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They said my brain was 鈥榦n fire鈥�

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

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鈥楴o one can take my smile from me鈥�

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

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The political poster child who became a million dollar model

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

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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

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Trying to get my penpal out of prison

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

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Learning to live with the voices in my head

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

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The man who calls a river his 'family'

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

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I escaped my abusive boss and found a sisterhood

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

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I was there the night Emmett Till was taken

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

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Hugh Bonneville: From dress-up to Downton

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

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Walking away from the crash that killed my friends

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

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Grandma and the great gold rush of Suriname

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

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Surviving 'Doomsday' and learning to live again

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

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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

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The Syrian artist bringing beauty to a desert refugee camp

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

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The headteacher changing young boys' lives with philosophy

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

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Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies

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

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Bringing the Muppets to Moscow

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

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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

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Revelations from El Salvador that healed my family

Roberto Lovato didn't understand his dad until he discovered the history of his homeland

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The fearless former nun fighting for India's seamstresses

From convent to marriage to factory floor, Thivya will stand up for herself, and you

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Bringing the beat back: The accidental heroes of hip hop

The self-taught teen funk musicians who unknowingly shaped the golden age of hip hop

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Breaking my addiction to war

Fergal Keane's work as a war correspondent was destroying him, but he couldn't stop

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I didn鈥檛 know I was part of an experiment

When Greenlander Helene Thiesen was just seven, two Danish men came to take her away

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From teen single mother to top gourmet chef

Claudette Zepeda overcame huge hurdles to wow the culinary world with her Mexican food

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The chicken who sailed the world

Guirec Soud茅e sailed around the world with just his chicken Monique for company

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Cockroaches, mice and mouldy walls: Why I fight for better homes

Kwajo Tweneboa鈥檚 own experience inspired him to stand up for Britain's poorest tenants

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We left as kayakers and came back as dissidents

Andrzej and Jacek escaped Communist Poland on an adventure. Life would never be the same

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How a kids鈥� TV star ended up on China鈥檚 most wanted list

Uyghur Gulchehra Hoja鈥檚 heavy price for leaving China and becoming a dissident reporter

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The sport I love damaged my brain

Former rugby player Alix Popham can't remember some of his finest moments on the pitch

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