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The uncomfortable truth hidden in my DNA

Hiram Johnson embarked on a quest to solve a family mystery

• 26 mins

A star is gone: Judy Garland's last act

Behind the scenes at Judy Garland鈥檚 final UK shows with the woman who got her on stage

• 26 mins

A tale of two video games

The creators behind one of the best and one of the worst computer games ever made

• 23 mins

The Somali pirate tapes

Danish ship owner Per Gullestrup had to learn how to negotiate with Somali pirates

• 30 mins

The dark truth behind my songs

A murder-suicide devastated Allison Moorer鈥檚 youth but now inspires her country music

• 36 mins

Harvard Law School鈥檚 first Deafblind graduate

While Haben Girma was at Harvard she developed new technology to help her communicate

• 18 mins

Fighting the apartheid my grandfather created

Wilhelm Verwoerd's grandfather was the prime minister of South Africa in the 1960s

• 26 mins

Footballer Mark Bright: What I鈥檝e learnt about love

What British player Mark Bright learnt from being fostered as a young child

• 21 mins

I believed I was my dead sister

After Gail Gallant鈥檚 sister died, her mother told Gail she was her sister reborn

• 23 mins

The murder that stopped me writing crime fiction

Fact and fiction blurred for writer Mads Peder Nordbo when he came across a murder

• 21 mins

Don鈥檛 call me the 'Indiana Jones' of Syria

Amr al-Azm leads a network of archaeologists battling to save Syria鈥檚 monuments

• 39 mins

Why I announced I had cancer, on the radio

DJ Mark Radcliffe tells us why he told listeners he had cancer, live on his radio show

• 19 mins

The family story that became a TV novela

A Brazilian tale of love, betrayal and revenge

• 26 mins

The barefoot tennis player who turned pro

Sam Jalloh鈥檚 war-torn journey to becoming a top tennis player in Sierra Leone

• 22 mins

Finding the perfect hairdresser changed two lives

Troy Winget and Andrea Quint Fleck found there was more between them than a good haircut

• 16 mins

Why I risked my life to present a TV programme

Presenter Mozhdah Jamalzadah鈥檚 focus on women鈥檚 rights made her some dangerous enemies

• 39 mins

Shooting hoops in South Sudan

Malat Wei and Jess Markt are taking wheelchair basketball and their story to South Sudan

• 17 mins

The hunt for a calypso king's lost music

Costa Rica's 100-year-old calypso king and the worldwide search for his lost recordings

• 24 mins

Inventing a surgery to cure myself

Doug Lindsay鈥檚 mystery illness baffled doctors, so he had to cure himself

• 38 mins

2020 The power of sight

'Seeing' maths; changing how the world sees you; and helping to restore sight.

• 40 mins

The Godfather of Hollywood sound

Walter Murch is a superstar sound designer. His ingenuity transformed cinema forever

• 23 mins

Making horse-racing history in a hijab

Teenager Khadijah Mellah became the first Muslim woman to ride and win in Britain

• 15 mins

The Welsh miner who made wrestling glamorous

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

• 26 mins

I prayed to God to make me a girl

Abby Stein grew up in a Hasidic family and was born male but she felt she was a girl

• 23 mins

My nightmares about the policeman who framed me

Winston Trew was falsely accused of stealing and spent 50 years trying to clear his name

• 19 mins

The pianist who learnt to play on a paper piano

Andrew Garrido鈥檚 family couldn鈥檛 afford a piano so he taught himself on a paper keyboard

• 20 mins

How I built a billion dollar business

Janice Bryant Howroyd: the first African-American woman to run a billion dollar company

• 20 mins

The first beauty queen in a free South Africa

Basetsana Kumalo was crowned Miss South Africa after the country's first democratic vote

• 26 mins

鈥業鈥檓 going to say sorry to the whales鈥�

Vittorio Fabris鈥� treacherous journey from Venice to Nantucket was inspired by Moby Dick.

• 14 mins

Forced to teach in a 鈥榬e-education鈥� camp

Sayragul Sauytbay says she was made to work in a detention camp for Chinese Muslims

• 29 mins