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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

• 53 mins

The making of the 'Wish Man'

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

• 26 mins

The priest who came out at 91

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

• 53 mins

Joining the racist gang that tormented me

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

• 53 mins

The diver trapped inside an iceberg

Jill Heinerth was exploring submerged frozen caves when crisis hit

• 53 mins

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

• 26 mins

Why I love the woman who killed my son

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

• 53 mins

The inside story of a Muslim drag queen

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

• 53 mins

Finding the whale that nearly killed me

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

• 53 mins

Life as the UK's first black TV reporter

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

• 53 mins

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

• 26 mins

Remembrance 2019: Tales of love and war

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

• 53 mins

The street kid and the plastic camera

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

• 53 mins

Why my mother lied about her race

In her 40s Gail Lukasik discovered that her ‘white’ mother was in fact multiracial

• 53 mins

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

• 53 mins

The secret world of our dying son

Mats Steen found friendship and escape in an online fantasy land

• 26 mins

The treasure hunters

Stories of two very different men recovering lost and stolen treasures

• 53 mins

Pulling a plane doesn’t make me strong

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

• 53 mins

My parents' secret gay porn empire

Rachel and Josh Mason had no idea their unassuming parents ran an iconic gay porn shop

• 53 mins

The policewoman fighting fake news

Rema Rajeshwari is using storytelling to combat the spread of deadly rumours in India

• 53 mins

The heavy metal boys from the dump

The heavy metal band who grew up on Cambodia's biggest rubbish dump

• 26 mins

How hunger made me a top chef

Singaporean Ang Song Kang started working in a kitchen because he had no food at home.

• 44 mins

Girls don’t fight? I became a champion

As a child, May Ooi was not allowed to practise martial arts. She is now a champion.

• 44 mins

Sunburnt, starving and stranded at sea

John Low spent four days stranded at sea, with only a flotation ring to cling on to

• 44 mins

The man who makes Singapore laugh

Comedian Hossan Leong on how he kept smiling while facing a life threatening illness

• 44 mins

Giving birth during a genocide

The Rwandan woman whose waters broke as militia were attacking her family home

• 26 mins

My life as an undercover CIA agent: Part One

Before Amaryllis Fox was a CIA agent, she smuggled a rare interview out of Burma

• 53 mins

My life as an undercover CIA agent: Part Two

After being recruited by the CIA Amaryllis Fox became an undercover spy

• 53 mins

I was jailed for having a stillbirth

Teodora del Carmen Vásquez was jailed for murder after having a stillbirth in El Salvador

• 53 mins