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How I brought my jailer to justice

Chance brought Syrian journalist Amer Matar face-to-face with his former captor

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Why I travelled with my husband to end his life

Amy Bloom was determined to support her husband鈥檚 decision to end his life on his terms

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Mateo the memory keeper

How one man stopped the stories and songs of his people from being lost forever

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Township lawyer v gold giants, part 1

Apartheid taught Charles to know his place, so how did he end up suing the gold industry?

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Township lawyer v gold giants, part 2

Charles sues his country鈥檚 richest companies on behalf of black gold miners

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My mum 'blossomed' as she fought Nigeria鈥檚 fake drug barons

Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr remembers her mother Dora Akunyili鈥檚 fearless work

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Pirates stole my son

Howie Truong was fleeing Vietnam with his family when pirates intercepted their boat

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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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A spy in the family

I was betrayed to the East German secret police

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Abandoned at birth: 50 years searching for our families

A baby left in a car, the other in a phonebox. David and Helen鈥檚 quest to find out why

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Delia Ephron: 鈥業 fell into my own romantic comedy'

How writer Delia Ephron found herself in a love story like her hit film You鈥檝e Got Mail

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The Oscar joke that turned into a real life drama

How a triumphant moment in Colin Gibson鈥檚 career inadvertently led to a false bomb scare

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The British commune and the Colombian guerilla group

Atlantis was a psychotherapy commune who moved to Farc controlled territory

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Why my birth parents tried to keep me a secret

It took Brendan Watkins decades to find out the true identity of his birth parents

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Taking on the witch hunters

Wrongly blamed for killing her father, Monica fought to save others accused of witchcraft

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Glad to be gay: The surprise hit that became a pride anthem

Tom Robinson became a Pride icon with his top 20 hit Glad to be Gay

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Kidnapped as I lay sleeping

Pirates attacked us on a remote island

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Giving birth during a genocide

The Rwandan woman whose waters broke as militia were attacking her family home

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The casino cheat who stopped his own million dollar scam

Former swindler Richard Marcus now works for the same casinos that he once robbed

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The schoolgirl who fought an oil company and won

When Nalleli Cobo fell ill, fingers pointed to an oil well next to her home in LA

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A family lost at sea

Fleeing Vietnam Lauren鈥檚 family almost died. Her 30-year dream was to find their rescuers

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Book lovers unite: The bookish boy who became a boxing champion

The bookish boxing champion, the bin man who built a library and the secret German author

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London鈥檚 revolutionary kiss-in

Ted Brown is a black LGBT rights pioneer who helped organise the UK鈥檚 first Gay Pride

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Facing the ghosts of a freak mountain storm

How one man鈥檚 life was upended when a gentle hike up a mountain turned into an icy hell

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The 'metal bird' that sparked a dream

His first sighting of a plane in the sky would lead Ousman Umar on a treacherous journey

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Adventures in sound: The soundscape ecologist

Musician Bernie Krause overcame a fear of animals to capture natural sounds of the wild

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Why I stopped talking for 17 years

It started out as an experiment for a day but John Francis didn鈥檛 speak for 17 years

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The space genius who needed a guide to life on earth

How a bereaved astrophysicist was helped by notes from her late husband

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Cleopatra: Uganda's history-making trans activist

Forced to strip to 'prove' her gender, Cleo took a stand and gained official recognition

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My husband thought I was an imposter

Abi Morgan鈥檚 husband woke from a coma and didn鈥檛 recognise her

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