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Discovering Stalin's million-dollar wine cellar

Wine merchant John Baker on trying to buy Josef Stalin's secret wine collection

• 26 mins

Did my birth mother fake her own death?

How a failed insurance scam saw Donna Freed put up for adoption in the US

• 40 mins

The Syrian artist bringing beauty to a desert refugee camp

When Malak fled Syria she packed the essentials: her sketchbook and pencils

• 40 mins

How the Spice Girls saved my life

Isolated and rejected as a gay teen, a pop band showed David Montgomery how to live again

• 40 mins

Victim and perpetrator: The two gunshots that changed my life

Mexican American Obed Silva is an English professor with a tangled past

• 40 mins

'A little bit Indiana Jones'

The archaeologist who risked his life for a mysterious prehistoric artefact

• 26 mins

Duty-bound: My secret life as Officer Clemmons

Becoming one of the first African American actors on children's TV came with an ultimatum

• 40 mins

Making memories before our children go blind

The diagnosis that led a family on a global adventure

• 40 mins

The Nazis killed my family but I decided not to hate

As a boy Peter Lantos survived Bergen-Belsen, then devoted his life to helping others

• 40 mins

Saving lives in Pinochet’s Chile with Superman’s help

Christopher Reeve and Angélica Malinarich-Dorfman helped actors facing death threats

• 40 mins

Wrongfully convicted of murdering my parents

Murder, a false confession and Marty Tankleff's 17-year fight for justice

• 26 mins

They said my brain was ‘on fire’

Consumed by a mystery illness, Susannah Cahalan almost lost her life and sanity

• 40 mins

‘No one can take my smile from me’

Burn survivor Sneha Jawale reclaimed her face and found a new identity in tarot reading

• 40 mins

The political poster child who became a million dollar model

Paulina Porizkova's face was used to show the hardships of Communist Czechoslovakia

• 40 mins

Connecting with Dad: a Pacific voyage and never-heard tape

A Pacific row gave Louis Bird courage to listen to a tape his dad had left him

• 40 mins

Trying to get my penpal out of prison

A letter, a murder, and a boxer’s dying wish turned a teenager’s life around

• 26 mins

Learning to live with the voices in my head

Debra started hearing voices aged five. Comforting at first, they soon took control

• 40 mins

The man who calls a river his 'family'

Salman Khairalla risked his life to protect Iraq's historic wetlands

• 40 mins

I escaped my abusive boss and found a sisterhood

Mariam was mistreated while working as a cleaner in Lebanon and now campaigns for others

• 40 mins

I was there the night Emmett Till was taken

Wheeler Parker is Emmett Till's cousin and the last surviving witness to his abduction

• 40 mins

Hugh Bonneville: From dress-up to Downton

Actor Hugh Bonneville on catching the acting bug as a child and dealing with rejection

• 26 mins

Walking away from the crash that killed my friends

Lech Blaine on guilt, grief and accepting his luck after surviving a fatal car accident

• 40 mins

Grandma and the great gold rush of Suriname

Hennah Draaibaar is on the trail of her family’s legendary lost gold

• 40 mins

Surviving 'Doomsday' and learning to live again

Claire Ashman spent nearly a decade in a doomsday cult with her eight children

• 40 mins

Debt and oil: My two years as a migrant worker

Kate Beaton took a job in a Canadian oil facility and was cut off from the outside world

• 40 mins

The Syrian artist bringing beauty to a desert refugee camp

When Malak fled Syria she packed the essentials: her sketchbook and pencils

• 26 mins

The headteacher changing young boys' lives with philosophy

Kevin McArevey uses Plato to help his students overcome the lasting legacy of conflict

• 40 mins

Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies

Pilot Firoz Khimji witnessed his country's wars from above. Then conflict came for him.

• 40 mins

Bringing the Muppets to Moscow

Natasha Lance Rogoff’s daunting challenge of making Sesame Street in post-Soviet Russia

• 40 mins

A map and a mission: On the trail of my family's buried silver

A hand-drawn treasure map took Jan Glazewski from South Africa to a forest in Ukraine

• 40 mins