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The boy band heartthrob who dreamed of writing Viking novels

Giles Kristian competed with thousands to become the frontman of 90s boy band Upside Down

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Punk against apartheid

National Wake were South Africa's first multi-racial punk band

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Surviving gay conversion therapy

Raised in a religious family, Garrard Conley was forced into ‘therapy’ to turn straight

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My mum Poly Styrene, a punk icon

Poly Styrene brought her distinctive voice and neon outfits to the 1970s punk scene

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I’m a disaster expert – and it helped me get through my own

Disaster recovery expert Lucy Easthope used her skills to cope with personal tragedy

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The sisters reuniting separated siblings at camp

Lynn Price and Andi Andree didn't find out they were sisters until the ages of 8 and 9

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Dressing Beyoncé: It started with a Barbie outfit

Artist Osman Yousefzada's love of clothes came from watching his mum sew for neighbours

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How did this man find two lost Rembrandts?

Jan Six is an art dealer whose ancestor was painted by the Dutch Master Rembrandt

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I created a mass Marilyn Monroe swim for my mother

How dressing up as the Hollywood icon helped Sarah Tinney cope after her mother’s death

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Escaping a life on a dumpsite with classical music

Simon Karuiki Ndungu grew up in a slum scavenging for rubbish. Music was his ticket

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How my father’s stories shielded me from civil war

When war came to Liberia, Wayètu Moore’s dad was determined to protect her from reality

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Drawing is my language: the artist who recreates cities from memory

Austistic savant Stephen Wiltshire has a gift for drawing the world in perfect detail

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A Syrian love story that started with a resume

The social media call out for CV advice that resulted in an online wedding

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The drag queen who ran for president of the United States

Joan Jett Blakk ran for office in 1992 to raise awareness about the Aids crisis

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The astronaut who made a quilt in Space

Astronaut Dr Karen Nyberg launched a sewing project from the International Space Station

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Who was the stranger who saved my life?

Sonia Solorzano spent years seeking the unknown man who rescued her from a destroyed bus

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Discovering my mother's heroic past

A box of letters revealed the secret and extraordinary life of Eva Taylor's mother

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The violin maker's salvation

Hans Benning found love through repairing the world's most priceless stringed instruments

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The dark truth behind my songs

A murder-suicide devastated Allison Moorer’s youth but now inspires her country music

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England's secret cowboy town

The town of Laredo is filled with cowboys and saloons in the style of the Wild West

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Book by book, restoring an iconic library destroyed by IS

Dr Alaa Hamdon dreamt of replacing thousands of books burnt by militants in Mosul, Iraq

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Surviving apartheid to make maritime history

Captain Knowledge Bengu led the voyage to discover Shackleton's lost ship Endurance

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Saving the songs of the Sahara

The defiant life of desert music pioneer Fadimata Walet Oumar

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The dancing prodigy who became Prince’s greatest muse

Mayte Garcia was Prince’s first wife and one of his biggest musical inspirations

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The champion boxer without a country to fight for

Boxer Bilal Fawaz was trafficked to the UK from Nigeria as a teenager

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'A little bit Indiana Jones'

The archaeologist who risked his life for a mysterious prehistoric artefact

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The teenager pilot who flew around the world

Zara Rutherford broke records in her microlight - and more stories of teenage pioneers

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Making movies helped me heal after my dad's murder

Rwandan director Joël Karekezi explores trauma he experienced during the 1994 genocide

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How I discovered the Wood Wide Web

Suzanne Simard discovered how trees communicate underground

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Tales of modern marriage: My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Nia Vardalos on how her own love story became a hit romantic comedy

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