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Protests, prison and the day I met Assad

Hassan Akkad is a Syrian filmmaker who risked his life documenting the uprising

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'The camera was my shield' - a refugee films his journey

The footage Hassan Akkad captured would help make his name as a film-maker

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The inside story of a Muslim drag queen

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

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The Somali prisoner, the secret language and the life-saving book

Mohamed Barud鈥檚 fellow prisoner tapped out Tolstoy's Anna Karenina through his cell wall

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Agent Orange: A Vietnamese grandmother's last battle

Tran To Nga is fighting to get compensation for victims of the toxic herbicide

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Thai cave doctor: 'I feared I'd killed them'

Richard Harris anaesthetised the trapped boys believing they had no chance of survival

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The man who (re)painted the Mona Lisa

Adebanji Alade recreated a masterpiece - but he's never seen the real thing

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The uncomfortable truth hidden in my DNA

Former policeman Hiram Johnson's quest to solve a family mystery

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鈥楤orn lucky鈥�: Escaping the Khmer Rouge

Sieu Do鈥檚 idyllic childhood took a brutal turn when he found himself in a labour camp

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The spy who pretended to be homeless

Tom Marcus went undercover as a homeless man to stop extremist attacks in Britain

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The locked-in boy and the brain experiment

Why neurologist Phil Kennedy experimented on his own healthy brain

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The secret that nearly destroyed our marriage

Cheryl was married to Bobby Love for 30 years before she found out the truth about him

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Ice Prince: The making of a Nigerian hip hop star

How personal loss and violent conflict shaped the career of Panshak Zamani aka Ice Prince

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"I'm a fighter": The Dalit lawyer taking on the caste system

Manjula Pradeep is an Indian activist helping other Dalit women fight caste prejudice

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Looking for Mum in a city of millions

Joel de Carteret from the Philippines was just four when he got lost in a Manila market

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People used to stare at me. I fight back with my paintbrush

How artist Riva Lehrer's portraits challenge myths about disability

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Miss Pat: The Chinese-Jamaican matriarch of reggae

Patricia Chin created a musical empire that started in a Kingston grocery store

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I found my son 32 years after he was kidnapped

Li Jingzhi鈥檚 child was abducted in 1988. They were finally reunited 32 years later

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Cooking for my mother helped her share a hidden history

Grace M. Cho learned to cook traditional Korean food to comfort her traumatised mother

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Steve Van Zandt on bands, bandanas and Bruce Springsteen

Guitarist Steve Van Zandt tells us why he's been happy being the man behind the boss

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My last chance to find our long-lost family

A daughter searches for her ill mother's hidden past, revealing long-held secrets

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The medical textbook that inspired me to flee my homeland

Waheed Arian left war-torn Afghanistan to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor

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How Springsteen became my lifeline

The working class British-Pakistani teen who found a musical hero in The Boss

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'Honour' made my father a murderer

Amina鈥檚 father brutally attacked her and her sister for 鈥榮haming鈥� their Jordanian family

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'Love finds a way' - a bond that overcame decades of separation

Jeanne's family opposed her relationship with Steve. They split, but she never forgot him

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The Holocaust survivor who became a Tiktok star

Lily Ebert survived Auschwitz. Now she shares her story with millions of followers online

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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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Flying my South African flag at the top of Everest

Saray Khumalo on what it took to become the first black African woman to summit Everest

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Hostage, part 1: A spider, starvation and solitude in the desert

Edith Blais was kidnapped by al-Qaeda and held captive in the Sahara for 450 days

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Hostage, part 2: Escape across the sand dunes

Canadian Edith Blais is reunited with Luca and they plot an ambitious escape

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