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The psychiatric nurse who overcame a life of addiction

From age 14 to 37 Anthony Brown was homeless and became addicted to drugs and alcohol

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How the Donut King lost his crown

Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy once presided over an empire of donut shops across California

• 40 mins

The actor who preferred to die rather than stop filming

Massimo Troisi delayed heart surgery to make 'Il Postino'. He died before filming ended.

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Three children on a deserted island

Carina Hoang thought she was heading to a refugee camp but ended up stranded on a beach

• 26 mins

Love and defection on the dancefloor

Cuban ballet stars Mayara Pi帽eiro Contido and Etienne D铆ez found love in exile

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I became 鈥榙ad鈥� to a baby ocelot

Harry always felt out of place but found 鈥榟ome鈥� with a baby ocelot in the Peruvian jungle

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The Covid-19 nurses: Sharing our stories

Hannah Gray and Bianca Dintino are two ICU nurses tackling the pandemic on two continents

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Tony Allen: Farewell 'Mr Afrobeat'

Remembering Tony Allen, the pioneering Nigerian drummer who created Afrobeat

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Back to the islands: searching for lost graves

Refugee Carina Hoang goes on a mission to give her cousin a proper burial

• 26 mins

They thought my husband was a spy

Matthew Hedges was on a work trip in the UAE when he was accused of being a British spy

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Blades, bullets and my escape from 'murder city'

Rollerblading led Jessel Recinos into bad ways, but eventually became his salvation

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Sacrificing my sexuality to be a black role model

Becoming one of the first African American actors on children's TV came with an ultimatum

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The woman behind Senegal's Sex and the City

Kalista Sy created a TV series that's taking Senegal by storm

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Trying to get my penpal out of prison

A letter, a murder and a boxer鈥檚 dying wish turned a teenager鈥檚 life around

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Wynton Marsalis: the making of a jazzman

How a reluctant trumpet player became the most celebrated jazz musician of his generation

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Beyond the bushfires: A koala doctor's story

Cheyne Flanagan鈥檚 fight to rescue and rehome Australia鈥檚 koalas

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The refugee lawyer prosecuting IS war crimes

Rez Gardi became the first Kurdish refugee to graduate from Harvard Law School.

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How I created the first Chinese Superman character

Cartoonist Gene Luen Yang on how he helped create the first Chinese Superman character

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Stranded in the jungle on our honeymoon

It began when Holly and Fitz' plane crash-landed in Peru...

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The Somali landmine poet

Hassan Kossar clears landmines by day, and writes poetry by night

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My search for my sister, the 'keeper of memories'

Nakuset blocked out painful memories of being removed from her indigenous Canadian family

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The weird world I was warned to keep secret

Pauline Dakin's family life was full of mystery, fear and unpleasant surprises.

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Students by day and hostage negotiators by night

Miles Hargrove asked his old school friend to negotiate with his dad鈥檚 kidnappers.

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Waking from a coma speaking a foreign language

Australian Ben McMahon whose native language is English was only able to speak Mandarin

• 26 mins

Behind the doors of the lockdown museums

A virtual tour of some the world鈥檚 best loved museums by the people who look after them.

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My part in a historic hostage rescue

The Israeli commando who crossed continents on a high risk hostage rescue operation.

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The cookbook that became a lifeline

How the eccentric but pioneering chef Julia Child became a role model for Julie Powell

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How do you deal with coronavirus in a war zone?

Thierry Durand set up the only dedicated covid-19 hospital in the city of Aden.

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Heavy Metal's Groundbreaking Grandma

Meet Inge Ginsberg: Holocaust survivor, Hollywood composer and heavy metal grandma

• 26 mins

The forbidden marriage and the legal loophole

The clerical error that allowed two women to make LGBT history in Costa Rica.

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