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My mother’s fake name and secret past

Justine Cowan's English mother invented a fictional childhood

• 44 mins

I was the sole survivor of a plane crash

Stranded on a mountain, 11-year-old Norman Ollestad had to find a way to survive alone

• 26 mins

The daring prison escape of an Argentine footballer

Claudio Tamburrini used bed sheets and a metal bolt to escape imprisonment and torture

• 44 mins

Hunting for my past in a Hong Kong stairwell

Claire Martin was abandoned at two days old. For years she searched for blood relatives

• 44 mins

The surfer who fought apartheid to become a world champion

Cass Collier learnt to surf on segregated beaches – now he's fighting apartheid's legacy

• 44 mins

How I sang for my freedom

Banned songs and fake identities: the Kurdish performer on the run

• 44 mins

A plane crash survivor’s search for answers

Sole survivor Norman Ollestad returns to the crash site 27 years later

• 26 mins

The music star who was born into a cult

Musician Mikel Jollett grew up in Synanon, a drug rehabilitation programme-turned-cult

• 44 mins

Secrets of my family's lost café

Old photos of her grandfather's café led Meriel Schindler to some shocking family truths

• 44 mins

How did this man find two lost Rembrandts?

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

• 44 mins

What really happened on the 'Sex Raft'

The true story behind an infamous social experiment

• 44 mins

The black ballerina who didn't give up

Julie Felix says she was told she was the wrong colour to be a swan

• 26 mins

What my father wouldn’t tell me

Carol Benjamin’s quest to understand the scars and silences of her revolutionary family

• 44 mins

Dancing behind bars in Burkina Faso

After dance helped Bougobali resist the urge to murder, he decided to teach prisoners too

• 44 mins

My forbidden love for a US soldier

What happens when an Iraqi student and a soldier from the invading US army fall in love?

• 44 mins

Going to sea to honour my son

Yayi Bayam Diouf's son was a fisherman who lost his life trying to get to Europe

• 44 mins

The diplomat turned detective: Hunting 'The Serpent'

An unlikely investigator on the trail of serial killer Charles Sobhraj

• 26 mins

Rickie Lee Jones: Why music became my bridge to the world

The US singer hit the big time in her early 20s, winning a Grammy for her first album

• 44 mins

London’s revolutionary kiss-in

Ted Brown is a black LGBT rights pioneer who helped organise the UK’s first Gay Pride

• 44 mins

I was a teenager at Auschwitz

Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus, now 91, was 14 when she was taken to a Nazi death camp.

• 44 mins

The nightclub fire that rocked Romania

Following a blaze in a Bucharest club, a sports newspaper uncovered deadly corruption

• 44 mins

My big fake wedding: uncovering an outlandish deception

Benita and Paolo's was a whirlwind romance that turned into a nightmare.

• 26 mins

Nxivm ‘sex cult’ part one: How my daughter became trapped

Catherine Oxenberg discovered her daughter India’s self-help group was a dangerous cult

• 44 mins

Nxivm 'sex cult' part two: The fight to free my daughter

How Catherine Oxenberg rescued her daughter India and defeated Nxivm’s cult leader

• 44 mins

The perilous world of a ‘cult deprogrammer’ – part one

Rick Alan Ross went from selling cars to trying to rescue people from cults

• 40 mins

The perilous world of a ‘cult deprogrammer’ – part two

Rick Alan Ross’ work as an anti-cult activist has led to jail, bankruptcy and harassment

• 40 mins

How I sang for my freedom

Banned songs and fake identities: the Kurdish performer on the run

• 26 mins

Keeping up with Australia's rebellious Buddhist nun

Robina Courtin went from being a radical feminist to martial arts expert to Buddhist nun

• 44 mins

Saving the songs of the Sahara

The defiant life of desert music pioneer Fadimata Walet Oumar

• 44 mins

The doctor treating children 8000 miles away

Afghan refugee Meena Said is saving the lives of children in her homeland

• 40 mins