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Hawa Abdi: saving thousands in Somalia

Somali doctor Hawa Abdi, who's provided healthcare and shelter to thousands

• 55 mins

Max Holmes: The River Doctor

Max Holmes, the River Doctor: how water tells us about the planet's health

• 55 mins

Driving Mrs Thatcher

Denis Oliver remembers his fourteen years as Mrs Thatcher's official driver.

• 55 mins

Our Khat-free Wedding

The Yemeni couple who caused controversy by banning the stimulant khat at their wedding

• 55 mins

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on life in US

Matthew Bannister speaks to Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngosi Adichie.

• 55 mins

Lebanese TV star: my life after the bomb

The TV anchor who lost an arm and a leg in a bomb attack in Lebanon

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Jody Williams Nobel Prize winner

The woman who campaigned to get landmines banned

• 55 mins

Waco Survivor 20 Years On

A survivor recalls the end of the Waco siege in Texas in which over 70 people died in 1993

• 55 mins

Haifa Zangana: Tortured in Iraqi Jail

Iraqi novelist Haifa Zangana explains why she fights for women imprisoned in Iraq

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Working For Our Lost Sons

How two mothers, inspired by grief, dedicated their lives to eradicating Malaria and HIV

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Afghan woman pilot takes baby to work

Latifa Nabizada flies military helicopters in one of the most dangerous parts of the world

• 55 mins

Dhaka: I Cut Off Limbs to Save Victims

Heroic Didar Hossain rescued 34 people from the collapsed Bangladeshi garment factory

• 55 mins

My Childhood Friend, the Rapist

South African radio host Redi Tlhabi on her childhood friendship with a gangster & rapist

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Ahmed Errachidi: My Five Years at Guantanamo

The Moroccan chef who led protests in Guantanamo Bay prison

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Boston bomb: The dancer who lost a leg

Adrianne gets advice from a British dancer who had a similar experience.

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ABBA: Björn

We turned down a billion dollars

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Raising a Child Genius

Jacob Barnett was diagnosed with autism; now aged 14, he is tipped for a Nobel prize

• 55 mins

Angelique Kidjo: African Diva

The diva educating women in Africa; Guatemalan lawyer who witnessed his family's killing

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Face to Face with Khmer Rouge Killer

Rithy Panh survived the Khmer Rouge regime and devoted his life to documenting it on film.

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Finding Hope in Son's Murder

The parents of murdered schoolboy Jimmy Mizen on helping other teenagers in their area

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Muhammad Yunus: Banker to the Poor

How economist Muhammad Yunus became a pioneer for microcredit and Nobel Peace Prize winner

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I Forgave My Mother's Killer

The Rwandan genocide survivor who came face to face with his mother's killer.

• 55 mins

Kept In a Hole By The Taliban

Pierre Borghi, a French photographer, spent five months chained up in holes underground

• 55 mins

"Cut off my hand and save me"

Aanna Akhter was trapped in the wreckage of Dhaka's Rana Plaza garment factory.

• 55 mins

Peter Hillary: In My Father's Footsteps

We speak to Peter Hillary, son of Sir Edmund Hillary, about his own amazing adventures.

• 55 mins

Put down the gun, pick up the pen

America's First Lady has praised her: the Somali human rights activist Fartuun Adan.

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Return to the Amazon to find my mum

David Good is the son of an American anthropologist and a woman from the Yanomami tribe.

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Ramphele: Anti-Apartheid Activist

We speak to Mamphela Ramphele, the South African activist and Steve Biko's partner.

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Doctor Wrongly Accused of Murder

How eminent South African cancer specialist Cyril Karabus was wrongly arrested for murder

• 55 mins

Father and Son's Fight Against the Mafia

Italians Nino and Giuseppe de Masi on their decades-long fight against the mafia

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