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Fighting Discrimination with a Fairytale
Valeriu Nicolae is a European diplomat from a Roma background
15 Oct 2018,53 mins
My Dad, Muhammad Ali
What is it like to be the daughter of a man who called himself The Greatest?
13 Oct 2018,23 mins
Refusing To Be Ashamed After Rape
After Sohaila Abdulali was raped in Mumbai, she was determined not to let it define her.
11 Oct 2018,53 mins
Crossing Continents to Find my Parents
Tuy Buckner’s epic search to find his birth family in Vietnam
10 Oct 2018,53 mins
Opening my Romanian Secret Police File
American anthropologist Katherine Verdery found out the secret police thought she was spy
09 Oct 2018,53 mins
Helping Pakistan's Forgotten Prisoners
Haya Zahid is a top human rights lawyer fighting for justice in Pakistan’s prisons
08 Oct 2018,53 mins
Heavy Metal's Groundbreaking Grandma
Meet Inge Ginsberg: Holocaust survivor, Hollywood composer and heavy metal grandma.
06 Oct 2018,23 mins
The 35 Year Game of Tag
How a close knit group of friends go to extreme lengths to keep playing Tag forever
04 Oct 2018,53 mins
Milli Vanilli: Story of a Pop Scandal
Fab Morvan of the 80s pop band Milli Vanilli on the scandal that ended his career
03 Oct 2018,53 mins
Saving My Cellmates From Death Row
Kenyan Pete Ouko was a prison inmate turned lawyer who got six people off death row
02 Oct 2018,53 mins
Fighting for a Woman’s Right to Love
Khalida Brohi started campaigning after her cousin died in a so-called honour killing
01 Oct 2018,53 mins
Awake but Trapped Inside My Body
Victoria Arlen woke up in hospital, locked into her body. All she had were her thoughts
29 Sep 2018,23 mins
The Love That Survived IS
Hezni and Jilan Murad were separated when so-called Islamic State targeted Yazidis
27 Sep 2018,53 mins
The Stranger Who Rescued Me
Rukhiya Budden's life changed when she left the Kenyan orphanage where she grew up
26 Sep 2018,53 mins
Coaching the Death Row Football Team
Moses Akatugba managed a football club in a Nigerian prison
25 Sep 2018,53 mins
I Took Her Hand and Then We Jumped
Rolf Sorman was one of the survivors of the Estonia ferry disaster 24 years ago
24 Sep 2018,53 mins
The Photo That Exposed Apartheid
The Soweto Uprisings and the story behind South Africa’s most iconic photo
22 Sep 2018,23 mins
Being the Mother of a Sociopath
Charity Lee's teenage son was convicted of murder
20 Sep 2018,53 mins
Saving a Thousand Lives in Kerala's Floods
Indian paddle surfer Rocha Chacko Mathew used his knowledge of the water to rescue locals
19 Sep 2018,53 mins
The Elephant Whisperer of Thailand
Lek Chailert fights for the welfare of elephants working in logging camps.
18 Sep 2018,53 mins
How I Grew Up in a Cave
Christina Rickardsson spent her first years living with her mother in a Brazilian forest.
17 Sep 2018,53 mins
The Transy Book Heist
The elaborate and oddball scheme to steal some of the world’s most valuable books
15 Sep 2018,23 mins
Dream Holiday that Ended in Tragedy
Penny Farmer spent nearly 40 years tracking down her brother's killer
13 Sep 2018,53 mins
From a Remote Jungle Tribe to LA
When he had to flee his isolated community in Vietnam, Rich ended up in the big city
12 Sep 2018,53 mins
Travelling Home Next to My Coffin
Moses Supercharger was so ill due to HIV, he was taken to his home village for burial
11 Sep 2018,53 mins
Sex Trafficked by My Friend
Grizelda Grootboom on how she survived horrifying abuse in South Africa
10 Sep 2018,53 mins,
The Woman Who Woke Up in the Future: Part 2
Naomi Jacobs went to bed aged 32 but woke up thinking she was 15, her adult memories gone
08 Sep 2018,23 mins
From Voice of the Trains to Voice of the Movies
Redd Pepper on how he became the unforgettable voice of blockbuster movie trailers
06 Sep 2018,53 mins
Looking for Vietnam's Fallen Soldiers
US Veteran Bob Connor is helping find mass graves in Vietnam
05 Sep 2018,53 mins
Going Undercover for My Son
Doreen Giuliano went to extreme lengths to challenge her son's verdict
04 Sep 2018,53 mins