020,44 mins
Attila the Nun
Arlene Violet, the American nun who took on the mob
25 Jul 2020,26 mins
Making movies helped me heal after my dad's murder
Rwandan director Joël Karekezi explores the trauma he experienced during the 1994 genocide
23 Jul 2020,44 mins
Mean streets to sporting elite: the finale
Racism, gang life and the quest to build America's first black high school rowing team
22 Jul 2020,40 mins
Mean streets to sporting elite: the build up
Racism, gang life and the quest to build America's first black high school rowing team
21 Jul 2020,44 mins
The secret surrogate
A surrogate mother describes what it's like to carry another couple's baby
20 Jul 2020,44 mins
My Dad, Muhammad Ali
What is it like to be the daughter of a man who called himself The Greatest?
18 Jul 2020,26 mins
Why I talk to warlords
Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda negotiates with warlords for the release of child soldiers
16 Jul 2020,44 mins
The day the music stopped
Violinist Min Kym was at the height of her career when her priceless violin was stolen
15 Jul 2020,40 mins