大象传媒

The epic Arabic poem that was born in a stable

Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh began writing Uruk's Anthem while imprisoned in a stable

• 40 mins

Discovering Stalin's million-dollar wine cellar

Wine merchant John Baker on trying to buy Josef Stalin's secret wine collection

• 44 mins

The Godfather of Hollywood sound

Walter Murch is a superstar sound designer. His ingenuity transformed cinema

• 26 mins

My music bus healing a gang divide

Justin Finlayson turned his London bus into a music studio to help at-risk young people

• 44 mins

Surviving civil war with a tracksuit and tennis racquet

Sam Jalloh, the barefoot player turned pro, coaches kids to achieve their tennis dreams

• 44 mins

The sisterhood vs the man who gave them HIV

Diane Reeve rallied together women who had contracted HIV from the same cheating lover

• 44 mins

After facing death row, the inmate who turned investigator

Sohail Yafat turned his miscarriage of justice into a fight for all prisoners in Pakistan

• 44 mins

The "five careers" of Bettye Lavette

Bettye Lavette was a teenage singing star. Five decades on, she's a star once more.

• 26 mins

My brother鈥檚 illness made me a 鈥渟ickle cell warrior鈥�

Tartania Brown is one of few sickle cell doctors in New York who also has the condition

• 44 mins

The family murder that launched our campaign

Brothers Luke and Ryan Hart are trying to change the conversation around domestic abuse

• 44 mins

大象传媒 Inspirations Awards 2020: finale fandango

Jo Fidgen reveals the final two winners of the 大象传媒 Inspirations Awards 2020.

• 53 mins

The tale of the countess and the little cello

How a 180-year-old miniature cello shaped the musical dreams of two American girls

• 44 mins

Elza Soares: invincible queen of samba

Singer Elza Soares survived poverty and public scandal to become a music legend in Brazil

• 26 mins

Why I made a film in which I kill my dad

When Kirsten Johnson鈥檚 dad got dementia she found an unusual way to cope

• 44 mins

My husband came back from the dead

How an accident and a case of mistaken identity changed one couple's lives forever

• 44 mins

Seven songs to mourn seven black men

Joel Thompson is behind a composition about the killing of black men in the USA

• 44 mins

The rebel musicians fighting India鈥檚 caste system

The Casteless Collective is a protest band who challenge caste oppression through song

• 44 mins

A descendant of chiefs: my long journey home

How Jesse Thistle, a homeless Indigenous man, found his identity and his calling

• 26 mins

The video that turned our lives upside down

When a mum hit record on her son crying she couldn't have predicted the global reaction

• 44 mins

Defending my dream cost my mother her life

Two-times US poet laureate Natasha Trethewey turned to poetry after her mother's murder

• 44 mins

I ran with the men, and changed history

Kathrine Switzer was attacked for running in the men-only 1967 Boston Marathon

• 44 mins

Tasting the desert with Chile's leading forager

Patricia P茅rez sells the rare herbs she finds in the Atacama desert to Chile's top chefs

• 44 mins

Moana: The Polynesian family behind the smash hit songs

Musician Opetaia Foa'i fought for the Disney movie to stay true to Pacific culture

• 26 mins

The match-making tree and other tales of unexpected romance

From the world's most romantic postbox to a persecuted couple鈥檚 perilous ocean voyage

• 44 mins

The Beninese singer hustling for success in New York

Shirazee endured homelessness and a threat of deportation as he pursued his music dreams

• 44 mins

鈥業 am sinking. This is not a joke. MAYDAY鈥�

Disaster struck when Kevin Escoffier鈥檚 boat split during the perilous Vend茅e Globe race

• 44 mins

'Document everything. Trust no one'

Omar Mohammed went undercover to expose IS atrocities in his blog Mosul Eye

• 44 mins

The Iranian avocado quest that led to prison

The saga to free journalist Jason Rezaian from Iran鈥檚 most notorious prison

• 26 mins

The rap star saved by a nursing home

After losing his memory T La Rock forgot he was famous and had to learn to rap again

• 44 mins

My abuser used an alien plot to brainwash me

Jan Broberg and her mum Mary Ann share how a trusted friend kidnapped Jan 鈥� twice

• 44 mins