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Keeping wrestling alive in Afghanistan

Teacher Abbas and his wrestling gym are back with a vengeance after a terror attack

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From homeless child to top firefighter

Sabrina Cohen Hatton survived homelessness to become a leading firefighter in the UK

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The words that saved John Dwayne

A wrongfully convicted illiterate teenager found his freedom in books and letters

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The massacre that made me a mortician

Camilo Jaramillo survived a massacre and found solace in becoming a mortician

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Survivor 195: Taking down Larry Nassar

Elite US gymnast Rachel Haines was abused by convicted paedophile Larry Nassar for years

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The friendship born of murder

How the father of a victim became buddies with the killer's family

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Opioid crisis: the doctor who got addicted

Lou Ortenzio got addicted to opioids as he was prescribing them to his patients in the US

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How I turn prisoners into violin virtuosos

Tito Quiroz found himself in a tough Mexican prison, tasked with teaching music lessons

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The secrets uncovered by a body detective

Sue Black can tell from a cadaver what the deceased's mother ate during pregnancy

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The perfect stranger and the ice lake rescue

Timofey Yuriev was possibly the best person to save two dogs trapped in an icy lake

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What really happened on the 'Sex Raft'

The true story behind an infamous social experiment

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The heiress giving away her Disney fortune

Abigail Disney felt her family was ruined by the wealth from their Hollywood empire

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Elza Soares: invincible queen of samba

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

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How menstrual blood became my political paint

After being jailed for her art, journalist Zehra DoÄŸan's paint supplies were confiscated

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I can't make long-term memories

Hum Fleming has epilepsy. A side effect means her memories mostly fade after six months

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'Honour' made my father a murderer

Amina’s father brutally attacked her and her sister for ‘shaming’ their Jordanian family

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I trained to be a surgeon when I couldn’t read or write

Ethiopian child bride Mamitu Gashe became a surgeon after she almost died in childbirth

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Interviewing Mumbai's Mafia Don

Journalist Hussain Zaidi risked everything to document his city's criminal underworld

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How to give up

Why extreme swimmer Beth French doesn’t regret giving up on her life’s ambition

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In love and under siege with a newborn

Filmmaker Waad and her medic husband, Hamza, documented their life during the Syrian war

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I’m more than my husband’s shameful crime

Maddie Corman’s husband was caught with child abuse material. Why she stayed with him

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Why I want combat armour made for women

Battlefield lawyer Rebecca Lipe’s campaign for US servicewomen to have better body armour

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The Welsh miner who made wrestling glamorous

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

• 26 mins

Looking for the Liberian sister I left behind

Civil war separated Helene Cooper from her sister. Years later she went back to find her

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Why an ex-jihadist embraced an Islamophobe

The friendship between a former extremist and a reformed anti-Islamist protester

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The song that helped me grieve

Music journalist Jayson Greene kept a grief journal after the death of his daughter

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How my jeans saved my life

Arne Murke used a trick he saw on television to save himself from drowning

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In bed with an assassin

Photographer Jason P. Howe had a relationship with a Colombian woman with a dark secret

• 26 mins

The amateur sleuth and the lost babies

Historian Catherine Corless uncovered a national scandal in Ireland

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Why I wrote an apology to myself

Playwright Eve Ensler’s father abused her. Writing his apology has helped her find peace

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