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Finding freedom in solitary confinement

Aged 16 Eddy Zheng was sentenced to life in prison but had an awakening behind bars

• 53 mins

Taking on America's rich and famous

Gloria Allred has represented the accusers of Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby and R Kelly

• 53 mins

Fighting Ebola in a war zone

Facing militias and machetes, the DRC doctor trying to stop Ebola in a war zone

• 53 mins

The secret world of our dying son

Mats Steen found friendship and escape in a fantasy online land

• 23 mins

The Nepali MP’s semi-naked protest

Uma Devi Badi scaled a gate semi-naked to demand rights for her ‘untouchable’ caste

• 53 mins

Heavyweight champ who didn't want to box

Michael Bentt has made it to the top of his game, but he never actually wanted to box!

• 53 mins

Having a baby with a man who died years ago

How an Israeli man’s dying wish to father a child was fulfilled

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Inside the minds and chat rooms of IS

Rukmini Callimachi is a US reporter whose work has brought her close to so-called IS

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The ‘Lion Mama’ who fought off three rapists

Nokubonga Qampi stepped in when her daughter was attacked

• 23 mins

The masterplan that got me out of prison

How an inmate serving life in prison came up with a masterplan to turn his life around

• 53 mins

Risking my life to see mum

The reporter in Mogadishu who fears attack when he travels the six miles to visit his mum

• 53 mins

We found love in the wake of 9/11

In the wake of tragedy, Nick and Diane Marson were able to find each other and love

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The Iranian avocado quest that led to prison

The saga to free journalist Jason Rezaian from Iran’s most notorious prison

• 53 mins

The African girl raised by Kim Il-sung

Monica Macias had two dads: Equatorial Guinea's brutal leader and the North Korean despot

• 26 mins

The wrestling star helping a grieving mum

Former wrestler Kendo Nagasaki helped Lyn Rigby cope after her son was murdered

• 53 mins

Leaving America's 'most hated family'

Libby Phelps grew up in the infamous anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church

• 53 mins

The sailor and the secret

Guy Oliver’s secret took him from being on a warship to designing superyachts

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My revenge against 'revenge porn'

Ana Baquedano fought to change the law in Mexico after an ex shared her nude selfie

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Sarajevo Siege - metal music in the madness: part 1

While war raged around them, the city's heavy metal musicians found artistic freedom

• 26 mins

The family murder that began our campaign

Luke and Ryan Hart are trying to change the conversation around domestic abuse

• 53 mins

The backflip that shocked the Olympics

Surya Bonaly performed an ‘illegal’ move that cemented her name in figure skating history

• 53 mins

Losing my dad in the Challenger space disaster

Richard Scobee watched as the Space Shuttle Challenger took off, it would change his life

• 53 mins

Using comedy to unpick my past on air

Comedian Rosie Waterland started a podcast with her mum to examine their difficult past

• 53 mins

Sarajevo Siege - the band that drowned out the bombs: part 2

How do you get Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson to play in a warzone?

• 26 mins

The voyage of The Fisherman’s Friends

How a group of friends went from singing in their local pub to national stardom

• 53 mins

How did this diver cheat death?

Diver Chris Lemons was trapped on the North Sea bed for around 35 minutes without air

• 53 mins

Keeping wrestling alive in Afghanistan

Teacher Abbas and his wrestling gym are back with a vengeance after a terror attack

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From homeless child to top firefighter

Sabrina Cohen Hatton survived homelessness to become a leading firefighter in the UK

• 53 mins

The words that saved John Dwayne

A wrongfully convicted illiterate teenager found his freedom in books and letters

• 26 mins

The massacre that made me a mortician

Camilo Jaramillo survived a massacre and found solace in becoming a mortician

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