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Curing my own deadly disease

David Fajgenbaum was nicknamed 'the beast' before he became ill with a deadly disease

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Mental Health Day: Dancing and delusions

Dancer Kevin Turner and his mum Avis tell us how they coped with his bipolar disorder

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How Superman saved my life

Screenwriter Joe Straczynski wished for a hero to rescue him from his abusive childhood

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The Afghan physio who survived a landmine

Shukrullah Zeerak wanted to help others after he lost his leg in a landmine explosion

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How we pulled off 'the rescue of the century'

Vernon Unsworth oversaw the huge operation to save 12 Thai schoolboys trapped in a cave.

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Shari Ho from Taiwan was sold as a slave by her father when she was just seven years old

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How cooking landed me in a Syrian prison

Chef Majeda Khouri got arrested for cooking food for displaced people in Damascus

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The painful secret I hid from my twin

When Alex lost his memories his identical twin helped him restore them, or some of them

• 26 mins

My child and spouse came out as trans

The story of how a family coped with two seismic revelations and are now closer than ever

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I stole a plane to escape the military

53 years ago Theo Van Eijck flew from Malta to Libya to start a new life

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The rescue dog that rescued me

Sean Laidlaw rescued Barrie from Syria in 2018 and now she helps him to overcome his PTSD

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The struggle of Soweto's 'Lion King'

It was a long road to the recording studio for Lebo M who wrote songs for the hit movie

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The making of the 'Wish Man'

How a poor boy who was abandoned by his mother grew up to grant children鈥檚 dying wishes

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The priest who came out at 91

After a life of hiding his sexuality, former priest Stanley Underhill finally feels free

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Joining the racist gang that tormented me

Actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje joined a racist gang as a teenager for his own protection

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The diver trapped inside an iceberg

Jill Heinerth was exploring submerged frozen caves when crisis hit

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The rebel lawyer transforming Malaysia

Cecil Rajendra set up the first legal aid clinics in shacks

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The 'deepest man on earth'

Herbert Nitsch broke the record for deepest free dive but fell asleep on the way back up

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Why I love the woman who killed my son

Tiki Finlayson forgave the woman who killed her son in a drink-driving accident

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The inside story of a Muslim drag queen

Amrou al-Kadhi on their complex identity - Muslim, gay, non-binary drag queen

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Finding the whale that nearly killed me

The epic search for the whale that landed on a filmmaker鈥檚 kayak and changed his life

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Life as the UK's first black TV reporter

Broadcasting legend Sir Trevor McDonald looks back on his life and career

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A mother's battle for her son's education

At risk of losing her son Virginia Walden Ford fought to change the US education system

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Remembrance 2019: Tales of love and war

Remarkable stories of war, its impact on people鈥檚 lives and the love that transcends it

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The street kid and the plastic camera

Photographer Vicky Roy got his break taking photos of his friends on the streets of Delhi

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Why my mother lied about her race

In her 40s Gail Lukasik discovered that her 鈥榳hite鈥� mother was in fact multiracial

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Confronting my grandma and my nation over FGM

Ifrah Ahmed went through FGM as a child. Now she fights to ban the practice in Somalia

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The secret world of our dying son

Mats Steen found friendship and escape in an online fantasy land

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The treasure hunters

Stories of two very different men recovering lost and stolen treasures

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Pulling a plane doesn鈥檛 make me strong

How police officer Grant Edwards, once Australia鈥檚 strongest man, faced his inner trauma

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