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'A dream is a dream': the man who refused to give up

Solomon Lefakane longed to become a doctor, but apartheid South Africa tried to stop him

• 26 mins

Behind the lens: How two icons of film-making fell in love

When Martin Scorsese’s hero Michael Powell met his editor Thelma Schoonmaker, sparks flew

• 40 mins

Meat Boy and other stories: My life in video games

Edmund McMillen’s childhood pain inspired poignant video games that captivated millions

• 40 mins

Becoming Gamal, part 1: Magic and misadventure

Gamal Turawa has lived many lives - but never fitted in

• 40 mins

Becoming Gamal, part 2: Behind the badge

Gamal Turawa has lived many lives - but never fitted in

• 40 mins

Agent Orange: A Vietnamese grandmother's last battle

Tran To Nga is fighting to get compensation for victims of the toxic herbicide

• 26 mins

The former boxer who helped avert a plane hijack

On a flight in 2018 Tarik Sahibeddine found himself at the centre of a drama in the sky

• 40 mins

The Holocaust survivor who became my ‘adopted grandfather’

When journalist Chitra Ramaswamy met 99-year-old Henry Wuga, they fell in platonic love

• 40 mins

Patricia Cornwell: Writing the hero I needed as a child

As a child she faced cruelty, as an adult her crime-busting creation transformed her life

• 40 mins

'We sweat together': Risking it all to help North Korean defectors

Pastor Kim Seongeun has crossed icy rivers and dense jungle to rescue over 1,000 people

• 40 mins

The man who finds water in the desert

Why Alain Gachet quit a lucrative career in oil to search for water underground

• 40 mins

'The goalkeeper's terror'

Uruguayan Claudina Vidal became the first woman ever to join a professional men's team

• 40 mins

A Chilean couple’s enduring love and a nation’s memory

A life spent exposing the truth of dictatorship and dementia

• 40 mins

How a Greek grandmother’s cooking helped us heal

When brothers Luke and Daniel moved in next to ‘yiayia’, her kindness changed their lives

• 40 mins

Hiding in plain sight: My family's secret

Rafael Agustin's 'all-American' life fell apart when he discovered he was undocumented

• 26 mins

Why cutting my dreadlocks set me free

Feeling trapped in a strict Rastafari household, poetry helps Safiya Sinclair escape

• 40 mins

A life made beautiful by rubbish

Robi Walters finds solace in making art, after a childhood isolated by trauma

• 40 mins

The Hollywood screenwriter born in a cult

Guinevere Turner spent her childhood in a cult as strange as any film

• 40 mins

Harry Potter and the dynamic shadow – his stuntman

Gymnast David Holmes got his dream job when he became Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double

• 40 mins

The beatboxing cellist making music out of family history

How US cellist Gary Washington turned a painful history of slavery into a symphony

• 26 mins

A crime reporter and her own stalking story

Journalist Isla Traquair was stalked by her neighbour in the idyllic English countryside

• 40 mins

The pop rebel who rediscovered her voice

Vashti Bunyan had given up music for good – 30 years later she became an underground hit

• 40 mins

Thorgy Thor: A pioneering drag queen and her violin

Thorgy Thor has spent her career trying to bring together drag and classical music

• 40 mins

I cycled across Africa for a place at my dream university

A handwritten map is all Mamadou Barry had to guide him from Guinea to Egypt

• 40 mins

The Uruguayan conservationist and the great parrot heist

Juan Villalba-Macías has risked his life to rescue animals from the clutches of poachers

• 26 mins

A Family Affair: My dad was Britain's 'most wanted'

Without realising it, Nick Reynolds had been living his childhood on the run

• 40 mins

A Family Affair: Sly and Cynthia, funk royalty

Phunne Stone is the daughter of funk legends Sly Stone and Cynthia Robinson

• 40 mins

A Family Affair: A buried photo collection brought our town together

Javier Mazzuca took on the task of developing his dad's mammoth archive of negatives

• 40 mins

A Family Affair: Remembering my dancing parents, Fosse and Verdon

Nicole Fosse’s life wasn't always as smooth as her parents’ celebrated choreography

• 40 mins

A Family Affair: Dad was a best-selling sex writer

Dying of Alzheimer's, Ira Alterman asked his daughter to help him write his final books

• 26 mins