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The Somali pirate tapes

Danish ship owner Per Gullestrup had to learn how to negotiate with Somali pirates

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The dark truth behind my songs

A murder-suicide devastated Allison Moorer鈥檚 youth but now inspires her country music

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Harvard Law School鈥檚 first deaf and blind graduate

While Haben Girma was at Harvard she developed new technology to help her communicate

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Fighting the apartheid my grandfather created

Wilhelm Verwoerd's grandfather was the prime minister of South Africa in the 1960s

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Footballer Mark Bright: What I鈥檝e learnt about love

What British player Mark Bright learnt from being fostered as a young child

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I believed I was my dead sister

After Gail Gallant鈥檚 sister died, her mother told Gail she was her sister reborn

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The murder that stopped me writing crime fiction

Fact and fiction blurred for Danish writer Mads Peder Nordbo when he came across a murder

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Don鈥檛 call me the 'Indiana Jones' of Syria

Amr al-Azm leads a network of archaeologists battling to save Syria鈥檚 monuments

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The family story that became a TV novela

A Brazilian tale of love, betrayal and revenge

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The barefoot tennis player who turned pro

Sam Jalloh鈥檚 war-torn journey to becoming a top tennis player in Sierra Leone

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Finding the perfect hairdresser changed two lives

Troy Winget and Andrea Quint Fleck found there was more between them than a good haircut

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Why I risked my life to present a TV show

Presenter Mozhdah Jamalzadah鈥檚 focus on women鈥檚 rights made her some dangerous enemies

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Shooting hoops in South Sudan

Malat Wei and Jess Markt are taking wheelchair basketball and their story to South Sudan

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The hunt for a calypso king's lost music

Costa Rica's 100-year-old calypso king and the worldwide search for his lost recordings

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Inventing a surgery to cure myself

Doug Lindsay鈥檚 mystery illness baffled doctors, so he had to cure himself

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2020: The power of sight

Three fascinating stories about vision

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The Godfather of Hollywood sound

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

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Making horse-racing history in a hijab

Teenager Khadijah Mellah became the first Muslim woman to ride and win in Britain

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The Welsh miner who made wrestling glamorous

"Exotic Adrian Street" got abuse for his flamboyant outfits - but they made him a star

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I prayed to God to make me a girl

Abby Stein grew up in a Hasidic family and was born male but she felt she was a girl

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My nightmares about the policeman who framed me

Winston Trew was falsely accused of stealing and spent 50 years trying to clear his name

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The pianist who learnt to play on a paper piano

Andrew Garrido鈥檚 family couldn鈥檛 afford a piano so he taught himself on a drawn keyboard

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How I built a billion dollar business

Janice Bryant Howroyd is the first African-American woman to run a billion dollar company

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The first beauty queen in a free South Africa

Basetsana Kumalo was crowned Miss South Africa after the country's first democratic vote

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鈥業鈥檓 going to say sorry to the whales鈥�

Vittorio Fabris鈥� treacherous journey from Venice to Nantucket was inspired by Moby Dick

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Forced to teach in a 鈥榬e-education鈥� camp

Sayragul Sauytbay says she was made to work in a detention camp for Chinese Muslims

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I was shot while performing a vasectomy

Dr Andrew Rynne, an Irish contraceptive pioneer, was attacked by a disgruntled ex-patient

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Life as a lone identical twin

David Loftus on rebuilding his life after the tragic death of his twin brother

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The black woman who cared for a Klansman

The temping job that took a young African-American woman into the home of a KKK member

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The virtuoso musician detained as a child

South African double bassist Leon Bosch was arrested for protesting against apartheid

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