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From child bride to literary sensation

Indian writer Baby Halder overcame difficult circumstances to become a global best-seller

• 20 mins

Signing to save lives in the Australian bushfires

Sean Sweeney interprets major emergency announcements into sign language

• 19 mins

Thai cave doctor: 'I feared I'd killed them'

Richard Harris anaesthetised the trapped boys believing they had no chance of survival

• 38 mins

The choir without vocal cords

The Belgian chorister turned doctor who conducts a choir for people without vocal cords

• 46 mins

Befriending a princess - and helping her escape

In 2018, Tiina Jauhianen agreed to help her close friend Sheikha Latifa escape from Dubai

• 25 mins

Akram Khan: from curry to choreography

Celebrated dancer Akram Khan’s first stage was his family's Indian restaurant

• 18 mins

Bringing music to people in pain

´óÏó´«Ã½ Inspirations 2018 nominee Jorge Bergero plays between concert halls and care homes

• 21 mins

Once upon a time in Wakaliwood

´óÏó´«Ã½ Inspirations 2016 nominee Isaac Nabwana is known as 'Uganda's Tarantino'

• 22 mins

A Syrian love story that started with a resume

The social media call out for CV advice that resulted in an online wedding

• 26 mins

'I stopped talking - but then I found music'

Music writer Pete Paphides developed selective mutism as a child

• 18 mins

'I fight hate with a pocketbook of peace'

Kia Scherr lost her husband and child in the 2008 Mumbai attacks - she grieved with love

• 23 mins

Radio in Italy's coronavirus red zone

83-year-old Pino Pagani is a radio presenter in the virus-hit town of Codogno

• 7 mins

My love letter ticket out of Venezuela

José Gregorio Márquez won a love letter contest - with a letter to his neighbourhood

• 22 mins

The violin maker's salvation

Hans Benning found love through his work repairing the world's most priceless instruments

• 26 mins

How to thrive in isolation

These scientists cut themselves off from society to carry out research

• 17 mins

My close encounters with Escobar’s hippos

Jonathan Shurin studies the ecological effects of hippos once owned by the drug lord

• 15 mins

Crowns and controversy at Miss World 1970

Jennifer Hosten became the first black Miss World at a particularly historical ceremony

• 22 mins

I fled North Korea for playing the wrong song

Pianist Kim Cheol-woong defected from North Korea after playing a western song

• 22 mins

How I turn prisoners into violin virtuosos

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

• 26 mins

My life as a frontline doctor in Afghanistan

Marzia Salam Yaftali on dealing with the Taliban, misogyny and the threat of coronavirus

• 23 mins

Inside the mind of a teenage neo-Nazi

Former neo-Nazi leader Christian Picciolini now helps people escape extremist groups

• 38 mins

My Fiancé – Jamal Khashoggi

Hatice Cengiz was engaged to journalist Jamal Khashoggi when his death shocked the world.

• 21 mins

My patients fought Aids, I fought the system

Cliff Morrison pioneered a new way to care for Aids patients as a nurse in San Francisco

• 23 mins

The school teacher who couldn’t read

John Corcoran worked as a teacher for 17 years - even though he couldn’t read

• 26 mins

Coming out made me a world-class rugby referee

Nigel Owens survived a suicide attempt before accepting his sexuality and finding success

• 23 mins

How to home-school: Lessons from Bolivia and Alaska

Brisa de Angulo set up her first school when she was 14 years old

• 32 mins

Why I thought my baby had devil’s eyes

Catherine Cho had been a mother for two months when she experienced post-partum psychosis

• 32 mins

The NYC doctor hiding his fear fighting Covid-19

Rob Gore is a doctor working with coronavirus patients in New York

• 23 mins

Literary SOS

Sally Bayley was rejected by her family but eventually found solace in Shakespeare

• 26 mins

I believe my dog’s nose saved my life

Psychologist Claire Guest had a special bond with her dog that may have saved her life

• 23 mins