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From homeless child to top firefighter

Sabrina Cohen Hatton survived homelessness to become a leading firefighter in the UK

• 15 mins

Sarajevo Siege - the band that drowned out the bombs

How do you get Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson to play in a warzone?

• 46 mins

The words that saved John Dwayne Bunn

A wrongfully convicted illiterate teenager found his freedom in books and letters

• 26 mins

The massacre that made me a mortician

Camilo Jaramillo survived a massacre and found solace in becoming a mortician

• 17 mins

Survivor 195: Taking down Larry Nassar

Elite US gymnast Rachel Haines was abused by convicted paedophile Larry Nassar for years

• 39 mins

The friendship born of murder

How the father of a victim became buddies with the killer's family

• 20 mins

Opioid crisis: the doctor who got addicted

Lou Ortenzio got addicted to opioids as he was prescribing them to his patients in the US

• 20 mins

How I turn prisoners into violin virtuosos

Tito Quiroz found himself in a tough Mexican prison, tasked with teaching music lessons

• 26 mins

The secrets uncovered by a body detective

Sue Black can tell from a cadaver what the deceased's mother ate during pregnancy

• 23 mins

The perfect stranger and the ice lake rescue

Timofey Yuriev was possibly the best person to save two dogs trapped in an icy lake

• 16 mins

What really happened on the 'Sex Raft'

The true story behind an infamous social experiment

• 21 mins

The heiress giving away her Disney fortune

Abigail Disney felt her family was ruined by the wealth from their Hollywood empire

• 22 mins

Elza Soares: invincible queen of samba

Singer Elza Soares survived poverty and public scandal to become a music legend in Brazil

• 26 mins

The designer who won’t wear yellow

Why China’s most famous fashion designer Guo Pei wasn’t allowed to wear yellow as a child

• 17 mins

I can't make long-term memories

Hum Fleming has epilepsy. A side effect means her memories mostly fade after six months

• 16 mins

'Honour' made my father a murderer

Amina’s father brutally attacked her and her sister for ‘shaming’ their Jordanian family

• 41 mins

I trained to be a surgeon when I couldn’t read or write

Ethiopian child bride Mamitu Gashe became a surgeon after she almost died in childbirth

• 16 mins

Interviewing Mumbai's Mafia Don

Journalist Hussain Zaidi risked everything to document his city's criminal underworld

• 26 mins

How to give up

Why extreme swimmer Beth French doesn’t regret giving up on her life’s ambition

• 23 mins

Aleppo: In love and under siege with a newborn

Filmmaker Waad and her medic husband, Hamza, documented their life during the Syrian war

• 19 mins

I’m more than my husband’s shameful crime

Maddie Corman stayed with her husband after he was caught with child abuse material

• 22 mins

Why I want combat armour made for women

Battlefield lawyer Rebecca Lipe’s campaign for US servicewomen to have better body armour

• 20 mins

The Welsh miner who made wrestling glamorous

Exotic Adrian Street received abuse for his flamboyant outfits - but they made him a star

• 26 mins

Looking for the Liberian sister I left behind

After fleeing Liberia, Helene Cooper later decided to return to find her sister

• 22 mins

Why an ex-jihadist embraced an Islamophobe

The friendship between a former extremist and a reformed anti-Islamist protester

• 38 mins

The song that helped me grieve

Music journalist Jayson Greene kept a grief journal after the death of his daughter

• 22 mins

The scientist in the treetops

Nalini Nadkarni is a tree canopy scientist who works with prisoners

• 13 mins

In bed with an assassin

Photographer Jason P. Howe had a relationship with a Colombian woman with a dark secret

• 26 mins

The amateur sleuth and the lost babies

Historian Catherine Corless uncovered a national scandal in Ireland

• 17 mins

Why I wrote an apology to myself

Playwright Eve Ensler’s father abused her. Writing his apology has helped her find peace

• 14 mins