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Driven by jealousy: The Chippendales murder plot

Co-founder Bruce Nahin gives the inside story on the male strip club's troubled past

• 40 mins

Mountains took my family - but I love them

Kate Ballard lost her mum and brother to the Himalayas but finds joy on the slopes

• 40 mins

Running an underground newspaper during the Syrian uprising

Kholoud Helmi paid a high price to start one of Syria's only independent newspapers

• 40 mins

The child preacher who exposed a con

Marjoe Gortner's life as an evangelical conman and his Oscar-winning undercover act

• 40 mins

How the Donut King lost his crown

Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy once presided over an empire of donut shops across California

• 26 mins

I survived an avalanche, but the real challenge came after

Joe Yelverton's life changed in an instant when he was hit by an avalanche in Alaska

• 40 mins

Rohan Marley: Bob’s rebel son

Bob Marley's son Rohan on his famous dad, playing American football, and Rastafarianism

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The boy band heartthrob who dreamed of writing Viking novels

Giles Kristian competed with thousands to become the frontman of 90s boy band Upside Down

• 40 mins

Punk against apartheid

National Wake were South Africa's first multi-racial punk band

• 40 mins

Surviving gay conversion therapy

Raised in a religious family, Garrard Conley was forced into ‘therapy’ to turn straight

• 26 mins

My mum Poly Styrene, a punk icon

Poly Styrene brought her distinctive voice and neon outfits to the 1970s punk scene

• 40 mins

I’m a disaster expert – and it helped me get through my own

Disaster recovery expert Lucy Easthope used her skills to cope with personal tragedy

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The sisters reuniting separated siblings at camp

Lynn Price and Andi Andree didn't find out they were sisters until the ages of 8 and 9

• 40 mins

Dressing Beyoncé: It started with a Barbie outfit

Artist Osman Yousefzada's love of clothes came from watching his mum sew for neighbours

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How did this man find two lost Rembrandts?

Jan Six is an art dealer whose ancestor was painted by the Dutch Master Rembrandt

• 26 mins

I created a mass Marilyn Monroe swim for my mother

How dressing up as the Hollywood icon helped Sarah Tinney cope after her mother’s death

• 40 mins

Escaping a life on a dumpsite with classical music

Simon Karuiki Ndungu grew up in a slum scavenging for rubbish. Music was his ticket

• 40 mins

How my father’s stories shielded me from civil war

When war came to Liberia, Wayètu Moore’s dad was determined to protect her from reality

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Drawing is my language: the artist who recreates cities from memory

Austistic savant Stephen Wiltshire has a gift for drawing the world in perfect detail

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A Syrian love story that started with a resume

The social media call out for CV advice that resulted in an online wedding

• 26 mins

The drag queen who ran for president of the United States

Joan Jett Blakk ran for office in 1992 to raise awareness about the Aids crisis

• 40 mins

The astronaut who made a quilt in Space

Astronaut Dr Karen Nyberg launched a sewing project from the International Space Station

• 40 mins

Who was the stranger who saved my life?

Sonia Solorzano spent years seeking the unknown man who rescued her from a destroyed bus

• 40 mins

Discovering my mother's heroic past

A box of letters revealed the secret and extraordinary life of Eva Taylor's mother

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The violin maker's salvation

Hans Benning found love through repairing the world's most priceless stringed instruments

• 26 mins

The dark truth behind my songs

A murder-suicide devastated Allison Moorer’s youth but now inspires her country music

• 40 mins

England's secret cowboy town

The town of Laredo is filled with cowboys and saloons in the style of the Wild West

• 40 mins

Book by book, restoring an iconic library destroyed by IS

Dr Alaa Hamdon dreamt of replacing thousands of books burnt by militants in Mosul, Iraq

• 40 mins

Surviving apartheid to make maritime history

Captain Knowledge Bengu led the voyage to discover Shackleton's lost ship Endurance

• 40 mins

Saving the songs of the Sahara

The defiant life of desert music pioneer Fadimata Walet Oumar

• 26 mins