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The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid, part 1
Sue Dobson was a white South African who risked her life as an ANC secret agent

Bringing the Muppets to Moscow
Natasha Lance Rogoff鈥檚 daunting task of making Sesame Street in post-Soviet Russia

My life in seven swimming pools
Amjed鈥檚 determined to teach kids in Gaza to swim no matter how many pools he has to build

The Ukrainian opera singer nearly silenced by a bullet
Sergiy Ivanchuk dreamed of stardom, before he was shot in the chest by Russian soldiers

I didn鈥檛 know I was part of an experiment
When Greenlander Helene Thiesen was just seven, two Danish men came to take her away

Eyes on the prize: Pakistan鈥檚 first trans film star
Rejected by family and society, Alina Khan carved her own path to big screen fame

Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run, part 2
In the ring, Blair finds calm amidst the chaos of his life

Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run, part 1
From Beverly Hills to hiding from the law with his dad, Blair鈥檚 seen it all

The mystery of the tartan twins
A baby left in a car, another in a telephone box. It would take decades to find out why

Breaking my addiction to war
Fergal Keane's work as a war correspondent was destroying him, but he couldn't stop