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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

Elza Soares: invincible queen of samba

Singer Elza Soares survived poverty and public scandal to become a music legend in Brazil

• 26 mins

Why I made a film in which I kill my dad

When Kirsten Johnson鈥檚 dad got dementia she found an unusual way to cope

• 39 mins

My husband came back from the dead

How an accident and a case of mistaken identity changed one couple's lives forever

• 22 mins

Seven songs to mourn seven black men

Joel Thompson is behind a composition about the killing of black men in the USA

• 31 mins

The rebel musicians fighting India鈥檚 caste system

The Casteless Collective is a protest band who challenge caste oppression through song

• 21 mins

The video that turned our lives upside down

When a mum hit record on her son crying she couldn't have predicted the global reaction

• 22 mins

Defending my dream cost my mother her life

Two-time US poet laureate Natasha Trethewey turned to poetry after her mother's murder

• 23 mins

I ran with the men, and changed history

Kathrine Switzer was attacked for running in the men-only 1967 Boston Marathon

• 40 mins

Tasting the desert with Chile's leading forager

Patricia P茅rez sells the rare herbs she finds in the Atacama desert to Chile's top chefs

• 15 mins

Moana: the Polynesian family behind the smash hit songs

Musician Opetaia Foa'i fought for the Disney movie to stay true to Pacific culture

• 23 mins

The match-making tree and other tales of unexpected romance

From the world's most romantic postbox to a persecuted couple鈥檚 perilous ocean voyage

• 40 mins

The Beninese singer hustling for success in New York

Shirazee endured homelessness and a threat of deportation as he pursued his music dreams

• 22 mins