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The male countertenor who replaced a leading lady

Polish singer Jakub Jozef Orlinski is something of a rarity in the operatic world

• 17 mins

An unlikely friendship in Guantanamo Bay

How a Mauritanian inmate and an American guard were brought together by a movie

• 47 mins

Building a hospital on a rubbish dump

Aged 82, Edna Adan Ismail works 14 hour days in a Somaliland hospital she fought to build

• 13 mins

Forgiving myself after killing a classmate

Lis Cashin accidentally killed a friend with a javelin and spent years overcoming guilt

• 23 mins

Why I thanked the man who shot me

Wesley Hamilton says that getting shot was 鈥渢he best thing that ever happened to me鈥�

• 23 mins

How Springsteen became my lifeline

The working class British-Pakistani teen who found a musical hero in The Boss

• 32 mins

Spain's fearless barnacle-hunting sisters

Isabel and Susana Gonz谩lez risk their lives to collect barnacles along Spain's coastline

• 26 mins

'If you want to live, squeeze my hand'

How scientist Steffanie Strathdee saved her husband from a deadly superbug

• 21 mins

Keeping my country's burned past alive

How Brazilians are coping with the loss of the National Museum and their history

• 21 mins

From homeless kid to hero of Africa's biggest slum

Kennedy Odede is known by some as the unofficial mayor of Kibera

• 22 mins

The love story behind a lost Leonardo

How a long-lost painting was restored, attributed to da Vinci and sold for $450,000,000

• 23 mins

The boy, the wish and the nuclear weapons

Why a terminally ill teenager went to the Soviet Union to broker a nuclear peace deal

• 26 mins

How not to be a rock star

Cora Bissett got a five album deal when she was just 17, but then faced a huge backlash

• 18 mins

Dr Palipana, the quadriplegic ER medic

How a car accident turned Dinesh Palipana into a quadriplegic emergency doctor

• 19 mins

I raised 1,000 children but gave my own away

Sindhutai Sapkal is known as the 鈥榤other of orphans鈥�, but had to give her own child away

• 17 mins

The acid attack meant for someone else

Andreas Christopheros had acid thrown in his face in a case of mistaken identity

• 22 mins

Discovering my 鈥榤um鈥� stole me at birth

In 1997 a baby is stolen from a Cape Town hospital, 17 years later she learns the truth

• 26 mins

How I fixed my own brain

Sarah Vallance鈥檚 fight to put her life together after suffering traumatic brain injury

• 20 mins

The TV action hero fighting bullies

Why German action star Carsten Stahl became an anti-bullying crusader

• 14 mins

Modern birth: Why I gave my sister my womb

Lolita W盲sterlund was born without a uterus, so her sister Linda offered up hers

• 37 mins

Modern birth: The fertility doctor who impregnated his patients

Matthew White and Heather Woock found out they were siblings and uncovered a scandal

• 39 mins

Modern birth: Having a dead man鈥檚 baby

Liat Malka fulfilled a dead man鈥檚 dream of having a baby by using his sperm and IVF

• 23 mins

Modern birth: The man who had a baby

Freddy McConnell is a transgender man who decided to have a baby

• 27 mins

'Honey, I brought home a crocodile'

Gilberto 鈥楥hito鈥� Shedden adopted a wild crocodile in Costa Rica

• 17 mins

I defaced a picture of Assad and knew I had to flee

Reading Virginia Woolf inspired a Syrian woman to lead protests against the president

• 22 mins

My partner killed our baby

Hera McLeod has used her grief and anger to become an advocate for child protection

• 32 mins

Derren Brown: the magician鈥檚 secrets

Illusionist Derren Brown听on how he used magic to overcome his social awkwardness

• 22 mins

The false confessions of a serial killer

Thomas Quick was Sweden鈥檚 most notorious serial killer. Then he retracted his confessions

• 26 mins

Scammed by my friend, the fake heiress

Rachel DeLoache Williams was conned out of tens of thousands of dollars by Anna Sorokin

• 24 mins

Learning to sing by copying divas on DVDs

Rising star Vuvu Mpufo discovered opera as a teenager at her home in South Africa

• 17 mins