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How I built a billion dollar business

Janice Bryant Howroyd is the first African-American woman to run a billion dollar company

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The first beauty queen in a free South Africa

Basetsana Kumalo was crowned Miss South Africa after the country's first democratic vote

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鈥業鈥檓 going to say sorry to the whales鈥�

Vittorio Fabris鈥� treacherous journey from Venice to Nantucket was inspired by Moby Dick

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Forced to teach in a 鈥榬e-education鈥� camp

Sayragul Sauytbay says she was made to work in a detention camp for Chinese Muslims

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I was shot while performing a vasectomy

Dr Andrew Rynne, an Irish contraceptive pioneer, was attacked by a disgruntled ex-patient

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Life as a lone identical twin

David Loftus on rebuilding his life after the tragic death of his twin brother

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The black woman who cared for a Klansman

The temping job that took a young African-American woman into the home of a KKK member

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The virtuoso musician detained as a child

South African double bassist Leon Bosch was arrested for protesting against apartheid

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Our secret tunnel that saved the city

Edis Kolar guarded a lifesaving tunnel built in his basement during the siege of Sarajevo

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The student who became my son

Tim King was a teacher in Chicago who took in a student after their mother died

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I was a teenager at Auschwitz

Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus was only 14 when she was taken to a Nazi concentration camp

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The daughter and the double agent

The Latvian forced to make an agonising choice in a world of Soviet-era spying

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Saving my zoo from Australian wildfires

Zookeeper Chad Staples took animals into his own home to save them from the raging fires.

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I grew up in a secret nuclear city

Nadezhda Kutepova exposed the deadly legacy of a secret nuclear plant in Soviet Russia.

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The film tickets that destroyed a family

When Neelam Krishnamoorthy鈥檚 two children died in a fire, she began a fight for justice.

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I brought my daughter鈥檚 killer down

Karen Edwards on the anguish she felt after the murder of her daughter Becky.

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The making of a disco star

Marcia Barrett was a lead singer of the chart-conquering disco band, Boney M

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I knocked out sexism in British boxing

Jane Couch fought both in the ring and in court to make women鈥檚 boxing legal in Britain.

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The black woman who cared for a Klansman

The temping job that took a young African-American woman into the home of a KKK member

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Discovering my dad was a music superstar

Anoushka Shankar found out that her father was Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar.

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Michael Johnson: how the world's fastest man learned to walk again

US Olympic champion Michael Johnson had to learn to walk again following a stroke.

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The Canadian cop who uncovered a police scandal

When a First Nations teenager was found frozen to death Ernie Louttit wanted answers

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The star student with an agonising secret

Dan-el Padilla Peralta went from an undocumented US immigrant to a Princeton professor.

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How I ended up marrying 'my mother'

A gay couple from California technically became mother and daughter as a legal workaround

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How a stage-fight nearly ended my acting career

Actor Conor Madden suffered a brain injury when a stage-fight went wrong.

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I survived Joseph Kony - I want my children back

Nakout Sylvia was abducted and held as a sex slave by the Lord鈥檚 Resistance Army.

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Flying my South African flag at the top of Everest

Saray Khumalo on what it took to become the first black African woman to summit Everest

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The mother choosing to love her 'enemy'

A mother who stepped into the world of her son's killer to stop further acts of violence

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My family are sex workers - education saved me

Eliska Tanzer grew up illiterate in a family of sex workers, but defied all expectations

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The rapper who woke up deaf

Dutch rapper Sor was on the brink of stardom when his hearing began to deteriorate.

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