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The Cuban dad who became a lifeline for Chernobyl's children

Manuel Barriuso was a medical translator in an historic humanitarian operation

• 29 mins

The sport I love damaged my brain

Former rugby player Alix Popham can't remember some of his finest moments on the pitch

• 36 mins

I hated the word 'albino'

Mala Bhargava learned to accept her white hair and skin when her face became famous

• 22 mins

The photoshoot that helped me grieve for my baby

A gifted photoshoot provided Ashley Jones comfort after her daughter died at 21 months

• 22 mins

The actress turning her back on Bollywood to follow her dad's dreams

Sonia Mann's father wrote her a letter on her birth, which has guided her life ever since

• 22 mins

The child labourer who became a star of Mexico's food scene

Eduardo Garcia picked fruit, then served time in prison, before achieving culinary fame

• 25 mins

Married to a psychopath: my husband鈥檚 double life

Mary Turner Thomson鈥檚 life took a chilling turn after meeting the 鈥減erfect鈥� man online

• 40 mins

The birthday gift that survived the Holocaust

In 1942 Sylvia Cohn wrote her daughter a book of poems. They're her "greatest treasure"

• 22 mins

Fear and fantasy TV in the siege of Aleppo

The Syrian medic who found solace in TV as he ran rebel Aleppo鈥檚 only children鈥檚 hospital

• 39 mins

The child spy and her secret agent parents

Sue-Ellen Doherty was trained by her parents to spy for Australia during the Cold War

• 39 mins

Abandoned at sea for three years

Sailor Vikash Mishra lived on a leaky cargo ship after its owners ran out of money

• 17 mins

From classical piano to rock stardom in Japan

Japanese rock star Yoshiki shares the personal story behind his songs

• 22 mins

The architect who lost his sight but gained a vision

Chris Downey went blind almost overnight, one month later he was back being an architect

• 23 mins

Spain's fearless barnacle-hunting sisters

Isabel and Susana Gonz谩lez risk their lives to collect barnacles along Spain's coastline

• 26 mins

Secrets & Lies: Lives destroyed online

Two unnerving stories about how quickly lies can spread online

• 40 mins

Secrets & Lies: What my parent hid from me

Two stories involving parents who concealed life-changing secrets from their children

• 40 mins

Secrets & Lies: The undercover operatives

Stories from a spy's daughter and Ghana's most famous undercover journalist

• 40 mins

Secrets & Lies: Lives lived in shame

Two stories of people who spent a lifetime denying who they were

• 39 mins

Secrets & Lies: The man who stole the President鈥檚 secrets

One writer risked prison to leak material about Uzbekistan's authoritarian former leader

• 26 mins

Secrets & Lies: Messages hidden in music

A trio of tales with a musical note

• 40 mins

Secrets & Lies: Fraudsters and forgers

The art of deception - two extraordinary stories

• 36 mins

Secrets & Lies: Imposters

The pop star and the 'fake heiress'

• 40 mins

Secrets & Lies: Family secrets

Two very different stories of family secrets exposed

• 42 mins

Secrets & Lies: China鈥檚 dissident cartoonist

Badiucao's double life and the price of operating in secret

• 26 mins

The break-up that cost me my voice

The triumphant return of Shirley Collins, the 'first lady' of English folk

• 40 mins

The bowl of porridge that changed my life

Elizabeth Nyamayaro was saved from starvation as a child by a UN aid worker in Zimbabwe

• 39 mins

Searching for a serial killer from my bedroom

Paul Haynes spent nearly a decade trying to catch the 'Golden State Killer'

• 38 mins

Bringing down a dictator

One lawyer鈥檚 perilous journey to bring a war criminal to justice

• 26 mins

Sin, sexuality and how Beyonc茅 became a lifeline

Writer Paul Mendez鈥檚 turbulent teenage life as a gay Jehovah鈥檚 Witness and RnB superfan

• 50 mins

Hunting for a monster in the desert

Palaeontologist Nizar Ibrahim searched the Sahara for a Spinosaurus dinosaur skeleton

• 17 mins