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The Godmother of Beirut's nightlife

Under the boot of the Syrian army, Nicole Moudaber brought raves to Lebanon

• 38 mins

Bringing home the prime minister鈥檚 gold tooth

Juliana Lumumba had to fight to reclaim the remains of her father, Patrice Lumumba.

• 38 mins

"My friends were arrested, or simply disappeared"

Tahir Izgil is a Uyghur poet who lived through a Chinese state clampdown

• 35 mins

38 days: a family adrift in the Pacific

The Robertsons' boat was attacked by killer whales and started to sink fast

• 46 mins

Love, Loss and 'Project 22'

Fleur Pierets and Julian Boom wanted to wed in every country that allowed gay marriage

• 41 mins

Brazil's loneliest fan and his footballing fairytale

Tiago Rech went viral when he was the only supporter in the stands at his club's game

• 38 mins

The fisherman and the 'spy whale'

Joar Hesten's mission to save a whale rumoured to have escaped from the Russian navy

• 40 mins

Becoming Gamal, part 1: Magic and misadventure

Gamal Turawa has lived many lives - but never fitted in

• 30 mins

Becoming Gamal, part 2: Behind the badge

Gamal Turawa has lived many lives - but never fitted in

• 27 mins

Unmasking my best friend

Reality TV producer Johnathan found himself in a plot he couldn't have dreamt up

• 37 mins

Introducing Amazing Sport Stories

Sport but not as you know it. A brand new sports storytelling podcast

• 3 mins

Scams and poetry in Moscow鈥檚 underbelly

Eric Ngalle Charles was just a teenager when he was trafficked from Cameroon to Russia

• 37 mins

An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning

How a book-loving prisoner showed a young Alex Wheatle the path to self-belief

• 41 mins

Love in the time of revolution, part 1

Pepe and Luc铆a: the guerrilla lovers who became the leaders of Uruguay

• 36 mins

Love in the time of revolution, part 2

Pepe and Luc铆a: the bonfire of young love, a long separation, and rise to presidency

• 36 mins

Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 1

Tasoula Hadjitofi uncovered a shady network looting her country's most sacred relics

• 38 mins

Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 2

Tasoula Hadjitofi tricked a notorious art smuggler to recover Cyprus' holiest relics

• 29 mins

Searching for the last man in the forest

Jair Candor tracks down remote Amazonian tribes in order to protect them from outsiders

• 35 mins

Discovering my mother was a Vietnamese rock'n'roll star

A chance email led Hannah Ha to uncover her mother Tam鈥檚 forgotten musical legacy

• 39 mins

A Libyan kidnapping and the words that brought us together

Lucy Sexton was making a TV series about hostages when her father Joe was abducted

• 43 mins

Trapped in an icy hell: my 72 day mountain escape

After crashing high in the Andes, Nando Parrado had to go to the extreme to get out

• 41 mins

My dad was Britain's 'most wanted'

Without realising it, Nick Reynolds had been living his childhood on the run

• 38 mins

Fugees Family: the football team who became my life

The extraordinary coach who started a football team but built something much bigger

• 43 mins

The Pacific odyssey of a runaway rebel

Ruth Shaw spent years on ships and islands, trying to outrun her past

• 40 mins

Going cold turkey in a Bangkok prison

Holly鈥檚 life was shaped by heroin addiction. At rock bottom, she finally got clean

• 41 mins

I cycled across Africa for a place at my dream university

A handwritten map is all Mamadou Barry had to guide him from Guinea to Egypt

• 42 mins

Behind the locked door

The Austrian house where a doctor experimented on children

• 48 mins

How to talk to guerillas

Leyner Palacios grew up around volatile armed groups so he learned to negotiate with them

• 37 mins

My grandmother walked the rabbit-proof fence

Maria's grandmother was forcibly taken by Australian officials, but made a daring escape

• 40 mins

Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud

Erika Cheung went from a trailer park to a top tech company job, but something was off

• 49 mins