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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鈥檚 father abused her. Writing his apology has helped her find peace

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My children were injected with HIV

Jennifer Merry鈥檚 haemophiliac sons were infected by contaminated blood in a UK hospital

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My dream of ballooning over Iraq

Murtada al-Hachimi fought for years to organise a hot air balloon festival in Iraq

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The Cuban aristocrat with a revolutionary secret

Natalia Bolivar, a rich socialite, used her high class status to help topple a dictator

• 26 mins

The secrets of a Soweto chef鈥檚 success

Fine dining chef Lesego Semenya is on a mission to kick snobbery out of Joburg鈥檚 kitchens

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Risking it all to save a stranger

The undocumented migrant and Joburg's viral river rescue

• 44 mins

Born the wrong colour - so I had to die

A South African woman who discovered a letter that revealed the shame around her birth

• 44 mins

Raising my baby in a Thai prison

A Miss South Africa contestant jailed in Thailand, facing the death penalty and pregnant

• 44 mins

The laws of love

Jim Obergefell fought for the legalisation of same sex marriage in the USA.

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The war in Iraq and the war inside my head

US marine Zach Skiles reluctantly took part in the invasion of Iraq

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The online post designed to ruin my life

How a scandalous lie made Monika Glennon fight back against anonymous internet trolls

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The failed escape and the 鈥榮tolen鈥� son

After a disastrous effort to flee East Germany, Andreas Laake was set on finding his son

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My dad the unlikely meth dealer

James Lubbock watched his dad transform from clean-living family man to major drug-dealer

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The man who stole the president's secrets

One writer risked prison to leak material about Uzbekistan's authoritarian former leader

• 26 mins

Becoming a star: the busker with albinism

Lazarus Chigwandali went from performing on the streets of Malawi to working with Madonna

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The child who saved my life 鈥� and vanished

The story of an 11-year-old Iraqi girl and the man whose life she inadvertently saved

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My Mormon mum, my gay rights hero

Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black鈥檚 mum inspired him to fight for marriage equality

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Overcoming IS terror with books

Dr Alaa Hamdon is on a mission to rebuild a library destroyed by the Islamic State group

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Looking inside the minds of serial killers

As an FBI agent John E. Douglas interviewed serial killers to understand the criminal mind

• 26 mins

Thrown overboard: A stowaway's survival

The extraordinary story of Jemal Damtawe, an Eritrean man who spent a lifetime on the run

• 53 mins

The unmasking of China's secret cartoonist

Badiucao has paid a high price for the dissident cartoons he made in secret

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The frontline doctor's dilemma

Dr. Jean Gody worked to keep the CAR's only children's hospital open during war

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My fugitive dad made me get a nose job

Margo Perin has spent years unravelling her mysterious childhood and her family's secrets

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How hunting a murderer nearly killed me

The horror of interviewing and hunting serial killers nearly cost an FBI agent his life

• 26 mins

Solving international crime from our sofas

The men behind Bellingcat who cracked the MH17 air crash case

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Reclaiming Pepe, my cartoon frog

How cartoonist Matt Furie is taking back his creation Pepe the Frog from far-right groups

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Using boxing to help DRC鈥檚 'outcasts'

Kibomango鈥檚 fight to save the DRC鈥檚 child soldiers in the boxing ring

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A kid in Australia鈥檚 doomsday cult

When he was a baby, Ben Shenton鈥檚 mum gave him to a notorious, drug-taking cult

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The IS orphans rescued by their grandpa

He couldn鈥檛 save his daughter after she joined IS but could he rescue her seven children?

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