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A spy in the family

I was betrayed to the East German Secret Police

• 40 mins

The firefighting vets of Brazil

Carla Sassi and her team have been rescuing animals as wildfires burn around them

• 22 mins

Zero-gravity highs and history-making lows

Kathy Sullivan is a former US astronaut who has made history both at sea and in space

• 23 mins

The photo that exposed apartheid

The Soweto Uprisings and the story behind South Africa's most iconic photo.

• 26 mins

Fighting plastic pollution in paradise

How Kristal Ambrose rallied a group of kids to get a plastic ban in the Bahamas

• 22 mins

Speaking through music: Me and my non-verbal sister

Ian Brennan鈥檚 sister, who has Down's syndrome, taught him to communicate through music

• 23 mins

I learned my mum's identity via SMS

It would take My Huong decades to uncover the truth about her birth family in Vietnam

• 40 mins

My Falklands War: the woman with the white gloves

How a farmer ignored military threats and rallied her community to save injured soldiers

• 46 mins

Bonus podcast: The Conversation, 大象传媒 100 Women

Has the Covid-19 pandemic triggered change that could be seen as positive in the future?

• 49 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 sailor and the pirate king

Indian sailor Sudeep Choudhury was kidnapped at gunpoint by pirates in the Niger Delta

• 36 mins

The man behind Mindhunter: face to face with serial killers

John E. Douglas spent his FBI career speaking to some of America's most violent criminals

• 40 mins

The secretaries who inspired the hit movie 9 to 5

Karen Nussbaum is the co-founder of 9to5, a movement that gave rise to a box office smash

• 26 mins

Becoming 'brothers' with my guard in Guantanamo Bay

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

• 38 mins

The 'Supervet': from bullies to bionic limbs

Noel Fitzpatrick is an Irish vet who makes ground-breaking bionic limbs for injured pets

• 23 mins

Who do you think you are?

Stories of people whose identities were a mystery begging to be solved

• 40 mins

The epic Arabic poem that was born in a stable

Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh began writing Uruk's Anthem while imprisoned in a stable

• 22 mins

鈥淭he best ending to 2020鈥�

...that I can possibly imagine.鈥� It鈥檚 time for the 大象传媒 Inspirations Awards.

• 3 mins

Discovering Stalin's million-dollar wine cellar

Wine merchant John Baker on trying to buy Josef Stalin's secret wine collection

• 34 mins

The Godfather of Hollywood sound

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

• 26 mins

My music bus healing a gang divide

Justin Finlayson turned his London bus into a music studio to help at-risk young people

• 34 mins

Surviving civil war with a tracksuit and tennis racquet

Sam Jalloh, the barefoot player turned pro, coaches kids to achieve their tennis dreams

• 39 mins

The sisterhood vs the man who gave them HIV

Diane Reeve rallied together women who had contracted HIV from the same cheating lover

• 39 mins

After facing death row, the inmate who turned investigator

Sohail Yafat turned his miscarriage of justice into a fight for all prisoners in Pakistan

• 44 mins

The "five careers" of Bettye Lavette

Bettye Lavette was a teenage singing star. Five decades on, she's a star once more.

• 26 mins

My brother鈥檚 illness made me a 鈥渟ickle cell warrior鈥�

Tartania Brown is one of few sickle cell doctors in New York who also has the condition

• 39 mins

The family murder that launched our campaign

Brothers Luke and Ryan Hart are trying to change the conversation around domestic abuse

• 39 mins

The student who fought to pass Mexico鈥檚 historic 鈥榬evenge porn鈥� law

Ana Baquedano campaigned to change the law in Mexico after an ex shared her nude selfie

• 28 mins

How I became 鈥楳r Vaquita鈥�

Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho faces poachers and pirates to save the world's rarest marine mammal

• 26 mins

The tale of the little Countess's little cello

How a 180-year-old miniature cello shaped the musical dreams of two American girls

• 36 mins