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Surfing and sisterhood - making waves in Jamaica

How one of Jamaica鈥檚 top surfers Imani Wilmot empowers women to ride the tide

• 19 mins

The Great Escape of Bonga

Bonga Kuenda, the man who sang 鈥� and sprinted 鈥� for Angolan independence

• 25 mins

The woman who woke up in the future

Naomi Jacobs went to bed aged 32 but woke up thinking she was 15, her adult memories gone

• 43 mins

The rebel past of a Tibetan Lama

Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche reflects on a life of conflict, hedonism and disco dancing.

• 22 mins

The chess game that changed a homeless boy鈥檚 life

Tani Adewumi fled Nigeria and became a chess champion in New York at just eight years old

• 20 mins

The 'bride and groom of the Syrian revolution鈥�

Noura and Bassel's secret prison wedding and their struggle for freedom in Syria

• 23 mins

Sewing to protest in a Chilean prison camp

Student Cristina Zamora found courage in creativity when she was taken from her baby

• 26 mins

Disco and drama: The story of Ride on Time

Worldwide fame came at a moral price for an Italian DJ who made a huge 1980s dance hit

• 38 mins

The girl who cycled her father 1,200km to safety

When Covid hit, Jyoti Kumari and her injured dad had to return to their home village

• 23 mins

A descendant of chiefs: my long journey home

How Jesse Thistle, a homeless Indigenous man, found his identity and his calling

• 38 mins

The trans boxer learning the many ways to be a man

Thomas Page McBee wanted to understand the relationship between masculinity and violence

• 40 mins

My soldier dad's goodbye tape

How Tricia Davies Nearn got to know a father lost in war

• 30 mins

Becoming South Africa's first black rugby captain

Siya Kolisi's journey from a poor South African township to Rugby World Cup victory

• 24 mins

I bought a ghost town - then got trapped there

Brent Underwood was snowed in at an abandoned California mining town with a haunting past

• 24 mins

My father and our time machine

Creating a play for my theatre obsessed father, before he lost his memory

• 24 mins

The boldest human experiment of the last century?

Why eight people were sealed inside a glass dome in the Arizona desert in the 1990s

• 45 mins

Documenting my cellmates' names in blood and rust

Mansour Omari risked his life to record the names of his cellmates in a Syrian prison

• 23 mins

How the tigress of basketball fought back

Malebogo Molefhe rediscovered her love of basketball after being shot and paralysed

• 33 mins

Life without parole: Our fight for freedom

A mother鈥檚 life sentence for a drug offence and the young lawyer who promised to free her

• 58 mins

Vietnam's first family of rock 鈥榥鈥� roll

How a bunch of pre-teen kids became the biggest rock 'n' roll band in wartime Saigon

• 26 mins

My ancestors were both slaves and slave owners

How a black Victorian footballer led Malik Al Nasir to discover his own complex history

• 21 mins

Surviving a chemical attack by a doomsday cult

How a bag leaking sarin in Tokyo led Atsushi Sakahara to seek answers from a cult member

• 21 mins

"This is what a barrister looks like"

Alexandra Wilson is the young black woman changing the face of Britain鈥檚 legal system

• 35 mins

I discovered my dad was a best-selling sex writer

Dying of Alzheimer's, Ira Alterman asked his daughter to help him write his final books

• 26 mins

Ice Prince: The making of a Nigerian hip hop star

How personal loss and violent conflict shaped the career of Panshak Zamani aka Ice Prince

• 29 mins

My ancestors changed the lives of slaves in the US

Nettie Washington Douglass unites the bloodlines of two ex-slaves who became iconic names

• 22 mins

We found our baby on the subway

The couple who adopted a baby they found abandoned in a New York station

• 39 mins

Sarajevo Siege - the band that drowned out the bombs

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

• 39 mins

Why I didn鈥檛 make a sound for 12 years

Marie McCreadie on her agony becoming mute at 13 and her shock and joy learning the cause

• 26 mins

Abducted in war, saving lives in peace

Aminata Conteh-Biger was one of thousands of women abducted in Sierra Leone鈥檚 civil war

• 39 mins