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Derren Brown: The magician’s secrets
Illusionist Derren Brown on how he used magic to overcome his social awkwardness
26 Sep 2019,53 mins
My ex-partner killed our baby
Hera McLeod has used her grief and anger to become an advocate for child protection
25 Sep 2019,53 mins
I defaced a picture of Assad and knew I had to flee
Reading Virginia Woolf inspired a Syrian woman to lead protests against the president
24 Sep 2019,53 mins
Saved by the daughter I ran away from
How Matjames Metson was reunited with the daughter he had abandoned 16 years before
23 Sep 2019,53 mins
Modern birth: The man who had a baby
Freddy McConnell is a transgender man who decided to have a baby
21 Sep 2019,26 mins
Modern birth: The fertility doctor who impregnated his patients
Matthew White and Heather Woock found out they were siblings and uncovered a scandal
19 Sep 2019,53 mins
Modern birth: Why I gave my sister my womb
Lolita Wästerlund was born without a uterus, so her sister Linda offered up hers
18 Sep 2019,53 mins
The TV action hero fighting bullies
Why German action star Carsten Stahl became an anti-bullying crusader
17 Sep 2019,53 mins
How I fixed my own brain
Sarah Vallance put her life back together after suffering traumatic brain injury.
16 Sep 2019,53 mins
Discovering my ‘mum’ stole me at birth
In 1997 a baby is stolen from a Cape Town hospital, 17 years later she learns the truth
14 Sep 2019,26 mins
The acid attack meant for someone else
Andreas Christopheros had acid thrown in his face in a case of mistaken identity
12 Sep 2019,53 mins
I raised 1,000 children but gave my own away
Sindhutai Sapkal is known as the ‘mother of orphans’, but had to give her own child away
11 Sep 2019,53 mins
Dr Palipana, the quadriplegic ER medic
How a car accident turned Dinesh Palipana into a quadriplegic emergency doctor
10 Sep 2019,53 mins
How not to be a rock star
Cora Bissett got a five album deal when she was just 17, but then faced a huge backlash
09 Sep 2019,53 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
07 Sep 2019,26 mins
The love story behind a lost Leonardo
How a long-lost painting was restored, attributed to da Vinci and sold for $450,000,000
05 Sep 2019,53 mins
From homeless kid to hero of Africa's biggest slum
Kennedy Odede is known by some as the unofficial mayor of Kibera
04 Sep 2019,53 mins
How I lost a museum but gained a family
Stories of hope in the ashes of Brazil's destroyed National Museum
03 Sep 2019,53 mins
'If you want to live, squeeze my hand'
How scientist Steffanie Strathdee saved her husband from a deadly superbug
02 Sep 2019,53 mins
Spain’s fearless barnacle-hunting sisters
Isabel and Susana González risk their lives to collect barnacles along Spain’s coastline
31 Aug 2019,26 mins
How Springsteen became my lifeline
The working class British-Pakistani teen who found a musical hero in The Boss
29 Aug 2019,53 mins
Why I thanked the man who shot me
Wesley Hamilton says that getting shot was “the best thing that ever happened to me”
28 Aug 2019,53 mins
Forgiving myself after killing a classmate
Lis Cashin accidentally killed a friend with a javelin and spent years overcoming guilt
27 Aug 2019,53 mins
Building a hospital on a rubbish dump
Aged 82, Edna Adan Ismail works 14 hour days in a Somaliland hospital she fought to build
26 Aug 2019,53 mins
An unlikely friendship in Guantanamo Bay
How a Mauritanian inmate and an American guard were brought together by a movie
24 Aug 2019,26 mins
‘Please... need rescue… SOS!’
When Beatrice De Smet got a desperate SMS from her husband, she knew she had to act fast
21 Aug 2019,53 mins
My baby was swapped at birth
A South African family continues their search after a hospital mix-up 21 years ago
20 Aug 2019,53 mins
Bassem Youssef: Egypt’s revolutionary comedian
From heart surgeon to Arab Spring satirist – the rise and fall of Bassem Youssef
19 Aug 2019,53 mins
Me, Guantanamo Bay, and a new friend
Mohamedou Salahi was in Guantanamo Bay prison for 14 years but bonded with his guard
17 Aug 2019,26 mins
The Blind Boys of Alabama: a life in music
From gospel to the Grammys – the life and times of America’s octogenarian boyband
15 Aug 2019,53 mins