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Peggy King Jorde was horrified to hear of plans to build on top of a cemetery in New York which dated back to the 1700s. The African Burial Ground contained the remains of more than fifteen thousand people who lived and worked in the city, many of them had been enslaved. In opposing the plan Peggy encountered racist attitudes which sidelined the history of Africans in North America. Eventually Peggy won the day, the site is now a national monument.

In the late 1980s whilst South Africa was under a state of emergency, Milisuthando Bongela was enjoying a comfortable upbringing in the republic of Transkei – unaware of the brutal apartheid system that controlled the wider country. When apartheid ended in 1994 and Transkei was reincorporated into South Africa, filmmaker Milisuthando came to face to face with the legacy of the racist system and the different experiences of other black South Africans.

Yeye Taiwo Lijadu and her twin sister Kehinde started singing together as children. They formed a pop duo - The Lijadu Sisters - becoming rare frontwomen in the male-dominated Nigerian Afropop music scene of the 1970s. They sang songs of love, protest and politics which were often directly critical of the government of the day.

Morgan Segui, a French acrobat-turned-explorer knew his chances of survival were vanishingly small. He lay at the bottom of a dry gorge in the Timorese jungle of South Asia, miles from help, after taking a dramatic fall which broke several bones and left a huge gash to his head. Dazed and without water, he spent three days and nights on the jungle floor trying to cling to life. Until a herd of goats showed him a way out.

Presenter India Rakusen

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