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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

‘Aids Angel’ – I gave love in a time of prejudice and fear

Ruth Coker Burks cared for hundreds of HIV+ gay men abandoned by their families

• 40 mins

The spies in my house

Confronting the Stasi agent who watched me for fifteen years

• 26 mins

Andy Cole: Goals, glory and the battle for his life

Manchester United star Andy Cole went from top scorer to transplant survivor

• 40 mins

The quiet Louisiana grandma who became an environmental warrior

Sharon Lavigne campaigned to stop a plastics factory being built in her riverside parish

• 40 mins

We bought the wrong house at auction

CalÌýandÌýClaireÌýtried to buy a flat, but ended up with a wrecked manor in rural Scotland

• 40 mins

A top Iranian chess umpire and her impossible decision

Shohreh Bayat was one of Asia’s top chess umpires until she was faced with an ultimatum

• 40 mins

Frank Sinatra's Australian showdown

When Ol’ Blue Eyes made Australia see red

• 26 mins

Hunting 'The Serpent': The diplomat turned detective

An unlikely investigator on the trail of serial killer Charles Sobhraj

• 40 mins

My mother, India’s forgotten disco diva

Rupa Biswas Sen’s long-lost Indian disco record became an underground hit after 30 years

• 40 mins

I survived Chechnya's 'gay purge'

Amin Dzhabrailov escaped his homeland after being kidnapped and tortured

• 40 mins

My life collecting the folk songs of Iraq

How vocalist Sa'di al-Hadithi is preserving Iraqi folk music for posterity

• 40 mins