大象传媒

The Somali landmine poet

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

• 44 mins

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

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

• 44 mins

The weird world I was warned to keep secret

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

• 40 mins

Students by day and hostage negotiators by night

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

• 44 mins

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.

• 44 mins

My part in a historic hostage rescue

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

• 44 mins

The cookbook that became a lifeline

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

• 40 mins

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.

• 44 mins

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.

• 44 mins

My powerful sideburns and other beard stories

MJ Johnson has an award winning beard, but due to coronavirus its days might be numbered

• 44 mins

Voyage to the bitter deep

Victor Vescovo and John Ramsay explored the deepest points of the world's five oceans.

• 40 mins

Wrongfully convicted of murdering my parents

After 17 years in prison Marty Tankleff has been sworn in as a lawyer.

• 44 mins

The teenager who survived the Manchester bombing

Freya Lewis has rebuilt her life after the attack at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017

• 26 mins

The lawyer, the chemical giant, and the contaminated water

Robert Bilott's case for a farmer became a fight for 70,000 people

• 44 mins

We missed our baby鈥檚 birth because of Covid-19

How one couple travelled across the world to meet their baby son

• 44 mins

Hamilton: Overcoming hearing loss to make its music

Alex Lacamoire collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda to create the epic sound of Hamilton

• 40 mins

We risked our lives to save my brother's heart

Hamed Amiri鈥檚 family fled from Afghanistan to get a heart operation for his brother

• 44 mins

Dynamo: turning illness into magic

Crohn's disease has hampered the world-famous magician all his life

• 26 mins

The deserted island and the lost graves

Carina Hoang and her siblings ended up stranded on an island in the South China Sea

• 44 mins

Fire and justice: my life after Grenfell

Antonio Roncolato was one of the last survivors to escape London鈥檚 Grenfell Tower fire

• 44 mins

Touched by magic

Magicians who used their craft to overcome social awkwardness, sexism and bullying

• 40 mins

Ups and downs in a vertical world

Ian Powell is a climbing hold designer who rebuilt his life after years of drug addiction

• 44 mins

Husband for Hire

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• 26 mins

I played violin during my brain surgery

Dagmar Turner played to prevent any damage to her violin skills

• 44 mins

The adventurer鈥檚 son who went missing in the jungle

When Roman Dial's son disappeared in Costa Rica, he set out to find him

• 44 mins

"Look after her" - the story of a hidden WW2 child

Lien de Jong was a Jewish child who hid during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands

• 40 mins

Caring for my dying father made me a better doctor

Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor. When her dad got ill her work became personal

• 44 mins

The mystery of Ecuador's lost mastertapes

An Ecuadorian DJ's quest to unravel a decades-old family mystery

• 26 mins