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Hamilton: overcoming hearing loss to make its music

Alex Lacamoire collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda to create the epic sound of Hamilton

• 40 mins

We risked our lives to save my brother's heart

Hamed Amiri鈥檚 family fled from Afghanistan to get a heart operation for his brother

• 24 mins

Dynamo: turning illness into magic

Crohn's disease has hampered the world-famous magician all his life

• 26 mins

The deserted island and the lost graves

Carina Hoang and her siblings ended up stranded on an island in the South China Sea

• 39 mins

Fire and justice: my life after Grenfell

Antonio Roncolato was one of the last survivors to escape London鈥檚 Grenfell Tower fire

• 39 mins

Touched by magic

Magicians who used their craft to overcome social awkwardness, sexism and bullying

• 40 mins

Ups and downs in a vertical world

Ian Powell is a climbing hold designer who rebuilt his life after years of drug addiction

• 22 mins

I played violin during my brain surgery

Dagmar Turner played to prevent any damage to her violin skills

• 35 mins

The adventurer鈥檚 son who went missing in the jungle

When adventurer Roman Dial's son went missing, he set out to find him

• 24 mins

"Look after her" - the story of a hidden WW2 child

Lien de Jong was a Jewish child who hid during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands

• 32 mins

Caring for my dying father made me a better doctor

Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor. When her dad got ill her work became personal

• 39 mins

The mystery of Ecuador's lost mastertapes

An eccentric grandfather and an old suitcase of songs and secret loves

• 30 mins

A girl on the run and a girl with no name

Two listeners share extraordinary personal stories

• 39 mins

The trailblazing nurse who began life in care

How Elizabeth Anionwu went from life in a children's home to becoming a medical pioneer

• 39 mins

Rufus Wainwright: My music and my mother

Born into folk music royalty Rufus took special inspiration from his mum Kate McGarrigle

• 36 mins

The literary heroes that helped me cope as a carer

When Sam Mills became a carer for her schizophrenic father, fiction became her lifeline

• 37 mins

Greg Louganis: the Death-Defying Diver

Blood, gold and secrets at the Olympic pool.

• 29 mins

The unmaking of a boy soldier

As a boy, Ishmael Beah was forced to kill. How do you turn a soldier back into a child?

• 39 mins

Chimps taught me how to be a mother

Dr Jane Goodall's work with chimps has revolutionalised our understanding of primates

• 22 mins

The day the music stopped

Violinist Min Kym was at the height of her career when her priceless violin was stolen

• 39 mins

Why I talk to warlords

Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda negotiates with warlords for the release of child soldiers

• 40 mins

My Dad, Muhammad Ali

What is it like to be the daughter of a man who called himself The Greatest?

• 26 mins

The secret surrogate

I didn't tell my child I'm a surrogate mum

• 24 mins

Mean streets to sporting elite

Racism, gang life and the quest to build America's first black high school rowing team

• 48 mins

How did this diver cheat death?

Diver Chris Lemons was trapped on the North Sea bed for around 35 minutes without air

• 35 mins

Making movies helped me heal after my dad's murder

Rwandan director Jo毛l Karekezi explores the trauma he experienced during the 1994 genocide

• 29 mins

Attila the Nun

Arlene Violet, the American nun who took on the mob

• 26 mins

The coral crusaders: finding beauty in a murky world

How two punk rocker best friends created the world's first urban reef webcam

• 20 mins

Name, shame and jail: Ghana's undercover journalist

Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas uses some impressive disguises to go undercover.

• 24 mins

23 years longing to find my mum

Omar and Hassan Mohamed are two Somali brothers who never stopped looking for their mum

• 39 mins