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Bringing music to people in pain

´óÏó´«Ã½ Inspirations 2018 nominee Jorge Bergero plays between concert halls and care homes

• 53 mins

Once upon a time in Wakaliwood

´óÏó´«Ã½ Inspirations 2016 nominee Isaac Nabwana is known as 'Uganda's Tarantino'

• 53 mins

A Syrian love story that started with a resume

The social media call out for CV advice that resulted in an online wedding

• 26 mins

Breaking Ghana's mental health shackles

Nurse Stephen Asante helps patients in remote areas - who are sometimes chained to trees

• 53 mins

'I fight hate with a pocketbook of peace'

Kia Scherr lost her husband and child in the 2008 Mumbai attacks - she grieved with love

• 53 mins

Radio in Italy's coronavirus red zone

83-year-old Pino Pagani is a radio presenter in the virus-hit town of Codogno

• 53 mins

My love letter ticket out of Venezuela

José Gregorio Márquez won a love letter contest - with a letter to his neighbourhood

• 53 mins

The violin maker's salvation

Hans Benning found love through his work repairing the world's most priceless instruments

• 26 mins

My son, the pop concert, and the law in his name

Figen Murray's son Martyn was killed in the Manchester Arena bombing of 2017

• 44 mins

My close encounters with Escobar's hippos

Jonathan Shurin studies the ecological effects of hippos once owned by the drug lord

• 44 mins

Crowns and controversy at Miss World 1970

Jennifer Hosten became the first black Miss World at a particularly historical ceremony

• 44 mins

I fled North Korea for playing the wrong song

Pianist Kim Cheol-woong defected after being interrogated for playing a western song

• 44 mins

How I turn prisoners into violin virtuosos

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

• 26 mins

My life as a frontline doctor in Afghanistan

Marzia Salam Yaftali on dealing with the Taliban, misogyny and the threat of coronavirus

• 44 mins

Inside the mind of a teenage neo-Nazi

Former neo-Nazi leader Christian Picciolini now helps people escape extremist groups

• 44 mins

My Fiancé – Jamal Khashoggi

Hatice Cengiz was engaged to journalist Jamal Khashoggi when his death shocked the world

• 40 mins

My patients fought Aids, I fought the system

Cliff Morrison pioneered a new way to care for Aids patients as a nurse in San Francisco

• 44 mins

The school teacher who couldn’t read

John Corcoran worked as a teacher for 17 years even though he couldn’t read

• 26 mins

Coming out made me a world-class rugby referee

Nigel Owens survived a suicide attempt before accepting his sexuality and finding success

• 44 mins

How home-schooling shaped me

Brisa de Angulo set up her first school when she was 14 years old.

• 44 mins

Why I thought my baby had devil’s eyes

Catherine Cho had been a mother for two months when she experienced post-partum psychosis

• 40 mins

The NYC doctor hiding his fear fighting Covid-19

Rob Gore is a doctor working with coronavirus patients in New York

• 44 mins

Literary SOS

Sally Bayley was rejected by her family but eventually found solace in Shakespeare

• 26 mins

I believe my dog’s nose saved my life

Psychologist Claire Guest had a special bond with her dog that may have saved her life

• 44 mins

Why I dive on my birthday

How diver Cliff Devries got back in the water after being paralysed from the neck down

• 44 mins

The lightning bolt that made me a music maestro

Tony Cicoria developed an obsession with classical music after he was struck by lightning

• 40 mins

Stranded in the jungle on our honeymoon

It began when Holly Fitzgerald and her husband Fitz’s plane crash-landed in Peru…

• 44 mins

Hiding the truth behind my NFL stardom

New England Patriots star Ryan O'Callaghan used football as a cover for his sexuality

• 26 mins

My revolutionary 70s summer camp

Jim LeBrecht remembers a revolutionary summer camp in the 1970s for disabled teenagers

• 44 mins

I turned my cleaning obsession into a hit business

Trauma led Lynsey Crombie to compulsive cleaning but now she’s sharing her skills on TV

• 44 mins